As an OB-GYN in training, Dr. John Bruchalski considered abortion to be health care. But that changed when, one night, he was caught between trying to save the life of one unborn baby — and ending the life of another. Our Lady of Guadalupe plays a key role in his story, and he joins us today.

Further Reading

Book: Two Patients: My Conversion from Abortion to Life-Affirming Medicine

What Our Lady of Guadalupe Means to a Former Abortionist

John’s website

Follow John on Twitter

Guest Info

Dr. John Bruchalski is the author of Two Patients: My Conversion from Abortion to Life-Affirming Medicine. He is an OB/GYN who founded Tepeyac OB/GYN in Fairfax, Virginia in 1994 to help serve all women regardless of their beliefs, background or financial situation. In 2000 he founded Divine Mercy Care, which helps to cover the cost of prenatal care for mothers in need. Learn more at tepeyacobgyn.com and divinemercycare.org and follow him on Twitter @JohnBruchalski.

Like many medieval Catholic theologians, St. Thomas Aquinas offers a fundamentally ambiguous take on Judaism and the Jewish people. He’s clearly committed to both the importance of the Jews in salvation history, and to the fundamentally flawed practices of Judaism after the coming of Christ. Bruce Marshall joins us with more.

Further Reading

Book: From Sinai to Rome: Jewish Identity in the Catholic Church

Guest Info

Bruce Marshall is Lehman Professor of Christian Doctrine in the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University. He’s the author of Trinity and Truth and Christology in Conflict, and is working on a book entitled The Primacy of Christ: Faith, Reason and the Cross. He is also a contributor to From Sinai to Rome: Jewish Identity in the Catholic Church.

America is supposedly a secular country, with separation of church and state, free exercise of religion, and so on. Yet we find ourselves in the middle of what amounts to a religious war. How could this be? John Daniel Davidson joins us.

Further Reading

America’s Conflicts Are Not Primarily Political Or Ideological, But Religious

Guest Info

John Daniel Davidson is a senior editor at The Federalist. His writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Claremont Review of Books, The New York Post, and elsewhere. He is the author of Pagan America: the Decline of Christianity and the Dark Age to Come. Follow him on Twitter, @johnddavidson.

The scandal involving University of Michigan football coach Sherrone Moore is the latest example of a successful, prominent man allowing his life to be ruined by sexual infidelity. Marcus discusses how society has been hurt by a lack of virtuous men.

When historians study battles, or sports analysts study games, they attempt to identify the “turning point” – the moment when the tides turn. With Advent, we prepare for the biggest turning point the universe has ever seen: the Incarnation of the Son of God. David Bonagura joins us.

Further Reading

Advent: Turning Point Universe

Book: 100 Tough Questions for Catholics

David’s website

Guest Info

David G. Bonagura, Jr. is the author, most recently, of 100 Tough Questions for Catholics: Common Obstacles to Faith Today, and the translator of Jerome’s Tears: Letters to Friends in Mourning. An adjunct professor at St. Joseph’s Seminary and Catholic International University, he serves as the religion editor of The University Bookman, a review of books founded in 1960 by Russell Kirk.

The ideological partisanship that is rampaging through our society today can be traced back partially to our educational system. Some students buy into the ideologies of campus classrooms, while others reject it so harshly they end up embracing other forms of extremism. What should we do? Robert P. George joins us.

Further Reading

A Solution to Campus Extremism

Follow Professor George on X

Guest Info

Robert P. George is McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. He has served in several other capacities, including as chairman of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom and as a presidential appointee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights. He is a former Judicial Fellow at the Supreme Court of the United States, where he received the Justice Tom C. Clark Award. His scholarly articles and reviews have appeared in such journals as the Harvard Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, the Columbia Law Review, the American Journal of Jurisprudence, and the Review of Politics. He’s the author of several books, most recently Seeking Truth and Speaking Truth: Law and Morality in Our Cultural Moment.

As families gather this holiday season, finding entertainment that is both edifying and enjoyable shouldn’t require a culture-war battle. For years, it has. Here’s the good news: Americans are winning. Andrea Picciotti-Bayer has more.

Further Reading

This Thanksgiving, Choose Movies That Will Bring Your Family Together

Guest Info

Andrea Picciotti-Bayer is a legal analyst for EWTN News. She also directs the Conscience Project and is a fellow at the Institute for Human Ecology at Catholic University of America. Follow her on Twitter @bayerpicciotti and visit conscience-project.org.

Advent is profoundly eschatological, a reality that grows more apparent as the season reaches its climax. In these days, Holy Mother Church considers Jesus Christ as the Approaching One, who brings into the middle of time not only the spotless light of the Beginning, but also the awesome glory of the End. Philip Primeau joins us.

Further Reading

Advent and Eschaton

Philip’s blog

Guest Info

Philip Primeau’s work has appeared in Crisis, Homiletic & Pastoral Review, Catholic World Report, and Aleteia.

The Genocide Convention, signed on December 9, 1948, was the first international legal document to codify genocide as a crime. In commemoration of this convention, Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting is sponsoring a forum examining the state of Human Rights in China. Featured speaker Reggie Littlejohn joins us.

Further Reading

Women’s Rights Without Frontiers

Forced Abortions in China: An Interview with Reggie Littlejohn

Guest Info

Reggie Littlejohn is Founder and President of Women’s Rights Without Frontiers, an international coalition to expose and oppose forced abortion, gendercide and sexual slavery in China. Visit womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org.

Today is the anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. The world had staggered out of a period in history in which industrialized nations used their technology to achieve a brutality many would have thought unthinkable. From this, the world reached for a moral vocabulary that would clarify human dignity in a way that no legal system could challenge. Marcus has more.

Further Reading

Knowing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights