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A Catholic Take

The Station of the Cross Catholic Media Network

A Catholic Take: What you need to know, right now. A bold synthesis of inspiration and information. Keeping you up to date on news & issues from a Courageous Catholic perspective with Joe McClane. Live, Monday-Friday across the Station of the Cross Catholic Media Network.

Episodes

  1. Bishop Stops the St. Michael Prayer After Mass (Audio)

    · 1 h 20 min

    October 19th, 2026 - A Tennessee bishop has told his parishes to stop praying the St. Michael Prayer together at Mass. The prayer was written by Pope Leo XIII, and it's being set aside under Pope Leo XIV. Michael Matt of The Remnant joins Joe on the Knoxville directive, Bishop Rob Mutsaerts' talk at the 2026 Catholic Identity Conference, and the riots spreading from France across Europe while too...

  2. Vatican Officials Tried LEAKING The Third Secret Of Fatima. No One Listened. (Audio)

    · 49 min

    October 16th, 2026 - Did the Vatican reveal the entire Third Secret of Fatima in 2000, or was an important warning about apostasy within the Church left unexplained? Guest host Michael Hichborn is joined by Dr. Anthony Stine of Return to Tradition to examine statements attributed to bishops, cardinals, and Padre Pio concerning the Third Secret of Fatima and its alleged warning of a crisis of faith...

  3. NYC Eucharistic Procession: Young Catholics Return to Tradition? (Audio)

    · 50 min

    October 15th, 2026 - Thousands of Catholics filled the streets of New York City for a public procession with the Blessed Sacrament. But could this remarkable display of faith reveal something bigger about the future of the Catholic Church? Guest host Mike Koeniger welcomes Nicholas Cavazos, known as The Traditional Thomist, to examine what the procession—and the young, diverse crowd following Chri...

  4. Fr. Gerald Murray: Can Catholics Still Support the Death Penalty? (Audio)

    · 1 h 25 min

    October 14th, 2026 - The Pentagon plans to execute Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan by firing squad on December 3 and livestream it. Days later, Pope Leo XIV called the death penalty "inadmissible." Fr. Gerald Murray joins Joe on the question Catholics are arguing about: can a faithful Catholic still support capital punishment? Links, Show Notes & More - https://thestationofthecross.com/act Email Us!...

  5. Sister Lucia's Last Free Interview: Fatima's 1957 Warning (Audio)

    · 1 h 22 min

    October 13th, 2026 - 109 years after the Miracle of the Sun, Sister Lucia's last free interview still stands as Fatima's sharpest warning: the gravest danger isn't war, it's losing our souls. And before visits to her were restricted, she told Fr. Agustín Fuentes the devil's first target: souls consecrated to God. Links, Show Notes & More - https://thestationofthecross.com/act Email Us! ACT@TheStat...

  6. Columbus Wanted the Gold — to Free Jerusalem (Audio)

    · 1 h 22 min

    October 12th, 2026 - Christopher Columbus wrote that he hoped the gold of the Indies would let Ferdinand and Isabella "undertake the conquest of the Holy Sepulcher." Pope Leo XIII wrote in 1892 that "the Catholic faith was the strongest motive" for his voyage. So why is he remembered as a villain? This Columbus Day, Joe reads Columbus in his own words, walks through the 800-year war he was born in...

  7. Cardinal Burke Out, Cardinal Cupich In: Rome's Amoris Laetitia Meeting (Audio)

    · 1 h 22 min

    October 9th, 2026 - Cardinals Cupich, McElroy, Tobin and Fernández are on Pope Leo's personal guest list for Rome's Amoris Laetitia meeting. Cardinal Burke is not — and neither is any cardinal who signed the dubia. Michael Haynes joins us to discuss that and more. Plus, Bishop Athanasius Schneider's exclusive: Amoris Laetitia is "against divine law" and must be explicitly corrected - Dr. Anthony S...

  8. The Woman at the Well: Flirting or Fulfillment? (Audio)

    · 1 h 27 min

    October 8th, 2026 - A rabbi alone at a well with a woman who has had five husbands. Flirting? No. Isaac, Jacob and Moses all found their brides at a well, and in John 4 Jesus sits down at Jacob's well at high noon. Plus, Nicholas Cavazos on the Amoris Laetetia Summit. Links, Show Notes & More - https://thestationofthecross.com/act Email Us! ACT@TheStationOfTheCross.com

  9. Ex-Pastor Keith Nester: God Wants Everyone to Be Catholic (Audio)

    · 1 h 29 min

    October 7th, 2026 - Keith Nester spent more than 20 years as a Protestant pastor. Today he explains why God has one plan of salvation for all mankind — and why that plan is the Catholic Church. Plus, on the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary: the Battle of Lepanto, October 7, 1571, and what happened when the sun came up. Links, Show Notes & More - https://thestationofthecross.com/act Email Us! ACT@Th...

  10. Fr. Gerald Murray: Amoris Laetitia, 10 Years of Confusion (Audio)

    · 1 h 22 min

    October 6th, 2026 - Ten years after Amoris laetitia, and on the eve of Rome's summit marking its anniversary, Fr. Gerald Murray makes his case: it brought confusion where there had been clarity, and no Pope has the power to change what Christ taught. A release-day interview on his new book, A Papacy of Confusion! Links, Show Notes & More - https://thestationofthecross.com/act Email Us! ACT@TheStat...

  11. 2026 Fall On Air Appeal - Day Five (with Fr. Robert McTeigue)

    · 49 min

    October 2nd, 2026 - We welcome back Fr. Robert McTeigue, S.J. to cover the headlines from a Catholic perspective and raise funds to keep The Station of the Cross on the air. Because we are a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, all donations are tax-deductible! To make a donation, call 1-877-711-8500 or visit thestationofthecross.com Links, Show Notes & More - https://thestationofthecross.com/ac...

  12. 2026 Fall On Air Appeal - Day Four (with Fr. Robert McTeigue)

    · 50 min

    October 1st, 2026 - We welcome back Fr. Robert McTeigue, S.J. to cover the headlines from a Catholic perspective and raise funds to keep The Station of the Cross on the air. Because we are a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, all donations are tax-deductible! To make a donation, call 1-877-711-8500 or visit thestationofthecross.com Links, Show Notes & More - https://thestationofthecross.com/ac...

  13. 2026 Fall On Air Appeal - Day Three (with Fr. Robert McTeigue)

    · 50 min

    September 30th, 2026 - We welcome back Fr. Robert McTeigue, S.J. to cover the headlines from a Catholic perspective and raise funds to keep The Station of the Cross on the air. Because we are a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, all donations are tax-deductible! To make a donation, call 1-877-711-8500 or visit thestationofthecross.com Links, Show Notes & More - https://thestationofthecross.com...

  14. 2026 Fall On Air Appeal - Day Two (with Fr. Robert McTeigue)

    · 50 min

    September 29th, 2026 - We welcome back Fr. Robert McTeigue, S.J. to cover the headlines from a Catholic perspective and raise funds to keep The Station of the Cross on the air. Because we are a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, all donations are tax-deductible! To make a donation, call 1-877-711-8500 or visit thestationofthecross.com Links, Show Notes & More - https://thestationofthecross.com...

  15. 2026 Fall On Air Appeal - Day One (with Fr. Robert McTeigue)

    · 50 min

    September 28th, 2026 - We welcome back Fr. Robert McTeigue, S.J. to cover the headlines from a Catholic perspective and raise funds to keep The Station of the Cross on the air. Because we are a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, all donations are tax-deductible! To make a donation, call 1-877-711-8500 or visit thestationofthecross.com Links, Show Notes & More - https://thestationofthecross.com...

  16. Padre Pio Warned Us: “Can’t You See? The World is on Fire.” (Audio)

    · 1 h 25 min

    September 25th, 2026 - As the story goes, Padre Pio said the inventor of refrigeration went to heaven, and when asked about the inventor of television, he pointed down. Fulton Sheen went on television and preached Christ to millions of Americans every week. The day after the Church beatified Sheen, author Mary O'Regan joins Joe to explain what Padre Pio saw coming in the media age, and who the men...

  17. Rome Silenced Padre Pio. A Con Man Fought Back. (Audio)

    · 1 h 21 min

    September 23rd, 2026 - In 1931, the Holy See stripped Padre Pio of everything but a private Mass. No confessions, no public Mass, no letters. The man who fought hardest to get him back was a con man from Turin who walked into the friar's confessional wearing white gloves and walked out a different man. On the feast of St. Pio of Pietrelcina, Joe tells the true story of Emanuele Brunatto, the man P...

  18. Why Trad Catholics Turned on Fulton Sheen (Audio)

    · 1 h 39 min

    September 22nd, 2026 - In 1967, Fulton Sheen wrote that Teilhard de Chardin would one day stand beside St. John of the Cross as "the spiritual genius of the twentieth century." Rome had warned the faithful about Teilhard's writings five years earlier. Two days before Sheen's beatification, Mark Lambert joins Joe to look at why so many traditional Catholics have soured on the man who taught America...

  19. How Jesus Fulfills Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement (Audio)

    · 1 h 22 min

    September 21st, 2026 - Once a year the high priest carried blood behind the veil. Dr. Annie Tinnin shows how every detail of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, points to Jesus Christ and His Cross. Plus: Patrick Clancy says he has forgiven the wife who killed their three children. Mike Koeniger joins Joe on what Catholic forgiveness actually requires. Links, Show Notes & More - https://thestationof...

  20. Anthony Stine: Dialogue With Everyone — Except This Priest? (Audio)

    · 1 h 52 min

    September 18th, 2026 - Rome marks sixty years of Nostra Aetate by calling Catholics to dialogue with every religion. The same month, a priest who defends the social Kingship of Christ was pulled from his classroom. Dr. Anthony Stine joins Joe McClane. Plus: a parish priest found shot dead in Mexico on the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows - Edward Clancy of Aid to the Church in Need on what Mexico's bi...

  21. Michael Matt: Rome Just Put the Vatican II Problem in Writing (Audio)

    · 1 h 53 min

    September 17th, 2026 - Michael Matt says Rome just put the Vatican II problem in writing — so Joe reads him the paragraph where Rome says Christ is the one and only Redeemer. "A Journey of Hope," Nostra Aetate at 60, and the question underneath all of it: if there is one Redeemer, what is dialogue for? Links, Show Notes & More - https://thestationofthecross.com/act Email Us! ACT@TheStationOfTheCro...

  22. Bishop Strickland: "I Have Not Moved" on Vatican II (Audio)

    · 1 h 38 min

    September 16th, 2026 - Bishop Joseph Strickland says "I have not moved" — and on the day that Rome published a note asking Catholics to "esteem" other religions, he joins us to do what his new letter proposes: examine Vatican II in the light of Tradition, document by document. Nostra Aetate at 60, Archbishop Lefebvre, and the question the Vatican's new text has to answer: if Christ is the only Red...

  23. Flanders Recants: "I Can No Longer Recommend" an SSPX Chapel (Audio)

    · 1 h 21 min

    September 15th, 2026 - Timothy Flanders publicly defended the SSPX for years. Today he tells us why he has retracted and why, "in principle," he can no longer recommend anyone attend an SSPX chapel. Plus, the Battle of Vienna: September 12, 1683 — the victory that gave the Church the Feast of the Holy Name of Mary. Links, Show Notes & More - https://thestationofthecross.com/act Email Us! ACT@TheSt...

  24. Fr. Carlos Martins: The Door Ordinary Catholics Open Without Knowing (Audio)

    · 1 h 22 min

    September 14th, 2026 - On November 3, Virginians will vote on a Constitutional Amendment creating a "fundamental right to reproductive freedom," including abortion. Mike Koeniger walks us through what the amendment's strict-scrutiny standard does to Virginia's existing parental-consent and third-trimester laws, why the Virginia Catholic Conference calls it extreme, and what the bishops are asking...

  25. 25 Years After 9/11: More FDNY Have Died From the Dust Than Died That Day (Audio)

    · 1 h 36 min

    September 11th, 2026 - The pontifical Mass for the Summorum Pontificum pilgrimage - Bishop Athanasius Schneider was to be the celebrant - was refused in a letter from the Secretariat of State. It moves to St. Mary Major, and Dr. Anthony Stine returns to offer his thoughts. Then, Joe is joined by a New York firefighter to remember the lives lost on 9/11, those still being buried, and every soul car...

  26. Gideon Lazar: Fatima Is Why I'm Catholic (Audio)

    · 1 h 21 min

    September 10th, 2026 - Gideon Lazar grew up in a Jewish family. Our Lady of Fatima is the reason he is Catholic today, and he joins us to share the story. Plus: one year after Charlie Kirk was killed, Nick Cavazos on what hardened in America — and where the hope actually is. Links, Show Notes & More - https://thestationofthecross.com/act Email Us! ACT@TheStationOfTheCross.com

  27. Cardinal Burke Went on Shawn Ryan. Here's What He Actually Said. (Audio)

    · 1 h 21 min

    September 9th, 2026 - Cardinal Burke spent two hours teaching the Old Testament to Shawn Ryan's audience - former Navy SEAL, five million subscribers, mostly young men with no church at all. Nearly a million views on day one. The same week, the president of the Pontifical Academy for Life said Catholics could morally consent to an "imperfect" assisted suicide law. We welcome back Michael Haynes of...

  28. Where Mary's Birthday Actually Came From (Audio)

    · 1 h 22 min

    September 8th, 2026 - We walk through the origins of the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Then, we welcome Luis Roman and Luis Piccinali to preview Murder in the 33rd Degree, an upcoming documentary trilogy that covers Vatican corruption in 1977-78 and the Year of the Three Popes based on personal testimony from Fr. Charles Murr. Links, Show Notes & More - https://thestationofthec...

  29. Bishop Strickland: Are We the "Prophets of Doom?" (Audio)

    · 1 h 53 min

    September 4th, 2026 - Bishop Joseph Strickland takes the question head on: are traditional Catholics the "prophets of doom" that Pope Leo XIV invoked this week? Plus, Dr. Anthony Stine on the Vatican's new creation document, and where a warning ends and despair begins. Links, Show Notes & More - https://thestationofthecross.com/act Email Us! ACT@TheStationOfTheCross.com

  30. Lindsay Clancy: The Three Victims Nobody Marched For (Audio)

    · 1 h 21 min

    September 3rd, 2026 - We share the story of the Albanian Braveheart, an escaped Christian slave who annihilated 80,000 Muslim invaders. Then, we welcome back Nicholas Cavazos to recap what we should know about the Lindsay Clancy trial as the jury continues to work towards a unanimous verdict. Links, Show Notes & More - https://thestationofthecross.com/act Email Us! ACT@TheStationOfTheCross.com

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