When “Catholic” Media Reduces the Faith to Sports Banter and Podcast Fluff
The Pillar portal reports on yet another installment of its podcast series, “Bonus: Sports Chat,” featuring JD Flynn and Ed. Condon discussing a New Jersey basketball story, dated April 19, 2026. The piece is emblematic of the broader degradation of what passes for “Catholic” media in the post-conciliar wasteland — a milieu where the supernatural life of the Church, the salvation of souls, the reign of Christ the King, and the unchanging deposit of faith are supplanted by the banal, the trivial, and the worldly. That such content is published behind a paywall, marketed as “Great Catholic Conversation,” constitutes not merely a failure of editorial judgment but a symptom of the profound spiritual bankruptcy that has consumed the neo-church since the death of Pope Pius XII.







