The Based Catholic

May 25 2024 29 ep. 46 mins 4
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A solo-hosted variety show with different segments coming at all things from a 'based' Catholic perspective...takes often not included in the culture and liturgical wars & ongoing intra-conservative debates. Politically Integralist/Post-Liberal. Religiously Traditional. Culturally Retro.

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What Happened To America's Architecture & Cities?

May 25 2024 43 mins  
Episode 28 Special Guests include: Brent Hull, Founder of Hull Historical Millwork & Author Jack Cashill. How much did America change after World War II? The short answer: a lot. For starters, we accelerated our standard of "cheap and fast" to the utmost degree in our architectural design and building. Mr. Hull comes on to share his passion for craftsmanship and histo

Pro-Natalism Is Not Necessarily Pro-Family

May 08 2024 45 mins  
Episode 27 Special Guest includes: Tim Carney, author of the book, "Family Unfriendly: How Our Culture Made Having Kids Much Harder Than It Needs To Be." Civilization is in crisis. The birth decline continues to drop as marriage rates plummet and suffer from further delay. But how responsible is our culture for this? Does it play a role in family formation, making it inte

A Willingness To Suffer...Well

Mar 26 2024 54 mins  
Episode 26 Special Guests include: Franciscan Theology Professor, Dr. John Bergsma & Father David. Are we willing to suffer for our beloved? If we liken the analogy of marriage to our relationship with God, how many of us simply use God rather than love Him for His own sake? In this episode I get into the different perspectives on suffering between protestants and Catholics wit

Make Mass Beautiful Again & Secularism's Coping Methods

Mar 06 2024 46 mins  
Episode 25 Special Guest includes: Father Patrick Schultz from the Diocese of Cleveland. I'm sure you've heard that famous Dr. Peter Kreeft quote: "Abortion is the Antichrist’s demonic parody of the eucharist. That’s why it uses the same holy words, “This is my body,” with the blasphemous opposite meaning." You could say that secular liberalism's sacr

IVF Is An Ishmael & Unyoking Yourself From The Woke Regime

Feb 23 2024 48 mins  
Episode 24 Special Guests include: Them Before Us President and Founder, Katy Faust & The Spectator's Teresa Mull. Issues related to marriage and family within liberalism's structure have long been decided based on what's best for the individual (i.e. the parent, the adult), never considering or in favor of what's best for the child. Katy goes child-centric in o

The Forgotten Father Of Modern Conservatism Was A Radical Catholic

Jan 30 2024 51 mins  
Episode 23 Special Guests include: Declan Leary & Brent Bozell III. If one of the founding fathers of the modern conservative movement, Brent Bozell Jr were alive today (and still living in America), he'd probably be on the FBI's Catholic Extremist watch list. I interview Declan and his son Brent to discuss this lost piece of conservative media history and the Catholic

Act 3 of The Jeweler's Shop & Millennial Motherhood

Jan 23 2024 47 mins  
Episode 22 Special Guest includes: Professor James Wilson. We conclude our discussion on John Paul II's The Jeweler's Shop with the third and final act of the play. Then I give my take on what I consider the missing rhetoric surrounding the two-parent household discussions and how they benefit children. Are the roles of mother and father interchangeable? Are two parents in

The Jeweler's Shop Act 1 & 2

Jan 15 2024 51 mins  
Episode 21 Special Guest: Professor James Wilson. They say divorce is down but that's only because marriage rates are too. In a post-marriage culture, how do we defend marriage if we don't even know what it is? I speak with Professor Wilson and we break down the first two acts of the profound play written by Pope Saint John Paul II, "The Jeweler's Shop," a med

The Slowest Burn: When Discernment Looks Different Than You Expected & Ditching Your Smartphone

Dec 20 2023 44 mins  
Episode 20 Special Guests include: Christopher Chapman & Jacob Beckwith. Do fools rush in or do men "know?" Ever heard of a decade-long friendship getting out of the friend-zone? After this episode, you will have! Meet the man behind the legend that is Emily Stimpson Chapman. Her husband Chris tells me his vocation story and his perspective in their shared love story

Catholic Schools: Making Podcast Prostitutes & Homeschool Football Leagues?

Dec 07 2023 38 mins  
Episode 19 Special Guests include: Patricia Patnode & J.P. De Gance Writer and repentant former member of the Daddy Gang, Patricia Patnode comes on to discuss the social impact of Call Her Daddy (the #1 female podcast in the world). We ponder if Alex Cooper's Catholic education really screwed her up her views on sex (pssst..she must have never read POPE SAINT JPII's def