There Is No Conservatism Past Or Future Without The Catholic Church

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SPECIAL GUEST 

H.W. CROCKER III 

Author of book Triumph 

• I wanted to write something that isn’t just boring.
• I wanted an adventure story!
• It covers the Battle of Lepanto and the Crusades and so on.
• It is a very large book and it reads like a novel.
• The story of Saint Patrick and a chapter on the Inquisition. 
• 4,000 people condemned to death in the Inquisition. 
• That isn’t a very big number in the grand scheme of things or wars if you look at say World War I and II.
• It is a pro-Catholic story.
• Not only wrong but it was based on intentional fraud. 
• You can look all this up, it was a historical fact.

HEADLINE: Rome Is Falling! Rome Is Falling! by H.W. Crocker III

• Yes, that’s right: men constantly wonder who the next pope will be—because men know, in their patriarchal, heteronormative, cisgender wisdom, that the next papal election will be more important than the next presidential election; they also know that the next pope is likely to be much younger—and therefore hipper—than the next president. (If Joe Biden were a cardinal—heaven forfend—he would, given the voting rules, be too old to cast a ballot for the next pope.) 
• Who succeeds Big Frank would be the most consequential of the Modern History of the Church.
• The answer is that the papacy is 2,000 years old. It is the ultimate reality show survivor. The United States, on the other hand, is not quite 250 years old and seems to be as unsteady on its feet, and as unclear in its mind, as the president. 
• That’s what real men think about. That’s why football has its Saints, baseball has its Padres, and basketball has its (King of) Kings. It’s all because men are always thinking of Rome. 
• The Catholic church claims the ultimate truth.
• But he’ll need some help. The biggest help he, the United States, and Western Civilization could have, is a reinvigorated Catholic Church—teaching the Catechism, spreading the Gospel, renewing the reservoir of faith so that sanity may be nourished again. 
• The President can only do so much.
• The first principle – the only way to get around that is to understand and defend the conservative view of life is through the Catholic Church.
• Pay attention to the end notes in this book b/c I use what I call narrative end notes.
• So there are often funny stories in these end notes!