TD Barrett and I discuss the Catholic doctrine of "no salvation outside the Church" and its development over the centuries.

Disgraced ex priest Fr. James Mawdsley says Hitler was among greatest leaders of 20th century because he actually devoted resources to confronting the "Jewish Problem" in the Final Solution, which he said was all a big misunderstanding where nobody was supposed to get hurt. Yeah, he's really that crazy and evil. If you see any alleged Catholics boosting this guy, that's what they're co-signing.

Was Vatican II a rupture with tradition? Was it in perfect continuity with tradition? Or was it a little of both? The answer may surprise you. I look at how the "hermaneutic" with which you answer this question determines your "post-Vatican II team"

Christians, you don't need to believe the world is flat... or just created recently over a 6-day period to be faithful to scripture. That kind of view makes us look unreasonable... because it is. To demonstrate this, I talk about a recent example where a science website talked about fossils on top of Mount Everest, and Christians TOTALLY missed the point due to lack of reading.

Midnight Philosopher and I discuss Catholic scrupulosity and how it interacts with a fear of hell in many.

This episode I had Jake Buscher, a fellow Catholic YouTuber who runs the channel Cutting the Gordian Knot (link below), on to discuss the intersection of Catholicism and free market economics. We touched on things like the Biblical case for capitalism, stumbling blocs around on usury and feudalism, how Catholic Social Teaching may lean on John Locke to help formulate the right to property, and why distributism is more a vibe than a school of economics.

In this video, I interview senior lecturer of history at University of Exeter Dr. Nicholas Terry, called the "the UK’s foremost academic” on the subject of Holocaust denial by the Observer. Dr. Terry co-founded the Holocaust Controversies website, which exposes in detail the blunders and errors Holocaust deniers make historically and scientifically. We discuss why these theories are all faulty and why certain online Catholic figures seem to be trying to revive them anyway. We discuss figures like Candace Owens, Nick Fuentes and his Groypers, E. Michael Jones, Fr. James Mawdsley, and the original Holocaust deniers, like Germar Rudolph. He goes over the main points that tend to make, how they've all reached scientific and logical dead ends, and motivations they might have for holding these views. Here is Dr. Terry's website: https://holocaustcontroversies.blogsp...

A very serious debate arose on social media this week, with some self-described Christian Nationalists and Catholic Groyper Trads saying women should stay home and bake pies and should not nag men about looking at porn or being out all night drinking with their sidepiece. Women, they said, also should not vote or make fun of super-serious pastors who wage holy war online and use phrases like "fake and gay," or to be more precise, "gay and fake." On the other side were sane people, the Catholic magisterium, men who loves their wives, women who like talking (which, let's be honest, is most of them), and those who agree with Jesus and Paul about the importance of Christian charity.

Some have asked me to say a bit more about myself. So here you go -- my full life story. To not make it totally self-focused, I also tried to use it as an opportunity to speak to young men, especially the new Groyper Nick Fuentes types and rad trad Catholics. Hopefully they, and other young men, can get something from my story, which is full of tons of twists and turns and mistakes and grace. What I didn't mention is now I'm a married father of three who works in conservative media and public policy for my day job.

Normie Catholics and conservatives are learning a lot this week about Nick Fuentes and his "Groypers." But in my opinion, this group of traditionalist Catholic wannabe Groypers are even more dangerous because they give the over-the-top youthful trolling (which few actually take serious) a more religious and ideological backing.