Disputed Questions with Robert J. Hutchinson

The sex trafficking of 1,400 school girls in Rotherham, UK, between 1997 and 2013, is the context of the new wave of anti-immigration riots that has erupted in the UK over the past week – context that is ignored or covered up by the tightly-controlled state media organizations in the U.S. and Britain.

Fr. Mitch Pacwa, SJ, is a renowned scholar of the Hebrew Bible and a popular Catholic radio personality.  In this episode, we explore with Fr. Pacwa what we can and cannot know about historical incidents in the Bible, whether the Old Testament justifies genocide, how Jesus can be both fully God and fully man at the same time, and lots more.

Before his conversion to Catholicism and a new career as a biographer and literary critic, Joseph Pearce was a rising star in Britain's far-right National Front -- the anti-immigrant nationalist party that was the forerunner to today's British National Party (BNP).  He twice served time in prison for his extremist political activities.   In the 1980s, Pearce participated in street fights and riots against "anti-fascist" demonstrators and read many of the books and manifestos now popular with members of the Alt Right.  For him, streets battles between so-called "Antifa" demonstrators and supporters of Donald Trump are, as Yogi Berra put it, "déjà vu all over again."   Pearce is therefore uniquely qualified to comment on today's increasingly volatile racial politics, the rise of anti-immigrant parties in Europe, and how Christians, Jews and people of good will should respond to the global migrant crisis. 

Author Robert J. Hutchinson interviews married Catholic priest Fr. Dwight Longenecker about his new book on the magi, his past as a former fundamentalist and Anglican vicar, and his new life as one of the very few married Catholic priests in the world.