The Tradistae Podcast

Tom, James, Luke, and Elliot talk about the sin of racism, the violence of injustice, the nuances of rioting (especially Chesterton's takes on the matter), premodern populism, looting, the universal destination of goods, public statues, the importance of culture and tradition, and structures of sin.

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)

Links:

Pope Francis' statement on George Floyd (video)

Evangelii Gaudium (§ 59, 218)

"Racial Justice and Social Order" (Pater Edmund)

Outro: Banks of Marble (Pete Seeger)

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This is an excerpt from the full audio-essay recording of "Resurrecting Caelum et Terra", which is about the history of C&T magazine which ran from 1991-1996 as a radical Catholic counterculture to the dominant Whig Thomism of the First Things. You can read the article in full, which is archived here.

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Tom and James discuss "Whig Thomism", in other words, the attempts by Michael Novak, Fr. Sirico, and various other perverters of Catholic Social Teaching to make capitalism and liberalism seem compatible with the Holy Faith. From out-of-context quotes to fallacious claims to rejecting Papal authority, we break down how Acton Insitute has worked hard to disguise, distort, and deny the guidance of the Social Encyclicals. 

Critiques of Whig Thomism

"Integralism and Gelasian Dyarchy" | Pater Edmund Waldstein, O'Cist."The Eclipse of Catholic Fusionism" | Kevin Gallagher"Is Acton Institute a Genuine Expression of Catholic Social Thought" | Thomas Storck"A Brief History of Recent Catholic Political Discourse" | Tradistae

A Sampling of the Vulgar Lies of Acton Insitute

“The Return of the Catholic Whig” | Michael Novak, 1990"Beyond Distributism" | Acton Institute Blog, 2008"The Divine Economy: On the New Papal Encyclical" | Fr. Robert Sirico, 2009"12 Reasons Not to Expand Medicaid" | Acton Institute Blog, 2014"Laudato Si': Well Intentioned, Economically Flawed" | Acton Institute Blog, 2015"A Free-Market Agenda for Rebuilding from the Coronavirus" | Acton Institute Blog, 2020______________________

 

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Tradistae is proud to present this audiobook recording of the Encyclical Laborem Exercens (1981) by Pope Saint John Paul II. For more resources on distributism, integralism, and Catholic Social Teaching, visit tradistae.com. To support our work, become a patron on Patreon. 

Part I: Introduction

§ 1 - 2:27§ 2 - 6:17§ 3 - 11:46

Part II: Work and Man

§ 4 - 13:53§ 5 - 18:56§ 6 - 23:38§ 7 - 28:47§ 8 - 33:00§ 9 - 39:22§ 10 - 43:23

Part III: Conflict Between Labor and Capital in the Present Phase of History

§ 11 - 46:43§ 12 - 51:57§ 13 - 57:25§ 14 - 1:04:12§ 15 - 1:11:48

Part IV: Rights of Workers

§ 16 - 1:14:34§ 17 - 1:17:26§ 18 - 1:22:17§ 19 - 1:28:00§ 20 - 1:34:04§ 21 - 1:40:17§ 22 - 1:43:20§ 23 - 1:46:11

Part V: Elements for a Spirituality of Work

§ 24 - 1:49:03§ 25 - 1:50:52§ 26 - 1:56:08§ 27 - 2:01:43

Links:

The Crusade.Live Conference Website (Dale Ahlquist's and Fr. Crean's talks are worth watching in full)

Archive of the Distributist Review

Easy Essay List | Tradistae

"Integralism in Three Sentences" | The Josias

What's Wrong with the World (1910) | G.K. Chesterton 

Outro: Palästinalied

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Prayer ResourcesExtraordinary Pandemic Urbi et Orbi of the Holy FatherEnglish translation of the Urbi et Orbi addressCOVID-19 Pandemic: Catholic Resources | TradistaeMedieval Plague Prayer | Tradistae

Reading

"Meditation for a Time of Pestilence" | Clear Creak Abbey"Now Is Not the Time" | ThomisticaPater Edmund's outstanding writing can be found at the Josias and his blog, Sancrucensis.

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Prayer ResourcesExtraordinary Pandemic Urbi et Orbi of the Holy FatherEnglish translation of the Urbi et Orbi addressCOVID-19 Pandemic: Catholic Resources | TradistaeMedieval Plague Prayer | Tradistae

SourcesThe WeWork Con | Jacobin | November 2019“Stocks are the most overvalued since at least the 1980s” [P/E to Growth Ratio] | CNBC | January 2020GDP Share of the US Financial Industry | Wikipedia | 2008“Worker at NYC hospital where nurses wear trash bags as protection dies of coronavirus” | New York Post | 25 March 2020“The Industrial and Neoliberal Origins of COVID-19 (aka SARS 2.0)” | Yasha Levine Substack | 28 March 2020"Plague Nation" | Postliberal Thought | 11 March 2020Outro: Maria muoter, reinû maìt, a flagellant song

The Trillion Tree Campaign is good, but it is getting co-opted by billionaires. Plant a tree, certainly, dig a garden too, but make sure you save la Querida Amazonia!

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(And yes, we will be coming at you with Vivaldi every Embertide)

Tom and James discuss contrasting views of nature from premodern paganism, ancient Israel, early and medieval Christianity, and modernity. Why you need to pray for and with Creation to lay waste to the progeny of Francis Bacon and the technocratic paradigm. 

Links:God’s Philosophers | James Hannam (2009)“The Papacy Against the False Gospel of Progress” | Pater Edmund Waldstein, O.Cist. (2013)Laudato Si’ | Pope Francis (2015)“A Magnificent, a Wonderful Encyclical”  | Pater Edmund Waldstein, O.Cist. (2015)The Rape of Man and Nature | Philip Sherrard (2015)“Towards a Green Thomism” | The Distributist Review Archive (2016, republished)Why Liberalism Failed | Patrick Deneen (2018)Querida Amazonia | Pope Francis (2020)

Spiritual Practices for the Embertides:Winter (Advent) Embertide | TradistaeSpring (Lent) Embertide | Tradistae

Traditions around Ember Days | Fish Eaters

Catholic Worker Elliot joins Tom and James to talk about the origins of the Catholic Worker Movement and its co-founders Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin. 

Links:

The Catholic Worker Movement websiteA digital collection of Peter Maurin's Easy EssaysRe-Introducing Easy Essays | TradistaeRecommended Books by Dorothy Day:

The Long Loneliness

Loaves and Fishes

Peter Maurin: Apostle to the Modern World

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