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The Patrick Coffin Show is 100% listener supported. Help us keep our show independent and unfiltered. Consider supporting our work with a one-time or recurring donation   HERE.   You may have heard of 40 Days For Life, and you may have heard of its founder and former CEO David Bereit. This interview dives into his story, what inspired him to get directly involved in pro-life activism, and into the...

The Patrick Coffin Show is 100% listener supported. Help us keep our show independent and unfiltered. Consider supporting our work with a one-time or recurring donation   HERE .   You may have seen Father Mike in one of his popular Ascension Presents video commentaries. His topics—delivered in his energetic and telegenic style—tend toward what's currently trending but he always anchors his subject...

Are atheists uniformly dedicated to truth and evidence, to rational thought and logic? Might there be a hidden causal factor at play in more cases than one would imagine? Psychologist and researcher Dr. Paul Vitz thinks so. It's fatherlessness. His latest book, Faith of the Fatherless: The Psychology of Atheism ,  sets forth the case that abusive, absent, or weak fathers very often provide the psy...

The Patrick Coffin Show is 100% listener supported. Help us keep our show independent and unfiltered. Consider supporting our work with a one-time or recurring donation   HERE.   I have been reading Rev. Dalbey's books with great profit since the mid-90s. One of the first Christian leaders to address the crisis of masculinity, Dalbey has laid his hand on an urgent and increasingly obvious problem:...

The emotional, some say spiritual, effect music has on us is notoriously difficult to put into words. It's sort of like analyzing why something is funny. The reality ever exceeds our verbal grasp. Why are minor chords sad and majors happy? Why, when you hear a song from your childhood is there a superglue of emotion attached, bringing you instantly to those moments long ago? This week's guest is o...

Christopher West has devoted his adult life to communicating the beauty of the Catholic Faith, particularly through the insights of what's known everywhere as the Theology of the Body. First in archdiocesan religious education, then with the Theology of the Body Institute, and now with The Cor Project , West has been out in front, pointing out the Source of Beauty, making connections between super...

She didn't want to do it. No way, no how. Not becoming Catholic. Lizzie was an established and very popular presence in the "young Protestant dispenses advice to the like-minded" space on YouTube; she grew up in the Church of Christ and imbibed the standard myths about Catholicism. She might pray for Catholics, but become one? Riiiiiight. Attending Pepperdine University in Malibu, CA, Lizzie began...

Is art just a luxury for the wealthy? Can there even be a definition for it? How did the Incarnation of the Logos change the world? What did Dostoyevsky mean by having one of his characters in The Idiot say, "in the future, man will be saved by beauty?" Jonathan Pageau possesses a unique combination of gifts. He is an extraordinary artist, chiefly in the area of carving and iconography (feast your...

I keep having the same exchange with my seriously Catholic friends whenever Pope Francis comes up in conversation. It goes something like this: we were enthused about the initial days of the election (he was saying things about evangelization that needed saying, he encouraged us to get out of "mindset ruts" and bring the gospel to the peripheries since the periphery dwellers aren't knocking on the...

Dr. Ryan Anderson rounds out the final episode in our four-part series on transgenderism. I have been an admirer of Dr. Anderson for a few years now, since the appearance of his two previous books on marriage ( What Is Marriage? Man and Woman: A Defense and Truth Overruled ). In this no-holds-barred interview, Dr. Anderson gets specific about the origins of the "trans movement," the medical and so...

Michelle Cretella, M.D., is president of the American College of Pediatricians ,  a national organization of pediatricians and other health care professionals dedicated to the health and well-being of children. She is also fed up with the nonstop lies perpetuated by the "trans community" on the world of medical professionals. Big Medicine has become as politicized as Big Oil and Big Tobacco. As a...

Hudson lived through a long, dark season of shame and sexual confusion. Early exposure to pornography and often feeling inferior to his older brother, led Byblow along a path toward homosexuality, gender confusion, an ingrained porn habit, and self-loathing.   Years of drifting brought him to a moment of truth, a fundamental choice: to choose love and its demands, or give in to the lawlessness of...

Walt Heyer lived for seven years "with" a female identity named Laura Jensen, having undergone the full gender reassignment surgery as an adult male in his late 30s. Full mutilation, hormone treatments, driver's licence with legal name change. In other words, all in. It took a few years, but the "Laura" persona cracked under the pressure of the real man beneath the mountain of lies, which induced...

Jordan Peterson has been called "the most influential public intellectual in the Western world right now" by the New York Times, "the world's most sought after psychologist" by Psychology Today, and "rock star" by most every other pundit—admiringly by fans, sarcastically by critics. Whatever he is, Jordan Bernd Peterson is crushing it. As of this writing, his YouTube channel has close to 800,000 s...

Here's an easy one for you: would you like to meet someone, say, at a business meeting or barbeque and actually remember his or her name for more than a nanosecond? Would you like to remember a list of grocery items even if you don't have a pen and paper with which to write it down? Meet Harry Lorayne. I get a lot of compliments about my memory, and I like to give credit where it's due. Harry Lora...

In most social circles today, if you announce that you're a Buddhist, that's cool; you're like a celebrity. If you say you're into yoga retreats, that's wonderful. Even if you say you're a Christian (understood as Protestant) everything is still more or less groovy, unless you're one of those fundamentalist types that believes Jesus really rose from the dead. But announce you're Catholic? Better g...

As promised, I posed the questions solicited from Facebook about Medjugorje to my guest, historian Donal Foley, author of Medjugorje Revisited: 30 Years of Visions or Religious Fraud ?  and Marian Apparitions, the Bible, and the Modern World  Please understand that the number of questions exceeded the time limit of the show, but I did my best to compress together the ones that either asked the sam...

On June 24, 1981, a clear Wednesday afternoon, some young people went up Podbrdo Hill near the small hamlet of Medjugorje in then Yugoslavia. When they came down, they told people they saw "the Gospa," (Croatian for "Our Lady"). A few more joined them, and it happened again. And again. And again. Today, three decades later, the six teen-aged seers are middle-aged adults and are still getting these...

Ask Katie Ascough (pronounced azkoe) if she ever dreamed a year ago that she would be elected president of the Student Union of the 32,000 strong University College in Dublin (UCD), only to be impeached eight months later for following the law regarding advertising abortion services. Ouch, to say the least. The third year medicinal chemistry major won the election hands down and disclosed from the...

This is episode is my first to feature two guests on the same topic, although Episode 34    included Jordan Peterson and Senator Don Plett at the same time in separate cities. This week's show topic is the enduring cultural impact of Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life   (1947) through the eyes of two women close to its creation. I say "Frank Capra's" because that's how the movie was marketed (it'...

Tony Esolen is both a sage and a survivor of the culture war. He knows there's a war over which camp gets to determine the default setting narrative, and he knows the cost of warfare. He also knows it's not a military war (at least not yet) but a war of ideas and moral stances. Esolen suffered a bumpy and very public exit from Providence College last year, where he taught English and classics sinc...

It's that time of year again when we review the notable "holiday" movies for their adherence to the real meaning of Christmas, production quality, and merits and demerits. Who better than the founder of Decent Films, Steven Greydanus? Steve is not only the father of seven and a permanent deacon with the Archdiocese of Newark, he is a prolific movie critic and newly minted member of the elite New Y...

Is the threat of terrorism from the Islamic world a clear and present danger? Is there a way to broach this uncomfortable topic in a balanced and charitable way? Is it Islamophobic to even pose these questions? Author and founder of Jihad Watch , Robert Spencer has been writing and speaking about the foundational documents of Islam, the Qur'an and the Hadith, for over 15 years. It doesn't matter t...

"Dr. J" to her tribe, this influencer as a PhD and teaching experience at Yale, and George Brown University. An economist by training, she has invaluable insights into the wreckage we see around us caused by the failed Sexual Revolution. The organization she founded, The Ruth Institute, exists to help survivors of this very public shipwreck. With the Obergefel v Hodges (2015) decision redefining m...