Topics covered in this episode:

  • Michael Matt answers critics who say that to resist Francis is to behave like a Protestant.
  • The late Sinead O’Connor tore up a picture of Pope John Paul II on live TV.  That was big but Michael argues that what happened on SNL a week later was bigger.
  • When Pope John Paul visited Ireland in 1979 over 2.7 million Irish came out to cheer him on.  26 years later Ireland legalized same-sex marriage and abortion. So, what happened?
  • YouTube celebrity priest Fr. Mike Schmitz praises Mass facing away from the people.
  • Putin’s pro-Christian propaganda – is it for real?
  • Catholic Spain rises again.
  • Greenpeace co-founder blasts push for “net zero” as genocide.