The John-Henry Westen Show - April 11, 2025


Father Altman's URGENT Warning: Church Leaders COMPLICIT?!


Episode Stats

Length

54 minutes

Words per Minute

185.52974

Word Count

10,111

Sentence Count

866

Misogynist Sentences

12

Hate Speech Sentences

29


Summary

In this episode, Fr. James Altman talks about his life as a priest and what it means to be a Catholic in the 21st century. He also talks about the Trump administration and its impact on the church.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 We're talking about McElroy and how his very being, in essence, is pure evil.
00:00:05.280 He's perhaps the worst we have in the United States.
00:00:10.740 Hello, my dear friends.
00:00:11.760 We are here with Father James Altman, whom we don't get to get together with much, especially now.
00:00:16.920 And so we want to do a catch up.
00:00:18.240 Father, so good to be with you.
00:00:19.520 Oh, John Henry.
00:00:20.900 Yeah, you caught.
00:00:22.060 They don't know this, but here I'm sitting at lunch.
00:00:24.260 Finally get to the table.
00:00:25.180 You know how this goes.
00:00:26.320 And then you walk up and I said, I just need.
00:00:28.740 Can I have 30 minutes?
00:00:30.000 Just to finish a little meal here.
00:00:32.160 And yeah, so here we are.
00:00:33.860 Exactly.
00:00:34.520 So let's begin, as we always do, with the sign of the cross.
00:00:36.640 Yes.
00:00:37.000 In nomine, patris, ephilius, spiritus, santae, amen.
00:00:39.780 Heavenly Father, bless our words and bless the people who hear them, that we may be strengthened in our faith and be better witnesses of Christ after martyrdom, red or white.
00:00:48.760 May I ask this, grace in nomine, patris, ephilius, spiritus, santae, amen.
00:00:51.820 Amen.
00:00:52.920 So, Father, we're going to start with, okay, what have you been up to of late?
00:00:57.740 I thought travel was going to be less, and it wasn't.
00:01:01.600 It hasn't been.
00:01:03.260 Not nearly as much as you have to go through.
00:01:05.280 I don't know how you do it, because I do see you going here and there and everywhere.
00:01:08.320 But there is one good news that I've been writing the books, finally, finally getting them done.
00:01:14.040 People have been encouraging me for a decade.
00:01:16.920 Bev is going to help out.
00:01:18.680 Oh, please, God.
00:01:19.460 It might be, it was supposed to be like a week ago Friday, but it might be a week from this Friday.
00:01:25.800 Oh, please, God.
00:01:26.280 That's the first one I'll get out there.
00:01:27.960 So I'm not saying it's going to be, but there might be the word truth bombs on the cover.
00:01:33.820 So, no, we've had fun.
00:01:37.560 I just still get to meet faithful Catholics, like right here where we are right now, to see so many, again, faithful Catholics, just trying to make our country Catholic again.
00:01:48.500 Yeah.
00:01:48.740 Because the leadership, as you know, everybody knows, I'm not saying anything nobody doesn't already know I say, and that's that the leadership has failed us.
00:01:57.420 And so, once again, wherever you go, people are happy to see a Catholic shepherd, a Catholic leader who loves him, and they know it, actually be Catholic, because that's in short supply these days.
00:02:09.660 Beautiful to have Bishop Strickland here.
00:02:12.000 Yes.
00:02:12.140 He said the mass this morning.
00:02:13.100 We are at, by the way, Catholics for Catholics event called Catholics Pray for America.
00:02:18.320 And it's at Mar-a-Lago, which is really beautiful, because we're going to the president with like 100 Catholic priests.
00:02:25.060 Yes.
00:02:25.600 Yeah.
00:02:26.280 That was a real bonus that was given by a great donor.
00:02:31.160 And when you know the price of a ticket and realize what it's costing the donor, but it's God's money anyway, and he's a good steward of it.
00:02:39.360 So, so many priests.
00:02:40.500 We saw a bunch just at the lunch table today.
00:02:43.920 It's like seeing old friends.
00:02:45.740 Yeah.
00:02:45.880 A lot of prayer going on.
00:02:47.020 As needs to be, because when you see what we're up against in the church, but in the country, I can tell you this, Ed, that when Pennsylvania was announced for Trump, I suddenly had this huge burden lifted off my shoulders, because I was afraid, if the other person got in, that our free speech was over.
00:03:06.900 Because it would have been, you know, in Canada, they arrest you, in England, in Scotland, in Australia, they arrest you just for speaking the truth.
00:03:15.640 Meanwhile, certain other denominations, faith, religious things, they're taking over.
00:03:21.400 Yeah.
00:03:21.500 And that's okay.
00:03:22.640 So God forbid you try to be, you speak the Bible and you're, you're toast.
00:03:26.080 Yeah.
00:03:26.880 Yeah.
00:03:27.580 So we need to pray for our president who's under attack, literally.
00:03:31.600 Yeah.
00:03:31.960 Because one of our last times together was after I got that statute, which is a year ago, just today, a year ago.
00:03:38.200 Yeah.
00:03:38.520 First day of anniversary.
00:03:39.380 One of the things that everybody wants to know is your health.
00:03:43.820 How are you doing physically?
00:03:45.020 Because that, that, that was a main concern even a year ago still.
00:03:49.040 Things seem to be improving.
00:03:50.820 And I'm under the care of these two great doctors, very Catholic, very Catholic.
00:03:55.220 And we're persecuted for being Catholic.
00:03:58.040 And, and somebody just said today, well, you're looking better than you did last year.
00:04:01.320 So something must be working.
00:04:03.020 I didn't get much sleep last night, but no, something must be working.
00:04:06.300 So I'm feeling really good.
00:04:07.280 Thank you for asking.
00:04:08.060 Thank you for all the prayers.
00:04:09.380 Because that's why I say, well, my joy and my health, people are praying.
00:04:13.240 Yeah.
00:04:13.600 Prayer is efficacious.
00:04:14.940 Yeah.
00:04:15.180 America is big swing now.
00:04:17.920 I'm, you know, I'm from Canada.
00:04:19.440 So the distance between Canada and America seems to have gotten very, very large.
00:04:24.980 And I'm very happy for you.
00:04:27.280 But it does make it seem like, wow, what's happened to Canada?
00:04:32.200 Canada's actually just remained the same.
00:04:34.240 The U.S. switch has been so drastic.
00:04:37.580 And it's unbelievable.
00:04:38.700 It's a revolution of common sense that has been so quick, so fast that all of a sudden,
00:04:43.760 it seems like there's a huge distance.
00:04:46.880 While there, you were competing.
00:04:48.160 There was always a competition between like Canada and Britain to see who can be the most
00:04:52.000 insane.
00:04:53.140 And we were, oh my gosh, we were, but then America came up like a storm under Biden.
00:04:58.620 It was like, wow, they're challenging us.
00:05:00.420 And then all of a sudden now they're just, oh, we're just like the real reset for common sense
00:05:06.180 has happened in America.
00:05:06.920 Right.
00:05:07.460 And now you can work sort of instantaneously.
00:05:09.920 Yeah.
00:05:10.200 And now you have to work from where you started with to get back to real sanity because still
00:05:14.320 far from that.
00:05:15.280 Yeah.
00:05:16.600 But it's a stunning thing.
00:05:18.860 You've seen it.
00:05:19.420 You've been closer to it.
00:05:20.200 You've been, how many times at Bar Lago now?
00:05:22.440 This might be the sixth or seventh time maybe.
00:05:24.700 Yeah.
00:05:25.200 Yeah.
00:05:25.760 So just because I've been blessed, not because I'm so special.
00:05:28.480 Yeah.
00:05:28.760 I've just been so blessed.
00:05:29.920 You brought the statue to, which got eventually onto the president's desk and then his bedside
00:05:36.140 table, a statue of St. Michael the Archangel, which a lot of people saw as a first arm of
00:05:43.680 defense against the fact that he was shot at and not killed by two millimeters or whatever
00:05:48.240 it was.
00:05:48.520 Our Lord has used you in very specific ways.
00:05:52.420 things and very specific things.
00:05:55.140 Can you tell us about that?
00:05:59.440 It's a reality in your life.
00:06:01.440 Yeah.
00:06:01.780 But tell us something of how you felt that, how you sense that, or how you've been told
00:06:06.620 that.
00:06:06.900 I don't know that you can ever see it coming.
00:06:09.800 It may or may not come.
00:06:11.260 Maybe something will happen tomorrow and you won't even know it's coming.
00:06:14.000 So just like that day, I had no clue that, I mean, that was a, it was a Tuesday last year
00:06:19.580 and this is on Saturday.
00:06:20.640 Oscar Delgado gives me that statue and the rest, the rest of everybody now is more crazy
00:06:25.120 it's been happening.
00:06:26.040 So you don't even know it's coming.
00:06:28.440 But, but what I will say is this, if what I have found out does transpire, people will
00:06:35.300 know it very soon.
00:06:37.960 And, uh, what's going to happen is that our new leadership is fed up with the Catholic
00:06:46.580 NGOs and Catholic charities and they're coming for them.
00:06:49.760 And I have said, and I meant it, uh, these bishops do not know the tsunami that's coming.
00:06:56.240 And I don't relish the fact that the tsunami is coming.
00:06:59.740 Uh, I'm pleased that it is because it's deserve it and appropriate.
00:07:04.420 I wish it never had to have happened in the first place, but the tsunami is coming.
00:07:09.320 And, um, because they were untouchable, these monsters and miters, right?
00:07:14.860 They don't understand that their miters are the great millstone that's going to drag them
00:07:17.900 to the bottom of the sea and their arrogance, they don't get this.
00:07:20.720 Um, but it's coming.
00:07:24.120 And, and, and then they're so arrogant.
00:07:25.960 They actually sued the U S government for money they should never have gotten in the first
00:07:30.020 place.
00:07:30.360 Then they appealed to the court of appeals, right?
00:07:32.880 That got thrown out.
00:07:34.000 They appealed to the Supreme court.
00:07:34.960 The Supreme court just told, you know, no, listen, Trump does not have to give money.
00:07:38.400 That's going to go to a foreign aid.
00:07:40.100 Yeah.
00:07:40.480 Period.
00:07:41.300 They took, they'd always Supreme court.
00:07:43.100 They took it with the money from the Catholics in the pews.
00:07:46.980 Yeah.
00:07:47.340 Yes.
00:07:47.560 And now they just appealed to the faithful to lobby Trump.
00:07:52.360 Yes.
00:07:52.960 What part of, what part of the, well, they've lost the faith already.
00:07:57.400 There's no money in the collection plate because the faithful have had it with them.
00:08:00.640 They should all resign.
00:08:01.840 We've, we've, you know, in the military, in the United States, I'm not sure how it is
00:08:04.620 in Canada, but there's a thing called a lack of confidence in leadership.
00:08:08.080 So you can be the captain of a ship.
00:08:10.300 If it runs aground, even though you had nothing to do with it, you're out of a job because the
00:08:14.500 buck stops with you, the leader.
00:08:16.320 The buck stops with these bishops and they, in the Catholic faithful in the United States
00:08:21.260 have 100% lost confidence in their ability to lead.
00:08:25.000 They should have the decency to resign in mass, just like they did in Chile.
00:08:30.000 You know, they did that in Chile.
00:08:31.380 Yeah.
00:08:31.700 And, uh, ours don't have the personal integrity to, uh, to do so.
00:08:36.700 So now we're still stuck with them, but for now, because once you start taking out this
00:08:41.420 one and this one and this one, the worst offenders.
00:08:43.220 Well, we've seen a betrayal like you wouldn't have thought possible.
00:08:50.680 The McElroy thing is, is really a clear example so that people can understand where the faithful
00:08:57.580 are coming from.
00:08:58.440 Cause there's a lot of faithful who have no clue.
00:09:00.380 Why would you be asking the federal government to pursue the bishops with a RICO action?
00:09:06.200 What is that about?
00:09:07.460 Well, the betrayal is so severe, but McElroy is a really good example that they know.
00:09:13.680 A, he's anti-Catholic on LGBT.
00:09:17.240 He's open, not a question.
00:09:19.220 He said the church's teaching is wrong.
00:09:21.120 He is so weak on abortion as to make him pro-abortion, just like Hillary Clinton was.
00:09:24.840 Or better yet, Nancy Pelosi, who calls herself a Catholic, a devout Catholic.
00:09:31.320 And then the betrayal in terms of betraying a sexual abuse victim, a abuse, not only just
00:09:39.680 normal abuse, but satanic ritual abuse by a priest during the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.
00:09:46.140 And then that bishop who gets named a cardinal and now is put in charge of Washington, D.C.
00:09:52.080 When Rachel S. Giacomo first revealed that, she said, Cardinal McElroy, he is criminally
00:09:57.500 complicit in my rape.
00:09:59.060 But then she said, the Pope spit in my face.
00:10:02.720 Yes.
00:10:03.460 But then she added, no, the Pope spit in the face of Jesus.
00:10:08.420 And it's super powerful.
00:10:10.080 But that story...
00:10:11.080 I hope she says that tonight.
00:10:13.220 God willing, she will.
00:10:14.020 And as you know, we're bringing her to Rome at Rome Life Forum on November 3rd, 4th this
00:10:20.700 year to bring her story to the Sea of Peter where it belongs so that they can see it over
00:10:28.180 there.
00:10:28.660 Right.
00:10:28.860 Because they're not...
00:10:29.820 Not only are they...
00:10:32.220 You know what?
00:10:32.960 It's hard to say they don't know because it's painfully obvious they do.
00:10:37.200 Every bishop in this country knows how bad it is.
00:10:41.360 He knows that Jorge Bergoglio is not teaching the Catholic faith.
00:10:45.640 He says that every one of them is going to get...
00:10:47.680 The angels are coming to keep coals on their head.
00:10:50.060 So I'm not giving them any benefit of the doubt.
00:10:52.040 Well, maybe they just didn't know.
00:10:53.780 Oh, no, no.
00:10:54.520 Every single one of them knows.
00:10:56.080 Because half of them are involved in it.
00:10:57.920 They have each other's backs.
00:10:59.680 And their silence is complicity.
00:11:01.920 McElroy's knowing an intentional silence.
00:11:06.100 He is guilty as the darkest, blackest sin there is.
00:11:09.900 This is the thing.
00:11:11.200 The amount of betrayal is stunning for people.
00:11:15.200 Most people don't know.
00:11:17.280 So that's part of the reason why people are like, why would you go after bishops with Enrico?
00:11:22.360 That's crazy, isn't it?
00:11:23.660 The last thing we want.
00:11:24.660 We have enough going on rather than getting the government involved.
00:11:27.600 I think the fact is the laity have been trying for...
00:11:31.180 Oh, it's not only even 13 years.
00:11:33.040 Right.
00:11:33.160 They've been trying for like 60 years and more.
00:11:36.520 But it's gotten us not only nowhere, it's gotten us worse and worse and worse.
00:11:40.960 It has gotten us nowhere.
00:11:42.000 Why?
00:11:42.260 Because the people keep putting money in the collection basket.
00:11:44.840 The people used to continue showing up for church.
00:11:47.280 But I think that the big nail in the coffin for the bishops now is that they locked us out of church back to the whole COVID nightmare.
00:11:54.760 Which was, as you know, a man-made, created by a weapon and utilized by these bad guys to shut down the globe.
00:12:02.200 How anybody doesn't get that is beyond me.
00:12:05.520 How do you shut down the globe in two weeks?
00:12:07.940 This was a setup and it was a planned setup.
00:12:11.840 And all you have to do is look back on it now with hindsight and you can see it.
00:12:15.140 During the time, you're just like a deer in headlights.
00:12:16.900 Well, I wasn't.
00:12:17.480 You weren't.
00:12:18.260 We knew what was going on.
00:12:19.280 How we cannot know the bishops aren't gravely involved in damnable, eternally damnable sin.
00:12:26.140 With regard to immigration, for instance.
00:12:30.040 The trafficked children, 300,000 unaccounted for.
00:12:34.420 Now, maybe they found 80,000, they say.
00:12:37.980 That's still at least 220,000 unaccompanied minors across the border.
00:12:43.260 You were shown this personally firsthand.
00:12:45.340 You were shown a glimpse of this.
00:12:47.340 In a way, most people aren't.
00:12:48.460 Because a lot of people say, oh, there's two stories here.
00:12:51.740 I mean, there's one story, one side.
00:12:53.140 We're just helping the poor.
00:12:54.380 Look at these poor people come over.
00:12:55.800 And then there's another side that says, wait a minute.
00:12:57.420 What about all these trafficked children?
00:12:59.560 Tell us how you know.
00:13:00.960 Two things.
00:13:01.380 One thing I don't think we talked about yet earlier.
00:13:04.480 But have I ever told you what Lara Logan said to me?
00:13:06.840 No.
00:13:07.540 So we're having dinner.
00:13:08.680 There's like five of us out in San Diego this past fall.
00:13:11.460 And she actually is a journalist that does research and gives you the truth.
00:13:18.480 So she decided she was going to personally investigate child sex trafficking going on in Mexico.
00:13:23.420 So she actually went down and lived on the streets with these children so that she could get right firsthand knowledge of what's going on.
00:13:31.640 And the children, of course, then came to trust her because she was living like them.
00:13:36.240 And then she was meeting the people that were involved in it all.
00:13:40.340 And finally she got to a level where higher-ups were talking to her.
00:13:46.620 And she's trying to ask them, like, is it about money?
00:13:52.360 Is it about power?
00:13:55.580 Why are you doing this?
00:13:58.000 And they said to her, oh, no, no, you're asking the wrong questions.
00:14:03.600 You will never understand what we do until you understand that we're serving Satan.
00:14:09.220 That we hate God and we will do anything we can to hurt God.
00:14:17.100 And we know the thing that God loves most is his children.
00:14:22.220 And so we're not trafficking them.
00:14:24.220 Money and power, that comes with it, right?
00:14:26.620 We're trafficking them because if we do it three times a day, we make that child suffer, great.
00:14:31.460 If we can make him suffer six times a day, that's even better.
00:14:34.820 You will never understand what we do until you understand that we serve Satan.
00:14:40.020 So that's what's behind this child sex traffic.
00:14:43.220 I know I see this look of horror on your face.
00:14:49.180 It is so evil.
00:14:51.580 How we can even harm one child.
00:14:52.820 But look what the bishops have done that we know of for the last 20 years since it's now being revealed.
00:14:58.120 But what was going on so much before then, they didn't care that they were raping boys.
00:15:02.020 And they were covering up for this.
00:15:03.500 To this day, they continue to cover up for each other.
00:15:06.840 They don't care.
00:15:08.560 So now you have 220,000 unaccounted for minors coming across the border.
00:15:16.420 And I was showing videos.
00:15:19.020 You know, you get to talk to all kinds of people that know what they're talking about way more than me.
00:15:24.780 But occasionally I run into somebody that I haven't seen yet.
00:15:28.580 And I was talking to an exorcist who had been to the border and was showing videos that had taken place at the border.
00:15:39.800 And, you know, they fight each other all the time, the cartels.
00:15:42.320 And whoever wins that battle that day is going to beat up on and kill the other side.
00:15:48.640 That's what they do.
00:15:49.600 We hear about the horror stories.
00:15:50.740 The body's found in a pit here or there.
00:15:52.280 And so I'm watching this video.
00:15:54.880 I don't know what's coming because he didn't tell me or somebody else that was with me.
00:15:59.640 A real high monkey muck in the whole sphere of influence in our country now.
00:16:04.300 And I just – I don't want to name the names.
00:16:07.560 But, I mean, as high as the spheres you're going to get unless you're the president himself.
00:16:13.040 And so he's showing me this video and this other person.
00:16:16.000 And it shows one group of the cartel, Mexicans, beat up.
00:16:20.440 They lost the battle that day.
00:16:22.440 And then the winners – so the cameras on there.
00:16:26.120 They go over to this guy.
00:16:28.040 And I can't see what they're doing because their backs are to us.
00:16:31.380 And all of a sudden they turn around and they hold up the guy's heart.
00:16:35.340 They had cut the heart out of that guy when he was alive and held it up.
00:16:38.540 So I thought it was a movie trailer, CGI, because, you know, those Jurassic Park dinosaurs look pretty real to me.
00:16:45.580 And I'm thinking, why are you showing me this?
00:16:48.640 I'm having a pleasant evening.
00:16:50.920 We're having dinner.
00:16:52.400 And you took me aside to show me this.
00:16:55.360 And just when I was going to say, hey, I don't want to – all of a sudden the camera goes over to this other beat up Mexican over on the floor over here.
00:17:01.700 And they grab him by his hair and they slice his throat and the blood starts spurting out.
00:17:06.060 At which time this person over here and I – oh, what?
00:17:09.240 And that was the end of watching the videos.
00:17:11.240 And this person said, you need to understand is that this is happening every day.
00:17:16.480 The Democrats are promoting this at the border every day.
00:17:19.740 This is what's going on.
00:17:21.360 And yet the bishops have accepted how many – one diocese alone down in – where was it?
00:17:26.100 Arizona?
00:17:26.640 A billion dollars.
00:17:28.900 They are being funded to do all this, to participate, to assist.
00:17:33.000 And they say, oh, we're trying to do a humanitarian thing.
00:17:35.840 You have 220,000 unaccompanied children.
00:17:40.140 You can imagine you've got children.
00:17:41.600 Would you send one of your children, allow that child to cross a border into a strange country unaccompanied that maybe on the other side somebody is going to do something good for them?
00:17:51.460 Listen, that's your child.
00:17:53.060 You're the child's parent.
00:17:54.300 That's your job.
00:17:55.540 You don't send them unaccompanied.
00:17:57.120 And as a bishop of a Catholic church, you do not assist in an unaccompanied child coming across that border.
00:18:02.520 And they did.
00:18:03.400 And McElroy is the worst offender.
00:18:04.880 So you know what I was talking about a second ago?
00:18:06.820 I'm rambling on.
00:18:07.720 Is that okay?
00:18:08.240 No, no.
00:18:08.420 I'm good.
00:18:08.600 You know what I was talking a second ago about?
00:18:10.820 You know a lot of people.
00:18:11.620 You talk to a lot of people way more than me.
00:18:14.460 So I was with people last night that have inside information, shall we say.
00:18:20.260 And we're talking about McElroy and how his very being in essence is pure evil.
00:18:28.300 He's perhaps the worst we have in the United States.
00:18:31.100 And ironically, that's exactly the person that Jorge Bergoglio first makes a cardinal over the guy out in L.A., which is a typical cardinal seat, Gomez.
00:18:40.860 He takes McElroy and he makes him a cardinal.
00:18:43.300 Why?
00:18:44.080 Because of McElroy's stance on everything.
00:18:46.440 Remember that video happened by accident in God's Providence.
00:18:49.800 We can't be a Catholic and a Democrat because Democrats are against their entire platform is against everything Catholic.
00:18:57.120 McElroy is against everything Catholic.
00:18:59.620 And yet that's who Bergoglio chooses to make a cardinal.
00:19:02.840 And then he puts him in D.C.
00:19:05.840 So he can be a thorn in Trump's side and can be part of this whole anti-Trump thing.
00:19:10.080 Very Democrat, isn't it?
00:19:11.380 Because that's what the Democrats especially – they have no platform or they have no message, no saving grace for America or for the church of their own.
00:19:18.960 It's all – their one message is, hey, Trump, hey, Trump, hey, Trump.
00:19:22.760 Bishops are the same way.
00:19:23.780 And what's beautiful about this, I'm happy that they're making such fools of themselves because now even the people, like you said, that just don't really pay attention or don't know are now going to be eyes wide open about how evil the bishops are.
00:19:35.660 And it's not just McElroy because not a single other bishop except Bishop Strickland has stood up and said, you're evil.
00:19:40.920 So imagine – they're all guilty by their – see, I used to say their silence is complicity, right?
00:19:47.240 Which is true.
00:19:48.800 But now you realize they're not just silent.
00:19:51.920 They're working with them.
00:19:53.120 Because I used to think, oh, they're just being – they're just – nobody wants – it's inertia.
00:19:57.580 I'm not going to move.
00:19:58.420 No, no, no.
00:19:59.300 They are on the same page and they're doing the same thing he does in approving of it and assisting in it.
00:20:06.340 They're all guilty as sin.
00:20:08.000 Thank you.
00:20:38.000 For your support.
00:20:39.020 And may God bless you.
00:20:40.360 We're dealing with a crazy time of mass confusion.
00:20:46.960 Are you allowed to talk about that thing the exorcist told you about you personally and your message or no?
00:20:52.740 Yeah.
00:20:54.540 No, but it would be good.
00:20:56.080 So it's a neat testimony, I think, because A, it doesn't happen very often.
00:21:01.160 And B, it's hard to know what our Lord means for you and does.
00:21:09.620 So it's very tough.
00:21:10.920 But it was a beautiful story if you could retell it.
00:21:13.120 I'll just preface this story with the fact that I have no idea how it all happened, how suddenly my little parish in La Crosse suddenly is known around the world.
00:21:23.040 I'm getting letters from literally around the world.
00:21:25.960 Every continent, every state in the Union, Canada.
00:21:28.700 Along with good letters, occasionally you get people who seem to be a little off the wall.
00:21:35.280 I've got a message for you here.
00:21:36.420 I've got a message from the Blessed Mother, from Jesus himself.
00:21:39.040 And you take it with a grain of salt, because in their sincerity, I think they believe it, but it's a bit incredulous.
00:21:47.960 So as a priest, you only get four weekends off a year.
00:21:51.540 And I was scheduled to go out to a wedding in Virginia on July 3rd, 2021.
00:21:56.960 So a woman that I did know and had full confidence in, complete, was driving from Idaho to Virginia, stops in La Crosse, had met her many times before, and said,
00:22:08.240 Father, you have to come with me to Virginia.
00:22:09.680 We're going to do a Jericho walk around a Masonic temple.
00:22:13.000 And plus, there's this priest you have to meet that has a message for you from our Blessed Mother.
00:22:17.960 So I said to her, well, listen, I can't, because I've already got a weekend away scheduled to Virginia, as it turns out.
00:22:24.200 But I said, listen, if our Blessed Mother wants to get a message to me, she's going to make it happen.
00:22:31.320 And I don't have to drive to Virginia to get it.
00:22:35.120 So off she goes.
00:22:36.500 And I didn't mistrust that she actually was genuine, but there's only so much I can do.
00:22:42.700 So I finally get out to the wedding, fly out there.
00:22:45.660 I get there at 2 in the morning, 2.30 in the morning, Friday morning, the date of the rehearsal.
00:22:51.080 And as I drive up, there's a big picture of a Divine Mercy on the house.
00:22:55.280 It's so glorious.
00:22:56.140 This is, maybe he told you this story.
00:22:57.940 We're up at about 1 a.m. on Saturday now, on the night after the rehearsal dinner.
00:23:03.680 And the groom and his family were drinking milk.
00:23:07.040 It was so precious to see.
00:23:09.840 I thought, now this is how it's supposed to be.
00:23:12.100 Anyway, so when I get out there, all of a sudden I start getting these texts from these two women
00:23:16.900 that I think I'd met at the CIC in Pittsburgh the year before.
00:23:21.720 And they're saying, Father, we have to come see you.
00:23:25.040 And we have stuff we need to give you to read.
00:23:28.360 And we want to get you in touch with this priest that has a message from him,
00:23:31.200 I'm less than mother for you.
00:23:33.160 Well, I didn't mistrust those ladies.
00:23:34.820 But I have less than 48 hours to be with a family of 12 kids.
00:23:38.440 Love the family.
00:23:39.480 Been visiting many times.
00:23:40.820 So no.
00:23:42.060 I have no time to carve out here.
00:23:44.340 And so I told them no.
00:23:46.240 But they kept hounding me several times.
00:23:50.040 And so now, fast forward to Saturday night after the wedding.
00:23:54.880 I'm up in Maryland at the reception.
00:23:59.620 And they're texting me saying, Father, we're going to drive up there, which is an hour and a half.
00:24:03.580 We're going to drive up there because we have to see you.
00:24:05.840 And here I am with the groom's parents, the bride's parents, a couple of the priests.
00:24:09.480 And I'm just trying, can I just, I'm working hard.
00:24:13.300 Can I just have 48 hours of just with the family that I love?
00:24:17.060 And so to shut them up, I'm not making this, it's not, there is zero embellishment going on here.
00:24:23.260 I said, all right, I'm going to be celebrating the mass the next morning, Sunday morning, before I fly home.
00:24:28.100 I have to get to Dulles, like by 11.
00:24:30.040 So if you want to come to where I'm celebrating the mass, okay, fine.
00:24:34.140 It was at their family home.
00:24:36.000 Well, lo and behold, they showed up.
00:24:37.360 I thought, I really didn't think they were going to, I might have not said so.
00:24:42.600 And they did have a huge amount of things for me to read, but they were encouraging me to go visit this priest.
00:24:47.600 I think it was down in Fredericksburg, Virginia, because he has this message from our blessed mother.
00:24:52.440 I got to be at the airport.
00:24:54.660 I don't have an extra day I can spare.
00:24:56.840 I got to get home to my parish family.
00:24:58.500 So I said the same thing to them, as I would say, listen, if our blessed mother wants to get a message to me, she's going to make it happen.
00:25:07.100 So I fly home on that Sunday, and then Thursday, I think it was July 8th, was the day that I got canceled by a FedEx letter,
00:25:16.360 because the bishop and his vicar general didn't even have the manliness to come hand it to me personally.
00:25:23.960 And then the vicar general is calling up the secretary, did he get it yet?
00:25:26.840 Did he get it yet?
00:25:27.380 And I'm thinking, this is the problem with our, there truly are a bunch of bully cowards, as bullies can be.
00:25:34.200 But anyway, so they had wanted me to go to Alpha News, who was responsible for that video about you can't be a Catholic,
00:25:40.940 wanted me to go to the CPAC in Dallas that weekend.
00:25:45.400 And I had told them, I can't, I'm just getting back from wedding, and I can only be gone so many weekends.
00:25:51.060 So they found out that same day that I got canceled.
00:25:54.240 News travels fast.
00:25:55.540 You must have told them.
00:25:58.100 He's been canceled.
00:26:00.340 So they called and said, hey, now you can come.
00:26:02.700 As if I don't have enough stress in my life.
00:26:06.160 So, okay, I'm going to fly down.
00:26:07.900 So I got ready to go.
00:26:09.720 And some women had come.
00:26:12.120 I didn't tell you this part of the story before.
00:26:13.760 Some women had come to see me that Saturday morning.
00:26:17.120 Because they didn't know I had been canceled yet.
00:26:19.660 So I started talking to them out of courtesy, out of just, that's what you do.
00:26:24.000 And I missed my flight.
00:26:25.440 So out of lacrosse, I had to drive clear up to Minneapolis, fly down later in the day,
00:26:32.300 get there at 9 o'clock at night.
00:26:35.440 Somebody wanted to see me.
00:26:36.980 Jim Caviezel wanted me to see this person.
00:26:39.140 So I texted him and said, listen, it's 9.
00:26:42.760 I got to be up early in the morning because they wanted me to open with a prayer.
00:26:47.340 And he said, the night is young.
00:26:49.340 Get over here.
00:26:50.420 So 2 a.m.
00:26:51.380 I finally said, I got to go.
00:26:52.780 I had three hours of sleep that night.
00:26:54.700 So I go to the opening prayer.
00:26:56.680 They cover a little time to interview me.
00:26:59.040 And then I'm stuck there because President Trump is going to speak.
00:27:03.140 And if you leave, you can't get back in.
00:27:05.540 So though I'm tired, I stay.
00:27:09.780 And I was in row three.
00:27:11.400 The first two rows were $15,000 seat things.
00:27:13.780 But because I was a speaker, I got row three.
00:27:15.760 And right in the center.
00:27:17.080 And there he was, the icon himself.
00:27:20.340 So then I just wanted to go home.
00:27:22.700 And the people I was with, I'll finish and say, no.
00:27:25.140 Because there's going to be a little dinner and after party afterwards upstairs.
00:27:29.340 So it's probably about 9 o'clock at night.
00:27:31.500 We finally go up.
00:27:32.280 I say the 27th floor.
00:27:33.480 But it was really high in this hotel.
00:27:34.820 The whole floor has been reserved for this gathering of these people,
00:27:38.700 these mucky mucks.
00:27:39.420 So I go up there.
00:27:42.560 And lo and behold, Matt and Mercy Slack want to see me.
00:27:47.780 So they're sitting way over in the far end.
00:27:50.060 And Alpha News takes me over there to see them.
00:27:52.500 And eventually, I got to have breakfast with them for two hours the next day,
00:27:55.220 along with this priest.
00:27:56.240 Anyway, they're sitting there.
00:27:57.180 And there's this priest with them, who I've never met before in my life.
00:28:00.900 Don't know him as.
00:28:01.760 And in the middle of this conversation, as I'm standing there,
00:28:05.880 he said, come to Matt and to me.
00:28:09.420 Uh, I have a message to give you from our Blessed Mother.
00:28:14.700 That was the priest.
00:28:16.820 That had, I would never have been there,
00:28:19.360 had I not been canceled like two days before.
00:28:22.660 So, uh, so he starts, he's got it on his cell phone.
00:28:26.780 So he starts, uh, reading.
00:28:29.960 It's in Aramaic.
00:28:30.640 I can't read it.
00:28:31.760 So, you know how the letters go like in the wrong direction.
00:28:34.120 And he starts reading it.
00:28:36.600 And as he's reading, he breaks down crying.
00:28:39.060 He can't even get through it.
00:28:41.340 Uh, and essentially the message was,
00:28:43.880 I keep, this is at the height of when COVID has shut us down.
00:28:47.060 And you just got canceled.
00:28:48.080 I just got canceled from the parish.
00:28:50.180 And why I got, people don't know this.
00:28:51.540 It wasn't because of that video about can't be Catholic and a Democrat.
00:28:54.680 Although that certainly alienated probably 90% of the bishops in this country,
00:28:58.220 because they're all a bunch of loser Democrats.
00:29:00.040 And I say that sincerely.
00:29:01.560 You, you support the butchering of babies and the whole other, you're a loser.
00:29:06.400 You're losing.
00:29:07.080 And I mean that because you're going to lose heaven.
00:29:08.980 You're going to, you're going to win hell by your own choice.
00:29:11.920 Well, anyway, uh, why I got canceled was because I said,
00:29:14.600 I had the temerity to say, um, you don't,
00:29:18.940 your body's a temple of the Holy spirit.
00:29:20.200 You do not have to take the jab.
00:29:22.020 You know, you're nobody's Guinea pig.
00:29:23.700 You're nobody's lab rat.
00:29:24.800 And I was canceled.
00:29:25.860 Like, well, he asked me to resign within a week's time.
00:29:28.340 This is, this is the background to what this message was.
00:29:31.600 And so the priest is reading it.
00:29:33.160 He's an exorcist.
00:29:34.460 He's the one that did the exorcism on the white house.
00:29:36.820 Wow.
00:29:37.620 Yeah.
00:29:38.000 I've seen the picture.
00:29:40.240 And he said, uh, so it's like a little three part message.
00:29:43.400 And the first part was, um,
00:29:45.000 our father in heaven is very angry at the bishops
00:29:49.740 because they had locked his children out of the churches
00:29:52.240 and did not give them Holy communion.
00:29:54.480 This is almost verbatim.
00:29:56.600 He's very angry at them.
00:29:58.720 The next part was you are the voice of his anger.
00:30:02.600 And then the third part was, and he is well-pleased.
00:30:06.360 So, you know, you can't, uh,
00:30:09.260 you can't ask God for an affirmation or a sign of,
00:30:12.820 am I on the right track?
00:30:14.600 Uh, hopefully you are, and he'll guide you.
00:30:17.560 Oh, he wants to guide you.
00:30:18.720 But something that falls into your lap out of the blue,
00:30:21.660 like that, especially when it's been,
00:30:24.000 the reason why I went through that whole story
00:30:25.660 is because it builds up to this.
00:30:27.660 This was a God's weaving together to make it happen.
00:30:31.020 Our blessed mother, right?
00:30:32.280 Who loves her priest, her faithful priest,
00:30:34.900 uh, wove this story together.
00:30:37.420 And there was the message that I got that,
00:30:40.280 uh, and it's exactly what I said.
00:30:41.920 If our blessed mother wants to get you a message,
00:30:43.880 she's going to make it happen.
00:30:45.580 I had to get canceled to get there, but, but there you go.
00:30:49.020 Um, and, and plus it, it actually does make sense.
00:30:52.700 Why wouldn't our, he sent his son,
00:30:54.580 look at people, listen,
00:30:56.800 he sent his son to suffer and then die.
00:31:02.120 I mean, people always focus on the diet.
00:31:03.440 Listen, you know, the death part,
00:31:05.360 well, it was three hours long,
00:31:06.400 but the whole suffering that he endured right from betrayal,
00:31:12.120 first by Judas and then by Peter who denied him,
00:31:15.140 the whole thing was so on his heart.
00:31:17.660 What crushing pain he endured.
00:31:22.200 Um, why would he go through all that,
00:31:25.560 uh, to leave us confused about any truth,
00:31:28.840 uh, that it makes no sense to me.
00:31:31.300 So, so to give us the Eucharist and then the bishops don't let us have it.
00:31:36.620 But meanwhile, the liquor stores,
00:31:37.700 we can go buy a bottle of tequila,
00:31:39.600 but we can't go to church.
00:31:42.540 They said, that's God's church.
00:31:44.160 It's not the bishops church.
00:31:45.440 They had no right.
00:31:46.380 Listen, they had zero bishops.
00:31:48.020 You had zero, right.
00:31:49.380 Zero to lock the church.
00:31:51.320 This is my theory, which I believe is true.
00:31:54.140 Like as between zero and a hundred percent,
00:31:56.760 I believe it's true.
00:31:57.740 A hundred percent.
00:31:58.360 So every diocese in this country is self-insured together through this thing
00:32:01.540 called Catholic mutual and the bishops being cowards because they are,
00:32:05.160 this is the only way you can get them all to shut down.
00:32:07.060 Why?
00:32:07.320 Cause they're afraid of getting sued.
00:32:09.420 And, and if Catholic mutual says, uh, if,
00:32:13.220 if you get sued for COVID, we're not going to cover you.
00:32:15.360 The bishops turn tail like the cowards that they are and shut down the
00:32:18.740 churches.
00:32:19.300 But here's how you could avoid it.
00:32:20.640 That all you have to do is,
00:32:22.160 and we do this all the time with our kids in sports,
00:32:24.780 you sign a waiver, an indemnification agreement,
00:32:27.500 a whole harmless agreement.
00:32:28.680 If your little boy's playing football and he breaks a leg,
00:32:31.320 well,
00:32:31.460 you can't sue the school district because you agree to,
00:32:34.600 you agree to assume the risk of your kid might get hurt playing.
00:32:37.520 Well, it'd be hockey, right?
00:32:39.860 One of my best friends broke his leg playing hockey.
00:32:42.740 So you just sign a waiver, a whole harmless agreement.
00:32:46.480 All the bishops had to do was put a piece of paper at the front door and say,
00:32:50.480 the door's open.
00:32:51.880 If you can choose to stay away, if you want to,
00:32:53.800 but if you want to come to God's house and receive Holy Communion,
00:32:58.500 just sign this piece of paper saying,
00:33:00.240 we're not going to,
00:33:01.140 if by chance you think you got COVID by coming to church,
00:33:05.280 you won't sue us.
00:33:06.620 That's all they had to do is have a waiver at the front door.
00:33:11.620 And then anybody could have gone.
00:33:13.240 Instead,
00:33:13.700 they didn't even give you the opportunity.
00:33:14.860 They locked the door.
00:33:15.700 And what's really bad,
00:33:16.380 Texas is a good example.
00:33:17.780 The governor of Texas gave her a religious exemption to every single,
00:33:21.980 whatever denomination it would be,
00:33:24.780 every church,
00:33:26.400 you,
00:33:27.800 you don't have to close.
00:33:29.900 And every bishop except Strickland turned it down.
00:33:33.700 They let Planned Parenthood stay open,
00:33:35.160 the liquor stores in California,
00:33:37.300 it was a pop stores,
00:33:38.920 Walmart,
00:33:39.960 thousand people at a time.
00:33:41.880 Every,
00:33:42.120 I think Strickland put it this way.
00:33:43.620 He said,
00:33:43.960 if my priest is afraid and is old and unhealthy and doesn't want to be
00:33:48.980 exposed.
00:33:49.600 Okay.
00:33:50.080 But if a priest of mine wants to stay open,
00:33:53.100 he absolutely.
00:33:54.640 But every other Bishop in Texas turned down the exemption from the
00:33:57.720 governor himself.
00:33:58.800 And for that,
00:33:59.640 they,
00:33:59.840 they signed that their contract for their damnation.
00:34:03.680 Say it says here,
00:34:04.460 just sign this.
00:34:05.100 Don't,
00:34:05.360 don't take the waiver.
00:34:06.400 Oh yeah,
00:34:06.660 sure.
00:34:07.020 Where do I sign every Bishop?
00:34:09.380 It,
00:34:09.480 but there's,
00:34:10.540 and I said to my own Bishop,
00:34:11.520 you did not protect us.
00:34:13.620 When you could have,
00:34:15.000 you had some nurse in the health department,
00:34:16.800 local health department,
00:34:17.460 say only nine people could come at a time.
00:34:19.580 And the governor's order was pretty clear.
00:34:21.080 It was in a single room or an enclosed space.
00:34:24.480 That does not define a Catholic church.
00:34:26.020 That's massive open place.
00:34:28.500 And,
00:34:29.000 but he didn't defend us.
00:34:30.780 And I told him right to his face.
00:34:32.120 You know what his answer was?
00:34:33.720 He didn't have an answer.
00:34:35.340 Yeah.
00:34:36.000 He had to sit there and take it from me because he knew he was a
00:34:38.780 coward.
00:34:39.560 He knew he didn't defend us.
00:34:41.640 There are bishops out there.
00:34:42.880 Um,
00:34:44.120 who want to come back and want to repent like Bishop Strickland did.
00:34:47.560 Remember,
00:34:48.260 um,
00:34:48.900 it was Christ's magazine that asked,
00:34:51.640 you know,
00:34:52.060 said,
00:34:52.840 um,
00:34:53.640 Eric said in a post that,
00:34:54.820 you know,
00:34:55.020 you have to repent.
00:34:57.260 And Bishop Strickland first out of the door.
00:34:59.220 I repent.
00:35:00.360 But what's the way back?
00:35:01.640 Even now,
00:35:02.620 our Lord towards the door of mercy open all the time.
00:35:05.120 If you're a Bishop.
00:35:06.940 Yeah.
00:35:07.440 And,
00:35:07.860 uh,
00:35:08.360 you made that self same error.
00:35:10.580 Yeah.
00:35:11.040 And now are feeling compunction for it.
00:35:13.040 Now with the hindsight of 13 years,
00:35:15.980 see the disaster that is,
00:35:18.300 see the children that have been.
00:35:19.500 I know you're talking about.
00:35:20.360 We're going with it.
00:35:21.240 Yeah.
00:35:21.740 But,
00:35:21.980 but what would you do if you felt compunction now as a Bishop,
00:35:26.520 but knowing all the interests of the pressure you're going to get,
00:35:29.120 probably canceled.
00:35:29.720 You're going to get,
00:35:30.180 um,
00:35:30.760 you know,
00:35:31.220 suits and,
00:35:32.100 and they'll probably come after you with,
00:35:33.780 Oh,
00:35:33.880 we caught you doing whatever,
00:35:34.800 whatever.
00:35:35.860 What's the way out?
00:35:36.800 I don't want to sound discouraging to the people or scandalizing,
00:35:40.340 but you need to understand the bishops don't believe.
00:35:43.300 If you believe you couldn't help,
00:35:45.060 but repent because you know,
00:35:47.880 you're getting older.
00:35:48.840 And one day it's what Bishop vegano said at best that,
00:35:52.640 uh,
00:35:53.040 he knew he was getting older and soon,
00:35:54.660 soon he would meet our Lord face to face.
00:35:56.900 And our Lord would say to him,
00:35:58.000 you knew something and you didn't say anything.
00:36:00.300 The bishops today don't believe in that accountability.
00:36:04.580 They've redefined sin as not sin.
00:36:08.160 And we see that in the whole Rambo movement to say,
00:36:12.340 there's a way back.
00:36:14.240 They're not even looking for the way back.
00:36:16.480 There's no compunction,
00:36:17.560 no guilt,
00:36:18.300 no conscience,
00:36:19.960 uh,
00:36:20.940 to their conduct because,
00:36:23.540 and if there had been,
00:36:24.480 let's be,
00:36:25.080 you know,
00:36:25.840 I just found out today.
00:36:28.160 Did I not?
00:36:29.020 That you have a master's degree in child psychology.
00:36:34.360 Is that true?
00:36:35.240 Do I have this right?
00:36:36.340 So,
00:36:36.660 you know,
00:36:37.180 human psychology and,
00:36:39.620 uh,
00:36:40.400 there,
00:36:40.700 where there's wrongful conduct,
00:36:43.180 whether you want to admit it or not,
00:36:45.440 it's going to eat away at you.
00:36:46.620 It's called guilt.
00:36:47.520 It's called conscience.
00:36:49.600 And you don't act in furtherance of what's already bothering your conscience by
00:36:56.000 making it worse.
00:36:57.620 Especially when you're responsible for the eternal souls of all these other people.
00:37:01.960 You wouldn't do that.
00:37:03.080 If you actually believed and have that conscience,
00:37:05.720 they don't have the conscience.
00:37:07.360 They don't believe it's,
00:37:08.280 it's sin.
00:37:09.300 Uh,
00:37:09.700 they don't believe in God.
00:37:10.860 Ultimately,
00:37:11.220 they don't believe in God,
00:37:12.200 not Jesus and God,
00:37:14.060 our father,
00:37:14.420 son,
00:37:14.640 Holy spirit.
00:37:14.960 They don't,
00:37:15.340 they don't believe or they couldn't do what they do.
00:37:18.640 So what is the way back?
00:37:20.360 Um,
00:37:20.880 it's never going to happen until they die.
00:37:22.640 You know,
00:37:22.820 people say,
00:37:23.220 well,
00:37:23.440 St.
00:37:23.820 Paul,
00:37:24.720 he,
00:37:25.320 he kind of changed.
00:37:27.560 So these bishops can change.
00:37:28.880 Well,
00:37:29.280 listen,
00:37:29.780 scientists have figured out there's been at least 110 billion people.
00:37:33.120 They do the population curve math on this planet.
00:37:35.620 Since the first human beings,
00:37:37.240 there's been one St.
00:37:38.480 Paul.
00:37:39.140 So that's one out of 110 billion.
00:37:41.380 If you're going to,
00:37:42.100 don't hold your breath waiting for a bishop.
00:37:43.780 to apologize.
00:37:47.520 Strickland already had the conscience and you can see it.
00:37:49.920 Everything he says and does.
00:37:51.160 And who is the one bishop that Bergoglio and all his buddies cancel?
00:37:55.760 Strickland.
00:37:56.540 And did the other 300 bishops did any stick up?
00:37:58.920 You were out there in what's Kansas and he was asked a direct question.
00:38:02.800 And he said,
00:38:03.360 not one stood up for him.
00:38:06.860 So,
00:38:07.360 which means then that they are in agreement with Bergoglio and the cancellation of Bishop Strickland.
00:38:14.280 So now there's no way.
00:38:15.520 Listen,
00:38:15.820 there's no way back.
00:38:16.720 What the only way back for us is as individuals is as faithful Catholics is to know your faith,
00:38:22.580 study your faith,
00:38:23.500 learn your faith,
00:38:24.260 live your faith,
00:38:25.580 be faithful,
00:38:26.140 no matter what,
00:38:26.880 because you're going to be Catholic.
00:38:27.960 It doesn't matter what that fake bishop,
00:38:30.560 that fraud of a bishop does.
00:38:32.780 What matters is that you know your deposit of faith.
00:38:35.300 And if you don't know it,
00:38:36.240 you better start studying it because otherwise you can be led astray.
00:38:39.620 Those Catholics you say don't really realize what's going on.
00:38:42.300 Well,
00:38:42.460 they're going to be held accountable for that because you have a duty,
00:38:45.340 an affirmative duty to know your faith.
00:38:47.660 So it's not what you knew.
00:38:48.840 It's what you knew or should have known.
00:38:50.860 That's very legalistic.
00:38:52.440 But it's true.
00:38:53.920 You're going to be held accountable for your sins of omission because you didn't put forth any effort to learn your faith.
00:38:58.960 So once you come to know your faith,
00:39:00.640 you will then clearly see that bishop is in error.
00:39:04.660 That bishop is in grave error and he's promoting grave error.
00:39:08.160 He's in error personally and he's promoting,
00:39:09.700 he's leading the lambs astray.
00:39:11.280 How did Jesus put it?
00:39:12.960 The blind,
00:39:13.780 leading the blind.
00:39:14.960 Well,
00:39:15.160 the blind is obvious in the bishops who the blind that they're leading are,
00:39:18.660 is obvious because they're the ones that don't know their faith.
00:39:20.520 And that's their own fault.
00:39:22.120 I'm picking on the people that are watching this know their faith.
00:39:25.520 So it's like we're preaching to the choir.
00:39:28.540 I know people want the hope of there's a way back,
00:39:31.020 but it's,
00:39:31.700 there's only one way back at this point and that's divine intervention.
00:39:34.740 Yeah.
00:39:35.620 But the problem with that is that divine intervention and throughout salvation history tends to be rather cataclysmic.
00:39:41.960 And with unpleasantness,
00:39:45.100 even for the faithful,
00:39:46.560 like our blessed mothers warned us,
00:39:48.400 even the good people and the priests are going to suffer and are going to die.
00:39:52.460 You know,
00:39:52.820 I take the attitude of,
00:39:53.800 well,
00:39:53.860 who cares?
00:39:54.340 Because heaven,
00:39:55.980 eternity,
00:39:56.580 I say life on earth is short.
00:39:57.700 Eternity is a very long time.
00:39:58.920 Just be in a state of grace.
00:40:00.100 Go to confession.
00:40:01.080 That's what they're talking about this morning at mass.
00:40:03.420 Go to confession.
00:40:04.580 That's what Strickland,
00:40:04.980 can I say what Strickland said?
00:40:06.120 Yes,
00:40:06.600 please.
00:40:07.120 So Bishop Strickland is in the middle of the homily and he said something to the effect of,
00:40:11.020 no,
00:40:11.580 a lot of you people here had selfies with me this morning.
00:40:15.280 So you need to go to confession.
00:40:17.840 And I didn't know where he was going with it.
00:40:19.880 Then he said,
00:40:20.560 what I mean is every time you see that,
00:40:24.420 hear my voice saying,
00:40:25.920 go to confession.
00:40:27.340 Yeah.
00:40:27.780 Because there's none of us that can't go and should go more often than we do.
00:40:33.940 So we,
00:40:34.920 the faithful,
00:40:35.480 if you're in a state of grace,
00:40:36.520 it doesn't,
00:40:36.920 it doesn't matter.
00:40:38.100 Where's the way back?
00:40:38.740 If we're already keeping the faith,
00:40:41.180 we're already there.
00:40:42.420 It's these people who are lost.
00:40:45.100 People say,
00:40:45.660 yeah,
00:40:45.820 but Jesus is going to go find that one lost sheep.
00:40:48.020 Well,
00:40:48.220 okay.
00:40:48.360 That's because he said 99 were faithful.
00:40:50.440 What happens when there's one faithful and 99 have gone astray?
00:40:53.680 But even if we just stick with his parable as was presented,
00:40:57.640 he said,
00:40:58.160 he goes looking for that sheep.
00:41:00.080 And if he finds it,
00:41:02.780 not,
00:41:03.860 he will find it and he'll drag him back kicking and screaming.
00:41:06.260 That's not what Jesus does.
00:41:07.480 Is it?
00:41:08.020 He never said that.
00:41:08.900 He never does that.
00:41:10.200 He gives us free will for a reason.
00:41:11.820 He's not going to take it away.
00:41:13.420 So,
00:41:13.740 um,
00:41:14.360 the way back.
00:41:16.880 Only,
00:41:17.400 only divine intervention.
00:41:18.520 Fasten your seatbelts because it's coming.
00:41:19.900 It is coming.
00:41:20.820 It is.
00:41:21.420 We can see it.
00:41:22.680 You know,
00:41:22.920 can I tell you one quick story?
00:41:25.260 Sure.
00:41:25.860 Yeah.
00:41:26.180 I've said before about the,
00:41:27.460 what I call the August 31st room in Poland,
00:41:29.760 in Krakow.
00:41:30.780 I was talking to a guy from Poland today and he said,
00:41:33.360 and I thought,
00:41:35.280 did he just say what I think he said?
00:41:36.580 Cause that's the way you're supposed to pronounce it like that.
00:41:39.540 Anyway,
00:41:40.140 uh,
00:41:40.380 I was taken to the Schindler's museum by,
00:41:42.640 uh,
00:41:43.300 well,
00:41:43.440 I had to,
00:41:43.980 I was the tour guys.
00:41:44.920 I had to,
00:41:46.000 somebody insisted on going,
00:41:48.020 uh,
00:41:48.260 even though we're supposed to fly out.
00:41:49.380 And I was really nervous about missing the plane in a foreign country,
00:41:52.020 but we went to the Schindler,
00:41:54.540 that guy is factory was in Krakow.
00:41:57.740 Yeah.
00:41:58.220 And,
00:41:58.480 and so you go in,
00:41:59.300 it's like an Ikea store where you go in one door and you do not get out
00:42:02.120 until you go past every last little thing I want to sell you.
00:42:04.960 So you go in this,
00:42:06.260 and this is factory.
00:42:07.000 And so you go in and,
00:42:07.820 and,
00:42:08.140 uh,
00:42:08.300 you see the buildup to world war two.
00:42:11.100 And then finally you go,
00:42:12.160 you come into this one room and I call it the August 31st room because on
00:42:15.340 the wall,
00:42:15.680 they had newspaper clippings and personal stories and pictures from August 31st,
00:42:21.420 1939.
00:42:22.660 And on that day,
00:42:24.620 nobody had a clue what was going to happen the next day,
00:42:27.360 September 1st,
00:42:27.980 1939,
00:42:28.780 the start of the blitzkrieg and the invasion of Poland.
00:42:31.220 In fact,
00:42:31.820 one funny story,
00:42:32.600 and I'll never forget it had to do with that.
00:42:35.340 They knew Germany was being belligerent because they wanted this 15 mile
00:42:38.100 swath across.
00:42:39.140 I think it's called the Sudeten land.
00:42:40.460 And,
00:42:40.940 and,
00:42:41.080 and of course,
00:42:42.440 Poland said no.
00:42:43.500 Uh,
00:42:44.300 so they had called up,
00:42:46.580 the Polish government had called up a couple minor regiments or something of
00:42:50.200 cavalry.
00:42:51.120 Now,
00:42:53.100 when you know what happens the next day with the Stuka bombers and the panzer
00:42:56.740 tanks,
00:42:57.380 a cavalry didn't stand a chance,
00:42:59.300 but the point is that nobody knew what was going to happen the next day.
00:43:02.720 And then,
00:43:03.600 then the next room you go into is September 1st.
00:43:06.200 And you see all the pictures of the horrors of the start of the war.
00:43:09.080 And isn't that the way Jesus explained it to the apostles in the end time?
00:43:14.040 It's going to be just like it was in the days of Noah,
00:43:17.240 where everybody's going to be eating,
00:43:18.260 drinking,
00:43:18.720 making merry,
00:43:19.260 getting married.
00:43:19.940 And nobody's paying attention.
00:43:21.600 Nobody's going to know.
00:43:22.640 They're completely unaware of applying their faith to what's going on around the world
00:43:27.740 around them.
00:43:28.280 They're not paying any attention.
00:43:29.880 And then,
00:43:30.500 then it's going to hit the rains are coming just like a Noah's day or whatever form
00:43:33.660 it's going to take.
00:43:34.360 And,
00:43:34.520 and it's game over and it's too late.
00:43:36.540 You can't at that point is too late.
00:43:38.100 It's just like the unwise virgins,
00:43:39.820 the foolish virgins.
00:43:41.080 They weren't ready.
00:43:42.660 And then of course,
00:43:43.620 and they,
00:43:43.860 then they try to go get ready.
00:43:45.460 They go to buy some oil for their lambs.
00:43:48.420 And,
00:43:48.940 and,
00:43:50.460 and then the door,
00:43:51.200 the door is locked is what it says.
00:43:53.540 And they knock and go away.
00:43:55.580 I do not know you.
00:43:57.040 So why people aren't working just a little bit harder to come to know their
00:44:01.380 faith so that they can look around the world and say,
00:44:03.600 well,
00:44:04.100 that's not very Catholic.
00:44:05.140 That's not very Christian.
00:44:06.360 That's really unholy.
00:44:07.540 Why aren't they doing that?
00:44:09.280 Why aren't they criticizing the episcopacy,
00:44:12.620 the bishops in this country who aren't defending bishops strictly through speaking the truth,
00:44:16.900 but also involved in child sex trafficking,
00:44:19.300 or did all these horrible things with children themselves,
00:44:22.760 or covered up for those who did.
00:44:24.440 If you're Catholic and you haven't had the urge to tar and feather your bishop and run him out of town,
00:44:30.720 then you don't know your faith.
00:44:32.260 How do they get away with it?
00:44:33.760 Because Catholics don't know the faith.
00:44:35.000 What did Bishop Sheen say to us,
00:44:36.200 what,
00:44:36.380 78 years ago?
00:44:37.320 It's up to the laity to make sure the bishops started acting like bishops.
00:44:41.120 Well,
00:44:41.380 we haven't put too many demands on them,
00:44:42.840 have we?
00:44:43.300 You weren't there last night at dinner.
00:44:45.720 And I found out something last night at dinner.
00:44:48.480 And that's it.
00:44:49.000 There are eight bishops in the state of Florida.
00:44:52.720 And all eight bishops got together because they knew this was happening here.
00:44:56.680 And they forbade their priests from coming to this prayer for America.
00:45:02.980 Are you kidding me?
00:45:04.620 What?
00:45:05.360 Why?
00:45:05.780 We should be bending over backwards to gather together in one voice together to pray for our country.
00:45:13.940 But they also said not one single priest is allowed to come here because Bishop Strickland is here.
00:45:21.400 And they said Bishop Strickland is not allowed in any single church in the state of Florida.
00:45:29.400 The bishops got together and they said this.
00:45:32.420 They forbade their priests from allowing Bishop Strickland to appear in any one of their churches.
00:45:37.440 Now,
00:45:37.620 okay,
00:45:37.780 so let's talk about Wentz.
00:45:39.300 Is that his name?
00:45:40.260 Miami?
00:45:40.980 Wentzky.
00:45:41.700 That's it.
00:45:42.240 Wentzky.
00:45:43.100 One of Wentzky's predecessors,
00:45:44.840 if not his immediate predecessor,
00:45:46.740 the Archbishop of Miami,
00:45:47.900 would get drunk as a skunk on the weekends,
00:45:50.720 is crawl up the stairs to the seminary,
00:45:52.680 pick out his favorite boys,
00:45:53.900 and bring them back to his little beach house for a weekend of fun.
00:45:57.180 Did he ever get forbidden to show up in a church in this archdiocese?
00:46:01.880 Has he been kicked out?
00:46:03.260 Has he been laicized?
00:46:05.340 He might be dead now.
00:46:06.540 I'm not quite sure.
00:46:07.340 But that was a former Archbishop of Miami.
00:46:10.580 Did any other bishop,
00:46:11.520 this is common knowledge,
00:46:12.920 did any other bishop ever call him out while he was alive,
00:46:16.140 if he might still be,
00:46:17.900 or say,
00:46:18.700 you're not allowed in any church in my diocese?
00:46:21.600 Did that ever happen?
00:46:22.540 You have people doing stuff like that.
00:46:25.620 Free pass.
00:46:27.160 Nobody says anything.
00:46:29.120 But Bishop Strickland,
00:46:30.740 they get together,
00:46:32.140 the cronies,
00:46:32.880 the cabal that they are,
00:46:34.280 and they say,
00:46:34.920 he can't come in any church in the state of Florida,
00:46:37.920 and no priest can come to this because he's here,
00:46:40.420 and we're going to listen to people praying for America.
00:46:43.700 Every damned bishop in the state of Florida,
00:46:46.040 including Wenski,
00:46:47.780 you're out of here.
00:46:50.020 Every Catholic should run them out of Dodge.
00:46:52.320 Wenski lives in like a $7 million mansion
00:46:55.660 with a pool,
00:46:57.100 I think maybe a hot tub,
00:46:58.800 and one of his best friends there lives with him.
00:47:01.720 Maybe one of his curia.
00:47:05.160 Yeah, sure, Wenski.
00:47:07.740 That's how evil it is.
00:47:08.740 And yet, Miamians,
00:47:10.880 Miamians is how I say it,
00:47:13.100 the people of this diocese,
00:47:14.740 are you still putting a single penny
00:47:15.980 in that collection basket
00:47:17.080 for him to do with as he pleases?
00:47:21.220 And he has the audacity
00:47:23.040 to criticize us
00:47:25.020 for criticizing Catholic charities
00:47:27.520 committing treason against the United States,
00:47:31.980 literally committing treason.
00:47:33.240 You can be executed for that
00:47:34.560 by helping illegals.
00:47:36.720 Well, he's still living
00:47:38.700 in his $7 million mansion
00:47:40.020 with his good friend
00:47:41.700 there in somewhere in Miami.
00:47:44.120 That's just the state of Florida.
00:47:46.460 How evil it is.
00:47:47.900 But you know how evil it is
00:47:48.900 because, well, birds with a feather, right?
00:47:50.640 When they try to ice out
00:47:53.360 the great America's bishop,
00:47:55.360 as Jesse Romero calls him,
00:47:57.160 the great Bishop Strickland,
00:47:58.380 who speaks truth
00:47:59.240 and denies priesthood the right
00:48:01.320 to come and pray,
00:48:02.340 shut up, Bishop.
00:48:02.860 Listen, Bishop,
00:48:04.040 that is an invalid order against God.
00:48:07.340 And any priest in this diocese
00:48:09.020 and around the state of Florida
00:48:10.220 can tell you to go take a hike,
00:48:12.620 Bishop Archbishop Wenske,
00:48:14.360 because we must obey God
00:48:15.720 rather than men.
00:48:16.440 And how dare you,
00:48:17.540 Archbishop Wenske,
00:48:18.540 even dare to say something like that.
00:48:20.560 Archbishop Wenske,
00:48:21.880 I'm well aware.
00:48:23.480 Yeah, and so,
00:48:24.480 so will a lot of other people.
00:48:27.080 Archbishop Wenske,
00:48:28.160 you'd do well to resign now,
00:48:29.920 Archbishop Wenske.
00:48:30.980 Give us your final thoughts
00:48:32.100 and then give us your blessing.
00:48:33.300 Okay.
00:48:34.320 I still am filled with joy.
00:48:36.120 I don't care what these bishops do
00:48:37.520 because I'm not Catholic
00:48:39.080 because of this bishop
00:48:40.960 or that bishop.
00:48:42.320 I'm Catholic because of
00:48:43.580 the deposit of faith.
00:48:44.720 2,000 years of saints and martyrs
00:48:46.380 who have died for the faith.
00:48:48.100 They're the ones that,
00:48:48.740 and when I see people like
00:48:49.680 some of the guest speakers tonight,
00:48:51.400 like the J6 guy that was pardoned,
00:48:53.260 like Will Goodman,
00:48:54.440 who was in prison for over 500 days,
00:48:56.880 and you know the hell
00:48:57.600 he went through there.
00:48:58.460 They weren't sometimes
00:48:59.160 giving him food or water.
00:49:00.620 No.
00:49:01.080 No medical attention.
00:49:02.480 When I saw him in there
00:49:03.440 and now,
00:49:05.060 he looks like two different people.
00:49:06.600 Yeah.
00:49:07.180 Yeah.
00:49:07.900 Wow.
00:49:09.060 Yeah.
00:49:09.380 So when you see,
00:49:10.100 when you get to see people like this,
00:49:12.200 I'm filled with nothing but joy.
00:49:15.640 I'm Catholic because martyrs like that,
00:49:18.140 white martyrs like that,
00:49:20.000 inspire me.
00:49:21.440 When I see people like Dr. Janet Smith,
00:49:23.720 you know,
00:49:23.860 or her name is Rachel.
00:49:27.920 Rachel Master Giacomo.
00:49:29.060 When I see her,
00:49:30.080 I know her story,
00:49:31.480 right?
00:49:31.820 And so does McElroy.
00:49:33.460 McElroy covered it up.
00:49:35.080 Yeah.
00:49:35.360 When you see living icons of faith,
00:49:39.660 you can only help but be filled with joy
00:49:41.620 and inspired by them to do your part.
00:49:45.320 So I'm Catholic because of them,
00:49:46.720 not because of any bishop.
00:49:47.760 And that's,
00:49:49.680 that's what we all have to do.
00:49:50.980 But you're never going to know that
00:49:52.420 until you study your faith.
00:49:54.200 I told you before,
00:49:55.020 I think my favorite saint is St.
00:49:57.780 Isaac jokes because he was tortured,
00:50:00.320 trying to bring Christianity to America,
00:50:03.160 which is what Jesus commanded him to do.
00:50:06.240 I said,
00:50:06.520 the silly thing is people say,
00:50:07.700 Oh,
00:50:08.260 don't proselytize.
00:50:10.700 Jesus in Matthew 28,
00:50:12.580 19 and 20 verses 19 and 20 said,
00:50:15.220 go forth to all nations,
00:50:16.160 all time,
00:50:16.480 all people and teach them everything that I have commanded you.
00:50:19.400 So St.
00:50:20.620 Isaac jokes did so.
00:50:21.620 He was tortured.
00:50:22.360 His fingers were chewed off.
00:50:24.080 And then he goes,
00:50:25.360 he escapes and heals.
00:50:26.360 And then he comes back for more.
00:50:27.640 And he's still martyred.
00:50:29.120 And so when you,
00:50:30.200 when you see people like that,
00:50:31.400 you can't help but be inspired.
00:50:32.640 So learn your faith and be inspired by the great saints and martyrs.
00:50:37.060 That's St.
00:50:37.640 Ignatius of Loyola.
00:50:38.600 When he was in convalescence,
00:50:40.220 he read the book on saints.
00:50:41.860 And that's what,
00:50:42.360 now look,
00:50:42.740 now look at the hero he is to so many and the saint that he is.
00:50:46.660 So my final thought is,
00:50:48.040 is study the saints and martyrs over the last 2,000 years.
00:50:51.140 Pay no attention to these vipers who prance around in miters.
00:50:56.200 And that way,
00:50:56.640 when the divine intervention comes that you've talked about before,
00:50:59.080 that is coming,
00:50:59.980 which will hurt both sides of the equation,
00:51:04.380 the faithful and the unfaithful,
00:51:05.620 but for the unfaithful,
00:51:07.100 it will be doom.
00:51:09.100 But for the faithful,
00:51:10.060 it will be a crown.
00:51:10.920 Or be crown,
00:51:11.900 a glory,
00:51:12.500 right?
00:51:12.960 See,
00:51:13.260 people think,
00:51:13.800 oh,
00:51:13.920 God loves us so much.
00:51:14.900 He would never send anybody to hell.
00:51:17.080 That's no,
00:51:18.200 that's simply not true.
00:51:19.480 Or God would never create hell in the first place as a place to keep people who didn't love him.
00:51:24.620 Well,
00:51:24.780 Fulton,
00:51:25.000 she said,
00:51:25.460 he put it so beautifully,
00:51:26.400 so brilliant,
00:51:26.920 so perfectly,
00:51:27.540 is that when you don't love God,
00:51:31.240 when you hate God,
00:51:32.680 like those Satanists I was telling you about at the border,
00:51:34.780 it would actually be more painful to be in heaven.
00:51:39.500 The agony in heaven would be greater than the agony in hell.
00:51:42.640 Because you're amongst your friends in hell.
00:51:45.760 But you'd be amongst the people you hate in heaven.
00:51:49.420 So,
00:51:49.740 so God in his mercy doesn't let you come to heaven,
00:51:53.080 but it's your own choice because of what you chose.
00:51:55.940 And why that's important,
00:51:57.160 that whole idea of choosing is because Father Ripperger said that he asked the demons,
00:52:03.340 if you had a chance to do it all over again,
00:52:05.920 would you choose differently?
00:52:07.640 And they said no.
00:52:08.840 And that's because within them,
00:52:11.740 they hate.
00:52:13.400 They don't love.
00:52:14.400 I can't put it any better than Father Ripperger or Fulton Sheen,
00:52:17.500 the venerable Archbishop Fulton J.
00:52:18.960 Sheen.
00:52:19.640 So people misunderstand the whole concept of what hell is and why God allows people to go there,
00:52:26.920 because they don't love him and it would be worse than heaven.
00:52:30.880 And that's a really important lesson.
00:52:32.620 Catholics just aren't getting,
00:52:33.580 they're not getting taught.
00:52:34.340 Well,
00:52:34.440 they haven't taught us for 50 years,
00:52:35.720 but the profoundness of that will squelch any of these libs who say,
00:52:41.580 oh,
00:52:41.720 God loves you so much.
00:52:42.980 He's going to have everybody.
00:52:44.140 Jorge Bregoglio says the same thing,
00:52:45.760 right?
00:52:46.140 Oh,
00:52:46.360 nobody goes to hell.
00:52:47.260 Bishop Barron said the same thing.
00:52:49.500 Oh,
00:52:49.680 dear,
00:52:49.940 we hope.
00:52:51.200 No,
00:52:51.400 Bishop,
00:52:51.680 Jesus said,
00:52:53.740 many choose,
00:52:55.420 choose hell.
00:52:56.760 Few choose heaven.
00:52:58.080 So,
00:52:58.760 that's such a beautiful way to understand why God does allow people to go to hell,
00:53:03.160 is it's,
00:53:03.960 he's actually being merciful.
00:53:05.780 All right.
00:53:06.120 Well,
00:53:06.260 let us pray.
00:53:06.820 Let us put our hearts and minds,
00:53:09.060 our souls in the presence of our Lord,
00:53:12.680 who is here with us.
00:53:15.900 And hopefully as well pleased as we try to serve him in no many potries,
00:53:20.040 if they lay it,
00:53:20.500 spiritus santi.
00:53:21.860 Amen.
00:53:22.520 Let us pray through the intercession of St.
00:53:24.280 Joseph,
00:53:26.780 the foster father of Jesus,
00:53:28.820 but the protector of the Holy Eucharist,
00:53:32.180 who is Jesus,
00:53:34.080 earthly protector of him,
00:53:37.260 as he is a protector of us.
00:53:38.880 The terror of demons will run from him if we invoke his protection.
00:53:43.040 So we do this now.
00:53:44.140 We invoke the protection.
00:53:45.280 We implore St.
00:53:46.060 Joseph to come to our assistance,
00:53:47.600 to come to our aid.
00:53:48.760 And then through the blessing,
00:53:49.880 through the intercession of the whole Holy family,
00:53:51.800 Jesus,
00:53:52.840 Mary,
00:53:53.160 and Joseph,
00:53:54.140 may almighty God bless us.
00:53:56.900 Keep us safe.
00:53:58.520 Protect us from all harm.
00:53:59.660 In no many potries,
00:54:00.480 et fili,
00:54:00.860 spiritus santi.
00:54:01.760 Amen.
00:54:02.180 Amen.
00:54:03.180 Okay.
00:54:03.800 Thank you,
00:54:04.420 brother.
00:54:04.680 You're welcome.
00:54:09.200 Aloha,
00:54:09.780 everyone.
00:54:10.180 This is Jason Jones for LifeSide News.
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