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The Home Front

Leila and Phil Lawler

Leila and Phil Lawler have been talking to each other about everything for almost 50 years. Join as they discuss every aspect of the battle on the home front. leilamarielawler.substack.com

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130 episodes

  1. “Special Needs” burden on schools; the wisdom of a constitution; Hayek and freedom; HMS Pinafore; and more! 53:51
  2. Curbing infections, not people; election thoughts; a good man, a heroic death 55:10
  3. Kidnapping and Flock; Just War philosopher changes his mind about Gaza; and more! 56:29
  4. The Overton Window now; SCOTUS and trans; what bishops need to disavow 57:33
  5. Catholic teaching on capital punishment, principles and prudence; Fr. James Martin’s deceptions 56:04
  6. AI: Man can’t make consciousness; Vatican in denial as lavender mafia has its way; and more! 52:05
  7. Grandparents kill their way out of gender ideology; Pope Leo in France; the Cornell 7: how about basic decency? and more! 53:29
  8. Coincidentally, Massachusetts will push postpartum home visits; Surrogacy fights over baby’s life; AI threat; and more! 53:01
  9. The week’s news: RFK Jr. at the GOP midterm convention; juror intimidation, state kidnapping over transing teen, &etc. 48:49
  10. Bishops’ outcries and silences; Don’t expand entitlements - eliminate them 52:40
  11. Gov. Shapiro and the Dems’ midterm strategy; Fr. Mankowski and the SJs; The Inklings, the Crusades, and more! 53:15
  12. The roots of conservatism; the magnanimity of Dolly Parton; and more! 59:25
  13. Save our institutions and our freedom from Woke; the laity vs. the bishops; a book about Lyme disease and biological warfare 57:47
  14. Gov. Healey vs. the Church: excommunication or...? Principles and prudence in politics and saying what you mean. 57:18
  15. Peaceful assembly underlies all other 1A rights; Florida bishops rightly rebuked on vaccine mandates 44:57
  16. The Fauci Diary hearings 53:51
  17. Modesty and complementarity; Euthanasia and organ harvesting 54:51
  18. The bishops' academic scandal; ACB, leftist violence, and the ordinary person 47:08
  19. St. John Henry Newman on the Ordo Amoris; are bishops starting to crack on the TLM? and more! 57:27
  20. Freedom of religion? A statue and the border wall 27:00
  21. Bring back taboos; Corporate "Pride" displays are compelled speech 53:37
  22. One-step Vatican reform; the non-SSPX crisis 52:18
  23. Spanish Bishops challenge Amoris Laetitia; will Pope Tawadros move the Catholic Church away from gay blessings? And wokeness comes for classic mystery novels! 53:13
  24. Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo's document on AI 58:40
  25. SCOTUS and the abortion pill; Pope Leo and AI 58:43
  26. The SSPX and "the State of Necessity"; Daycare's deceptions; a 250th book for all 52:58
  27. How to think about the origins of the cosmos 48:55
  28. Phil on the US-UK-Vatican "Special Relationship"; Leila: surrogacy is evil and already illegal; bees & books! 56:27
  29. Are we still on Flight 93; Measles; Democrats, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and you 48:23
  30. President Trump v. Pope Leo; Dumbarton Oaks and Beverley Nichols 41:39
  31. How Boston's forced desegregation busing led to nationwide judicial tyranny today; Easter conversion trends analyzed; and more! 42:14
  32. Supreme Court free speech cases you haven't heard of; the death of infamous abortionist, Kermit Gosnell; playing bridge with our grandchildren 50:11
  33. Interview: Katy Faust on why the "Same Sex Marriage" Obergefell ruling must -- and can -- be overturned 50:58
  34. Vatican mistrial analysis; the wrongest man in history; Carrie Gress' Something Wicked review 54:09
  35. La Trappe monastery and the Economy of Salvation; Christian Deaths in Lebanon 49:45
  36. Just War in Iran? SCOTUS hands down landmark decision for parental rights; and more! 48:09
  37. The challenge of the SSPX; The Cristeros and Just War 48:53
  38. Notre Dame University offense (not football!); Marco Rubio's speech; and more! 53:47
  39. How to repeal Obergefell; Synodality fatigue; Our favorite history books, military and otherwise! 44:33
  40. China has a demographics problem; AI will teach your children trash; books and more! 45:10
  41. Alex Pretti, Minneapolis, and confusion about civil unrest, excessive force, gun rights, and First Amendment freedoms 52:52
  42. Thoughts on a few prelates and their pronouncements -- and discreditable ties; Greenland, NATO, and Trump; and more! 48:42
  43. Minneapolis once more on the fault line 42:59
  44. Cardinals' consistory; Diocesan conflict; Venezuela: Just War? Monroe Doctrine? 50:47
  45. Daycare fraud: bad, but also inevitable; what to know when someone on the right gains "strange new respect"; and more! 55:13
  46. Demographics, Wokeness: Baby Boomers; and the Lost Generation of straight white men 56:31
  47. MA priest desecrates Nativity display; Vatican issues monogamy document; China's underground Church ignored 53:21
  48. Pope Leo's trip to Turkey; 10 children confirmed dead from the mRNA shot, breaking open the narrative; and more! 52:16
  49. Our exasperating bishops; Why we don't recommend giving to the Campaign for Human Development; and more! 55:13
  50. Honoring -- or just humoring -- veterans; Scotus won't hear Kim Davis case in Obergefell and that's okay; and more! 49:59