Welcome back to Shem's Popery. I'm Joe Heschmire. And today, I think it's important to talk about

some of the allegations involving Alex Herado, better known online as Voice of Reason.

Now, I hate internet drama, and I don't think it's spiritually healthy to get involved in gossip of

who did and said various things. But there are some important reasons I think this particular set of allegations

are ones that I should step in on and I'll explain why. First, the allegations, like you

into all the salacious details, basically involve this. There are allegations of various

sexually inappropriate communications with him and adult women and one allegation of sexually inappropriate

conversations with a teenage minor.

Now, as of the time of this recording, Tuesday evening, Alex has disputed the second of those.

And both are scandalous, and both are leading a lot of people to have a lot of thoughts. We'll just say that.

And I'm not in a situation where I can tell you the truth or falsity of various allegations. I don't

know. I found out this whole controversy yesterday morning, seemingly a day after everyone on Twitter. And I'm not here

to share some new gossipy information, anything like that. I have nothing to share, nor would I

want to share it. What I do have is this, a little bit of guidance from having gone through

some of this more than some of you have. Let me explain why

I think it's important for me to address it. Number one, I praised Alex recently and he's said

some very nice things about me, given that it'd be very strange to just say nothing in this context.

Number two, he's someone who's had some affiliations with Catholic Answers. Now, he's not like a Catholic

answers apologist, but he is someone who's been on the radio show before and someone who, you know,

we've promoted various things that he's said. And so again, it'd be strange to just pretend like that

didn't happen. But the most important reason I think is the third one, which is that I think many of the

people who are experiencing this, who are watching all of this play out in real time, are people

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