On today's show, Steve and his co-hosts Frank Walker, Jenny Holland, and Stephen K. Harnwell discuss the news that Pope Francis is holding an Extraordinary Convenor of the College of Cardinals, and the implications for the future of the Catholic Church.
00:19:29.000So Father Hatton comes down and says that the guy was very aggressive and rude and really angry at priests and the church.
00:19:42.000Now, Jenny, that seems to me to be a first time, a first person witness account describing these events is pretty intentional to me.
00:19:53.000I repeat that he was really angry at priests and the church.
00:19:57.000And the police statement that they put out said it was not believed to be a hate crime targeted at Catholics.
00:20:06.000And the incident is understood to have been mental health related.
00:20:10.000Well, you know, I and as you point out, the the the desecration of the relics was it was in the Lady Chapel.
00:20:19.000So we see here desecration of the baby Jesus and then violence expressed towards the Virgin Mary.
00:20:26.000Two things that I think serious Catholics will will start collecting dots and wonder if there is something beyond being mentally unhinged here.
00:20:36.000These are the representatives, representations of Christ and of the Virgin Mary immediately come under contact under attack.
00:20:46.000But by the diabolic always and everywhere.
00:21:13.000I don't understand how that the statement that the church puts out thanking people for their prayers and concern with regard to the Christmas Eve desecration.
00:21:24.000I don't understand why the statement says that it's not sectarian in nature and that it requires spiritual medicine.
00:21:51.000There's something very sinister about this in that the specifics of the attack and the kind of coded language being used is raises a lot of suspicions as to what possibly this could be.
00:22:09.000If it's not sectarian, OK, notice that that's a carefully chosen word.
00:22:13.000So it's not they're not saying it was a Protestant attack or a Muslim attack.
00:22:19.000But then it was obviously an attack and it was obviously religiously motivated.
00:22:24.000Otherwise, why the baby Jesus and why the Virgin Mary's chapel?
00:22:32.000I mean, this is a this is an old like you say, it's an old and beautiful church in the most beautiful part of Edinburgh, which is one of the most beautiful cities in Europe with a tremendous amount of history.
00:22:43.000And the wider context of this, and I bring you tales from the insane secular world now, is that Scotland is among all of the woke small nations of the West, the probably the wokest and the craziest.
00:22:59.000It has been in the grips of some of the most insane, woke totalitarian, idiotic government policy of anywhere else in the world.
00:23:12.000Just as a very brief example from the sacred to the profane, someone I know who used to live there drew my attention to a story that appeared this weekend in Scottish local media of a man who invited all and sundry to come to a park in Glasgow.
00:23:29.000As he said, as he said, to give him a big boot in the balls, as in kick him in the testicles to celebrate his impending castration, which they call bottom surgery.
00:23:40.000So a trans identified man and the media is covering this like it's fun, how quirky.
00:23:47.000This is the same country that appointed a period dignity officer in 2022, a government funded position, which they then gave to a man.
00:23:58.000So, I mean, Scotland, I mean, and these are the most sort of silly examples.
00:24:03.020There's a lot of other far more serious examples of the degradation of Scotland, its education, its working class communities, and the elevation of these insane woke commissars.
00:24:15.600So that I think, I mean, one of the reasons, one of the things that drew me towards Catholicism specifically was watching how insane the world was becoming under the influence of woke.
00:24:29.000And even as a secular atheist, a person who was secular my entire life, it was very apparent to me that the worst excesses of woke appeared to me the same as demonic forces are described in the olden times.
00:24:47.100So when I look at the story of the church in Edinburgh, I agree with you wholeheartedly.
00:24:51.900I think, I hope that the priests in charge of that church are attending to this problem that they seem to have, as in people coming in and attacking them and threatening them on the most holy days of the Christian year.
00:25:07.060And really, I'd ask the audience in general to pray for Scotland, because it's in a very dark place.
00:25:16.360Let me just, we've got 60 seconds before we go to the book.
00:25:19.560I just want to ask Frank Walker, who attends to these things with great, with great interest.
00:25:27.380Just give me, very quickly, if you can, when you hear Jenny talking now, and you hear these stories of violence and hatred and outrage, not only directed against the baby Jesus, but also against the Virgin Mary.
00:25:42.160What do you, and the newspaper accounts, by the way, actually described, I think it was either the guy or the woman taking the statue of the Christchart and smashing it repeatedly on the ground.
00:25:52.760What is the first thing that comes to your mind, Frank Walker?
00:25:57.440Both Jenny and I have suggested the diabolic here.
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00:31:40.840Well, since before we took our Christmas break, there have been some developments in terms of ecclesiastical appointments, both to New York, which I think we might have mentioned just in December,
00:31:57.720but also to the primatial sea, the Catholic churches, the Catholic hierarchies, primatial sea in England and Wales, which is Westminster.
00:32:09.520And our second Ratzinger, the great hope to restore conservatism and traditionism to the Catholic Church, Pope Leo has appointed two guys who are very much.
00:33:09.300I saw a little bit of his talk next to the outgoing Archbishop Nichols, Cardinal Nichols.
00:33:15.300And there's they were just sitting together.
00:33:17.940And, yeah, he's all about social justice.
00:33:21.120He's all about migrants, which is the same thing that they have in New York.
00:33:25.060The migrants in the UK, when you talk about migrants from the church, your job is to scold all the peoples down and to stop them resisting the full on Islamization of the UK.
00:33:37.840And in the United States, they're all about migrants and the new guy is about migrants.
00:33:42.720But in that case, it's all about Trump and the deportations.
00:33:46.320Two different the same issue, but two different angles.
00:34:00.540He's all about he tells the stories about how he listened over and over, how he went four times back in his old diocese to listen to the people.
00:34:08.580It doesn't say whether he paid any attention to what he heard.
00:34:12.060But in the UK, they're much more about silencing your opinion, your Catholic opinion.
00:34:19.820And, you know, and but both cases in New York and in the UK, it's all about politics.
00:34:26.000Bishop Moth, who's now been given the biggest diocese, he's there to counteract Tommy Robinson and Nigel Farage and their political movement where they're actually bringing in, unlike in the United States, they're bringing in Christianity in a new way.
00:34:42.440And they're saying they're all about Christmas.
00:34:45.200This Bishop Moth says, well, you can't be about Christmas and against migrants because Jesus and the Holy Family were migrants.
00:34:53.060And, you know, this tactic that they always use to make whatever their political cause into God, I find it offensive.
00:35:01.600And, you know, I don't think that he's going to be I don't think he's going to be that effective against these guys.
00:35:06.080He's very, I think, find him a little bit snooty.
00:35:13.220And I think that's probably a thing that happens there a lot.
00:35:16.460And I don't think that the Tommy Robinson was a hero to the UK and Nigel Farage just talks directly to people.
00:35:22.240I don't think I don't think the competition is going to be very strong as in New York, where the guy has absolutely no charisma, unlike Cardinal Dolan.
00:35:51.420We'll timestamp that and get that out on social media.
00:35:53.940So Tommy Robinson led a carol concert in London in which he claimed that the scope was to put Christ back into Christmas.
00:36:04.900That didn't go down well, either with the Anglicans or the Catholics.
00:36:09.980The hierarchies, by the way, I'm not talking about the actual faithful who went down very well with the faithful.
00:36:15.700Well, let's just go come back, however, to the Archbishop-elect Moth, who spoke on the importance, the priority of welcoming the stranger and refer to the enriching contribution that people born in countries across the world bring to the UK.
00:36:38.100Well, you know, anyone who checks out my Getter profile will see I'm chock-blockful with illustrations of the cultural enrichment that's taking place right across Continental.
00:36:51.200Tell me something, because the late, unlamented Pope Francis went on and on and on and on and on and on and on about priests, parish priests especially, needing to have the smell of the sheep about them.
00:37:09.260I'm suggesting that in his fantasy, in his fantasy, in the idea of the church that he hated so much, you had these stern, rigid, doctrinaire parish priests leaning over the lecterns, the pulpits, every Sunday, sort of reading chapter and verse on moral theology to parishioners, to which I can only open brackets.
00:37:33.800I can only add, if only, let me know where these guys are, because I'm going to beeline there.
00:37:39.260And his counter to that, Frank Walker, was that he wanted parish priests to be more pastoral and that they had to have the smell of the sheep.
00:37:49.640He wanted pastors, shepherds who had the smell of the sheep.
00:37:53.060Tell me, because I talk to Catholics back in my beloved homeland quite a bit, and they're all universally very concerned about how the invasion, the third world invasion,
00:38:07.460is actually ruining the social fabric right across the UK.
00:38:12.180Where is the smell of the sheep in these two episcopal appointments?
00:38:18.660It's in what they call liberation theology.
00:38:22.320It's this theology that makes the peoples, the people as this idol that is God himself.
00:38:28.740In fact, that's why this new Archbishop of Westminster is so warm and welcoming.
00:39:53.120It's this peoples that enables the communism where you have totalitarians rule over all the peoples.
00:40:01.060It's completely opposite of what they say it is, and they have turned it into a religion.
00:40:04.960And you can't be reminded enough that this is the religion of Leo's church, and they're bringing it in.
00:40:12.540They mentioned in the piece when they're discussing the new Cardinal in New York that people need to realize they just brought in a guy from the Dominican Republican to Palm Beach where Mar-a-Lago is,
00:40:23.500and they need to start listening to the church and listening to the peoples.
00:40:32.160You know, the piece that we looked at at the Financial Times, which is a neoconcentral about the new Archbishop of New York, Bishop Hicks, is all about Cardinal Dolan.
00:40:41.000How Cardinal Dolan fought Obamacare, how Cardinal Dolan was happy the day that they elected Trump.
00:41:37.880Before we go over to Jenny, who's got an amazing story, I think, about the report on the collapse of health and the death mortality rate due to the United States moving, changing Sunday trading laws.
00:41:56.420I just want to make an observation to this, right, because the new Archbishop-elect of Westminster, who is the de facto spiritual leader of English Catholics, right,
00:42:05.820put out a statement along with the Archbishop of Birmingham, which is the next big Catholic diocese in England, calling for empathy towards migrants.
00:42:14.980As you said in the beginning, Frank, of your introduction, the migrants thing is the number one priority of this new guy.
00:42:22.100I just have a comment, you know, I don't want to be too provocative, but, you know, when they're sort of putting out these statements,
00:42:32.200reminding people that, or trying to get people to believe that the Holy Family were asylum seekers,
00:42:41.360because I have a very quick reflection in as far as that is true.
00:42:47.220When St. Joseph led the Holy Family out into Egypt, first point to make,
00:42:52.300they were actually fleeing an authentic, genuine persecution, the Massacre of the Innocents, right, led by King Herod.
00:43:01.760Point one. Point two, they worked, they didn't live sponging off the benefits paid for by the Egyptians.
00:43:11.040And point three, most importantly, when the persecution finished, they went back and settled back in Nazareth, right?
00:43:19.900These are three things that you never hear a Catholic hierarchy talking about when they're saying that we have to have empathy for migrants,
00:43:28.620and like, and suggesting that the Holy Family were asylum seekers.
00:49:00.280There was a 40% mortality increase by 1996, the study says.
00:49:07.080And to me, actually, there's a couple of things that really stand out in this to me.
00:49:11.420One is the sort of very clear link that they show.
00:49:15.720Two is that the study was published at all.
00:49:20.240It was done by researchers from Wesley College at Notre Dame and Ohio State.
00:49:26.280And, you know, we're more accustomed to seeing stories about crazy studies about, you know,
00:49:31.840is my dog trans or something coming out of these journals and these woke universities.
00:49:37.120But in this case, something actually valuable might have snuck through.
00:49:42.340And the other thing I want to say is that actually reminds me very poignantly of the late Charlie Kirk's most recent book,
00:49:50.100which was published recently, which was about the importance of honoring the Sabbath.
00:49:54.360I think that I hope I hope I hope this study is is widely read.
00:49:59.660I'm glad I'm glad we're showcasing it on the show, because I would like people to start thinking about this again.
00:50:05.360The turn back to tradition where people are realizing that taking a day and keeping it for family and for faith and only family and faith provides exponential benefits in the material world,