And we're live. Welcome back to the Loopcast. It's Tom Erica and Josh, the Loopcast, of course, brought to you by the Loop, every American Catholics, favorite morning newsletter. Happy Friday, everyone, especially those here live with us in the chat, 11 a.m. Eastern time, Monday, Wednesday, Friday. It's going to be a great show. We have a lot prepared for you. These are days that I'm really thankful. We have a robust, excellent news team. So reports came in that a,

the only Catholic church in Gaza was just struck by an Israeli tank, a shell. And so we are going

to provide all angles to that, the event that happened itself, the reactions that prompted all over

the Catholic world, including the Pope himself and Pizza Bala in Jerusalem. We're going to hear from

what the IDF has to say. And then we also have some extra reporting on tensions broader in the region,

say in the West Bank based on some original reporting from our own team here. So I'm great to have

be moderated, I think, by Josh and Erica, who have excellent instincts and taste as well, and her own news team. So I think that's going to be excellent. Also, we are going to be talking about the NPR funding, that entire saga. Don't worry, we have good news. We have Twilight Zone like we do every show. Erica also released another excellent monologue that I'm excited to answer some questions about. And finally, we actually, I'm really

thankful to her, Dr. Christina Francis from Applog. She is actually an OBGYN in Fort Wayne,

Indiana. So nice to have another Hoosier on the show. She came to talk about the, the letter that

they published and sent to the HHS over Mithapristone, the abortion drug, and the type of safety that they want to bring

back to women going through that horrible process and around the country. So it's going to be a great

full show. We actually don't have any ad. So before we get into, uh, well, and just, you said app blog.

We should just let people know. We're talking about the American Association of Pro-Life OBGYNs.

Yes.

And just the...

Great organization.

Salt of the Earth type people.

I couldn't believe Dr. Christina Francis, what I especially appreciate about her is she works

on the ground.

Like she works as an OBGN right now.

She's on the board of Hoosiers for Life.

I think Indiana right to life.

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