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The Return to Order Moment
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Based on the book, “Return to Order” by John Horvat II, this podcast addresses the root causes of the nation’s moral decay and shows how we can return to those God-given institutions and principles that naturally regulate society and put it back in balance. Hosted by Edwin Benson, Matthew Miller and John Horvat II himself, the Return to Order Moment brings you insights, analysis and information for a culture in crisis.Visit our website at: http://www.returntoorder.org/
Episodes
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Now There Is Proof That Children In Traditional Schools Learn More
During the sixties, so-called experts promoted something called “new math.” This spirit transformed America’s classrooms. Other disciplines soon followed. English became Language Arts. History and Government were combined into Social Studies. The library morphed into the Media Center. Science…
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Is There A Christian Side In The Developing World Crisis?
China. Korea. Russia. Iran. Israel. Ukraine. These are more than just the names of countries. Each one represents a significant threat to the world order that took shape after World War II. That order survived the Cold War, armed conflicts in Korea and Vietnam, and seventy years of conflict in…
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Bumps On The Leftist Road To Tomorrow
It is very difficult for leftists to describe their visions for the future. They will be happy to mouth the usual words, equity, inclusion and the like. However, when asked to be more specific, they are at a loss for words. There are two reasons for their speechlessness. First, many of them are…
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Make This Lent Sublime By Broadening Your Supernatural Horizons!
As this episode goes live, Ash Wednesday is only one week away. This may come as a surprise because it has been such a short time since the end of the Christmas season. As most Catholics know, Ash Wednesday is the beginning of Lent, a penitential season that lasts until Easter. Typically, most...
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The Islamic Threat To Western Civilization Is Not Limited To Israel
Other than the gathering clouds of yet another contentious election, the biggest news story of the day is the battle between Israel and the Hamas Terrorists. The media coverage of this story is telling. Israel is immediately connected with Judaism and Zionism, yet there seems to be a reluctance…
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Seriousness And Serenity In The Life Of A Family
Welcome to the Return to Order Moment. We hope that you find these weekly podcasts to be both informative and a blessing. Today, we are going to shift gears a bit and bring you a message from the founder of the International TFP Movement, Professor Plinio Correa de Olivera. This message concerns...
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So - Called Liberal Christianity Satisfies Neither Man Nor God
Recently, many Americans have become interested in the so-called Gilded Age. The term itself comes from the title of a little-read book by novelist Mark Twain. Today, it is easy to get swept up in the lavish clothes and elaborate social rituals of that period. It is so different from the modern...
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No Matter What So-Called Conservatives Say, The Pro-Life Movement Must Continue
As this podcast goes live, the final preparations are being made for the March for Life in Washington, D.C. on January 19, 2024. The date for the annual event was first chosen to coincide with the anniversary of the disastrous Roe v. Wade decision in 1973. When that decision was overturned, many...
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A Philosophical Self - Portrait By Plinio Corrêa De Oliveira
Today, the Return to Order Moment wants to introduce its listeners to one of the most significant men of the Twentieth Century. His significance lies in the fact that he diligently opposed the Zeitgeist that made the last century the moral cesspool that it was. This man founded the international...
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America Needs To Sort Through The Disastrous Foreign Policy Decisions Inspired By Henry Kissinger
Usually, Americans tend to ignore foreign policy. It is messy and tricky and difficult to understand. However, the death of Henry Kissinger last month recalled one of the few periods that foreign policy was on the newspapers’ front pages. For those born since the disastrous Vietnam War, if may be...
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The Nativity According To Abbe Constant Henri Fouard, Episode 2
We want to welcome you to episode two of The Return to Order Moment’s Christmas gift to our listeners, taken from The Christ, the Son of God: A Life of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ by Abbe Constant Henri Fouard. Last week, we brought you the events surrounding the Annunciation, Visitation…
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The Nativity According To Abbe Constant Henri Fouard, Episode 1
We want to welcome you to the Christmas episode of the Return to Order Moment. In this annual celebration, we attempt to help you deepen your celebration of this Holy time by reading material that our listeners would be unlikely to find otherwise. This year, we turn to Abbe Constant Henri Fouard...
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The Church Must Not Follow Pope Francis’s Left Turn Into The Future
As Pope Francis ages, he appears to become more consistent. Normally, that would be a good thing. However, the trend seems to be that the aging pontiff is consistently wrong on every new issue. He appears to be so enamored of radical leftism, that he seems willing to take the Church down every...
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The Honor, Importance And Beauty Of Titles – A Discourse By Plinio Corrêa De Oliveira
We Americans don’t usually think much of titles. In fact, this disdain was written into our Constitution, where Article I, Section 9, Clause 9 states, “No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States.” Not only that, but any government official must get the permission of Congress…
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Christianity Proves Remarkably Resilient To Leftist Attacks
Radicals and Revolutionaries always make the same mistake. They all think that the Church is just going to roll over and die. Perhaps Josef Stalin posed this error most succinctly when he asked, “How many divisions does the Pope have?” In his mind, it was the size of the army that made you…
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Bringing Christianity To The Americas – Missionaries And Missions
The spread of Western, and particularly Christian Civilization from Europe to the rest of the world is a magnificent story. Unfortunately, most of America’s young people never hear it. Most of those who do hear it get a doctored, out of context version written by woke so-called historians who...
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At the Height of the Sexual Revolution, Why Does Pope Francis Belittle Those Who Defend Chastity?
Today’s episode of the Return to Order Moment will be shorter than most. However, it is packed with importance. Twenty-first-century Catholics find ourselves faced with a dilemma that we never expected until recently. We find ourselves torn between loyalty to the papacy while being unable to…
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Finding Beauty In The World That God Has Given To Us
Society conditions us to see ugliness. The television news business thrives on it. Advertising tries to make us pay attention by shocking us. Movies and novels are deemed boring unless there is something in it that is incredibly ugly, like murder or adultery. Even many fashion trends make the...
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Are Activists Turning America’s Schools Into Communist Training Camps?
Josef Stalin once said, “Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.” Our listeners can be sure that Communists, whether they be in China, Cuba, Moscow or anywhere else have not ignored Stalin’s ideas. Throughout the world, they have diligently...
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The Wonderful Power Of Our Lady Of Good Success
One of the buildings at the American TFP’s headquarters in Spring Grove, Pennsylvania has a glass covered niche immediately across the entrance hall from the main door. It encloses a statue of the Mother of God, under the title of Our Lady of Good Success. Among the members and supporters who…
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How Many Catholics Will Be Excluded From The Supposedly Inclusive Synod On Synodality
Pope Francis has convoked a “Synod on Synodality,” which is meeting as this podcast premiers. Many faithful Catholics have expressed concern over the synod, as its promoters have proposed severe and potentially destructive changes to the Church’s structure. Synod leaders have repeatedly expressed...
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Saint Therese’s Abandonment To God’s Merciful Love Shows Us The Road To Perfect Freedom
The word freedom has been distorted out of all relationship to its true meaning. Modernists see freedom as the ability to do whatever they want, without having any regard to its consequences, either on ourselves or others. However, that brand of so-called freedom leads to bondage. It destroys...
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Beware The Return Of The Covid - Obsessed Liberals.
Most people look upon the pandemic years of Two thousand Twenty and Two Thousand Twenty-One as disasters. The idea of returning to those times sends shudders down any sensible spine. However, there are those who see the Covid scare as the “good old days.” They look back nostalgically on a time…
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Celebrating Half A Century Fighting For A Christian Civilization
This year marks the semi-centennial of the American TFP, the organization that sponsors the Return to Order Moment. One of the guiding principles of the TFP is to place principles over personalities. This precept is, in and of itself, enough to separate us from the attitude of most of modern...
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We Cannot Save Ourselves By Saving The Planet
The ecological movement, at least as we know it today, is a tool of leftist revolutionaries. That is unfortunate because preserving the gifts that God gave us – including the natural world – is truly important. However, the biggest promoters of today’s environmental movement are not interested in...
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Saint Peter Orseolo – A Truly Heroic Military Leader And Warrior Against Himself
What does it mean to say that a man was “a warrior against himself?” The concept is one that is entirely absent in our modern world which teaches us that the most important interest is our own. However, this meditation on the life of Saint Peter Orseo-lo by Professor Plinio Correa de Olivera...
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A Spectacle of Charity – The Daughters of Charity During the Civil War
We live in a cynical world. We are surrounded by those who try to pretend that evil is good – and that the evil that they do is even better. Our leaders do not lead us. They try to figure out what we want and then try to convince us that they want it, too. We are surrounded by people who say that...
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The Overheated World Of Wokeness Threatens To Burn Itself Out
Often, a light bulb that is about to expire gives a very brief moment of bright light before the darkness comes. Such an occasion may be an appropriate analogy for the woke movement. On one level, wokeness has never appeared stronger. On the other, there are signs that it is losing its potency to...
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Hollywood’s Demise Became Certain When It Turned Its Back On American Morality And Values
Years ago, Hollywood was often called “tinsel town.” This refereed to its ability to make something that was artificial appear real. They make their money selling illusions. One of Hollywood’s favorite phrases is “push the envelope.” In other words, the goal is to produce something that is even...
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Leftists Deliberately Misrepresent Their Opponents' Positions
Until recent years, the ability to understand and explain the arguments of an opponent was vital to participation in the public debate. Without such an understanding, an advocate for a position said ridiculous things that prevented them from being taken seriously. Those who promote the positions...
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Could Uninspired Brutalist Architecture Be One Reason That We Have An Uninspired And Brutal Society
Of all of the unfortunate aspects of modern life, the style of architecture known as brutalism is, perhaps, the least humane. This podcast defines and examines this horrible trend - one that may be returning. It pays special attention to the soul-destroying nature of brutalism. Listeners who wish...
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True Men Are Neither Macho Nor Wimps
This episode of the Return to Order Moment looks at a modern-day controversy that should be no controversy at all. For centuries, Western Culture accepted masculinity and feminity without question. Such is the nature of humanity that most other cultures accepted it as well. However, the leftist...
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All Christians Must Fight Anti - Catholicism In The Modern World
Despite several clear warnings against Homosexual sin in the Bible, many groups that call themselves religious race to conform to the demands of the LGBT movement. The Catholic Church has resisted. This resistance has earned Catholics the enmity of these so-called activists. These social...
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A Medieval Hero For Modern Catholics – John Hunyadi
Erratum: At the beginning of the podcast, Mr. Benson refers to "Saint John Hunyadi. While John Hunyadi was a great hero of the medieval Church, he was never canonized as a saint. Our apologies. The nature of today’s Return to Order Moment will, we hope, make leftists react in despair – or at…
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Protecting Our Children’s Innocence Requires Us to Oppose Leftist Ideologues
Despite their protests to the contrary, there can be little doubt that leftists are targeting America’s children. The evidence is all around us, and the list of offenses against childhood innocence is too long to list here. This episode of the Return to Order Moment focuses on the ways that...
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Does Our “Responsive” Government Actually Care About Anything Other Than Accumulating Power
Listen to the political dialogue that passes for news, and you will soon hear someone call for “responsive government.” The idea behind the well-worn phrase is simple. One of the virtues of republican government is its ability to respond to the needs and desires of the people who are, presumably,...
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Can China Replace The United States As The World Leader?
China is a favorite topic of journalists, broadcasters, and pundits. Usually, the conversation revolves around the topic of growing Chinese power. Inevitably, that subject develops into a discussion China’s threat to the rest of the world. Many of those discussions center around the personality…
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Setting The Medieval Record Straight
For centuries, academics taught that the terms “medieval” and “dark ages” could be used interchangeably. One meant the other and vice versa. According to these scholars, the world of the Roman Empire was marvelous. As the Empire fell, the superstitions of the Catholic Church prevailed. Only with...
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Ten Years Of Pope Francis - A Disaster, A Catastrophe
On March 13, 2013, Jorge Cardinal Bergoglio became Pope Francis. At first, his election was viewed with approval by most Catholics. The idea of a non-European pope appealed to those who thought that the Church needed to accept new points of view. His decision to live in a Vatican guest house…
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The Leftists' Plot
Every day, the modern-day left works to insinuate their ways into all of our lives. That statement sounds alarmist, but we at the Return to Order Moment are ready to back that statement up with specific information. That is the goal of today’s podcast. We see it all around us - abortion,...
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Ascension Special - Heaven - The Hope Of Our Souls
As this podcast goes live, we are on the verge of one of the most exceptional days in the Church year, the Ascension of Our Lord into Heaven forty days after Easter. The Ascension fills us with hope. All believers base their lives around the desire that their souls will eventually follow Our Lord...
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Why The Left Hates - And Is Terrified By - Natural Law
Natural Law is an often misunderstood concept. Much of that misunderstanding is deliberate. Leftists do not want to understand or consider it. In this essay, Mr. John Horvat considers and explains the reasons that leftists fear and are repulsed by the ideas behind Natural Law. Listeners who wish…
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The Metaverse: What Is It?
Humanity stands at a precipice. Many have already given their lives into the control of their devices. Our computers and cell phones organize our thoughts, keep track of our schedules, and mechanize our communications with others. The keys to this process appear to be convenience and amusement....
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The Mind of Vladimir Putin is a Dangerous Place to Dwell, Whether You are Russian or American.
For many Americans, the mention of Vladimir Putin brings one of three images to mind. First, there is the voice of George Bush the younger saying, “I looked the man in the eye. I was able to get a sense of his soul.” The second is then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton offering Putin a cheap...
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The Nature Of Leadership – Distinguishing Between True Elites And The Counterfeits
Modern Americans have a complicated relationship with the idea of leadership. We understand instinctively what good leadership is, but that understanding conflicts with our mistaken ideas about equality. At the same time, we enjoy pointing to the mistakes of those in leadership over us – whether...
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Three Faces Of Modernism In The Twenty - First Century Church – Francis, McElroy And Cupich
Pope Francis and his supporters are engaged in a feverish attempt to change the Catholic Church before they pass away and a more traditionalist generation assumes control of the Church. This podcast considers the roles played by Pope Francis and two of his closest allies within the Church in the...
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Western Civilization Must Push Back Vladimir Putin’s Stalinist Ukrainian Land Grab
When Russia attacked the Ukraine on February 24, 2022, there was a wide-spread consensus that the United States should assist the beleaguered nation. Much of that consensus has dissolved. Today, there is a good deal of controversy concerning the United States’ role in the War in the Ukraine. That...
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A Holy Week Meditation: Plinio Correa de Olivera’s Embracing Christ And The Cross
Holy Week is often a difficult time for Christians who need to live their lives in a largely secular society. On one level, we know that this is the most important week of the year. It is a time when our Lenten disciplines reach a crescendo. At the same time, it seems that everyone around us is...
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Why Are The Radicals Planning A Revolution Against All Of Humanity?
As God created our first parents in the Garden of Eden, He said, “Let us make man to our image and likeness: and let him have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and the beasts, and the whole earth, and every creeping creature that moveth upon the earth. And God created...
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The Church Can Defeat Hollywood In The Culture War
Complain about the nature and content of a movie, and someone is almost sure to complain, “Get over it. It’s just a movie!” That reaction emphasizes the fact that few people think about the effects of the movie industry on society. The Movie industry’s larger-than-life images take on a power all...
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Based on the book, “Return to Order” by John Horvat II, this podcast addresses the root causes of the nation’s moral decay and shows how we can return to those God-given institutions and principles that naturally regulate society and put it back in balance. Hosted by Edwin Benson, Matthew Miller and John Horvat II himself, the Return to Order Moment brings you insights, analysis and information for a culture in crisis.Visit our website at: http://www.returntoorder.org/
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