Episode 385 debuts on August 9, 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 What’s Up with the Synod?

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• Synodality: The Latest Ecclesiastical MacGuffin — by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org
• Synod — Catholic Encyclopedia entry at newadvent.org
• Synod — at orthodoxwiki.org
• A New “Synodal Church” Undermines the Catholic Church — by Bishop Athanasius Schneider, at thecatholicthing.org
• Laity Voting at the Synod of Bishops — What Would Paul VI Say? — by Joan Frawley Desmond, at ncregister.com
• BREAKING: Synod on Synodality Document Outlines Discussion Questions for October Assembly — by Shannon Mullen, at rcregister.com
• Synod on Synodality: Here are the delegates representing the U.S. and Canada — by Jonathan Liedl, at catholicnewsagency.com
• Website of the General Secretariat of the Synod — Official website

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Episode 384 debuts on August 2, 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 Cost of Denying Creation, Part II. Our guest is Chris De Vos.

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• Episode 380: The Cost of Denying Creation (Part I)
• What Happens When You Deny the Doctrine of Creation — by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org
• The Case of Father Michael Mueller — at catholicism.org 
• Noah’s Ark and Peter’s Bark — by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org
• Slaying the Dragons of Scientism — by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org
• Becoming Philosophically Literate Once Again — by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org
• The Second Eve — by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org

Creation of Eve, Michaelangelo, public domain via Wikimedia commons

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Episode 383 debuts on July 26, 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 Advantages of a Spiritual Retreat. Our guest is Sister Maria Philomena, M.I.C.M.

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• Retreats  — Catholic Encyclopedia article at newadvent.org

Ignatius at Manresa, Albert Chevallier-Tayler, 1904.

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Episode 382 debuts on July 19, 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 Indifferentism as a Sin against Charity.

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• Indifferentism as a Sin against the Love of God — by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org (to be published by the show’s airtime)
• Indifferentism is a Condemned Heresy: Gregory XVI’s Mirari Vos — by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org
• From Indifferentism to Apostasy — by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org
• Evolutionism and Indifferentism as Affronts to God’s Glory — by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org
• Indifferentism: The First Head of the Modern Hydra of Heresy — by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org
• Heresy of the Day — by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org

Pope John Paul II in attendance with leaders of various world religions at the ecumenical gathering in Assisi on October 27, 1986. Source: CNS/L’Osservatore Romano

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Episode 381 debuts on July 12, 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 Order of Charity according to Saint Thomas.

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• Summa Theologiae, IIa IIae, Q. 26, A 1-13: The Order of Charity — by Saint Thomas Aquinas at newadvent.org
• The Order of Charity — a summary of the above by Msgr. Paul Glenn at catholictheology.info
• You Cannot Rightly Love without Logos — by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org
• On Loving and Hating in June: the Sacred Heart vs. Depraved ‘Pride’ — by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org
• Supernaturalizing Our Social Interactions — by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org
• The Tropology and Anagogy of Our Social Life — by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org

Anonymous Cusco School, Saint Thomas Aquinas, Protector of the University of Cusco, detail, Lima Art Museum, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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Episode 380 debuts on July 5, 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 Cost of Denying Creation. Our guest is Chris De Vos.

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• Mary Michael Maccabee Institute webpage — at 3mi.org
• What Must I Believe? II (The Doctrinal Series) — an informative YouTube Video by the Mary Michael Machabee Institute on the Modernist Alfred Loisey vs. the Magisterium and orthodox theologians
• What Is a Catholic Worldview? — by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org
• What is Development of Doctrine? — by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org
• St. Vincent of Lerins: Quod Ubique, Semper, et Ab Omnibus — by Brian Kelly, at catholicism.org
• What Happens When You Deny the Doctrine of Creation? — (to be published by the show’s airtime) by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org

Izaak van Oosten, The Garden of Eden, public domain via Wikimedia Commons

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Episode 379 debuts on June 21, 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 Christology 101.

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• The Nicene Creed — at fisheaters.com
• Athanasian Creed — at fisheaters.com
• The Ecumenical Councils of the Catholic Church — at catholicism.org
• Christology for Joe — by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org
• Saint Sophronius — at catholicism.org
• Saint Maximus the Confessor, Saint Thomas Aquinas, and Christ’s Two Wills — by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org
• Communicatio Idiomatum — at newadvent.org
• On the Feast of the Sacred Heart — by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org

Marvelous mosaic of Christ Pantocrator (“ruler over all”) from the Hagia Sophia in Instanbul. It is the central figure of the so called Deësis mosaic (Δέησις, “Entreaty”) which probably dates from a relatively late 1261. It is considered by many to be the finest mosaic in Hagia Sophia. Photo by Dianelos Georgoudis, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link

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