Episode 150 debuts on October 24, at 8:00 PM Eastern. Rebroadcasts will take place according to the Crusade Channel programming schedule (note: all times listed are Central time). My topic is Canonizations: Infallible or Not? My guest is Mr. Ryan Grant.

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• “An inquiry into how far the Church has committed herself on this matter (on infallibility of canonizations)” excerpt from the larger work, An Essay on Beatification, Canonization and the Processes of the Congregation of Rites — linked from tradcath.proboards.com, by Rev. Fr. Frederick William Faber
• Are Canonizations Infallible? — by “Boniface” at unamsanctamcatholicam.com
• Are Canonizations Based on Papal Infallibility? — by Donald S. Prudlo, at crisismagazine.com
• Why We Need Not (and Should Not) Call Paul VI ‘Saint’ — by Peter Kwasniewski (who takes the position opposite the one advanced by Ryan Grant and the above authors) at onepeterfive.com

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Episode 149 debuts on October 17, at 8:00 PM Eastern. Rebroadcasts will take place according to the Crusade Channel programming schedule (note: all times listed are Central time). My topic is What Is Divine Providence?

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• Divine Providence: A Doctrinal Overview — by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org
• Providence, Divine — Catholic Encyclopedia article at newadvent.org
• Doomed to Repeat It — (with some reference to Providence and history) by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org
• Providence — from the Summa Theologiae of Saint Thomas at newadvent.org

Mater Divinae Providentiae (Mother of Divine Providence), by Scipione Pulzone, a.k.a., “Il Gaetano”

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Episode 148 debuts on October 3, at 8:00 PM Eastern. Rebroadcasts will take place according to the Crusade Channel programming schedule (note: all times listed are Central time). My topic is The Role of Music in the Good Life. My guest is Dr. Andrew Childs.

Listen now! (still pending)

• The Soul’s Own Speech: Music & Its Effects On Men — free conferences by Dr. Childs available at Saint Thomas Aquinas Seminary Audio
• Bach & Beethoven — free conferences by Dr. Childs available at Saint Thomas Aquinas Seminary Audio
• Amid Barbarism’s Din: Less Music — by Gary Potter at catholicism.org
• An Alternative American Culture (Part I, Part II, Part III) — by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org
• Sanctifying the Sensory at Mass — by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org

Saint Cecilia, by John Melhuish Strudwick

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Episode 147 debuts on September 26, at 8:00 PM Eastern. Rebroadcasts will take place according to the Crusade Channel programming schedule (note: all times listed are Central time). My topic is The Alternative to the Failed Mental Health System: Psychomoralitics. My guest is Dr. G.C. Dilsaver.

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• The Institute of Psychomoralitics — at psychomoralitics.org (for those seeking treatment or training)
• Imago Dei Center — at imagodeiway.com
• The Three Integral Parts of a Moral Act (and a bit of fun) — by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org (“the moral act” was mentioned in the show)
• Talks Given by Dr. Dilsaver at Saint Benedict Center — at store.catholicism.org
• Books by Dr. Dilsaver — at alibris.com

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Episode 146 debuts on September 19, at 8:00 PM Eastern. Rebroadcasts will take place according to the Crusade Channel programming schedule (note: all times listed are Central time). Our topic is Vocational Discernment. My guest is Rev. Fr. Shannon Collins, MSJB, cofounder of the Missionaries of Saint John the Baptist, and pastor of Our Lady of Lourdes Personal Parish.

Listen now!

• States in Life Set — spiritual conferences by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M., at store.catholicism.org
• States in Life Conferences — written texts of some of the above conferences at catholicism.org
• Letter to a Young Man Discerning a Vocation — by Saint Alphonsus Maria de Liguori at catholicism.org
• Is Marriage a Vocation? — by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org
• A Vocation — by Father Louis Colin, C.SS.R., at catholicism.org

Caravaggio, “the Call of Saint Matthew”

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Episode 145 debuts on September 12, at 8:00 PM Eastern. Rebroadcasts will take place according to the Crusade Channel programming schedule (note: all times listed are Central time). My topic is The Love of Eternal Wisdom.

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• The Love of Eternal Wisdom — book by Saint Louis de Montfort at store.catholicism.org
• The Romance of Wisdom — by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org
• The Four-Fold Wisdom — by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org

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Episode 144 debuts on September 5, at 8:00 PM Eastern. Rebroadcasts will take place according to the Crusade Channel programming schedule (note: all times listed are Central time). My topic is Diagnosing the Failed Mental Health System. My guest is Dr. G.C. Dilsaver.

Listen now!

• Selected Essays and Videos of Dr. G.C. Dilsaver — at dilsaver.org
• Books by G.C. Dilsaver — at Jet.com
• The Institute of Psychomoralitics — at psychomoralitics.org
• Mental Health Intra-Professional Condemnations — at sickofpsychiatry.com
• Iatrogenic Dangers — at sickofpsychiatry.com
• Talks Given by Dr. Dilsaver at SBC — at store.catholicism.org

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