Catholic Connection – July 18, 2022 – Hour 2

Author: Andrew Kruczek Published on: July 18, 2022 Published in: Audio Archive

Dr. Marlon De La Torre joins Teresa for his monthly “No Bystanders” segment. This discussion is on the Holy Eucharist. Joseph Vazquez from the Media Research Center shows how social media companies are letting threats against SCOTUS Justices and pro-life groups remain up. Gail Buckley Barringer has our Bible verse of the day.

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Segment 1 – Intro and News

Segment 2 & 3 – Our Monthly ‘No Bystanders!’ Segment – The Holy Eucharist
Marlon De La Torre, Ph.D., is a big believer in the connection between education and Christian witness. Specifically, he says, one can’t proclaim the Gospel if they don’t know what the Gospel says. “If you are an effective teacher, that means you’re an effective witness of the Gospel,” De La Torre told Detroit Catholic. “You can’t be strictly an evangelist and not be able to articulate the faith in some way.”

Dr. Marlon De La Torre, who has decades of experience working in evangelization and education, including 10 years as director of evangelization and missionary discipleship for the Diocese of Fort Worth, Texas, was named the Archdiocese of Detroit’s new director of evangelization and missionary discipleship effective Sept. 7, 2021.

In the Holy Eucharist we reach the summit of our participation in the victory of Christ over sin and death—the triumph we proclaim in the new evangelization. In this Most Blessed Sacrament we have the source of our zeal and strength to unleash the Gospel.

Segment 4 – Twitter allows some threats against conservative SCOTUS Justices, pro-life pregnancy centers to flourish
The RuthSentUs and Antifa Sacramento Twitter accounts headlined the leftist pro-abortion hysteria online after the overturning of Roe v. Wade quickly devolved into threats and explicit calls for violence, many of which the major tech platform Twitter has still not removed. MRC Free Speech America found 67 posts threatening or calling for violence against Supreme Court justices, the government or pro-lifers across TikTok, Twitter and Instagram. A majority of the offending posts were found on Twitter. Yet Twitter permanently banned then-President Donald Trump in January 2021 for a supposed risk of “incitement of violence.”

Joseph Vazquez is the MRC Assistant Editor for Business & Free Speech America. He graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in Political Science from George Washington University in 2018. For MRC Business, he oversees projects and media coverage concerning dark money, political spending, economics, and finance. In addition, his oversight includes Free Speech America’s CensorTrack project, which involves documenting cases of Big Tech bias against conservatives and crafting censorship studies accordingly.

Twitter allows some threats against conservative SCOTUS Justices, pro-life pregnancy centers to flourish

‘Burn Down’ SCOTUS: 67 Leftist Posts Threaten, Call for Violence on Platforms Post-Roe

Segment 5 – Bible Verse of the Week
Teresa and Gail discuss 1 Corinthians 11:27 — “Therefore whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord unworthily will have to answer for the body and blood of the Lord.”