Episode 401 debuts on December 15, at 8:00 PM Eastern. Rebroadcasts will take place according to the Crusade Channel programming schedule (note: all times listed are Central time). The topic is Catholic Confederates. Our guest is Dr. Gracjan Kraszewski.

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• Catholic Confederates Faith and Duty in the Civil War South — book by Dr. Gracjan Kraszewski
• The little known and often-surprising history of Catholic Confederates (review on Catholic World Report) — by Piers Shepherd, at catholicworldreport.com
• Catholicism and the Old South — by Gary Potter, at catholicism.org
• Bishop William Henry Elder — Wikipedia article
• Bishop Patrick Neeson Lynch — Wikipedia article
• Father Emmeran M. Bliemel, O.S.B. — Wikipedia article
• Daughters of Mother Seton in the War between the States — by The Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, at catholicism.org
• MapleGracjanSyrup (Dr. Kraszewski’s YouTube channel)
• ‘Facts about Slavery Never Mentioned in School,’ — by Dr. Thomas Sowell, at catholicism.org

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Episode 400 debuts on December 6, at 8:00 PM Eastern. Rebroadcasts will take place according to the Crusade Channel programming schedule (note: all times listed are Central time). The topic is Don’t Call It ‘the Tridentine Mass’!

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• Letter #167, 2023, Wed, Nov 29: The Mass — at insidethevatican.com
• A Short History of the Roman Mass — by Michael Davies
• Eucharistic Prayer II: its problems and background — “Pope Paul’s New Mass” (The Angelus Press, 1980), by Michael Davies
• Distorting Hippolytus — by Edward T. Snyder at unavocecanada.org
• The Early Church Believed in the Eucharist — by Tom Nash, at catholicanswers.com
• Patriarch and Patriarchate — Catholic Encyclopedia entry at newadvent.org

Miniature of Gregory the Great writing, from a 12th-century copy of his Dialogues, public domain via Wikimedia Commons

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Episode 399 debuts on November 29, at 8:00 PM Eastern. Rebroadcasts will take place according to the Crusade Channel programming schedule (note: all times listed are Central time). The topic is The Union of Brest-Litovsk, Part II.

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• Full Text of the Union of Brest-Litovsk
• Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church — at Wikipedia.org
• Union of Brest — encyclopedia entry at newadvent.org
• Rus’ people — at Wikipedia.org
• Saint Josaphat (1623) — by The Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, at catholicism.org
• Two Patrons for True Ecumenism — by Brother Francis Maluf, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org
• Saint Josaphat and Church Unity — by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org
• Metropolitan Sheptytsky, Apostle of Church Unity — by The Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, at catholicism.org
• The Saints and Church Unity — talk by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org

Interior of the main dome of St. Joseph the Betrothed Ukrainian Byzantine-Catholic Church, Chicago, Illinois. Detail of photo by JeremyA, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Episode 398 debuts on November 22, at 8:00 PM Eastern. Rebroadcasts will take place according to the Crusade Channel programming schedule (note: all times listed are Central time). The topic is The Union of Brest-Litovsk, Part I.

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• Full Text of the Union of Brest-Litovsk
• Union of Brest — encyclopedia entry at newadvent.org
• Rus’ people — at Wikipedia.org
• Saint Josaphat (1623) — by The Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, at catholicism.org
• Two Patrons for True Ecumenism — by Brother Francis Maluf, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org
• Saint Josaphat and Church Unity — by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org
• Metropolitan Sheptytsky, Apostle of Church Unity — by The Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, at catholicism.org
• The Saints and Church Unity — talk by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org

The Union of Brest. Mural in the Church of the Nativity in Zhovkva. Artist Julian Butsmaniuk (source).

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Episode 397 debuts on November 15, at 8:00 PM Eastern. Rebroadcasts will take place according to the Crusade Channel programming schedule (note: all times listed are Central time). The topic is The ‘Our Father’ as a Trinitarian Prayer.

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• The ‘Our Father’ as a Trinitarian Prayer — by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org
• The Lord’s Prayer — Catholic Encyclopedia article at newadvent.org
• Lord, Teach Us to Pray — at therealpresence.org

Robert Campin, Mass of Saint Gregory, public domain via Wikimedia Commons

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Episode 396 debuts on November 8, at 8:00 PM Eastern. Rebroadcasts will take place according to the Crusade Channel programming schedule (note: all times listed are Central time). The topic is Your Attention, Please!

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• Etymology of the word “attention” — at etymonline.com
• The Divine Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom — at goarch.org
• Prayer Before Divine Office, Aperi, Domine: — at jovanprayers.blogspot.com
• Modern Noise and Man’s Ingrained Inattentiveness — by Dr. Robert Hickson, at catholicism.org

Francisco de Zurbarán, Saint Francis in Meditation, public domain via Wikimedia Commons

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Episode 395 debuts on November 1, at 8:00 PM Eastern. Rebroadcasts will take place according to the Crusade Channel programming schedule (note: all times listed are Central time). The topic is Amid Atrocities, We Must ‘Do the Truth in Charity’

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• Prayer to Our Lady of Palestine — at catholicism.org
• Video of Reps. Pete Sessions, Lauren Borbert, and Tim Burchett Professing their Christian Zionist Views
• The Origins of the Israel Lobby in the US — by Alison Weir, at counterpunch.com
• Israel Responds to Hamas Crimes by Ordering Mass War Crimes in Gaza — by Alice Speri, at theintercept.com
• The Nakba: Five Palestinian towns massacred 75 years ago — by Dalia Hatuqa, at aljazeera.com
• Two Reconquest Episodes on Christian Zionism (necessary background)

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