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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

  1. 1d ago

    The Overton Window now; SCOTUS and trans; what bishops need to disavow

    Show Notes: The Overton Window (Mackinac Center) An Introduction to the Overton Window of Political Possibilities (Mackinac Center) US ambassador to Holy See visits Taybeh day after settler attack on locals, European diplomats (Zeale) Justices leave lower court order in place preventing Trump administration from implementing transgender inmate policy (SCOTUSblog) Supreme Court Rules on Trump Admin Policy Blocking Sex-Rejecting Procedures for Prisoners Matt Fradd: Did Mary Really Appear in Egypt? Our Lady of Zeitoun (Fr. Anthony Mourad) | Ep. 601 Fifty-one years ago today: Carlton Fisk hits home run in Game 6 All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy (affiliate link) Phil Lawler’s Substack Leila’s other Substack: The School for Housewives Leila’s blog: Like Mother, Like Daughter Lawler Family Book Club list (scroll down) Your paid subscription means a lot to us and helps us continue our work, but we are happy for you to receive our podcast in your email for free! Get full access to Happy Despite Them at leilamarielawler.substack.com/subscribe

    The Overton Window now; SCOTUS and trans; what bishops need to disavow

  2. Oct 16

    Catholic teaching on capital punishment, principles and prudence; Fr. James Martin’s deceptions

    Show Notes: Changes in the Catechism on capital punishment: Original wording 2266: Preserving the common good of society requires rendering the aggressor unable to inflict harm. For this reason, the traditional teaching of the Church has acknowledged as well-founded the right and duty of legitimate public authority to punish malefactors by means of penalties commensurate with the gravity of the crime, not excluding, in cases of extreme gravity, the death penalty… 2266, cont.: The primary effect of punishment is to redress the disorder caused by the offense…. 2267: If bloodless means are sufficient to defend human lives against an aggressor and to protect public order and the safety of persons, public authority should limit itself to such means, because they better correspond to the concrete conditions of the common good and are more in conformity with the dignity of the human person. As amended by Pope John Paul II 2267: “…cases of absolute necessity for suppression of the offender today are very rare, if not practically non-existent.” As amended again by Pope Francis (in current edition) 2266: The efforts of the state to curb the spread of behavior harmful to people’s rights and to the basic rules of civil society correspond to the requirement of safeguarding the common good. Legitimate public authority has the right and the duty to inflict punishment proportionate to the gravity of the offense. Punishment has the primary aim of redressing the disorder introduced by the offense... 2267: Recourse to the death penalty on the part of legitimate authority, following a fair trial, was long considered an appropriate response to the gravity of certain crimes and an acceptable, albeit extreme, means of safeguarding the common good.Today, however, there is an increasing awareness that the dignity of the person is not lost even after the commission of very serious crimes. In addition, a new understanding has emerged of the significance of penal sanctions imposed by the state. Lastly, more effective systems of detention have been developed, which ensure the due protection of citizens but, at the same time, do not definitively deprive the guilty of the possibility of redemption.Consequently, the Church teaches, in the light of the Gospel, that “the death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person”, and she works with determination for its abolition worldwide. On the death penalty, an uncertain trumpet by Phil Lawler: Nowhere has confusion about Catholic teaching on capital punishment been more in evidence than in the responses to Pete Hegseth’s plan to livestream the execution by firing squad of the Fort Hood terrorist. Phil Lawler’s Substack Leila’s other Substack: The School for Housewives Leila’s blog: Like Mother, Like Daughter Lawler Family Book Club list (scroll down) Your paid subscription means a lot to us and helps us continue our work, but we are happy for you to receive our podcast in your email for free! Get full access to Happy Despite Them at leilamarielawler.substack.com/subscribe

    Catholic teaching on capital punishment, principles and prudence; Fr. James Martin’s deceptions

  3. Oct 9

    AI: Man can’t make consciousness; Vatican in denial as lavender mafia has its way; and more!

    Show Notes: Religious Scholars Met with Anthropic. What They Heard Stunned Them (New York Times) (archived here) A warning about ‘model welfare’ (Mustafa Suleyman, Substack) 10 Years After Amoris Laetitia, Bishops to Discuss Challenges of Families at the Vatican ‘Amoris Laetitia’ Is Consistent With Church Teaching, Sister Tells Pope and Bishops Pope on Amoris laetitia: What Church do people meet when most fragile? [sic] Wilmer will bring to Rome experiences of “homosexual couples” and divorced people who have remarried at the meeting on Amoris laetitia Short version of Leila’s argument regarding the contradiction of Amoris Laetitia (scroll down to footnote 2) The long version is in the appendix of this book (endorsed by Cardinal Pell, RIP) How the Sexual Revolution Led to Cornell by Louise Perry (WSJ) The Campus Rape Myth (Heather MacDonald, City Journal) Orley Farm, by Anthony Trollope Phil Lawler’s Substack Leila’s other Substack: The School for Housewives Leila’s blog: Like Mother, Like Daughter Lawler Family Book Club list (scroll down) Your paid subscription means a lot to us and helps us continue our work, but we are happy for you to receive our podcast in your email for free! Want to tell a friend? Please do! It’s a great way to help us! How about this, if you enjoyed listening to this one episode: Get full access to Happy Despite Them at leilamarielawler.substack.com/subscribe

    AI: Man can’t make consciousness; Vatican in denial as lavender mafia has its way; and more!

  4. Oct 2

    Grandparents kill their way out of gender ideology; Pope Leo in France; the Cornell 7: how about basic decency? and more!

    Show Notes: Pope Leo in France: highlights Pope Leo’s in-flight presser: “So, I would say, if that’s politics, I did that, but it was not to get involved in French politics. It was to teach what the Church really believes.” The insanity of the coverage of this story: Trans NYT exec charged with child abuse threatened to kill spouse before in-laws shot her to death in California: court docs. But then, the story is insane. Support Andy Ngo on Substack. Pope Leo’s address to Civil Authorities in France Cornell 7 gang rape case. Phil Lawler’s Substack Leila’s other Substack: The School for Housewives Leila’s blog: Like Mother, Like Daughter Lawler Family Book Club list (scroll down) Your paid subscription means a lot to us and helps us continue our work, but we are happy for you to receive our podcast in your email for free! Want to tell a friend? Please do! It’s a great way to help us! How about this, if you enjoyed listening to this one episode: Get full access to Happy Despite Them at leilamarielawler.substack.com/subscribe

    Grandparents kill their way out of gender ideology; Pope Leo in France; the Cornell 7: how about basic decency? and more!

  5. Sep 25

    Coincidentally, Massachusetts will push postpartum home visits; Surrogacy fights over baby’s life; AI threat; and more!

    State intrusion after baby is born: Governor Healey Announces New Actions to Strengthen Maternal Mental Health and Postpartum Care from the MA government website Maura Healey Wants Increased Maternal Mental Health Spending Following Lindsay Clancy Trial (New Boston Post) Maura Healey Wants to Investigate Parents of Every Newborn Baby (LifeNews) Massachusetts Considers Bill to Prioritize Treatment Over Punishment for New Mothers with Postpartum Psychiatric Illness Nikole Hannah-Jones: She flunks all the tests: In which we talk about court-ordered forced busing: How to resolve AI threats: J.P. Morgan and the Panic of 1907: How one financier proved mightier than Wall Street (Daily News) The history of 1907 Financial Crisis: The Unseen Hand of J.P. Morgan (World History Journal) Surrogacy Gridlock: Supreme Court Turns Away Surrogate Appeal in Messy Custody Fight (Wall Street Journal Supreme Court stays out of custody dispute between California couple and surrogate (CBS) And More: Confraternity of Christian Mothers Phil Lawler’s Substack Leila’s other Substack: The School for Housewives Leila’s blog: Like Mother, Like Daughter Lawler Family Book Club list (scroll down) Your paid subscription means a lot to us and helps us continue our work, but we are happy for you to receive our podcast in your email for free! Want to tell a friend? Please do! It’s a great way to help us! How about this, if you enjoyed listening to this one episode: Get full access to Happy Despite Them at leilamarielawler.substack.com/subscribe

    Coincidentally, Massachusetts will push postpartum home visits; Surrogacy fights over baby’s life; AI threat; and more!

  6. Sep 18

    The week’s news: RFK Jr. at the GOP midterm convention; juror intimidation, state kidnapping over transing teen, &etc.

    Show Notes: New Details About Holdout Juror in Lindsay Clancy Case Revealed Report of an interview with the holdout juror in the Clancy case Robert Kennedy’s speech at the Republican Midterm Convention Massachusetts kidnaps a teen to trans her against her parents’ will Our interview with Robert Royal on his book about the 21st century martyrs: Phil Lawler’s Substack Leila’s other Substack: The School for Housewives Leila’s blog: Like Mother, Like Daughter Lawler Family Book Club list (scroll down) Your paid subscription means a lot to us and helps us continue our work, but we are happy for you to receive our podcast in your email for free! Want to tell a friend? Please do! It’s a great way to help us! How about this, if you enjoyed listening to this one episode: Get full access to Happy Despite Them at leilamarielawler.substack.com/subscribe

    The week’s news: RFK Jr. at the GOP midterm convention; juror intimidation, state kidnapping over transing teen, &etc.

  7. Sep 11

    Bishops’ outcries and silences; Don’t expand entitlements - eliminate them

    Show Notes: * The German bishops’ outcry; the US bishops’ silence by Phil Lawler Why the AfD Wins by Christopher Caldwell Germany’s ‘Firewall’ Against the Far Right Is Being Tested as Never Before ~ News analysis, The New York Times (archive version here) The AfD Rises on the German Right ~ Editorial on The Wall Street Journal (check this page to see if the article is archived yet) Mitt Brennender Sorge: On the Church and the German Reich, Pope Pius XI (1937) * Using the Child Care and Development Fund for married couples with one spouse staying home with children: Pro: The Stay-At-Home Parent Debate Is GDP First Vs. America First​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Con: Welfare Queens of the Right and the Diet Coke of Socialists How the program works Lawler Family Book Club list (scroll down) Phil Lawler’s Substack Leila’s other Substack: The School for Housewives Leila’s blog: Like Mother, Like Daughter Your paid subscription means a lot to us and helps us continue our work, but we are happy for you to receive our podcast in your email for free! Want to tell a friend? Please do! It’s a great way to help us! How about this, if you enjoyed listening to this one episode: Get full access to Happy Despite Them at leilamarielawler.substack.com/subscribe

    Bishops’ outcries and silences; Don’t expand entitlements - eliminate them

  8. Sep 4

    Gov. Shapiro and the Dems’ midterm strategy; Fr. Mankowski and the SJs; The Inklings, the Crusades, and more!

    Update (from when we recorded): The second “unvaccinated person” measles-associated case is put in perspective by Lancaster County Commissioner Josh Parsons. He makes five points about the information given to the public. A must-read on this developing situation. Democratic Socialists of America Measles Hysteria: A Timely Political Hit Job by Mary Talley Bowden The Pope and the Jesuits: John Paul II and the New Order in the Catholic Church ~ by James Hitchcock Pontifex Minimus — Fr. Mankowksi’s review of Fr. James Martin S.J.’s book Building a Bridge, in First Things Farewell, Uncle Di: Father Paul Mankowski, RIP ~ Phil Lawler’s obituary on CatholicCulture, with links to some Mankowski classics Diogenes Unveiled: A Paul Mankowski, S.J., Collection (affiliate link) ~ edited by Phil Lawler Jesuit at Large: Essays and Reviews by Paul Mankowski, S.J. (affiliate link) ~ edited by George Weigel The Sound of Silence: The Life and Canceling of a Heroic Jesuit Priest (affiliate link) ~ by Karen Hall Tolkien and the Inklings: Men of the West (affiliate link) ~ by Bradley J. Birzer The Crusades: A History (affiliate link) ~ by Jonathan Riley-Smith Phil Lawler’s Substack Leila’s other Substack: The School for Housewives Leila’s blog: Like Mother, Like Daughter Your paid subscription means a lot to us and helps us continue our work, but we are happy for you to receive our podcast in your email for free! Want to tell a friend? Please do! It’s a great way to help us! How about this, if you enjoyed listening to this one episode: Get full access to Happy Despite Them at leilamarielawler.substack.com/subscribe

    Gov. Shapiro and the Dems’ midterm strategy; Fr. Mankowski and the SJs; The Inklings, the Crusades, and more!
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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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  • Creator
    Leila and Phil Lawler
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    127
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    © Leila Marie Lawler
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