It felt like this day would never come, but it's here. This is the 1,000th episode of the Council of Trent.

Today I want to talk about where the Council of Trent has been and where we plan to go in the future.

Before I do that, though, I want to thank our patrons because none of these 1,000 episodes would be possible without you.

Over the past six years, your financial support

has not only helped us produce 1,000 episodes of the Council of Trent, but it's been a way for

countless people to become Catholic or return to their Catholic faith. I'm so grateful for how God

led you to support our work, and if you feel God is calling you to be a part of our team,

then please visit us at Trenthornpodcast.com. The goal of the council of Trent has always been

to lead people to Jesus Christ and to his church and the fullness of God's revelation.

I don't care about views. I don't care about hitting a certain level as a channel or a podcast.

I just want to help people know the truth and be freed from the lies of our culture.

And I'm so proud of how we've done that for the past 1,000 episodes.

In fact, here is the beginning of the very first episode of the Council of Trent.

Welcome to the Council of Trent podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.

Hello, and thank you for stopping by the Council of Trent.

At the end of 2019, I started to experiment with doing more rapid response episodes on YouTube.

And on December 12th, 2019, I uploaded my first YouTube

video for the channel. It was actually a criticism of Archbishop Paglia, who led the Pontifical

Academy for Life, and I filmed it in my office at Catholic Answers in San Diego. About a month later,

I started to experiment with rebuttals to criticisms of Catholicism on YouTube.

So on January 7th, 2020, I uploaded my first rebuttal to Mike Winger's videos on Catholicism.

Around this time, the most controversial thing to talk about was when Pope Francis slapped that woman's hand on New Year's.

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