One of the biggest political issues heading into the 2026 midterm elections is the housing shortage. This week on Register Radio, Register staff writer Jonah McKeown joins us to discuss how America’s housing shortage is becoming a moral crisis. Then, Register senior contributor Edward Pentin, just back from Tanzania, tells us about the Mothers and Missionaries of the Holy Cross and their extraordinary foundress.
Highlights:
1:57 — Why America’s housing crisis is personal for young Catholic families
3:04 — What does the housing shortage have to do with the Catholic faith?
5:11 — When housing costs squeeze Catholic schools and parishes
6:42 — Why is housing so expensive — and what’s keeping America from building more?
9:43 — What Catholic social teaching says about housing and private property
11:17 — What young families are really asking for
12:11 — How are families adapting to the affordability crisis?
14:28 — Edward Pentin’s remarkable encounter with a little-known religious community in Tanzania
15:17 — The extraordinary story of Mother Maria Stang
16:05 — The crisis that inspired Mother Maria’s “call within a call”
17:14 — The striking parallels between Mother Maria and Mother Angelica
17:43 — What one religious community built
