PODCAST: The road from Tehran to Rome

This week I spoke to Wall Street Journalist Sohrab Ahmari who announced his conversion to the Twittersphere on the day the French priest Fr Jacques Hamel was murdered by Jihadists. As a Muslim-born Iranian, Sohrab first doubted God, before flirting with Nietzsche and Marxism. But he was always slighlty in love with the Mass and once day he decided to go. I spoke to him to find out his full story.

I also caught up with Kevin Meagher who has just returned from the Labour party conference and wonders what the current state of the party means for Catholics. Enjoy!

1:30: Sohrab’s story begins in Muslim Tehran…

3:14: Choosing atheism aged 12

5:08: Discovering Nietzsche in Mormon Utah

7:52: An ideological romance with Trotskyism

9:38: The problem with modern philosophy

11:31: The turning point

13:11: Arriving at Mass

14:50: Catholicism via Protestant Evangelicalism

16:49: The hardest teaching

21:25 A great cosmic sense of peace

22:24: Sohrab Ahmari discusses his new book called The New Philistines: How Identity Politics Disfigure the Arts.

24:15: Kevin Meagher gives us the low down on what’s been happening since Jeremy Corbyn’s election

27:30: Is Corbyn good news for Catholics?

29:51: Is Jeremy Corbyn likely to support assisted suicide?

32:50: What is the future of Catholics in politics?

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