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We still have a few seats left on our pilgrimage 2020. Join Fr. Willy Raymond and me in Germany. $100 OFF if you register by July 4th. Don't miss our Live streams every Wednesday on Facebook and our Saturday commentary videos. Subscribe in YouTube Follow me on Facebook  ******************************************************* Stories of conservative thought being silenced and censored online is now a problem so obvious that liberals like Canadian feminist (I know, almost a tautology) Meghan Murphy are taking note. Murphy was was banned for life from Twitter for using the birth name of a transgender person. The horror! Matthew Peterson, vice president of education at the Claremont Institute, has had enough. He’s on a mission to gather together anyone—conservative or otherwise—motivated enough to fight back against the narrow-minded, one-sided agendae of Big Tech. How is it just that Google, Twitter, Facebook and other social media platforms routinely soft-ban or outright remove influencers with unapproved opinions?  Today’s heretics in the Church of SJWs may not be burned at the stake. They’re just booted out of polite cyber society. Then again, given the track record of violence by groups like Antifa, give them a chance…

Come with us to Germany to see the Passion Play at Oberammergau: www.patrickcoffin.media/pilgrimage. Take $100 OFF if you sign up in June. Want more shows and premium content not available anywhere else? Join Coffin Nation. www.coffinnation.com. Doors open July 15. ******************************************************** Okay, this is a personal biggie. To get to talk to the mother of the baby boy, James Fulton Engstrom, who was stillborn on September 16, 2010, after a healthy pregnancy. The baby stayed dead for 61 minutes. Let that sink in. James’s parents, Bonnie and Travis, began praying—hoping very much against hope—for the intercession of Archbishop Fulton Sheen, who was born and raised near their hometown, to “do something!”   After 61 minutes, something totally unexpected and yet longed for happened. The baby’s heart quickened into a healthy rhythm, and a lovely pink flush replaced the ashen gray of his corpse. TOTALLY impossible, according to every medical expert who has examined the case, and yet it happened. But they weren’t out of the woods. Sweet Baby James, by all evidence, would never recover from the catastrophic loss of oxygen. Doctors predicted the worst. The Engstroms leveraged social media and doubled down on the heavenly “ask.” People in many countries came to the assistance with prayers. And none of the medical disasters came to pass. James was, and is, normal. This is an incredible story, and is set to be the bona fide miracle that will make “Uncle Fultie” become Blessed Fulton J. Sheen, one step away from canonization. Ah, cool!   ****************************************************** Don't miss our FREE Livestreams in Facebook, Like my page to get notified when we go live: www.facebook.com/patrickcoffin.media

Subscribe to this Podcast. Rate and Review. Want to watch other show segments and get other member benefits? Join our premium membership site: www.coffinnation.com. Doors open in July. Get on the list now! ******************************************************** The title  a double meaning, his legal appeal on charges of sexual abuse that happened June 4-5, 2019, and his personal appeal as a man and as a Christian. I could have called it Everything You Know About the Pell Trial Is Wrong. My guest this week explains why. Peter Westmore is the former President of the National Civic Council, and a writer for News Weekly. Westmore attended both trials of Cardinal Pell (and the appeal last week) and heard all the evidence provided to the court—twice. In June 2015, a complainant accused George Cardinal Pell of sexual assault (forced oral sex and genital fondling) involving two choir boys in the sacristy moments after Sunday Mass at the Melbourne Cathedral, in broad daylight, with Pell in full liturgical vestments, with the door open, in a church swarming with people leaving the building or strolling the nearby hallways. None of the 25 witnesses at each trial (the first one of which ended in a hung jury) could attest to the truth of the claimant’s charges, which themselves changed over time. The other boy ended up overdosing on heroin, and, according to his own mother’s testimony, denied ever been sexually abused. The entire case against Cardinal Pell rests on one man’s say-so, with multiple layers of improbability if not complete impossibility. An interesting, and telling, fact: Pope Francis has not suspended Pell’s priestly faculties despite the guilty verdict, while Ted McCarrick (never tried in court) was laicized and exiled to Kansas. ******************************************************** For more show episodes and other resources go to: www.patrickcoffin.media

Come with me to Germany! Early Bird discount for our pilgrimage 2020 has been extended for the month of June in honor of Father's Day! Learn more: Oberammergau Pilgrimage Support this podcast. We are 100% listener supported: Donate *************************************************   Lila Rose fought abortion before fighting abortion was cool. At the tender age of 15, she began the Live Action apostolate from her parents’ living room. She knew it was killing babies and wounding their mothers and fathers, and that “thoughts and prayers” alone is not a strategy. By 18, the then Evangelical Christian Lila began doing undercover-with-hidden-cam work investigating Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers. What she saw and heard—and recorded for the world to see—shocked her. And so LiveAction.org was born and quickly grew. Ten years out, and Live Action is a top leader and influencer in the area of authentic (and brave) pro-life education. As Lila points out, it’s not just about “learning facts.” It’s about how to put those facts—to quote St. Mother Teresa—into a  living action. Hence, Live Action. Listen to Lila unfold the story of how the non-profit, non-partisan apostolate became a powerhouse model for other pro-lifers wondering what to do about the problem.   Follow me on: YouTube Facebook Twitter  

Early Bird Discount has been extended for our pilgrimage to Oberammergau. Learn more here: www.patrickcoffin.media/pilgrimage Subscribe and rate this podcast. Support this podcast: www.patrickcoffin.media/donate *******************************************************   Out of nowhere, in a matter of weeks, Pete Buttigieg, the Gay Mayor of South Bend, IN, is a well-known fixture in the American media consumer’s psyche as a candidate for President of the United States. Time Magazine put him on the cover standing awkwardly with his husband (or is it wife?) Chasten with the headline “First Family.” Like, totally normal. Dr. E. Michael Jones, author of 12+ books on faith and culture and the editor of Culture Wars Magazine has written a concise biography about Mayer Pete titled Home Alone, a riff on the candidate’s memoirs (well, a memoir cum political manifesto), Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future. As it happens, Mayor Pete grew up three doors down on the same street as the Jones family i South Bend. Jones’s youngest son Adam attended the same school, and was also a valedictorian (in different years, of course) and both went to Harvard. Yet, Mayor Pete’s memoirs somehow—gosh, who knows why—there is no mention of neighbors like the Jones family. As Jones makes clear, almost nothing is what it appears when it comes to this longshot Democrat Party candidate.   For more show notes go to: www.patrickcoffin.media/show    

Our Oberammergau pilgrimage early-bird discount has been extended for Father's Day! Learn more: www.patrickcoffin.media/pilgrimage Subscribe and Review this podcast. If you enjoy this podcast considering donating here: www.patrickcoffin.media/donate *******************************************************   “Brother, are you saved?” is the question most Catholics are not comfortable hearing. In fact, Catholics tend not to talk about “being saved” or even “salvation” itself, even though the whole point of the incarnation of Christ is enshrined front and center in the Creed, “for us men and for our salvation….” So what is it, and why do so few Catholics seem able or even interested in talking about it? It’s a curious thing. Catholics seem more likely to couch it in terms of “going to heaven” rather than “being saved” which sounds Protestant. Dr. Michael Barber, associate professor of sacred Scripture and theology at the Augustine Institute, sets the record straight in this fact-laden interview about the One Thing that matters in this life and the life to come.   For rest of show notes, resources and more episodes go to www.patrickcoffin.media/show    

If you enjoy this podcast please Subscribe, Rate and Review. We are donor supported and Ads free. Consider being an Ambassador: www.patrickcoffin.media/donate Our Pilgrimage to Germany is filling up, learn more: www.patrickcoffin.media/pilgrimage   ******************************************************* Why does Planned Parenthood target black neighborhood for abortion for sale? Why are there so few high-profile black pastors who are known for pro-life advocacy? Why do so few people know that Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood was a diehard eugenics supporter? Rev. Walter Hoye has answers. He also has some practical wisdom to impart, and a courageous non-violent witness to emulate. This helps explain why Alveda King, the niece of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., wrote the powerful Foreword to Walter’s biography (see link below). Hoye chose 30 days in jail time in 2009 for violating an absurd City of Oakland ordinance called a “bubble law” (which was created for him). What was his crime? He held up a sign that read, “God loves you and your baby; let us help you.” No yelling, no intimidation, no pushy activism. Just a ministry of presence to give scared young women an alternative to what they’re about to choose. ****************************************************** Follow the show here: www.youtube.com/patrickcoffinmedia Follow me on Facebook and get notified of our weekly Livestreams! www.facebook.com/patrickcoffin.media  

If you enjoy this podcast please Subscribe and Review. It helps us! You can also subscribe to the YouTube channel and get notified each time we go live or post a new show episode.  Join me in Germany to see the Passion Play at Oberammergau. Go HERE. *******************************************************   Sometimes outsiders behave like insiders and vice versa. Agnostic Jewish author and critic David Horowitz has collected an awful lot of important social and historical information and put it all in one place: his new book Dark Agenda: The War to Destroy Christian America. Why defend Christian America from her enemies—many of them liberal Jews at the forefront of radical movements? Because, inter alia, Horowitz is a recovering liberal radical himself and he knows the targets of his book and their rabid agenda very well.   For the rest of show notes and other episodes go to: www.patrickcoffin.media

              Early-Bird registration for Oberammergau ends TODAY. Call  313.565.8888 x 4170.  For more shows go to: www.patrickcoffin.media If you enjoy this podcast please help us keep it free. www.patrickcoffin.media/donate ******************************************************   Who cares about boys? Almost….nobody! Our culture focuses on feminist concerns, the wage gap myth, girls’ health, and so on. Boys and boyhood are simply not interesting or valuable enough for the elites to talk about. Dr. Anthony Esolen had enough. So he wrote a fine book, Defending Boyhood, which lays out the problem, provides some historical context along with tons of examples from novels and movies. The need to support and defend boyhood is urgent and (if you have eyes to see) obvious.   In this episode you will learn Why there is no perfect “golden age” where things were perfect but the principles and values of boyhood were much healthier The effect of the failed Sexual Revolution on the world of boys Why boys are in special need of rituals of self-discovery in ways girls are not The connection between absent or abusive fathers and the homosexual impulse How contraception disrupted the relationship between men and women, and hence the family, and how this affected our perception of boys (and children in general) Why boys love to sing if the songs tell manly tales How to survive in a culture bereft of institutions and clubs devoted to the care and growth of boys qua boys.    Resources mentioned in this episode Defending Boyhood: How Building Forts, Reading Stories, Playing Ball, and Praying to God Can Change the World by Anthony Esolen The Works of Rudyard Kipling Penrod: Illustrated Edition by Booth Tarkington Touchstone Magazine featuring Esolen’s contributions

Join me in Germany next spring. Early Bird special ends April 30. Go to: www.patrickcoffin.media/germany. Subscribe, rate and review this podcast.  Check the website for more shows: www.patrickcoffin.media   ****************************************************** What? Another too-little-too-late book defending marriage? Dr. Scott Hahn thinks the battle has just begun for a resurgent reverence for marriage as its been defined for 3000+ years, and was raised to the dignity of a Sacrament by Jesus Christ. Marriage as Sacrament is badly misunderstood today, which is part of the reason why so many people leave their spouses when the going gets tough. Hahn, professor of theology at Franciscan University of Steubenville, OH, and author of over 40 books, knows firsthand how tough the going can get. Share this very personal interview with one of the best known and respected Catholic thinkers and influencers in American Church history.   In this episode you will learn The deeper meaning of “it is not good for the man to be alone” (Genesis 2:18) Why the Church calls marriage the Sacrament of “Matrimony” The connection between the 1930 Anglican decision to allow contraception and the current crisis of the definition of marriage Why marriage is the cell of the entire body of the Church and of the broader society How couples who stick together provide not just a solid foundation for their kids but a living homily to others Why the Sacrament of Matrimony is impossible without the “third party” of Jesus Christ