Interview with Joseph Alf | Garcia Moreno: Blueprint for a Catholic State

Dr. Brian McCall welcomes Garcia Moreno expert Joseph Alf to The Professor’s Exam for a sweeping conversation on one of the most remarkable Catholic laymen in history. Together they explore how a man born into the chaos of post-Bolivar Ecuador formed himself into a genius statesman, built an army from nothing, displaced a masonic government, restored the clergy through a historic concordat with Pope Pius IX, consecrated his nation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and was ultimately martyred for the faith, all of it foretold centuries earlier by Our Lady of Good Success. From the prophecies of Mother Mariana de Jesús Torres to the machete blows of Faustino Arroyo, from the Rothschild fortune to the altar of Our Lady of Sorrows, this is the extraordinary story of a man whose blueprint for Catholic statecraft may yet prove to be the roadmap for restoration.