The death of Alex Pretti has swept up the news and social media. And like all issues, there are multiple conflicting reports and narratives from multiple sources. Terry Mattingly joins us to help straighten it out.

Further Reading

Today’s ice (and ICE) storm realities

Connecting the dots in clashing news reports

Guest Info

Terry Mattingly is the former editor of Get Religion. He is a journalist and professor who writes at the Rational Sheep blog. Follow him on X @tweetmattingly.

Vice-president JD Vance addressed huge crowds of pro-lifers on Friday before the March for Life in Washington, DC. In his speech, he reassured the crowds that “you have an ally in the White House,” but largely sidestepped the issues that have been at the heart of critics. Doug Keck joins us with more.

Further Reading

Vance Addresses Pro-Life Critics at the March for Life — But Not Their Big Critique

Vance, Lawmakers Defend Trump’s Abortion Policies at March for Life

Guest Info

Doug Keck is the retired president and COO of EWTN and the host of EWTN Bookmark.

While Christians have targeted the specific products of the feminist ideology, such as abortion and transgenderism, we have missed the bigger picture of how feminism’s shadow church has captured the psyche of Western women. Even amongst some Christians today, feminist ideology is seen as a path to true equality and freedom. Carrie Gress responds to these claims.

Further Reading

Book: Something Wicked: Why Feminism Can’t Be Fused with Christianity

Book: The Anti-Mary Exposed: Rescuing the Culture from Toxic Femininity

Book: The Marian Option

‘Something Wicked’: Why Feminism Was Never (And Will Never Be) a Christian Project

Carrie’s website

Theology of Home

Guest Info

Carrie Gress, Ph.D., is the founder and editor at the online women’s magazine TheologyofHome.com and the author of ten books, including the Theology of Home series, The Anti-Mary Exposed, and The End of Woman.

There is another effect of the ICE shooting and protests in Minnesota – a potential government shutdown. Some Democratic senators have said they will not vote for a massive government funding package if it includes money for DHS, which oversees immigration enforcement. President Trump’s immigration policies were a key part of the “No Kings” protests – but enforcing a duly enacted law is not a royal prerogative. We discuss the duty to enforce the law with John McGinnis.

Further Reading

The Duty to Enforce the Law

Guest Info

John O. McGinnis is the George C. Dix Professor in Constitutional Law at Northwestern University and a senior writer at Law & Liberty. He is the author of Accelerating Democracy (2012) and coauthor, with Mike Rappaport, of Originalism and the Good Constitution (2013). He is a graduate of Harvard College; Balliol College, University of Oxford; and Harvard Law School. He has written for leading law reviews, including Harvard, Chicago, and Stanford, as well as The Yale Law Journal, and in journals of opinion, including National Affairs and National Review.

The deaths of Alex Pretti and Renée Good are tragic and eminently avoidable. They emerged from volatile circumstances where passions ran high, when authority was challenged at close quarters, and prudential judgment failed on multiple levels. How can we as Catholics contribute to better civil discourse? Marcus has some thoughts.

The Natural Law is the foundation upon which our laws, ethics, and policies are built. And following the principles of the Natural Law is a surefire way to lead to greater human flourishing. We explore it with Melissa Moschella.

Further Reading

Ethics, Politics, and Natural Law: Principles for Human Flourishing

Guest Info

Dr Melissa Moschella is Professor of the Practice in the Department of Philsophy at Notre Dame. She is the author of Ethics, Politics, and Natural Law: Principles for Human Flourishing. Follow her on Twitter @melissamoschell

Denyse Shannon was working the assignment desk at a local TV station when she learned of a horrendous story – a two-year-old child kidnapped and feared dead. As she reflected on the tragedy, she began to hear a calling from God – it was time for a change. She shares her story.

Further Reading

God Changed My Plans: Why I Traded News for Pro-Life Work

Guest Info

Denyse Shannon is a freelance journalist and retired reporter, living in mid-Michigan.

Notorious serial killer Ted Bundy was executed on January 24, 1989. Before his execution, he discussed his previous addiction to violent pornography. Marcus discusses how pornography devalues the human person and leads to a culture of death.

Debates over issues such as marriage, infertility, divorce and adoption tend to consider the issue solely from the adult’s perspective and “rights.” But what about the Rights of the children? Stacy Manning joins us to flip the script on the conversation.

Further Reading

Them Before Us website

Book: Them Before Us: Why We Need a Global Children’s Rights Movement

Guest Info

Stacy Manning is the co-author of Them Before Us: Why We Need a Global Children’s Rights Movement. Visit thembeforeus.com

What distinguishes men from women? Many of the discussions around what it means to be a woman, or conversations around the significance of maleness and femaleness, fail to take into account the angle of the questions asked or misunderstand the position that another is coming from. A “3-D” reality is condensed to a “2-D” explanation. Kerri Christopher joins us to discuss more on the reality of womanhood.

Further Reading

Do Women Have a Universal Vocation?

Kerri’s blog

Guest Info

Kerri Christopher, M.A., S.T.L., is a writer, speaker, life consultant, and occasional professor of theology living in Oxfordshire, UK. Her writing has appeared in First Things, Dappled Things, Public Discourse, and Blessed is She. She has taught at universities in the U.S. & U.K. and also serves as director of the Humanum Institute. After realizing how many of her students had trouble with decision-making, Kerri founded Clarity Life Consulting to help individuals learn to discern well, discover their priorities, and make better plans to move forward with purpose and peace. She writes regularly about these topics on her Substack, Cultivating Clarity.