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. If...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
In this episode, host Stephen Heiner and guest Fr. Arnold Trauner talk about how much work has changed since the introduction of advanced technology and how a kind of worship of technology ties in...
