2026 Fall On Air Appeal - Day Three (with Fr. Robert McTeigue)

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5:05To Father, I wanted to talk about several stories with you this hour. But I feel like these stories are related. And the first one that I want to put on the first log on the fire, so to speak, comes out of Zenit.org. And maybe producer James can put them in the show notes at the top of the air if anybody wants to see the exact articles. They're welcome to them. But the headline Father says, schism in the Anglican Church finalized. An alternative to the Sea of Canterbury has been established in Africa. I don't know if Father, I mean schism is just now being finalized. I want to say was finalized a few hundred years ago. But what do you think? Well, I think they mean within the context of the Anglican Communion. Let's remember that the Church of England, the Anglican Communion, discovered this thing called sonotalism. Back in the 1950s. And Anglican friends who lived through that or had grandparents who lived to that said, you Catholic guys, please don't do this because we know how it ends.

6:09Now, one of the last essays that see a suicide right before he died and was at 1963, was he said, look, you can say a lot of things about the Church of England. You can throw dirt at us, but don't ever, ever, ever accuse us of being open to the ordination of women. Because that's just never going to happen. Or Anglicans, but we're not crazy. Am I right? So I love see a silhouette, man, he's swinging a miss on that one. Famous of my words. Yes. So the reason why this is so important, Joe, is that I believe a lot of the sonotal enthusiasts of today kind of have the Anglican model as the eye on the prize. Normalization of the rainbow, you know, the Skittles community, the acronym community, and the ordination of women, et cetera, et cetera. You throw a lot of money into climate change and the suppression of cowfarts on and on we go. And the greatest of these is social justice as, you know, St. Paul said there in the book of New Deeronomy.

7:11And I think that's where a lot of people want to go. I was just somehow the Anglicans got there first. And the people dragging the feet in both the Anglican community and the Catholic Church have been the Africans, particularly the African bishops. I mean, I remember back, oh gosh, when the Church of England started or dated women in the 70s, and there were communities throughout the West that said this is not okay, but we still need a bishop. African bishops got on airplanes and took care of business. Right. And they were known as the flying bishops. And then, you know, when the the city had on the family and oh gosh, German cardinal, what's his name? He's retired and has very big on ecumenism. You know, he was caught on tapes scoffing on look, you can't expect Africans to get away with giving advice to Europeans. He denied it. And then they produced the, that was Casper, I was Cardinal Casper. And then he had a walk back when they produced the tape. Right. So the African bishops in the Catholic world and the Anglican Bishop of the Anglican Communion have been saying no to the Westernists, modernists and postmodernists, shenanigans.

8:20And so finally, the Anglicans in Africa said, we're done. You can't even pretend that this is okay. You can't listen session your way into a woman as the Archbishop of Canterbury who doesn't have a great track record in terms of theology preaching or administration as well. They didn't, I mean, even if you were going to pick a woman, they didn't pick the best of their best eat right either that or their benches and very deep. But in any case, she's an embarrassment to Christendom. So I mean, God bless the African Anglicans. I'd say take one more step. I'm here so close to Rome. One more step. So let's, let's pray for that. Yeah. I'll say 877-7118500 were passing the hat, asking for your financial contribution to help us keep our radio and Catholic media digital media podcasting video all of it. Keep it going.

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11:22Be my first caller right now. We're going to be back in two minutes. More to come. We're going to talk more about this angle. And then Pope Leo's words about France, a rebirth there. I want that to be true. I really, really, really want it to be true. But is it? The father's going to tell us what he thinks in two minutes from now. We'll be right back. The father's going to tell us what he thinks in two minutes. The father's going to tell us what he thinks in two minutes. The father's going to tell us what he thinks in two minutes. Praise be to Jesus Christ. Welcome back to a Catholic take a bold synthesis of information and inspiration of your host, Joe McLean. So good to be with you. By the way, today, September the 30th, 26 years ago, my wife and I were married at the Cathedral of Manchester, New Hampshire. Wow, it's such an incredible day. I was in the sacristy with the priest and waiting for my, for my bride and to walk down the aisle and the priest turned to me with seconds on the clock, seconds to go.

12:26And he's like, hey, would you like to go to confession? And I was like, no. And he was like, in the name of the father, the son of the Holy Ghost, you can begin my son. I mean, it was pretty, it was a pretty, uh, pretty hair raising a little moment because that priest knew it was his last opportunity to get me to the altar. In a state of grace and he wasn't willing to give up. He wasn't willing to let it go. And praise be to God for it because thanks to the graces we received at the Sacraments, we've had 26 years of perfect, blissful, incredible, joyful marriage. Don't fact check that. Stop typing that into Chatchee, B.D. Father. I can see what you're doing there. Just go with it. Just don't even ask my wife. Just go with it. But if you could pray for my wife and I today on our marriage at a nursery, that would be amazing. And we're talking with Father Robert McTeg from the Catholic Carmities, our guest, this hour and all the rest of the week. And we're also passing the hat because we have to raise the funds to be able to do this. Day in and day out. This is what we do full time.

13:26And we couldn't do it without your financial contribution. And right now, I'm still waiting for call number one to come in for this hour. I want 12 calls. I've gotten none. So I need that first one. Would you be the first break the ice any gift? Any size maybe got ten bucks in your pocket. I'll take it. It's a dollar for dollar match this hour. And we have about 45 minutes to get it done. 877-711-8500. That phone number is 877-711-8500. I want 12 calls. But I'll take the first one right now if you can make it. 877-711-8500. Please call now. 877-711-8500. Welcome back to the show. You know, talking about the Bangalikian schism. This reminds me when I was two years after I was married, my wife asked for a divorce because that's how good things were going. And I had a mystical experience that literally saved my life, saved our marriage, made it possible for my kids to be born.

14:29And then I went on a wild ride, a wild ride of discovery. And part of that discovery was trying to figure out what was the true church. And I'll never forget it because my father, who was not Catholic still isn't, he sent me a book. It was a book of denominations. Oh, there's the first call. Praise be to God. Thank you for that call. That gets us on the way. And now I need 11 more. He sent me a book. It was about three inches thick. It was a red, hard, back cover book. It was about three inches thick. And it was a book of Christian denominations. And the instant I saw this book, father, the thought that came into my head was, how is that possible? How do you have three inch thick book with the various flavors of Christianity? Isn't Jesus the truth? I mean, he says he is. He purports to be. How can you have that many versions of the truth? I didn't know anything about anything, father. When I saw that book, but that thought hit me like a two by four across the faith, faith rather.

15:32It feels like the Anglicans, the Anglicans are still kidding themselves. I guess I want to be charitable. I don't want to be mean about it, but at the same time, it's like, why not just come home to the one holy Catholic and Apostolic church? Why continue the rebellion? Well, you know, Joe, some of my best friends started their Christian life as Anglicans. So I want to speak gently. They produced some great hymns, juror turbo produced some great poetry. They produced some good architecture that they didn't steal from us. And they were very much involved in the suppression of the international slave trade. So props to them. But candidly, that's really in the rearview mirror. And bottom line, we got to go back to Cardinal Newman, who said, who started off as an Anglican. And he said, to be steeped in history is to cease to be Protestant. And so whenever someone really intelligent has looked at the historical record, they said, oh my gosh, I got to go to Rome. I think of father Robert Hubenson, who wrote a lot of the world, the dawn of all, and so on. He was the son of the Archbishop of Canterbury.

16:35And right at the beginning of the 20th century, not only converted, but he was ordained a priest also. So really, for a thing is you got to come home. The idea that God is so sloppy and so improvinant that you can write your own fanfiction, homebrew of his revelation. And when you say that was like, well, gosh, I don't think I'm going to do that. I think I want the original. I was writing on a train in England many years ago, and there was a bag of potato chips, they called it a packet of crisps. And it said, new and improved original flavor. I don't think so. So I don't think so. So it's time for everybody, for all Christians to come to Rome. And contrary to what certain prominent people said recently in the city of Metz, no, don't defend your own tradition. Come to the one founded by the son of God, full stop.

17:39The humanism means everybody becomes Catholic. Yeah, that's the ultimate end, right? I mean, I think perhaps maybe we're maybe we're the ones kidding ourselves thinking that we can a proclaim the gospel while at the same time not telling them the ultimate truth, which is they should all come and become disciples of our Savior Jesus. And there has to be urgency about that. Or my brother's Francis Afer and Isaac Chugs and John De Brubuff and Edmund Campion, they're all suckers if we can all just nod and smile and get along. Well, I got to tell you, I mean, I just think it's kind of funny, a schism within a schism within a schism. But at the same time, it's like the natural outcome, the natural conclusion of revelation, forgive me, not revelation of revolution is what I meant to say. The natural the natural conclusion, the natural outcome of revolution is the splintering the division itself. I mean, this is the fruit and it just keeps on giving. By the way, Mark, thank you for that gift. Mark from a freedom New York, $120 made it a monthly payment at that.

18:43Thank you, Mark. That was very generous. Mark was our first call going for 12, got one now, I need 11 and Mark says happy anniversary. Joe McLean praise pretty God. Thank you, Mark. That was very kind of you. 877-711-8500. I've got my first call on the board. I need 11 more. Any gift, any size, it's a dollar for dollar match. Would you help us chip away at the goal that this hour, $5,000? We need 5,000, but we need to get to 12 and we need to double our income by your generous gifts. 877-711-8500. 877-711-8500. Please call now. It really means a lot to us to have you on the team. 877-711-8500. I want to now put the log of Pope Leo's comments about his trip to France there. He says it's a rebirth. Oh, that's caller number two. So now I need 10. I've got two, need 10 more. Please keep calling.

19:43Alright, so Pope Leo goes to France. We talked a lot about that on Monday, I believe. And now he's saying it's like a chance for rebirth. I feel like it's possible it could be a rebirth. I mean, there's potential there for it. The question is will it? I saw in my mind a parallel here of Benedict XVI in England in 2010. You remember that father? He goes there. He's like a huge excitement. There seems to be like a moment of like momentum, but then how did it all go? I don't know. What do you think? Well, Joe, I, I, I agree with you. I thought of that too. One of the saddest video clips I've ever seen was when Pope Benedict was speaking at Westminster Hall. And the great and good were all assembled. And they all threw out their back, patting themselves on the back, congratulating themselves, because they and their wisdom and goodness and largesse allowed the Pope of Rome to come into their city and to speak.

20:44And, and therefore a dialogue and enlightenment forever and ever a men. But the only reason that happened, Joe, is because everyone agreed that it doesn't matter who the Pope is, who he represents or what he says or does. This was kind of the coronation of religious indifference. And not far from where the Pope spoke, there is a pub near Trafalgar Square called the Silver Cross. A place they used to go to when I was in London. And you can get a history of the pub. And at one point in the in the 1600s, it was er owned by the Earl of somewhere. And his principal job was to foster a Jesuit plots against her majesty's government. And I walked and I said, that's right, Earl, a Jesuit walked into your bar, drank your liquor and walked out alive. Because that's what happens when you mess with the Catholic Church and the society of Jesus. But this kind of smiling and handshaking and so on.

21:44And another time Benedict would have been killed on site. And another time in France, Leo would have been killed on site. Because at least the people who hated us hated us for a reason. And above all, they saw us as a threat. I want to draw an analogy to the March for life in Washington, DC. And this was in the first Clinton administration when Jenner Reno was a attorney general, she had just set fire to Waco. And the thought that the March for life was really going to change anything is nonsense. Because if it really was going to change anything, she would have she would have fallen on them like a ton of bricks. So that that's smiling and cheering and handshaking. That says to me in a very public way, they don't care because they don't see us as a threat to the status quo. I said this on Monday when you and I talked about the France trip for the first time. And I didn't I mean, I like the potential of it. I love some of the things Leo has done in France. I think they're very good.

22:50But I didn't like that he embraced their their French Revolution language, their moniker, you know, fraternity, et cetera. Like this like why? But it needs to I think the reality is, you know, we need a death match here. The French Revolution has got to come to an end. We can't pretend like it can continue on like it can live. You know, it can't. It has to go away. The revolutions, whether it's the Protestant Revolution, the French Revolution, the sexual Revolution, whatever these revolutions are, they got to come to an end. Don't they father? I mean, let's just stop pretending. Let's bring back the one holy Catholic and apostolic faith and in and teach it, live it and fan the flame of it in the hearts of all peoples French or otherwise. I mean, I feel like again, we're pretending. Well, you know, yesterday on the Catholic current, you and I were talking about a statement from the bishops of France from 1925, they were throwing elbows. They they were throwing haymakers. They were not playing. They were there to win.

23:50And I think back to an earlier generation of French cleric, Cardinal Pia, who was greatly admired by Leo the 13th, and he was talking to Napoleon the fourth or someone like that. And he said, Oh, Emperor, it is not time for Christ to reign. Then it is not time for nations to survive. There, we need, I mean, we need to go full Pius XI here and talk about the kingship of Christ. It's got to be Christ or chaos. We already know that to be true. And I don't think we can afford to be coy and tell us, look, you're either in harmony with Christ or you're on your way to loss and and perdition. And we can't afford to get this wrong. Well, said father, hold that thought. Hey, can I give a shout out to Joseph of Madisonville, Louisiana on the team at $20 one time. Thank you for that. Hey, Sean, Quincy, Massachusetts is here. Praise be to God. 125. Thank you for that gift. That means a lot to us.

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27:13Anonymous in Pennsylvania. That leaves a phone line open for you at 877-711-8500. I think we're up to five calls so now I only need seven more calls to reach 12. Seven calls for 12. That's what I'm looking for. 877-711-8500-877-711-8500. Please call now. Be one of seven. Help us to get there. Father Robert McTeg, welcome back. Thank you again for hanging out with us. We're talking about the Anglican schism that's continuing to fracture. This is the fruit of revolution. That's what we're talking about in the last segment. And then of course Pope Leo in France in this opportunity, he calls it a rebirth. Father, I wanted to ask you if as the Holy Roman Emperor, if I put you in charge of the Pope's optics department, like you're the chief optics director consultant guy, you know, like, how would you, how would you advise? I know it's very presumptuous of us to advise the Holy See. But nonetheless, we're going to do it anyway. Like, what would you advise?

28:19People play fantasy football, why not? Exactly. So how would you advise this holiness? Like, what would be the next steps? Like, if we want to make this actually true, and this is an opportunity for rebirth, wonderful. We want this. What would you do to make it true? Oh gosh, if I were given that wish list, I'd say, hey, you need, you need a better team of ghost writers and you need to consult with me a lot. You got to get better investments and Notre Dame's sweet mother of God. You need to get better investments and Notre Dame. I can put you in touch with some nuns and Missouri. He'll take really good care of you and the work their fingers to the bone for you. So we'll start with that, you know, for talking about optics more optics is you recall French heritage. Oh gosh, it's a 19th century French aristocrat who said, you know, we are the the sons and daughters of the crusaders. We shall not tremble before the sons of Voltaire and the revolutionaries.

29:20So France has a very great noble history and man, they also have an ugly history of getting really ugly when they get it wrong. So they need to be called out on all of that. You know, we need to have we need to have celebrations of Charles Martel, affectionately known as the hammer by both his friends and enemies, who is the father of Charlemagne and the battle of tours in the 19th century. You know, he kept France from speaking Arabic for about 1500 years. Let's not bungalow his victory. Medved St. Jerome said, let us not sacrifice a hard one piece, a hard one war to a clumsy piece. We also have to say, guys, you're not doing it right in terms of the life issues. And you know, for all these cartwheels of all this flood of adult conversions, I said, what's the percentages on that? What constant, you know, if you're in a desert, a trickle looks like a flood.

30:24So when you say flood, what do you mean by that? And what's the ratio of conversions to adults drifting away from the church? How many baptisms and marriages are there in relation to the funerals? And here's a factoid, Joe, that most people don't want to consider, if my sources are correct, I haven't verified it. Somebody needs to do that for me. But my sources tell me that for the past several years, the majority of ordinations have been for traditionalist communities in France for several years. And this is where I'd ask the Holy Father what I want to ask of my students, what might a reasonable man ensure? Yeah. Yeah. Hey, can I give a shout out? We have a gift on the board from Olivia, Texas, Brendan, Brendan, first time donor to praise be to God. Thank you for your one time, $300 gift. That's a great gift. I do appreciate you because that just took a chunk out of the need right now, Brendan. You're on the team. You are giving to the work of evangelization now. Thank you for doing it. Praise be to God.

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32:47Either you send us a check or we don't get to pay our bills this month. That's how that works, but it's meant to work that way. Because this is a partnership. It's the work of evangelization. And you get to play the bigger part. You get to provide for the need. So we're asking you with our hat in hand. Please help. 877-711-8500-877-711-8500. Please call. Be our next caller. Caller number six is what I'm looking for. 877-711-8500-0. Let me just put this also on the table, father. There was an EW-10 article today. Vatican Secretary of State says, World's fragmentation, there's an article over at EW-10 says, the world's fragmentation starts with forgetting what a human person is. I want you to let that sink in for a second. I think father is trying to reconnect right now. 877-711-8500. Looking for caller number six, please give us a call. 877-711-8500-877-711-8500. Let me just read a little bit of this article while we get father.

33:55Let me just read this article while we get father. Let me take back on the line here. Let me know producer James when he's back says the root of today's fragmented world is not technology excess freedom or diversity, but the loss of common understanding of who the person is. That a secretary of state cardinal Pierre Petrolin said at a New York dinner that took place during the United Nations General Assembly High Week. He says he says in a world that builds towers, builds places of encounter, parallel and challenged his listeners quote in a world connected online and disconnected offline. People of presence be people of presence in a world asking whether we can remain human answer with the witness of your life. He goes on to say our people are more connected than any other generation history yet many of us are lonelier than ever. Exchanging information instantly by struggling to encounter one another as human beings has led to fragmentation. He said and families, communities and nations are divided into camps that no longer even speak the same language.

35:01Father's back with us father welcome back praise pretty gotten just by the way we just got another call looking for caller number caller number seven now need caller number seven eight seven seven seven eleven eight five zero zero. I was bringing up the cardinal pair Pierre Petrolin article a WT news. I think I sent it to you father. What's interesting about this to me is that the fragmentation of human beings. The loneliness that we're filling and I think he's right about it all. But I think the question the question of my mind is you know technology every generation I bet you know the Roman Empire had such a sophisticated technologically impressive communication system roads mail systems with regular roots houses of just adjust the mail horses were maintained all the time along those roots. It was incredibly connected and I'm sure it felt like wow what a scary new world we live in these days. You know so I don't know I think every generation has that thing that they feel is now new and different and scary in some ways and takes from the old in some ways.

36:07So I'm not sure I feel like is it fragmentation because we're lonely or is it fragmentation because we haven't committed our lives to Christ. What's a you. The short answer is yes it is certainly both look my mentor my like great mentor was born in 1901 I was trying to teach him how not to use his computer as a typewriter with a big television screen. And he yelled at me says he got to be patient with a my day didn't even have radio and places didn't have electricity and so here we are now. You know my first work computer in 1984 the floppy disks were floppy and I had a two megabyte hard drive what I can write a few lines and basic and I thought I was a god and of course in Jesuit's row is the cutting edge of technology so sure you know we don't want to be outpaced by our tools and that's true and it's also true that we used to have community in Christ you had villages you had parish pride.

37:08You know my parents grew up in the urban ethnic it gettos of northeastern United States which are largely gone now you had the Irish neighborhood and parish and the Italian and the German and the Polish and those communities were lively you could walk to church and the life of faith in the life of the church and the parish was woven through the whole fabric of your whole life. That began to atomize as we scattered out into suburbia and now you had to drive to mass and the only thing you had common with the people at mass was that you were at the same mass at the same place at the same time you weren't invested in each other. The common points of references that you can take for granted and so I do think there's been a scattering process at work in the Christian West for a very long time and the remedy for that of course is to you know one lord one faith one baptism when we can refer to common scripture and common tradition.

38:18That and Christ becomes the standard measure meaning and momentum and terminus of human life that's going to be the basis of community solidarity and all these sorts of other good things but we live in a process now where the more we're fragmented the more we are in pain and the easier we are to seduce manipulate and addict and I think those dynamics did not come about by accident I can't reach my 10 file hat I'd be. Add his camera range for that the it's there Joe yeah well mine is to hey and and sand down new Hampshire on the team God bless you and praise be to God thank you and for that generous gift and by the way hello to the granted state I was just saying at the top of the hour today is my wife and I is anniversary we've been married 26 years we were married at the cathedral in Manchester new Hampshire 26 years ago today best day of my wife's life just ask her she'll tell you 877-11857-857-857-857-857-857-857-857-857-857-857-857-857-857-857-857-857-857-857-857-857-857-857-857-857-857-857-857-857-857-857-857-857-857-857-857-857-857-8

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44:25who stood there ground. He was offered a deal by the Sultan because the Sultan was so impressed with this, 70-year-old man's courage that he's like, come work for me, you can have whatever you wanted. He's like, I wouldn't take anything in the entire world if it meant I had to give up the Savior Jesus Christ. I feel like that's not quite the message we're giving out to the world these days. To me, it feels more fluffy. What would you say? Well, I was so inspired by the history of the Knights of Malta that I made a pilgrimage to Malta myself. It's every square inch has centuries and centuries of histories. This was the place of heroes. And heroes grow in soil where there is clarity and there is high standards and very high expectations. And the Knights of Malta were the special forces of their day. And this kind of the rallying cry of, man, we're just one among many.

45:28You do you. We just have one voice at the table, one man, one vote, that's not inspiring. No one says, in service of Christ our Lord, I lay my life down for listening and dialogue. And let's not forget the Bishop of Antwerp when we talked about yesterday who said, look, if synodality isn't how we erase dogma, then synodality will have failed. I mean, the mask dropped in that moment. No one is going to be a martyr for synodality. Right. No one is going to be a martyr for flux and ambiguity. So we need to cowboy up. We need to bring our heroes and our principles back to mind. And we need to find our voice in a much deeper register than the hesitant whisper that some people have been bringing to the microphone lately. Yeah, for sure.

46:29Joseph Carter, God bless you. I appreciate your well wishes and your prayers and blessings for our anniversary, my wife and I today, 26 years. Thank you for that. That was very kind of you, God bless you. Hey, Diane, Hastings, Minnesota on that team at 375. Thank you, Diane. You're a sore, wonderful, wonderful for that gift. That took a chunk out of the need. Brothers under 4,000 now. So thank you for it. It says pray for all doses and priests to stay strong in their faith, yay, and amen. We will include those intentions for our masses that are said for these intentions. So thank you, Mary and Terry in Concord, New Hampshire. God bless you from the granted state. I love these New Hampshire gifts. It's really cool. One time, get $50. Thank you, Mary and Terry. This is pray for our children and spouses to come into the Catholic Church and for her husband, Terry, for his walking and balance. Be assured of my prayers personally for you and for and also for the networks to be praying for this as well.

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48:30for the salvation of souls? What do you think? Pray about that. 877-711-8500. Looking for three more callers and about $3800. 877-711-8500. 877-711-8500. Down to the wire now, Father. Last thoughts, Pope Francis in Fran, or Pope Francis, forgive me for already in slip. Pope Leo in France is what I meant to say. And this hope of a rebirth, what do you think? Last thoughts? I'm sure. Let's pray for that. Let's also work for that. And let's have a good standard. How do we know if we're doing it right? How do we know if we're doing it wrong? Fulton Sheen at the end of his life said he judged the quality of the retreats he gave by how many people committed to making a daily holy hour. I would say, let's judge the rebirth by baptisms and vocations. Amen. Well said, Father, thank you for your time today. We're going to come back in the next hour with the Catholic Current, that's his program.

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