A podcast for the God-fearing working-class. Topics: Catholic Social Teaching, intregralism, distributism, integral ecology, intentional community, tradition, labor movements, etc.
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.
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
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/
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Fraternize in the ASP Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/americansolidaritypartyunofficial
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.
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
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
Pope Benedict XVI, Caritas in Veritate § 32
Pope Francis, Evangelii Gaudium § 202 ⁋ 1
The Daily Routine of Bezos | Business Insider
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.
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
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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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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
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.
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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.
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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.
"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
“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.
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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
Prayer Resources
Extraordinary Pandemic Urbi et Orbi of the Holy Father
English translation of the Urbi et Orbi address
COVID-19 Pandemic: Catholic Resources | Tradistae
Medieval Plague Prayer | Tradistae
Reading
"Meditation for a Time of Pestilence" | Clear Creak Abbey
"Now Is Not the Time" | Thomistica
Pater Edmund's outstanding writing can be found at the Josias and his blog, Sancrucensis.
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Prayer Resources
Extraordinary Pandemic Urbi et Orbi of the Holy Father
English translation of the Urbi et Orbi address
COVID-19 Pandemic: Catholic Resources | Tradistae
Medieval Plague Prayer | Tradistae
Sources
The WeWork Con | Jacobin | November 2019
“Stocks are the most overvalued since at least the 1980s” [P/E to Growth Ratio] | CNBC | January 2020
GDP 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 2020
Outro: 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 | Tradistae
Spring (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.
The Catholic Worker Movement website
A digital collection of Peter Maurin's Easy Essays
Re-Introducing Easy Essays | Tradistae
Recommended Books by Dorothy Day:
James and Tom discuss "Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of Mass Media" and how liberal democracy gins up "consent" with the tools of the "neutral" media.
Links:
Testing Theories of American Politics (Gilens and Page, Princeton Study)
Some Confounding Studies | Vox
"'Manufacturing Consent' in Action" | Current Affairs
Easy Essay: The Myth of Liberal Neutrality | Tradistae
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