A Catholic Worker podcast for the God-fearing working-class. Topics: Catholic Social Teaching, integralism, distributism, integral ecology, intentional community, tradition, liberation theology, etc.
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.
An update from Thomas on the podcast schedule.
Check out the New Polity Conference.
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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.
Using the Internet Intentionally
Removing Occasions of Sin
Escaping the Technocratic Paradigm
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)
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)
"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]
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.
"I Should Probably Go To Bed" | Dan + Shay
"The Smartphone Hour" | Be More Chill
"Twitter Rap" | Dan Bull
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:
Thomas discusses the Catholic Economics Roundtable with James and Jacob.
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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!
See Tradistae's Pro-Life Easy Essays
March for Life (2020) Reflection, Part 1
March for Life (2020) Reflection, Part 2
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!
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.
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.
Thomas interviews economist Dr. Levi A. Russell, a fellow at the Leonine Institute, on usury and the "Solidarism" of Pesch, a Jesuit economist.
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
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)
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.
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
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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.
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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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)
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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To and from all friends of Tradistae: happy thanksgiving!
Glory be to God, giver of all good things.
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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You can read many excellent articles over at newpolity.com and purchase their print magazine at newpolity.com/magazine!
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:
DEM:
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
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
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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
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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/
Join the American Solidarity Party: https://solidarity-party.org/
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/
The full episode on the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/19-chrysostom-41574819
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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§ 2 - 6:17
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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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