Episode 186 debuts on July 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 Holy Mother Russia.

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• The Conversion of Russia — by Gary Potter at catholicism.org
• Considerations on the Conversion of Russia — by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org
• Holy Man of Russia: Blessed Leonid Feodorov — book review (of this book) by Eleonore Villarrubia at catholicism.org
• Russia’s Catholic Tsar — at catholicism.org
• Official Catholic Prayers for the Conversion of Russia — at catholicism.org
• Saint Josaphat, Apostle of Eastern Catholic Unity — by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org
• What Are ‘the Errors of Russia?’ — by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org
• Russia’s Putin: Why Liberals Hate Him — by Gary Potter at catholicism.org
• Royal Russian Converts: The Two Princes Galitzin — by the Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary at catholicism.org
• ‘God Bless and Keep the Tsar…’ — by The Philosopher at catholicism.org
• Metropolitan Sheptytsky, Apostle of Church Unity — by the Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary at catholicism.org

The Most Holy Mother of God, “the Sovereign” by Unknown Artist. Note the Russian Double Eagle.

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Episode 185 debuts on July 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 Countering the Sloppy Talk on ‘Faith and Reason.’

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• Faith, Reason, and the Mess We’re In (to be published July 1) — by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org
• This Is Why Liberalism’s Pantheon Failed — by John Horvat II at returntoorder.org
• Dr. E Michael Jones on the Logos, the Trinity, Aquinas, and Hegel — insightful thoughts on Logos that are of great value in considering further these questions of “faith and reason.”
• Catholics, Non-Catholics, and the Natural Law — by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org
• Before Church and State — book cited, by Andrew Willard Jones

“The Harmony between Faith and Science,” by Ludwing Seitz (1844–1908). Saint Thomas Aquinas is teaching in the background. The inscription reads: “divinarum veritatum splendor, animo exceptus, ipsam juvat intelligentiam” [the splendor of the divine truths, received into the soul, helps the intellect], from Leo XIII’s encyclical Aeterni Patris.

Episode 184 debuts on June 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 Causes of Things.

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• From Schrödinger’s Cat to Thomistic Ontology — by Wolfgang Smith at philos-sophia.org 
• The Problem of Change: A Mystery of The Natural Order — by Brother Francis Maluf, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org 
• There Must Be A First: Why Thomas Aquinas Rejects Infinite, Essentially Ordered, Causal Series — an academic paper by Caleb Cohoe at academia.edu 
• The Causes of Justification — from the Council of Trent, at catholicism.org
• Four Causes and Five Ways — by Dr. Ed Feser at edwardfeser.blogspot.com
• Instrumental Causality: A Principle Small in Size, But Great in Consequence — by Dr. Sean Collins at sdcojai.wordpress.com
• Cause — from the Catholic Encyclopedia at newadvent.org

Aristotle

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Episode 183 debuts on June 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 Reality, Causality, and Lunatics Running the Asylum.

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• Misreading the Book of Nature: Intelligent Forests? — by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org
• Texts on Wolfgang Smith’s notions of “Vertical Causality” — at philos-sophia.org
• The Dangers of Scientism — by Brother Francis Maluf, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org
• Books by Wolfgang Smith — at angelicopress.org
• Irreconcilable Doctrines on Justification — by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org

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Episode 182 debuts on June 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 Rosary and the Quadriga, Part III. Our guest is Sister Maria Philomena, M.I.C.M.

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• An Ascension Quartet — by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org
• The Ascension and the Apostolate — by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org
• The Ark of the New Covenant — by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org
• Episode 180: The Rosary and the Quadriga, Part I — some of the links in the first part may be relevant to this part
• Sermon in a Sentence — book series recommended by Sister Maria Philomena for meditation matter
• Hail! Full of Grace: Simple Thoughts on the Rosary — PDF of book by Mother Mary Loyola (1845-1930), recommended by Sister Maria Philomena for meditation matter

Russian Icon of Holy Elias (Elijah) being taken up in the fiery chariot (cf. 4 Kings [2 Kings] 2:11-12), a type of the Ascension of Jesus Christ.

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Episode 181 debuts on June 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 Rosary and the Quadriga, Part II. Our guest is Sister Mary Joseph, M.I.C.M.

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• Episode 180: The Rosary and the Quadriga, Part I — some of the links in the first part will be relevant to this part
• The Mystery of the Crown of Thorns — book mentioned on air

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Episode 180 debuts on May 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 Rosary and the Quadriga, Part I.

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• The Four Meanings in Holy Scripture — by Br. Francis Maluf, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org
• The Four Senses of Scripture — by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org
• Episode 12. The Four Senses of Holy Scripture. Guest: Sister Maria Philomena, M.I.C.M. — earlier show related to this general topic
• The Old Testament Figures Hidden Behind the Annunciation — by Stephen Beale at catholicexchange.com
• Understanding the Annunciation — at stpaulcenter.com
• The Ark of the New Covenant — by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org
• The Magnificat, Hymn of the Incarnation — by Brian Kelly at catholicism.org
• Old Testament Types of Mary — by Father Johann Roten, S.M., at udayton.edu

Nuestra Señora de Rosario de Chiquinquirá. Story here.

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