Hello and welcome to Focus the Catholic Answers podcast for living, understanding, and defending

your Catholic faith. I am Cy Kelly, your host. defending your

and defending our faith becomes more difficult it seems as the society becomes less and less

attached to the values that have gotten it where it is now as we become more and more

morally innovative I suppose is one way to say it. It becomes harder and harder for the Christian to find a place and to know how to live the Christian

vocation in that situation.

And one of the areas where we might struggle, as a matter of fact many of us do struggle is the area of free

speech and especially the extreme liberal position that really the remedy for speech you don't like is more free speech, not less free speech,

but does that apply to the extremes of pornography, the extremes of political violence.

So where is the line to be drawn?

We'll try to get a Catholic perspective on that this time.

And to help us do that, we have Dr. Chad Pecknell. on that

the to help us do that we have Dr. Chad Pecknelled, Associate Professor of System

systematic Theology at Catholic University of America

and he works in all that he does he works in a variety of different areas but in all that he does

He refers us back to Saint Augustine the great work of Saint Augustine so perhaps we'll apply that a little bit this time as well.

Dr. Pecknell, thank you for being with us.

Thanks for having me.

Always a pleasure.

We're arguing over free speech in part these days because of what's going on on college campuses and

you're on a college campus. So if I may let me begin there. What do you make of

what's happening with I mean the president of U Penn has lost her job, other presidents under pressure,

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