Catholic Answers Live #12526 Matt Fradd Joins DailyWire and the Internet in 2025 | Flannel Panel - Joe Heschmeyer
Dec 31, 2025
Dive into a year-end Flannel Panel where the hosts tackle whether Catholics won the internet by 2025. They discuss Carlo Acutis as the Patron of the Internet and analyze Matt Fradd's move to The Daily Wire. There's a lively debate on adapting Catholic voices for secular media and concerns around anti-Semitism in collaborations. The show highlights growth signs for Catholicism, recent conversions, and the strengths of immigrant devotion contrasted with catechesis gaps. A spirited discussion concludes on the internet's power to correct misconceptions.
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Catholics' Online Influence Grew
- The hosts argue 2025 felt like a year Catholics 'won the internet' with figures like Carlo Acutis and media reach.
- They present winning as gaining broad online visibility and cultural influence, not literal dominion.
Carlo Acutis As Internet Patron
- Christopher Check recounts Carlo Acutis being named patron saint of the internet as symbolic of Catholic online presence.
- Joe Heschmeyer jokes about the oddity of being saint of the internet and how phones autocorrect names comically.
Catholic Voices Reaching Wider Audiences
- Joe Heschmeyer frames Matt Fradd joining The Daily Wire as expanding Catholic voices to a larger, non-Catholic audience.
- He compares it to Fulton Sheen moving from radio to TV and reaching more diverse viewers.