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Show Notes: Nick Shirley’s report on MN daycare fraud. Minnesota’s Massive Somali Fraud Scandal Is a Warning to Every State, Including Maine by Ben Midgley, Republican candidate for governor (not an endorsement; we don’t know anything about him) Andy Ngo addressing claims that the legacy media already reported on the MN fraud Washington State AG Warns Citizen Journalists To Stop Investigating Soma...

Show Notes: Eclipse of the boomers by Christopher Caldwell Bottle feeding: an unexamined societal factor Jacob Savage: The Lost Generation, Compact Magazine Black Lives Matter Activists Executed A Shocking $83 Billion Shakedown Of American Corporations Helen Andrews Merry Christmas! See you in two weeks! Do you look forward to our podcast? Do not hesitate to subscribe! It’s free! Or you can choose...

Show Notes: Controversial “ICE was here” nativity display in Massachusetts to remain until priest speaks to archbishop - CBSNews ICE acting director, Boston Archdiocese demand ‘ICE was here’ Nativity be removed from Massachusetts church : Todd Lyons says display adds to dangerous narrative as archdiocese calls for removal - Fox News Why it’s wrong to deprive the community of religious displays: Be...

Show Notes: Pope visits famous Istanbul mosque but does not pause to pray In Unitate Fidei: Apostolic Letter on the 1700th Anniversary of the Council of Nicaea by Pope Leo XIV Pope Leo speaks out on the situation in Germany Neglected highlights of Pope Leo’s first voyag e by Phil Lawler FDA Memo Links COVID Vaccines to Child Deaths in Internal Review ~ X thread One of the children likely to have b...

Show Notes: Bishops vote to ban gender transition treatments at Catholic hospitals - Aleteia Bishop Joseph Strickland interjects at US Conference of Catholic Bishops - Catholic Herald — his subsequent statement can be found here . Catholic Vote quotes the Catechism on immigration More: Catholic Vote has provided a response to the bishops’ statement on immigration, emphasizing the nation’s duty to...

Show Notes: A British WWII veteran speaks his mind, but the BBC doesn’t want to listen; neither do many others A veteran’s haunting question: Was his sacrifice worth it? by Phil Lawler Katy Faust | How Obergefell Commodified Children — a must listen! Supreme Court declines to hear challenge to same-sex marriage decision — The Federalist The Obergefell ruling rode rough-shod over religions and doze...

Show Notes: What is a good age to have a baby? by Leila Marie Lawler — embedded link re: progesterone treatment in IVF The Facebook post , “40 is not the onset of menopause” — up to 300 likes/loves and 146 testimonials and comments Leila on how silencing works — this strategy applies to all sorts of issues: For a long time, many of good will wanted to extend a charitable interpretation of whatever...

Show Notes: Nigeria once again declared world’s deadliest country for Christians Catholic Vote Catholic Church Cries Out Over Renewed Herdsmen Attacks In Taraba Communities As Hundreds Are Displaced Sahara Reporters The Trump Card That Could Free Jimmy Lai by William McGurn Wall Street Journal (go here for archived version) Vatican confirms papal approval of new Chinese bishop Catholic Culture The...

Show Notes: Helen Andrews: The Great Feminization , Compact Magazine Harvey Mansfield: Manliness (affiliate link) Do you look forward to our podcast? Do not hesitate to subscribe! It’s free! Or you can choose to support us financially if you are able— either way, we appreciate you! Your paid subscription means a lot to us and helps us continue our work. Want to tell a friend? Please do! Don’t wish...

Show Notes: * Morale, Leadership, and Pastoral Priorities: Highlights from the 2025 National Study of Catholic Priests Some reports on the report: Younger American priests more conservative, traditional, survey shows (Catholic World News) U.S. priests report high confidence in Pope Leo XIV, less trust in bishops (Catholic News Agency) Study sheds light on generational divide among US priests (The...

Jay Jones’s texts . Is violence “across the board” in politics today? And what about that Cato Institute study? Bruce Gilley Conservatives Urge The Cato Institute To Withdraw Its Deeply Flawed Political Violence Study Some left-wing violence the legacy media wants you to forget. Man arrested outside cathedral found to have explosives Pope Francis: “There is no such thing as a just war.” Not helpfu...

Show Notes: Statement of Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, Archbishop of Chicago, on the Keep Hope Alive Award Pope Leo’s comments on Cardinal Cupich’s intention to award Sen. Dick Durbin The Pope’s statement on the Durbin award: wrong, and irrelevant ; if Pope Leo is quoted here accurately (and I have no reason to think otherwise), it’s a terribly disappointing statement for several reasons; Durbin’s dec...

Show Notes: JD Vance’s Sharp-Elbowed Theology by Tony Badran, The Tablet — I don’t know what he’s saying, and neither do you Charlie Kirk DM’d me before he was murdered. Here’s what he said by Van Jones, CNN — what’s missing in this statement is any call to the Left to stand down. Paprocki ‘shocked’ by Durbin’s Chicago award (The Pillar) Archbishop Cordileone supports Paprocki Statement of Cardina...

Show Notes: Leila on Pam Bondi’s error Actually, Tim Walz [and Pam Bondi! —Ed.], the First Amendment Does Protect Misinformation and “Hate Speech,” by David Inserra and Jennifer Huddleston Law & Liberty: Freedom of expression in the university : excellent essay by John O. McGinnis Do you look forward to our podcast? Do not hesitate to subscribe! It’s free! Or you can choose to support us financial...

Show Notes: Part One: * President Trump on Truth Social, about the Covid shots: “…I hope OPERATION WARP SPEED was as “BRILLIANT” as many say it was. If not, we all want to know about it, and why??? Thank you for your attention to this very important matter! President DJT” * Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. invokes compulsory vaccination as a principle to justify the verdict regarding sterilizatio...

Show Notes: Fr. James Martin SJ puts his spin on the meeting with Pope Leo: Notable quotes: The message I received from him, loud and clear, was that he wanted to continue with the same approach that Pope Francis had advanced, which was one of openness and welcome. So, it was very much a hopeful message of continuity. So while LGBTQ issues are on his radar, other things may be more pressing for th...

Show Notes: Prohibition detached our will to protect the common good but it also stole our orchard economy: How the government almost killed the apple Russell Kirk on the Errors of Ideology by Bradley J. Birzer Link fixed: In the First Circle by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (affiliate link) “In 2023, the "Old Country Store" celebrated Pride by unveiling rainbow-colored rocking chairs. Cracker Barrel spo...

Show Notes: Exploring Just-War Principles: An in-depth discussion of classical Catholic thought on the morality of warfare, and how it could be applied to contemporary conflicts. Is Phil good at predicting things? A Just-War Perspective on the War in Ukraine : An address given by Phil Lawler three years ago. Do you love our podcast and look forward to it? Don’t miss an episode! Gay man explains em...

Show Notes: My Hero, Kim Davis by Leila Marie Lawler Will the Supreme Court revisit its ruling on same-sex marriage? SCOTUSblog Kim Davis: Political Prisoner? Culture-War Martyr? Kim Davis: Shipwreck of Religious Liberty by Rod Dreher Kentucky clerk case driving wedge into conservative Christian camp Daily American Film: The Well Digger’s Daughter One beautiful aspect of this film is the refined d...

Show Notes: The Just-War debate: last call to join Phil Lawler’s Substack Seminar A Critical Review of Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Climate Climate Working Group United States Department of Energy July 23, 2025 The Ultimate Resource , by Julian Simon- 1983 (affiliate link) The Resourceful Earth , edited by Julian Simon and Herman Kahn— 1984 Washington Post: White House has no pl...

Show Notes: How and why the American Academy of Pediatrics wants to take away parental rights (Vaccines are only the thin edge of the wedge) The media just don’t report that Big Pharma funds it A convicted pedophile and his “husband” procure a child via surrogacy and no, there are no laws against that: Brandon Keith Mitchell: Sex Offender’s Surrogacy Journey With Husband Archbishop Weisenburger an...

Show Notes: Israeli forces strike Catholic Parish in Gaza (Vatican News) Pope Leo’s Angelus audience Israeli ambassador to Holy See says actions of Hamas reason for war in Gaza (Cruxnow) Gaza: History will not forgive this barbarism and complicity (Caritas International) Jerusalem’s Christian leaders deplore ‘heinous’ Israeli attack on Gaza’s Catholic parish (CWN) Holy See Press Office Press Relea...

Show Notes Demographics, fertility : Jesús Fernández-Villaverde on X (thread): 2023 fertility rates Arguing about Slavery: John Quincy Adams and the Great Battle in the United States Congress by William Lee Miller (affiliate link) Supreme Court Clears the Way for Trump’s Cuts to the Education Department (New York Times) Report: NPR is not indispensable for rural Americans and emergency alerts, des...

Show Notes: EXCLUSIVE: Official Vatican Report Exposes Major Cracks in Foundation of Traditionis Custodes by Daine Montagna Those Views of the Bishops on the Old Rite That Francis Forbade to Be Published. Because They Went Against His Will (Diakonos)— includes full text of Overall Assessment Vatican says leaked documents were only part of information Pope Francis used to restrict Latin Mass (AP) R...

Can bombing Iran satisfy just-war criteria? by Phil Lawler Preventive war and the U.S. attack on Iran by Edward Feser Attacks ‘Effectively Destroyed’ Iran’s Program (Wall Street Journal) — Note : “ It will be a long time before Iran comes anywhere near the capability it had before the attack. That being said, there are residuals such as stocks of 60%, 20%, and 3-5% enriched uranium and the centrif...