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Setting the Record Straight - God's Hero v Man's Hero

Who was “God’s Hero” who competed with “Man’s Hero?  Why it was Pope Pius VII versus Napoleon Bonaparte!  It was a spectacular battle of wills between our brave Pope and the would-be Emperor of the World. How did the imprisoned Pope Pius VII, who seemed to have been thoroughly defeated, come from way behind to win in the end? And who were the Black Cardinals?  And what does Beethoven have to do with all this? Listen and find out.

Original Air Date:  04/22/15

Setting the Record Straight - The Church Survives the Crazy 1700s

Surprise ! Napoleon was the best that the Catholic Church could expect in the 1700s.

He even ended up a Catholic on his death bed. The Church faced something worse- the crazy inhumanity that results from secularism. The “Age of Reason” was a bust. We needed then and need now “The Age of Reality”.

Setting the Record Straight - The Stupendous Catherine of Sienna

Saint Catherine, please come back. We really do need you right now!  Saint Catherine brought the Papacy out of secular bondage in Avignon, negotiated peace treaties, and advised secular and religious leaders. She wielded the her superb intellect, luminous personality, and spiritual union with God with such power and grace that she became one of the most influential persons of her time. She did this in the midst of the Black Plague, worst health disaster in European history, the Hundred Years War, and a Catholic Church that had been weakened by scandals in a parallel to today’s problems.

         Saint Catherine

Setting the Record Straight - Do you Hear the Faraway? Part 8

At last Vincent is released from his probation in Barbados and heads back to Kentucky to visit Madeline. It is 1944 and they haven’t seen each other in years. Listen and you will find that the visit turns out to be much more than 

a “visit". This is the last chapter in the ScarletTanager episode. Then back in the early 1800s, Sister Clare is reunited with some who is dear to her.  It is with young Gabriel, who has come to New Orleans to retrieve Seasprite from the convent storeroom. Fate is waiting in the storeroom.

              The Scarlet Tanager

Setting the Record Straight - Do you hear the Faraway? Part Seven

In the next episode in the story “The Scarlet Tanager”, Vincent, an ornithologist, who is living in Barbados at the abandoned seaside mansion known as Harrismith has been  exchanging letters with his separated wife who lives in Ellersie Hall near Lexington, Kentucky.  He discovers the little boat, “Seasprite”, wedged in a seaside cliff.

Setting the Record Straight - "Pope Joan"

Pope Joan is vaporware. Delicious gossip may be an obvious lie, but people who want it to be true will believe an obvious lie.  Pope Joan did not exists.  If there is a truly revealing story, it the story of how so many people were fooled by the Pope Joan story in the past and are still fooled today. They believe the lie not because they know it to be true, but because they want it to be true.

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Setting the Record Straight - Do you hear the Faraway? Part Six

The next installment in the adventures of the miniature boat Seasprite. A boy who is the boat’s owner, Gabriel, is aided by an old seafarer who is now the maintenance man at the Ursuline convent in New Orleans. They finish a project the boy’s father had begun years before, preparing Seasprite to be put out to sea. Gabriel, who has never met his father, has a surprise visitor. This is a story with a positive Catholic atmosphere. 

 The Old Ursuline Convent 

Setting the Record Straight - The Accusing Finger

Why was the High Middle Ages a time of such abundant Catholic charity, openness and warm hearted evangelism?

Why, in the midst of such love of our fellow human beings, was the Inquisition necessary? 

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Setting the Record Straight - Famous and Also Catholic

Chuck Coughlin tackles "Famous and Also Catholic" on Setting the Record Straight!

Setting the Record Straight - Consider the Great Catholics

Consider the Great Catholics with Chuck Coughlin in this episode of Setting the Record Straight.

Setting the Record Straight - From Tyndale to Newman

The interesting truth about two famous men. Is it true that William Tyndale was the “Father of the English Bible”? Was he executed by the Catholic Church for translating the Bible into English?  Hear the list of eighteen errors liberals make according to Cardinal Newman. How did Cardinal Newman manage to convert from Anglicanism to Catholicism without greatly changing his theology?

Setting the Record Straight - The Victory at Lepanto

Listen to this exciting account of one of the most decisive naval battles in world history.

It was a period when the Ottoman Muslim Empire dominated the Mediterranean and intended to snuff out Catholicism.

God granted us Pope Saint Pius V who found the right leader to send against the naval onslaught.

 It was the glamorous and dashing 24 year old Don Juan of Austria.

The Catholics won and changed history.

Setting the Record Straight - Passing on Knowledge

Reflections on Catholic education in the years 1000 to 1300 AD.

Once Catholic Cambridge

On each program of “Setting the Record Straight” you will hear another fascinating yet neglected story from two thousand years of magnificent achievements of the Catholic Church. Historical Apologist Charles Coughlin presents these intriguing stories based upon respected and authoritative historical sources. Misinformation and disinformation about the earthly work of the Catholic Church is corrected.  “Setting the Record Straight” will quench the thirst of Catholics who want to hear true stories explaining their glorious heritage.

Setting the Record Straight - Do you hear the Faraway? Part Five

More Stories of Seasprites incredible Voyage.

Seasprite passes Gibraltar

Setting the Record Straight - The Marijuana Hoax

Should we legalize the sale and use of marijuana?  Is the rationale used to justify the use of medical marijuana really a hoax? The majority of our country supports legalization. How can so many people  be wrong? Listen to William Bennet discuss his new book “Going To Pot; The Rush To Legalize Marijuana”.

Setting the Record Straight - Shakespeare's Secret Catholicism

If Shakespeare’s mother, father, and daughter were Catholics, what about the bard himself? There is strong evidence that, during his writing career, Shakespeare was known as a Catholic. There are tantalizing events in his life and there are scenes in the plays and poems that arrest your attention with their Catholic attitude. In his lifetime Queen Elizabeth’s cruel persecution of Catholics made it risky not to conform to the Anglican Church. Edmund Campion and many other Jesuits were brutally martyred for ministering to the pockets of Catholics who remained loyal to the Old Faith. Shakespeare did not volunteer for a martyr’s role, but, retired to Stratford, and “He died a papist.”

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Setting the Record Straight - Indian Missions in North America

Setting the Record Straight with Charles Coughlin:  Indian Missions in North America
ORIGINAL AIR DATE: March 31, 2015

Hear about the amazing adventures of Catholic missionaries who worked among the Indians of North America. Their explorations of uncharted areas and heroism in the face of danger would make great plots for many movies. From Sister Blandina ’s adventures in the wild west  to Father De Smet’s masterful advocation of Indian causes made them legendary among the native peoples. Hear about Father Kino who created the ranching industry of Arizona. Hear about the tens-of-thousands of Catholic converts among the Indians, including Chief Sitting Bull who wore a crucifix.

On each program of “Setting the Record Straight” you will hear another fascinating yet neglected story from two thousand years of magnificent achievements of the Catholic Church. Historical Apologist Charles Coughlin presents these intriguing stories based upon respected and authoritative historical sources. Misinformation and disinformation about the earthly work of the Catholic Church is corrected.  “Setting the Record Straight” will quench the thirst of Catholics who want to hear true stories explaining their glorious heritage.

Setting the Record Straight - Do You Hear the Faraway? Part Four

The story of the voyage of Seasprite continues. In Part 4 the Trouble in Tralee on the Dingle Peninsula is complicated by the arrival of two wild creatures.  Thirteen years later  the two children from Cape Hatteras read a revelatory article in The Cincinnati Inquirer.  

Setting the Record Straight - Do you hear the Faraway? Continued

Setting the Record Straight - Victorious Martyrs of Poland

Victorious Martyrs Of Poland

The stories of the cruel and tragic persecution of Catholics in Poland under the Nazi regime are difficult to contemplate and thus are too little known  

However is there anything that can inspire one to treasure faith more than reflecting on these men and women?

The power of their faith was so great that ultimately nothing else was as powerful.  

Catholic Priests being prepared for execution

by Nazis in The Old Market Square In Poland