Jul 29, 2026 · 1 hr 18 min · 10 segments
In this episode of **Apostate Imprimatur**, Colin and I react to Brian Holdsworth's video asking how to tell a "real" Catholic from a "fake" Catholic. What starts as a discussion about Catholic…
what is she wearing is a white headband I'm so confused
by that I don't know what
that is it's either Karate Kid or yeah never mind I don't it's not even a Catholic tradition because the base Catholic thing would be cover your whole head yeah there's
no
veil she's doing a head covering except for the covering her head part yeah it's never mind
being her initiation into the Catholic Church by receiving the Sacrament of Confirmation.
And naturally, everyone had their hottest take to share on the occasion, drawing both celebration and resentment.
not to stop another time in the first 16 seconds but a lot of catholic youtube is very insular in that everyone's talking about candace owens's confirmation and the answer is that like huh nobody has talked about candace owens like at large since her sort of kirk like theories about what happened yeah that's true actually and an occasional controversy or two um I feel like when I was a teenager in the online Catholic world, it felt so true because it felt like in this entire like cinematic universe and everyone's on the same page.
And then like, I think explaining the start to this video to like my grandma would be impossible.
There would be no...
I think a lot of Catholic YouTube relies on everyone's talking about X, Y, and Z, and the answer's like, no.
It's a good example of the fact that I think Brian's only talking...
It's very insider baseball.
relevant.
But it's a hamster wheel because you can never get to the bottom of the Catholic world.
Like you can never know all of the content and all the controversies.
You sort of get the feeling like this is a never ending world.
And you sort of zoom out and realize that like Catholicism YouTube is very niche, which isn't inherently bad.
I mean, my hot take is that I think part of the impetus for religion is that everyone's desire to be really into the lore of something.
it's religion.
A lot of the major apologists out there are really big into superheroes or some sort of cinematic universe, which is cool.
There's nothing against that.
It just so happens that they're really into cinematic universes, and then they get into another cinematic universe, but then they go, it's different than all the other ones.
what is she wearing is a white headband I'm so confused
by that I don't know what
that is it's either Karate Kid or yeah never mind I don't it's not even a Catholic tradition because the base Catholic thing would be cover your whole head yeah there's
no
veil she's doing a head covering except for the covering her head part yeah it's never mind
being her initiation into the Catholic Church by receiving the Sacrament of Confirmation.
And naturally, everyone had their hottest take to share on the occasion, drawing both celebration and resentment.
not to stop another time in the first 16 seconds but a lot of catholic youtube is very insular in that everyone's talking about candace owens's confirmation and the answer is that like huh nobody has talked about candace owens like at large since her sort of kirk like theories about what happened yeah that's true actually and an occasional controversy or two um I feel like when I was a teenager in the online Catholic world, it felt so true because it felt like in this entire like cinematic universe and everyone's on the same page.
And then like, I think explaining the start to this video to like my grandma would be impossible.
There would be no...
I think a lot of Catholic YouTube relies on everyone's talking about X, Y, and Z, and the answer's like, no.
It's a good example of the fact that I think Brian's only talking...
It's very insider baseball.
relevant.
But it's a hamster wheel because you can never get to the bottom of the Catholic world.
Like you can never know all of the content and all the controversies.
You sort of get the feeling like this is a never ending world.
And you sort of zoom out and realize that like Catholicism YouTube is very niche, which isn't inherently bad.
I mean, my hot take is that I think part of the impetus for religion is that everyone's desire to be really into the lore of something.
it's religion.
A lot of the major apologists out there are really big into superheroes or some sort of cinematic universe, which is cool.
There's nothing against that.
It just so happens that they're really into cinematic universes, and then they get into another cinematic universe, but then they go, it's different than all the other ones.
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