Fr. Andre explores the relationship between Christ, Caesar, war, peace, and the destiny of nations through a theological and historical inquiry into the mission of the Church given by Christ in times of crisis. The episode looks at current tensions affecting Lebanon and the wider Middle East while drawing on major historical precedents including the Crusading era, the Protestant-Catholic 200 Years of war, the Apparition of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico in the New world, the Apparition of the Sacred heart of Jesus to Sister Marguerite Marie Alacoque and the Message to King Louis of France to repent, the Renaissance and the Das Zeitalter der Aufklärung (The Age of Enlightenment) and the French Revolution (The Aufklärung (German Enlightenment) and the broader European Enlightenment which occurred before the French Revolution.

The Enlightenment ran roughly from the late 17th century through the late 18th century (c. 1680s–1789), providing the intellectual, philosophical, the anti-Catholic and social foundations that ultimately influenced the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789.

What was the Relationship between the French Enlightenment thinkers (or philosophes) like Rousseau and Voltaire who questioned traditional authority (The catholic Royals and the Church), and how directly it inspired the revolutionaries seeking to dismantle the ancien régime.

The Challenge of the Divine right of Kings, the change of the Theological Concept of the God of Authority, Power and Revenge and the introduction of the Anthropological Deism of God who is benign and does not enter into judgement, the Conspiracy of the BIG LIE regarding Queen Marie-Antoinette and the false Propaganda of “qu’ils mangent de la brioche” (Let them eat cake) “qu’ils mangent du biscuits."

Give what to Cesar to Cesar and what to God to God: the church, the Christendom, the church of the post Christendom, the Cesaropapsim all in play: the case of Pope Leo and President Trump PART 2.

We reflect on the public tensions surrounding Pope Leo XIV and President Trump through the words of Christ: “Render to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s.” This is not a partisan episode. It is a call to recover the Christendom and to address the issues of the expansion and the limits of power in a post Christendom time. Join us also as Fr. Andre elaborates on the struggle of the freedom of conscience, and the duty of the Church to speak the Gospel without becoming the servant of any ideology. The episode also interprets the present moment through the historical problem of Caesaropapism—when civil rulers reach for spiritual authority—and through the Byzantine ideal of “symphony,” the ordered cooperation of civil and ecclesiastical life without the State owning the Church.

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