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Kresta in the Afternoon – June 21, 2023 – Hour 1

We continue from Acton University. Tim Carney previews America’s coming Baby Bust – and what we can do about it – and Fr. Raymond de Souza helps us understand the Economy of Pope Francis. 

 

Confronting America's Coming Baby Bust

When Americans began staying home at the start of the pandemic, some experts predicted we would soon see another “Baby Boom.” The reality has been just the opposite – Americans are having fewer babies than every before. We look at the root causes and the changes we need to make with Tim Carney.

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America’s baby bust is back on track

Tim Carney is a senior columnist at the Washington Examiner, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and the author of five books, most recently Family Unfriendly: How Our Culture Made Raising Kids Much Harder Than It Needs to Be. Tim's 2019 book, Alienated America: Why Some Places Thrive While Others Collapse, was a Washington Post Bestseller and a Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year.

Understanding the Economy of Pope Francis

Pope Francis speaks about economic matters in a rather provocative way, and many of his views were shaped by his distinctive Argentinian upbringing, which was very different from his predecessors. We examine his economic thinking with Fr. Raymond de Souza.

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How Argentina’s crises have shaped the Pope’s thinking

 

 

The Promise of Pope Francis’ Papacy Partially Realized

 

Fr. De Souza’s website 

Father Raymond de Souza is the pastor of Holy Cross parish in Ottawa. Since 2014 he has served on the board of directors of Catholic Christian Outreach, the leading campus evangelization movement in Canada and now chairs its board. He is also a senior fellow for Cardus, Canada’s leading Christian think tank, and a senior fellow at Massey College at the University of Toronto. Father de Souza has been a weekly columnist for the National Post, one of Canada’s national dailies, for 18 years and writes frequently in the Catholic press, including for the Catholic Register (Canada), the National Catholic Register (U.S.), and the Catholic Herald (U.K.). His work also appears in First Things and Magnificat. His many columns can be found at www.fatherdesouza.com
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