The Home Front

By Leila and Phil Lawler

Leila and Phil Lawler have been talking to each other about everything for almost 50 years. Join as they discuss every aspect of the battle on the home front.

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The Home Front episodes:

August 22, 2025 Phil predicts the outcome of the Ukraine/Russia peace process; Leila predicts Dent & Scratch Baby Market; St. Black Elk? and more!
Show Notes:
Exploring Just-War Principles: An in-depth discussion of classical Catholic thought on the morality of warfare, and how it could be applied to contemporary conflicts.
Is Phil good at predicting things? A Just-War Perspective on the War in Ukraine: An address given by Phil Lawler three years ago.
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Gay man explains embryo selection process
Lesbian talks about her “embryogate” — I can’t say I understand what’s going on in this account (there’s this and much more but I’ll spare you), but I know it’s a — how shall I put this — scatological meteorologic event and it is to be prevented in the future at all costs, as is Gay Man’s.
Meet the man suing to end no-fault divorce — The Federalist
Paul Jernberg, composer
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52min
August 15, 2025 A challenge to the Supreme Court's Same Sex Marriage Ruling? Our civilization’s death wish; and more!
Show Notes:
My Hero, Kim Davis by Leila Marie Lawler
Will the Supreme Court revisit its ruling on same-sex marriage? SCOTUSblog
Kim Davis: Political Prisoner? Culture-War Martyr? Kim Davis: Shipwreck of Religious Liberty by Rod Dreher
Kentucky clerk case driving wedge into conservative Christian camp Daily American
Film: The Well Digger’s Daughter One beautiful aspect of this film is the refined delicacy with which the transgression of the daughter is handled. The theme is how to handle the matter of the out-of-wedlock child; the treatment is anything but vulgar. Parents have to decide for themselves, but I consider it suitable for mature teens’ viewing. A Thought on Teen Pregnancy by Leila Marie Lawler
Our civilization’s death wish by Phil Lawler
Film: True Confessions
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56min
August 08, 2025 Climate change realism; taxpayers not burdened with IVF support after all; a bad bill in California; and more!
Show Notes:
The Just-War debate: last call to join Phil Lawler’s Substack Seminar
A Critical Review of Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Climate Climate Working Group United States Department of Energy July 23, 2025
The Ultimate Resource, by Julian Simon- 1983 (affiliate link)
The Resourceful Earth, edited by Julian Simon and Herman Kahn— 1984
Washington Post: White House has no plan to fund IVF (archived article)
California Bill 495, “Family Preparedness Plan Act of 2025”: “Presto, Someone Walks Away with Your Child”: Critics Slam AB 495’s Threat to Parental Rights
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51min
August 01, 2025 "Massacre" in Detroit; Pharma funds assault on parental rights; and more!
Show Notes:
How and why the American Academy of Pediatrics wants to take away parental rights (Vaccines are only the thin edge of the wedge)
The media just don’t report that Big Pharma funds it
A convicted pedophile and his “husband” procure a child via surrogacy and no, there are no laws against that: Brandon Keith Mitchell: Sex Offender’s Surrogacy Journey With Husband
Archbishop Weisenburger and the episcopal double standard
Detroit archbishop fires seminary professors
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48min
July 25, 2025 Israeli forces strike Catholic parish in Gaza; HHS seeks transparency in organ harvesting, cites "sanctity of life"
Show Notes:
Israeli forces strike Catholic Parish in Gaza (Vatican News)
Pope Leo’s Angelus audience
Israeli ambassador to Holy See says actions of Hamas reason for war in Gaza (Cruxnow)
Gaza: History will not forgive this barbarism and complicity (Caritas International)
Jerusalem’s Christian leaders deplore ‘heinous’ Israeli attack on Gaza’s Catholic parish (CWN)
Holy See Press Office Press Release: Telephone conversation of the Holy Father with the Prime Minister of Israel, 18.07.2025
Pope speaks with Palestinian President, urges respect for Humanitarian Law (Vatican News)
HHS Finds Systemic Disregard for Sanctity of Life in Organ Transplant System (US Department of Health and Human Services)
Living Organ Donation (Health Resources & Services Administration)
Donor DNA is detected in recipient blood for years after kidney transplantation using sensitive forensic medicine methods (PubMed)
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44min
July 18, 2025 News roundup: NATO; a new test for King Solomon; demographic winter; Department of Education: bye-bye!; and more!
Show Notes
Demographics, fertility: Jesús Fernández-Villaverde on X (thread): 2023 fertility rates
Arguing about Slavery: John Quincy Adams and the Great Battle in the United States Congress by William Lee Miller (affiliate link)
Supreme Court Clears the Way for Trump’s Cuts to the Education Department (New York Times)
Report: NPR is not indispensable for rural Americans and emergency alerts, despite claims (CatholicVote)
Bishop Conley the Beekeeper Enjoys Time in the ‘Really Real’ (National Catholic Register)
Scottie Scheffler's take on success in golf: 'What's the point?'
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52min
July 12, 2025 Papal directive on the Traditional Latin Mass seems to have been based on a fraud; Medical groups sue RFK Jr. and HHS; books, and more!
Show Notes:
EXCLUSIVE: Official Vatican Report Exposes Major Cracks in Foundation of Traditionis Custodes by Daine Montagna
Those Views of the Bishops on the Old Rite That Francis Forbade to Be Published. Because They Went Against His Will (Diakonos)— includes full text of Overall Assessment
Vatican says leaked documents were only part of information Pope Francis used to restrict Latin Mass (AP)
RFK Jr.'s vaccine policy sparks a lawsuit from the American Academy of Pediatrics NPR
No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson by Gardiner Harris
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52min
June 27, 2025 Phil: Can bombing Iran satisfy just-war criteria? Leila: Democratic Socialism is not an expression of Catholic Social Teaching
Can bombing Iran satisfy just-war criteria? by Phil Lawler
Preventive war and the U.S. attack on Iran by Edward Feser
Attacks ‘Effectively Destroyed’ Iran’s Program (Wall Street Journal) — Note: “It will be a long time before Iran comes anywhere near the capability it had before the attack. That being said, there are residuals such as stocks of 60%, 20%, and 3-5% enriched uranium and the centrifuges manufactured but not yet installed at Natanz or Fordow. These non-destroyed parts pose a threat as they can be used in the future to produce weapon-grade uranium.”
“In many respects, democratic socialism was and is close to Catholic social doctrine and has, in any case, made a remarkable contribution to the formation of a social consciousness.” --- Pope Benedict XVI
Christopher Caldwell: Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West (affiliate link)
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48min
June 21, 2025 The importance of the 3% resistance; conscience; the bishops on immigration; and more!
Show Notes:
Archbishop Broglio, USCCB president, supports immigrants, rips ICE raids
What We Can’t Not Know by J. Budziszewski (affiliate link)
The Hell There Is: An Exploration of an Often-Rejected Doctrine of the Church by Msgr. Charles Pope (affiliate link)
The Weaponization of Loneliness by Stella Morabito
Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C. S. Lewis by Michael Ward (affiliate link)
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53min
June 13, 2025 The LA riots; the FACE Repeal and Protect Children’s Innocence Acts; Planet Narnia
Pro-Life Coalition Urges GOP to Advance Bill Repealing FACE Act: ‘Congress Must Do Its Part’ - Breitbart
Protect Children’s Innocence Act - X
Pope Leo: What unites Christians is far greater than what divides - Vatican News
Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C. S. Lewis by Michael Ward (affiliate link)
Michael Ward: Frequently Asked Questions
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