Sangreal

Dr. Peter McCullough is an internist, cardiologist, epidemiologist managing the cardiovascular complications of both the viral infection and the injuries developing after the COVID-19 vaccine in Dallas TX, USA.  Since the outset of the pandemic, Dr. McCullough has been a leader in the medical response to the COVID-19 disaster and has published “Pathophysiological Basis and Rationale for Early Outpatient Treatment of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) Infection” the first synthesis of sequenced multidrug treatment of ambulatory patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 in the American Journal of Medicine and subsequently updated in Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine.  He has dozens of peer-reviewed publications on the infection and has commented extensively on the medical response to the COVID-19 crisis in TheHill, America Out Loud, and on FOX NEWS Channel.  On November 19, 2020, Dr. McCullough testified in the US Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, in 2021-2022 the Texas Senate Committee on Health and Human Services, Colorado General Assembly, New Hampshire Senate, Pennsylvania Senate, and South Carolina Senate concerning many aspects of the pandemic response.  On January 24, 2022, Dr. McCullough co-moderated and testified in the US Senate Panel “COVID-19:  A Second Opinion” chaired by Senator Ron Johnson.  Dr. McCullough has reviewed thousands of reports, participated in scientific congresses, group discussions, press releases, and has been considered among the world's experts on COVID-19.  His book written with best-selling true-crime author John Leake is “Courage to Face COVID-19:  Preventing Hospitalization and Death while Battling the Biopharmaceutical Complex.”  Book: https://couragetofacecovid.com/

This year, in the course of interviewing various people for Sangreal, I first became aware of the prophetic dreams of St. John Bosco, a 19th century Italian saint who was famous for working with homeless youth and founding the Salesian Society religious order. One of his dreams that seems especially relevant today, in our time of great confusion and chaos, is the dream of the two pillars, from May of 1862. This dream has been brought up in several of the interviews I did for Sangreal, and so I thought it would be fitting to read the complete dream so you can hear it for yourselves.

Fr. Dwight Longenecker was brought up in an Evangelical home in Pennsylvania. After graduating from the fundamentalist Bob Jones University with a degree in Speech and English, he went to study theology at Oxford University. Eventually Fr. Longenecker was ordained as an Anglican priest and served as a curate, a school chaplain in Cambridge and a country parson on the Isle of Wight.Realizing that the Anglican Church and he were on divergent paths, in 1995 Fr. Longenecker and his family were received into the Catholic Church. For ten years they continued to live in England where he worked as a freelance writer and charity worker. Then in 2006 the door opened for him to return to the USA and be ordained as a Catholic priest.To learn more about Fr. Longenecker and his ministry, please visit http://www.dwightlongenecker.com/.

A message of gratitude to our guests and listeners, and most of all to Our Lord Jesus Christ for His sacrifice for our salvation.

For this episode of Sangreal we had the privilege of speaking with Fr. Peter Sabbath, pastor of St. Thomas a Becket Parish in Montreal. As a young priest, Fr. Sabbath’s doctorate was about adoration and spiritual transformation, which held an especially personal relevance for him as the Eucharist was the key to his own conversion story. We also discussed how adoration helps deepen one’s friendship with Our Lord and how the Eucharist has sustained him, particularly in difficult times.

Dr. Mark Miravalle earned his Sacred Theological Doctorate at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome. He holds the Saint John Paul II Chair of Mariology at Franciscan University of Steubenville, where he has been teaching since 1986. Dr. Miravalle is the founder and senior editor of Ecce Mater Tua, an international journal of Mariology research. He is also president of the International Marian Association, comprised of more than 130 theologians, bishops, clergy, and laity worldwide who seek to promote Marian devotion and doctrine.Dr. Miravalle has spoken at numerous international conferences and has appeared on EWTN, National Public Radio, BBC, and Fox News.Dr. Miravalle is the author and editor of over 20 books in Mariology and Spiritual Theology, including his most recent works, Meet Your Mother: An Introduction to Mary; Meet Your Spiritual Father: An Introduction to St. Joseph; Time to Meet the Angels, and Jesus In You: The Indwelling Trinity in the Souls of the Just.

Fr. Benedict Maria La Volpe, OFM Conv. entered the Conventual Franciscan Order in Australia as a Postulant in April 1995 after having completed his B.A. in Italian language & literature. On July 16, 2005, he was ordained to the priesthood. Fr. Benedict was assistant Priest at Our Lady of the Rosary Parish Kellyville in northwest Sydney from his Ordination until November 2009, and then Pastor and Guardian at St. Joseph’s Springvale in Melbourne until August 2018. Fr. Benedict has given Parish Missions, animated Retreats, given Conferences, served four years on the Archbishop’s Senate of Priests in the Archdiocese of Melbourne and was one of the Spiritual Directors for the seminarians at Corpus Christi Regional Seminary, Melbourne.In 2018 he was elected as Provincial Definitor at the Provincial Chapter of the St. Bonaventure Province in Chicago, also nominated Rector of the National Shrine of St. Maximilian Kolbe and elected Guardian of the Our Lady of Fatima Friary at Marytown, where he began his ministry in September 2018. He is the Province’s Delegate to the Militia Immaculatae (MI). He also is a Spiritual Director to several seminarians and priests.

For this episode of Sangreal, Fr. Robert Morey of St. Anthony Catholic Church in Florence, South Carolina was kind enough to speak on what he feels people to need to hear about the Eucharist these days, a personal encounter story he’s had with the Eucharist, and what has been the most surprising thing he’s learned on his Eucharistic journey. 

(St. Maximilian Kolbe's article taken from The Kolbe Reader, edited by Fr. Anselm Romb, Franciscan Marytown Press, 1987)

Bishop Thomas John Paprocki was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Chicago in 1978. After ordination, he studied law at DePaul University College of Law and was admitted to the Illinois Bar in 1981. Working as a parish priest at St. Michael Church in South Chicago, a neighborhood with high unemployment due to shutdowns of the local steel mills, then-Father Paprocki co‑founded the South Chicago Legal Clinic to help answer the need for legal services for the poor. In 2014 Bishop Paprocki was named President Emeritus and Of Counsel of the organization, now called the Chicago Legal Clinic. On June 22, 2010, Bishop Paprocki was installed the ninth Bishop of the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois. In May 2013 he received his Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) degree from the University of Notre Dame. He taught as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Loyola University Chicago School of Law from 1999 to 2015. He joined the Adjunct Faculty of Notre Dame Law School in 2016.

Timothy Gordon studied philosophy in Pontifical graduate universities in Europe, taught it at Southern Californian community colleges, and then went on to law school. He holds degrees in literature, history, philosophy, and law. Currently, he resides in Mississippi with his wife and six children, where he writes and teaches philosophy and theology. Gordon is considered one of the Godfathers of “Bro-Man” Catholicism. He does a popular biweekly podcast and is the author of Catholic Republic: Why America Will Perish without Rome. Two forthcoming Gordon books are due in early 2020, each co-authored with his brother David: No Christian Feminism (Sophia Institute) and Rules for Retrogrades (Tan Books).

During the summer of 1980, at the request of Cardinal Wyszynski, Fr. Jerzy Popiełuszko celebrated Mass for the striking workers in the Gdansk Shipyard, and his destiny was set in motion. It was that same day that Lech Walesa and other workers founded Solidarity, the first non-Communist controlled trade union in a Warsaw Pact country. For the next four years, Fr. Jerzy would serve as the chaplain of the Solidarity movement, a group of 10 million Polish Catholic workers who resisted the Communists and helped lead to the breakup of the Iron Curtain. As their chaplain, Fr. Jerzy spoke boldly and openly through fiery sermons in which he criticized the Communist government and exhorted the people to follow God and to use non-violent means to resist oppression. On October 19, 1984, after celebrating Mass at the Polish Saints Martyred Brothers Church, Fr. Jerzy’s car was stopped by three members of the Polish secret police. His driver was beaten badly but escaped. Fr. Jerzy was not so lucky. Brutalized until he was unconscious, he was tied up and thrown into the trunk of a car. Taken to the Vistula River, a boulder was tied to his legs and still alive, he was thrown into the river. His body was found eleven days later. Outrage over his death was intense. Estimates say that 400,000 people attended his funeral, and for the first and perhaps only time in a Communist country, a trial was held in which the three secret police officers and their superior were all found guilty and sentenced to prison. “An idea which needs rifles to survive dies of its own accord. An idea capable of life wins without effort and is then followed by millions of people,” he said.  

Fr. John Bartunek, LC, S.Th.D, received his BA in History from Stanford University in 1990. He comes from an evangelical Christian background and became a member of the Catholic Church in 1991. He was ordained a Catholic priest in 2003 and earned his doctorate in moral theology in 2010. He has taught moral theology at various ecclesiastical institutions at both the graduate and undergraduate levels.He provided spiritual support on the set of Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ while researching the 2005 Catholic best seller, Inside the Passion, the only authorized, behind-the-scenes explanation of the film. Fr. John has contributed news commentary regarding religious issues on NBC, CNN, Fox and the BBC. He also served as the English-language press liaison for the Vatican¹s 2005 Synod of Bishops on the Eucharist. His most widely known book is called The Better Part: A Christ-Centered Resource for Personal Prayer. 

Bishop Joseph E. Strickland serves as the fourth Bishop of Tyler.He entered Holy Trinity Seminary and the University of Dallas; studying for the Diocese of Dallas in August of 1977, and earned a Bachelor of Philosophy in May of 1981. He continued his education at Holy Trinity and the University of Dallas and was ordained to the Diaconate by then Bishop Michael Sheehan at Holy Trinity Seminary on December 8, 1984. He earned a Master of Divinity Degree in May of 1985 and was ordained to the priesthood for the Diocese of Dallas by Bishop Thomas Tschoepe at St. Monica Catholic Church in Dallas, Texas on June 1, 1985. On September 29, 2012, it was announced that His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI had chosen Strickland as the fourth bishop of the Diocese of Tyler. He was ordained to the episcopacy on November 28, 2012, by His Eminence Daniel Cardinal DiNardo of Galveston-Houston with Bishop Álvaro Corrada, SJ of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico and Archbishop Michael J. Sheehan of Santa Fe assisting as co-consecrators.To read messages from Bishop Strickland, visit BishopStrickland.com.

Fr. James Altman is the pastor of St. James the Less Catholic Church in La Crosse, a beautiful church tucked away in a town of roughly 52,000 people on the western border of Wisconsin. Fr. Altman’s homilies, posted online, have gained a nationwide following for their boldness and clarity. Following a successful career as an attorney, Fr. Altman heard the call to the priesthood during Eucharistic Adoration and has now devoted his life to being a faithful shepherd to his congregation. Listening to Fr. Altman speak for any length of time, it is clear that his love for his parish family is authentic and strong, capturing in the best sense the name of “father”.Be sure to take the time to check out some of Fr. Altman’s homilies online, which can be found on YouTube and at www.complicitclergy.com.

Dave Palmer is the general manager of the KATH 910 AM radio station in the Dallas-Ft. Worth metroplex. To check out Dave’s teaching curriculum, visit his Facebook page, St. Thomas Aquinas for Everyone. You can also see his channel on YouTube, where he has dozens and dozens of videos that dive into the Summa Theologica and more.

Fr. Sebastian White, O.P., is editor-in-chief of US edition of the Magnificat,a liturgical publication that reaches over 300,000 monthly readers. In the spring of 2020, Fr. White and his team published The Magnificat Adoration Companion, a 190-page compendium that is chock full of prayers, meditations, litanies and other resources to assist the faithful in adoring Christ in the Eucharist. Visit the Magnificat Bookstore to order your copy of the Magnificat Adoration Companion. 

Fr. Justin Braun is the parochial vicar at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Texarkana, Texas. Fr. Braun received his Masters of Divinity and STB degrees from the Pontifical College Josephinum, and was ordained on June 9, 2012, by Bishop Alvaro Corrada del Rio. He has served the Diocese of Tyler as parochial vicar at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception for three years, while also working as Chaplain to Bishop Gorman Catholic School, and beginning in 2013 as Director of Vocations. In the fall of 2015 he left his work at the Cathedral and began doing Chaplaincy work at St. Mary's Campus Ministry at Stephen F. Austin University and then at the University of Texas at Tyler. In January 2018, Fr. Braun was assigned as parochial vicar of Sacred Heart parish in Texarkana, Texas and was assigned as Director of Youth Formation for the St. Philip Institute in June of 2018. Fr. Braun has the great joy of being an uncle to 9 wonderful nephews and nieces, a great-nephew, and occasionally plays the drums for fun and hits the golf ball. He's worked with youth ministry since his days as a student in Longview, Texas some 20 years ago, and he's very excited to serve the youth and help them get to heaven.

Tim Glemkowski is the president and founder of L'Alto Catholic Institute, which exists to help parishes meet the challenges and opportunities of the New Evangelization head on by helping them Win, Build and Send missionary disciples. He has served in various roles in evangelization including teaching high school theology, youth and young adult ministry at a parish, and as a director of evangelization and catechesis. He double-majored in theology and philosophy at Franciscan University of Steubenville and has his Master's in Theology from the Augustine Institute in Denver, Colorado. A sought-after speaker, Tim is passionate about seeing the Church renewed through forming disciples. His favorite thing to do is to be in the outdoors with his wife Magdalene and their two young children.

Fr. Donald Calloway, MIC, a convert to Catholicism, is a member of the Congregation of Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception. Before his conversion to Catholicism, he was a high school dropout who had been kicked out of a foreign country, institutionalized twice, and thrown in jail multiple times. After his radical conversion he earned a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Theology from the Franciscan University of Steubenville, Master of Divinity and Bachelor of Sacred Theology degrees from the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, DC, and a Licentiate in Sacred Theology degree in Mariology from the International Marian Research Institute in Dayton, Ohio. In addition to his recent book, Consecration to St. Joseph: The Wonders of Our Spiritual Father, Fr. Calloway is the author of seven other books touching upon topics such as Marian spirituality and the Rosary.

Fr. Daniel L. Mode is a priest of the Diocese of Arlington and currently serving in the Archdiocese for the Military Services. He was ordained to the priesthood nearly 30 years ago, and he joined the U.S. Navy 31 years ago, first in the reserves and then in active duty. A 2017 Mount St. Mary’s Academic Circle of Excellence Alumni Hall of Fame Award winner and 2014 finalist for Catholic Extension’s Lumen Christi Award, Fr. Mode is also the author of The Grunt Padre, about the life of Medal of Honor recipient Fr. Vincent Capodanno.

Patrick Reilly has authored and edited many articles, reports, studies, and other publications on Catholic education for the Newman Society and national media. He has appeared on EWTN, FOX News, MSNBC, and numerous radio programs.Prior to the Newman Society, Reilly served as editor and research fellow at Capital Research Center, executive director of Citizens for Educational Freedom, higher education analyst at the U.S. House of Representatives, program analyst at the U.S. Department of Education, media consultant for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, and chairman of American Collegians for Life.To learn more about the Cardinal Newman Society, visit https://newmansociety.org/.

In this episode Chris Padgett, author, speaker, musician and father of nine, spoke about the Mass as a family gathering and how he wants people to know that Christ really loves us and wants more than anything to be with us. In the Eucharist celebrated in the Mass, this closeness achieves its ultimate expression here on Earth.It’s worth recalling paragraph 950 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, in which we read, "… The communion of saints must be understood as the communion of the sacraments. . . . The name 'communion' can be applied to all of them, for they unite us to God. . . . But this name is better suited to the Eucharist than to any other, because it is primarily the Eucharist that brings this communion about."

Kim Brown, author of the book, Spiritual Lessons Along the Camino, has enjoyed a rich and varied career over the years including serving as a firefighter, owning a national ranked haunted house attraction, running a Hurricane Katrina Shelter, hiking the Camino de Santiago, and leading student service trips across America. In an official capacity, Kim has worked for the Catholic Church as the Director of Adult Formation & RCIA, an Associate Director of Vocations for a Diocese, and as the Director of a Retreat Center. She also spent quite some time discerning a call to the religious life.In the discussion that follows, Kim shares how the Eucharist has been pivotal during her walk with God.To learn more about Kim’s ministry and for details on how to purchase her book, please visit https://www.kimbrown.info/.

Converting to Catholicism in 1994, Steve Ray has spent more than two decades as an ardent Catholic apologist who has delivered talks about the Eucharist to over 80 groups in Capernaum in Galilee where Jesus said, “Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you.”In this episode, recorded on the weekend of the Feast of Corpus Christi, Steve talks about his research into the early Church fathers, why people today struggle with the transcendental reality of Christ in the Eucharist, and why Malachi chapter one verse 11 is his favorite Eucharistic passage in the Bible.If you want to learn more his various books and writings, as well as the pilgrimages that Steve and his wife Janet lead, visit https://www.catholicconvert.com/.

As a three-time World Police Olympics boxing champion, a former U.S.A. middleweight kickboxing champion and a retired veteran of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, Jesse Romero knows how to battle. Author of The Devil in the City of Angels and radio host of the Jesus 911 radio show, Jesse has a long track record of coaching and training Catholics how to prepare themselves to meet head on and overcome the daily onslaughts of the devil. In the episode that follows, I asked Jesse to talk about life in the state of grace and how to obtain it, and how the Eucharist helps people prepare for and conquer the spiritual battles they face in their lives.Want to hear more from Jesse? Be sure to visit his website at www.jesseromero.com, where he has links to a wide variety of his blogs, books, radio shows and podcasts and more.  

From an early age, Deacon Harold Burke-Sivers felt an irresistible desire to serve Our Lord in the Mass. His personal journey took him from contemplating religious orders in a Benedictine monastery to realizing his vocation as a husband and father of four; from being a successful law enforcement professional to leaving it behind to become a prolific Catholic evangelist. His love for Christ is profound and infectious, and he shares with us how the Eucharist has been instrumental as he discerned his vocation, overcame challenges, and made life-changing decisions to follow the Lord’s call for his life. To learn more about Deacon Harold and his ministry, to access a wealth of multimedia content, or to ask him to speak at your next event, visit www.deaconharold.com.To read the St. Pope John Paul II encyclical mentioned in this episode, Ecclesia De Eucharistia, visit http://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_jp-ii_enc_20030417_eccl-de-euch.html.

A well-known speaker, author, retreat director and EWTN personality, Fr. Larry Richards is at the forefront of Catholic catechesis. Known for his passionate and inspirational style, you can’t come away from an encounter with Fr. Larry without feeling the intensity of his conviction that Christ’s love is boundless for all. In the discussion that follows, Fr. Larry shares what the Eucharist has meant to his vocation, what he says to people who say they don’t believe in the Real Presence, and what Perpetual Adoration has meant for his parish. If you would like to learn more about Fr. Larry and his various ministry outreach efforts, visit https://thereasonforourhope.org/. 

As an author, husband and father, Robert Cunningham has an insatiable appetite for spiritual knowledge which is driven by a profound love of Jesus. In his book, A Life of Prayer: Prayer for Life, Robert explores a variety of the relationship dynamics that make up an active prayer life, such as humility, listening, mercy and forgiveness, as well the many examples we have through history of saints who show us how we can enter more fully into a relationship with God. To download a free copy of Robert’s book, visit Apple iBooks at https://books.apple.com/us/book/a-life-of-prayer/id589951771.