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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.

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September 30 · 50 min
2026 Fall On Air Appeal - Day Three (with Fr. Robert McTeigue)
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/act Email Us! ACT@TheStationOfTheCross.com
September 29 · 50 min
2026 Fall On Air Appeal - Day Two (with Fr. Robert McTeigue)
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/act Email Us! ACT@TheStationOfTheCross.com
September 28 · 50 min
2026 Fall On Air Appeal - Day One (with Fr. Robert McTeigue)
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/act Email Us! ACT@TheStationOfTheCross.com
September 25 · 1 hr 25 min
Padre Pio Warned Us: “Can’t You See? The World is on Fire.” (Audio)
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 were that tried to shut him away. Plus: Dr. Anthony Stine on Blessed Fulton Sheen, Pope Leo XIV's first day in France, and the fight over the Seal of Confession in the United Kingdom. Links, Show Notes & More - https://thestationofthecross.com/act Email Us! ACT@TheStationOfTheCross.com
September 23 · 1 hr 21 min
Rome Silenced Padre Pio. A Con Man Fought Back. (Audio)
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 Padre Pio called "my policeman." Plus: Oscar-shortlisted director Tod Polson on The 21, his animated film about the 21 martyrs of Libya. Links, Show Notes & More - https://thestationofthecross.com/act Email Us! ACT@TheStationOfTheCross.com
September 22 · 1 hr 39 min
Why Trad Catholics Turned on Fulton Sheen (Audio)
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 the Faith. Plus: Ellen Holmes Steeves-LeBlanc of Destined4This on her scenic journey back to the Faith, and why she wants every bishop and priest praying the Rosary out loud with their people. Links, Show Notes & More - https://thestationofthecross.com/act Email Us! ACT@TheStationOfTheCross.com
September 21 · 1 hr 22 min
How Jesus Fulfills Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement (Audio)
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://thestationofthecross.com/act Email Us! ACT@TheStationOfTheCross.com
September 18 · 1 hr 52 min
Anthony Stine: Dialogue With Everyone — Except This Priest? (Audio)
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 bishops are demanding. Links, Show Notes & More - https://thestationofthecross.com/act Email Us! ACT@TheStationOfTheCross.com
September 17 · 1 hr 53 min
Michael Matt: Rome Just Put the Vatican II Problem in Writing (Audio)
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@TheStationOfTheCross.com
September 16 · 1 hr 38 min
Bishop Strickland: "I Have Not Moved" on Vatican II (Audio)
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 Redeemer, what is dialogue for? Links, Show Notes & More - https://thestationofthecross.com/act Email Us! ACT@TheStationOfTheCross.com
September 15 · 1 hr 21 min
Flanders Recants: "I Can No Longer Recommend" an SSPX Chapel (Audio)
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@TheStationOfTheCross.com
September 14 · 1 hr 22 min
Fr. Carlos Martins: The Door Ordinary Catholics Open Without Knowing (Audio)
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 of Catholics before the voting deadline. Then, Fr. Carlos Martins explains the ordinary, un-dramatic ways in which Catholics give the enemy a foothold — the curiosity, the media, the unconfessed habit, the thing done "just for fun" — and then the harder question: when someone says they hear a voice, how does the Church know whether it is God, an illness, or a demon? Links, Show Notes & More - https://thestationofthecross.com/act Email Us! ACT@TheStationOfTheCross.com
September 11 · 1 hr 36 min
25 Years After 9/11: More FDNY Have Died From the Dust Than Died That Day (Audio)
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 carried out of those towers. Links, Show Notes & More - https://thestationofthecross.com/act Email Us! ACT@TheStationOfTheCross.com
September 10 · 1 hr 21 min
Gideon Lazar: Fatima Is Why I'm Catholic (Audio)
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
September 9 · 1 hr 21 min
Cardinal Burke Went on Shawn Ryan. Here's What He Actually Said. (Audio)
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 The Catholic Herald and Mark Lambert of Catholic Unscripted to unpack it all. Links, Show Notes & More - https://thestationofthecross.com/act Email Us! ACT@TheStationOfTheCross.com
September 8 · 1 hr 22 min
Where Mary's Birthday Actually Came From (Audio)
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://thestationofthecross.com/act Email Us! ACT@TheStationOfTheCross.com
September 4 · 1 hr 53 min
Bishop Strickland: Are We the "Prophets of Doom?" (Audio)
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
September 3 · 1 hr 21 min
Lindsay Clancy: The Three Victims Nobody Marched For (Audio)
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
September 2 · 1 hr 23 min
Wes Huff Skipped the Verse That Explains the Papacy (Audio)
September 2nd, 2026 - Joe goes in-depth to refute Protestant social media influencer Wes Huff's false claims about the validity of the papacy. Links, Show Notes & More - https://thestationofthecross.com/act Email Us! ACT@TheStationOfTheCross.com
September 1 · 1 hr 21 min
What Still Holds the Antichrist Back? (Audio)
September 1st, 2026 - We welcome back Fr. Jason Charron to explain what holds the antichrist back. Plus, we'll delve into the unraveling of Europe and why Ukraine may be its last hope. Links, Show Notes & More - https://thestationofthecross.com/act Email Us! ACT@TheStationOfTheCross.com

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