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The Home Front — 110 episodes
Bring back taboos; Corporate "Pride" displays are compelled speech
One-step Vatican reform; the non-SSPX crisis
Spanish Bishops challenge Amoris Laetitia; will Pope Tawadros move the Catholic Church away from gay blessings? And wokeness comes for classic mystery novels!
Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo's document on AI
SCOTUS and the abortion pill; Pope Leo and AI
The SSPX and "the State of Necessity"; Daycare's deceptions; a 250th book for all
How to think about the origins of the cosmos
Phil on the US-UK-Vatican "Special Relationship"; Leila: surrogacy is evil and already illegal; bees & books!
Are we still on Flight 93; Measles; Democrats, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and you
President Trump v. Pope Leo; Dumbarton Oaks and Beverley Nichols
How Boston's forced desegregation busing led to nationwide judicial tyranny today; Easter conversion trends analyzed; and more!
Supreme Court free speech cases you haven't heard of; the death of infamous abortionist, Kermit Gosnell; playing bridge with our grandchildren
Interview: Katy Faust on why the "Same Sex Marriage" Obergefell ruling must -- and can -- be overturned
Vatican mistrial analysis; the wrongest man in history; Carrie Gress' Something Wicked review
La Trappe monastery and the Economy of Salvation; Christian Deaths in Lebanon
Just War in Iran? SCOTUS hands down landmark decision for parental rights; and more!
The challenge of the SSPX; The Cristeros and Just War
Notre Dame University offense (not football!); Marco Rubio's speech; and more!
How to repeal Obergefell; Synodality fatigue; Our favorite history books, military and otherwise!
China has a demographics problem; AI will teach your children trash; books and more!
Alex Pretti, Minneapolis, and confusion about civil unrest, excessive force, gun rights, and First Amendment freedoms
Thoughts on a few prelates and their pronouncements -- and discreditable ties; Greenland, NATO, and Trump; and more!
Minneapolis once more on the fault line
Cardinals' consistory; Diocesan conflict; Venezuela: Just War? Monroe Doctrine?
Daycare fraud: bad, but also inevitable; what to know when someone on the right gains "strange new respect"; and more!
Demographics, Wokeness: Baby Boomers; and the Lost Generation of straight white men
MA priest desecrates Nativity display; Vatican issues monogamy document; China's underground Church ignored
Pope Leo's trip to Turkey; 10 children confirmed dead from the mRNA shot, breaking open the narrative; and more!
Our exasperating bishops; Why we don't recommend giving to the Campaign for Human Development; and more!
Honoring -- or just humoring -- veterans; Scotus won't hear Kim Davis case in Obergefell and that's okay; and more!
Fear of having babies at 40; Vatican oddly weighs in on Mary's titles; and more!
Catholics are suffering in Nigeria and China; bottle-feeding as a cultural norm led to disaster; and more!
Helen Andrews' The Great Feminization - and how we stand to lose the rule of law and everything else
Priest survey results; Traditional Latin Mass-goers left out in the cold; and more!
Jay Jones: violence was how leftism was going to end; Just War and Cardinal Parolin; and more!
Cardinal Cupich hides behind the seamless garment; healthcare isn't what Democrats want us to think it is; Joseph Lawler on American house ownership; and more!
The Creed and Charlie Kirk; Cardinal Cupich's divisiveness; and more!
Charlie Kirk, 1st Amendment rights, violence, and "hate speech"; A Dickensian trout; the Lawlers go to dinner and a lecture!
The natural law principle behind rejecting vaccine mandates; what fresh hell is "circulatory death"; the Lawlers go to the Sterling Fair
Phil: Pope Leo's meeting with Fr. James Martin SJ; Leila: CDC firings, Minnesota shooting; and some chitchat about Animal Farm, a tradwife article we didn't appear in, and more!
Prohibition, the society-changing event you don't much think about; Why are Republicans so stupid; and more!
Phil predicts the outcome of the Ukraine/Russia peace process; Leila predicts Dent & Scratch Baby Market; St. Black Elk? and more!
A challenge to the Supreme Court's Same Sex Marriage Ruling? Our civilization’s death wish; and more!
Climate change realism; taxpayers not burdened with IVF support after all; a bad bill in California; and more!
"Massacre" in Detroit; Pharma funds assault on parental rights; and more!
Israeli forces strike Catholic parish in Gaza; HHS seeks transparency in organ harvesting, cites "sanctity of life"
News roundup: NATO; a new test for King Solomon; demographic winter; Department of Education: bye-bye!; and more!
Papal directive on the Traditional Latin Mass seems to have been based on a fraud; Medical groups sue RFK Jr. and HHS; books, and more!
Phil: Can bombing Iran satisfy just-war criteria? Leila: Democratic Socialism is not an expression of Catholic Social Teaching
The importance of the 3% resistance; conscience; the bishops on immigration; and more!
The LA riots; the FACE Repeal and Protect Children’s Innocence Acts; Planet Narnia
What Pride Month vs. the Sacred Heart really means; signs of hope in the Church' and more!
Harvard vs. America; Bishop Martin's plan to shut down the faithful's voices; and more!
Interview with Robert Royal on his new book, "Martyrs of the New Millennium"; Mother on life support to save her baby; Joe Biden's cancer; and more!
Pope Leo; the academic origin of crazy ideas; and more!
"Mental Load" and that old feminist trope; Washington State law aims at Catholics; the abortion pill again; Vatican finances; and much more!
Phil and Leila delve into details of the conclave and the Cardinals; a new study on the abortion pill's dangers
The death of the pope: What to expect this week; the Eye of Sauron turns on homeschooling; and more!
The propaganda of eugenics; the Eucharist as a historical event; books we're reading, and more!
The two swords of a peaceful and just society; Reps. Petterson and Luna embarrass women everywhere; Andrew Jackson, and more!
Entertainment pushes destructive ideology; Catholic Charities vs. Wisconsin; The best way to handle a Black Mass according to experts (us); and more!
The Supreme Court needs to settle the judicial activism crisis; We were duped by "quality time"; Delightful: Prayers from the Ark & The Creature's’ Choir
Is measles panic using the same playbook as the coronavirus? How much synodality can we take? And various doings at our house
Just War Theory; NIH Nominee Dr. Jay Bhattacharya promises a huge pro-life win; A book from our shelves: The Core Curriculum
Euthanasia and IVF share death-dealing control issues; why embryo "adoption" is not a good idea; the shocking truth about bishops, money, and Church demographics -- and more!
Who is running Catholic dioceses? What the IVF Executive Order on IVF actually says; What we're reading!
Mail-order abortion under pressure from RFK Jr.; J. D. Vance in Europe; Trump's IVF betrayal
Pope Francis's letter to the US bishops; What's the thinking behind Leila's School for Housewives; Laura Ingalls Wilder, blogger
A round-up of current events: Gaza, USAID, Tariffs, RFK Jr.; Feminism's awful roots; Ordo Amoris
If the US bishops fight Trump on immigration, they’re bound to lose for this one important reason, and... A reader asks, what was going on before Vatican II?
What Should the National Prayer Service Be Like? (Hint: it should involve prayer); Biden, the Equal Rights Amendment, and Phyllis Schlafly, American Hero; and more!
The mysteries of Epiphany-tide; Mark Zuckerberg, an enemy of the common good; The sweetness of All Creatures Great and Small
January 6th, lots of things to note; Cardinal McElroy; Mark Zuckerberg, and more!
Keeping Christmas until Candlemas and more Q & A's
Your Questions! Our Answers! And the New York Times cites debunked "expert" on Virgin Birth, Merry Christmas
Syria, Regime Change, and Christians in Trouble; the real lesson of Daniel Penny, and so much more!
Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris: The objectivity of the beautiful and the ugly; and suppression of the feminine by "synodal" ecclesiology
Phil: What Catholics can do for the American Republic; Leila: Three Leftist mistakes to avoid in daily life
This pivotal election: immigration, gender ideology, and the freedom to get back to ordinary life; Becket
No grandchildren, says the New York Times? Phil and I wonder why; the election aftermath; the literacy project (books from our shelves); the Red Sox!
The Election and Peanut the Squirrel's Real Importance
Marriage makes a difference to the kind of polity we have; Synodality; Books!
Phil on Blessed Karl; Leila on what they don't want you to know about the abortion pill; and more!
Bill Clinton "campaigns" for Kamala; the Constitution; books!
Want to know why the Left lies about Amber Thurman?
Public works vs. private charity; the cynicism and societal destruction of legalizing marijuana "for private use"; and more!
The VP Debate, a lens on current events and issues: Helene, Israel, health care, abortion; the Orthodox leaders' statement on marriage; and more!
No, your moderate amount of evil is not okay
San Diego Cardinal McElroy, against Church Teaching, Harshly Repudiates Catholic Homeschooling Families; Amber Thurman Dies of Legal Abortion, Media and Kamala Harris Lie; Bees; Tomatoes!
The Imminent Russia-US War; Free Speech and AI Deepfakes; and more!
Build Back Better: But Did We? Freedom of Speech; the Debate; and more!
The "two books" of God's revelation; observing the Pope's priorities in Indonesia; chatting about economics and a movie we watched!
Joy vs. Happiness; Censorship and Zuckerberg; St. Francis de Sales and the icon of the nursing mother
Musings on women covering their heads at Mass, Part I
Public health and mothers; Catholic bishops praying at conventions, a contrast; Rationalism
Leila and Phil respond to Edward Feser re: The Dilemma of Voting for Trump; AI: existential threat, cult, or tool? Books and conversation!
The bishops want Illumination, and they want it now.
How journalists get their "accurate information"; Dem VP choice Tim Walz, extreme "folksy" leftist; GOP needs to lean into principled rhetoric and goals
Olympic opening ceremonies were blasphemy, and what to do about that, on the Home Front; Remembering Fr. Paul Mankowski with Karen Hall
Was it a coup; are they conspiracy theories; conversations at home; Willa Cather; two movies!
The Republican Party ditches Lincoln for Douglas on abortion; Female active agents are not fitting; Phil's connection with Trump's immunity case
++Viganò's excommunication; the working document for the synod on synodality; media coverage of Biden's decline; and more!
Vatican defends Rupnik's "art"; Vatican "trial of the century" countersuit; USCCB cuts staff; Louisiana's 10 Commandments law; books, and more!
Scientific American tries to resurrect the ill-fated Harvard Law attack on homeschooling; Prof. Andrea Grillo, papal influencer, exerts raw power; and much more!
European elections shake things up; 9th Circuit rules on Covid shot mandates; Elderly peacefully praying woman is sentenced to 2 years in prison -- and more!
The implications of the Fauci hearings for politics and culture; what the Founders thought; cloth diapers and the culture wars; and more!
A strange week for Pope Francis, a thought about approach Pride Month, and more!
Of babies: Too many? Too few? How to feed them?
(repost) Podcast: Is disruption the only kind of political discourse we have left?
Leila and Phil Lawler discuss the growth of the Catholic Church in Africa, the debacle of Title IX in the US, Joseph Lawler's analysis of urban planning in Austin, and more.