Hello, and welcome to Catholic Answers Live. I am Sykelly, your host. I'm always happy to be back here on Monday.

We work our way through the drudgery of the weekend to get back to doing what we love doing on Mondays.

We just talk about Jesus and his church. Especially happy this Monday, though, and you'll know in a moment why I'm especially happy this Monday.

Well, I'll tell you why. We have two great guests. Second hour, our good friend William Albrecht will be here. And it's always great when William is here. And the first hour, we welcome bona fide. I looked this up, bona fide media superstar Michael Knowles. He's our guest this hour. We're going to talk about a series that he did,

a video series he did on Pope Pius the 12, but he tells me he's willing to talk to you about

whatever you'd like to talk about as far as the Catholic faith goes. The number is 888-3187-884,

triple-8-384. Michael Knowles is the host, and it's a good thing, too, of the Michael

Knowles Show at The Daily Wire and the book club at Prager You. He's the author of two

national... I want to say he's the author of two number one national bestsellers, but that's a little

touchy to say author of one of them, but certainly the author of one national bestseller. And as I said,

he's got that new four, or not too new, but recent four-part series on Pope Pius the 12th.

The Pope and the Furor, the secret files of, excuse me, the secret Vatican files of World War II.

Michael Knowles, thank you for being here with us.

The pleasure is all mine. I can honestly say I'm a long-time listener and first-time caller. Oh, yeah. But I'm just such a huge fan of Catholic answers. I was a cradle Catholic, catechized in the 90s. You know, 90s were a little bit of a loose time for catechises, though I had some great, great teachers. And I fell away from the faith at 13,

right at my confirmation, actually, and I was away for about a decade or so. And when I was coming

back, not just intellectually to believe that God exists, but really coming back into the faith in

the church, Catholic Answers was a really invaluable resource for me. So I just love it. I recommend it to

my listeners and friends and people who write to me. It's just tremendous. Oh, you're very generous.

Thank you very much for saying that. I think you're a Yale graduate. So here you are at 13.

I wonder how much of your falling away from the church was the intellectual challenges

that the modern world makes of the church, or was it something else?

It seems to me that sometimes we are not in a good position to answer a 13-year-old's question,

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