Nobody has a right to a child. Nobody. Not gay couples. Not straight couples. Not fertile couples. Not infertile ones. Children are not accessories to be acquired. They are human beings with rights. And the most fundamental of those rights is the right to their own mother and father.

Katy Faust has been canceled, called a hate group, and watched her children lose friendships because of what she believes. She has also spoken at the United Nations, submitted amicus briefs to the Supreme Court, and built one of the most credible and courageous children's rights organizations in the world. Now she is coming for Obergefell. And she is not bluffing.

This conversation is bold, precise, and completely without apology. If you have ever felt the cultural pressure to stay silent on marriage and family, this episode will give you back your voice.

What You'll Hear:

• Why Obergefell did not just redefine marriage but systematically dismantled children's legal right to their own mother and father
• The brilliant legal and cultural strategy Katy is using to change the question entirely so the debate is no longer about adult feelings but about justice for children
• Why heterosexuals started this problem long before gay marriage existed and why that matters for how we fight it
• The real cost of speaking truth in this battle and why Katy says we are here precisely because too many people refused to pay it
• How Christians throughout history have always been the ones to stand between cultural predators and vulnerable children and why this moment is no different
• Why you will never fix suicide rates, teen pregnancy, child poverty, or graduation rates until you are willing to defend children's right to their mother and father

Katy Faust

Founder, Them Before Us

Greater Than Campaign

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Dr. Johann D'Souza

Clinical Psychologist and Host

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#KatyFaust #VirtuousLeaders #DrJohannDSouza #ChildrensRights #ThemBeforeUs #MarriageLaw #GreaterThanCampaign #ObergefellDecision

👇 If children have a right to their mother and father, what does that mean for how our laws and culture should be organized around family formation?

He has 11 children. He has watched them dig six-foot holes in the backyard, ride their bikes to Harpers Ferry overnight, and lead decades of the Rosary before they could fully spell their own names. He has also made every mistake a father can make and lived to laugh about it.

Michael Moynihan is the Head of Upper School at the Heights, which may be the finest all-boys Catholic school in the country, and the author of Decisive Parenting. This conversation is a masterclass in what it actually looks like to raise children with order, freedom, virtue, and faith in a world that is doing everything it can to steal all four.

What You'll Hear:

1. Why the family is not something we invented and how trusting its God-designed structure does more for your children than any parenting strategy ever could

2. The nightly reading tradition Michael built with his children and why it became the most formative hour of their day

3. How to give young children real freedom in the physical world while protecting them from the counterfeit freedom of screens

4. Why every new child you bring into a family is a gift not just to you but to every sibling already there

5. The simple home economy Michael built around firewood, chores, and honest wages that taught his children the dignity of real work

6. What Michael says to parents who believe they cannot give enough attention to more than two children and why he thinks they have it exactly backwards

Michael Moynihan

Head of Upper School, The Heights School

Author, Decisive Parenting

Steven Novotny

Father of Three

Dr. Johann D'Souza

Clinical Psychologist and Host

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#MichaelMoynihan #VirtuousLeaders #DrJohannDSouza #CatholicParenting #LargeFamily #VirtueFormation #ClassicalEducation #RaisingKids

👇 What is one thing your parents did that you are now determined to do differently, and one thing you are determined to do exactly the same?

No parent has ever said on their deathbed that they wished they had given their child a smartphone sooner. Not one.

Danny Flynn has 14 children and has led some of the most transformative Catholic schools in the country.

That line stopped him cold. It should stop you too.Danny Flynn is the former head of St. Jerome Academy, the first diocesan school to implement a classical liberal arts model, and currently Vice President at the Institute for Catholic Liberal Education. This conversation is a masterclass in what Catholic education was always meant to be and what it will take to get it back.

What You'll Hear:• Why classical liberal arts education is the antidote to a generation raised on screens and starved of wisdom

• The real difference between schools that allow personal devices and schools that do not, and what Danny has observed firsthand• His personal family policy on smartphones for his 14 children and the two specific phones he recommends

• Why knowledge without understanding and wisdom is not education at allHow bishops, superintendents, and pastors across the country are finally reclaiming their Catholic schools and what that movement looks like on the ground

• What ICLE is doing right now to form teachers at every stage of their career and why it is producing transformation in schools nationwide

Danny Flynn

Vice President of Diocese Relations, Institute for Catholic Liberal Education

Former Head of School, St. Jerome Academy

Dr. Johann D'Souza

Clinical Psychologist and Host

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#DannyFlynn #VirtuousLeaders #DrJohannDSouza #CatholicEducation #ClassicalEducation #LiberalArts #CatholicSchools #DigitalParenting

She gave her daughter a smartphone at 12 and watched her disappear into it. So she took it back. Her daughter cried. She did not cave. Years later that daughter wrote her college essay about finding herself once the noise stopped.

Andrea Davis is a mother of five, founder of Better Screen Time, and the author of Creating a Tech Healthy Family. This conversation is honest, warm, and unapologetic. If you are losing the battle for your child's attention and identity, this is where you start fighting back.

What You'll Hear:

1. Why early habits and real world values are your most powerful weapon against tech addiction

2. How to talk to a teenager about their phone in a way they will actually hear

3. The family tech plan that transformed Andrea's own home

4. Why fear-based parenting fails and what love-based confidence looks like instead

5. How to bring a resistant spouse on board without forcing a confrontation

6. What your kids are quietly being protected from when they do not have a smartphone

Andrea Davis

Author and Founder, Better Screen Time

Tech Healthy Family Hub

Dr. Johann D'Souza

Clinical Psychologist and Host

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#AndreaDavis #VirtuousLeaders #DrJohannDSouza #ScreenTime #TechHealthyFamily #DigitalParenting #RaisingKids #CounterCulturalParenting

👇 At what age did you or would you give your child a smartphone, and knowing what you know now, would you make the same call?

Most Catholics have never heard of a prayer so powerful the Church says it saves the world. It is not a private devotion. It is not a popular retreat method. It is the Liturgy of the Hours, and it has been hiding in plain sight, buried under bad formation, bad music, and a Church culture that forgot what worship actually is.

Paul Rose is the founder of Sing the Hours, a podcast reaching 700,000 listeners a month across the globe. He is not a priest or a theologian. He is a husband, a father, and a man who found the ancient prayer of the Church and refused to let go of it. What he shares in this conversation will challenge everything you thought you knew about Catholic prayer.

This episode goes deep. The rubrics most Catholics have never read. The reason our imaginations have been stolen from us. The ancient warrior tradition of sacred song. And why a two-year-old named Carmella holding a breviary in the dark might be one of the most powerful images of how we rebuild Christendom.

What You'll Hear:

• Why the Church explicitly states that lay people praying the Liturgy of the Hours saves the world, and why almost no one knows it
• How Satan strategically targeted beauty as a transcendental to hollow out Catholic worship from the inside
• The shocking rubrics from official Church documents that direct singing, not silence, as the primary mode of adoration
• Why King David, the Templars, and the Church Fathers all point to the same truth: sacred song is not effeminate, it is the warrior's duty
• How Paul and his wife pray the Hours with their two daughters, one of whom is not yet two and already humming along, holding a breviary in the dark
• Why unbridled silent prayer without the Psalms can be spiritually dangerous, and what Saint Teresa of Avila's rule reveals about the proper ratio of song to silence

Paul RoseFounder and Host, Sing the Hours Podcast

Dr. Johann D'SouzaClinical Psychologist and Host🔗 https://www.valuesfirsttherapy.com/🔗 https://www.valuesfirstcollective.com/🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/johanndsouza/🔗 https://x.com/drjohanndsouza🔗 https://drjohanndsouza.substack.com/

#PaulRose #VirtuousLeaders #DrJohannDSouza #LiturgyOfTheHours #CatholicPrayer #SacredMusic #GregorianChant #CatholicTradition

👇 If the Church says praying the Liturgy of the Hours saves the world, why has no one ever told you that from the pulpit?

He quit his teaching job on St. Joseph's Day with 89 subscribers on his YouTube channel. No backup plan. Just prayer and a conviction that this was what his family needed.

Cameron Riecker now runs a successful channel helping young men become virtuous husbands and fathers. His secret weapon is the Rosary. Sister Lucia of Fatima said no problem on earth cannot be solved by the recitation of the Rosary. Riecker has seen it work in his own life and in the lives of everyone he has recommended it to.

The real problem is not lust. Lust is the symptom. The real problem is that men have no idea what they are for or where they are headed. They have no understanding of what a human person is. Once you fix that, everything else starts to fall into place.

Key Takeaways: • The Rosary is the most powerful weapon for our times according to St. Padre Pio and 25 popes • Our Lady will reveal your principle fault and show you how to overcome it • If you make a thousand videos, about 10% will do well and that is enough to build a channel • Perfection is the enemy of progress so do things poorly if necessary to get the reps in • Consecrate your business to the Blessed Virgin Mary and she will never be outdone in generosity • Repetition is essential because people need information presented multiple times before it impacts them

Cameron Riecker Catholic Content Creator & Contributor to the Daily Thomist

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#CameronRiecker #Rosary #CatholicManhood #VirtuousLeaders #DailyThomist #Corda #Fatherhood #DrJohannDSouza

👇 Do you pray the Rosary daily?

Well over half of high school students have not read a single book in the last year. A good chunk of them have never read a book in their entire life.

Andrew Pudewa has spent thirty years fighting to reverse that trend. He is the founder of the Institute for Excellence in Writing and has taught tens of thousands of teachers and parents how to cultivate language in children.

The problem is simple. You cannot get something out of a brain that is not in there. And the linguistic input of children has collapsed because media is dumbed down and screens have fractured attention spans. Technology atrophies the skill it replaces.

Key Takeaways:

• The more screens in a classroom, the lower the reading, writing, and math skills

• Technology amplifies character so disorganized children become more disorganized

• Memory has been abandoned though it is essential for forming the mind

• Read to children at a level above their decoding skills to pull up vocabulary

• Follow CS Lewis's rule and read one old book for every new book

• Book recommendation: The Restoration of Christian Culture by John Senior

Andrew Pudewa

Founder & Director, Institute for Excellence in Writing

Dr. Johann D'Souza

Clinical Psychologist & Host 🔗 https://www.valuesfirsttherapy.com/ 🔗 https://www.valuesfirsttherapy.com/ 🔗 https://www.valuesfirstcollective.com/ 🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/johanndsouza/ 🔗 https://x.com/drjohanndsouza 🔗 https://drjohanndsouza.substack.com/

#AndrewPudewa #IEW #ClassicalEducation #Homeschooling #VirtuousLeaders #ScreenFree #ReadingMatters

👇 When was the last time you finished a book?

MSNBC called him the second worst person in the world. Matt Kibbe took it as a compliment.Matt is president of Free the People and one of the leaders of the Tea Party movement. He just produced a docu-series called The Cover-Up about Anthony Fauci and gain of function research.

He believes Fauci will go to jail because Rand Paul now has subpoena power and Biden's pardon may be illegitimate.But Fauci was not the architect. Kibbe believes Fauci's real boss may be at the CIA, Homeland Security, or DOD. This was never about public health. It was a military intelligence style mad science experiment.

Key Takeaways:

• Fauci has two choices when subpoenaed: tell the truth or commit perjury

• Trump is not delivering on spending and is attacking Rand Paul instead of Lindsey Graham

• Politics is downstream of culture so storytelling matters more than statistics

• The Five Eyes countries locked down hardest, suggesting globalist coordination • To resist government oppression you do not need a majority, just brave people willing to speak

• Forever wars must end to defund the deep state and eliminate the debt

Matt Kibbe

President, Free the People

Dr. Johann D'Souza Clinical Psychologist & Host

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#MattKibbe #FreeThePeople #DeepState #Fauci #VirtuousLeaders #ForeverWars #RandPaul

👇 Do you think Fauci will actually face justice?

Bible Man had a lightsaber and fought off theological doubts with canned answers you would find on a Hobby Lobby plaque.

Ryan Klopack sat in that performance as a fourth grader rolling his eyes thinking, I do not know if God is in this.

Then the Twin Towers fell. And he was exposed to inexplicable evil that could not be explained away with canned answers. He needed something with extraordinary gravity. Something real.

That same year, missionaries told their story of being kidnapped by Al Qaeda in Afghanistan, thrown into prison, and walking out free after a miraculous intervention.

Ryan had a mystical encounter with God that day. He felt the weight and the presence and the glory in a way he cannot explain. It was like encountering the sun.

That encounter set him on a path of stripping away the artificial and replacing it with the real. Classical education became his bridge to Catholicism. The Latin Mass became his home.

Key Takeaways:

• Arcadia Education helps Christian and classical schools flourish by handling the processes that burn leaders out

• 92% of people who left homelessness in Scottsdale came through their relationship-based ministry

• The core of their homeless outreach was seeing people as made in the image of God with no strings attached

• Bible Man and canned Christian answers cannot stand up to real evil

• The Latin Mass preserves the weight and holiness that a God that big demands

• We need to conform to reality, not construct our own values

Ryan Klopack

Director of Executive Search, Arcadia Education

Dr. Johann D'Souza

Clinical Psychologist & Host

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#RyanKlopack #ArcadiaEducation #ClassicalEducation #LatinMass #VirtuousLeaders #Homelessness #CatholicFaith

👇 What stripped away the artificial and led you to encounter the real?

Two-thirds of Catholic school students gone in sixty years. But the real loss is not the numbers. It is the mission.Patrick Reilly founded the Cardinal Newman Society in 1993 after witnessing scandal after scandal at a Jesuit university. Abortion referrals. Student groups contrary to Catholic teaching. He decided someone had to defend faithful Catholic education. Thirty years later, he is still doing it.Key Takeaways:

• The Newman Guide recognizes 97 institutions and is expanding to 300 • Notre Dame is troubled. CUA under Peter Kilpatrick is thriving. • Once compromise enters, it cascades toward less Catholic identity • Parents are primarily responsible for education, not distant bureaucrats • Faith and reason must both be restored in Catholic formation • Graduates of Newman Guide schools can change the culturePatrick Reilly

Founder and President of The Cardinal Newman Society.

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👇 Did your Catholic education actually form you in the faith?#PatrickReilly #CardinalNewmanSociety #NewmanGuide #VirtuousLeaders #CatholicEducation #FaithfulFormation