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Ave Maria in the Afternoon – January 29, 2025 – Hour 1

Did Joe Biden join the Freemasons? Tom Nash joins us and Marcus looks at how the 1960s sent the US “Stumbling toward Utopia.”

 

Marcus’ Monologue: Made for Happiness?

Happiness has become warped in the public sphere. How do we define happiness and its purpose? Marcus discusses.

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Biden joins the Freemasons?

You probably didn’t have “Joe Biden joins the Freemasons” on your post-election bingo card, but it appears to have happened. On the last day of his presidency, the Conference of Grand Masters of Prince Hill Lodge Freemasonry stated Biden had been granted a “resolution of membership.” Does this constitute an automatic excommunication? Tom Nash joins us.

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Joe Biden, Freemason?

Tom Nash has served the Church professionally for more than 35 years, including as a theology advisor for EWTN. He is a contributing apologist for Catholic Answers, and a contributing writer for both the National Catholic Register and Catholic World Report. Tom appears as a periodic guest host for Kresta in the Afternoon and has appeared as a regular guest apologist on Catholic Answers Live for more than a decade. Tom is the author of “The Biblical Roots of the Mass,” “What Did Jesus Do?: The Biblical Roots of the Catholic Church,” and “20 Answers: The Rosary.” He is also a contributing author to Catholic for a Reason: Scripture and the Mystery of the Mass, and Faith Facts: Answers to Catholic Questions, Vols. I and II. He is also a Regular Member of the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars.

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How the 1960s Launched our National Nightmare

In 1516, St Thomas More coined the term “Utopia” to describe an ideal, perfect human society. The very title of the book implied that such a place could never exist on this earth, but in the centuries since humanity has nonetheless sought to create its own utopias. Marcus takes a look at the cultural revolutions of the 1960s and how we are still merely “stumbling toward utopia.”

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