Progress in Prayer, Episode 7: Reading
Prayer flows from the topics and ideas that most frequently populate our minds. One of the surest ways to stock our mind with worthy thoughts is through reading the right books. Original Air Date:...
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Progress in Prayer, Episode 6: Mortification
Modern man flies from mortification, but without mortification there can be no progress in the spiritual life. Fr. Trauner also discusses the strange paradox that mortification can sometimes be an escape from mortification. Original...
Progress in Prayer, Episode 5: Proper Dispositions
We cannot enter into prayer unless we remove those things that hold us back. These can be the most innocuous daily tasks or routines: but nothing is neutral in the Christian life. We must...
Progress in Prayer, Episode 4: Challenges in Prayer
As growing in prayer is also growing in one’s own interior life, there will be challenges along the way. In this episode Fr. Trauner discusses some of those challenges and how to deal with...
Iota Unum, Episode 34: Sacraments: the Eucharist
The Eucharist is at the heart of all the other sacraments. If it is not properly understood for what it is, a sacrifice that produces the true Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Our...
Iota Unum, Episode 33: Sacraments: Baptism and Marriage
Baptism is the entrance into the Christian life through sanctifying grace. Marriage is an indissoluble union which Our Lord blessed by performing his first miracle at one. Vatican 2 seeks to undermine both of...
Iota Unum, Episode 32: Ecumenism
In this episode Stephen and Father discuss the Catholic notion of ecumenism (“return”) and how Vatican 2 has perverted this into an idea of a one world religion (“convergence”). Original Air Date: May 19,...
Iota Unum, Episode 31: Thomism
His Holiness Pope Leo XIII issued Aeterni Patris to give new life to Thomism in the heart of the Church. This was something the Modernists could not abide. Fr. Trauner explains how the Modernists...
Iota Unum, Episode 30: The Revolution and Democracy; Collegiality
Anthropocentrism in our time comes primarily from the French Revolution and its false ideas about democracy. Also discussed are the problems inherent in national episcopal conferences and the Vatican 2 notion of collegiality. Original...
Iota Unum, Episode 29: Three Cities and Secondary Christianity
While the idea of the “two cities” has been discussed since St. Augustine first wrote about them, Professor Amerio proposes a third city, spawned by the Revolution and its descendants: a city of indifference...
