The Catholic Frequency

Episodi

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  America Is Overrun With The Broadminded 23.09.2026 5min

  Fulton Sheen in 1931: America is not drowning in bigots. It is overrun with the broadminded. Tolerate persons. Never error.
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  When the Pope's Executioner Crossed the Bridge 22.09.2026 7min

  When a short man in a scarlet cloak stepped onto Ponte Sant’Angelo, Rome already knew someone was going to die. Mastro Titta was the pope’s executioner. The Church never taught that the innocent may be killed. She did teach that a lawful ruler may punish the guilty.
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  C.S. Lewis vs the People Who Wanted Fearless Children 21.09.2026 4min

  Lewis told librarians in 1952 that a far more serious attack on the fairy tale comes from those who do not wish children to be frightened. He had night terrors as a boy. Fairy tales did not invent them. Sanding the story does not protect the child.
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  The 100-Year-Old Chesterton Warning About Bedtime Stories We Ignored 20.09.2026 5min

  Chesterton said the baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. Fairy tales do not invent bogey. They send Saint George. We keep the dragon and take the knight.
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  The Lord is My Shepherd 19.09.2026 6min

  Psalm 23 is the psalm everybody thinks they know. David wrote it as a shepherd: green pastures in a dry country, still water you have to make, a rod against the wolf and a crook around a sheep's leg. Then Christ said He is that Shepherd, and He stayed in the valley.
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  Modernity Made Men Weak 18.09.2026 17min

  Andrew Tate looks strong in a world of weak men. That is why boys hear him. He is not the disease. He is a symptom of a culture that unmade fatherhood, discipline, and the Cross.
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  Dante: Envy Sews Your Eyes Shut 17.09.2026 6min

  Dante sews the envious shut on the second terrace of Purgatory. Envy is sadness at another person’s good. We call it fairness. Charity rejoices.
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  Hitchens Wasn't An Atheist. He Was Angry At God. 16.09.2026 5min

  Romeo and Juliet is a suicide story. In 1973 Christopher Hitchens flew to Athens to recover his mother. She had tried to call him. The public rage in God Is Not Great fits a son, not a shrug.
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  There Is No Neutral 14.09.2026 5min

  T. S. Eliot wrote The Idea of a Christian Society in 1939, after Munich. England thought it had a creed because it had refused the obvious monsters. Neutral is not a third country. It is a paganism that has not picked up speed yet.
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  The Word Stayed. The Meaning Left. 13.09.2026 5min

  In September 1944, C.S. Lewis wrote The Death of Words for The Spectator. Nice used to mean foolish. Party trick. The live problem is when Christian starts meaning nice, and love and marriage have to be rescued with the word true. The letters stay. The meaning walks off.
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  The Three People Deciding the Future of Artificial Intelligence 12.09.2026 5min

  Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and Dario Amodei sit unusually close to the future of artificial intelligence. The world is going to change. A Christian word on praying for the men in those rooms.
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  The Most Favored Woman Still Got The Sword 11.09.2026 5min

  Joel Osteen sold a gospel where blessing looks like an upgrade. The Church keeps Our Lady of Sorrows because the most favored woman in the Gospel still got a sword.
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  The Psychological Trap of Richard Dawkins’ Worldview 10.09.2026 6min

  Dawkins talks like faith is leftover childhood. Charles Taylor says that story is a lie. You did not grow out of God. Someone built a room where He looks optional and called it growing up.
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  The Catholic Church's Biggest Enemy 09.09.2026 7min

  Bishop Barron is warning about communism. He is right. A lot of respectable people say he is not. Joseph McCarthy said the same thing when it was still in the government, and he was right too.
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  The Church Never Apologized for Having a Cult 08.09.2026 6min

  A Catholic Frequency essay on the word cult: culture grows from cultus, the phone took the homily, and the Mass never apologized for being worship. Josef Pieper and T.S. Eliot.
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  The Last Thing Jesus Gave You Was a Mother 07.09.2026 4min

  John 19:26-27 is Jesus founding a household from the Cross. The beloved disciple taking Mary home is the Church receiving a mother, not a private errand.
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  Lindsay Clancy, Fulton Sheen, Looney Women 06.09.2026 5min

  People were shocked when a Massachusetts jury hung rather than convict Lindsay Clancy. This video is not about the slip of paper. It is about the pink-shirt cult outside the courthouse, and the line Bishop Fulton Sheen spoke after Roe: the guilt of abortion would attack the mind and the soul.
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  Mother Teresa 05.09.2026 5min

  Christopher Hitchens needed Mother Teresa to be a fraud. The Church kept the nun who picked dying people off the street.
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  Cat's in the Cradle Is a Confession - Bad Fathers Clone Themselves 04.09.2026 5min

  Harry Chapin's Cat's in the Cradle is a confession: the respectable father who provides and postpones catechizes by delay. The son inherits the form, not the apology. Saint Joseph is the contrast.
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  When Rome Fell, Gregory Stayed 03.09.2026 5min

  Edward Gibbon wrote the English obituary of Rome as the triumph of barbarism and religion. In 590 a reluctant monk-pope named Gregory fed the city the empire had already abandoned.