Josh, isn't it true you met Benedict?

You know what?

A little meat cute story?

You've been holding back on us.

You met him?

I did meet Pope Benedict.

And my friend always said, when you get to meet the Pope, you know, you just become like clamoring idiot.

And you forget what you're going to say.

And you're just standing there like, blah, blah, blah. I- I said no I won't get stage fright. I'll say something.

All right, everyone, welcome back to the loopcast, where we touch faith, politics, and culture from a Catholic perspective, even if it gets a little messy.

Today I'm joined, as always, by Erica and Josh.

The most breaking of breaking stories was the raid of Catholic pro-life activist Mark Hk. I have not seen a comprehensive document that covered all of the details, all the timelines of this raid. It was huge news in the Catholic

world. So we really want to set the table here, get all the facts straight, and then go into

some takes on it. So,

Erica, I'm going to shoot it right at you. What happened? Please, can we just get a clear picture?

Sure. So the story that broke on Friday was this raid of this man's home in Pennsylvania by the FBI,

and the details were slow to come out. But it turns out that this story goes all the way back to October of 2021. Mark Hauk has been praying outside of a

Planned Parenthood in the Greater Philadelphia area for, it turns out years. On the day in in question last October, he and his 12-year-old son were present

at the abortion clinic.

And there was an escort, we assume a volunteer escort, also there, who, according to reports,

there was an altercation between Mark and this man that was started by

the escort who got into, quote, according to a statement from the family, quote, Mark's son's

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