Episode 233 debuts on June 10, 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 Wrong with ‘Theology of the Body’?

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• What’s Wrong with Personalism and ‘Theology of the Body’? An Interview with Dom Pietro Leone — by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org
• The Family Under Attack — book by Dom Pietro Leone at store.catholicism.org 
• “Theology of the Body” explained: a Traditional Catholic view — by Dom Pietro Leone at rorate-caeli.blogspot.com
• Renowned moral theologian weighs-in on Theology of the Body debate — (on Christopher West’s errors which went beyond John Paul II’s original ideas) at catholicnewsagency.com
• A Critique of the Theology of the Body — by A Sinner at renegadetrad.blogspot.com

“Vitruvian Man,” by Leonardo da Vinci, cropped from a photo by Luc Viatour (www.lucnix.be) 2007-09-08, Link.

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Episode 232 debuts on June 3, 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 Wrong with Personalism?

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• What’s Wrong with Personalism and ‘Theology of the Body’? An Interview with Dom Pietro Leone — by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org
• The Family Under Attack — book by Dom Pietro Leone at store.catholicism.org 
• Max Scheler — at Wikipedia.com 
• Edmund Husserl — at Wikipedia.com 
• Personalism — at plato.stanford.edu 
• Phenomenology — at plato.stanford.edu 
• Phenomenology (philosophy) — at Wikipedia.com  

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Episode 231 debuts on May 27, 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 Two Swords. My guest is Dr. Alan Fimister.

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• Integralism: A Manual of Political Philosophy — Dr. Fimister‘s book, coauthored with Father Thomas Crean, in both softcover and hardcover editions for sale at alibris.com
• Integralism in Three Sentences — by Father Edmund Waldstein, O.Cist. at thejosias.com
• Unam Sanctam: Papal Bull of Pope Boniface VIII — at catholicism.org 
• The Story of Pope Saint Gregory VII and Emperor Henry IV (discussed in the program) — as told by Sister Catherine Clark, M.I.C.M., in Our Glorious Popes (book available in print here) 

“Christ between St. Peter and the Emperor,” Heidelberg Schwabenspiegel manuscript (Heidelberg, University Library, Cod. Pal. Germ. 167, fol. 18r).

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Episode 230 debuts on May 20, 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 (the second in a series). My guest is Mr. Ryan Grant, Managing Editor of Mediatrix Press, translator and scholar of the work of Saint Robert Bellarmine.

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• See Links for Part I — at reconquest.net
• The Man Who Was Almost Pope: Reginald Cardinal Pole — by Stephanie A. Mann, at ncregister.com

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Episode 229 debuts on May 13, 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. My guest is Mr. Ryan Grant, Managing Editor of Mediatrix Press, translator and scholar of the work of Saint Robert Bellarmine.

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• The Devastation of Catholic Europe: Some Causes and Consequences of the Protestant Revolt — Brother David Mary, M.I.C.M., Tert., at catholicism.org
• The Council of Trent: Overview of its Importance and Difficulties — by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org
• Irreconcilable Doctrines on Justification — by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org
• Nineteenth Ecumenical Council: Trent — by the Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, at catholicism.org
• The Counter-Reformation — Catholic Encyclopedia article at newadvent.com

Matthias Burglechner, The Council of Trent, 16th century (Wikimedia Commons).

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Episode 228 debuts on May 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 The Heresy of Horizontalism.

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• 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
• Horizontalism Invades Theology — by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org

Newton’s Cradle, photo by Chris Potter, ccPixs.com.

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Episode 227 debuts on April 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 Why the ‘Reform of the Reform’ Is Doomed. My guest is Dr. Peter Kwasniewski.

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• Why the “Reform of the Reform” Is Doomed — by Dr. Peter Kwasniewski at onepeterfive.com
• The Growing Realization of the Irreparable Failure of the Liturgical Reform — by Dr. Peter Kwasniewski at newliturgicalmovement.org
• Why Restoring the Roman Rite to Its Fullness is Not “Traddy Antiquarianism” — by Dr. Peter Kwasniewski at newliturgicalmovement.org
• “Beyond ‘Smells and Bells’: Why We Need the Objective Content of the Usus Antiquior” — by Dr. Peter Kwasniewski at rorate-caeli.blogspot.com
• Reforming the Irreformable? — by Anonymous at at newliturgicalmovement.org
• The End of the “Reform of the Reform”: Father Kocik’s “Tract 90” — by Father Richard G. Cipolla at rorate-caeli.blogspot.com
• The Questionnaire on Summorum Pontificum: what’s going on behind the scenes — at rorate-caeli.blogspot.com
• Summorum Under Threat? – Holy See sends survey to Bishops on Summorum Pontificum — at rorate-caeli.blogspot.com
• Why the Reform of the Reform is Not the Solution — by Brian Williams at liturgyguy.com

Notice how the old Church building is so much more beautiful than the modern monstrosities of steel and glass, and how the “mirrors” of novelty distort the image of tradition.

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