Episode 154 debuts on November 21, 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 Has Divine Revelation Ceased?

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• Has Divine Revelation Ceased? — by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org
• The Pope, the Church, and the Paraclete — by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org
• Continuous revelation — the Wikipedia article on what religions believe in it
• Lamentabili Sane (condemning the Modernists) — by Pope Saint Pius X, at papalencyclicals.net
• Decrees of the First Vatican Council — at papalencyclicals.net
• ‘There will be no further Revelation’ — excerpt from the CCC at scborromeo.org
• What is Private Revelation? — by Raymond Taouk, at catholicapologetics.info

The Transfiguration, 1480 (oil on panel) by Bellini, Giovanni (c.1430-1516); 115×154 cm; Museo e Gallerie Nazionali di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy; Italian, out of copyright

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Episode 153 debuts on November 14, 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 a Catholic Church?

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• The Latin Mass and the Orthodox — by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org (mentioning important notions of sacred space and its liturgical utility)
• Tired Old Arguments against Tradition — by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org (ditto)
• THE DEDICATION OF THE ARCHBASILICA OF OUR SAVIOR, THE LATERAN BASILICA OF ST JOHN — at reginamag.com
• Archbasilica of St. John Lateran — at Wikipedia.org
  
• Solemn Consecration of a Church — short PDF at fsspolgs.org
• Mass Propers for the Feast of November 9 — at average-catholic.com

High Altar of the Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran, Rome

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Episode 152 debuts on November 7, 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 Is Jesus ‘My Personal Lord and Savior’?”

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• Is Jesus Really Our Friend? — by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org
• Quas Primas (on the Kingship of Christ) — by Pope Pius XI, at vatican.va
• Christ the Conqueror — by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org
• Christology for Joe — by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org

Kneeling and Touching [Saint Thomas], Martin Schongauer and workshop, panel from a late 15th-century altarpiece. Photo by Martin Schongauer – Thomas, Helena from the Netherlands, 2008-10-22 15:24, CC BY 2.0, Link.

Episode 151 debuts on October 31, 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 Unexpected Apologetics: “Are You Saved, Brother?”

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• The Devil’s Doctrine — by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org (most of the show’s material will be found here)
• A Tiptoe through TULIP — by James Akin at ewtn.com
• Once Saved NOT Always Saved! — patristic passages collected by Mr. Joe Gallegos at cin.org

“Saint Jerome Writing,” by Caravaggio. (1605-1606). “Why do we pray that we may not enter into temptation, and that we may be delivered from the evil one, if the devil cannot tempt those who are baptized? The case is different if this prayer belongs to the Catechumens, and is not adapted to faithful Christians. Paul, the chosen vessel, chastised his body, and brought it into subjection, lest after preaching to others he himself should be found a reprobate…” (Against Jovinian, Book II, chap. 3).

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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.

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• 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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