A Catholic Worker podcast.
Episodes
Tuesday Apr 19, 2022
Tuesday Apr 19, 2022
A concluding episode to three great years of the Tradistae Podcast, with three big announcements in the life of Holy Family Catholic Worker, a brief history of Tradistae, and an outline of what comes next.
Thank you all for listening. Praise be Jesus Christ, the Risen Lord! Alleluia!
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Wednesday Mar 09, 2022
Wednesday Mar 09, 2022
A deep dive with Chris Smaje on the definition of "ecomodernism", the limits of socialist theory and rhetoric, modes of property ownership, how the "Small Farm Future" aligns with distributism, to what degree we need an "ideology" or "doctrine", re-discovering ecological spirituality, civic republicanism, virtue ethics, peasant revolutions, and the best avenues and organization for practical action (including Extinction Rebellion).
Sean and Chris discuss political theory over at the latter's blog: https://smallfarmfuture.org.uk/?p=1906
Closing Song, performed by an English land justice artist: "Three Acres and a Cow" https://threeacresandacow.co.uk/2014/07/three-acres-and-a-cow-unattributed-broadside-from-late-1800s/
Chris Smaje's book, A Small Farm Future: chelseagreen.com/product/a-small-farm-future/
Sean's introductory interview with Chris: https://tradistae.podbean.com/e/48-chris-smaje-author-of-a-small-farm-future/
Sean's audio essay, "Log Off for Lent": https://tradistae.podbean.com/e/40-log-off-for-lent/
To support our work, consider becoming a patron of Tradistae at patreon.com/tradistae
Saturday Feb 19, 2022
Saturday Feb 19, 2022
Tradistae is a Catholic Worker organization promoting distributism, integralism, and ecological conversion.
The goal of the Easy Excerpt is to provide insight and inspiration to those seeking the Kingdom of God.
Sign up for the "Liturgy and Communion Economy" online course of the Simone Weil House here: https://www.simoneweilhouse.org/mutual-community or https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IbzA1Chl7_2jDxbunEwcx0rn5EU5lLcuWZiE-NaGg1k/edit
To support us on Patreon, go to patreon.com/tradistae
The full text of this Easy Excerpt: https://tradistae.com/2022/02/19/lenin-tob/
The full list of Easy Essays: https://tradistae.com/easy-essay-list/
Tuesday Jan 25, 2022
Tuesday Jan 25, 2022
Tradistae is a Catholic Worker organization promoting distributism, integralism, and ecological conversion.
The goal of the Easy Excerpt is to provide insight and inspiration to those seeking the Kingdom of God.
To support us on Patreon, go to patreon.com/tradistae
The full text of this Easy Excerpt: https://tradistae.com/2022/01/23/cheerful-prophets/
The full list of Easy Essays: https://tradistae.com/easy-essay-list/
Saturday Jan 22, 2022
Saturday Jan 22, 2022
Tradistae is a Catholic Worker organization promoting Catholic Social Teaching.
The goal of the Easy Essay, inspired by Peter Maurin, is to blow the dynamite of Catholic Social Teaching by boiling down key ideas into short and simple essays.
To support us on Patreon, go to patreon.com/tradistae
The full text of this Easy Essay: https://tradistae.com/2022/01/23/starving-peasant/
Re-introducing Easy Essays (a tradition of Peter Maurin): https://tradistae.com/2019/05/30/re-introducing-easy-essays/
The full list of Easy Essays: https://tradistae.com/easy-essay-list/
Tuesday Jan 11, 2022
Tuesday Jan 11, 2022
Developed from the outline discussed by Sean in Episode #42, the "Manifesto of the New Traditionalism" is co-written by him, Dr. Larry Chapp, and Marc Barnes. In it, the gladtrad gang "affirms not only the validity of the Second Vatican Council, but the primacy of these dogmatic and pastoral constitutions, in our present era, to instruct the people of God," drawing out four theses (listed below) from the documents of the Council.
The full manifesto can be read here: https://tradistae.com/trad/
You can (and should) read Dr. Larry Chapp's blog here: https://gaudiumetspes22.com/
And you can (and should) read and listen to Marc Barnes' work over at New Polity here: https://newpolity.com/topics/technology
Rehumanize Rally at the 2022 March for Life: https://www.facebook.com/events/592836775165313
Please support our work on Patreon at patreon.com/tradistae
Outro: "Kyrie" (from the Mass of the Americas)
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The Four Theses of the Manifesto of the New Traditionalism:
I. THE CHURCH IS NOT PRIMARILY A DEFENSIVE CASTLE BUT, ABOVE ALL, A MISSIONARY PEOPLE UNITED IN LOVE.
II. THE PERENNIAL PHILOSOPHY OF SAINT THOMAS IS A FOUNDATION FOR THE VALUABLE “NEW THEOLOGIES”
III. THE NATURAL LAW AND THE PREFERENTIAL OPTION FOR THE POOR HAVE BEEN UNITED IN CATHOLIC SOCIAL TEACHING
IV. THE NECESSARY LITURGICAL RENEWAL WAS BEGUN, BETRAYED, AND LEFT UNACCOMPLISHED.
Tuesday Dec 14, 2021
Tuesday Dec 14, 2021
An introduction to the peasant populism of Chris Smaje, author of A Small Farm Future: Making the Case for a Society Built Around Local Economies, Self-provisioning Agricultural Diversity, and a Shared Earth.
Sean was delighted to interview Chris Smaje, whose book and blog are essential reading for distributists. In this episode, they discuss the energy crises of climate change, the viability of small-scale agriculture to feed the world, the psychological and social benefits of going back to the land, and much more...
Go get a copy of the book here! (We will send you a copy if you are the first one to message us on Patreon and ask for it) chelseagreen.com/product/a-small-farm-future/
Join us this week (Dec 15, 17, 18) for the Ecological Embertides: tradistae.com/embertides/
Learn more and apply to join our Worker-Scholar Missions at tradistae.com/worker-scholar
Support us on Patreon at patreon.com/tradistae
Outro: Get Back to the Land | Archie Roach
Tuesday Nov 30, 2021
Tuesday Nov 30, 2021
Tradistae is a Catholic Worker organization promoting Catholic Social Teaching.
The goal of the Easy Essay, inspired by Peter Maurin, is to blow the dynamite of Catholic Social Teaching by boiling down key ideas into short and simple essays.
The full text of this Easy Essay: https://tradistae.com/commons
Re-introducing Easy Essays (a tradition of Peter Maurin): https://tradistae.com/2019/05/30/re-introducing-easy-essays/
The full list of Easy Essays: https://tradistae.com/easy-essay-list/
Saturday Nov 06, 2021
Saturday Nov 06, 2021
Sean interviews Julie Brown, a long-time friend and fellow activist of Jessica Reznicek, having lived and served together at the Des Moines Catholic Worker.
Jess is well known for her many non-violent direct actions against the Dakota Access Pipeline which culminated in her sabotaging the pipeline's creation by unwelding pipes with oxy-acetylene torches and burning industrial construction equipment.
She has been labeled a "domestic terrorist" by the U.S. federal government and has recently begun serving an 8-year prison sentence.
To support Jess, go to https://supportjessicareznicek.com/
To read her statement in the CW-magazine Via Pacis, go to https://viapacis.wordpress.com/2017/10/03/2017-oct-via-pacis/
Tuesday Oct 26, 2021
Tuesday Oct 26, 2021
Tradistae is a Catholic Worker organization promoting Catholic Social Teaching.
The goal of the Easy Essay, inspired by Peter Maurin, is to blow the dynamite of Catholic Social Teaching by boiling down key ideas into short and simple essays.
The full text of this Easy Essay: https://tradistae.com/2021/10/23/tol/
Re-introducing Easy Essays (a tradition of Peter Maurin): https://tradistae.com/2019/05/30/re-introducing-easy-essays/
The full list of Easy Essays: https://tradistae.com/easy-essay-list/
Tuesday Oct 12, 2021
Tuesday Oct 12, 2021
Our guest David Inczauskis, SJ, host of the Liberation Theology Podcast, offers an introduction to the key concepts, founders, martyrs, and history of liberation theology. We also discuss the relationship of TOL (theology of liberation) to the Second Vatican Council, the CELAM Councils, the Sacred Scriptures, the Magisterium, and traditional orthodox Christianity.
The Liberation Theology Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-liberation-theology-podcast/id1551431636
David on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LibTheoPodcast
Mysterium Liberationis: Fundamental Concepts of Liberation Theology: https://www.orbisbooks.com/mysterium-liberationis.html
A Theology of Liberation (1972): https://www.orbisbooks.com/a-theology-of-liberation.html
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Tuesday Sep 28, 2021
Tuesday Sep 28, 2021
Tradistae is a Catholic Worker organization promoting Catholic Social Teaching.
The goal of the Easy Essay, inspired by Peter Maurin, is to blow the dynamite of Catholic Social Teaching by boiling down key ideas into short and simple essays.
The following is a review, guide, and introduction to the excellent "Good Money" series of New Polity: https://newpolity.com/podcasts
The full text of this Easy Essay: https://tradistae.com/2021/09/18/an-introduction-to-good-money/
Re-introducing Easy Essays (a tradition of Peter Maurin): https://tradistae.com/2019/05/30/re-introducing-easy-essays/
The full list of Easy Essays: https://tradistae.com/easy-essay-list/
Tuesday Sep 14, 2021
Tuesday Sep 14, 2021
(Join us this week in prayer and fasting for the Fall Embertide! tradistae.com/fall-embertide)
Peter Mommsen, editor of Plough magazine and a member of the Bruderhof speaks on behalf of the total pacificism of the Christian Anabaptist tradition. Malcolm, a Catholic and host of Happy Are You Poor, looks for guidance in the orientation and life of Saint Benedict.
Our host, Sean, navigating between integralist, liberation theology, and Catholic Worker traditions brings on these two guests to ponder questions like: "Can there be a Chrisitan state? What kind of politics should a Christian work towards? Does the Sermon on the Mount forbid killing as a soldier or policeman? What did the early Church teach and live on these matters?"
"Pick the Right Politics", Peter Mommsen's editorial for the Plough issue on non-violence.
"Rescuing St. Benedict from Culture Warriors", by Malcolm Schluenderfritz
Subscribe to Plough: LINK
Listen to Happy Are You Poor: LINK
Outro: "Leben Aus Der Quelle" by the Holzland Bruderhof Youth
Tuesday Aug 24, 2021
Tuesday Aug 24, 2021
What is the purpose of law? To lead people to virtue and the common good!
Tradistae is a Catholic Worker organization promoting Catholic Social Teaching.
The goal of the Easy Essay, inspired by Peter Maurin, is to blow the dynamite of Catholic Social Teaching by boiling down key ideas into short and simple essays.
Re-introducing Easy Essays: https://tradistae.com/2019/05/30/re-introducing-easy-essays/
The full text of this Easy Essay: https://tradistae.com/2019/06/08/purpose-of-law/
The full list of Easy Essays: https://tradistae.com/easy-essay-list/
Tuesday Aug 10, 2021
Tuesday Aug 10, 2021
Go check out the Eden Revisited podcast!
I especially recommend episodes #19 with Dr. Larry Chapp and #29 with Catholic Workers Eric and Brenna.
To support our work, consider becoming a patron of Tradistae at patreon.com/tradistae
Tuesday Aug 03, 2021
Tuesday Aug 03, 2021
Get a copy of The Catholic Radical! - thecatholicradical@protonmail.com
#14 - The Vigil Against the Bomb: Prayer and Reading
The Des Moines Catholic Worker's 5th Annual Protest at the Drone Command Center
Please consider supporting us on Patreon!
Tuesday Aug 03, 2021
Tuesday Aug 03, 2021
An excerpt of the latest Patron episode. To access the full back-log and support the work of Tradistae, you can become a patron for only $2/month at patreon.com/tradistae
Tuesday Jul 27, 2021
Tuesday Jul 27, 2021
Tradistae is a Catholic Worker organization promoting Catholic Social Teaching.
The goal of the Easy Essay, inspired by Peter Maurin, is to blow the dynamite of Catholic Social Teaching by boiling down key ideas into short and simple essays.
Re-introducing Easy Essays (a tradition of Peter Maurin): https://tradistae.com/2019/05/30/re-introducing-easy-essays/
The full text of this Easy Essay: https://tradistae.com/2021/07/24/enclosure/
The full list of Easy Essays: https://tradistae.com/easy-essay-list/
Tuesday Jul 13, 2021
Tuesday Jul 13, 2021
Sean interviews Professor Matthew A. Shadle on his writings, the Baudrillardian media-generated confusion about Catholic Social Teaching, the prophetic power of the God of Surprises, the history of Christian Democracy, the Church's dialogue with Marxism, and the underlooked aspects of Church teaching on warfare and immigration.
Excellent articles by Prof. Shadle on the Political Theology Network: LINK (for real, you should read some of these)
Moral Agency within Social Structures and Culture
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Tuesday Jun 22, 2021
Tuesday Jun 22, 2021
Tradistae is a Catholic Worker organization promoting distributism, integralism, and ecological conversion.
The goal of the Easy Excerpt is to provide insight and inspiration to those seeking the Kingdom of God.
The full text of this Easy Excerpt: https://tradistae.com/2021/06/15/dialogue/
The full list of Easy Essays: https://tradistae.com/easy-essay-list/
Tuesday Jun 15, 2021
Tuesday Jun 15, 2021
Tradistae is a Catholic Worker organization promoting Catholic Social Teaching.
The goal of the Easy Essay, inspired by Peter Maurin, is to blow the dynamite of Catholic Social Teaching by boiling down key ideas into short and simple essays.
Re-introducing Easy Essays: https://tradistae.com/2019/05/30/re-introducing-easy-essays/
The full text of this Easy Essay: https://tradistae.com/2021/06/15/just-wage/
The full list of Easy Essays: https://tradistae.com/easy-essay-list/
Tuesday Jun 08, 2021
Tuesday Jun 08, 2021
How can you be a traditionalist and a Catholic Worker? How can you love the Traditional Latin Mass and social justice?
Sean offers some thoughts on the conflicts and divisions of the modern Church, the dead and living forms of traditionalism, the need to both feed the hunger for tradition and learn from Vatican II, and how we at Tradistae attempt to escape the reactionary/modernist theological paradigms.
Outro: "Aue Maria" (from the Mass of the Americas)
Tuesday Jun 01, 2021
Tuesday Jun 01, 2021
Interested in studying and promoting Catholic Social Teaching?
Apply for Tradistae's first summer internship here:
https://tradistae.com/2021/05/29/summer-internship-application-for-tradistae/
(Deadline: June 15th)
Tuesday May 25, 2021
Tuesday May 25, 2021
Tradistae is a Catholic Worker organization promoting distributism, integralism, and ecological conversion.
The goal of the Easy Excerpt is to provide insight and inspiration to those seeking the Kingdom of God.
Reject Suburbia. Return to Tradition.
The full text of this Easy Excerpt: https://tradistae.com/2021/05/18/easy-excerpt-dostoyevsky-on-the-age-of-isolation/
The full list of Easy Essays: https://tradistae.com/easy-essay-list/
Tuesday May 18, 2021
Tuesday May 18, 2021
Tradistae is a Catholic Worker organization promoting distributism, integralism, and ecological conversion.
The goal of the Easy Essay is to blow the dynamite of Catholic Social Teaching by boiling down key ideas into short and simple essays.
Re-introducing Easy Essays: https://tradistae.com/2019/05/30/re-introducing-easy-essays/
The full text of this Easy Essay: https://tradistae.com/2021/05/18/private-property/
The full list of Easy Essays: https://tradistae.com/easy-essay-list/
Tuesday May 11, 2021
Tuesday May 11, 2021
Sean interviews Brandon McGinley about his book The Prodigal Church, in which Brandon explains the history and nature of the present crisis of the Church in the US, and outlines how we can respond to God's grace and restore living tradition in Catholic communities.
Check out Brandon McGinley's website: https://brandonmcginley.com/
And go buy a copy of The Prodigal Church! https://www.sophiainstitute.com/products/item/the-prodigal-church
Outro: The Mission theme
Tuesday Apr 20, 2021
Tuesday Apr 20, 2021
The goal of the Easy Essay is to blow the dynamite of Catholic Social Teaching by boiling down key ideas into short and simple essays.
Re-introducing Easy Essays: https://tradistae.com/2019/05/30/re-introducing-easy-essays/
The full text of this Easy Essay: https://tradistae.com/2021/04/21/planning-regulation-and-distributive-justice/
The list of Easy Essays: https://tradistae.com/easy-essay-list/
Saturday Apr 17, 2021
Saturday Apr 17, 2021
Sean Domencic, director of Tradistae, 1) gives a brief overview of what he's been doing and where he's been speaking for the last month, 2) discusses the discernment and logistics happening behind the scenes at Tradistae, and 3) announces the new schedule and focus of the Tradistae podcast and website while offering some recommended listening.
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Saturday Feb 27, 2021
Saturday Feb 27, 2021
An update from Thomas on the podcast schedule.
Check out the New Polity Conference.
To support the work of Tradistae, please become a patron on Patreon.
Saturday Feb 27, 2021
Saturday Feb 27, 2021
JMJ
An audio essay by Thomas Hackett which describes the sin of "digital gluttony", analyzes how it is fueled by the late-capitalist "attention economy", and offers some advice on how to escape the technocratic paradigm.
Summary of Advice
Using the Internet Intentionally
- Long lock-screen password
- Prayers before logging on
- Log out of social media, every time
- Turn off wifi at appointed times
- Sleep away from your phone
Removing Occasions of Sin
- Turn screen black and white
- Turn off all notifications
- Delete Apps
- Use productivity blockers
Escaping the Technocratic Paradigm
- Good: Switch to a Light Phone (link)
- Better: Switch to a Flip Phone (link)
- Best: Get rid of your phone!
Sources and Authorities
St Thomas Aquinas on the Vice of Curiosity and the Virtue of Studiousness
Redemptoris Missio (cf. Section 37) | Pope Saint John Paul II
Laudato Si' (cf. Chapter III) | Pope Francis
Fratelli Tutti (cf. Sections 42-50) | Pope Francis
Message of Saint JPII on the Internet (2002)
Recommended Readings
The Addiction Problem in Catholic Media | The Lamp
"A Monastic Vice for the Internet Age" | First Things
The Website of Blessed Carlo Acutis
Fr John Hollowell on Logging Off
The "Phones Are Bad" Animation (by Steve Cutts)
Citations
"Minimized Distraction" (February 2013) | A presentation by Tristan Harris
"The Binge Breaker" | The Atlantic
Statistics on the Core of the Digital Economy
"The digital economy is becoming ordinary" [i.e. dominating every corner of the physical economy with the technocratic paradigm]
Closing Prayer
Lord Jesus, by the power of Thy Name, conquer the Internet. Make this new forum of modern communication, forged by warfare and capitalism, a pliant tool of Thy faithful to proclaim Thy Truth and serve the common good of the whole human race; for swords Thou beatest to ploughshares, and spears into sickles (Isaiah 2:4).
Lord Jesus, Fount of Wisdom, restrain our curiosity and draw us out of the flood of information that we may encounter true wisdom in Thee. Teach me the meaning of Thy proverb: "Study wisdom, my son, and make my heart joyful, that thou mayest give an answer to him that reproacheth." (Proverbs 27:11)
Lord Jesus, Word made flesh, ensare the restless evil of my tongue, that I may seek souls in every message and post. Grant me charity, lest I tremble at Thy doctrine: "Whosoever shall say to his brother... Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire." (Matthew 5:22)
O Face of Christ, emerge! O Voice of Christ, be heard! Rebuke the winds and calm the sea in this galaxy of sight and sound. By Thy command we wait, to put out nets into the deep, and draw forth what Thou wilt. (Luke 5:4) Amen.
Saint Isidore of Seville, pray for us.
Encyclopedist of God, pray for us.
Last Scholar of the Ancient World, pray for us.
Saint John Paul II, pray for us.
Harbinger of the New Millenium, pray for us.
Prophet of the New Evangelization, pray for us.
Blessed Carlo Acutis, pray for us.
Eucharistic Programmer, pray for us.
Patron of the Internet, pray for us.
Music:
"I Should Probably Go To Bed" | Dan + Shay
"The Smartphone Hour" | Be More Chill
"Twitter Rap" | Dan Bull
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Tuesday Feb 16, 2021
Tuesday Feb 16, 2021
Thomas Storck is an author who has written on Catholic Social Teaching, distributism, and culture for decades. In this episode, Thomas Hackett interviews Storck about his book An Economics of Justice and Charity: Its Development and Contemporary Relevance (which you can purchase here).
A complete list (with links) of Thomas Storck's writings can be found here.
A few of our favorite Storck articles can be found below:
- "The Sin of Usury" | The Josias
- "Is the Action Institute a Genuine Expression of Catholic Social Thought" | The Distributist Review
- "Capitalism and Distributism: Definitions and Contrasts" | Faith and Reason
- "Justice and Charity: A Review" | The Distributist Review
Friday Feb 12, 2021
Friday Feb 12, 2021
Thomas discusses the Catholic Economics Roundtable with James and Jacob.
Find the full episode and support the show on patreon.com/tradistae!
Tuesday Feb 09, 2021
Tuesday Feb 09, 2021
An excerpt from Part 2 of our reflection on the 2021 Vigil for an End to Abortion. You can find the full episode on patreon.com/tradistae. Thank you for your support!
Links
See Tradistae's Pro-Life Easy Essays
Tuesday Feb 02, 2021
Tuesday Feb 02, 2021
Thomas, Monica, Lawrence, Elliot, James, and Luke discuss their time together at the 2021 Vigil for an End to Abortion, where they spent the night in prayer and song on the steps of the Supreme Court. Pictures can be found on the Tradistae twitter. Thank you to everyone else who joined us!
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Tuesday Jan 26, 2021
Tuesday Jan 26, 2021
This is the first part of the Catholic Economics Roundtable hosted on Michael Lofton's Reason and Theology youtube channel.
Thomas from Tradistae defends distributism; Jose Mena of the Tradinistas defends socialism; Trent Horn defends capitalism.
Tuesday Jan 26, 2021
Tuesday Jan 26, 2021
This is the first part of the Catholic Economics Roundtable hosted on Michael Lofton's Reason and Theology youtube channel.
Thomas from Tradistae defends distributism; Jose Mena of the Tradinistas defends socialism; Trent Horn defends capitalism.
Tuesday Jan 19, 2021
Tuesday Jan 19, 2021
Thomas interviews economist Dr. Levi A. Russell, a fellow at the Leonine Institute, on usury and the "Solidarism" of Pesch, a Jesuit economist.
Resources on Solidarism
Ethics and the National Economy by Heinrich Pesch, S.J.
PDF: The Economics Ideas of Bernard W. Dempsey, S.J.
An Introduction to Pesch's "Solidarism" by Rupert J. Ederer
Ederer's review of The Church and the Market by Thomas Woods
Dr. Russel's review of Trent Horn's anti-socialist book
Episode #26: Interview with Amar Patel
Resources on Usury
Easy Essay: Understanding the Social Sin of Usury
An Introduction to Thomistic Economics | Tradistae
Mentions of Usury in the Catechism of the Catholic Church: § 2269 and § 2449
Brian McCall's "Unprofitable Lending: Modern Credit Regulation and the Lost Theory of Usury"
Zippy Catholic's "Usury FAQ, or money on the Pill"
"Usury and Interest: Correcting Modern Errors" (A policy paper of the Leonine Institute)
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Wednesday Jan 06, 2021
Wednesday Jan 06, 2021
In the second half of our episode on the Catholic Worker Zoom Conference of 2020, we talk about the four breakout presentations we attended and conclude with happy news about the progress of Dorothy Day's canonization.
Links
Episode #4: On the Origins of the Catholic Worker Movement
All-night Vigil (March for Life) - Announcement Flyers
The Official Catholic Worker Website
The Forgotten Radical Peter Maurin: Easy Essays from the Catholic Worker (We strongly encourage getting a copy of this book)
"Liturgy and Economics" Class Outline from the Simone Weil House
Go start and/or support a Christ Room!
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Tuesday Jan 05, 2021
Tuesday Jan 05, 2021
In the first half of our episode on the Catholic Worker Zoom Conference of 2020, we talk about the history of such gatherings, the opening presentations, and the small group discussion.
Links
Episode #4: On the Origins of the Catholic Worker Movement
All-night Vigil (March for Life) - Announcement Flyers
The Official Catholic Worker Website
To support the work of Tradistae, please leave a review, share with a friend, become a patron on Patreon, and, above all, keep us in your prayers.
Wednesday Dec 16, 2020
Wednesday Dec 16, 2020
An update from Thomas for the end of Advent and the beginning of Christmas. God bless you all!
Links
Stream Link for the Ecological Embertide at 6pm on Friday
Spiritual Practices for the Winter Embertide
Patris Corde recording on Patreon
Holy Family Catholic Worker donation link
Episode #13 - Fr. Alek Schrenk on the Embertides
Outro from Sufjan Stevens Christmas Collection (a favourite of Elliot's)
Wednesday Dec 09, 2020
Wednesday Dec 09, 2020
Wednesday Dec 02, 2020
Wednesday Dec 02, 2020
An audio recording of Christopher Dawson's essay "Catholicism and Bourgeois Mind".
The question of the bourgeois involves a real issue which Christians cannot afford to shirk. For it is difficult to deny that there is a fundamental disharmony between bourgeois and Christian civilization and between the mind of the bourgeois and the mind of Christ...
Full text of the essay here.
To support the work of Tradistae, please become a patron on Patreon.
Thursday Nov 26, 2020
Thursday Nov 26, 2020
To and from all friends of Tradistae: happy thanksgiving!
Glory be to God, giver of all good things.
Tuesday Nov 17, 2020
Tuesday Nov 17, 2020
Thomas interviews Marc Barnes about his work at New Polity, the importance of Andrew Jones' research towards the revival of integralism, and the demands which Catholic Social Teaching makes upon the nations of the earth. We discuss escaping the ideologies of modernity, on both the right and the left, with a radical Catholic political theology.
Go subscribe to New Polity on Twitter, youtube, and their podcast.
You can read many excellent articles over at newpolity.com and purchase their print magazine at newpolity.com/magazine!
Thursday Nov 12, 2020
Thursday Nov 12, 2020
Thomas does a class analysis that breaks down the coalitions of the duopoly in the USA, using evidence from the donor and voter bases of the 2020 presidential election.
Links:
GOP:
- Old Industry (oil, coal, manufacturing and extractives in general)
- Military/Police
- Small Business
- Manual Laborers
DEM:
- New Industry (Big Tech)
- Artists/Creatives
- Big Business (hedge funds, banks, Amazon, Walmart, etc)
- Professionals/Managers
Bloomberg Breakdown of Donors: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2020-election-trump-biden-donors/
Top Biden Campaign Donors: https://www.investopedia.com/top-donors-to-biden-2020-campaign-5080324
Top Trump Capaign Donors: https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/033116/top-10-corporate-contributors-trump-campaign.asp
Absolutely Vapid and Insidious Tweets from Either Side of the Aisle:
The "Progressive" Democrats: https://twitter.com/SenWarren/status/1325121222615527424?s=20
The "Populist" Republicans: https://twitter.com/tradtom/status/1325146385226690560?s=20
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Saturday Oct 31, 2020
Saturday Oct 31, 2020
Thomas interviews Amar Patel, Vice Presidential Candidate on the 2020 Solidarity Ticket, about his campaign. We discuss the "atomization" and loneliness caused by the liberalism of the duopoly, which has broken down communities, churches, and families. Finally, we talk about an important study which shows that a very large number of American voters are economically progressive and socially conservative.
LINKS:
Study on American Voters: "Political Divisions in 2016 and Beyond"
Support the Carroll/Patel 2020 Ticket: https://briancarroll.life/
Join the American Solidarity Party: https://solidarity-party.org/
Fraternize in the ASP Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/americansolidaritypartyunofficial
RELATED EPISODES:
Tuesday Oct 27, 2020
Tuesday Oct 27, 2020
James and Thomas discuss the brief history of the American Solidarity Party, with all its up and downs, and why you should get involved to help the only distributist political party in the U.S. to thrive.
The full episode can be found on Patron (LINK)
LINKS:
Support the Carroll/Patel 2020 Ticket: https://briancarroll.life/
Join the American Solidarity Party: https://solidarity-party.org/
Fraternize in the ASP Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/americansolidaritypartyunofficial
RELATED EPISODES:
Wednesday Oct 21, 2020
Wednesday Oct 21, 2020
Luke and Tom discuss the electoral system of the USA: it turns out that a supposedly representational government is actually run by a one-party state cleverly divided into two parties. We talk about the history of national democracies, Deneen's book on liberalism, the structure of the Two-Winged One-Party State which rules the U.S.A., and the ways in which "democracy" is used to keep the wheels of power turning.
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Tuesday Oct 13, 2020
Tuesday Oct 13, 2020
Thomas interviews Erik Bootsma, a classically trained architect, about the new urbanism and the Strong Towns Movement.
Links:
Erik Bootsma's (@ErikBootsma) Website: bootsmadesign.com
Tuesday Sep 29, 2020
Tuesday Sep 29, 2020
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.
Support the Carroll/Patel 2020 Ticket: https://briancarroll.life/
Join the American Solidarity Party: https://solidarity-party.org/
Fraternize in the ASP Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/americansolidaritypartyunofficial