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The LOOPcast

Father James Martin Reads the LOOP, Separation of Church and State, and Heroes and Zeroes for September

The LOOPcast

CatholicVote

Politics, Society & Culture, News Commentary, News

4.8677 Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

This week we break down the Supreme Court’s upcoming religious freedom case – and why super LOOPer Fr. James Martin says you shouldn’t trust “anything” we say (00:01:05)! And listeners asked if Catholics should even be involved in politics, so we deep dive on the separation of church and state and what John Paul II had to say about efforts like CatholicVote (00:14:19). Then it’s “Heroes and Zeroes” time – who stood up and who sold out (00:26:01)? Are we living in the Twilight Zone? It sure fe...

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0:00.0

So she should have been declared a saint the moment she died.

0:05.5

You know, like the Santos Subito.

0:08.4

Why?

0:09.8

Because she, you need a miracle, right?

0:12.9

To become a saint.

0:14.3

She was able to shame President Bill Clinton.

0:17.3

That is a miracle.

0:18.8

This is a man with no shame at all. And she was able to do it.

0:22.6

Accomplished. Check. Is anyone else on the planet capable of doing such a thing?

0:44.7

All right, everyone, welcome back to the Loopcast, where we keep you in the loop on all things, faith, culture, and politics.

0:46.4

I'm your host, Tom Pogasic.

0:50.0

I'm here with the editor, Josh Mercer, staff writer Eric Ahern.

0:54.6

First thing that we're going to get into is a major Supreme Court case we have coming down the pipe.

0:58.7

So the case I'm talking about is 303 Creative versus Alice.

1:01.4

And I know, Erica, you wrote on this extensively.

1:03.5

So can you lay down what that case is?

1:06.3

And then we'll kind of get into a little bit of the controversy we got in this week.

1:07.1

Sure.

1:31.0

So this case is, it centers around a woman named Lori Smith, who owns a website design company called 303 Creative. And she designs, among other things, wedding websites. And she wanted to post a message on her own website, explaining her religious objections to creating wedding websites for so-called same-sex marriages.

1:32.6

And a Colorado law would actually forbid her.

1:36.9

It would require her to stay silent.

1:39.3

In other words, the technical term is to stay silent on that topic.

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