Hey everybody welcome back to another episode of the Catholic talk show today we're going to be asking the question is Western civilization on the brink of disaster.

Yeah today we're joined by Mark Barnes the editor of Newpality and we're going to look at all the societal influences

and things going on that leads us to believe that it may be.

And in the words of St. John Paul II, as the family goes, so goes the nation and the world in which we live.

I think that's a perspective that I'd like to begin with and talking about how important

the family is to society. All right, guys,

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uh... all right uh... uh... uh... All right guys looking forward to this episode Mark been a fan of years for a long time

through the blog Bad Catholic now you're an editor at New Polity we're talking a little bit about that. It's really interesting and

intellectual articles about this type of topic. But yeah, really excited to get the

show started. Yeah, Mark, I've got to say thank you for your contributions, my brother.

It is very important to hear the voices of very faithful men and women in the church,

and clearly your voice is very faithful and you have a very. men and

you have a very faithful and you have a very strong contribution to the conversation that we need to have, especially today.

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