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Guests:

1. Gavin Pepper – Candidate for Finglas & Ballymun, Ireland – Twitter
   • The Phantom Menace of the Irish ‘Far Right’
   • The Rage Behind the Dublin Riots
   • Conor McGregor Being Investigated For ‘Online Hate Speech’ For Comments on Mass Migration
   • You’ll never guess the most popular boy name in Galway in 2022

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• Rome sets red lines for talks with German bishops
• Bishop Barron in ‘frank disagreement’ with Synod on Synodality’s report on ‘development of moral teaching’
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The News:

• 4-year-old American hostage released by Hamas, Biden says
• Pope Francis says he has lung inflammation but will go to Dubai this week for climate conference
• NY retailers lost $4.4 billion due to organized shoplifting rings in 2022
• FORMER COP IN FLOYD CASE STABBED IN PRISON
• BISHOP of CT says … MOVE CATHOLIC HEADQUARTERS OUT OF ROME
• Conor McGregor Being Investigated For ‘Online Hate Speech’ For Comments on Mass Migration

Saint of the Day:

• St. James Intercisus – Martyr (d. 421) – “St. James the Mutilated” – Persian nobleman

Gospel of the Day:

Luke 21:1-4

When Jesus looked up he saw some wealthy people putting their offerings into the treasury and he noticed a poor widow putting in two small coins. He said, “I tell you truly, this poor widow put in more than all the rest; for those others have all made offerings from their surplus wealth, but she, from her poverty, has offered her whole livelihood.”

Guests:

1. Brent Haynes – Attorney, Political Analyst, Catholic Freedom Fighter
   • The Myths of the Thanksgiving Story and the Lasting Damage They Imbue
   • The first Thanksgiving? That actually took place in Florida
2. Bishop Athanasius Schneider – Astana, Kazakhstan – Website
   • Credo – Compendium of the Catholic Faith

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The News:

• Israeli Government Approves Cease Fie Deal: 4-Day Pause for 50 Hostages
• Indiana had no abortions in August after pro-life law took effect
• Church Militant Board of Directors asked MICHAEL VORIS resign!
• U.S. Army Sends Letter To Soldiers Fired Under COVID Vaccine Mandate
• Dutch ‘anti-globalist’ politician viciously attacked 2 days before election
• BISHOP BARRON PUSHES BACK ON SYNOD SUMMARY DOCUMENT

Saint of the Day:

• St. Cecilia – Virgin & Martyr (d. 3rd century) – patroness of Christian music and musicians – named in the Roman Canon

Gospel of the Day:

Luke 19:11-28

While people were listening to Jesus speak, he proceeded to tell a parable because he was near Jerusalem and they thought that the Kingdom of God would appear there immediately. So he said, “A nobleman went off to a distant country to obtain the kingship for himself and then to return. He called ten of his servants and gave them ten gold coins and told them, ‘Engage in trade with these until I return.’ His fellow citizens, however, despised him and sent a delegation after him to announce, ‘We do not want this man to be our king.’ But when he returned after obtaining the kingship, he had the servants called, to whom he had given the money, to learn what they had gained by trading. The first came forward and said, ‘Sir, your gold coin has earned ten additional ones.’ He replied, ‘Well done, good servant! You have been faithful in this very small matter; take charge of ten cities.’ Then the second came and reported, ‘Your gold coin, sir, has earned five more.’ And to this servant too he said, ‘You, take charge of five cities.’ Then the other servant came and said, ‘Sir, here is your gold coin; I kept it stored away in a handkerchief, for I was afraid of you, because you are a demanding man; you take up what you did not lay down and you harvest what you did not plant.’ He said to him, ‘With your own words I shall condemn you, you wicked servant. You knew I was a demanding man, taking up what I did not lay down and harvesting what I did not plant; why did you not put my money in a bank? Then on my return I would have collected it with interest.’ And to those standing by he said, ‘Take the gold coin from him and give it to the servant who has ten.’ But they said to him, ‘Sir, he has ten gold coins.’ He replied, ‘I tell you, to everyone who has, more will be given, but from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away. Now as for those enemies of mine who did not want me as their king, bring them here and slay them before me.’”
After he had said this, he proceeded on his journey up to Jerusalem.

Guests:

1. Sheryl Collmer – Crisis Magazine
   • The Protestant Mary Isn’t the True Mary
2. Kevin Wells – Website – Crisis Magazine
   • Silence in the Face of the Homosexual Infestation of the Clergy

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The News:

• Iraqi leader meets Pope after court rejects cardinal’s lawsuit
• UK Govt Compiled ‘Secret Files’ on Social Media Activity of Critics to Create Event Blacklist
• ADMIN MOVES TO FORCE FOSTER FAMILIES TO ACCEPT GENDER IDEOLOGY
• Biden’s Pentagon Slated To Spend Nearly $270 Million On Diversity Agenda’
• Across US, Catholic groups often behind LGBTQ book banning efforts’
• Pope Francis intervenes in German Synodal Way, expresses ‘concerns’ about threats to Church unity

Saint of the Day:

• Pope St. Gelasius I – Pope & Confessor (d. 496)

Gospel of the Day:

Luke 19:1-10

At that time Jesus came to Jericho and intended to pass through the town. Now a man there named Zacchaeus, who was a chief tax collector and also a wealthy man, was seeking to see who Jesus was; but he could not see him because of the crowd, for he was short in stature. So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore tree in order to see Jesus, who was about to pass that way. When he reached the place, Jesus looked up and said, “Zacchaeus, come down quickly, for today I must stay at your house.” And he came down quickly and received him with joy. When they saw this, they began to grumble, saying, “He has gone to stay at the house of a sinner.” But Zacchaeus stood there and said to the Lord, “Behold, half of my possessions, Lord, I shall give to the poor, and if I have extorted anything from anyone I shall repay it four times over.” And Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house because this man too is a descendant of Abraham. For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save what was lost.”

Guests:

1. Shaun McAfee – epicpew.com
   • Compendium of Sacramentals: Encyclopedia of the Church’s Blessings, Signs, and Devotions (TAN Books)
2. Mike Koeniger

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The News:

• Pope Francis meets with Trans-Women
• ‘Anti-Christian Hate Crimes’ in Europe up 44% in Past Year
• Milei wins Argentina election with 56 percent
• Arizona street preacher fighting for his life after being shot in the head
• Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter Passes Away at Age 96
• Rep. JORDAN SUBPOENAS BANK OF AMERICA OVER JAN 6 ATTENDEES

Saint of the Day:

• St. Felix of Valois – Confessor (d. 1212) – co-founder of the Trinitarians (Order of the Most Holy Trinity and of the Captives)

Gospel of the Day:

Luke 18:35-43

As Jesus approached Jericho 
a blind man was sitting by the roadside begging, 
and hearing a crowd going by, he inquired what was happening. 
They told him, 
“Jesus of Nazareth is passing by.” 
He shouted, “Jesus, Son of David, have pity on me!” 
The people walking in front rebuked him, 
telling him to be silent, 
but he kept calling out all the more, 
“Son of David, have pity on me!” 
Then Jesus stopped and ordered that he be brought to him; 
and when he came near, Jesus asked him, 
“What do you want me to do for you?” 
He replied, “Lord, please let me see.” 
Jesus told him, “Have sight; your faith has saved you.” 
He immediately received his sight 
and followed him, giving glory to God. 
When they saw this, all the people gave praise to God.

Guests:

1. Michael Hichborn – Lepanto Institute
   • Lepanto Institute’s Message Just Sent to all U.S. Bishops
2. Dr. Anthony Stine – Return To Tradition YouTube – Website
   • This List Of Bishops And Cardinals UNJUSTLY FIRED By Francis Is Shocking
   • [Italian] All the bishops (and the monsignors) purged by Pope Francis

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The News:

• Paul Pelosi attacker found guilty of federal kidnapping, assault charges
• USCCB Overwhelmingly Supports Naming John Henry Newman a Doctor of the Church
• Growing Calls to Ban TikTok After Osama Bin Laden Letter to America Goes Viral
• Bishop Strickland says US nuncio told him not to attend USCCB annual meeting
• George Santos Says He Won’t Seek Re-Election After Scathing Ethics Report
• FBI PROBES SATANIC PEDOPHILES
• After-School Satan Club Targets Rural Connecticut School With Christian ‘Good News’ Club

Saint of the Day:

• St. Gregory the Wonderworker – Bishop & Confessor (d. ca. 270) – patron of hopeless causes and against floods and earthquakes

Gospel of the Day:

Luke 17:26-37 | Memorial of St. Elizabeth of Hungary

Jesus said to his disciples: “As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be in the days of the Son of Man; they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage up to the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. Similarly, as it was in the days of Lot: they were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building; on the day when Lot left Sodom, fire and brimstone rained from the sky to destroy them all. So it will be on the day the Son of Man is revealed. On that day, someone who is on the housetop and whose belongings are in the house must not go down to get them, and likewise one in the field must not return to what was left behind. Remember the wife of Lot. Whoever seeks to preserve his life will lose it, but whoever loses it will save it. I tell you, on that night there will be two people in one bed; one will be taken, the other left. And there will be two women grinding meal together; one will be taken, the other left.” They said to him in reply, “Where, Lord?”
He said to them, “Where the body is, there also the vultures will gather.”

Guests:

1. Brent Haynes – Attorney, Political Analyst, Catholic Freedom Fighter
   • GOP senator stands up and challenges Teamsters head to a fight
   • GOP rifts boil over in exchange between Reps. McCarthy and Burchett
2. Fr. Gerald Murray – Holy Family Catholic Church, New York, NY
   • Bishop Joseph Strickland Responds! The Last Interview before Pope Francis removed him
   • The World Over with Raymond Arroyo

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The News:

• Secret Service Found DNA from White House Cocaine Baggie
• Bishops vote to keep abortion as ‘our preeminent priority’
• Biden Border Crisis Costs Taxpayers $451 Billion a Year
• Privately owned firearms surpass 500 million in US after third-highest October for gun sales on record
• Leaked NSA Doc Reveals Massive Glossary Pushing Critical Race Theory and Gender Ideology At Intel Agency
• Women will Baptise in Roman Catholic Churches

Saint of the Day:

• St. Gertrude the Great – Virgin (d. 1302) – early promoter of devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus

Gospel of the Day:

Luke 17:20-25

Asked by the Pharisees when the Kingdom of God would come, Jesus said in reply, “The coming of the Kingdom of God cannot be observed, and no one will announce, ‘Look, here it is,’ or, ‘There it is.’ For behold, the Kingdom of God is among you.”
Then he said to his disciples, “The days will come when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man, but you will not see it. There will be those who will say to you, ‘Look, there he is,’ or ‘Look, here he is.’ Do not go off, do not run in pursuit. For just as lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one side to the other, so will the Son of Man be in his day. But first he must suffer greatly and be rejected by this generation.”

Guests:

1. Robert Spencer – Jihad Watch
   • Spain: 14 Muslim migrants from Pakistan arrested for jihad activities
2. Fr. Charles Murr – Website
   • The Godmother: Madre Pascalina, A Feminine Tour de Force

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The News:

• Mike Johnson endorses Trump for president
• Colorado archbishop condemns drug use, ‘disastrous’ marijuana legalization in new pastoral letter
• Rep. Tim Burchett accuses ‘bully’ Kevin McCarthy of attacking him with ‘clean shot to the kidneys’ in Capitol hallway
• Hamas claims it will release 70 hostages in exchange for 5-day ceasefire
• Thieves repent, sacramentally confess, and return stolen objects to chapel in Spain
• Vatican doctrine office reaffirms that Catholics cannot be Freemasons

Saint of the Day:

• St. Albert the Great – Bishop, Confessor & Doctor (d. 1280) – Doctor Universalis – Dominican – teacher of St. Thomas Aquinas

Gospel of the Day:

Luke 17:11-19

As Jesus continued his journey to Jerusalem, he traveled through Samaria and Galilee. As he was entering a village, ten lepers met him. They stood at a distance from him and raised their voice, saying, “Jesus, Master! Have pity on us!” And when he saw them, he said, “Go show yourselves to the priests.” As they were going they were cleansed. And one of them, realizing he had been healed, returned, glorifying God in a loud voice; and he fell at the feet of Jesus and thanked him. He was a Samaritan. Jesus said in reply, “Ten were cleansed, were they not? Where are the other nine? Has none but this foreigner returned to give thanks to God?” Then he said to him, “Stand up and go; your faith has saved you.”

Guests:

1. R. Davis Younts – YountsLaw.com
   • Seals Beat Biden film
2. Steve Robinson – Editor-in-Chief, The Maine Wire
   • Triad Weed: How Chinese Marijuana Grows Took Over Rural Maine
   • Triad Weed: One NYC Bank Financed More Than 50 Illicit Chinese Marijuana Grow Houses in Rural Maine

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The News:

• U.S. Strikes Iranian Terrorist Facilities In Syria, Multiple Terrorists Killed
• Shots Fired After 3 People Try to Break Into Secret Service SUV
• A COVID-19 vaccine reckoning is coming for the DOJ over federal mandates
• Hyundai joins Honda and Toyota in raising wages
• Vatican monastery to be home to Benedictine nuns
• Kathy Hochul announced that New York is “collecting data” from “surveillance efforts” on social media

Saint of the Day:

• St. Josaphat – Bishop & Martyr (d. 1623) – first Eastern Catholic to be officially canonized by Rome

Gospel of the Day:

Luke 17:7-10

Jesus said to the Apostles: “Who among you would say to your servant who has just come in from plowing or tending sheep in the field, ‘Come here immediately and take your place at table’? Would he not rather say to him, ‘Prepare something for me to eat. Put on your apron and wait on me while I eat and drink. You may eat and drink when I am finished’? Is he grateful to that servant because he did what was commanded? So should it be with you. When you have done all you have been commanded, say, ‘We are unprofitable servants; we have done what we were obliged to do.’”

Guests:

1. Julie Alexander – Twitter
   • The Alexander House

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The News:

• Indi Gregory dies after removal of life support
• 5 U.S. Service Members Killed In Mediterranean Sea ‘Mishap’
• Bishop Strickland’s removal is ‘a blatant injustice’ says Bishop Schneider
  • Pope Francis removes Tyler’s Bishop Strickland
• 9 Americans still missing after Hamas attack as hostage negotiations continue
• U.S. Credit Rating Changed From ‘Stable’ To ‘Negative’ As National Debt Balloons
• TIM SCOTT SUSPENDS PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN

Saint of the Day:

• St. Frances Xavier Cabrini – Virgin (d. 1917) – “Mother Cabrini” – patroness of immigrants

Gospel of the Day:

Luke 17:1-6 | Memorial of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini

Jesus said to his disciples, “Things that cause sin will inevitably occur, but woe to the one through whom they occur. It would be better for him if a millstone were put around his neck and he be thrown into the sea than for him to cause one of these little ones to sin. Be on your guard! If your brother sins, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him. And if he wrongs you seven times in one day and returns to you seven times saying, ‘I am sorry,’ you should forgive him.”

And the Apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith.” The Lord replied, “If you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you would say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.”

Guests:

1. Brent Haynes – Attorney, Political Analyst, Catholic Freedom Fighter
   • Ohio enshrines abortion into its constitution, becoming one of the nation’s most pro-abortion states

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The News:

• DDF responds to transgender dubia
• DOJ announces arrests in ‘high-end brothel network’ used by elected officials, military officers and others
• The Family the FBI Raided For Dad’s Pro-Life Advocacy Seeks $4.3 Million From ‘Corrupt’ DOJ
• Evacuations underway after Texas chemical plant explosion
• Christian photographer allowed to refuse same-sex ‘weddings’ after Virginia settles lawsuit
• OHIO STUDENTS PROTEST ‘TRANS’ BATHROOM POLICY

Saint of the Day:

• St. Benignus of Armagh – Bishop & Confessor (d. 467) – disciple and successor of St. Patrick – “Patrick’s psalm-singer”

Gospel of the Day:

John 2:13-22

Since the Passover of the Jews was near, Jesus went up to Jerusalem. He found in the temple area those who sold oxen, sheep, and doves, as well as the money-changers seated there. He made a whip out of cords and drove them all out of the temple area, with the sheep and oxen, and spilled the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables, and to those who sold doves he said, “Take these out of here, and stop making my Father’s house a marketplace.” His disciples recalled the words of Scripture, Zeal for your house will consume me. At this the Jews answered and said to him, “What sign can you show us for doing this?” Jesus answered and said to them, “Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up.” The Jews said, “This temple has been under construction for forty-six years, and you will raise it up in three days?” But he was speaking about the temple of his Body. Therefore, when he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they came to believe the Scripture and the word Jesus had spoken.

Guests:

1. Patrick O’Hearn – Website
   • Parents of the Saints: The Hidden Heroes Behind Our Favorite Saints

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The News:

• Russia Withdraws From Arms Treaty; NATO Responds By Also Withdrawing
• Vatican hospital offers to treat critically ill baby denied life support in Britain
• Ohio Passes Issue 1 to Allow Killing Babies in Abortions Up to Birth
• Lawsuit claims New Jersey gov’t secretly retaining blood of newborn babies
• Biden admin announces $16.4 billion for Amtrak improvements
• Major survey finds ‘conservative’ and ‘orthodox’ priests on the rise

Saint of the Day:

• Bl. John Duns Scotus – Confessor (d. 1308) – “the Subtle Doctor” – founder of the Scotist School – defender of the Immaculate Conception

Gospel of the Day:

Luke 14: 25-33

Great crowds were traveling with Jesus, and he turned and addressed them, “If anyone comes to me without hating his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple. Which of you wishing to construct a tower does not first sit down and calculate the cost to see if there is enough for its completion? Otherwise, after laying the foundation and finding himself unable to finish the work the onlookers should laugh at him and say, ‘This one began to build but did not have the resources to finish.’ Or what king marching into battle would not first sit down and decide whether with ten thousand troops he can successfully oppose another king advancing upon him with twenty thousand troops? But if not, while he is still far away, he will send a delegation to ask for peace terms. In the same way, everyone of you who does not renounce all his possessions cannot be my disciple.”

Guests:

1. John Clark – Twitter
   • Betrayed without a Kiss: Defending Marriage after Years of Failed Leadership in the Church

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The News:

• Cardinal Ghirlanda denies papal election changes under consideration
• NYC Mayor Adams says he’s ‘not familiar’ with company at center of campaign investigation
• Texas diocese responds after episcopal Twitter controversy
• Manifesto of trans Nashville school shooter LEAKED
• Head of Chinese Communist government-run church accepts invitation to visit Diocese of Hong Kong
• DEMOCRAT SENATORS CALL FOR CONTRACEPTION MANDATE

Saint of the Day:

• St. Engelbert of Cologne – Bishop & Martyr (d. 1225) – Archbishop-Elector of Cologne – murdered for defending religious life – never formally canonized but mentioned in the Martyrology

Gospel of the Day:

Luke 14: 15-24

One of those at table with Jesus said to him, “Blessed is the one who will dine in the Kingdom of God.” He replied to him, “A man gave a great dinner to which he invited many. When the time for the dinner came, he dispatched his servant to say to those invited, ‘Come, everything is now ready.’ But one by one, they all began to excuse themselves. The first said to him, ‘I have purchased a field and must go to examine it; I ask you, consider me excused.’ And another said, ‘I have purchased five yoke of oxen and am on my way to evaluate them; I ask you, consider me excused.’ And another said, ‘I have just married a woman, and therefore I cannot come.’ The servant went and reported this to his master. Then the master of the house in a rage commanded his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and alleys of the town and bring in here the poor and the crippled, the blind and the lame.’ The servant reported, ‘Sir, your orders have been carried out and still there is room.’ The master then ordered the servant, ‘Go out to the highways and hedgerows and make people come in that my home may be filled. For, I tell you, none of those men who were invited will taste my dinner.’”