Show Notes:Pope Leo in France: highlightsPope 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 FranceCornell 7 gang rape case.Phil Lawler’s SubstackLeila’s other Substack: The School for HousewivesLeila’s blog: Like Mother, Like DaughterLawler 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

State intrusion after baby is born:Governor Healey Announces New Actions to Strengthen Maternal Mental Health and Postpartum Care from the MA government websiteMaura 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 IllnessNikole 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 MothersPhil Lawler’s SubstackLeila’s other Substack: The School for HousewivesLeila’s blog: Like Mother, Like DaughterLawler 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

Show Notes:New Details About Holdout Juror in Lindsay Clancy Case RevealedReport of an interview with the holdout juror in the Clancy caseRobert Kennedy’s speech at the Republican Midterm ConventionMassachusetts kidnaps a teen to trans her against her parents’ willOur interview with Robert Royal on his book about the 21st century martyrs:Phil Lawler’s SubstackLeila’s other Substack: The School for HousewivesLeila’s blog: Like Mother, Like DaughterLawler 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

Show Notes:* The German bishops’ outcry; the US bishops’ silence by Phil LawlerWhy the AfD Wins by Christopher CaldwellGermany’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 SocialistsHow the program worksLawler Family Book Club list (scroll down)Phil Lawler’s SubstackLeila’s other Substack: The School for HousewivesLeila’s blog: Like Mother, Like DaughterYour 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

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 AmericaMeasles Hysteria: A Timely Political Hit Job by Mary Talley BowdenThe Pope and the Jesuits: John Paul II and the New Order in the Catholic Church ~ by James HitchcockPontifex Minimus — Fr. Mankowksi’s review of Fr. James Martin S.J.’s book Building a Bridge, in First ThingsFarewell, Uncle Di: Father Paul Mankowski, RIP ~ Phil Lawler’s obituary on CatholicCulture, with links to some Mankowski classicsDiogenes Unveiled: A Paul Mankowski, S.J., Collection (affiliate link) ~ edited by Phil LawlerJesuit 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 HallTolkien and the Inklings: Men of the West (affiliate link) ~ by Bradley J. Birzer The Crusades: A History (affiliate link) ~ by Jonathan Riley-SmithPhil Lawler’s SubstackLeila’s other Substack: The School for HousewivesLeila’s blog: Like Mother, Like DaughterYour 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

Show Notes:How One Man Invented the Conservative Moment ~ Lee Edwards on Buckley’s “Fusionism”The Neoconservatives: An Endangered Species ~ Russell KirkGeorge Nash, The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945 (affiliate link)The U.S. Marches Toward State Capitalism With American Characteristics (Wall Street Journal)The U.S. Government Now Owns Stakes In 30 Companies. Intel Is Just The Beginning (Forbes)Adam Smith, Theory of Moral Sentiments (free ebook)Thomas Sowell, Knowledge and Decisions (affiliate link)Dolly Parton, RIPDolly Parton’s philanthropy was based on ‘her belief in the goodness of people’Magnanimity ~ St. Thomas AquinasIda Friederike Görres, Bread Grows in WinterPhil Lawler’s SubstackLeila’s other Substack: The School for HousewivesLeila’s blog: Like Mother, Like DaughterYour 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

Show Notes:Cambridge chancellor condemns media frenzy after Black professor’s deathHow can lay Catholics spur bishops into action? (Phil at CatholicCulture)Nathan Cofnas (who wrote about Jason Arday, exposing his plagiarism and lack of credentials)Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States, by Albert O. Hirschman (affiliate link)Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons by Kris Newby (affiliate link)Phil Lawler’s SubstackLeila’s other Substack: The School for HousewivesLeila’s blog: Like Mother, Like DaughterYour 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

Show Notes:Governor Healey signs abortion bill (and here on the MA website). John O’Sullivan reacts to Healey photo on XThe Massachusetts bishops’ polite collapse by Phil LawlerExcommunication? Not gonna happen by Phil LawlerStatement by Archbishop Henning of Boston (released after the bill was signed)CatholicVote president urges Massachusetts bishops to consider excommunication of Gov. Healey for signing late-term abortion lawBishop Barron’s statement (released after bill was signed)McCarrick’s legacy in the Biden-Communion debate by Phil Lawler (August 2020)The Faithful Departed: The Collapse of Boston’s Catholic Culture by Phil Lawler (affiliate link)Testimony of Anthony Levatino, MD, JD [former abortionist] before the Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. House of Representatives on why abortion is never necessary for the life of the motherRoss Douthat and the founder of Orchid, a company to enable IVF users to use eugenics to choose embryos (see minute 1:03 for the clip)Ross Douthat and Samuel Moyn, Yale professor, on whether parents or the state has the children’s interests at heart.Saying what you really think: freedom and friendship by Leila M. LawlerFord v. Ferrari Phil Lawler’s SubstackLeila’s other Substack: The School for HousewivesLeila’s blog: Like Mother, Like DaughterYour 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

Show Notes:Jeff Childers: “The Constitution’s essence prioritizes individual rights over collective ones, even in “pandemics.” A journalist who intellectually grasped the Constitutional rights hierarchy would at least have acknowledged that individual rights are the baseline, and then argued about how preparedness fits within those rights.”CNN Didn’t Interview Kamala Harris, It Swaddled Her In A Security BlanketFlorida’s upside-down dispute over religious freedom by Phil LawlerFlorida AG threat to Catholic schools ‘clear violation’ of the First Amendment, law scholar says (OSV News)Catholic law scholars didn’t bother much before… odd.Note on the morality of using some anti-Covid-19 vaccines (Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith)Letter from Dr. John Haas, National Catholic Bioethics CenterPhil Lawler’s SubstackLeila’s other Substack: The School for HousewivesLeila’s blog: Like Mother, Like DaughterYour 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

Show Notes:Contagious Faith: Why the Church Must Spread Hope, Not Fear, in a Pandemic by Phil Lawler (affiliate link)Doctor Anthony Fauci on why he left the US government | BBC NewsCovid Lockdowns Were an Elite-Made Tragedy - WSJImposed Mass Hypochondria by Leila LawlerFauci’s net worth — and his wife’s contribution First on Fox: Trump DOJ reaches settlement with pro-life protester targeted by Biden adminPhil Lawler’s SubstackLeila’s other Substack: The School for HousewivesLeila’s blog: Like Mother, Like DaughterYour 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