In today's episode, Monica Gatsi and Veronica Chawasemerwa, long-time HLI missionaries working in Zimbabwe, join us to discuss their mission to bring chastity education to youth in rural villages.

Zimbabwe’s youth are increasingly targeted by well-funded Western organizations that offer humanitarian aid—such as textbooks, clean water, and food—while simultaneously promoting contraception, abortion, and anti-family ideologies. We discuss how poverty forces schools to accept aid with strings attached, even when teachers and parents recognize the moral harm.

Monica and Veronica share firsthand stories of walking miles—sometimes crossing rivers—to reach remote villages. Through faith-based, science-grounded education, they are helping students rediscover the sanctity of life, African cultural values, and the dignity of the human person from conception to natural death.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Why chastity education is urgently needed in Zimbabwe
• How foreign aid is often tied to abortion and contraception messaging
• What students actually believe about abortion and fetal development
• How faith, science, and African culture work together to defend life
• Stories of crisis pregnancy support and lives saved through compassion
• Why teachers are asking for chastity education every week

This conversation is a moving look at what it means to live a Culture of Life in some of the world’s most underserved communities—and how your support can make a global impact.

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Fr. Shenan Boquet discusses China’s severe birth rate crisis and why efforts to reverse population decline are failing. Drawing from decades of pro-life work, Fr. Boquet connects China’s demographic collapse to deep cultural, moral, and structural issues also seen across Western nations.

The conversation explores the legacy of China’s one-child policy, the rise of IVF as a proposed “solution” to infertility and low birth rates, and the shared misconceptions driving U.S. and Chinese policymakers.

Fr. Boquet argues that technological fixes and financial incentives cannot solve what is fundamentally a cultural and moral crisis rooted in the loss of a correct understanding of marriage, family, and human dignity.

Topics Include:

• How China’s One-Child Policy, forced abortions, sterilizations, and neighbor-surveillance culture created a lasting anti-child mindset
• Why government “solutions” (including financial incentives, tax breaks, vouchers, and subsidized IVF) aren’t increasing birth rates
• How China and the U.S. are following the same failing playbook despite very different histories
• The growing IVF industry: moral issues, commodification of children, embryo destruction, and sex-selection
• President Trump’s 2025 IVF executive orders and what they mean for families
• Why restorative reproductive medicine, not IVF, is the ethical and effective path for couples with infertility
• How fear, secularism, delayed marriage, and the contraceptive mentality drive low birth rates in the West
• What the Church teaches about marriage, fertility, openness to life, and the rights of children
• What governments can do to support families (subsidiarity, lowering cost of living, protecting marriage)
• Why evangelization, catechesis, and authentic family culture are the real long-term solutions

If you want to understand why global birth rates are collapsing — and how to renew a true culture of life — this episode is essential.

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In this episode, Austin Peck joins us to unpack his conversion to the Catholic faith, his reflections on truth, culture, and modernity, and the new project from the creators of Mass of the Ages entitled Discover Tradition.

Austin Peck shares how a 15-year search for truth led him from evangelical Protestantism into the Catholic Church. He describes filming Holy Week in Spain, where Catholic tradition is “woven into the culture” through ancient confraternities, dramatic processions, penitential practices, and stunning sacred art.

Peck also speaks candidly about the crisis of modernity, the loss of rootedness among American Catholics, and the temptation to embrace individualism over objective truth. Peck argues that without a return to the sacramental life and authentic tradition, both Europe and America will lose their cultural foundations.

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