January 5, 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
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December 2, 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.
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November 26, 2020
To and from all friends of Tradistae: happy thanksgiving!
Glory be to God, giver of all good things.
November 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.
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October 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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September 14, 2020
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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September 2, 2020
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)
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August 6, 2020
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.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Prayer of St. John Paul II at Hiroshima
1:40 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 Intentions
29:44 Closing: Comments of Venerable Fulton Sheen
July 28, 2020
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
June 11, 2020
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:
Links:
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June 11, 2020
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:
Links:
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May 18, 2020
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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May 14, 2020
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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May 1, 2020
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
February 18, 2020
Topics:
0:00 The Pro-Life Movement, Media Coverage, and the GOP
4:43 Discussion of the Acton Article and Pro-Life Medicare For All
16:05 Imagining a Realignment of the Pro-Life Movement
21:03 Saint John Paul II’s Evangelium Vitae on Creating a Culture of Life
24:22 Conclusion
25:58 Closing Prayer
February 10, 2020
Welcome! The first-ever Tradistae podcast about our experience at the 2020 March for Life. Part 1.
Links:
Topics:
0:00 Pontifical Low Mass with Cardinal Burke
3:00 The Pro-Life Sit-In at Nancy Pelosi’s Office
8:21 Talking to the Pro-Choice Counter-Protesters
33:25 Interactions with Other Marchers
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