Frank Walker

Well, I was surprised at the end because one of the two people that they profiled here in the end keeps her own Anglicanism and doesn't become a Catholic at the end.

But the thing that struck me the most about it is that it's really about Washington, D.C.

and then some select university cultures and people who –

become catholic because they like the nightlife i'm not the night i feel like the parties in the social scene and uh and they see the influence they see influence and they see an intellectual integrity to it and it's uh it's they say it punches above the weight that you would think it does and and i thought that was fascinating to me that they see that in washington dc at the center of power and i thought well of course it's also the center of the of the um

The the swamp, the Catholic swamp.

There's a lot of money there, too.

There's a lot of Catholic money.

But what she's talking about here in this article is that young people really wanting to become more professionals and more actual Catholics, not like just deep state Catholics, a vibrant social scene and a smart, influential, conservative Catholic community.

a social group that they have in Washington that's bucking the anti-Christian trends.

They say there's a lot of intellectual horsepower, and it cites the Pew poll, like you mentioned there, that shows the larger group and how the Catholic Church is collapsing.

But this phenomenon, and this is all over the world of young people becoming Catholic, this is flying in the face

of the Leo Church, which is so anti-Catholic like we've seen today.

And I'm asking, why is this happening?

Why is this happening around the world?

Because the church isn't making it happen.

And the last time this was happening before was like 20 years ago.

This is when Benedict was there, which was sort of a rallying when Benedict was newly pope.

What is it now?

I asked myself.

Is it Trump?