Candace Owens - October 08, 2024


Forbidden History: The Christian Holocaust | Candace Ep 81


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1 hour and 19 minutes

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125.76154

Word Count

10,046

Sentence Count

665

Misogynist Sentences

8

Hate Speech Sentences

38


Summary

In this special episode of Candice, Bishop Schneider shares his conversion story and how he became a Catholic. Bishop Schneider grew up in the Soviet Union and grew up as a student of history, but he never knew much about the history of his home country, until he was forced to travel to the West. In this episode, he shares his story and the lessons he learned from his time in the USSR. He also shares some of the methods used by Soviet leaders to keep their own people in line, and the methods they used to crush freedom and freedom in the Western world. He shares his experience in the gulags, and how they used torture and death as political tools to keep order in a system that was supposed to be one of the freest countries in the world, but was actually a system based on fear and oppression, and a system which was designed to keep people confined in concentration camps and forced to convert to the religion of Stalin's communist ideology. Thank you Bishop Schneider for sharing his story, and for being willing to share it with us! Stay safe out there, and stay safe in the streets of Toronto. Metrolinx and Crosslink! Please be alert as trains can pass at any time on the tracks. Remember, be careful along our tracks, and only make left turns where it s safe to do so! Be alert, be aware, and be aware! - Stay safe, and Stay safe! . - Candice (Candice) Candice's bio: Candice ( ) is a Canadian Catholic and a Canadian living in Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Canada. She is a Catholic, an Anglican and a practicing Anglican, a lay leader, a student, a priest, a reformed Catholic, and an author, a feminist, a humanist and a reformed Anglican. She has a passion for the Catholic, a writer and a lover of the arts and a friend of the culture and a Christian, and she loves to talk about all things Catholic, especially about the Catholic Church, and her time in general, and especially about history and the Catholic church. (and her love of the Catholic culture and the church, and so much more. ...and she's here to share her conversion story about it all! ... I hope you enjoy this episode of the podcast, you'll find it inspiring and learn something new about what it means to be a Catholic in this episode!


Transcript

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00:00:25.140 All right, guys, welcome to a special episode of Candice.
00:00:30.280 I'm always reading your comments.
00:00:31.760 So many people ask me, Candice, when are you going to share your conversion story?
00:00:36.160 Why the Catholic Church?
00:00:38.120 How did you get there?
00:00:39.780 You guys are definitely sensing that there has been a change in me over the last year, and there certainly has been a change in me in the last year.
00:00:45.980 And while I'm still not fully there yet and ready to talk about that story, I can tell you for sure that the expression that to become a student of history means to become a Catholic is something that I have taken to heart and that I believe to be real.
00:00:59.400 There are a lot of aspects right now of people recognizing that we are in this spiritual battle.
00:01:04.440 We can't make sense of a lot of the things that are happening here in the West.
00:01:07.320 Why would people want to implement the sorts of changes that we're seeing?
00:01:11.240 Why does it feel like we're fighting for our children from the state?
00:01:14.500 How did we get into this predicament so quickly?
00:01:17.040 You feel it.
00:01:17.900 I feel it.
00:01:18.780 And we're all searching for answers.
00:01:20.820 And I believe the answer really can be found in the Bible.
00:01:24.520 There's nothing new under the sun.
00:01:27.020 But what really does that mean?
00:01:29.940 A lot of history, I believe, has been hidden.
00:01:32.400 I've been particularly interested in the history of Christianity, the things that we don't learn in our textbooks at school.
00:01:40.720 And it is my belief that it has been, is, and forever will be a war against Christ.
00:01:48.560 And so one moment in history that I'd like to speak about, a long moment in history, is the Soviet Union.
00:01:54.720 We don't learn enough about what happened in the Soviet Union, the victims of the Soviet Union,
00:02:00.020 and really what happened to the people that were executing those punishments, those deaths.
00:02:06.820 Today, I am so honored to have a conversation with somebody who is well-equipped to speak about that time in history.
00:02:15.180 His Excellency Bishop Schneider is here to join me.
00:02:19.200 Welcome to Candice.
00:02:20.160 Thank you, Candice.
00:02:21.200 So I am just thrilled to have you.
00:02:23.980 And I guess a perfect place to start would just be, before we get into your background,
00:02:29.040 have you heard, like what I just said, about Americans not knowing much about the Soviet Union?
00:02:34.340 Does that strike you as odd?
00:02:35.700 Or did you kind of know that the West was in a little bit of a bubble?
00:02:40.340 Yes, I have this sensation.
00:02:42.140 I grew up in the Soviet Union.
00:02:44.840 I know I had the communist school and I passed all the indoctrination of the communist system.
00:02:55.420 And my parents were also persecuted by the, and my grandparents, by the communists.
00:03:04.220 And so, and later, I was still in high school.
00:03:08.120 We could emigrate from the Soviet Union to West Germany, to the Western world.
00:03:15.700 And there, slowly, I discovered such elements of the Soviet dictatorship methods, even in the Western world.
00:03:27.940 It means the, a kind of totalitarianism.
00:03:34.960 So, it must be a totalitarian system.
00:03:40.160 So, only one way of thinking.
00:03:43.620 And it was imposed in my time in the Soviet Union by all means, of television, of radio, of newspapers,
00:03:52.600 all was in the hands of only one thinking.
00:03:55.100 And when you dared to decline from this line, when you were suddenly declared by the system, Soviet Union, as an enemy.
00:04:12.960 So, as a dangerous person, even they had said, maybe you have, you are a spy of the Western world.
00:04:22.180 You are making conspiracy, even this, this concept of conspiracy was very much used in my time by the Soviet Union dictators to simply intimidate people and to shut them down in, in the public.
00:04:47.020 And so, I can recognize, especially now, in our current time, in the Western world, a growing, increasing elements of a true dictatorship,
00:05:04.400 and not only dictatorship, but totalitarian system, and an intolerance.
00:05:11.020 By the name of tolerance and freedom, we are now living in the Western world to be oppressed, to be declared hate, speech, or enemies, or conspiracy people.
00:05:31.220 So, these same concepts, the same concepts, the same methods were used since Lenin, Stalin, and all the time of the Soviet Union.
00:05:41.980 And also a kind of sarcastic methods.
00:05:48.000 Because, I mean, I mean, in my time, Soviet Union, they proclaimed always, we are the most freedom, we have the greatest freedom in the world, Soviet Union.
00:06:01.540 And full with gulags, it means camps of concentration.
00:06:07.840 And in the same time, they proclaimed all the day, we are the freest country in the world.
00:06:15.060 But, for example, when Stalin built up the most horrible gulags, where my grandfather was also imprisoned,
00:06:28.360 he made, he asked to compose a song, which must, had to be sung in all schools, universities, and workplaces.
00:06:39.520 And this song, well, it was beautiful music, but the text was saying,
00:06:49.040 Soviet Union, the communism, is such a beautiful place.
00:06:54.640 And I do not know another country where people can breathe so freely.
00:07:00.860 Full with camp of concentrations, people labeled and targeted as enemies, as conspiracy, and so on.
00:07:10.980 So, therefore, we have to be aware, in our day, in our Western society, and of these existing already methods of Soviet dictatorship,
00:07:24.560 communist dictatorship, which already infiltrated so much our public life, political life, social life in the Western countries.
00:07:35.220 You know, when I look back on my public education, and I realize that I took years and years of history, and I learned nothing.
00:07:44.200 And I realize that within American culture, we have almost a lack of reverence for history.
00:07:49.280 We pull down old buildings.
00:07:51.100 We put up new ones that are glossy.
00:07:54.480 And everything is quite modern.
00:07:56.200 I realize that this is intentional, that they don't want us to explore true history, to have a reverence for history,
00:08:03.080 because from knowing the history, you can avoid certain traps in the future.
00:08:07.780 So, when I hear you describing the Soviet Union, and it sounds exactly like America today, exactly like the West today,
00:08:14.840 the proclamation of freedom, we've never been more free, we don't want to be like this other country,
00:08:19.060 And yet, not just me, everyone senses this squeeze.
00:08:23.240 We don't actually feel more free.
00:08:25.560 We've actually maybe never felt more restricted.
00:08:29.220 It scares me, and it makes me want to really elaborate on what happened in Russia.
00:08:36.980 So, was it your grandparents that were alive when the Tsar was assassinated?
00:08:44.900 Yes, they were alive, yes.
00:08:47.540 And what happened, I guess, so, what happened thereafter?
00:08:53.040 What was that period of time like for your grandmother?
00:08:56.720 Yes, it was a period of anarchy, of simply violence on the side of the government.
00:09:08.980 And so, especially the Stalin started systematic genocide, I would even say, in 1936-37.
00:09:34.580 These were the darkest years, and he called this cynically a purge, a cleansing of the Soviet society,
00:09:44.720 of enemies or potential enemies.
00:09:48.220 He declared they must, they could be a potential enemy, simply innocent people.
00:09:53.180 So, the potential enemies for Stalin, and then his other Soviet dictators, priests, because it must be established an atheist society.
00:10:12.040 Therefore, priests are the first enemies, then in the intelligentsia, intelligent people.
00:10:18.960 For example, for example, in the Gulag, in Karlak, this was a famous Gulag in Kazakhstan, where I am now living.
00:10:29.720 And Solzhenitsyn wrote about Karlak also.
00:10:32.580 Stalin deported there in the 30s, one of the best scientists from St. Petersburg in Moscow, in prison there.
00:10:45.640 They were too intelligent for the Soviet system.
00:10:50.340 Why?
00:10:50.780 Because they were thinking independently.
00:10:53.200 So, when you are thinking independently, you are a dangerous person for a dictator.
00:11:01.100 And so it was.
00:11:01.840 And the other third category were the people who had some wealth or some properties, because it contradicts the communist system.
00:11:15.320 And so, and in these two years, Stalin killed, more or less, 20 million old people, not foreign people.
00:11:30.300 And from my grandfather was a victim in this so-called cleansing purge system,
00:11:38.680 simply because he was a Catholic, a believer, he was a German, and he had some wealth, some lands.
00:11:50.600 And he was killed when he was a young man, young married man and father of family, 27-year-old.
00:11:59.760 And my grandmother, she remained a widow with 25, with two little children, my father and his brother.
00:12:08.680 And so, but when the system, the communist system started, after the assassination of the Tsar family and Lenin,
00:12:21.200 they proclaimed that now we will bring the paradise on earth.
00:12:28.000 Really, I remember these slogans in my school.
00:12:32.140 Communism brought paradise on earth.
00:12:35.600 And Lenin, he invented the system of so-called camps of concentration, or they were called gulags later.
00:12:49.820 And now I am living in Astana, in the capital city of Kazakhstan, and close to the capital city,
00:12:58.240 there was a special gulag, special gulag, only for women.
00:13:03.520 A female gulag, which was called camp of concentration for the wives of the traitors of the homeland.
00:13:14.680 So, simple fact that their husbands were declared enemies, or conspiracy people,
00:13:24.020 even if they were not enemies, not conspiracies, simply that they were declared.
00:13:30.020 For this fact, the wives were arrested and put in this gulag.
00:13:38.300 Not only wives, the daughters of this man, the sisters of this man, of these so-called enemies of the homeland.
00:13:49.700 And now there is a very impressive museum.
00:13:53.800 People can look at these horrors when you observe how these poor, innocent women were tortured, were humiliated.
00:14:05.980 I think I, several times I visit this museum, I must cry.
00:14:13.940 It is so touching.
00:14:16.360 Because these are mothers, innocent.
00:14:20.740 They had children.
00:14:22.540 And even some were pregnant, arrested.
00:14:28.080 And they gave birth in the camp of concentration.
00:14:31.280 And they could not, they had nothing to give food for the children.
00:14:37.600 And so, in their eyes, the children were dying.
00:14:41.940 And it was horrible.
00:14:43.300 And therefore, I repeat, we must do all what we can with all the forces of good people of good will,
00:14:55.900 Christians and others, to make a common alliance against the already existing dictatorship in the Western countries.
00:15:10.960 And the cruel methods of killing people, innocent people.
00:15:17.100 First, the unborn, our unborn citizens.
00:15:22.500 Already, they are citizens.
00:15:24.280 Our, who are yet not born.
00:15:26.920 But they are living, alive.
00:15:29.580 And they were killed in a horrible, systematic, cruel way in the Western society.
00:15:37.860 And then also, another element, the destruction of family.
00:15:47.100 This started already, the communists.
00:15:52.020 They took away the children from the parents to educate them in the new ideology,
00:15:59.420 to brainwash them, and so, even Marx and Lenin, Marx, Engels and Lenin,
00:16:14.020 they wrote that this established communist system in the Soviet Union,
00:16:21.380 which will be established, they predicted it in some way,
00:16:25.220 that the first step will be the atheism to spread and the communist system, the economical, economy and political.
00:16:40.540 And then they said, this will be not the end.
00:16:43.440 And Engels and Marx wrote, our aim will be, the last aim of communism will be to destroy completely family.
00:16:57.300 And now, we are seeing all, it's going on, the direct destruction of family, of marriage.
00:17:05.800 Why the communist, the last goal will be, because when you destroy family,
00:17:15.080 then you have a real society of slaves.
00:17:21.820 The family is the last bulwark against dictatorship and slavery.
00:17:26.880 When you have an independent, healthy family, this is for a dictator, a dictatorial system, a danger.
00:17:40.440 And so, destroying family, marriage, this is for the dictators the best method to have an entire society of slaves.
00:17:51.900 And we must do all what we can, not to be slaves.
00:17:58.740 I mean, social and political slaves.
00:18:01.420 And then, of course, maybe we will speak also of the spiritual slaves.
00:18:06.660 This is the slavery of sin.
00:18:08.980 To be slaves of the devil and of the sin.
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00:19:02.220 You know, I had sort of an unusual journey to the Catholic faith, and I went through politics.
00:19:09.600 And it's funny to realize all of these stops.
00:19:12.680 I did arrive as one of the last destinations, one of the last stops.
00:19:17.300 I realized exactly what you're speaking about.
00:19:19.060 I went, oh, the left, because I was kind of looking at this, didn't see the big picture,
00:19:24.320 which really, you know, God versus Satan.
00:19:26.940 But I would always say the left, if you really want to understand the chaos of everything that's going on, what connects it all, it actually isn't chaotic.
00:19:36.740 It's methodical, and it's an attack on the family, you know, looking at why they're trying to pull parents away from their children.
00:19:43.320 And you're looking at why they're pushing these themes of transgenderism and, you know, these kids going through these procedures,
00:19:51.160 which would render them unable to produce families into the future.
00:19:55.320 Virtually everything, even climate change, which has become something of its own religion, they encourage these kids.
00:20:01.580 They say, well, you know, the planet's not going to be here in 10 years, so it would be selfish for you to have a family.
00:20:06.560 And these kids speak about how they're going to be responsible and not have kids when they get older.
00:20:10.960 So I see all of those themes, and when you revisit it, you look at what happened in Russia,
00:20:18.220 and I do believe that, you know, Alexander Solzhenitsyn asks this question,
00:20:22.940 what happened to these administrators of this great evil?
00:20:26.780 Where did they go?
00:20:28.180 They had a certain bloodlust for evil that is difficult to describe, and we don't learn about it in America.
00:20:34.300 We have all of these motion pictures making us emotional about different points in history,
00:20:39.480 but they skip over this glaring obvious, and I really do believe, you know, the Bolshevik Revolution,
00:20:46.120 it was just a certain kind of evil that was unmatched throughout history.
00:20:50.340 And I want to talk about the Christ element, because this is very important, because it was a war on Christians.
00:20:57.160 But before we do, can you just describe some of the things that happened, for people that have never heard it,
00:21:02.280 and there are many people who have never heard this, what happened in the Gulag camps?
00:21:06.860 Yes, well, the people were there tortured, they were humiliated, they were stripped of their dignity,
00:21:19.820 of human dignity, of fundamental human dignity.
00:21:23.600 They had to work real, incredible hard work as slaves, and many died there, simply out of, because of these conditions.
00:21:41.240 And especially in the Gulags, they were forbidden any religious meetings or acts of, to manifest your faith, or these others.
00:21:55.080 And now I tell a story of a lady, a German lady, her name was Gertrude Detzel, in Kazakhstan.
00:22:06.700 She was a beautiful soul.
00:22:10.440 During the persecution, when there were no priests, priests were in prison,
00:22:13.520 she went secretly to the families and was teaching the catechism to the children and youth.
00:22:23.280 And this was forbidden, it was dangerous.
00:22:26.080 And she was so active that the police arrested her and asked her,
00:22:33.720 you must stop to teach the catechism.
00:22:38.360 Otherwise, we will put you in the Gulag.
00:22:40.320 And she said, no, I cannot stop.
00:22:43.780 I must proclaim, I must give to the children this teaching.
00:22:48.400 And then she was arrested in a horrible Gulag.
00:22:52.680 But what she did, in her, this was a female Gulag,
00:22:58.460 and in the huge dormitory where they were sleeping, the ladies,
00:23:04.880 different confessions, and even some were not believing.
00:23:10.320 And she managed that the entire dormitory, they had every evening prayers,
00:23:18.560 common prayers.
00:23:20.200 And she did it.
00:23:21.580 And then she was called during the night to interrogate it by the secret service.
00:23:30.320 During the day, she had to work very hard work, like a man, exhausted.
00:23:37.680 Then she prayed.
00:23:38.900 Then she catechized the people there.
00:23:41.600 And then during the night, she was spiritually tortured all the night by the interrogatories.
00:23:48.120 And what she did, she even wanted to catechize the torturers.
00:23:56.680 And then one day, she was called in the night again for these interrogatories, very humiliating.
00:24:02.120 And suddenly, she asked the chief officer, oh, and he's the other man.
00:24:09.920 Do you know what day is today?
00:24:14.280 25 of April.
00:24:16.080 No, today is the feast of the ascension of our Lord into heaven.
00:24:20.420 What does mean this?
00:24:24.020 I explained to you.
00:24:25.220 And she started to catechize them about Christ, his resurrection and ascension and all.
00:24:31.360 And she had such a power of word that they were simply silent.
00:24:36.540 They were in kind of shock.
00:24:40.200 And so she catechized them.
00:24:43.060 And then when they are awakened, they said, oh, this lady is too dangerous for us.
00:24:48.800 And then they prefer to free her from the camp of concentration rather than that she will evangelize the others.
00:24:56.480 Such a beautiful example.
00:24:57.840 We had also, in midst of the horrible situation, we had also, God helped his servants.
00:25:09.440 And even priests were able to celebrate Mass secretly and God protected them.
00:25:19.660 It's hard to even comprehend this sort of bravery.
00:25:23.920 You know, I always think it's quite strange when people think that it's bravery to speak out on a podcast because when you weigh it against the bravery of people who were quite literally putting their lives on the line to stand up for their faith, I just think these are stories that need to be told.
00:25:41.500 Your grandmother was one of these people.
00:25:43.480 You said your grandfather was killed at the age of 27.
00:25:47.220 And your grandmother also took a stand for her faith, didn't she?
00:25:50.520 Yes, my grandmother, Perpetua Schneider, when my grandfather Sebastian was killed, 27 years old, she had first days to hide because the police could also arrest her and take away the children.
00:26:09.160 But she remained in her husband, but she remained in her house and she had a lot of holy pictures on the walls.
00:26:17.720 And then came the police with guns to check the house because she was declared also as an enemy because she was the wife of an enemy traitor of the homeland.
00:26:28.300 And so this policeman came and he saw the holy pictures and icons and gave the order to her to take away these pictures.
00:26:39.900 And she said, no, I will not do this.
00:26:43.380 He said, yes, you must do.
00:26:44.880 We are living in an atheist society.
00:26:46.960 And then the policeman went to the wall and wanted to take off the picture himself.
00:26:54.740 And in this moment, my grandmother shouted on him and said, you did not put this picture on the wall and you have not the right to take it off.
00:27:06.700 And even so, she was a very timid person all her life.
00:27:10.180 She never raised her voice.
00:27:12.080 But in this moment, God gave her such a power, even confronting these policemen with the gun and the little children.
00:27:24.800 She had no fear.
00:27:27.580 And so in this moment, I think that God intervened.
00:27:31.420 This moment, this policeman was like in a shock because at that time never dared because it was the time of the terror cleansing.
00:27:41.200 All the police were going and shouting to the people.
00:27:47.120 In this moment, he was, the policeman, quite of shock and did not speak nothing and silently left the house.
00:27:56.940 And so God protected the widows and orphans, but especially those who serve him and who have the courage to witness God.
00:28:06.200 She was willing to die for her faith, which I think is something that is just so incredible.
00:28:11.500 And so it leads me to the question, when you examine this time period, what is it that made them focus on Christians right away?
00:28:20.520 I mean, thousands of priests killed in incredibly graphic ways.
00:28:24.480 You know, they wanted to make sure the public knew that it was not okay to be a Christian.
00:28:31.240 I mean, even if you're an evil dictator, logic would say, okay, if they want to keep their objects and they want to keep their cross, I don't care as long as they get into line.
00:28:39.980 What is it specifically about the faith that was something that this government understood had to be eliminated?
00:28:47.360 Yes, because the religious science and the faith, the communist dictators, they perceived as a danger for them, an obstacle for the totalitarianism, ideological totalitarianism.
00:29:06.540 So the communist system was, I repeat, totalitarian.
00:29:09.760 It must be all the same way of thinking, but when there are other people who are not atheists, who are really opposing atheism with their style of life, with professing their faith, to have religious signs, to wear a cross, or to have in their houses holy pictures, or to build and to celebrate worship, and so on.
00:29:33.360 It was perceived by the dictators as an obstacle for the achievement of a totalitarian, new, atheist, materialistic society.
00:29:46.920 Back to St. Augustine, the city of God versus the city of man.
00:29:52.720 And there is a particular, if you're trying to enslave mankind, there is a freedom that comes with knowing the Lord.
00:30:00.980 And they can't have people experiencing that freedom if you want to turn them all into robots.
00:30:08.680 And so when I see what happened there and this focus on Christianity, and I recognize that we're learning this in the West barely.
00:30:17.140 They've completely removed the Christian story from this.
00:30:20.340 You almost are not allowed to talk about things that Christians have lived through in the past, particularly Catholics, I would say, have lived through in the past.
00:30:27.600 And one of the tools in which they use, it's funny that you brought up the media and the books as this Soviet propaganda and the Soviet training.
00:30:37.600 One of the tools that they do use as a, I guess, a more modernized technique of torture is the media.
00:30:44.420 The media still protects the state, protects the state initiatives, and doesn't really allow Christians to speak about this.
00:30:51.340 It's like there are going to be tons of Christians hearing this that really don't know much about what happened in the Soviet Union.
00:30:59.000 But they are waking up to the fact, and I'm one of these people as well, that the public school system is a problem.
00:31:05.800 And when you trace the history, one of the first things that they did was they got the Bible out of the classroom.
00:31:10.040 Under the guise of freedom of religion somehow, the Bible was removed from the classroom.
00:31:16.120 And so I want to speak more about what your days were like in school under this system, what you learned, what was the new state religion almost, so to speak.
00:31:27.920 Yes, I remember very well.
00:31:29.660 First, we had to wear signs of the communism, such a red tie or a red scarf, and a sign on our 5th, the sign of the communism.
00:31:46.900 You could not enter the school without these exterior signs.
00:31:51.600 And then we had to learn slogans.
00:31:56.620 For example, I remember in my school, Lenin lived, Lenin is alive still, Lenin will live.
00:32:09.360 It is a religious slogan.
00:32:12.360 And then we had to sing a song.
00:32:15.840 I did not see Lenin, but I love him.
00:32:19.940 So they made this brainwashing with little children.
00:32:26.240 And then we had even in the school, and then also in universities, colleges and universities, a subject to learn.
00:32:40.720 It was called scientific atheism.
00:32:46.600 So they said atheism is science, scientific.
00:32:52.800 Religion, all what is linked with religion, religion, especially Catholic, it is anti-scientific.
00:33:02.700 It's not science.
00:33:04.740 Wow.
00:33:05.120 It's not serious.
00:33:05.960 It was, I mean, a rhetorical trick to, how do you say, to almost manipulate.
00:33:22.660 Yes, manipulate and to present Christianity as something which is against reason, against science, and so on.
00:33:29.920 But, interesting, during the Soviet time, for the Soviets, for the Communists, the greatest enemy, for them, was not so much the so-called Western world, in the Cold War, so-called, at that time.
00:33:49.380 But, basically, the Catholic Church, and especially the Vatican, because at that time, until Vatican II, the popes all boldly resisted communism,
00:34:08.380 and even they publicly accused communism, and showed the atrocities and all the lies, which the communist system did.
00:34:21.080 And because the communist system was built on a pillar, which I called simply lie.
00:34:30.580 They were lying.
00:34:32.020 This was systematic lie.
00:34:33.700 Distortion of evidence.
00:34:39.620 And so, why?
00:34:42.320 Because they felt that the Vatican, the Holy See, the Pope, is the greatest moral authority in the world.
00:34:51.480 And if he opposes the lies of communism, and will not collaborate with them, he is the greatest enemy.
00:35:01.900 And the Catholic Church.
00:35:03.000 And so, for example, I have known priests, my parents also, simple priests.
00:35:10.960 They were not doing nothing politics, simply priests, visiting secretly the people, giving the sacraments, confession, and so on, wedding, baptisms, in midst of the dangers.
00:35:25.860 And when they were caught and arrested, they were labeled and accused, with this formulation.
00:35:35.420 Secret agent of the Vatican.
00:35:39.260 He was not an agent, but he was accused.
00:35:43.020 An activist, or activist of anti-Soviet activism.
00:35:52.980 So, a priest who celebrated Mass, who gave the sacraments secretly, he was accused to be an anti-Sovietic agent and a spy of the Vatican.
00:36:08.200 Wow.
00:36:08.880 I am going to think for a very long time about what you just said, that they tried to say that atheism was scientific because that really sent a chill down my spine.
00:36:21.400 Because I have been speaking a lot on my show about how I've recognized that modern science is fraudulent.
00:36:27.920 And the media did not like this.
00:36:29.360 They really called me stupid.
00:36:31.660 And I said, well, you're now having people that just deem themselves experts, and all they have to do is say that it's a science, and people get in line.
00:36:40.900 And I think now the public recognizes that post-COVID, which became of religion.
00:36:46.620 I mean, they just would say six feet social distancing, and people would get in line.
00:36:51.240 Don't see your grandparents.
00:36:52.860 Trust it.
00:36:53.500 Even the phrase, trust the science.
00:36:56.220 Trust the science.
00:36:57.260 There was something about that that felt so demonic to me, of you're just saying implicitly, almost as if the science has become this pagan god.
00:37:07.020 And I do believe this.
00:37:07.940 I believe science has become this sort of, it's a form of paganism, where there's no logic anymore.
00:37:13.240 It's just somebody deeming themselves an expert.
00:37:15.220 But there's so much that they have been able to accomplish evil, in my view, in Western society, under the guise of science.
00:37:23.520 Because what they do is they then teach it to people in school, and people then view that as a token of their education.
00:37:30.740 Well, I learned that six feet social distancing is right, so it can't be wrong.
00:37:35.620 Well, I learned that, you know, I'm someone that speaks against, you know, the vaccine industry, really.
00:37:40.940 Well, I learned in medical school that as soon as the child comes out, there's something wrong with it, and they need all these injections.
00:37:48.180 And so to hear that they even manipulated science and tried to say atheism is actually scientific is really something I've never heard of before.
00:37:57.940 That is fascinating.
00:37:59.340 It was very famous.
00:38:00.360 And you had to make exams to pass, for example, in university degree, to graduate, and you had to do the exam on scientific ethics.
00:38:17.660 Otherwise, you would not obtain a grade.
00:38:21.060 Wow.
00:38:22.500 And they, I mean, they're doing this even in terms of history, and this becomes the threat of the education system, because I do believe that what we're existing under is Soviet propaganda.
00:38:34.320 When I examine, again, my own childhood and how I learned things, where everything they do, as long as they say that there's a statistic behind it, even if they can't explain it.
00:38:44.960 Perfect example.
00:38:46.820 Recently, a host got in trouble for, it was Tucker Carlson.
00:38:51.680 He was speaking about the dropping of the atom bomb.
00:38:55.320 And I'm very, very against it.
00:38:57.900 I agree with Tucker Carlson on this, especially because we dropped it in Nagasaki on praying Catholics.
00:39:02.140 So maybe I have a Catholic bias there.
00:39:05.500 But, you know, they teach in school.
00:39:07.080 If we didn't do that, then the war wouldn't have ended.
00:39:09.400 Right.
00:39:09.620 And so it's now become this sort of scientific understanding, statistical understanding that more people, way more people would have died if we didn't do this.
00:39:17.240 And people commit to that idea.
00:39:19.260 And it becomes a token of their education.
00:39:21.580 And then they sort of remove themselves from just this basic moral.
00:39:26.540 Like, you're dropping a bomb on innocent praying Catholics 300 feet in Nagasaki.
00:39:34.220 And they just go, but I learned this in school.
00:39:36.800 So there becomes this danger in really transforming the schools into the church.
00:39:45.840 Like, it's almost like a church of sorts.
00:39:47.980 It becomes the church of education.
00:39:50.680 Yes, exactly.
00:39:53.920 And this is a system, I repeat, of lie, as the communist system was.
00:40:01.660 And therefore, we must again proclaim our right to think independently.
00:40:12.360 So independent thinking is quite now forbidden.
00:40:17.460 There is only one way of thinking.
00:40:21.080 And therefore, we must again free our children, our society, from this system of lie, from this denial of evidence.
00:40:39.080 And to establish again a society where you can think freely and seriously present the truth of history and of our social life.
00:40:56.580 Yeah, I mean, this gets into really the humanist agenda where I examine things through a lens now.
00:41:03.140 And I go, OK, what they've done is they've taken the Bible and they've said, let's remove God and elect ourselves the God and sort of re-implement things.
00:41:12.280 Really, we're going to turn the Bible on its head.
00:41:14.860 So it's just going to be marriage is bad.
00:41:17.300 Marriage is not between a man and woman.
00:41:18.860 It can be between a man and a monkey.
00:41:20.320 It can be anything that you want.
00:41:21.560 It can be homosexual, everything that is in the Bible.
00:41:25.760 They have perverted, inverted or converted into something else.
00:41:30.320 And rather than going to mass, we're going to have kids mass every day.
00:41:34.200 They're going to go to school every single day.
00:41:36.260 And we're going to teach them things like pornography is good and really give in to their pleasures.
00:41:45.840 There's going to be no discipline.
00:41:47.020 There's going to be no concept of discipline.
00:41:48.820 And we're going to raise them to believe that they are their own authority.
00:41:51.900 And authority is a very important word when it comes to Western society, because when I kind of got interested in the Catholic faith, so to speak, I did realize that Americans have been conditioned to protest Protestants, so to speak, to protest the very concept of authority.
00:42:12.940 And this is what's wrong and what's backwards about the Catholic faith.
00:42:16.600 And we do learn this in school.
00:42:18.260 The Catholics are an implicit enemy in our textbooks.
00:42:24.800 This was the old world, the dark ages.
00:42:27.720 And now we have science, and it's modern, and we don't need God because we have reason, and everything's scientific.
00:42:33.900 And so do you, I mean, first off, do you know that there is sort of this resistance to the Catholic Church, I would say, in the West, particularly in America, but also in the UK and other places?
00:42:48.240 And to what do you attribute that?
00:42:50.940 Well, the first who denied authority was the devil.
00:42:55.840 We read it in the beginning of the Holy Scripture in the book of Genesis.
00:43:01.240 He questioned, he said to Adam and Eve, it is true that God commanded you, so he challenged the authority of God.
00:43:10.720 And since then, the devil is influencing people with this poison, this first poison to challenge and to deny reality.
00:43:23.000 And then the devil said, you will be like God.
00:43:27.860 This is the most dangerous temptation for all human beings in societies.
00:43:37.100 And this is the battle which is going on since then.
00:43:41.040 But we had an historical, you mentioned that now they are turning to the contrary, what the Bible says, that matrimony is good.
00:43:52.200 And so on, that they say matrimony is bad, the two sexes are bad, we have to have other possibilities.
00:44:00.760 So we had a historical phenomenon which was called Gnosticism, the Gnosis, 2,000 years ago.
00:44:09.940 It was an intellectual movement or fashion.
00:44:16.960 It was not Christian, more or less 2,000 years ago, in the time of our Lord Jesus Christ.
00:44:24.140 And then they infiltrated the Church in the 2nd century, the Gnostics, and therefore there was also a kind of Christian Gnosis.
00:44:36.020 But the other was pagan, but the principles were the same.
00:44:41.360 It's to say that one of the principles of the Gnosis, which is now again revived,
00:44:47.640 they said, all what is written in the Bible, the Bible is a product of the evil God.
00:44:59.100 They established two principles, the evil God and the good God.
00:45:05.280 They are equal from all eternity.
00:45:07.640 This is the so-called metaphysical dualism.
00:45:10.380 And so they said, oh, the Bible is a product of the evil God.
00:45:16.940 And all what is in the Bible written, which is good, is de facto not good, is evil.
00:45:25.180 So the Ten Commandments, who gave us, they say, the Gnostics, the evil God.
00:45:33.080 Therefore, not to kill is wrong.
00:45:37.140 To kill is good.
00:45:38.140 Today, we are killing all our, almost the planetarian genocide of the unborn.
00:45:45.800 It's good, they say.
00:45:47.460 It's Gnostic.
00:45:49.100 And then they say, God created man, male and female.
00:45:56.000 And God saw it was good.
00:45:59.040 And the Gnostics said, this is bad that there are two sexes.
00:46:04.500 They said, already 2,000 years ago, this, it is evil that there are two sexes.
00:46:11.400 This is an invention of the evil God.
00:46:13.840 Now we must overcome the distinction of the sexes.
00:46:17.560 And this was a program of the historical Gnosis.
00:46:20.880 And this, one of these principles of the Gnosis went very much, were taken from the free Masonic ideology.
00:46:33.780 They took almost a great part of the principles of the historical Gnosis.
00:46:40.280 And they recognized it.
00:46:41.660 And so, and then, the Gnosis, one other principle was that we will achieve, let us say, happiness or salvation, you can call it as you want,
00:46:57.880 simply through thinking, this means Gnosis in Greek, is thinking, or knowledge, independently of our moral behavior, of our moral acts.
00:47:17.020 The exterior acts are not important.
00:47:19.220 You can kill, you can live in adultery, and so on.
00:47:24.580 It does not matter.
00:47:25.440 It is sufficient your thinking and your knowledge, and a kind of secret, eletarian knowledge,
00:47:35.300 where, basically, then man will establish, and they establish what is good and what is evil.
00:47:43.360 So, we see this is a perversion, which was instilled by the devil, of course, since the beginning of the temptation of Adam and Eve,
00:47:51.960 but manifested historically in the historical Gnosis movement, 2,000 years,
00:47:58.160 then revived again in a great, to a great extent, in the free Masonic ideology, which we are now witnessing also.
00:48:07.360 Yes, and that was another element of American history that I was really startled by when I was speaking to a priest in the UK.
00:48:14.080 And he sort of said to me, you Americans just know nothing about history, know nothing about the battle of the Freemasons for America.
00:48:21.460 And I began there and sort of really understanding these Freemason groups and what they were about.
00:48:26.180 And, yes, and one element that came from Freemasonry was psychology, like modern psychology,
00:48:34.260 which is, to me, a tremendous evil today that we're seeing.
00:48:38.680 And they use psychology, again, turn it into a science, right, turn this into a science.
00:48:43.000 And this is how you get so many kids who believe that they have authority over their own bodies.
00:48:50.140 And they're constantly, you know, put your child into therapy, where it used to be the role when you had burdens to go to a priest.
00:48:56.780 They now say, oh, actually, the person you need to go to is a psychologist.
00:49:00.640 But when you really examine the history of everything that's gone very wrong in our society,
00:49:05.240 there is always a psychologist behind it, you know, teaching kids that pornography is good, right?
00:49:10.800 This was something that was given to us by psychologists, this concept that it's actually good for people to explore their sexuality.
00:49:18.980 And so much that has, again, another attack on the family unit, something that so many men are struggling with.
00:49:26.160 And this is one of the things that brought me back to another Catholic teaching when I developed a really strong understanding that pornography is an evil.
00:49:34.940 Yet I learned in school, can you believe this?
00:49:37.160 In school in America, you learn when you are in high school that watching pornography is healthy.
00:49:42.520 This is science.
00:49:43.940 It's healthy to watch a little bit of pornography.
00:49:47.680 And I look back on that and I just go, what a tremendous evil to teach that to children while at the same time using the media, again, another tool, to promote pornography, even in its minor forms.
00:50:01.480 Like everything is now soft-core pornography in the advertisements, it's soft-core pornography.
00:50:06.700 When you're reading the news, I mean, just the way people dress, everything has become pornographic and it's intentional and it's evil and it's demonic.
00:50:15.580 And it is an attack on the institution of the family.
00:50:19.540 Exactly.
00:50:21.240 Especially pornography is one of the most dangerous spiritual poisons.
00:50:28.180 So they are giving poison to our children.
00:50:31.500 This is criminal.
00:50:34.400 We have to state this.
00:50:37.640 The authorities, we must protest against this.
00:50:42.060 We must free our children from the poison because pornography, it is proven.
00:50:49.480 It is one of the most enslaving factors and consequences.
00:50:57.580 Really, it is addiction.
00:51:01.140 And enslaving you, you become a slave.
00:51:03.340 And there is no love because only with love you can heal.
00:51:11.740 This true love.
00:51:12.760 We are created by God for love.
00:51:15.340 For Him, to love Him, the absolute good and love is God.
00:51:21.460 And we are created to love Him, to know Him, and to be with Him all eternity.
00:51:26.620 And now here on earth we must learn to love truly the supreme good and love which is God.
00:51:35.440 And who demonstrated His love for us, giving His own life and blood for us, dying on the cross.
00:51:45.200 And elevating us to the dignity of children of God, of this nobility.
00:51:50.720 And so these pornography methods are really turning our children and youth to animals, even births.
00:52:04.720 Even the famous Italian poet Dante, he made his expression,
00:52:12.540 We are not created to be beasts with these pleasures only.
00:52:17.800 We are created to have wisdom and virtue.
00:52:25.240 And this gives us, again, our dignity and our happiness.
00:52:29.980 And so we must educate our children to virtue.
00:52:34.240 Because pornography is basically egoism, narcissism.
00:52:41.260 And these people can never become happy and never make the other happy.
00:52:51.140 We are created to love and to be loved and to give love.
00:52:58.300 Only then you are happy.
00:52:59.680 And I repeat again, the political social elites, they simply want to transform our society, our children and youth to slaves.
00:53:15.900 And when you are addicted to pornography or other addictions, drugs, and so you are a slave.
00:53:22.240 And then you can be manipulated very, very easily.
00:53:25.340 So we must start an action, a crusade, an action to free our children and youth and our citizens from the slavery.
00:53:39.400 Concretely, concretely, of pornography and of this satanic, agnostic thought of against marriage, against evidence, against nature.
00:53:54.480 So we have to restore simply common sense.
00:53:57.680 This is so really a healthy breath, common sense.
00:54:07.780 And this we must restore.
00:54:10.140 And then, of course, to bring the true wisdom, the true virtue, which is ultimately only possible with the help of God, who is the wisdom, who is the love, who is the truth.
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00:55:13.600 It's funny that you say common sense.
00:55:15.260 I speak about on my show often that I just really trust my gut instinct.
00:55:19.920 And what they've done successfully is to make people believe that their gut is a conspiracy.
00:55:25.400 Like that thing that comes online, which is the God intuition that is saying to you, this is very wrong and I shouldn't be doing this, even though you're telling me it's right.
00:55:33.960 They, you know, convince people that that feeling should be ignored and you should just do what everybody else is doing.
00:55:39.120 Again, there's like that slave economy and don't ask any questions.
00:55:43.500 And that's why watching what happened during COVID was really a study in a mass psychology being implemented on the world where your gut instinct should tell you, I shouldn't leave my parents to die alone.
00:55:55.500 I should, that, that everything should be screaming that this is wrong.
00:55:58.720 But again, then you're looking at everybody else and everyone's in formation.
00:56:03.500 And so you just go ahead and you do that.
00:56:05.840 And what's really funny is they always use the word freedom, right?
00:56:09.620 They're always telling you that this is about, you have to do this for freedom.
00:56:13.000 Even when they're locking you at home, they're telling you that you're doing this because you're a part of a team.
00:56:18.000 And like once everybody does this, then at the end of this, you're going to get your freedom.
00:56:22.220 So you have to enslave yourself for a little, but that's the right thing to do for freedom.
00:56:26.540 Pornography.
00:56:27.100 Well, what is that about?
00:56:28.080 That's about freedom.
00:56:29.340 This is about the First Amendment and the freedom.
00:56:32.020 And why wouldn't you want to have pornography in your society or your decision to choose?
00:56:36.940 Even when you trace all of these movements that came over, which you can draw a straight line from Russia.
00:56:42.900 We took in a bunch of Russian immigrants who brought over feminism, the concept of feminism.
00:56:49.160 Well, this is about women's freedom.
00:56:51.160 You know, this is not about breaking down the family and making women hate men.
00:56:54.760 And this is about standing up to the patriarchy so that women can have their freedom out of the household.
00:57:01.160 So you're constantly seeing that conditioning of telling people that it's really about freedom as they inch us ever closer to our own enslavement.
00:57:10.120 And it brings into question.
00:57:13.920 And it's a difficult question to ask this because I look at some people and I know they know better.
00:57:21.380 I know they know that this is wrong.
00:57:23.360 And yet they continue to do the slave activity.
00:57:27.820 And I wonder if it's because freedom is actually quite scary.
00:57:32.960 Like the concept of freedom for some people, it's easier to just get in line because then you can say, well, I'm not in control of my own life and I'd rather just do what I'm told to do.
00:57:44.100 And I grapple with that, like if it's natural for people to want to be enslaved because they don't have the courage to be free.
00:57:53.660 Exactly.
00:57:54.040 A great deal of people, they prefer to live in some way as slaves rather than to witness something which is then for them unpleasant and have some consequences, negative consequences.
00:58:14.100 But the dignity of the human person consists in really finding the truth and witnessing the truth, the good, the love.
00:58:32.360 And this we must promote because this is really and goes down in history.
00:58:41.120 We admire all people who in history resisted the common current, the common tie, the common ideology.
00:58:53.760 We have several excellent figures in the history, only to mention Thomas More and Solzhenitsyn and others.
00:59:05.920 And this is really, for us, worthy of admiration.
00:59:14.260 And for your own self-esteem, you must reject any form of slavery.
00:59:23.420 You must be independent.
00:59:24.840 But you only will be free when you find the truth and the virtue and the love.
00:59:36.720 Then you are free.
00:59:38.420 And then you have no fear.
00:59:41.420 Then you are fearless.
00:59:43.840 Then you fear only God.
00:59:47.520 And that is true freedom.
00:59:48.420 I do want to ask you briefly about some of the, I guess, internal struggle, if you want to call it internal conflicts, of the Catholic Church, which I think a lot of people are speaking about today.
01:00:00.780 And you are known publicly.
01:00:03.760 They will speak about certain bishops and pre-Vatican, pre-Vatican II, pardon, ideas.
01:00:09.860 And when I think about America in the 60s, as I'm starting to relearn history, I definitely do think that the 60s, it's an important decade.
01:00:19.080 There were a lot of significant changes that happened in my country.
01:00:22.620 And, of course, obviously, the Vatican II Council.
01:00:26.000 And so what does that mean for people that, many people who watch the show who are not Catholic, when you are being described, maybe you don't agree with that description, as someone who is pre-Vatican II?
01:00:37.860 And what does that mean to you, that public description of you?
01:00:43.260 Well, this is not the exact term, pre-Vatican II.
01:00:48.420 I'm simply trying to be faithful to Jesus Christ.
01:00:54.260 Jesus Christ is more important than a council.
01:00:58.060 Jesus Christ is more important than a pope.
01:01:01.300 The truth will set you free.
01:01:03.760 And I'm simply trying to be faithful to my identity.
01:01:12.220 Catholic.
01:01:13.620 And Catholic means what all believed in all times in the same way, in all places, and always.
01:01:28.060 So this is Catholic.
01:01:30.820 And I will not accept novelties which will undermine this treasure, which is not my invention, but which is a gift of our Lord Jesus Christ, of God himself,
01:01:48.620 who gave us so generously, who gave us so generously, revealed us his divine truth.
01:01:57.360 And these divine truths were entrusted to the apostles, and they handed it over, and the Church, until the second coming of Christ.
01:02:11.020 In the Church's task is to present ever more clearly the beauty and the immutability of the divine truth.
01:02:40.060 Because the truth is beauty, because the truth is beauty, and it attracts you.
01:02:45.220 And so the Church's first task, most severe task, is to keep, transmit, integrally, inviolably, this divine treasure of truth.
01:03:00.700 And therefore, I stick to not my opinion, not to the so-called pre-Vatican opinion, but to the divine truth, which the Church, the saints, the innumerable saints,
01:03:19.860 for 2,000 years believed, believed, proclaimed in the same sense, the same meaning always, and for which numerous, countless martyrs gave their life for the truth.
01:03:37.820 And this is worthwhile, and so when someone will therefore label me as pre-Vatican too, it has, for me, absolutely no meaning.
01:03:52.420 I am happy to be labeled so, as long as I am with Christ, and with the truth, and with all the saints of the past.
01:04:01.760 Sure, the labeling doesn't actually mean anything at all when you find the truth.
01:04:06.260 And it's funny, because I find that a lot of times people can wrongly attribute having faith, and really just having an understanding of the truth, as a form of radicalism.
01:04:17.380 Like, this person has been radicalized, and actually, I agree.
01:04:20.900 I think the truth is radical in times of tremendous deceit.
01:04:23.920 Like, the truth is radical.
01:04:25.940 It's radical when you're standing up in a system of lies.
01:04:30.900 Exactly, and the problem with Vatican II was that, at that time, Pope John XXIII and Pope VI with the Council, they wanted, in some way, to please the modern world, to ask sympathies from the world.
01:04:56.740 But this is unworthy.
01:05:00.500 Jesus Christ did not ask sympathy from the world.
01:05:05.720 The apostles did not ask sympathy from the world.
01:05:11.360 Jesus Christ said, you will be always persecuted by the world.
01:05:16.320 These are the divine words of our Lord Jesus Christ.
01:05:19.300 And the apostles said, if someone would like to be a friend of the world, he becomes an enemy of God.
01:05:33.540 It is written in the New Testament.
01:05:36.620 And so I follow this.
01:05:38.160 And St. Athanasius, a great saint from the 4th century, who almost alone with few bishops, defended in the 4th century the truth of the divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ against the spread heresy of the Arians, who denied the divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ.
01:06:05.240 This great saint, he said, if the entire world would be against the divinity of Jesus Christ, the entire church, the entire world, then I will believe in the divinity of Jesus Christ, and therefore I will be against the entire world.
01:06:27.240 And so he also coined this expression, it is not fitting that we Christians and the moral bishops are serving the time.
01:06:42.860 We must serve the Lord.
01:06:44.780 That was actually one of the small things that added up for me, I think, that drew me to the Catholic faith, was sort of seeing that as a Protestant, when you go to church on a Sunday, everything's become quite modern.
01:07:00.660 It seems like you're kind of meeting the times.
01:07:02.460 And I don't say this with any ill will in my heart.
01:07:05.080 I'm grateful for the time that I spent as a Protestant.
01:07:07.680 I think it was another step, a guide, but I did sort of wake up one day and just go, this is really modern.
01:07:13.340 This feels like a modern pop concert.
01:07:15.560 And if we're updating ourselves to the times, you know, what are, are we teaching history?
01:07:21.120 Are we just going to keep moving the goalposts?
01:07:23.480 And I think it was pretty obvious that things kept moving.
01:07:26.580 And then I tried to really comprehend why it is, and it is evident, that there is so much hatred and disdain for Catholics.
01:07:38.100 And I think the answer is because Catholics have been the keepers of history.
01:07:43.740 Yes, exactly.
01:07:45.240 And there is a beautiful text from the second century from a letter which is called Letter to Diognetus.
01:07:55.860 It's an anonymous writer.
01:07:58.840 And one of these chapters says, second century, you know, it was paganism.
01:08:06.900 The Christians were a small, tiny community and persecuted and hated and disdained.
01:08:16.520 And this author says, what the soul is for the body,
01:08:22.860 these are the Christians for the entire world.
01:08:29.600 And all hate the Christians.
01:08:35.320 And when you ask them, why you hate us?
01:08:38.920 They cannot say the reason why they are hated.
01:08:43.240 And so this is a very fitting expression, observation of an author, Christian author from the second century.
01:08:54.140 And it's quite timely for our time also.
01:08:57.660 The Christians must be the soul.
01:09:00.520 What the soul is animating, giving life for the body.
01:09:07.260 So the Christians, the presence of the Christians must be this power of giving spiritual life, animating the society.
01:09:18.100 But also be always aware that we are hated because Jesus Christ, the Son of God himself, was hated because of the truth.
01:09:30.700 But on the other side, we must be convinced and sure of our faith and know that we are the winners.
01:09:46.640 Christ is the winner.
01:09:48.200 And we are the winner, and we are his followers, and we are already the two Christians.
01:09:57.460 Even so, we are called the militant church here on earth.
01:10:01.180 We are already with the army of the winners.
01:10:06.680 You also just published another book.
01:10:11.280 Can you tell us about it?
01:10:13.120 Yes.
01:10:13.720 This is the book.
01:10:15.320 It's the title, Christus Vincit, a Latin title.
01:10:18.260 It means Christ Vincit.
01:10:20.940 And this is a book interview with Diane Montagna, which we did several years ago,
01:10:28.620 where I also described my life during the Soviet regime and my priestly ministry and episcopal ministry
01:10:41.380 and answered to some current important issues and topics of our life in the world and in the church.
01:10:50.560 And this isn't the only book that you published.
01:10:52.260 You also published Creed earlier than that.
01:10:55.580 Yes.
01:10:57.000 This is another book with the Latin title Credo.
01:11:00.500 It means I believe.
01:11:02.920 It is a kind of compendium, a synthesis of the Catholic faith written in a style of questions and answers, short answers,
01:11:15.480 covering all the important themes of our Christian life.
01:11:22.580 The first part is what we have to believe.
01:11:26.660 The second part, how we have to live what we believe.
01:11:31.320 So the morals, ethics.
01:11:33.640 And the third part, how we must pray in a rightful manner.
01:11:38.280 So it is all linked together.
01:11:41.220 And all the book is in a question and answer style.
01:11:44.000 We have also incorporated current issues and themes like the gender ideology and other issues, communism, Marxism, Freemasonry, and so on.
01:11:59.840 And so I hope that it will be a help for people who seriously, honestly seek the truth.
01:12:09.140 And then also I published this year, my most recent book, with the title Flee from Heresy.
01:12:18.440 Flee from Heresy.
01:12:20.780 Heresy, it's a kind of spiritual distortion, distortion of divine truth, which God revealed us, or a denial, or distorted.
01:12:35.580 And so heresy, it's a kind of spiritual poison, which is what was since the beginning in the Church spread,
01:12:45.720 and even our days so much spread in the life of the Church.
01:12:49.460 So errors, ambiguities, distortions, denials, all proceeding from a subjectivistic, egoistic, narcissistic point of view from theologians, even bishops.
01:13:06.100 And we have to address this simply to protect people from the spiritual poisons and deceits.
01:13:14.300 Like a good physician, a doctor, he will warn people of viruses, of dangerous epidemic sicknesses, and so on, diseases.
01:13:29.340 And the same, a bishop must protect people from the spiritual diseases and give him something in the hand, be attentive.
01:13:38.920 And I enumerated all the historical heresies and errors which existed since the beginning of the Church, until our day.
01:13:48.400 And presented some answers to current topics.
01:13:54.640 And in the end of the book, Flee from Heresy, I presented Our Lady Mary, the Mother of God, who protects us.
01:14:04.360 So these are my three books, which I would recommend.
01:14:10.840 Okay, we'll put the link in the description for this video, but for those that are listening to the audio,
01:14:14.900 where is the best place for them to go if they want to purchase your books?
01:14:17.740 So they can purchase all these books in Amazon.
01:14:20.480 Perfect.
01:14:20.860 And at the publishing house, which published the Credo book and the Flee from Heresy, the Sophia Press Institute,
01:14:31.140 which is a publishing house in New Hampshire, in Manchester.
01:14:37.300 Well, I would very much recommend that you guys get these books and just begin your spiritual journey.
01:14:42.020 What would you say?
01:14:44.080 I have a large audience of people who are not Christians.
01:14:47.140 You know, I have tons of mothers who watch this show because I speak a lot about children and being a mom.
01:14:53.640 I have a lot of men who watch this show because I speak about the sort of this war on masculinity
01:14:58.100 and those men that are struggling with pornography and realizing that something's wrong.
01:15:02.960 And they haven't yet been pulled into any church at all.
01:15:06.300 So what would you say to those listeners who are watching right now, who are sensing the conflict that we're in?
01:15:12.960 They're sensing that this is a spiritual battle, that something grander and more evil is going on.
01:15:17.640 And they don't really have the tools or really understand what to do.
01:15:21.940 And they sometimes, by the way, feel quite depressed about that.
01:15:24.280 That's a heavy realization of how dark and demonic things are and not really knowing what to do.
01:15:30.580 Yes, I would advise these, my brothers and sisters,
01:15:34.980 to really, honestly, seriously, ask God, your Creator, your Redeemer,
01:15:46.740 Oh my Lord, give me the light to know the truth.
01:15:51.880 Because only the truth will set me free.
01:15:55.680 Only the truth will bring me happiness.
01:15:57.940 And when you will pray such a small, serious prayer, honestly,
01:16:07.460 God will guide you and you will find the fullness of truth
01:16:15.280 and the protection of God and His grace.
01:16:20.960 Because God created you for truth.
01:16:24.520 God created you for love, for the fullness of happiness.
01:16:31.200 As St. Augustine said,
01:16:34.380 Oh God, you created us for you.
01:16:38.540 And our heart is as long.
01:16:46.220 We will not find its calm, its tranquility, unless it finds you, the Lord.
01:16:56.020 And so I encourage you, simply pray every day that God may guide you, reveal you the fullness of truth.
01:17:10.040 So beautiful and so well said.
01:17:12.380 And before we go, I think I would just ask you to pray, to pray in conclusion,
01:17:17.960 because I think people need to hear that prayer for them as well.
01:17:19.940 Yes.
01:17:20.700 The most beautiful prayer, we know, is the Our Father.
01:17:24.560 Because this prayer came out from the divine mouth of our Lord Jesus Christ.
01:17:31.180 And then this prayer is a synthesis of all what we must do and what we need.
01:17:40.000 As we know, the first three petitions are to proclaim God, to glorify Him.
01:17:46.760 This is the main aim of our life, to glorify God when we serve Him.
01:17:52.960 He will give us so many graces and so many blessings.
01:17:58.700 And the last petitions are for our needs here on earth.
01:18:03.100 So we will pray together this prayer.
01:18:06.060 In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen.
01:18:14.100 Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
01:18:19.520 Thy kingdom come.
01:18:21.400 Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
01:18:25.580 Give us this day our daily bread.
01:18:27.860 And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.
01:18:34.040 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
01:18:38.960 Amen.
01:18:39.780 Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit,
01:18:45.120 as it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end.
01:18:50.400 Amen.
01:18:50.760 In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
01:18:57.620 Amen.
01:18:58.480 Amen.
01:18:59.460 Ladies and gentlemen, so much that we could talk about.
01:19:02.120 I can't wait to dive into your comments.
01:19:04.440 I will end this by saying, just to remember that you have a creator.
01:19:08.300 You have one creator.
01:19:09.360 It is not a doctor.
01:19:10.480 It is not a scientist.
01:19:12.120 It is not found in a school textbook.
01:19:14.780 And I hope that this helps you to begin your journey, one step at a time.
01:19:20.460 I cannot thank you enough for being here, His Excellency Bishop Snyder.
01:19:26.320 Thank you.
01:19:26.940 It was a pleasure for me to speak with you.
01:19:28.940 Thank you.
01:19:41.100 Thank you.
01:19:42.320 Thank you.
01:19:52.640 Thank you.