Hello and welcome to Focus, the Catholic answers podcast for living, understanding and defending your Catholic faith.

I'm Cy Kellett, your host. Are you feeling defensive?

Are you feeling defensive about your Catholic faith? Does the society, maybe in its messaging,

maybe seem like it's a bit bullying towards our Christian faith, towards

the things that we hold dear, towards the moral choices that we make, or even the moral standards that we hold? Well,

Carlo Broussard is our guest this time and he's got the new book out, the new relativism, and you can get it wherever good books are sold,

the new relativism unmasking the philosophy of today's woke moralists.

So I think that this word moralist is a good place to start because what we're

feeling in many cases is sort of attacked by a morality that is foreign to us frankly so maybe you've as a Christian

experienced yourself or other Christians kind of being subjected to

charges of being judgmental being hateful being bigoted, all of that is all of those words are tools used

by the new moralists to cow people.

Carla, thanks for being here with us.

Sai, thanks for having me, man.

Looking forward to the conversation.

So we'll talk, we're actually going to take our conversation from your book,

The New Relativism, and you talk about moral shame culture.

It does seem that moral shaming is a big part of what's going on.

What do you mean by moral shame culture?

Well, within our contemporary culture Christians are often shamed into

silence for offering any form of criticism of certain lifestyle choices that are promoted, celebrated,

and affirmed by contemporary culture, particularly those lifestyle choices associated with

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