Catholic Connection – Jan. 30, 2025 – Hr 2

Author: Andrew Kruczek Published on: January 30, 2025 Published in: Audio Archive

We look at new Executive Orders from President Trump with Fr. Mitch Pacwa, S.J. and Fr. Tad Pacholczyk concerning school choice, ending radical indoctrination, and restricting sex-change procedures for minors.

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Segment 1 – Intro and News

Segment 2 & 3 – Cultural Connection
Trump Signs Orders to Expand School Choice, End ‘Radical Indoctrination’

Fr. Mitch Pacwa, S.J., Senior Fellow of the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology, is a Jesuit priest, President and Founder of Ignatius Productions, world renowned lecturer, spiritual director for over fifty Holy Land pilgrimages, and EWTN host of television and radio shows. An accomplished biblical scholar and apologist, Father Pacwa, S.J. earned his Ph.D. in the Old Testament from Vanderbilt University. He also holds a Master of Divinity and S.T.B. from the Jesuit School of Theology at Loyola University. He speaks 12 languages, including Arabic, Aramaic, Hebrew, and Koine Greek.

Segment 4 – Trump signs executive order restricting ‘chemical and surgical’ sex-change procedures for minors
“Posting on Truth Social, Trump said, ‘Today, it was my great honor to sign an Executive Order banning the chemical castration and medical mutilation of innocent children in the United States of America. Our Nation will no longer fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support so-called ‘gender affirming care,’ which has already ruined far too many precious lives. My Order directs Agencies to use every available means to cut off Federal financial participation in institutions which seek to provide these barbaric medical procedures, that should have never been allowed to take place!'”

Fr. Tadeusz Pacholczyk currently serves as Senior Ethicist at the NCBC. A priest of the Diocese of Fall River, Massachusetts, he has given several hundred presentations and participated in debates and roundtables on contemporary medical ethics and bioethics throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe. Fr. Pacholczyk has degrees in philosophy, biochemistry, molecular cell biology, and chemistry. He later earned a PhD in neuroscience from Yale University, where he focused on cloning genes for neurotransmitter transporters which are expressed in the brain.