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Setting the Record Straight - We Dig Noah!

We Dig Noah ! Is the Story of Noah a fairy tale ? Or partly true? Did we steal the story from the Epic of Gilgamesh?  Didn’t many other societies have myths about a flood? How can they all be true? 

Isn’t Wikipedia inspired and infallible ?  How does the Catholic Church explain a flood that supposedly covered the whole earth? 

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

The story “Do You Hear The Faraway?” continues as Seasprite, the small model Viking boat bearing a crucifix instead of a mainmast, is caught in the Gulf Stream and drifts northward along the Atlantic coast. Seasprite appears to be a vision, or perhaps real, to a boy in Fort Lauderdale and to two children on Cape Hatteras. This episodic novel of historical fiction, with an inspiring Catholic theme, is being presented in one-a-week segments on Setting The Record Straight”.

Cape Hatteras Lighthouse

 Sea Heart

Setting the Record Straight - The Little Mermaid

Setting the Record Straight - Gimme That Ol' Time Religion

Spirituality is on the rise. Oh really? Yep. While the main-lineProtestant sects have been sidelined, and even a strictly secular view seems to be declining, there is also a robust growth of human-invented religions. Sometimes these are lite-versions of primitive tribal religions; products of “designer-tribalism”. These are often composed of attractive elements selected from ancient “nature” religions and assembled into comfortable collages tailored to justify the permissive lifestyles of today. However these belief-collages seem to be having the scary effect of decomposing our civilization. If we become spiritual, even without guidance, are not all spirits we encounter benign? 

Setting the Record Straight - The Power of Islam

Two questions are answered.

1) How did the jihad bring down the most powerful and advanced civilization in the world? The answer to that question contains the reason we who live in the Dar al Hab. “the House of War” are again losing the battle against the jihad. This “Setting the Record Straight” uncovers in history an unique explanation of the strategies of the jihad. Wrapped within this explanation is a possible solution.  

2) How can we understand what fuels today’s jihad? We must take into account that, for centuries, Islam was powerful and triumphant over Christianity. It is the memory of this almost complete victory that now inspires “the war against the infidel” the jihad.

Setting the Record Straight - The Church, The Mother of Freedom

Setting the Record Straight with Charles Coughlin: The Church, The Mother of Freedom

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 Two

New adventures of  Seasprite, the model Viking Boat that was washed out to sea from the Old Ursuline Convent in New Orleans in 1942.  Bearing a golden crucifix Seasprite presents an appearance that seems miraculous to three Cuban fisherman lost in a hurricane, has a close encounter with a Nazi U-Boat, and is becalmed in the Keys before getting underway in the Gulf Stream.  In a flash-back to 1763 an unusual visitors appear at the door of the convent in the middle of the night.

                             Old Ursuline Convent

                 Oldest Building in The Mississippi valley

Setting the Record Straight -The Myth Exterminator and the Hype over Hypatia Part 1

A few popular "Who-done-it” murder mysteries with an anti-Catholic slant are exposed as fictions and get “Myth-Exterminated" on this Setting The Record Straight. Who murdered Hypatia in the Agora and why?  Who burnt the great Library at Alexandria?  

Did the Roman Catholic Church hang heretic William Tyndale, called "The Father the English Bible” or, 

in a plot twist, did the Anglican Church do it ? 

Setting the Record Straight - Shipwrecked with Robinson Crusoe

Surprise ! One of the most popular novels of all time has been  heavily censored in most modern editions, not of four letter words, but of one three letter word.  Hundreds of reverent references to God have been deleted as well as the  three-thousand-word 3000 word island conversion narrative of Crusoe.  Robinson Crusoe turns out to be even more dramatic in the original complete version. However, again contemporary culture has demonstrated its allergy to sacred themes and has to scissor them out of a masterpiece.

Setting the Record Straight - Being Catholic in Colonial America

Setting the Record Straight w/ Charles Coughlin -  Being Catholic in Colonial America.

What it was like being Catholic In Colonial America is both a tragic and an inspiring story. It is a story of how intolerance toward Catholics in America was gradually overcome by Catholic heroism in the Revolutionary War and by Catholics responding to intolerance with tolerance and love. For example when Catholics controlled Maryland, it was the only colony that was tolerant of all Christian sects. The number of Irish Catholics who were slaves in Britain’s American colonies may surprise you. 

Setting the Record Straight - Catholic Heroes of the Holocaust

Chuck Coughlin brings to light a number of stories about 

almost-forgotten Catholics, and a few famous ones, 

who risked everything to save persecuted Jews from  Hitler’s Third Reich.

This is a reflection on the noble record of the Catholic Church, 

clergy, religious, and lay people, who dared to defy the Nazis.

Setting the Record Straight - Do you hear the Faraway?

This is the first part of an uplifting novel, told in a number of vignettes, about a small model Viking boat that is washed out to sea and drifts around the Gulf Stream leaving a mystical mark on the lives on people along the way. The voyage starts in 18th century New France, and ends in present day New Orleans. The need to be reminded of the subtle effect of a positive Catholic atmosphere, missing in much of modern fiction, inspired Chuck Coughlin to create this heart-warming portrait of ordinary and extraordinary people.

Setting the Record Straight - Chivalry

Chivalry was developed in the Catholic world.  Listen to the remarkable words of the deeply religious ordination ceremony of these monk-soldiers who took their vows to heart. This stirring program reveals that Chivalry was a gift of the Catholic Church, created to focus the heroic fighting instincts of men on defending the weak and powerless, venerating womanhood, defending Christ’s Church, and countering the forces of chaos rampant in the medieval world. Even if the price was impoverishment and death, Knights kept their vow of  protecting the oppressed. During the Great Pilgrimages, known to day as “The Crusades”, often only one-in-twenty of the Knights returned home alive.

 

Setting the Record Straight - Catholicism and Physics

Setting the Record Straight with Charles Coughlin:  Catholicism and Physics

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 - More Music of Catholicdom

Setting the Record Straight with Charles Coughlin:  More Music of Catholicdom

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: Albigesians and Cathars

Setting the Record Straight with Charles Coughlin:  Albigesians and Cathars

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: Evangeline - Arcadians to Cajuns

Setting the Record Straight with Charles Coughlin:  Evangeline - Arcadians to Cajuns

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 - Catholicism in New France

Setting the Record Straight with Charles Coughlin:  Catholicism in New France

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 - Catholicism in China

Setting the Record Straight with Charles Coughlin:  Catholicism in China

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 - Catholic Schools in the USA

Setting the Record Straight with Charles Coughlin:  Catholic Schools in the USA

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.