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- 3 days ago1h 52m
Anthony Stine: Dialogue With Everyone — Except This Priest? (Audio)
September 18th, 2026 - Rome marks sixty years of Nostra Aetate by calling Catholics to dialogue with every religion. The same month, a priest who defends the social Kingship of Christ was pulled from his classroom. Dr. Anthony Stine joins Joe McClane. Plus: a parish priest found shot dead in Mexico on the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows - Edward Clancy of Aid to the Church in Need on what Mexico's bishops are demanding. Links, Show Notes & More - https://thestationofthecross.com/act Email Us! ACT@TheStationOfTheCross.com
- 4 days ago1h 53m
Michael Matt: Rome Just Put the Vatican II Problem in Writing (Audio)
September 17th, 2026 - Michael Matt says Rome just put the Vatican II problem in writing — so Joe reads him the paragraph where Rome says Christ is the one and only Redeemer. "A Journey of Hope," Nostra Aetate at 60, and the question underneath all of it: if there is one Redeemer, what is dialogue for? Links, Show Notes & More - https://thestationofthecross.com/act Email Us! ACT@TheStationOfTheCross.com
- 5 days ago1h 38m
Bishop Strickland: "I Have Not Moved" on Vatican II (Audio)
September 16th, 2026 - Bishop Joseph Strickland says "I have not moved" — and on the day that Rome published a note asking Catholics to "esteem" other religions, he joins us to do what his new letter proposes: examine Vatican II in the light of Tradition, document by document. Nostra Aetate at 60, Archbishop Lefebvre, and the question the Vatican's new text has to answer: if Christ is the only Redeemer, what is dialogue for? Links, Show Notes & More - https://thestationofthecross.com/act Email Us! ACT@TheStationOfTheCross.com
- 6 days ago1h 21m
Flanders Recants: "I Can No Longer Recommend" an SSPX Chapel (Audio)
September 15th, 2026 - Timothy Flanders publicly defended the SSPX for years. Today he tells us why he has retracted and why, "in principle," he can no longer recommend anyone attend an SSPX chapel. Plus, the Battle of Vienna: September 12, 1683 — the victory that gave the Church the Feast of the Holy Name of Mary. Links, Show Notes & More - https://thestationofthecross.com/act Email Us! ACT@TheStationOfTheCross.com
- 1 weeks ago1h 22m
Fr. Carlos Martins: The Door Ordinary Catholics Open Without Knowing (Audio)
September 14th, 2026 - On November 3, Virginians will vote on a Constitutional Amendment creating a "fundamental right to reproductive freedom," including abortion. Mike Koeniger walks us through what the amendment's strict-scrutiny standard does to Virginia's existing parental-consent and third-trimester laws, why the Virginia Catholic Conference calls it extreme, and what the bishops are asking of Catholics before the voting deadline. Then, Fr. Carlos Martins explains the ordinary, un-dramatic ways in which Catholics give the enemy a foothold — the curiosity, the media, the unconfessed habit, the thing done "just for fun" — and then the harder question: when someone says they hear a voice, how does the Church know whether it is God, an illness, or a demon? Links, Show Notes & More - https://thestationofthecross.com/act Email Us! ACT@TheStationOfTheCross.com
- 1 weeks ago1h 36m
25 Years After 9/11: More FDNY Have Died From the Dust Than Died That Day (Audio)
September 11th, 2026 - The pontifical Mass for the Summorum Pontificum pilgrimage - Bishop Athanasius Schneider was to be the celebrant - was refused in a letter from the Secretariat of State. It moves to St. Mary Major, and Dr. Anthony Stine returns to offer his thoughts. Then, Joe is joined by a New York firefighter to remember the lives lost on 9/11, those still being buried, and every soul carried out of those towers. Links, Show Notes & More - https://thestationofthecross.com/act Email Us! ACT@TheStationOfTheCross.com
- 1 weeks ago1h 21m
Gideon Lazar: Fatima Is Why I'm Catholic (Audio)
September 10th, 2026 - Gideon Lazar grew up in a Jewish family. Our Lady of Fatima is the reason he is Catholic today, and he joins us to share the story. Plus: one year after Charlie Kirk was killed, Nick Cavazos on what hardened in America — and where the hope actually is. Links, Show Notes & More - https://thestationofthecross.com/act Email Us! ACT@TheStationOfTheCross.com
- 1 weeks ago1h 21m
Cardinal Burke Went on Shawn Ryan. Here's What He Actually Said. (Audio)
September 9th, 2026 - Cardinal Burke spent two hours teaching the Old Testament to Shawn Ryan's audience - former Navy SEAL, five million subscribers, mostly young men with no church at all. Nearly a million views on day one. The same week, the president of the Pontifical Academy for Life said Catholics could morally consent to an "imperfect" assisted suicide law. We welcome back Michael Haynes of The Catholic Herald and Mark Lambert of Catholic Unscripted to unpack it all. Links, Show Notes & More - https://thestationofthecross.com/act Email Us! ACT@TheStationOfTheCross.com
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