Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.

Hey everyone, welcome to Free For All Friday here on the Council of Trend Podcast.

I'm your host, Catholic Answers Apologist, Trent Horn.

On Mondays and Wednesdays, we talk about apologetics, theology, how to explain and defend the Catholic faith.

But on Friday we talk about whatever I want to talk about.

Recently I was invited to the Catholic Money Summit to give an interview on money and cooperation

with evil. Now how to look at that through a Catholic lens.

So the Catholic Money Summit is put on by wallet win.

It is a couple who looks at issues related to money and finance from a Catholic perspective.

They have a great YouTube channel. You can check out wallet win.

So they invited me to the summit. I gave an interview for them.

And they asked me questions about, well, what do you do if you're going to go out and you want to buy something,

but the company who sells that thing, they donate money to evil corporations.

Where do we draw the line between cooperation with evil companies that's okay versus cooperation that has now become sinful?

And you definitely should not shop there.

So these are important questions as we try to live out good and holy lives in what is an evil world.

Scripture calls the devil the God of this world. Of course God is God of everything.

But Satan certainly has a pretty tight grip on the world around us.

So we live in an evil world because of that grip.

And we have to be cognizant of that and be prudent in how we spend our money and those entities within the world that we choose to cooperate with.

So I talk about all of that with Jonathan here in this interview.

I hope it is helpful for you.

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