Episode 990: Grady Connolly A Journey through America's Basilicas
Newt's World
Gingrich 360
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🗓️ 18 June 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Newt talks with Grady Connolly, founder of Social Thomist and author of the new book “Basilicas: A Pilgrim's Guide to America's Most Remarkable Catholic Churches.” Connolly recounts his path from a small town in Maine to a full scholarship at Catholic University of America, where daily visits to the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. inspired a lifelong devotion to his faith. He describes learning how to build a major following for Catholic content online. Their discussion turns to Connolly's four-year quest to visit all 94 minor basilicas in the United States plus the four papal basilicas in Rome, what officially makes a church a "basilica," and standout stops like The Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis and the immigrant built, The Basilica of St. Fidelis in Victoria, Kansas. His book, “Basilicas” is available for pre-order now: https://a.co/d/0bk6zlAm
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:08.7 | Welcome to Nuts World Podcast on the IHeart Podcast Network. |
| 0:13.2 | You know, the Ukraine war is now longer than World War I. |
| 0:17.6 | Think about that. |
| 0:18.8 | All of World War I occurred in a shorter time than the fight |
| 0:23.3 | between Ukraine and Russia. And I have to say, Putin has become more and more evil, more and |
| 0:29.9 | more destructive. The recent deliberate attacks on churches and basilicas and places like that, |
| 0:36.7 | it's just incomprehensible why Putin is behaving |
| 0:41.3 | in such a barbaric way. But we've now had over 1,569 days, more than four years and three |
| 0:50.3 | months of this war, and it is now longer than World War I. |
| 0:54.9 | I hope it will end soon, but Putin seems willing to have as many young Russians die as |
| 1:01.3 | necessary to sustain the fight, so we will see what happens. |
| 1:05.8 | We were very fortunate to welcome the president who came to the G7 meeting and we are going to have a signing |
| 1:13.7 | ceremony between Iran and the United States in Switzerland on Friday. It's going to be complicated. |
| 1:20.5 | You're going to have to police it all the time. This is not like World War II where we defeated |
| 1:26.0 | Nazi Germany and Japan decisively. This is a negotiation, |
| 1:30.9 | and everybody will be marginally unhappy. But I think that Iran is much weaker and its ability |
| 1:37.1 | to get to nuclear weapons. And I think that they are going to, in fact, be more controlled. |
| 1:43.4 | No one is going to back off. |
| 1:45.3 | And I think that you're going to find that we're willing to do what it takes to police it. |
| 1:50.2 | Current reports are that they will be signed at the Bergenstock resort near the city of Luzerne, |
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