Breaking Now： Arizona Bishops Attempt to Cancel Catholics
Summary
Catholics for Catholics is a group of Catholics who are fighting to elect Catholic candidates in the upcoming mid-term elections. They are fighting for candidates who are Catholic, yet oppose abortion, euthanasia, and human trafficking. What does it mean to be a Catholic?
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I couldn't sit back. I don't want to get into this. Do you think I want to be a target? What's
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in it for me to be out there now? It's not, but it's my faith. I can't sit this one out.
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I love their souls, their souls, the bishops, and also the souls of those candidates
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who are not getting called out. We wouldn't be doing this, John. I got plenty of other stuff
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to be doing right now, to be totally honest. But no one is speaking up. And there's a plague
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of silence happening here. So if they don't do it, then we got to do it ourselves.
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We've got breaking news here at LifeSite News. You know, Catholics standing up to do something
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for the elections is really, really crucial. We've been talking about that forever at LifeSite,
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how real Christians need to stand up to promote life, to promote family, and shoot down some of
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these really fake Christians, fake Catholics, like Joe Biden, who call themselves Catholic
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and yet promote all of the anti-Catholic values. Well, there is a group that has started that's
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been doing exactly that. They're called Catholics for Catholics. They're actually really, really
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clever because they're willing to support even non-Catholic Christians who are much more
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Catholics than sometimes the Catholics claiming to be Catholic, but out there promoting abortion,
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et cetera, et cetera. But the bishops apparently are unhappy with this. Believe it or not, the bishops
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in Arizona have called on Catholics to not pay attention to what's going on with these great
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Catholics that are trying to do something actually Catholic. This is John Henry Weston's show. Stay tuned.
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I am so pleased to introduce you all to John Yep. He is a spokesman for Catholics for Catholics. This
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is an awesome group. John, welcome to the program. Great to be here, John. Thank you. Let's begin as
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we always do with the sign of the cross. In the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.
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First of all, John, I want people to have an understanding of this awesome group of yours,
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Catholics for Catholics, just started. So to do that, I want to show them this great, great promo. Take a look.
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Catholics for Catholics had our inaugural event on October 13th in Phoenix, Arizona,
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battleground for so many issues that are facing our country right now. We were spearheaded
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by our keynote speaker, General Michael Flynn, a warrior in the cultural fight, and others. Father
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James Altman and Steve Bannon showed up, and a number of the candidates who we wanted to highlight
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and say, these guys may not be baptized Catholics, but yet their principles are much more in line
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with their Democrat counterparts who refer to themselves as Catholics stand for.
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Now, what does it mean to be a Catholic? How can you just use that word? Because
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these particular politicians, they go against some fundamental tenets of our faith. You know,
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the right to life, euthanasia, their stance on the border, human trafficking. These aren't just like
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lower taxes, higher taxes issues. This country is going to be won or lost over the battle for ideas
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and definitions. There's been a total negation of some of the most basic concepts, man, a woman,
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a life, a child, a Catholic, not a Catholic, a citizen, an immigrant. There has been a plague
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of silence coming from the traditional forms of leadership in society, church leadership,
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leadership, some political figures, business organizations. They're not speaking up when
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they have to. There's something special happening today, and Catholics for Catholics is at the
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forefront when we stand with our fellow patriots in the trenches, ready for this great awakening
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that's happening before our eyes in the greatest country ever known to man.
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John, tell us, I mean, you guys are sort of brand new, but you're already very slick. That was an
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awesome video. Tell us what you've done. Tell us a little bit more about that rally you just had
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and what you're doing. Honestly, John, this started this summer. A group of us here in Phoenix were just
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staring at the races and realized that the five most important races in the state from governor,
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secretary of state, the Senate, and then two key congressional races had the unique scenario
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where all five of the Democrats in some way, shape, or form referred to themselves as Catholic.
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Now, that hit us like a train. Like, you've got to be kidding me. Our state's about to be
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ruled by five men and women who call themselves Catholic. They're not because they go against
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such key issues. So we decided to create a group that would basically, I guess, say like the emperor
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has no clothes on, right? You know, that what we all know to be true, that there are some politicians
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who's, they may not be baptized Catholics, yet their policies are much more in sync with our Catholic
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faith, and therefore we need to get behind them. We've just been crucified here, but with the last 20
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years of leadership in the church where elections, it's all about it, they stop short and they always
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say, well, just follow your conscience, right? I mean, you can get away with that if that's higher
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taxes, lower taxes kind of issues or just minor things. But when you're talking about the defensive
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life, when the border is wide open and like, you know, you can't even go trick-or-treating around
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here because of like the fentanyl pills. I mean, there's serious stuff. We, we, God's come out,
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it's not even political anymore. Come out and just say what we all know to be saved. This is the
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correct Catholic choice. Let's do it. You guys are actively working on the fronts of life and
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family. But here with all of the bishops who always talk about getting involved politically,
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the bishops are confronting you. First of all, let's take a look at the bishops. First of all,
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this is John Dolan. John Dolan actually took over from the old Archbishop of Phoenix, Olmstead.
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Thomas Olmstead was awesome. He was pro-life, pro-family, and he was removed. And in comes
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John Dolan, an appointment of Pope Francis. Hugely scandalous because he's known, at least at LifeSite,
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he's known as a homosexual activist bishop because of his pandering to the homosexual community. We'll
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get into that in a minute. But first of all, I want to look at, here's what the bishop said about
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the election. Take a look. As bishops of the Catholic Church in Arizona, we would like to take
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this opportunity to discuss the importance of faith with regard to the upcoming election.
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The Catholic Church is not partisan and does not endorse candidates.
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So, here they are claiming to be non-partisan, and yet all of a sudden they're confronting your
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group. What is it that they said about you guys, and what's their beef?
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Canon Law 216. They're basically trying to make the beef that we don't have the right to use the
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term Catholic, right? Now, that's a, you know, a canon law argument, and we knew that they would
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come after us for that. It's like, it's predictable. We're prepped for that, and they'll
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be having a response from our canon lawyer to fight for that use of the word. But they use that to say
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and remind us that, you know, it is, should be our faith, which motivates us to get into the
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political life, and not politics, which motivates us to get into faith all the way around. And they
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accuse us that if we do that, we're outside the teachings of the church, which I don't know what
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they're talking about, because honestly, God, I'm doing this because it originates in my prayer life,
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in my adoration, in my daily prayer. I couldn't sit back. I don't want to get into this. Do you think
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I want to be a target? What's in it for me to be out there now? It's not, but it's my faith. I can't
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sit someone out. I love their souls, their souls, the bishops, and also the souls of those candidates
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who are not getting called out. We wouldn't be doing this, John. I got plenty of other stuff to
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be doing right now, to be totally honest. But no one is speaking up, and there's a plague of silence
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happening here. So if they don't do it, then we got to do it ourselves, right? So that's, so they try to
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play that flip-flop, you know, it's don't use your politics to hijack your faith, you know, but that's
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not even true. And if you want to quote Canada Wah, I mean, you know, back at you 915, right? Any
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politician who is in manifest grave sin should be barred from Holy Communion. And here, I'm going to
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even point out, I mean, Bishop Milstead has been very, very good in so many ways, and I personally
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grateful for what he did to me. But, you know, I got to call also a spade a spade, as people can call
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a spade a spade about my life, too. One of the people that's about to beat out a key U.S. House
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race is Gregory Stanton. And he has been a pro-abort going against key Catholics for so long. He was
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the mayor of Phoenix. And Bishop Olstead, you have to, you please explain to us, as a senator of the
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letter that just accused me of being too political, why was he never excommunicated? And it's not a
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punishment. Either excommunication is something that we use as a Catholic church, or let's just
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scrap it, like they try to do the death penalty, but you really can't do that, you know that. So,
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you know, this is medicinal. So why wasn't it ever administered? For his sake, and all of us are
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getting scandalized. But that's what we're saying. You know, we feel orphaned, you know, our dads.
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It struck me, people ask the moment you want to get involved in this election. I was not planning to,
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a lot of us weren't. But it was the moment Mark Cook had his house raided. And there was a silence.
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And it hit all of us. We all have families. And it's like, oh my gosh, you look over your shoulder,
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who's going to come to my aid? I think Cardinal Kneeler went there, thanks be to God. But did
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any bishops speak up? Dad, where are you? Right?
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Bishop Strickland only. And also, there was a bishop friend of Mark Houck, who's known him for years,
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who spoke as well, especially for Mark's character. But that's, you know, that's basically all we got.
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But the damage that was done there was massive. But here, the bishops are coming out in force
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with a public letter. Let's just show that letter on the screen for a second. Here they are saying
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that, you know, they basically own the term Catholic and so on and so forth. Your organization,
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by the way, it's called Catholics for Catholics, right? I mean, it doesn't even specifically have
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that name Catholic, because I think that's the one that is specifically owned. But, I mean,
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this is so bizarre. You're trying to do good work, and they feel the need to come out and say
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something publicly, obviously confronting you guys. Now, very controversial with regard to Bishop
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Dolan, because John Dolan, who is the new Archbishop of Phoenix, very, very controversial in his, as I said
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earlier, the stuff around homosexuality with him was really, really severe. I'm referring to a case where
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he was the pastor of the church previously, which had a homosexual activist as an official employee
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of the church, despite the fact that the fellow's name was Aaron Bianco, despite the fact that Bianco
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was a homosexual man married to his homosexual partner, despite the fact that he was out. And he
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was actually one of the leaders of another group that calls itself Catholic called Call to Action,
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which is a heretical group that promotes all sorts of leftist causes, but they also call themselves
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Catholic, didn't notice that his pastor at the time, John Dolan, now Bishop Dolan, was calling Aaron
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Bianco out, still letting him be, you know, a member of the, an employed member of the parish in, you know,
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in public standing. Despite the fact that that was called out, no sanction then, no public warning,
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no nothing. In fact, when members of the Legion of Mary called him out, the pastor out for it,
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I think it was the Legion of Mary that suffered the acts from the bishop, from the now bishop,
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then pastor. This is unbelievable. This is John Dolan daring not only to have done what he did in his
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past with a Catholic group called Call to Action and leaving them alone. In fact, allowing one of
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a very, very controversial leader in that group to be a paid member of the parish. This is just
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craziness. And yet they're coming after you. It is crazy. And just to take that analogy,
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we can hear those words, but here's a picture. Imagine Father Dolan at his, at his parish office
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and Aaron's sitting there and his husband comes in, comes in for a big smooch at lunch break,
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or maybe he's out on the playground with the kids and he's there with his boyfriend. You know,
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those kids had that image now in their mind forever of a Catholic priest standing there and
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saying nothing while those two men are gauging something contrary to natural law.
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That's horrific. And that's, that should wake us all up.
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These are the men who Pope Francis has appointed to be in charge of churches. They're devastating
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the faithful. And even when good folks stand up to do the right thing, to support the faith,
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to support life and family, they're shot down. This is unbelievable stuff. John, last word over to you.
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What, what can people do and where can they learn more about Catholics for Catholics?
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John, well, I think this is very important for the sake of evangelization.
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Everything we're doing. We work with a lot of fallen away Catholics and I, I can, you know,
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at our event, we gave, we gave a three foot statue to hopefully the future secretary of state,
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Mark Fincham, who's, who's not a Catholic. He's a Christian. We were able to talk about what it
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means to be a saint. We, we framed it since it was October 13th around Fatima, which syncs so nicely
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into our present time with, with the onset of communism in this country. And we had everyone there at the
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end. Protestants alike pray some Hail Marys. So this is about evangelization. I guarantee you right
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now, I know this, John, there are people in that audience who would never, ever have given the
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Catholic church a second look if it wasn't for people, uh, like all of our friends around us,
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like yourselves, who are willing to speak up and say something is not right in the church. We are,
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you know, love our faith. We're willing to just get our careers ruined, uh, lose friends,
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but we have to speak up. And because of, we do that people, uh, who will take a look at this,
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at this faith. Maybe this is Jesus Christ present in the Eucharist because these guys are willing to
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stick up for and stick their necks out for it. So this is important for evangelization. This is
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just about the negative and going after an attack. It's like, we just want to evangelize and please,
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Bishop, just let us do that. Right. And we'll support you on that. So, but you can go find
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more information on, uh, our website, cforc.com. We have some major stuff coming on major initiatives
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we're going to unveil pretty soon. Just get, get, get through the elections and, uh, yeah,
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we're not going any way. We're here to stay. Awesome, John. Great work and, uh, God bless you
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and God bless all of you. We'll see you next time. Hi everyone. This is John Henry Weston. We hope you
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