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To read the full report, visit CatholicVote.org/cap/reports . 1:32 - Chapter One: The Facts about Immigration in America 7:34 - Chapter Two: Myths and Facts about Immigration and the Church 26:19 - Chapter Three: A Catholic Response to the Anti-Enforcement Position We’d love to hear what you think! Send your questions, comments, and suggestions to: info@catholicvote.org. To support future investig...

To read the full report, visit CatholicVote.org/cap/reports . 1:11 - Part One: Meet The New, But Not Improved, Gavin Newsom 10:08 - Part Two: The Ongoing Scandal of Newsom’s “Rebel” Catholicism 19:03 - Part Three: Abortion Advocacy Taken to Demonic New Depths 26:10 - Part Four: Aggressively Imposing the LGBTQ Agenda 34:22 - Part Five: Addressing the Newsom Scandal: A Task For the Whole Church We’d...

Episode 5: A Crisis of Perceived Corruption and Public Trust In the concluding episode of ‘Bad Samaritans,’ we look ahead to a possible Harris administration and the prospect of mass amnesty. During his term, Biden made it clear that he considers amnesty a foregone conclusion and a mere formality. Many Americans now suspect that Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and other Democrats are pursuing a delibera...

Episode 4: A Crisis of Fraud and Perjury The hardest truth about the border crisis? It is very largely a crisis of fraud and perjury, being perpetrated by those who would not qualify for asylum under US law if they told the truth about their personal history and motives for migration. This episode examines how false asylum claims are destroying the U.S. asylum system – and preventing refugees who...

Episode 3: A Crisis of Citizenship and the Rule of Law The Biden-Harris administration is turning federal immigration law into a dead letter, while putting the interests of illegal immigrants ahead of the country and its citizens. In our next episode, we will first address their betrayal of the rule of law and also how they have failed to put America first. Bad Samaritans is brought to you by the...

Episode 2: A Crisis at Home and Abroad The Biden-Harris border crisis violates Church teaching on the international level, by playing into the hands of some of the world’s worst criminal interests. Join us as we examine how the current chaos at the southern US border is not simply bad for this country and its citizens. It is also damaging to “the universal good of the entire human family.”  Bad Sa...

Episode 1: A Crisis of Patriotism Today’s episode opens with John Paul II’s resounding call to Christians to love their homeland… and examines how the Biden-Harris administration has failed in its patriotic duty to do so. Having sworn to “take care that the laws be faithfully executed” according to the Constitution, Biden and Harris presided over a hemorrhaging southern border where millions of pe...

Faithful Catholic writers have been sounding the alarm about an LGBT push to undermine the Church’s teachings from within. CatholicVote’s Catholic Accountability Project decided to investigate those concerns. What follows is the result of our deep dive into one culprit – an organization named “New Ways Ministry.” What the investigation uncovered is nothing short of a far-reaching, decades-long pla...

In this final part of our exploration of the Church’s response to Covid, we look back over the lessons learned and ask: how do we move forward?  After three years of dealing with overreaching government restrictions, what can Church leaders and Americans draw from this experience? We lay out the key areas where the faithful were most affected and discuss what solutions could possibly help to remem...

In this episode we dive into one of the most contentious Covid-19 issues – vaccines and vaccine mandates. Who required them? Who allowed for religious exemptions? What does ongoing confusion mean for the future?  We look at how Church guidance on mandates was interpreted differently by various US bishops and orthodox Catholic thinkers, and explore why many of the disagreements still remain unresol...

America conducted a vast social experiment on children during the pandemic. In this episode we cover how Catholic schools handled it – from school closures, to academic success, to  mask mandates.  We examine how the general response from Catholic schools compared to that of most public schools. With a mix of major successes and some unfortunate moments – what can Catholic educators and parents ta...

This episode detailing the Church’s Covid response takes us inside the 2020 Covid wards. Hear personal testimonies from those denied end-of-life-sacraments and which heroic priests risked it all to minister to their dying flock.  Tragedy ensued as many hospitals and nursing homes barred patients from receiving the sacraments. Was it from fear? Ignorance of Church teaching? We get to the root of th...

INTRODUCTION. Discussions of Covid-19 have grown more difficult – and even politicized – over time, but the Receipts didn’t shy away from the subject. As American society faces a broad crisis of trust in many institutions, this podcast series will take a candid look at both the best and the worst of the Catholic Church’s response to the Covid pandemic in order to heal divisions and strengthen our...

Today’s episode turns to that devastating moment in March 2020, when Covid restrictions began in earnest. Here’s the record of the complete closure of Catholic churches – and the bishops’ victorious fight to re-open for Mass and preserve the First Amendment as the lockdowns dragged on. Covid and the Catholic Church is brought to you by the Catholic Accountability Project from CatholicVote. All foo...