The Ruth Institute Podcast

Peter Wolfgang joined the Family Institute of Connecticut as Director of Public Policy in 2004 and became Executive Director in 2007. Peter holds a Juris Doctorate from University of Connecticut School of Law and is a member of the Connecticut Bar. He also has a Bachelors Degree in International Studies from The American University in Washington, D.C. Peter was born and raised in Manchester, CT. He and his wife, Leslie, live in Waterbury with their seven children. This is an audio podcast of The Dr J Show. Full video episode is available here.

(February 25, 2021) Dr J is once again a guest of Fr. Rob Jack on Sacred Heart Radio's Driving Home the Faith. Today they're discussing Governor Andrew Cuomo's new surrogacy bill in New York. And this coming Tuesday (March 2), tune in to our Facebook page at 7pm Eastern / 6pm Central for our computerside chat on tech censorship. (I know, I know…the irony. Just come.)

Maria Polaris (not her real name) and her husband's lives were turned upside down when their daughter ran away from home after her first year of college in 2015. Someone they didn't know picked up their daughter and helped her attempt to change sex. "Since then," Maria says, "our family has had to find ways to cope, because once a child is 18, they can do whatever they want in the U.S. including, full medical transition without psychological assessments. This has led to regret and grave errors in the medical community. Ohio has six major gender clinics with the largest one boasting over 1600 patients (funded by a family in the process of transitioning their own child since age 3)." Maria is now part of a support group for parents of Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria. They are also active advocates for more humane, evidence-based public policy in the area of gender identity. No one is "born in the wrong body." This is an audio podcast of The Dr J Show. Full video episode is available here with readings and resources.

(February 18, 2021) Dr J is once again a guest of Fr. Rob Jack on Sacred Heart Radio's Driving Home the Faith. Today they're discussing questionable "sex in time of COVID" practices recommended by the Colorado Department of Public Health.

Carl R. Trueman is a Christian theologian and ecclesiastical historian. He was Professor of Historical Theology and Church History at Westminster Theological Seminary, and in 2018 he became a professor at Grove City College in their Department of Biblical and Religious Studies. Among Dr. Trueman's books are John Owen: Reformed Catholic, Renaissance Man, The Creedal Imperative, Fools Rush in Where Monkeys Fear to Tread: Taking Aim at Everyone, and Republocrat: Confessions of a Liberal Conservative. An ordained minister in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, Dr. Trueman contributes to First Things journal, blogs regularly at Reformation21 and co-hosts the Mortification of Spin podcast. This is an audio podcast of The Dr J Show. Full video episode is available here, with readings and resources.

(February 11, 2021) Dr J is once again a guest of Fr. Rob Jack on Sacred Heart Radio's Driving Home the Faith. Today they're discussing Planned Parenthood's emerging new business model: transgender hormones. The sidewalk counselors are seeing it even as the kids aren't seeing what they're getting themselves into. Planned Parenthood, of course, is seeing repeat customers and dollar signs.

(February 5, 2021) Dr J is once again a guest of Fr. Rob Jack on Sacred Heart Radio's Driving Home the Faith. What are you doing to celebrate National Marriage Week? It kicks off February 7-14, and we have lots to share with you... For example, our newest resource center on marriage.

Dr. Daniel Meola is an adult child of divorce who earned his Ph.D. in Theology of Marriage and Family from the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family in Washington, D.C. He has been leading retreats and support groups for adult children of divorce or separation since 2015 in the Archdiocese of Washington, and in 2018 he founded Life-Giving Wounds to spread the retreat, support groups, and other ministry to adult children of divorce or separation around the country. Bethany Meola is a stay-at-home mom with a master of theological studies degree from the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family in Washington, D.C. She and Dan met there and married in 2011. Bethany served the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops for seven years in the Secretariat of Laity, Marriage, Family Life and Youth. Among other tasks, she managed the website For Your Marriage and researched and wrote on various topics related to marriage and family. In 2017, Dan and Bethany welcomed their daughter Zelie-Louise through the gift of adoption, and Bethany became a stay-at-home mom. And in 2019, Grace joined their family, also through adoption. Bethany assists with many of the behind-the-scenes operations of Life-Giving Wounds. This is an audio podcast of The Dr J Show. Full video episode is available here, with readings and resources.

(February 2, 2021) Fr. Paul Sullins is once again a guest of Drew Mariani on his eponymous show on Relevant Radio. They're discussing the decline of the Catholic church in Quebec.

Scott Yenor earned his Ph.D. at Loyola University Chicago. He now is a professor of political science at Boise State University and is a Washington Fellow at the Claremont Institute's Center for the American Way of Life. Scott lives near Boise with his wife, Amy. They have five kids, one out of college and married, two in college, one senior in high school, and a sixth grader. Scott is also chairman of the board at a classical Christian school, the Ambrose School, which is in Meridian, Idaho. This is an audio podcast of The Dr J Show. Full video episode is available here with readings and resources.

(January 28, 2021) Dr J is once again a guest of Fr. Rob Jack on Sacred Heart Radio's Driving Home the Faith. They're discussing Twitter, PornHub, libertine sexual mores, predation, selective outrage, and more.

(January 25, 2021) Dr J is once again a guest of Molly Smith on Salem Radio's "From the Median." They're discussing the diocese of Lansing's policy on gender identity, which is a counterpoint to the policies recently enacted in other areas, including the public education system in Virginia. They also touch on the importance of calling out good behavior, positive and negative peer pressure, unassailable insurance directives, language control, and female erasure.

Dr Suzanne Baars is a licensed professional counselor and marriage and family therapist in Irving, Texas, where she operates her private practice, In His Image Christian Counseling. Sue has worked extensively in the field of counseling since 1986 in both hospital and outpatient settings, and focuses her work on the integration of the Christian anthropology of St. Thomas Aquinas with the treatment of a variety of emotional & spiritual problems, among them Emotional Deprivation Disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder and scrupulosity. She is also a popular presenter at Catholic conferences around the country and has been a frequent guest on EWTN's Women of Grace. She often presents the work of her late father, psychiatrist and author Conrad Baars, a pioneer in the field of Catholic psychology. Sue cites the cultural erosion of the family as the root of the lack of affirmation from which many people in our time suffer. This is an audio podcast of The Dr J Show. Full video episode is available here with readings and resources.

​(January 21, 2021) Dr J is once again a guest of Fr. Rob Jack on Sacred Heart Radio's Driving Home the Faith. They're discussing the diocese of Lansing's policy on gender identity, which is a counterpoint to the policies recently enacted in other areas, including the public education system in Virginia.

(January 19, 2021) Dr J was invited to speak at the annual "Red Mass" held for the Catholic Lawyers' Guild of the Diocese of Lincoln, Nebraska. Her topic is the sexual revolution, its impacts on individuals and the culture, and the way forward. Listen Dr J also composed a resource list to go with the talk, available here.

Attorney Catherine Glenn Foster serves as President and CEO of Americans United for Life. AUL's legal strategists have been involved in every pro-life case before the U.S. Supreme Court since Roe v. Wade. Under Foster's leadership, AUL pursues and refines a mother-child strategy that looks at the interests and vulnerabilities of both, protecting them from abortion industry abuses. Foster has litigated precedent-setting constitutional questions, abortion and maternal health, health and safety regulations, euthanasia and assisted suicide, denial of medical care, First Amendment rights, genetic engineering issues, the Freedom of Information Act, and more. Foster has testified before and advised the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce Select Investigative Panel and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, and other federal and state bodies and representatives. She and her award-winning work have appeared extensively in national media. This is an audio podcast of The Dr J Show. Full video episode is available here with readings and resources.

​(January 14, 2021) Dr J is once again a guest of Fr. Rob Jack on Sacred Heart Radio's Driving Home the Faith. They're discussing the rights of children, transgenderism, and how to provide the healthy response to toxic ideologies regarding sex, gender, and family.

Louisiana priest Father Shenan J. Boquet travels around the world spreading the Gospel of Life as president of Human Life International. Having journeyed over a million miles to more than 87 countries, Father Boquet has given numerous talks at conferences and symposia in the United States and around the world on issues ranging from the dignity of the human person and the nature of marriage to social justice and moral theology. Father Boquet has appeared on EWTN television and radio shows, Catholic Answers Live, Ave Maria Radio, Vatican Radio, as well as a number of local Catholic radio programs in the U.S. and in other international media outlets. His writings have appeared in numerous publications such as: LifeSiteNews, LifeNews, Catholic Exchange, CNSNews, Catholic Lane, Catholic Online, Crux, Legatus, and The Wanderer. Father Boquet's weekly newsletter, "Spirit and Life," goes online Mondays at ww.HLI.org. This is an audio podcast of The Dr J Show. Full video episode is available here with readings and resources.

(January 7, 2021) Dr J is once again a guest of Fr. Rob Jack on Sacred Heart Radio's Driving Home the Faith. They're discussing the nature of truth, how humans gravitate toward double standards, the darkness of totalitarianism, and the reality of oligarchy.

In this special New Year's edition of the Dr J Show, we talk with our president, Dr Jennifer Roback Morse, and give you an invitation to make 2021 the year of T-Ruth. Dr. Morse is the founder of The Ruth Institute, an interfaith international coalition to defend the family and build a Civilization of love. Dr. Morse was a campaign spokeswoman for California's winning Proposition 8 campaign, defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman. She has authored or co-authored six books and spoken around the globe. Her latest book is The Sexual State: How Elite Ideologies are Destroying Lives and Why the Church was Right Along. This is an audio podcast of The Dr J Show. Full video episode is available here with readings and resources.

In this special edition of The Dr J Show, we delve into who is the "Fatman" in the red suit behind the fake beard. Saint Nicholas of Myra in Lycia, who lived about seven hundred years ago, was a Christian bishop and a man of God who fasted and sacrificed his life for his flock. He was not fat, and was a fierce defender of Christianity. He even slapped a man in public! He willingly went to a dungeon prison for faith in Jesus Christ. He also saved women from sexual slavery and men from execution. In this commercialized age, we benefit from learning about the REAL Saint Nicholas. This is an audio podcast of The Dr J Show. Full video episode is available here with readings and resources.

Dr Wahome Ngare is a member of the Kenya Catholic Doctors Association, which blew the whistle in 2014 on a World Health Organization vaccine which was secretly laced with abortifacient and sterilization drugs. Their medical investigation shows that W.H.O. researchers conjugated tetanus toxoid with human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) producing a "birth-control" vaccine. W.H.O. publications show a long-range purpose to reduce population growth in unstable "less developed countries." Conjugating TT with hCG causes pregnancy hormones to be attacked by the immune system. "Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race." – Planned Parenthood Founder Margaret Sanger "At the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth, and particularly growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of." – U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg This is an audio podcast of The Dr J Show. Full video episode is available here, with readings and resources.

(December 17, 2020) Dr J is once again a guest of Fr. Rob Jack on Sacred Heart Radio's Driving Home the Faith. They're talking about the NBC hit piece on several pro-family groups over paycheck protection loans. To sign our petition, click here.

Is it legal to restrict licensed individuals from pursuing their client's therapy goals? Mat Staver is Founder of Liberty Counsel, which defends religious freedom in cases across the nation. He is also Chairman of the National Pro-life Center, Freedom Federation, Salt & Light Council, and the National House of Hope. He serves as Vice President of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, and was Vice President of Liberty University, as well as a former Dean and law professor. This is an audio podcast of The Dr J Show. Full video episode is available here with readings and resources.

(December 10, 2020) Dr J is once again a guest of Fr. Rob Jack on Sacred Heart Radio's Driving Home the Faith. They're talking about the hubbub around PornHub--they're in hot water over child exploitation.

Since 2004, Bai Macfarlane has been upholding the dignity of marriage in light of no-fault divorce. Under no-fault divorce, the party that still loves his or her spouse and wants to keep the family together is virtually defenseless. Mary's Advocates is a voice for faithful spouses, and provides resources to equip those in positions of authority and influence to encourage reconciliation and denounce marital abandonment and unjust separations. This is an audio podcast of The Dr J Show. Full video episode is available here with readings and resources.

James D. Agresti is the president of Just Facts, a think tank dedicated to publishing rigorously documented facts about public policy issues. His research on wide-ranging topics—including abortion, healthcare, sex trafficking, taxes, gun control, pollution, energy, global warming, and the national debt—has been cited by universities, think tanks, major media outlets, and government entities at local, state and national levels. Jim holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Brown University and has worked as a designer of jet aircraft engines, a technical sales professional, and chief engineer of a firm that customizes helicopters. He is the author ofRational Conclusions, a book evidencing factual support for the Bible across a broad array of academic disciplines. This is an audio podcast of The Dr J Show. Full video episode is available here, with Readings and resources.

(November 25, 2020) Dr J is once again a guest of Todd Sylvestri, Ellen Taylor, and Mike Romano on LA Catholic Morning. This week marked the 100-year anniversary of legalized abortion (first practiced in the Soviet Union). Millions and millions of casualties have been the result, as well as some corollary ideas and policies.

Phil Lawler is the editor of Catholic World News, the first English-language Catholic news service operating on the internet, which he founded in 1995. CWN provides daily headline news coverage for the Catholic Culture site, where Phil Lawler also offers regular analysis and commentary. Phil attended Harvard College and did graduate work in political philosophy at the University of Chicago before entering a career in journalism. He has previously served as Director of Studies for the Heritage Foundation, as editor of Crisis Magazine, and as editor of the international monthly magazine Catholic World Report. This is an audio podcast of The Dr J Show. Full video episode is available here with transcript, readings and resources.

(November 19, 2020) Dr J is once again a guest of Fr. Rob Jack on Sacred Heart Radio's Driving Home the Faith. This week marked the 100-year anniversary of legalized abortion (first practiced in the Soviet Union). Millions and millions of casualties have been the result, far more than any of our wars.

(November 18, 2020) Dr J is a guest of Father Robert McTeigue on The Station of the Cross's The Catholic Current. Today--November 18--is the 100-year anniversary of legalized abortion worldwide (it first became legal in the Soviet Union). What else must you believe if you take "abortion as a human right" as an axiom? Dr J and Father McTeigue follow the plot lines.

Fr. Paul Sullins is once again a guest of Drew Mariani on his eponymous show on Relevant Radio. They're discussing premarital sex, fornication, and sexual sin in the Catholic church.

The pro-abortion legal team behind Roe built their case around the work of a particular scholar. The problem? He faked the science and made the numbers up. There weren't thousands of women dying of "coat hanger" abortions. They just needed you to believe there were. Roe v Wade was forced with fake science. Dr. Hilgers is a Senior Medical Consultant in Obstetrics, Gynecology, Reproductive Medicine and Surgery at the Saint Paul VI Institute and is a Clinical Professor in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology at Creighton University School of Medicine. He is Director of the Institute's Academic Programs and its National Center for Procreative Health. He is board certified in obstetrics, and gynecology, gynecologic laser surgery and is a member of the Society of Reproductive Surgeons and the Society of Procreative Surgeons. He is the author of or contributor to hundreds of books, articles, and videos. He has also been the recipient of 17 special recognition awards and 7 research awards. He is the recipient of 3 honorary doctorates and was named the Physician of the Year by the Nebraska Family Council. This is an audio podcast of The Dr J Show. Full video episode is available here, with readings and resources.

(November 12, 2020) Dr J is once again a guest of Fr. Rob Jack on Sacred Heart Radio's Driving Home the Faith. They're discussing Archbishop Gomez's statement congratulating Joe Biden and Ruth Institute's letter-writing campaign response.

What do you do with research that doesn't match your opinion? You demonize it, of course. That shows how tolerant you are. Dr. Mark Regnerus is a professor of sociology at the University of Texas at Austin and a senior fellow at the Austin Institute for the Study of Family and Culture. The author of 40 articles in peer-reviewed journals, his research and scholarly essays have appeared in media outlets as diverse as Slate and First Things. Dr. Regnerus' books include The Future of Christian Marriage (2020), Cheap Sex: The Transformation of Men, Marriage, and Monogamy (2017), Premarital Sex In America: How Young Americans Meet, Mate, and Think About Marrying (2011), and Forbidden Fruit: Sex and Religion In The Lives of American Teenagers (2006). He and his wife Deeann have three children. This is an audio podcast of The Dr J Show. Full video episode is available here, with readings & resources.

(November 5, 2020) Dr J is once again a guest of Fr. Rob Jack on Sacred Heart Radio's "Driving Home the Faith." They're discussing the sexual revolution's effects on the body both before and in the midst of COVID-19.

John Horvat II is a scholar, researcher, educator, and international speaker. He is vice president and a member of the board of directors for the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP), head of the TFP Commission for American studies, and a TFP Sedes Sapientiae Institute instructor. Additionally, Mr. Horvat is a member of the Association of Christian Economists, The Philadelphia Society, the National Association of Scholars, and the Catholic Writers Guild, as well as an Acton University participant. This is an audio podcast of The Dr J Show. Full video episode is available here (with readings & resources).

(October 29, 2020) Dr J is once again a guest of Fr. Rob Jack on Sacred Heart Radio's "Driving Home the Faith." They're discussing Pope Francis's latest controversy: statements about same-sex civil unions, as represented in a cut-and-pasted form by a recent documentary…and what this is smoke-and-mirrors to distract us from.

Fr. Paul Sullins is once again a guest of Drew Mariani on his eponymous show on Relevant Radio. They're discussing rising acceptance and support of same-sex marriage among Americans. The percentage of non-straight Americans is also rising.

Dr. Donald T. Critchlow is the American political history professor at Arizona State University. He is the author and editor of 25 books and is the founding editor of Journal of Policy History published by Cambridge University Press. He has appeared on C-Span, National Public Radio, BBC World News, and many talk radio programs. He has written for the Washington Post, the New York Observer, the New York Post, andNational Review. In this interview he narrates the events that have happened in America that led us to today. This story affects everyone. This is an audio podcast of The Dr J Show. Full video episode is available here, with additional readings & resources.

Angela Lanfranchi, M.D., F.A.C.S., is a breast cancer surgeon who practiced 33 years in New Jersey (1984-2017). A graduate of Georgetown School of Medicine, she is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, and certified by the American Board of Surgery. She was surgical co-director of the Sanofi Breast Care Center at the Steeplechase Cancer Center in Somerville, New Jersey for 10 years. Dr Lanfranchi is co-founder and president of the Breast Cancer Prevention Institute, www.bcpinstitute.org, a 501(c)3 non-profit charitable corporation that has as its mission to educate lay and professional communities in the methods of risk reduction and prevention of breast cancer through research, publications, and lectures. Full video episode is available here, with additional readings & resources.

(October 15, 2020) Dr J is once again a guest of Fr. Rob Jack on Sacred Heart Radio's Driving Home the Faith. They're discussing Justice Amy Coney Barrett, panic in the courts, the onward march of the sexual revolution, and the controversy this week around the phrase "sexual preference."

(October 8, 2020) Dr J is a guest of Father Robert McTeigue on The Station of the Cross's The Catholic Current. They're discussing the need for the presidential candidates to speak more about their views on family issues.

Amazon banned this book, so we wanted to talk to the author and find out what was more important than the right to press. Brian Camenker has been the Director of Mass Resistance from its founding. A leading pro-family activist organization, MassResistance provides the information and guidance people need to confront assaults on the traditional family, school children, and the moral foundation of society. Based in Massachusetts, they have supporters and activists in all 50 states, Puerto Rico, and several foreign countries. Brian Camenker has been interviewed by American Family Radio (with Sandy Rios, Janet Mefferd, Bryan Fischer, Charlie Butts), Michael Brown (Line of Fire), Cherilyn Bacon Eagar (Red State Talk Radio), RoadKill Radio (British Columbia), and dozens of other radio shows, TV stations, and newspapers around the world. The organization's articles have appeared inAmerican Thinker, Salvo Magazine, BarbWire, LifeSiteNews, The Massachusetts News, and The Jewish Advocate. In earlier years (when the mainstream media still reported on these issues) we were featured in the NBC Nightly News, CNN, CBS, ABC Evening News, MSNBC, National Public Radio, New York Times, and Fox News (O'Reilly Factor, Hannity & Colmes, and America's Newsroom with Megyn Kelly). This is an audio podcast of The Dr J Show. Full video episode is available here. Read more about MassResistance and their work here, too.

(October 8, 2020) Dr J is once again a guest of Fr. Rob Jack on Sacred Heart Radio's Driving Home the Faith. They're discussing Justice Amy Coney Barrett, President Trump's Supreme Court nominee, her pro-life stance, and the controversy regarding in-vitro fertilization and surrogacy brewing from Senator Duckworth and other quarters.

Today our own Communications Director Don Feder interviews Phillip Jauregui of the Judicial Action Group on Amy Coney Barrett filling the Supreme Court vacancy. Phillip is an expert in constitutional law, judicial policy, and non-profit coalition building. He is admitted to practice law before the United States Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, and all of Alabama's State and local courts. Phillip worked in the judicial branch as law clerk to Chief Justice Perry O. Hooper, Sr., of the Alabama Supreme Court and also served the executive branch as Assistant Legal Advisor to Alabama Governor Fob James. Phillip founded the Judicial Action Group in 2006. This is an audio podcast of The Dr J Show. Full video episode is available here.

(October 1, 2020) Dr J is once again a guest of Fr. Rob Jack on Sacred Heart Radio's Driving Home the Faith. They're discussing Justice Amy Coney Barrett, President Trump's Supreme Court nominee, and what she is likely to face from the Left during her confirmation hearings.

(September 22, 2020) Dr J is once again Todd Wilkin's guest on "Issues, Etc." Today they're discussing Netflix's newest controversial offering, Cuties.

Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse is the founder of the Ruth Institute, a global non-profit organization that defends the family at home and in the public square and equips others to do the same. She is passionate about equipping family advocates with the knowledge and confidence to defend the family at home and in the public square. Dr. Morse was a campaign spokeswoman for California's winning Proposition 8 campaign, defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman. She has authored or co-authored five books and spoken around the globe on marriage, family and human sexuality. Her work has been translated into Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Polish and Chuukese, the native language of the Micronesian Islands. Her newest books are The Sexual Revolution and Its Victims and 101 Tips for Marrying the Right Person, coauthored with Betsy Kerekes. This is an audio podcast of The Dr J Show. Full video episode is available here (with readings & resources list.)

(September 10, 2020) Dr J is once again a guest of Drew Mariani on his eponymous show on Relevant Radio. They're discussing the new Pew survey on the acceptability of premarital sex among Christians.