Three hundred women came to the courthouse in pink to stand with a mother who strangled her three children. Cora was 5. Dawson was 3. Callan was 8 months old. Almost nobody came for them.
Joe McClane on the Lindsay Clancy case and what Anne Hendershott, writing in Crisis Magazine, calls the most depraved social contagion the internet has produced yet: women on TikTok telling the world that they, too, could have killed their own children. Postpartum psychosis is real, and the Church has never taught otherwise. What is new is a culture that answers a mother's suffering by erasing her victims. Then, Dr. Anthony Stine of Return To Tradition joins the program on the L'Osservatore Romano supplement that told
Catholics there is no devil in Genesis, and on what the Church actually defined at the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215.

SCRIPTURE REFERENCED (Douay-Rheims)

• Isaiah 5:20 - "Woe to you that call evil good, and good evil: that put darkness for light, and light for darkness."
• Psalm 126:3 - "Behold the inheritance of the Lord are children: the reward, the fruit of the womb."
• Genesis 3:1 - "Now the serpent was more subtle than any of the beasts of the earth which the Lord God had made."
• Apocalypse 12:9 - "And that great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, who seduceth the whole world."
• 1 Peter 5:8 - "Be sober and watch: because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, goeth about seeking whom he may devour."

SOURCES AND DOCUMENTS REFERENCED

• Anne Hendershott, "Erasing Lindsay Clancy's Children by Sacralizing the Mother Who Killed Them," Crisis Magazine, August 26, 2026
• Donne Chiesa Mondo No. 157, "The Devil Within Us," monthly supplement to L'Osservatore Romano, July 1, 2026
• Marinella Perroni, "The Serpent, the Woman and the Fruit. And Satan?", July 4, 2026
• International Association of Exorcists, formal response to the Perroni essay, July 2026
• Fourth Lateran Council, Constitution 1 (Firmiter credimus), 1215: the devil and the other demons were created good by God in their nature, but became evil by their own act
• Pope St. Paul VI, General Audience "Confronting the Devil's Power," November 15, 1972
  Catechism of the Catholic Church 391-395

GUEST
Dr. Anthony Stine, Return To Tradition
https://www.youtube.com/@ReturnToTradition
https://substack.com/@returntotradition1

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