Catholic Bishops: Trump's Push to End Birthright Citizenship is "Immoral", Pentagon vs Anthropic Beef, And AI Homilies
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🗓️ 27 February 2026
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Catholic bishops call Trump’s birthright citizenship push “immoral” — but what does Catholic teaching actually say about borders and citizenship? Meanwhile, there is major beef between the Pentagon and Anthropic. And finally, Pope Leo issues a warning to priests about using AI for homilies. All this and more on the LOOPcast!
00:00 Welcome to the LOOPcast
02:30 USCCB and Trump’s EO
23:55 Notre Dame Update
29:44 Anthropic vs. Pentagon Beef
40:43 Good News
47:06 War Imminent?Â
01:00:20 Twilight Zone
01:18:45 Closing Prayer
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| 0:00.0 | And we're live. |
| 0:00.7 | Welcome back to Lou Kass. |
| 0:01.7 | It's Tom Erica and Josh. |
| 0:02.8 | Loopcast brought you by Zeal. |
| 0:04.6 | Welcome to the show, guys. |
| 0:06.5 | Good Friday show prepared for you. |
| 0:08.8 | The United States, Caliph, Bishops. |
| 0:11.9 | It's getting real catty on X right now. |
| 0:14.8 | They submitted an amicus brief. |
| 0:19.5 | Amicus. |
| 0:20.5 | Sorry, that was tough Latin pronunciation. |
| 0:23.0 | It's not like my 12-year-old trying to read his Latin. |
| 0:25.2 | Amicus, because that's, I'm classically trained in Latin, but not legally trained, clearly. |
| 0:30.2 | They submitted a brief saying that Trump's push to end birthright citizenship is immoral, direct quote. |
| 0:40.0 | Josh is very fired up about this. |
| 0:41.9 | Erica's very fired up about this. |
| 0:43.3 | They didn't read Kelsey's article in first things. |
| 0:45.5 | We have lots to talk about on that one. |
| 0:47.8 | Second, there is a very interesting fight going on between Anthropic, leading AI company |
| 0:53.3 | and the Pentagon. |
| 1:11.4 | It's been brewing for a while. There's a deadline today. And there's been, it's now kind of spilled into a public Twitter fight. So we got all of the answers there. And then there was a simulation ran in which AI did choose to nuke the world 95% of the time. So it happened. It's going to be a very uplifting Friday show. |
| 1:26.9 | And then, of course, we are potentially on the brink of war with Iran. So I'll just toss that one in there briefly. But we have good news. We have Twilight Zone. It's going to be a good show. Again, this is the last Friday show for a little while. I know, you know, tears. Don't cry because it happened. or don't cry because it's gone, cry because it happened. |
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