The John-Henry Westen Show - Fr. Altman responds after bishop dismisses him from parish

00:00:01.000 Welcome to this episode of the John Henry Weston Show, which is going to be just a blockbuster.

00:00:05.540 We have with us Father James Altman, whom you all know and all love, and you've probably

00:00:11.180 all heard that he is being censured by his bishop.

00:00:14.200 Not only censured, he's been asked to resign.

00:00:16.700 Remember Father Altman?

00:00:17.660 He's the one who during the lockdown gave such hope, speaking openly, the voice of the

00:00:22.840 people saying how horrific these lockdowns were, how unbelievable it was that many of

00:00:27.960 our shepherds are locking us out of our churches right when we need them the most.

00:00:32.100 Have a look for yourself.

00:00:35.600 You know, to share the holy sacrifice of the mass, I mean, that's what we live for.

00:00:40.240 I don't understand how, well, I can tell you this, a lot of priests that I've talked to

00:00:44.200 from around the country were heartbroken when they couldn't share that mass with all their

00:00:50.300 people, all their faithful.

00:00:51.380 I mean, they're our children, and when the churches were closed against the people, which

00:00:57.700 was an abomination, but it was also closed against the priests and the people.

00:01:03.560 I can't, I just, it wasn't, how about if I be polite?

00:01:07.260 It wasn't well thought out.

00:01:09.320 I'll be polite.

00:01:13.100 That was Father James Altman, and he is with us right now.

00:01:16.900 Stay tuned.

00:01:17.300 Father Altman, thank you for joining us in this episode of the John Henry Weston Show.

00:01:41.160 You know, I think the very first time, do I have this right?

00:01:44.320 The very first time we met face to face like this, didn't I, I blessed your 10-year-old

00:01:49.780 son on his birthday?

00:01:51.220 Is that right?

00:01:52.080 It was nine, but yeah, that's right.

00:01:54.360 Okay.

00:01:54.960 Yeah.

00:01:55.200 What a privilege.

00:01:56.620 And that's what a priest lives for, to bring grace into people's lives.

00:02:00.820 So thank you for that privilege, that day.

00:02:04.100 Awesome, Father.

00:02:04.840 Thank you.

00:02:05.280 And if you wouldn't mind starting us off, as we always do, with the sign of the cross.

00:02:07.680 Sure.

00:02:08.000 In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, amen.

00:02:11.140 Bless us, Lord, as we gather here today.

00:02:15.060 Fill our hearts with the spirit of truth, and the spirit of fortitude to speak the truth.

00:02:21.000 Fill us with the graces of the Holy Spirit.

00:02:23.580 The gifts that we might be witnesses of our faith, even unto martyrdom.

00:02:27.620 We ask this grace in Jesus' name, amen.

00:02:30.380 In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, amen.

00:02:33.940 Amen.

00:02:34.400 Amen.

00:02:35.340 Thank you, Father.

00:02:36.740 So, some very sad news, which we're going to actually play a clip from your Sunday homily,

00:02:43.640 which revealed just what was so stunning to us.

00:02:47.780 Okay.

00:02:48.020 Let's have a look.

00:02:52.420 Yet now, I regret to inform you, some powerful prelates doing the bidding

00:02:57.540 of civil powers and authorities, apparently want my head on a platter.

00:03:03.240 They want my head now for speaking that truth.

00:03:07.960 I, a lowly priest, apparently have created enemies among some of the hierarchy.

00:03:14.380 But to basically quote the great, great Cardinal Burke,

00:03:17.240 when I die, I will stand in judgment before the Lord,

00:03:20.200 not any prelates, not the USCCB.

00:03:23.600 I am ineffective as a pastor.

00:03:27.700 So, for the record, dear family,

00:03:31.720 Bishop Callahan has asked me to resign as pastor as of this past Friday.

00:03:38.100 So, just unbelievable.

00:03:40.260 And what was the reaction of the faithful when you told them that on Sunday?

00:03:45.620 Sure.

00:03:46.280 You know, I can tell you this.

00:03:49.300 Whatever else anybody says about me, and the left-wingers are like,

00:03:51.880 really, he hates me.

00:03:53.900 You know, if you don't like me, don't listen to me.

00:03:56.540 If you don't like the truth I speak, don't listen to it.

00:04:00.380 But the faithful know one thing above all, that I love my people,

00:04:06.720 and I will feed my people in word and in sacrament.

00:04:10.180 They know this, right?

00:04:11.080 And so, when I told them that I was being asked to resign,

00:04:15.400 there was a very loud murmuring, I guess.

00:04:18.880 I wasn't expecting it.

00:04:21.640 I mean, I just don't think along those lines.

00:04:23.780 And some people over on the left were shouting no,

00:04:26.860 and people over here were saying no.

00:04:29.440 And then when it was all over,

00:04:31.200 when the meditation of the day for Pentecost was over,

00:04:34.560 they spontaneously stood up and gave me an ovation,

00:04:38.880 which I'm so uncomfortable being the center of attention.

00:04:42.200 I said, Bishop once accused me of like,

00:04:44.760 I was wanting this attention.

00:04:46.420 No, no, I like it when the Christmas crush is there

00:04:48.960 so I can hide behind it.

00:04:50.120 I don't like people looking at me.

00:04:51.640 So I was so uncomfortable when they did this,

00:04:54.280 but it was a spontaneous reflection of that they know I love them

00:04:59.700 and they love me.

00:05:01.020 And that is the way it is supposed to be with the father and his children,

00:05:04.960 which is why this entire last 14 months has been so godless

00:05:09.000 and so anti-Catholic, so anti-father and children.

00:05:13.820 I can tell you this, they know I love them.

00:05:16.180 And that's why they show up.

00:05:19.220 Absolutely.

00:05:20.120 I've got to mention some things that I'm going to mention

00:05:22.320 throughout this program, which I normally don't do.

00:05:25.720 One of the things is this has given the opportunity

00:05:29.120 for the faithful to act, to act in a way they never have before.

00:05:33.780 You are one of the faithful shepherds who has defended the faithful

00:05:36.160 and really given us a voice.

00:05:38.640 And that's, I think, what many of the bishops don't understand.

00:05:42.200 This isn't just about Father James Altman.

00:05:44.600 This is about the hungry faithful who have been starving for the truth

00:05:49.820 that has been given to us by this one shepherd

00:05:53.000 who has spoken out so courageously.

00:05:55.300 This one priest who has spoken out during the lockdowns,

00:05:59.620 after the lockdowns, about all the insanity that's going on in the church

00:06:02.900 and was able to give voice to what's in so many of our hearts.

00:06:07.020 So what I'm going to ask you to do is to go to lifepetitions.com.

00:06:11.120 There's a petition there we have for Father Altman.

00:06:13.460 What's the petition going to do?

00:06:14.860 Well, it's going to make a splash.

00:06:16.440 It's going to show how many faithful actually support Father.

00:06:19.760 But also what we'd like you to do is support a fund for him set up in his name

00:06:25.580 at lifefunder.com.

00:06:27.760 It's going to support his legal challenge to this.

00:06:30.900 A canonical legal challenge actually does cost lots of money.

00:06:33.900 So please support him there.

00:06:35.280 But probably more important than that,

00:06:38.160 I want you to call a phone number.

00:06:40.660 It's the bishop's phone number.

00:06:42.420 I want you to call 608-788-7700.

00:06:47.240 That's the number of the diocese.

00:06:49.940 Please speak to the bishop and tell him what you think about what he's doing to Father Altman.

00:06:55.320 And that's not so much of a commercial as a real call to action, a call to arms.

00:07:01.180 We're always looking for something that the faithful can actually do.

00:07:04.920 Well, here's something you can do.

00:07:06.700 If you don't feel like calling, write a letter, send it in.

00:07:09.900 Write an email, send it in.

00:07:11.080 Those are easy, though, to file under G and to just delete.

00:07:15.480 Phone calls are harder.

00:07:16.360 If you have the facts as well, you can do that.

00:07:18.980 So, Father, tell us what's happened since Sunday.

00:07:22.100 I should know by now because I've had to say it a few times.

00:07:28.720 So I thought all was just normal.

00:07:33.080 And then Monday night, I went to dinner with five other priests,

00:07:36.000 and somebody was looking at the newspaper because the newspaper locally just really despises me.

00:07:41.720 And so they were mentioning that the bishop had put out another press release.

00:07:46.020 And so the press release indicated with clarity that he is taking his canonical steps to remove me as a pastor.

00:07:54.460 I understand that this process takes a year, that I wouldn't serve as, I wouldn't have the functions and duties of a pastor here in St. James, which is a shame because people are entitled.

00:08:06.300 They are a legitimate constituency, and they are entitled to have a pastor that meets their needs, as I do.

00:08:14.920 But so in that period of time, I'll be like in limbo.

00:08:17.680 I think that might be a way for me to understand it.

00:08:19.880 And, yeah, so that's what I understand is coming down the pike. 0.97

00:08:24.480 And, you know, it's just waiting for the sort of Damocles, I guess, to fall.

00:08:28.700 And then we'll go from there.

00:08:33.060 What's truly amazing, Father, is, as you mentioned in your homily on Sunday, but Bishop Callahan has accused you of being ineffective.

00:08:42.160 Now, to me, that's so hilarious.

00:08:44.220 So you've been the most effective priest I know of in terms of preaching the truth and giving the faithful what they need to hear.

00:08:55.180 I want to play another clip of what you said in a video that went totally viral.

00:09:00.880 I think one of the first videos that many people would have first recognized you, you were talking about Democrats and being Catholic.

00:09:09.020 Let's have a look.

00:09:09.560 Here's a memo to clueless, baptized Catholics out there. 0.99

00:09:16.940 You cannot be Catholic and be a Democrat, period. 0.70

00:09:21.680 Their party platform absolutely is against everything the Catholic Church teaches.

00:09:26.880 So, Father, you've obviously ruffled feathers, not only because you spoke against lockdowns and the tragedy of depriving the faithful of the faith and the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass,

00:09:39.000 but also you've spoken the truth, the plain truth that we all know.

00:09:44.780 Everybody knows Catholics are supposed to be pro-life, that pro-abortion politicians, it makes no sense that they should be receiving the Holy Communion. 0.82

00:09:53.000 But I guess for saying that you're pretty much on the outs.

00:09:56.800 Yeah, it's a no, you know, it is a no-brainer.

00:10:03.660 Literally, what I said was the truth and it's a no-brainer.

00:10:08.940 I mean, as I've said many times, it was the Democratic Party itself that said you can't be Democrat and pro-life.

00:10:15.160 Okay, it's no more inquiry.

00:10:17.360 Done.

00:10:17.620 So, I said it again, I said before and I'll say it again, you can't be Catholic and Democrat. 0.56

00:10:23.040 Well, that throws people into a tizzy because, you know, here's how we can understand this, is that there's this, it's kind of a funny mean.

00:10:29.600 There's a shortage of the vocation of the priesthood, but there's no shortage of the vocation of the papacy because everybody wants to be their own little pope.

00:10:38.280 And it's been the case since Martin Luther. 0.70

00:10:39.700 And so, everybody wants to decide for themselves what they can and cannot do and how dare I, you know, which is kind of convenient for them because they invoke that when we're talking about murdering babies.

00:10:53.240 But when it comes time to the climate change hoax or any of these other things that they, social justice warrior things, oh, no, then you have to listen to the Catholic Church and they can tell you what to do. 0.81

00:11:04.380 And so, the hypocrisy is staggering because 10,000 babies are going to be murdered again this Saturday. 0.80

00:11:11.320 And so, no, you can't, listen, you can't be Catholic and be Democrat, period. 0.97

00:11:16.000 If you don't like it tough, then get out of the Catholic Church.

00:11:19.260 You know, show some personal integrity and realize the truth of the Catholic Church's teaching is that you can't be Catholic and be Democrat.

00:11:25.860 And any shepherd who doesn't say that, get out of the Catholic Church. 0.90

00:11:29.060 Show some personal integrity.

00:11:30.940 And I guess it's right there that is so uncomfortable.

00:11:37.380 The mainstream of the bishops, unfortunately, has been sort of go along to get along.

00:11:42.640 They've abandoned the idea of a discipline of people which seeks for their salvation.

00:11:50.260 It's not mean to discipline your children.

00:11:52.740 It's not mean to tell them no.

00:11:54.480 So, in fact, it's mean not to, because the consequence in the real world or in eternity is eternal.

00:12:03.060 And yet, you're speaking the truth.

00:12:04.900 Exactly.

00:12:05.080 You actually care for their souls.

00:12:06.460 That's not what we're supposed to do.

00:12:07.280 That's our one job.

00:12:09.320 Yeah.

00:12:10.140 Yeah.

00:12:10.500 Our one job.

00:12:11.040 One job.

00:12:12.160 It ends.

00:12:12.860 Yeah.

00:12:13.280 Yeah.

00:12:14.260 So, you have this.

00:12:15.520 They're not doing it.

00:12:16.440 They're doing it.

00:12:16.780 Yeah.

00:12:17.700 Yeah.

00:12:18.140 So, you have this set up, and now you're being asked to resign.

00:12:24.940 So, now, again, is the time for the faithful to act, because you are, at least they're trying

00:12:31.140 to, shut you down.

00:12:32.680 So, let me repeat once again.

00:12:34.240 There's an opportunity for the faithful to act now.

00:12:37.100 Very rarely do we get such opportunities.

00:12:39.440 You can go to Life Petitions, sign on to our petition, which will be delivered to the bishop

00:12:44.260 and made very public, so that the bishop's embarrassed.

00:12:48.320 But also, you can go to LifeFunder.com and support Father's Canonical Challenge, because

00:12:55.040 it actually costs a lot of money to do a canonical challenge, and that needs to be done.

00:12:59.420 But thirdly, and most importantly, call.

00:13:03.340 Call the bishop's office.

00:13:05.120 The number is 608-788-7700.

00:13:09.580 Call.

00:13:10.540 Make your views known.

00:13:12.620 Pray.

00:13:13.260 Pray for Father Altman, as he prays for us all the time.

00:13:16.840 Pray for the bishop.

00:13:17.600 Pray for the bishop's conversion.

00:13:18.980 Bishop Callahan needs to recognize that in trying to shut down Father Altman, he's shutting

00:13:24.260 down one of the few voices of truth left in the church that's willing to speak to truth.

00:13:30.100 So, Father, let's get back to this.

00:13:33.960 What are your thoughts right now, vis-a-vis your bishop, Bishop Callahan?

00:13:38.540 Sure, sure.

00:13:39.760 You know, I like him, but he's, I actually think he likes me.

00:13:45.640 I guess that the fullness of the gifts of the Spirit were such that he would say to these

00:13:55.580 left-wing fascists, they're fascists, cancel culture people, listen, you may not agree with

00:14:04.480 him.

00:14:04.940 I may not always agree with him.

00:14:06.820 But he speaks the truth.

00:14:08.400 In fact, he did say this in that very first press release back on September 9th.

00:14:13.500 He said he speaks the undeniable truth.

00:14:16.780 And nobody has yet to say, with any validity at all, that I haven't.

00:14:21.220 They might not like the truth, but they can't say I haven't spoken it.

00:14:24.440 So, if he would have just, he could have put a stop to this in two seconds.

00:14:29.160 All he had to do was say, listen, I don't, you know, I don't necessarily agree with him

00:14:33.260 all the time, but he is entitled to, the people are a legitimate constituency.

00:14:39.100 They're entitled to have a shepherd.

00:14:40.780 And he is doing a great job shepherding them.

00:14:43.680 Whether you like it or not, then don't go to the parish.

00:14:46.040 Go somewhere else.

00:14:47.540 You know, I don't know if you noticed that.

00:14:49.020 There's this guy out in, I think it's Massachusetts.

00:14:52.400 He's not even Catholic.

00:14:53.760 He's some sort of a, I don't know, Anglican or Lutheran pastor.

00:14:56.740 And he's the head of this thing called Freedom America or Faith America or something like

00:15:01.800 that.

00:15:02.060 It's no more faithful than the Dalai Lama, right?

00:15:04.380 Like, not Christian. 1.00

00:15:05.960 And I understand, I have been told that it's just one of those George Soros-backed places,

00:15:11.020 right?

00:15:11.180 So on the page, they have a picture of me and like, make sure Bishop fires me or terminates

00:15:18.060 me or something like that.

00:15:18.800 And right next to it, I guess, is a picture of a transgender person who's there lauding 0.96

00:15:24.360 as being the first transgender Bishop.

00:15:27.280 Okay.

00:15:27.500 So, so you, right.

00:15:29.180 It's all you need to know, a picture's worth a thousand words to know they're not Catholic 1.00

00:15:33.240 and they're certainly not on our side.

00:15:34.800 So when you see that they started in the La Crosse Tribune says that they started this

00:15:39.620 grassroots petition to have me fired, basically.

00:15:44.160 I'm thinking, who cares about you?

00:15:46.380 What makes you think you even have a voice in the Catholic Church?

00:15:49.360 Nobody cares about you. 0.99

00:15:51.120 You're a bunch of left-wing fascists and cancel culture people. 0.99

00:15:56.780 And, and, and, and we know where you're coming from because you're lauding this person 0.98

00:16:01.080 that they, they're raving about this being a transgender Bishop.

00:16:03.680 So, uh, but I wish you would just stand up to them and say what I just said.

00:16:09.520 Listen, we're Catholic and we teach what the Catholic Church teaches unchanged, unchangeable.

00:16:15.820 And that's exactly what Father Altman is doing.

00:16:17.660 So go home, leave us alone.

00:16:20.900 Uh, just one, if one Bishop would just do that.

00:16:23.400 Well, you know who does Bishop Strickland?

00:16:25.560 Absolutely.

00:16:26.240 He does.

00:16:27.480 God loves him.

00:16:28.340 I was just about to mention.

00:16:29.080 Amazing.

00:16:29.500 Cause you know what?

00:16:29.980 The other 259 aren't exactly getting in his corner.

00:16:33.680 Yeah.

00:16:34.380 Wow.

00:16:34.720 What a brood of vipers. 0.98

00:16:36.280 Bishop Strickland just did something though, that is truly remarkable.

00:16:40.200 And I wanted to get your take on it because in the midst of this, in the midst of Bishop

00:16:45.120 Callahan, uh, publicly wanting to take you down.

00:16:49.780 Yes.

00:16:50.600 Bishop Strickland tweets out that he supports you right now, knowing full well, he's going

00:16:58.240 publicly against the brother Bishop, so-called.

00:17:01.260 Yes.

00:17:01.720 Yes.

00:17:02.400 Truly.

00:17:03.420 Anyway, I want to get your reaction.

00:17:05.100 Uh, what did, what did you think?

00:17:06.660 What did you say when you, when you saw the tweet from Bishop Strickland?

00:17:09.740 So, so I'm not on social media.

00:17:11.560 I think there might be an account out there somewhere, but I'm not somebody up in Minneapolis

00:17:16.200 set it up for me, but I, I don't even know how to, I don't even know how to get on it.

00:17:19.340 So, um, so people have to tell me when somebody does something and I'm driving up to a dentist

00:17:25.080 appointments and lo and behold, like I get these two different, I do get texts from people

00:17:30.800 who know my phone number and, uh, and they, they text, they, they sent in a, like that,

00:17:37.300 that, that thing that Bishop Strickland, I think it must be a Twitter or Facebook, something

00:17:42.060 he put on there very thing, those that very supportive thing.

00:17:45.540 And, and for the second time, cause he did it once before back in September, uh, just get

00:17:49.960 all, uh, I don't want to say emotional, but really kind of choked up and thinking there

00:17:53.820 some, you don't feel alone.

00:17:55.980 And that's the thing.

00:17:57.260 That's why, that's why people are listening to me around the globe.

00:17:59.820 They're, they're tired of feeling alone.

00:18:01.900 Their shepherd lets them down.

00:18:03.540 The priests aren't allowed to do be Catholic.

00:18:06.240 And, and they hear this voice of somebody who is expressing exactly how they're feeling.

00:18:10.640 This is a big mistake.

00:18:11.780 Every one of those 200 other 59 bishops are making.

00:18:14.600 And now apparently my own you, these people are a valid constituency.

00:18:19.280 You have abandoned them.

00:18:20.920 You have not taught them.

00:18:23.240 And, and, and, and then when somebody tries to, then you get all upset thinking, wow, no,

00:18:28.720 not Bishop Strickland.

00:18:29.820 I so deeply moved by what he did because, you know, he's the shepherd.

00:18:33.840 I will follow, right?

00:18:35.620 Cause he's not afraid to speak the truth.

00:18:37.400 You know, he came out and he said, I'm not taking any vaccine that came from an aborted 0.82

00:18:41.080 baby in any way, shape or form.

00:18:43.340 Right.

00:18:43.740 You didn't even get that out of Rome.

00:18:45.960 How dare they.

00:18:47.120 Right.

00:18:47.760 So, uh, he got immediate harassment because of it.

00:18:52.420 And did any of the other 259 bishops of this country, it's a rough number, um, stand up

00:18:58.360 and say, I back Bishop Strickland.

00:19:00.160 I believe exactly what Bishop Strickland said, because that is the Catholic way.

00:19:04.220 What about these other 259, roughly cowards who didn't take, get his back. 0.99

00:19:10.820 What a useless bunch of shepherds. 0.99

00:19:13.380 I mean, it's no wonder people are leaving the Catholic church in droves and they don't 1.00

00:19:16.340 get it.

00:19:16.740 Or maybe they do.

00:19:17.540 Cause they don't care because they don't believe they don't love the people.

00:19:21.880 If they love the people, they would tell them the truth.

00:19:23.980 Like Bishop Strickland did.

00:19:25.860 What kind of, you know what they did?

00:19:27.320 It's at what price of our soul, uh, are they willing to sell out all these people's souls

00:19:33.620 because they're afraid or won't, or don't believe in the truth?

00:19:38.220 Yeah.

00:19:38.420 You could get me going on that for a while.

00:19:40.040 That little question.

00:19:41.800 Well, with that, I think, go ahead.

00:19:45.020 Sorry.

00:19:45.400 I just think that's really key to why there's so many people who love you.

00:19:50.540 And so dearly because you're willing to say what the faithful know is the truth, which

00:19:58.740 they almost feel guilty for thinking or believing because no one says it.

00:20:03.840 So it seems like it's so alien now.

00:20:06.300 And yet it's the simple truth.

00:20:08.640 And it's, it's always funny to me to know your background because you're a very late vocation.

00:20:15.340 You were a lawyer for 12 years before becoming a priest.

00:20:19.260 Yeah.

00:20:19.380 And, um, you have been through the world around the block, uh, many times in, in terms of having

00:20:26.880 to deal with the garbage that's out there in the world.

00:20:30.380 So it is, is less surprising.

00:20:32.960 In fact, let me plug something else.

00:20:34.680 Uh, our video team did an incredible interview with you about, uh, you getting your vocation.

00:20:40.160 Totally beautiful.

00:20:41.020 Please go to lifesitenews.com and check out that video about, uh, Father Altman describing

00:20:46.520 his call to the priesthood.

00:20:47.780 Absolutely beautiful.

00:20:49.160 But Father, that is it.

00:20:52.080 The, the, the faithful love that you actually just say the faith without fear, without worrying

00:20:57.180 about being politically correct.

00:20:58.860 Like we never hear Bishop Strickland does that too.

00:21:03.260 Bishop Strickland does it.

00:21:04.800 He does.

00:21:06.000 And so, can I ask you, listen, I'm willing to be informed.

00:21:09.120 Does any other Bishop come out ahead of the curve and say like, say things like Bishop

00:21:15.080 Bishop Strickland.

00:21:16.500 So, you know, I mean, oh, after the election, we get the president of the USCCB and well,

00:21:21.340 maybe we, I'm a little bit concerned that Joe Biden has got these attitudes toward abortion.

00:21:27.940 Are you kidding me?

00:21:28.720 He's had it for 47 years, 48 now.

00:21:31.340 Don't come out after the fact and say, oh, I'm a bit concerned.

00:21:35.360 No, no way, buddy.

00:21:36.480 If you weren't, if you're concerned now, you should have been concerned in the first 47

00:21:40.440 years and you didn't do your job before the election.

00:21:44.000 That USCCB voter guide isn't worth, well, toilet paper, I guess in need, that'd be what

00:21:49.280 it's good for.

00:21:50.880 The way there's shortages, God knows.

00:21:54.020 Yeah.

00:21:54.200 Use the USCCB voter guide.

00:21:56.820 You run out.

00:21:58.680 Yeah.

00:21:58.880 No, it's, it's, unfortunately, it's very silent out there.

00:22:04.440 And Bishop Strickland, I would say in the United States, we have probably a dozen bishops who

00:22:10.740 speak out on the truth.

00:22:12.640 I was going to say 20.

00:22:14.840 Yeah.

00:22:15.500 You could even say 25.

00:22:16.920 The difficulty is that number has actually gone down since the lockdowns.

00:22:22.920 Something about this shutdown, cancel culture has, I think, cowed or made, you know, more

00:22:30.640 concerned a bunch of the good bishops who would normally have spoken out, who have gone

00:22:36.000 more silent, which is really sad.

00:22:40.300 Bishop Strickland, though, it is sort of, if anything, picked up.

00:22:46.780 Very much like you, Father, we got to know you during the lockdowns because my family

00:22:50.700 was looking for, when we were forced into a no mass situation, looking for mass online

00:22:55.900 and found you, thanks be to God.

00:22:59.080 Let us know what we can do from your opinion, you know, to help you, to support you.

00:23:05.040 All of us love you.

00:23:05.840 We pray for you every single day.

00:23:07.420 But tell us what we can do for you.

00:23:09.940 I think what you can do is you could, you can even support that priest near you.

00:23:14.840 It might be near, might be two hours away, who wants to speak and teach and serve them

00:23:23.760 like I try to do because they're picking this, you know, divide and conquer.

00:23:29.440 They're picking this off one by one, right?

00:23:31.660 Just like the one out in, where was it, Virginia?

00:23:36.460 Canestate is doing something to Mark White.

00:23:39.920 I hear Father Altier just got relocated.

00:23:42.600 There's, I know there's a couple in Texas.

00:23:44.260 There's one in Kansas.

00:23:46.420 They're picking this off one by one.

00:23:48.200 Let's all just silence this one.

00:23:50.420 I mean, there are 37,500 priests.

00:23:52.500 What do you care if one priest says, well, let's say I'm just close to the edge of, not

00:23:57.820 the fullness of the truth, which isn't true.

00:24:00.520 But who cares?

00:24:03.240 It's like the lesson of Gamaliel, right? 0.90

00:24:05.100 Listen, if he's not telling the truth, it's just going to die out.

00:24:08.460 The more you make him notorious, I should be thanking him.

00:24:12.420 I should be thanking him.

00:24:13.600 I said that before.

00:24:14.760 Thank you, La Crosse Tribune, because everybody had forgotten about me.

00:24:18.440 I was perfectly content.

00:24:19.980 I was more shocked than anybody that all of a sudden I show up on the front page of the

00:24:24.540 news two days in a row.

00:24:25.720 More shock.

00:24:26.240 So thank you, La Crosse Tribune, for spreading the message in a way I never could.

00:24:30.700 I wouldn't even know how.

00:24:32.020 So thank you, La Crosse Tribune.

00:24:34.340 Thank you, these other bishops who are against me that are afraid of the truth that I speak.

00:24:39.380 Thank you.

00:24:40.260 Hit me with your best shot.

00:24:41.500 You're only, watch this, they're only proving that I speak the truth when they try and shut

00:24:48.280 it down.

00:24:49.240 Isn't that something?

00:24:50.480 And they don't get it.

00:24:52.020 It's a Streisand effect.

00:24:53.380 Have you heard of that term before, the Streisand effect?

00:24:56.760 Well, you know who Barbara Streisand is?

00:24:58.400 She's so far left.

00:24:59.540 Yeah, you'd fall off the edge of the earth if it were flat.

00:25:02.680 Anyway, she got all upset about somebody had written some orthodox conservative book or

00:25:06.540 something like that.

00:25:07.060 So she went public and just ripped into it, right?

00:25:10.000 And what happened?

00:25:11.140 The sales went through the roof, because now everybody knew about it.

00:25:15.140 They wouldn't even have known about it until she opened her big mouth. 0.99

00:25:18.700 So same for me and for you.

00:25:21.140 And for, you know, they canceled you for crying out loud.

00:25:23.240 Look at how they've canceled you.

00:25:25.160 I mean, I'm small potatoes.

00:25:26.720 Look at you.

00:25:27.300 They can cancel you.

00:25:28.880 That's staggering to me.

00:25:30.700 And when the people of America didn't realize, left, right, I don't care where you are on

00:25:34.620 the political spectrum, when they can take down the president of the United States because

00:25:38.900 they don't like him, 140 million subscribers, that's as much as saying to those 140 million 1.00

00:25:44.620 subscribers, you're a loser. 1.00

00:25:46.560 You screw you. 1.00

00:25:47.980 You know, I just, I can't even imagine. 1.00

00:25:53.020 Look, like I said, look what they did to you.

00:25:54.900 Look at the struggles you've had to go through now, unnecessarily, because these left-wing 0.71

00:25:59.080 fascist Nazis, and that is what they are.

00:26:01.660 Listen, I've been studying this for 40 years. 0.93

00:26:03.840 That is exactly what they are.

00:26:06.480 They've hurt you.

00:26:07.520 How many other, Father Heilman, they put in Facebook jail, I don't know how many times.

00:26:12.000 They're taking us down, right?

00:26:14.020 And there will be no opposing voice of truth.

00:26:17.540 And all we will hear is the lie that they keep feeding us. 0.96

00:26:21.940 Complete fascist Nazi lie. 0.98

00:26:24.200 They are the real Nazis. 0.99

00:26:26.000 That's actually true.

00:26:27.840 Yeah.

00:26:28.340 Sorry.

00:26:28.740 Well, I hope I didn't go off them too far of a tangent, but I get worked out.

00:26:32.260 No, that's fine, Father.

00:26:34.140 One thing I'd like, final parting thought, just about the situation of the church right

00:26:39.600 now is very, very extreme while they are trying to shut you down.

00:26:45.780 And not only de-platform, because that's not the worst thing.

00:26:50.960 Deprive the faithful from hearing your voice.

00:26:53.760 Your own faithful in your local parish.

00:26:55.600 But the Lord has seen fit to broadcast you or make you sort of a flyover shepherd for many,

00:27:05.040 many faithful all over the world, really, who don't feel fed, who are starving.

00:27:10.420 Starving.

00:27:10.840 That's a word I hear.

00:27:11.640 I've heard from literally all the world.

00:27:14.180 And since this first started like a week or two ago, I've gotten maybe 800 letters or more

00:27:20.360 and more.

00:27:20.920 More come every day.

00:27:22.000 All over the world.

00:27:23.380 New Zealand, I think, was the furthest one away.

00:27:25.380 All saying that exact same thing.

00:27:26.580 We're starving.

00:27:27.340 Nobody's feeding us out here.

00:27:29.260 Like I said, what kind of father won't feed his child?

00:27:32.080 Yeah.

00:27:32.440 Yeah.

00:27:32.920 Anyway, sorry.

00:27:34.060 Did I interrupt you in the middle of your question?

00:27:36.240 No, that's great.

00:27:37.380 Well, let me say one last time.

00:27:39.440 I want to encourage people to go to lifepetitions.com, sign the petition for you, which we'll be making

00:27:44.500 very, very public.

00:27:45.740 Go to lifefunder.com and support you in your canonical suit, because that costs lots of money.

00:27:52.000 But call the bishop.

00:27:53.660 You can call Bishop Callahan at 608-788-7700, because that way, that's much harder to delete

00:28:01.940 like an email or throw in the trash bin like a letter.

00:28:05.160 Call and insist to speak to the bishop or leave a message for him.

00:28:09.100 But make sure you do that.

00:28:10.420 Very, very important.

00:28:11.900 Father, I need your parting thoughts and your parting blessing, if you wouldn't mind.

00:28:16.280 But what I have to keep reminding myself constantly, because I don't know if it's that I'm impatient

00:28:24.080 or I'm not faithful enough, but it's that Jesus is in the boat, right?

00:28:31.280 He's sleeping.

00:28:32.680 And I want him to wake up.

00:28:35.140 What did he ask the apostles when they woke him up?

00:28:37.840 He said, oh, you have little faith.

00:28:40.040 Why did you, you know, so I hope that I have enough faith.

00:28:43.360 Now, let's always remember that Jesus is in our boat.

00:28:46.160 He really is.

00:28:47.140 And he will wake up and he will take care of business in his time and in his way.

00:28:52.940 I'm just sort of impatient about it.

00:28:55.060 We all know there's absolute rot in the church.

00:28:59.460 And worse, they're in positions of power and they hate it when we call them out on it.

00:29:04.680 They never yet say, no, I'm not rot.

00:29:07.180 No, they just try to silence the voice that exposed them.

00:29:11.600 Listen, I'm not causing division.

00:29:13.080 They have caused a division.

00:29:14.720 I just talk about it.

00:29:17.140 So, so I did say before, I'll, I'll put a big red D on my chest.

00:29:20.960 Like a member in that hot Nathaniel Hawthorne novel of Hester Pryan, where she was a adulteress 1.00

00:29:26.540 the scarlet letter, right?

00:29:28.120 I'm going to put a scarlet D on my chest and I'm going to wear it proudly.

00:29:31.420 Jesus came to defy sheep from the goats, the life from the tooth. 0.82

00:29:35.000 And if we're not dividing, we're not doing our job.

00:29:37.260 So I wear the D proudly and we should, because if we're not, you know, one day we're going

00:29:43.580 to stand before that same Jesus and say, what'd you do?

00:29:46.600 Nothing.

00:29:48.220 So does that mean my final thought?

00:29:50.460 Remember, Jesus is in the boat with us and he'll wake up and he'll take care of business

00:29:54.420 in his time.

00:29:55.720 So then for a prayer, as always, we could call upon our blessed mother to intercede for

00:30:02.180 us.

00:30:02.500 Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone who fled to

00:30:07.240 thy protection, implored thy help or sought thy intercession was left unaided.

00:30:11.120 Inspired by this confidence, I fly into thee, O Virgin of virgins, my mother.

00:30:15.360 To thee do I come before thee, I stand sinful and sorrowful.

00:30:18.360 O mother of the word incarnate, despise not my petitions, but in thy mercy, hear and answer

00:30:22.700 me.

00:30:23.140 Amen.

00:30:24.060 Amen.

00:30:25.140 May the Lord be with you.

00:30:26.640 And with your spirit.

00:30:27.800 And may Almighty God bless you all, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

00:30:32.860 Amen.

00:30:33.820 Amen.

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00:30:41.240 Thank you.

00:30:41.800 We're praying for you and we'll support you.

00:30:43.820 And God bless all of you.

00:30:45.100 We'll see you next time.

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The John-Henry Westen Show - May 25, 2021

Fr. Altman responds after bishop dismisses him from parish

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