A Catholic Take

October 27th, 2026 - The Russian Orthodox Church says a Ukrainian Orthodox baptism is not a baptism. Fr. Jason Charron, a Ukrainian Catholic priest, joins Joe on what Moscow just decreed. What it means for “one Lord, one faith, one baptism” — and for the Catholics of Ukraine who live next door to it. Links, Show Notes & More - https://thestationofthecross.com/act Email Us! [email protected]

October 23rd, 2026 - The DDF's new document is titled Come to Me. One day after it dropped, the Vatican told the Latin Mass pilgrimage: not you. Dr. Anthony Stine of Return to Tradition joins the show on Venite ad Me, the St. Peter's ban, and what this week tells us about where Rome is headed under Pope Leo. Links, Show Notes & More - https://thestationofthecross.com/act Email Us! [email protected]

October 22nd, 2026 - Rome's new document says "God does not bless division." Today's Gospel has Our Lord saying He came to bring it. Which is it? Joe reads "Venite ad Me - Considerations on the Transmission of the Faith in an Epochal Change" - the last document Pope Francis asked for, approved by Pope Leo XIV on August 21, 2026, and signed by Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández - against the Gospel for Thursday, October 22: Luke 12:49-53. Fire on the earth. Division in the house. And a text that quotes the fire twice (¶30, ¶77) and warns catechists off anything "scholastic," "dogmatic," or "moralistic" (¶80). The red flags, with paragraph numbers so you can read them yourself. And the good in it, because there is some - the family as "the first and most essential place" for handing on the faith (¶31), parents as "our first catechists" (¶36), and the honest admission that automatic transmission of the faith inside Catholic homes is ending (¶38). Links, Show Notes & More - https://thestationofthecross.com/act Email Us! [email protected]

October 21st, 2026 - Three stories, one bishop. Joe poses the week's hardest Catholic headlines to Bishop Joseph Strickland and asks what he sees: Fr. Chad Ripperger's one-year "fast" from public speaking, a Tennessee bishop dropping the St. Michael Prayer after Mass, and a new Vatican official renewing the call for women deacons after the Church has already said no. Underneath all three is the question Bishop Strickland has been asking on his podcast, If You Only Knew Him: do we actually know Jesus Christ? Links, Show Notes & More - https://thestationofthecross.com/act Email Us! [email protected]

October 20th, 2026 - The best-known exorcist in the English-speaking world has been asked to go quiet for a year, and his archbishop won't say why. Steve Cunningham of Sensus Fidelium, who has published Fr. Chad Ripperger's talks for a decade, joins Joe on what Denver actually said, what LifeSite says, and what happens to hundreds of hours of recorded teaching. Plus: a Vatican cardinal says Pope Leo's encyclical made the "Spirit of Assisi" ordinary Church teaching, one week before the Pope is due in Assisi for the 40th anniversary of the 1986 interreligious prayer meeting. Mark Lambert of Regina Unscripted reads the four sentences in question. Links, Show Notes & More - https://thestationofthecross.com/act Email Us! [email protected]