Stay ConnectedBased on the book, “Return to Order” by John Horvat II, this podcast addresses the root causes of the nation’s moral decay and shows how we can return to those God-given institutions and principles that naturally regulate society and put it back in balance.
Hosted by Edwin Benson, Matthew Miller and John Horvat II himself, the Return to Order Moment brings you insights, analysis and information for a culture in crisis.
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If we had to find a date to say when the sexual revolution began, August 18, 1960 would be a good place to start. That day, the first contraceptive pill went on sale in the United States. That marked the beginnings of mass society’s acceptance of a separation between the marital act and procreation. Certainly, there were those who led immoral lives before 1960, but they were both obvious and few. Communities shunned the promiscuous. Gradually at first, but with increasing speed as the sixties rolled out, virtue and responsibility in the sexual realm were replaced by self-gratification. “Do your own thing” and other, more vulgar, slogans marked the rise of widespread immorality. All around us lie the victims of the sexual revolution. Among them are the 60 million Americans that never lived because of abortion. We can see it in the fact that very few families are unaffected by divorce. We can see it in the number of unloved and unmarried young women who deliberately become pregnant in order to have a baby who they can call their own. We can see it in the gang culture that has become a part of life in most cities – large or small. To read these essays in their original format, please use these links - https://www.tfp.org/12-million-fatherless-boys-need-urgent-rescue-from-calamity/?PKG=TFPE22242 and https://www.tfp.org/the-feminist-war-on-fatherhood-book-review-of-the-new-politics-of-sex/. Thank you for listening.
Henry the Eighth is getting a historical make-over. For centuries, the English king was most often a figure of ridicule. The only thing that most people knew about him pertained to his deplorable marital history. However, some historians are reconsidering his role in English history, looking at him in a far more favorable light. They paint him as a figure who made England stronger abroad and more unified at home. Even his horrible record as a husband is explained away as necessary to maintain the Tudor dynasty and stabilize England by providing a male heir. There is another interesting – and ironic – facet of Henry’s rehabilitation. Some try to present him as a pioneer of the modern idea of separating the Church from the State. For the “woke” historians, the Catholic Church is high on the list of oppressors. Therefore, they are quite willing to praise a tyrant, as long as he fought against the Church. This episode of the Return to Order Moment looks at Henry VIII from a different vantage point – that of his victims. Specifically, we look at two of those victims – both better men than Henry. They are, in fact, both saints – Saint Thomas More and Saint John Fisher.
Modern American culture is falsely egalitarian. Once men wore suits to baseball games. Now everyone dresses as if they were about to go on a tramp through the woods. There are many situations in which work clothes are appropriate. No one wears a tuxedo to do heavy yard work. That is reasonable. People in many trades need clothing that is as tough as the work that those people do. However, when one enters a fine restaurant, many of the patrons are dressed in the same overly casual way. How did such a state come to be? Why are so many people dressed in ways that make them look ugly? Why does society reject the idea of being well and modestly dressed? If listeners wish to examine the essays in their original format, please refer to the following links: https://www.tfp.org/dignity-and-distinction-for-both-great-and-small/, https://www.returntoorder.org/2016/04/emperor-wearing-pajamas-decline-dress/, https://www.returntoorder.org/2016/04/emperor-wearing-pajamas-decline-dress/, and https://www.tfp.org/not-today-satan-t-shirts-are-like-playing-with-fire/?PKG=TFPE22237. Thank you for listening.
For generations, the press depicted Wall Street as a group of greedy men ready to do anything to make a profit. Even today, pieces of that reputation remain. In fact, modern leftists cannot decide whether to applaud or hiss when they see a radical billionaire. The hissing is a remnant of the old attitude toward Wall Street. No one trusts someone who is so greedy that they accumulate that much money. The applause comes because so many of those billions are being funneled into leftist causes. Indeed, it seems that Wall Street’s biggest players are trying to destroy the system that made them rich. Why is this happening? How is it happening? This episode of the Return to Order Moment addresses these important questions. To read the essays in their original format, please use the following links: Why is the Financial Sector Destroying Corporate America? We Must Stop the ‘ESG’ Tyranny (returntoorder.org), How Wall Street Is Building an Abortion Apartheid Regime - Return to Order, and Can Anyone Tell Me: What Is a Loan? - Return to Order. Thank you for listening.
One current trend in the academic pretense called Critical Theory is to re-examine the heroes of the past and shoehorn them into precast Marxist molds of oppressor and oppressed. One of the victims of such re-appraisals is Saint Junipero Serra, who some refer to as the founder of California. The State of California acknowledged as much when it placed a statue of Saint Junipero in the U.S. Capitol’s Statuary Hall. However, Saint Junipero was European, white, male, and especially Catholic. Therefore, he is viewed as an oppressor by modernists masquerading as historians. One symptom of this academic arrogance was the toppling of a thirty-foot statue of Saint Junipero in San Francisco during the madness of the riots of the summer of Two Thousand Twenty. Similar acts of vandalism took place in Sacramento, Santa Barbara, and Los Angeles. This episode of the Return to Order Moment takes a more scholarly look at Saint Junipero. We do so through the work of the late Dr. Bartomeu Font Obrador. Dr. Font Obrador had special insights into Saint Junipero’s character because of his scholarly work, but also because he had a deep knowledge of the place where Saint Junipero was born and raised – the Island of Majorca – and its unique culture.
Friday, June 24th, Two Thousand Twenty-Two can be seen as one of the great days of American History. That day, the Supreme Court announced that it was reversing the disastrous Roe versus Wade decision. Even before the announcement, the left-wing misinformation machine cranked into high gear. Such a strategy is ultimately counter-productive because people will eventually discover that they have been deceived. However, the left has lied for so long about so many things that they have lost the ability to distinguish between true and false. They follow the Marxist doctrine that any act is moral if it promotes the revolution. The Supreme Court's landmark decision places the ball squarely in the right wing's court. However, it will not stay there for long. Those who would defend life cannot afford to repeat the mistakes of the early seventies and allow the left to take control of the issue once again. This podcast discusses three aspects of that struggle - the lessons to be learned from the left's reaction to the decision, the new importance of the various states in the conflict, and the implications of the left's abandonment of their feminist allies. To read these articles in their original formats, please use the following links: https://www.tfp.org/five-crucial-lessons-from-the-uproar-over-roe-v-wade/, https://www.tfp.org/getting-rid-of-roe-is-only-half-of-the-battle-michigan-is-on-the-front-lines/, and https://www.tfp.org/why-the-pro-abortion-movement-is-leaving-feminists-behind/?pkg=TFPE22227. Thank you for listening.
Modernism is a difficult term to define because it has so many parts. No definition could possibly sum up all of the errors contained within it. Fighting against it is rather like playing a game in which one defeats an adversary – only to have another arise. The fight against Modernism includes tearing down its component parts – relativism, indifferentism, post-modernism, the so-called woke agenda, and so on. While this is necessary, it can never totally defeat the thing itself. Like removing a weed from a garden, crushing Modernism requires digging out the root. Today, the Return to Order Moment presents an essay about the man who defined and fought against Modernism during the early twentieth century. Mr. Ben Broussard discussed the crucial role of Pope Saint Pius X.
Most parents and students spend little time thinking about school during the summer. That is a mistake because this is the time that school boards and administrators plan the programs that they will implement in September. Many of those programs are more about indoctrination than they are about education. Three examples of that indoctrination make up the body of this podcast. Listeners who wish to see the written versions of these articles can use the following links: https://www.tfp.org/new-yorks-mosaic-curriculum-is-shrouded-in-mystery-the-time-to-protest-is-now/?pkg=TFPE22215, https://www.tfp.org/hempfield-high-schools-drag-show-enrages-parents-protecting-their-childrens-innocence/?pkg=TFPE22215, and https://www.tfp.org/six-steps-radical-school-boards-will-be-taking-this-summer-and-how-you-can-defeat-them/?pkg=TFPE22215. Thank you for listening.
From one perspective, it may appear that liberalism has never been stronger. The woke world can, indeed, be described as liberalism on steroids. Ultra-liberals rule America’s schools, news media, entertainment, and almost every other cultural institution. Their influence appears to be as solid as the Rock of Gibraltar. However, just as Gibraltar is riddled with small caves, leftist domination looks far stronger than it is. In fact, the ultra-liberals seem to save their most vengeful attacks for liberals who aren’t sufficiently radical. Indeed, there is good reason to believe that the whole liberal order, built up over centuries, is collapsing. What can we expect? What can we hope for? How can we help to make our hopes into reality? To read the articles used in this podcast, p[lease refer to the following links - https://www.returntoorder.org/2022/05/as-liberalism-crashes-where-should-we-look-for-solutions/, https://www.returntoorder.org/2022/05/the-whatever-mentality/, and https://www.returntoorder.org/2022/04/why-is-bidens-sec-waging-war-on-american-energy/. Thank you for listening.
Today, the Return to Order Moment discusses the relationship between the two men who are, perhaps, the Catholics about whom Americans have heard the most – Pope Francis and Father James Martin. Father Martin is best known for his advocacy for homosexuals within the Church. His very public stand openly violates Catholic doctrine but has been applauded by Pope Francis. This attitude has far-reaching implications for the Catholic Church. In this podcast, Mr. Luis Sérgio Solimeo, a noted Catholic author and scholar considers those implications. Those who wish to examine these articles more closely, as well as the footnotes can use the following links - https://www.tfp.org/father-martin-smiles-at-the-sin-of-homosexuality-and-pope-francis-thanks-him/ and https://www.tfp.org/progressive-clergy-intend-normalize-sin-sodomy/. Thank you for listening.
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