

The Catholic Current
The Station of the Cross Catholic Media Network
Bringing Christ to the World and the World to Christ! Producer and Host Fr. Robert McTeigue, S.J. illuminates today's issues with the love of Christ and the authority of His Church. Each show features expert guests that shed light on relevant and important topics.
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May 27, 2025 • 52min
Reasserting Catholic Education (Dr. Ryan Messmore) 5/27/25
We welcome Dr. Ryan Messmore from the Institute for Catholic Liberal Education to talk about how Catholic education can be done better, and what that would look like. Father finishes with Timely Thoughts.
Show Notes
Institute for Catholic Liberal Education
The Mind That Is Catholic: Fr. James Schall
Another Sort of Learning: Schall S.J., Fr. James V.
The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods (Not In A Series)
Docilitas: On Teaching and Being Taught: Schall S.J., James V.
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May 26, 2025 • 12min
Prayer: How and Why (Fr. Robert McTeigue, S.J.)
How do we pray rightly? Fr. McTeigue guides listeners through the steps of thoughtful, reflective, and rightful prayer, that we may not only pray better, but live more prayerfully.

May 23, 2025 • 51min
Let’s Choose a Better Future (Fr. Robert McTeigue, S.J.) 5/23/25
Since South Korea, with its advanced technological culture, has one of the highest suicide rates along with other signs of societal despair, what does that suggest about the direction we're heading? Father finishes with Weekend Readiness.
Show Notes
South Korea Is Everything Wrong With Society
Why South Korea is Collapsing: The Coming Economic Crisis
South Korea Is a Dystopia
South Korea Archives - Zeihan on Geopolitics
The Cube and the Cathedral: Europe, America, and Politics Without God
The Church Speaks to the Modern World: The Social Teachings of Leo XIII: Gilson
The Cult of the Imperial Self | New Oxford Review
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains: Carr, Nicholas
Restoring Lost Customs of Christendom: Plese, Matthew R
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May 22, 2025 • 52min
A Simple Way to Fix Healthcare (Today!) (Karl Denninger) 5/22/25
We welcome Karl Denninger to discuss the brokenness of the healthcare industry and what ought to be done about it. Since the vast majority of us accept that something is wrong with the current model, let's imagine something different, and how that would impact the rest of society. Better yet, let's talk about what would happen if existing laws were enforced.
Show Notes
The Bill To Permanently Fix Health Care For All in [Market-Ticker]
Leverage: How Cheap Money Will Destroy the World | Wiley
Surgery Center of Oklahoma
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May 21, 2025 • 11min
Let’s Take a Closer Look: The Presence and Absence of God (Fr. Robert McTeigue, S.J.)
Do you treat God like a smartphone? Swipe when you need Him. Ignore when you don't. Demand instant answers. Get annoyed when He doesn't "perform." God isn't your emergency backup. Fr. McTeigue takes a closer look.
Watch on YouTube: The Presence and Absence of God

May 20, 2025 • 52min
Goodbye to DEI? (Dr. Stanley Ridgley) 5/20/25
We welcome Dr. Stanley Ridgley to share how DEI is deeply woven into our institutions, how much money its proponents are being paid to promote it, and why so many schools are afraid to say no. Father finishes with Timely Thoughts.
Show Notes
DEI Exposed: How the Biggest Con of the Century Almost Toppled Higher Education
Sowell EXPOSES Everything WRONG with IVY LEAGUE Schools (Video)
Apple executive sorry for saying white people can be diverse
Daily Beast Mocks Stabbing Victim Salman Rushdie for Canceling Commencement Address
Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline
America's College Towns Go From Boom to Bust
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May 19, 2025 • 12min
LTACL: Why Do Academics Hate the Truth? (Fr. Robert McTeigue, S.J.)
Fr. Robert McTeigue, S.J. explains why saying Truth with a capital T sends today's academics into meltdown—and how Christ offers not control, but fulfillment.
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May 16, 2025 • 52min
Are We Losing Our Minds (or Our Memories?) - Fr. Robert McTeigue, S.J. 5/16/25
What have we lost through an ignorance of our collective history? What are we being manipulated into forgetting? Father McTeigue confronts these questions in this week's episode of Let's Talk About This. Father finishes with Weekend Readiness to prepare you for Sunday Mass.
Show Notes
Nicholas Carr | What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
Teachers Quit because of Technology
The Shallows: How the Internet Is Changing the Way We Think, Read and Remember
Amusing Ourselves to Death 20th (twentieth) edition Text Only: Neil Postman
The Hacking of the American Mind: The Science Behind the Corporate Takeover of Our Bodies and Brains
Forgotten Customs of Rogation Days - OnePeterFive
Another Sort of Learning: Schall S.J., Fr. James V.
Restoring Lost Customs of Christendom
Hey! We Found Your Culture! (Matthew Plese) 1/23/25
Social media giant hit with scathing ad campaign amid anger over AI chatbots sexually exploiting kids
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May 15, 2025 • 52min
A Theology of Fiction (Cassandra Nelson) 5/15/25
We welcome Cassandra Nelson to discuss whether there is value in fiction in terms of our spiritual lives. Is there an implicit message about the human soul that can be revealed by reflecting on how Christ used stories to teach?
Show Notes
A Theology of Fiction: Nelson, Cassandra
Cassandra Nelson: Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture
A Theology Of Reading: The Hermeneutics Of Love: Jacobs, Alan
The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction: Jacobs, Alan
Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader's Guide to a More Tranquil Mind
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May 14, 2025 • 10min
Let’s Take a Closer Look: The Pope and Sloppy American Politics
Some of those publicly pontificating about our new pope are understanding him through only a secular lens, then they are adding partisanship and distorting moral doctrine. Let's take a closer look.
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