Flowers are blooming, the mercury is climbing, gardens are beginning to produce, and the characteristic “BOOM!” of fireworks is in the air - July has arrived! The Solemnity of the Most Precious Blood is this Sunday, July 7, and July as a whole is dedicated to the Most Precious Blood... what a wonderful way to celebrate summer!
True Restoration will continue with the series Iota Unum this month. Father Arnold Trauner will again join host Stephen Heiner in a continued examination of Professor Romano Amerio’s work Iota Unum. For those who wish to follow along with Stephen and Father Trauner, this book is available from the True Restoration bookstore: https://truerestoration.org/press/iota-unum/. A three episode mini-series on Paul VI will begin this season, with later episodes to include topics such as the clergy, youth, women, modesty, and penance. There will be 10 episodes released throughout the month of July beginning on the 6th.
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Professor Amerio has provided notable and much needed insight in to the state of the Catholic Church. Tune in as host Stephen Heiner and Father Arnold Trauner study and explicate his work, Iota Unum!
Iota Unum, Episode 9: Paul VI, Part 1: Imprecision
This series which examines Professor Romano Amerio’s significant work documenting what he calls “changes in the Catholic Church” continues in a three-part mini series discussing Paul VI. This episode deals with Paul VI’s sloppy...
Iota Unum, Episode 10: Paul VI, Part 2: Humanae Vitae
In this second episode of the Paul VI mini-series, Father Trauner and Stephen discuss the unheard of dissent against ostensible “papal” teaching in the case of Humane Vitae. Original Air Date: July 9, 2019...
Iota Unum, Episode 11: Paul VI, Part 3: Weakness
In the final episode of the Paul VI mini-series, Father Trauner and Stephen discuss the weakness of Paul VI, tied to his vision of “suffering for” instead of “governing” the Church. As authority is...
Iota Unum, Episode 12: The “Reform” of the Curia
In this episode the “reform” of the Roman Curia is discussed, which is to say, its destruction. Professor Amerio describes the “sic et non” rubric observed after the Council, as well as the necessary...
Iota Unum, Episode 13: Laicizing the Nation States and the Clergy
The Crown of Our Lord over society is cast aside as observed in the revision of the Concordat of the Catholic Church with Italy. This “laicization” is seen in the clergy as well, as...
Iota Unum, Episode 14: The Youth
Once again, prefiguring Bergoglio, Paul VI pretends to be “hip” with the youth, and with the assistance of Professor Amerio, Father Trauner and Stephen take a look at the meaningless and trite phrases used...
Iota Unum, Episode 15: Women
In today’s society we have become increasingly used to the calls of “gender equality” but Professor Amerio details this trend which started immediately after the Council, and which revolved around the ideas that women...
Iota Unum, Episode 16: Modesty
Modesty is important in every age, but particularly more in a society in which purity is held in such low esteem. Father Trauner and Stephen discuss the proper Catholic conception of modesty, which applies...
Iota Unum, Episode 17: Sport
Professor Amerio could not have conceived how much sport has overtaken the modern world, but even in the period after the Council an irrational esteem of sport was emerging. Father Trauner discusses the proper...
Iota Unum, Episode 18: Penance
Many of our American listeners will be unaware of the Papal indult regarding fast and abstinence that existed during World War II, which then went on to be “normalized” after the War, even before...