The Tootsie Pop Test

Fr. Jon Tveit and Amanda P. join our hosts to discuss dinosaurs, paleontology, and Genesis.

Timothy Nerozzi joins our hosts to discuss his recent piece for the website and to interview its subject, the recently laicized AI priest, Father Justin.

Timothy P. Carney of the Washington Examiner joins our hosts to discuss his new book, Family Unfriendly: How Our Culture Made Raising Kids Much Harder Than It Needs to Be, and to debate "The Travel Team Trap" with Nick Cotta, a father of eight children, two of whom play travel sports.

Stanley Fish joins our hosts to discuss "Impossible Things," his recent essay for the magazine, in which he catologues the latest attempts in a perennial project to clean up human behavior, from blind submission to critical legal studies to artificial intelligence. Professor Fish is the presidential scholar in residence at New College, Florida, and the author of many books, most recently, Law at the Movies: Turning Legal Doctrine into Art, which is available for purchase here.

Urban Hannon joins our hosts to discuss Lenten practices, as well as his new book, Thomistic Mystagogy: St. Thomas Aquinas's Commentaries on the Mass.

Megan McArdle of the Washington Post joins our hosts to discuss immigration and what it means to be American.

Amanda Piccirillo of the Josias podcast and Lydia Sherwood join our hosts to discuss memories (and false memories) of the Church of our youth.

Stephen White, executive director of the Catholic Project, joins our hosts to discuss his organization's recent report examining generational differences among the men who are ordained to the priesthood.

Father Joseph Koczera, S.J., a professor at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, and Andrew Petiprin, a columnist for Catholic World Report and host of the Ignatius Press podcast, join the Lamplighters to discuss the legacy of The Excorcist.

Shawn Phillip Cooper joins the Lamplighters to discuss King Arthur, Thomas Malory, and the Sword in the Stone.