Brian Pedraza

Husband, Father, Assoc. Prof. of Theology at FranU (Baton Rouge), Burrito Lover, author of Catechesis for the New Evangelization (CUA Press), host

[Brian Pedraza @BrianPedraza7]

@HSRdirector @CMDANational You are an all star!

[Fr. Harrison Ayre @FrHarrison]

"As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord"

Joshua 24:15

[Brian Pedraza @BrianPedraza7]

@HSRdirector Spectacular!

[Jean Twenge (author of 10 RULES, GENERATIONS) @jean_twenge]

Parents have had it. Kindergartners should not be watching YouTube at school. In a few years, we're going to look back at school tablets and laptops and wonder what the heck we were thinking, especially for elementary school students. https://t.co/8jnyqHONvP

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

This is our God: Jesus, King of Peace, who rejects war, whom no one can use to justify war. He does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them, saying: “Even though you make many prayers, I will not listen: your hands are full of blood” (Is 1:15).

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

If you're the mother who was reading Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone aloud to your child on the LNER train from London to Edinburgh yesterday, one of my grown up children was listening and says you did the voices brilliantly❤️🥹

[Jonathan Haidt @JonHaidt]

If you come across someone asserting there is "no scientific evidence" that social media is causing harm, please send them this link.

We lay out seven lines of evidence, including RCTs, natural experiments, and testimony from victims & perpetrators of harm

https://t.co/lZsNalKZE5

[Michelle Boorstein @mboorstein]

The @nytimes called two dozen U.S. Catholic dioceses and found the numbers of folks converting this Easter are up in all of them
https://t.co/L3UADDmLtM

[Ryan Burge 📊 @ryanburge]

I've got brand new data about American religion that was collected in October of 2025.

And, folks...

The share of Americans who are non-religious has dropped for the third year in a row.

Atheists and agnostics are down to 5% each.

Those are 2014 levels.

[Jennifer A. Frey @jennfrey]

No.

[Jonathan Haidt @JonHaidt]

The Anxious Generation was published two years ago today, in a very different world. Back then, the most common objection I got was resignation: "The train has left the station." "You can't put toothpaste back in the tube." "It's how the kids connect today."

Today, the world looks very different. It turns out that if our kids were all on a train and we learned it was heading toward a collapsed bridge, we'd find a way to stop it and bring them safely back to the station. That’s what’s happening now.

After the historic verdicts in Los Angeles and New Mexico, today is a great day to reflect on the capacity of people in democratic societies to take action, even when opposing some of the most powerful corporations in history. We're getting access to the courts. We're getting phone-free schools. We're seeing whole neighborhoods letting kids out to play, unsupervised, which is what we older folk all remember as the best part of childhood.

So I want to recognize:

--The mothers (and, right behind them, fathers) who rose up by the millions and powered the movement.

--The farsighted governors and legislators in red states and blue states who have been innovating on policy solutions.

--The leaders of a dozen of nations, who are raising the age to 16 for opening social media accounts (with a special shoutout to Australia, for going first).

--The teachers and school administrators who had their classrooms disrupted for 15 years, and who are now eager to think through new solutions as screens have taken over and obstructed learning.

--The grassroots organizations who have been dedicating their efforts to advocate for all of the above in their local communities.

--The millions of members of Gen Z who have been rising up, demanding agency over how they spend their lives in the digital era, and finding better ways to connect in real life.

And one final group: the survivor parents--the ones you saw in those pictures of people embracing on the front steps of the LA courthouse. I have met many over the years. I am in awe of their courage and tenacity, their willingness to tell their stories of loss, over and over again, to different audiences, in the hope that no other parent would have to endure what they have endured. At long last, juries and legislatures are hearing you, and are acting.

Together, we are calling the train back to the station. Together, we are rolling back the phone based childhood and reclaiming life in the real world.

The work continues. If you’re not already involved, join us: https://t.co/HdJDTKOQ3T

[Jordan Haddad @JHaddad01]

So grateful to have attended a fantastic lecture by Mariele Courtois on the ethics of AI at @FranUbr & have the chance to spend time with friends and former @CatholicUniv classmates.

@BayouTheauxmist @BrianPedraza7

[Kristin M. Collier, MD @HSRdirector]

our new manuscript is out in @ClinicalTeacher #MedEd

[Brian Pedraza @BrianPedraza7]

@acatholicgeek Send me an ad! I can add it to our theology newsletter.

[Brian Pedraza @BrianPedraza7]

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 I love and have a deep concern for all who identify as trans. But the ideology that encourages people to reject their bodies must be defeated. An important ruling in favor of parental rights, religious freedom, and people accepting and loving their bodies as themselves.

[Thomas More Society @ThomasMoreSoc]

🚨 BREAKING: The Supreme Court just handed a historic victory to parents over California's secret gender transition policies today, ruling 6-2 in our case Mirabelli v. Bonta.

DECISION AND REACTIONS: https://t.co/sK0BWtvy7y

California required schools to secretly facilitate children's gender transitions without telling parents. Teachers were forced to use different names and pronouns behind parents' backs. One family only found out their daughter had been transitioning at school after she attempted suicide.

Today the Court said: enough. The justices found that California's secrecy regime likely violates both the First Amendment and the Fourteenth Amendment's protection of parental rights. The Court held that California "cut out the primary protectors of children's best interests: their parents."

What makes this decision groundbreaking: the Court reaffirmed that parents—not the state—have the constitutional right to direct the upbringing of their children and to participate in decisions about their children's mental health. Even Justice Kagan in dissent said she has "no doubt" parents have these rights and that California "could have crossed the constitutional line."

The class-wide injunction blocking California's policies is back in effect for a statewide class of parents. This is a historic just a win for parents and a precedent that puts every secret gender transition policy in America on notice.

@PaulJonna @peterbreen

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

I am following with deep concern what is happening in the Middle East and in Iran during this tumultuous time. Stability and peace are not achieved through mutual threats, nor through the use of weapons, which sow destruction, suffering, and death, but only through reasonable, sincere, and responsible dialogue.

[Brian Pedraza @BrianPedraza7]

This Friday Baton Rouge peeps!

[Brian Pedraza @BrianPedraza7]

Interpreting this Sunday's readings...

[Brian Pedraza @BrianPedraza7]

Stranger Things. Said it at the end of season 4, and now that I've finished 5, I'll say it again: should've ended at 4.

[Brian Pedraza @BrianPedraza7]

@jdflynn I see Christopher Ragusa and @JHaddad01 have been spreading the good news.