The Tradistae Podcast

Thomas interviews presidential candidate Brian Carroll of the American Solidarity Party. Brian explains what led him to run for president, what the American Solidarity Party stands for, and why you should vote for the "whole-life" third party, before closing us with a prayer. 

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The full homily on the Tradistae website: https://tradistae.com/2020/09/12/heaven-upon-earth/  

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Elliot, James, and Tom continue our discussion and consider how Thomistic economic principles (and the love of Jesus Christ) applies to the existence of billionaires. 

Links

Wealth, shown to scale

Thomas Aquinas on Money: ST I-II Q2 A1 co., on theft in case of dire need: II-II Q66 A7, on the profit motive: II-II Q77 A4

"History's Largest Mining Operation is About to Begin" | Atlantic 

"A Shocking Percentage of World's CO2 Emissions Is Directly Traced to Multinationals" | Science Alert

Outline

0m The Thomistic case against billionaires

11:30 Thomist thoughts on the definition of "theft"

15:00 Discussing hoarding, and the wealth of billionaires shown to scale

26:25 The environmental issue; the impossibility of regulating billionaires

34:08 The love of enemies vs. class envy

47:20 Spiritual warfare and the rampant occultism of the billionaire class

55:00 Closing Prayer

 

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Elliot, James, and Tom discuss why no one should have a billion dollars, beginning with what the Papal Encyclicals say about social inequality

Links

Pope Benedict XVI, Caritas in Veritate § 32

Pope Francis, Evangelii Gaudium § 202 ⁋ 1

The Daily Routine of Bezos | Business Insider

Wealth, shown to scale

Outline

0m The cultural role of billionaires

8m Discussing the Encyclicals

13m Is inequality natural and/or necessary? Some distinctions

18m Mechanism of redistribution in premodernity

23m Perspectives on what billionaires are

36m The mentality of usury and the profit-motive

 

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Thomas, Monica, James, and Jacob (from Catholic Social Action) talk about our experience at the March on Washington for Racial Justice and Police Reform. We discuss the complexity of the BLM, the wonderful friends who marched with us, the power of public prayer, the legacy of MLK, and the futility of expecting racial justice from liberals and centrists.

Lots of Links:

Open Letter to US Bishops on the March for Black Life

'Racism Makes a Liar of God' | Gloria Purvis and Elizabeth Bruenig in the NYT

The schedule of CSA on the day of the March

Photos from the March

Brief Coverage of our group on EWTN at 10:08

We didn't get a Latin Mass in Washington, but friends in Detroit marked the day by hearing a votive TLM with the intention of ending the sin of racism. 

A LONG video of the Official Speeches. The pro-family rhetoric we discuss can be found at 2:58:45

An article about Archbishop Gregory's initiative against racism which was announced that day. The last picture shows our group receiving his apostolic blessing. 

"A letter from a TLM Catholic who stands with BLM" | The Dorothy Option

Easy Essays 

(these were handed out as pamphlets)

The Modern Origins of Race Theory

How the Law Taught Racism in the United States

Racism is a Tool to Divide the Working-Class

The Black Napoleon of Integralism (Tom's favorite)

The Melting Pot of Whiteness

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Links:

Liz Bruenig's NYT Article

The Petition on the CSA Website

Re-Introducing Easy Essays on Tradistae

Follow @ActionCatholic on twitter

The March for Black Life event on Facebook 

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Elliot and Thomas offer some prayers and readings to reflect on that "great and unrepented mortal sin" of the United States: the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagaski. Please join us in prayer and fasting for all those afflicted, the salvation of our country, and the abolition of the Atom Bomb.

To join us in prayer, study, and action during this vigil, please see our compiled resources on Tradistae: Repenting of the Atom Bomb

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Timestamps:

0:00 Prayer of St. John Paul II at Hiroshima1:40 Reading: “We Go on Record: the CW Response to Hiroshima“ | Servant of God Dorothy Day (1945)8:38 Reading: Original Child Bomb | Br. Thomas Merton (1961)27:59 Prayer Intentions29:44 Closing: Comments of Venerable Fulton Sheen

Father Alek Schrenk of Pittsburgh graciously joins us to discuss the theology and liturgy of the traditional "Emberdays" (also called the Embertide). We discuss why these seasonal devotions are important to recovering a spirit of penance, vocation, sacramentality, and integral ecology in the modern world. Father offers some recommendations for priests who want to restore the practice of the embertides in their parish.

 

Spiritual Practices for the Embertides:

Winter (Advent) Embertide | Tradistae

Spring (Lent) Embertide | Tradistae

Summer (White) Embertide | Tradistae

 

Announcement for Ecological Embertide Livestream by Fr. Alek

 

Traditions around Ember Days | Fish Eaters

Sam Rocha joins us to discuss his debate with Trent Horn on whether a Catholic can be a socialist. We go on to have a friendly debate on distributism and especially integralism. The first part of this interview can be found on our Patreon. 

 

“Trent Horn vs. Sam Rocha - Can a Catholic Be Socialist?” | Catholic Answers 

Tell Them Something Beautiful (2017) | Sam Rocha 

Check out samrochadotcom for more interviews, essays, albums, and books by Sam.

 

Outro: "Little God" | Sam Rocha 

 

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Tom, James, Luke, and Elliot continue our talk, especially on the topic of the pro-life movement, Holocaust analogies, the dark spiritual legacy of Slavery and Jim Crow, reparations, true penance versus liberal virtue signaling, the (third) chastisement of the United States, and the sign of the times. 

Prayers:

Prayer for National Unity and an End to Racism (Knights of Columbus)

A Prayer Service for Racial Healing in Our Land (USCCB)

Prayer of the Faithful Against Racism (USCCB)

Venerable Pierre Toussaint

Links:

Pope Francis' statement on George Floyd (video)

Evangelii Gaudium (§ 59, 218)

Outro: Sign of the Times (Immortal Technique, explicit)

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