Hello, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome back to the fundamental principle with me today is my esteemed guest and good friend, Mr. Pete Canonas, host of the Pete Canonis show available on all your major podcasters.

Mr. Cananis, welcome to the program.

Thank you, Dee.

How are you, Donata?

I'm good.

I think that some introduction is in order for our listeners.

I just, would you just tell our listeners about yourself and kind of your, a brief

sketch of a religious background?

Yeah.

I was born into a Catholic family, baptized the Christmas Eve, the year I was born 45 days later, raised in a Catholic household, altar boy, Catholic high school, actually started out in a Jesuit school back when it wasn't so bad.

And I ended up transferring out and finishing off in a Jesuit school back when it wasn't so bad. And I ended up transferring out

and finishing off in a diocese of New York Catholic school graduated. Did my, did the typical

thing that a lot of guys do as soon as I graduated high school, stopped going to church.

Around the time I was 28, I started going back to church,

but I went to a Baptist church, a friend invited me to a Baptist church, and I dove headfirst

into Protestantism for about five years, which included a stint in a Presbyterian, a Presbyterian Church of America Seminary.

Some people may even remember the name D. James Kennedy, who was a staunch, conservative,

hardcore right-winger.

It was his seminary and became through going to churches and Baptist churches and just seeing the politics, seeing how you were going to have a church split.

It seemed like there was a church split every other year.

I became completely just demoralized by it.

And I didn't go to church for a lot of years and started going to back when I met my wife,

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