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Do you think that Christian persecution is on the rise? Oh, I know it is. It's documented.

20th century was the worst century for Christian martyrs of Christian history, all the previous

centuries combined. It's the most persecuted religion. If two friends like each other, that's fine.

But Aristotle says that won't last that relationship. What makes it last is when the two friends

together fall in love with a transcendent third. And now together we look to that.

Now we really find a bond.

When the bride and groom together look to Christ, now they'll stay married.

If they're just looking to each other, it'll found her.

The Catholic Church got super liberal, and then all of a sudden, everywhere you look,

people you know are converting

to Catholicism with a pretty kind of traditionally Christian orientation. This is how I would

characterize ecclesial liberalism, a tendency to reduce the supernatural to the natural. That was

going on for a long time. Yes. In very recent years, there's been a keener interest in the

supernatural dimension of the faith. I don't think I've ever received more texts about any guest than I did about you.

From Catholics I know, from non-Catholics I know, but the Catholics all wanted to hear

details on, you know, factions within the church, and I'm not going to ask you any questions

about that because I don't understand any of it. Good. I want to start as broad as I possibly can,

which is, it seems like a lot of people in the West are unhappy, and it's measurable, suicide rates are

at record highs and birth rates at record lows.

Yep.

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