The Catholic Church has a new leader, and for the first time in history, it s an American-born pope. This is not something that anyone saw coming. From a leaked FBI memo to the arrest of a British priest, the signs seem to point to a crackdown on Catholics in Britain. Father Sean Goff was charged for silently praying outside a closed abortion clinic last week. Meanwhile, a leaked memo from the FBI field office in Richmond, Virginia, warned that so-called "traditional Catholics" could be a threat to national security.
00:01:10.260This is not something that anyone saw coming.
00:01:12.960From a leaked FBI memo to the arrest of a British priest, the signs seem to point to a crackdown on Catholics in Britain.
00:01:21.040Father Sean Goff was charged for silently praying outside of a closed abortion clinic last week.
00:01:26.860Meantime, a leaked memo from the FBI field office in Richmond, Virginia, which the FBI has since retracted, warned that so-called radical traditional Catholics could be a threat to national security.
00:01:39.820I think a lot of young people are just really lost, and some of us have found or reclaimed a meaningfulness through establishment, like through this institution of the church.
00:01:54.820You know, when I was in college, some of the sense of doing Eucharistic adoration was seen as something like, oh man, that's really radical.
00:02:00.920In the last 20 years, that pendulum has swung far to the right.
00:02:06.080Interest in that, for example, the traditional Latin mass, that is a real thing.
00:02:09.600We have it here on campus, and it's a pretty significant group.
00:02:12.500The American church's influence is growing.
00:02:15.120U.S. cardinals now taking on increased responsibilities, helping to shape and shift Catholicism for the next generation.
00:02:21.780All right, Jack Posobiec, here we are back.
00:03:17.940This means that we're moving away from this idea of the universal liberalist values that we had had prior, whether a neoconservatism or a neoliberalism.
00:03:27.940This idea that our goal in the world, America's role in the world, is to spread these liberalist ideals throughout the Middle East and throughout China and throughout Russia and Iran and all these places.
00:03:42.220Our role as the American people is to stand on the shoulders of giants, of the people who came before us, our ancestors, who forged this nation, who forged Western civilization.
00:03:57.400Through abject adversity, through challenges, through thunderstorms, through hurricanes, through tsunamis, many of whom, and today is for them, paid the ultimate price, the full measure of devotion to their nation.
00:04:21.560When you look at the flag, when you look at the flag, when you teach your children about that, that's what we're talking about.
00:04:28.900We're not talking about some abstract ideals.
00:04:55.840And so, we're going to talk about traditionalism, the role of traditionalism, here on the show today, as we remember and reflect on the service and sacrifice of the so many who came before us.
00:05:10.240to give us the ability to live in this country today
00:05:14.740and to pass on in our legacy a great country for our children,
00:05:20.100for our grandchildren, and every generation yet to come.