Pope Leo: Solidarity With Migrants NOT Open Borders, Congress Votes On Epstein, And May I Meet You?
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🗓️ 19 November 2025
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Pope Leo XIV sets the record straight: solidarity with migrants does NOT mean open borders. Meanwhile, Congress votes on the Epstein files, and Americans want answers. And finally… “May I meet you?” All this and more on the LOOPcast!
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00:00 Welcome to the LOOPcast
06:11 Pope Leo: Solidarity With Migrants NOT Open Borders
35:20 Congress Votes on Epstein Files
51:09 Good News
59:15 Twilight Zone
1:20:07 Closing Prayer
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| 0:00.0 | And we're live. Welcome back to the Loopcast. It's Tom Erica and Josh. The Loopcast is brought to you by the Loop. Every American Catholic's favorite morning newsletter. Guys, excited to be here today. We have a fantastic show for you. Pope Leo has actually officially responded to some of this immigration conversation, the special statement from the bishops. And maybe it wasn't what everyone cracked it up to, you know, I think some apologies are maybe necessary to Pope Leo for putting words in his mouth. We're going to go through the exact statement. Clearly, there's a lot of interest. We got a lot of feedback on our episode on Monday. So we're going to hammer all of that. The second point, the Epstein files unanimously voted very quickly. I think Senate just unanimous, unanimous vote, it will be sent to the president's |
| 0:38.8 | desk. And I was challenged last episode, you know, why is this important? I want to put a finer point on |
| 0:43.1 | that. But then second, it should have been this kind of unanimous unifying moment dunk for Democrats. |
| 0:49.0 | And there was this crazy fight that happened on the House floor about someone getting text during a congressional |
| 0:55.1 | hearing. So I'm excited to share that story. That was super surprising me. And then Erica, of course, |
| 0:59.2 | my source of truth for all things education. We had public school enrollment dropped significantly |
| 1:05.3 | and I was really surprised to hear what was going on behind the scenes there. So of course, |
| 1:10.5 | good news. |
| 1:11.7 | May I meet you? |
| 1:12.7 | We'll come up in the twilight town. |
| 1:14.0 | That'll be nice and lighthearted. But so glad to be joined by all of you today. Also, we're very close to 40,000 subscribers. So if you're listening right now, we're so close. I think we're like 30 away. If you would like to be the 40th, 40,000th, go ahead and subscribe on YouTube. |
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