The Forge - Catholic Commentary

Audio Monologues, Article Voiceovers, News Briefs, and Short-Form update podcasts. TheForge.fm - Catholic Commentary that HITS! theforgefm.substack.com

The Forge - Catholic Commentary is a news podcast hosted by T.J. Haines, with 5 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

T.J. Haines hosts The Forge - Catholic Commentary, a news show with 5 episodes published.

Our AI reads these to draft pitches. Use them as grounding for a pitch that cites a real guest and a specific topic.

• 

  The Forge - Catholic Commentary

  New Briefs #5

  Apr 29, 20263 minS0

  <p>Five Catholic news stories and two secular stories worth your attention this week. The New York bishops release a practical guide to end-of-life decisions as assisted suicide becomes law in New York. A Melkite priest returns to his bombed church in Lebanon and finds a consecrated host intact after 47 days. </p><p>Bill Barr argues the Iran war meets just war criteria — the Pope and several bishops aren't so sure, and the distinction matters. Catholic scholars wrestle with what just war demands after a war has already started. The SPLC is indicted for fraud in a story more complicated th...

  ListenShow Notes
• 

  The Forge - Catholic Commentary

  Moment of Truth: 'Dangerous' is Scandalous?

  Apr 1, 20264 minS0

  <p>The Transcript</p><p>Recently, the message “Catholics are dangerous” has stirred controversy in various corners of the internet. Some comments and direct messages have accused me of being proud… even boastful. One person went so far as to insist that it isn’t the faithful who are dangerous — it’s the world that is dangerous.</p><p>But what’s behind that response? It reflects a spirit of defeatism and fear — a victim mentality that has become characteristic of our age, and one that has even made its way into the Catholic community.</p><p>We are living in a time when p...

  ListenShow Notes
• 

  The Forge - Catholic Commentary

  The Forge Ep. 3

  Mar 28, 202615 minS0

  <p>Faith is what we believe. Fidelity is our allegiance to it. What we do about “Fidelity” is really what defines us. In this episode of The Forge I take you through four of the most recent articles and podcasts that apply that understanding.</p><p>Also, some news to share, which I omitted from this podcast. The Fire Branded podcast is still the flagship podcast at The Forge but I have built its own “world” over at firebranded.fm. The new site also has hard-hitting commentary articles, but will focus on the podcast, and podcast related features, while The Forge wi...

  ListenShow Notes
• 

  The Forge - Catholic Commentary

  When Catholicism Becomes a Political Party

  Mar 17, 20266 minS0

  <p>There’s a habit that has crept into Catholic life. If you aren’t seeing it, you aren’t looking or paying attention. And once you see it, you won’t be able to unsee it.</p><p>Catholics treat the Church like a political party.</p><p>The pattern is obvious and it shows itself throughout Catholic life. Catholics come in with a political framework already in place, and then they start filtering, selecting, and prioritizing Church teaching based on what already fits their political framework.</p><p>We’ve been doing it with “Jesus” for decades. Whatever we find in the...

  ListenShow Notes
• 

  The Forge - Catholic Commentary

  Distrust of the Church and the Malady of Suspicion

  Mar 15, 202610 minS0

  <p>(originally published to Stoking the Embers)</p><p>Recently, I’ve been in a a few casual conversations and exchanges with Catholics who express a growing distrust of the Church. It isn’t isolated. This is something real in the Catholic culture. It manifests as suspicion, doubt, or an absence of trust in the Church’s guidance, teaching, or leadership. Often, it’s all three rolled into one.</p><p>But that attitude is dangerous. It disables Catholic identity, stunts growth in holiness, disfigures good Catholic attitudes (submission, docility, holiness), and ultimately amounts to an assault on the Church—whether we...

  ListenShow Notes

Based on semantic analysis of episode topics and host coverage, this show is a strong guest fit for executives in:

Industry fit is computed by PitchCentric using vector embeddings of the show's episode catalog.