The Tradistae Podcast: Recent Episodes
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A Catholic Worker podcast for the God-fearing working-class. Topics: Catholic Social Teaching, integralism, distributism, integral ecology, intentional community, tradition, liberation theology, etc.
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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"Be Still and Know" (Sean's latest at New Polity): https://newpolity.com/blog/be-still-and-know
Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/tradistae
Our Worker-Scholar Missions: https://tradistae.com/2021/10/06/worker-scholar/
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
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/
Sean interviews Fr. Thomas and Dr. Fimister, the authors of "Integralism", which attempts to offer a thoroughly scholastic/Thomistic perspective on political philosophy, especially inspired by the social encyclicals of Popes Leo XIII and Pius XI.
They discuss the kingship, priesthood, and patriarchy of our first father Adam and how this changed after the Fall; the religious orientation of the natural law; taxation; the social contract and the State; distinctions on employment, servitude, and slavery; usury; centralization, scale, and distributism; and unjust governments.
To purchase the book, go to https://www.oxbowbooks.com/dbbc/integralism-82349.html
To support our work at Tradistae, go to patreon.com/tradistae
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/
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/
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) ________________
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.
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
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/
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/
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/
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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Support our work on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tradistae
Join the movement with our worker-scholar missions: www.tradistae.com/worker-scholar
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/
(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
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/
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
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!
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
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/
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)
Interrupting Capitalism
Moral Agency within Social Structures and Culture
The Origins of War
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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/
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/
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)
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)
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/
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/
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
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/
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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The new Tradistae contact page: https://tradistae.com/contact/
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The New Monthly Tradistae Schedule (April 2021)
1st Week - Hangout with Patrons
2nd Week - Public Podcast
3rd Week - Easy Essay (w/ Audio)
4th Week - Patreon Podcast
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Podcasts to Listen to:
- New Polity
- Solidarity Policy Podcast
- The Liberation Theology Podcast
- A Day A Week
- The Josias
- Catholic Culture Audiobooks
- Aufhebungabunga
- Lectures of David Harvey
Audiobooks on Librivox:
- The Servile State https://librivox.org/the-servile-state-by-hillaire-belloc/
- Utopia of Usurers https://librivox.org/utopia-of-usurers-of-g-k-chesterton/
- Saint Francis Biography https://librivox.org/saint-francis-of-assisi-a-biography-by-johannes-jorgensen/
- Encyclicals of Leo XIII https://librivox.org/the-great-encyclical-letters-of-pope-leo-xiii-by-pope-leo-xiii/
Support us on Patreon! And pray for the conversion of your community to Catholic Social Teaching.
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.
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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.
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
Support Tradistae on Patreon
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
Thomas discusses the Catholic Economics Roundtable with James and Jacob.
Find the full episode and support the show on patreon.com/tradistae!
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 Liberation Hymns PDF
The Tablet Article
Catholic News Agency Article
Event Flyer
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!
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Links Liberation Hymns PDF
The Tablet Article
Catholic News Agency Article
Event Flyer
See Tradistae's Pro-Life Easy Essays
March for Life (2020) Reflection, Part 1
March for Life (2020) Reflection, Part 2
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Music: "Down by the Riverside" and "Lully, Lulla, Lullay"
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.
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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Updates: Catholic Economics Roundtable (this Saturday Evening)
- Flyer
- Youtube Link
Vigil for an End to Abortion (January 28th-29th)
- Flyer
New Polity Conference (March 19th-20th)
- See Schedule and Register Here
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Outro: Easy Terms
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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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.
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.
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
Embertide Announcement Flyer
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)
Thomas and Luke get riled up by the Good Word of the Lord. It turns out that the "rigid and backwards" decrees of the Mosaic Law aren't so irrelevant to the modern world after all...
If you liked this episode, please give us a review or a comment! We want feedback from our listeners!
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.
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!
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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P.S.
Another breakdown of voters, which confirms this analysis, which came out after I recorded this: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/10/election-2020-democrats-republicans-economy.html
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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- Inside Baseball at the Solidarity Stadium
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- Interview with third-party Solidarity Candidate Brian Carroll
- Discussing the liberal media and Manufactured Consent
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.
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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:
- Elections and the Two-Party System
- Interview with third-party Solidarity Candidate Brian Carroll
- Discussing the liberal media and Manufactured Consent
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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Go read Fratelli Tutti by Pope Francis! (LINK)
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Related podcast episodes: * Interview with third-party Solidarity Candidate Brian Carroll * Discussing the liberal media and Manufactured Consent
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
The Parish Village Project
The Strong Towns Movement
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/
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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.
Links Wealth, shown to scale
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
Outline 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
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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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)
- The Modern Origins of Race Theory
- How the Law Taught Racism in the United States
- Racism is a Tool to Divide the Working-Class
- The Black Napoleon of Integralism (Tom's favorite)
- The Melting Pot of Whiteness
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Links: * Liz Bruenig's NYT Article * The Petition on the CSA Website * Re-Introducing Easy Essays on Tradistae * Follow @ActionCatholic on twitter * The March for Black Life event on Facebook
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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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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
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.
Prayers: * Prayer for National Unity and an End to Racism (Knights of Columbus) * A Prayer Service for Racial Healing in Our Land (USCCB) * Prayer of the Faithful Against Racism (USCCB) * Venerable Pierre Toussaint
Links: * Pope Francis' statement on George Floyd (video) * Evangelii Gaudium (§ 59, 218) * Outro: Sign of the Times (Immortal Technique, explicit)
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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.
Prayers: * Prayer for National Unity and an End to Racism (Knights of Columbus) * A Prayer Service for Racial Healing in Our Land (USCCB) * Prayer of the Faithful Against Racism (USCCB)
Links: * Pope Francis' statement on George Floyd (video) * Evangelii Gaudium (§ 59, 218) * "Racial Justice and Social Order" (Pater Edmund) * Outro: Banks of Marble (Pete Seeger)
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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.
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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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
Links: 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
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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
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.
Links: The Catholic Worker Movement website A digital collection of Peter Maurin's Easy Essays Re-Introducing Easy Essays | Tradistae Recommended Books by Dorothy Day:
- The Long Loneliness
- Loaves and Fishes
- Peter Maurin: Apostle to the Modern World
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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 Support us on Patreon
Links:
"The Billionaires Are Pro-Choice. You Shouldn't Be." from Tradistae "'Medicare For All' is Not Pro-Life" from Acton Institute Evangelium Vitae by Pope Saint John Paul II Printable Pro-Life Pamphlets Support us at Patreon
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
Welcome! The first-ever Tradistae podcast about our experience at the 2020 March for Life. Part 1. Links: Cardinal Burke Homily Stanton International Rehumanize International Pro-Life Sit-In at Pelosi's Office Easy Essay List Printable Pro-Life Pamphlets Support us at Patreon
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 google7887da12059f1427.html