ICE Protestors Invade Christian Church, "Church-Hopping" Debate, and MLK Day
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🗓️ 19 January 2026
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
Anti-ICE mob storms a Sunday church service in St. Paul, MN. What happened, and why was Don Lemon there? Meanwhile, a "Church-Hopping" debate blows up Catholic Twitter. And finally, one Democrat gives a surprising and blunt answer when pressed on “trans rights.” All this and more on the LOOPcast!
00:00 Welcome to the LOOPcast
03:19 Anti-ICE Mob StormsChurch Service
35:42 Good News
52:02 The Case Against Church-Hopping
1:09:26 Twilight Zone
1:27:47 Closing Prayer
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| 0:00.0 | I'm live. Welcome back to the loopcast. It's Tom, Erica and Josh. Everyone's back in home base. Josh, we're back in Michigan. Locked and loaded. Loopcast brought to you by the loop every Catholic American's favorite morning newsletter. We have a great Monday show prepared for you. The biggest thing and it was funny, we're talking about before the show, you know, what are we going to cover? We're going to cover Greenland. We're going to cover the Middle East or whatever. And the one thing that didn't get widespread coverage that I almost couldn't believe, and this is one of those things I guess you're grateful for Exxon, was there was a organized protest at a Christian church in which a Christian church was stormed in St. Paul. And Don LaMond was there. I'm not sure how that happened, but I did not see, you know, nationwide coverage. And, you know, as a Catholic show that enjoys, you know, I personally enjoy a reverent liturgy that is not stormed by protesters. I can't believe, I think the gift that maybe this was handed to the law and order folks. Typically in the storm churches, you're not the good guys. |
| 0:57.0 | So we are going to be discussing all the elements of that. |
| 1:00.4 | We have research prepared on that. |
| 1:02.3 | The second one that came up, and this is more of a fun topic, but the debate over church hopping came up. |
| 1:08.6 | And it was actually funny too. |
| 1:09.5 | I got a homily this weekend in which the pastor, he's a new pastor, he's been there about six months, and he gave some |
| 1:16.3 | of his observations on the parish. And one of the things that he really appreciated was how |
| 1:20.5 | people, people drive a long distance to go to this parish that I go to. And he really appreciated |
| 1:27.0 | that. And then we got kind of a case for not church to this parish that I go to. And he really appreciated that. |
| 1:45.5 | And then we got kind of a case for not church hopping, which led me down to rabbit hole, which I'm excited to get into on territory parishes and the Catholic Church in America. So it's going to be a fun topic. But we have good news. We have Twilight Zone. It's just going to be, you know, classic loopcast. It's always a good time. And I got a new orange loop mug. |
| 1:46.2 | Orange loop mug. |
| 1:45.5 | Why would you do that? Classic loopcast. Always a good time. And I got a new orange loop mug. |
| 1:46.2 | Orange loop mug. |
| 1:48.3 | Why would you do that? |
| 1:54.6 | Well, there's news coming on that. |
| 1:55.8 | News coming on that. |
| 1:56.1 | All right. |
| 1:56.7 | On the orange. |
| 1:57.3 | Okay. |
| 1:58.6 | We have orange news coming. |
| 2:01.1 | Welcome to everyone joining here live. |
| 2:05.6 | I appreciate someone gave a phonetic pronunciation of Baraboo, Wisconsin. |
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