Matt Fradd

Maybe pornography and masturbation isn't a sin because I'm not actually committing the sin with anyone.

It leaves the door open for a whole number of things that, yeah, it's not adultery, but is it good? Is it moral? Is it virtuous? And we had a pretty shocking example of this when Matt Fradd, a Catholic podcaster, interviewed Dennis Prager.

So Dennis Prager is a popular Jewish apologist and conservative from America.

And his claim was exactly what I just outlined.

I think, and I don't have a good answer for this.

And it's, for instance, Matt Fradd, he basically makes his living by hosting a podcast called And one of the themes that's prominent in his entire ministry is get off your phones, get off the screens, get off the Internet, because it's totally damaging your life, especially with his background in pornography.

Right.

So it's like you do realize that there's a little bit of a discontinuity here between I get off my phone on the weekends and get off your devices.

And I would love to be a part.

And this is why I appreciate whether it's Trent Horn or we mentioned Matt Fradd earlier, these other Catholic friends where we can, we can disagree, but I still respect them personally.

And I would say for, to hear the Catholic side of this or whatever, go listen to them as well.

And, and to be in an age of civility where we encourage people to really listen with respect, charity to different perspectives and then use their critical thinking.

No one has collabed in Catholic media with more folks than I have, right? Talk about Trent Horn, Jimmy Akin, normies like Joe Heschmeyer.

And the semi-normies, Matt Fradd, Taylor Marshall, all kinds of good guys, right? I've collabed with everyone.

If there's a collab to be done, even Jesuits, Father Mitch Pacwa, Norbertines.

I got all kinds of priests, bishops on this show.

He's a great Dominican priest named Father Gregory Pine.

And at one point, Father Gregory Pine was talking to, I think, Matt Fradd.

And he talked about, he said, we can offer these small, small things.

He says, imagine you go out to eat and you're looking at the menu.

But this is the destiny.

There's this Matt Fradd ad for something and he's like, I have no choice.

I have to be a saint.

And that's what I preach to the children and I preach it to everybody.

And so, what mysteries to pray, what devotions to have, whatever ones are leading you to have greater faith and hope and charity in God is real and active in your life.

And I think the real problem isn't, you know, like Matt Fradd says all the time on his podcast, the problem is not that people are not doing enough devotions or not doing enough prayer.

That is true.

But most people, they get so consumed in, I have to do this one and that one and this one and that one, that then they never actually make much space for God to show up Their prayer life revolves around what they're doing for God rather than their prayer life being a noticing what is God doing for me? And not in a sense of, oh, because I'm using God, but God is gifting himself to me.