Traditional Catholic doctrine under public pressure.
What Catholics Believe frames current religious and political controversies through Traditional Catholic doctrine. Its conversations move from questions and news items into catechisms, papal authority, modernism, Zionism, and the moral cost of compromise.
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What Catholics Believe is a long-running Traditional Catholic program with a formal devotional spine and a polemical argumentative core. Episodes open in prayer, with appeals to the Holy Ghost and repeated references to Fatima, penance, and the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Then the conversation turns. Thomas Nagley introduces questions, public controversies, and church disputes, while Fr. William Jenkins answers as a traditional Catholic priest, superior of the Society of St. Pius V, and pastor of Immaculate Conception Church in Norwood, Ohio. The format is conversational, but the purpose is forensic. A headline about Charlie Kirk, Ted Cruz, Israel, Gaza, Trump, socialism, or transgender violence becomes a test case for doctrine, authority, and moral clarity. A dispute involving Fr. Ripperger, SSPX, Fernández, Archbishop Lefebvre, or the Novus Ordo becomes evidence in a larger argument about compromise with modernism. The show is grave by habit. It can also be dryly exasperated. Its strongest moments come when it slows down over a distinction: political Israel versus the Jewish people, private judgment versus Catholic teaching, ceremony versus belief, recognition of authority versus obedience to modernist commands. Those distinctions are repeated until they carry real weight. The program frequently contrasts older Catholic sources, catechisms, saints, and inherited teaching with contemporary church language it regards as evasive or false. It also keeps a pastoral rhythm, naming sick or deceased people for prayer and tying current crisis to liturgical seasons such as Holy Week, Eastertide, and St. Patrick's Day. The result is demanding, confrontational religious commentary for listeners who want Traditional Catholic doctrine applied directly to modern events. It is not designed for soft ecumenism or broad consensus. It is built for those who expect Catholic speech to name error, defend tradition, and end with a call to prayer and penance.
Made for: Suited to listeners already interested in Traditional Catholicism, postconciliar church disputes, and theology-heavy commentary on politics and culture. It is best for those comfortable with firm judgments and extended doctrinal argument.
What sets it apart: The show combines devotional structure with hard-edged analysis, moving from prayer requests and liturgical seasons into disputes over papal authority, modernism, SSPX, Zionism, and moral theology. Its identity rests on sustained Traditional Catholic reasoning rather than quick news reaction.
The long-running program "What Catholics Believe" is now in podcast format! Listen to the priests of the Traditional Roman Catholic Society and Congregation of St. Pius V teach and discuss the disasters of Vatican Council II, the errors of the Novus Ordo, and the traditional teachings of the Catholic faith. Fortify your Catholic faith with the truth. You can also find these episodes on our YouTube Channel. Check out our account on SoundCloud, where we have our episodes grouped into playlists for easy navigation. Be sure to visit our website at wcbohio.com for more content and to send in your questions.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Thomas Nagley and Father William Jenkins connect traditional Catholic doctrine to institutional disputes, religious practice and current controversies with uncommon directness.
What Catholics Believe begins in prayer before Thomas Nagley puts doctrinal and current-affairs questions to Father William Jenkins. Their exchanges approach Vatican II, the traditional Mass, papal authority and disputes involving the Society of St.
Opening prayer, then Vatican II under fire: your taste for uncompromising Catholic argument has found its match.
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Prayer, covenant, and a firm reading of Israel, loyalty, and judgment.
Thomas Nagley and Fr. William Jenkins begin in prayer and a request for Fr. Maroschka's surgery, then settle into a clear, pointed discussion of Charlie Kirk's comments about Israel, covenant, and political loyalty.
A Holy Week dispute over traditional Catholic isolation turns toward Tenebrae, consecration, prayer, and penance.
This Holy Week conversation centers on the isolation felt by traditional Catholics. Thomas Nagley and Fr. William Jenkins begin with an SSPX pilgrimage reportedly being kept out of a church dedicated to Our Lady of Sorrows in Italy, believed to be just outside Turin, then move…
A blunt defense of Catholic authority that ends on a firm claim about Christ's kingship.
What Catholics Believe uses this stretch to make a direct case for Catholic authority. Prayer requests open the segment, then the conversation narrows to modernist compromise, the Society of St.
A firm traditional Catholic discussion of baptism, authority, and the demands of faith.
Baptism, authority, and Catholic faith shape this episode of What Catholics Believe, as Thomas Nagley and Father William Jenkins treat a dispute over water, blood, and desire as a larger question about how doctrine is known.
A grave traditional Catholic discussion of identity, violence, modernism, and the faith Jenkins says must be practiced and preserved.
What Catholics Believe begins in prayer and in defense of the Roman Catholic religion as taught before Vatican II and the New Mass, then turns through requests for Father Barachka and Richard Wilt before Father William Jenkins takes up transgender identity and violence.
A traditional Catholic Easter discussion connects Gospel conflict and Israel controversy to questions of authority, fear, and consequence.
What Catholics Believe sets Easter prayer alongside a pointed discussion of Catholic identity, Gospel readings, and controversy over Israel. Thomas Nagley begins with Fr. William Jenkins, identified as a traditional Catholic priest and superior of the Society of St.
A prayerful, polemical discussion of conversion, papal legitimacy, and political principle.
What Catholics Believe takes up a hard question inside traditional Catholic argument: how can a pope be spoken of as someone in need of conversion to the faith?
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Live sermons with Easter-shaped urgency.
Host Thomas Nagley and Fr.
Host Thomas Nagley and Father William Jenkins of the Society of St.
This episode of What Catholics Believe features traditional Catholic priest Father William Jenkins discussing prayer requests and viewer questions about pre-Vatican II Catholicism.
A traditional Catholic podcast discusses theological topics like the Filioque and the Holy Ghost, opens with prayers, and shares prayer requests for community members.
Father William Jenkins, SSPV superior, argues that the Novus Ordo beatification of Bishop Sheen on September 24th, with about 50,000 attendees, presents him as a "trophy" for Vatican II.
Thomas Nagley opens with prayer.
Leo's letter to Sarah Mullaly, the new female Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, prompts Fr.
A traditional Catholic podcast host interviews a priest from the Society of St.
This episode of What Catholics Believe features a discussion with traditional Catholic priest Fr.
This episode of What Catholics Believe features traditional Catholic priest Fr.
Thomas Nagley opens with prayer and welcomes Father William Jenkins.
Prayer sets the tone before Thomas Nagley and Father William Jenkins move into baptism and the meaning of faith.
What Catholics Believe opens with Thomas Nagley and Father William Jenkins on the Society of St.
This episode of What Catholics Believe features a traditional Catholic priest discussing prayer requests and likely theological topics related to Pius XII, ordination, judgment, sins, and Mary.
A traditional Catholic podcast opens with prayers and announcements, including a prayer request for a parishioner's father facing health issues.
This episode of What Catholics Believe features traditional Catholic priest Fr.