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The American Mind

Of Comms and Conclaves

The American Mind

Amanda Callanan

Philosophy, Declarationofindependence, Founding, Politics, Conservative, Limitedgovernment, Society & Culture, News, Constitution, Claremontinstitute

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Knives are out as Pete Hegseth’s wife is let in on sensitive information about U.S. operations against the Houthis. Amid rumors of staff churn and conflicts within the right over foreign policy, Trump maintains his prudent approach. Meanwhile, on Easter Monday, Pope Francis passed away, spurring an assessment of his legacy and speculations about the future as the Church faces a critical juncture. The hosts discuss Department of Defense crack-ups, the transformation and future of the Catholic Church, and the egregious use of taxpayer funds by Harvard. Plus: television and book recommendations!

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coming up on this episode of The Roundtable.

0:02.9

Watching the media try to report on the Trump administration, it's the same thing trying

0:07.7

to report on Christianity and is certainly the Catholic Church in general.

0:11.1

I mean, they just beclown themselves nonstop.

0:13.6

They have no idea what they're talking about.

0:15.5

I'm sure it's happening already and I'm sure it's just going to only increase.

0:19.0

And it looks like, especially with modern

0:21.1

popes, the span of days, because there's certain procedures and everything that they have to go through,

0:28.0

but I think, you know, it could happen within the next 20 days, it looks like, which is far less

0:33.0

than what it's been in the 20th century and certainly before that, where you had to have Cardinals

0:37.4

travel from hundreds, thousands of miles away. I think they should still have to.

0:41.6

I think that that should be hard. Yes. I horseback or busts. Yeah. Hey, that would that would

0:48.2

weed out some of the liberals, certainly. I mean, you probably actually have something more like,

0:52.4

you know, Benedict the 16th, which, I mean,

0:54.3

Benedict the 16th would be great.

0:56.9

I mean, he's like possibly the Catholic Church is best the illusion of the 20th century, I think.

1:01.5

You could definitely make that argument.

1:03.4

You know, you also look at what's happening in Anglicanism with Archbishop of Canterbury,

1:09.1

Justin Welby just stepping down. You had Rowan Williams

1:12.1

there earlier, who's probably the best of the illusion in that tradition in the 20th century

1:17.6

too. So you really have kind of a passing on to kind of some ambiguity. What is the messaging

1:23.7

going to be? Are they going to stand strong for doctor? And I mean, this is really

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