Episode 248 debuts on September 23, 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 Was Our Lady an ‘Unwed Mother’? My guest is Mr. Jonathan Arrington.

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• Sister Deirdre Byrne’s full speech at the Republican National Convention — video at YouTube.com
• Full text: Sister Dede Byrne’s speech at the 2020 Republican National Convention —  at catholicnewsagency.com
• When Were Joseph and Mary Married? — by Tim Staples at catholic.com
• Mary Ever Virgin — by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org 
• Joseph, Betrothed “Just Man,” Husband of Mary — by the Oblates of Saint Joseph at osjusa.org

‘The Annunciation,’ by Simone Martini (c. 1284–1344) source

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Episode 247 debuts on September 16, 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 Catholic Reformation, Part V. My Guest is Mr. Ryan Grant, Founder and President of Mediatrix Press.

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• See Links for Earlier Episodes — at reconquest.net
• The Council of Trent: Overview of its Importance and Difficulties — by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org
• Scandals in the Vatican! — on the institution of the “cardinal nephew” and Saint Charles Borromeo, by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org
• Saint Charles Borromeo (1584) — at catholicism.org

Saint Charles Borromeo, by Orazio Borgianni (source)

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Episode 246 debuts on September 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 Your Inalienable Spiritual Goods.

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• What Nobody Can Take from You — by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org
• Saint Louis de Montfort’s Treatise on True Devotion to Mary, Father Faber translation — at catholicwaypublishing.com
• Devotion to Mary in Proficients — by Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, OP, at catholictradition.org
• Merit — Catholic Encyclopedia article at newadvent.org

Robert Campin and workshop, Mérode Altarpiece (details).

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Episode 245 debuts on September 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 Heresy of Americanism. My Guest is Mr. Steve Cunningham of Sensus Fidelium and the Resistance Podcast.

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• Longinqua Oceani Encyclical of Pope Leo XIII on Catholicism in the United States — at thejosias.com
• Testem Benevolentiae Nostrae — encyclical of Pope Leo XIII condemning Americanism, at papalencyclicals.net
• Americanism — A Phantom Heresy? — by William Jay at catholicism.org
• The Heresy of Americanism and the Spanish-American War — by Gary Potter at catholicism.org
• The Relationship of Americanism to Modernism — by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org
• Americanism, Quietism, and Catholicism — by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org 
• The Troubles in the Church Began with _____. — by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org 
• On Making the United States Catholic — Reasons for Our Failure — from The Point, March 1958, at catholicism.org
• The First Yankee Priest, Father John Thayer — (link goes directly to a footnote about Bishop Carroll) by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org  
• When America Was Catholic — by Gary Potter at catholicism.org

Orestes Brownson (mentioned in the show as a great anti-Americanist), George Peter Alexander Healy / Public domain.

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Episode 244 debuts on August 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 Because of Our Fathers. My Guest is Mr. Tyler Rowley.

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• Because of Our Fathers: Twenty-Three Catholics Tell How Their Fathers Led Them to Christ — the book for sale at tylerrowley.com
• The Hearts of the Fathers — by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org  
• Turning the Hearts of the Fathers — poem by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org  
• The Feckless Fathers — by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org 
• Heaven is for Ladies, Hell for Men? — by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org  
• Montfortian Masculinity — by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org  

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Episode 243 debuts on August 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 The Catholic Reformation, Part IV. My Guest is Mr. Ryan Grant, Founder and President of Mediatrix Press.

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• See Links for Earlier Episodes — at reconquest.net
• Council of Trent Canons on the Sacraments — at documentacatholicaomnia.eu
• Sacramentarians — at wikipedia.org
• The Catechism of the Council of Trent — for sale at store.catholicism.org

Seven Sacraments Altarpiece, by Rogier van der Weyden, Public Domain, Link

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Episode 242 debuts on August 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 Invalid Baptismal Formulae.

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• CDF: Baptisms conferred with arbitrarily modified formulas are not valid — at vaticannews.va
• RESPONSES TO QUESTIONS PROPOSED on the validity of Baptism conferred with the formula «We baptize you in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit» — at press.vatican.va
• RESPONSES TO QUESTIONS PROPOSED on the validity of Baptism conferred with the formulas «I baptize you in the name of the Creator, and of the Redeemer, and of the Sanctifier» and «I baptize you in the name of the Creator, and of the Liberator, and of the Sustainer» — at vatican.va
• Whether several can baptize at the same time? — Saint Thomas in the Summa at newadvent.org

The Baptism of Christ, by Joachim Patinir (circa 1480 –1524) 

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