Episode 160: Pete Buttiegieg 

The interview covered religion, same-sex marriage, and the 2020 election candidates. *please note there were numerous audio anomalies, these issues seem to be persistent when a guest as controversial as Michael is on. 

Eugene Michael Jones is an American writer, former professor, media commentator and the current editor of Culture Wars magazine (formerly Fidelity Magazine). Jones is known for his writings from a perspective which defends the Catholic Church in American society and overviews the decline of the Catholic communities which were assimilated into the secular American mainstream after the 1950s. He has written widely on the sexual revolution, capitalism, the history of the Catholic Church and its relation to Jews as well as on wider cultural issues. 

 Jones’s work has primarily been concerned with the relationship between the Catholic Church and secular culture, particularly the effects of the sexual revolution on the Church and the culture. Later work has focused on the historical friction between the Catholic Church and Jews. In 2004, the Catholic League ”condemned Jones’s antisemitism and repudiated his efforts to justify it in the name of Catholic theology”. In February 2008, another complaint of antisemitism (from the Southern Poverty Law Center) caused the School of Architecture at The Catholic University of America to cancel a lecture series in which Jones was scheduled to speak. Jones has denied accusations of antisemitism and says that any form of racism is against his Catholic faith

He has stated publicly that he considers modern Judaism to be a wicked ideology, but he condemns criticism of Jews based upon race. In an interview with The Washington Times, Jones said that he rejected racism in all of its forms, as is consistent with Catholic teaching, and responded to the cancellation of the conference at the Catholic University of America in an article in Culture Wars.