The John-Henry Westen Show - January 28, 2021


Fr. Mark Goring on Biden, Catholicism, and abortion-tainted vaccines

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abortion-tainted vaccines homosexuality in Catholicism
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Joe Biden Mark Carney Archbishop John C. Water Archbishop Schneider Athanasius Schneider Edward Weisenberger Cardinal Gregory Bishop Schneider Thomas Gumbleton Stephen Beigler Robert McElroy Dennis Madden James Martin Joseph Tobin Jesus Christ Virgin Mary John Stowe Isaiah Parler
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In this episode of The John Henry Weston Show, Father Mark Goring, a member of the Companions of the Cross, joins us to talk about the scandal that is Vice President Joe Biden and his relationship with the Catholic Church.

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00:00:00.900 Welcome to this episode of the John Henry Weston Show, where we are very pleased to bring you someone many of you will know, Father Mark Goring, a member of the Companions of the Cross, that great charismatic Catholic order, and he has his own YouTube channel, which is very, very well known.
00:00:19.340 And Father Mark, thank you so very much for being with us here on the John Henry Weston Show.
00:00:23.420 Good being with you, John Henry.
00:00:30.000 Let's begin, as we always do, with the sign of the cross. Father, if you wouldn't mind leading us, please.
00:00:47.580 In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Anything else?
00:00:53.300 Amen. Amen.
00:00:54.280 Just the sign of the cross, that's good. That's powerful.
00:00:57.640 That's how we started off.
00:01:00.000 Amen. Amen.
00:01:02.440 So, let's get right to it.
00:01:04.860 Things are absolutely crazy in the Catholic world, particularly in the United States, where I know you spent many, many years. 0.78
00:01:14.980 Let's talk about the Catholic president.
00:01:18.580 I mean, having a Catholic president could be an awesome thing. 0.96
00:01:21.480 It's the, you know, the most powerful country in the world.
00:01:24.040 It's the world stage.
00:01:26.080 And to have a Catholic president could have been a really awesome thing. 0.81
00:01:29.200 But what we have in President Biden is something very, very different.
00:01:34.200 Why don't you give me, first of all, your take on President Biden and especially with regard to his faith?
00:01:41.560 Yeah.
00:01:41.880 I mean, it's an unfortunate tragedy and scandal.
00:01:45.820 I mean, it's wonderful that there's a Catholic president.
00:01:49.600 But we would want him to be standing for Catholic truths.
00:01:57.660 You know, we know that he's pushing for the expansion of abortion.
00:02:02.380 We know that he doesn't uphold the Catholic understanding, the biblical understanding, the natural law understanding of marriage.
00:02:12.040 You know, he's not willing to take care of those poor sisters, you know.
00:02:16.180 Who are they?
00:02:16.880 The sisters of the poor.
00:02:18.760 Sisters of the poor.
00:02:20.000 Yeah.
00:02:20.480 And so it's just so discouraging.
00:02:24.380 It's heartbreaking that he's not standing up for these Catholic values, these Catholic truths.
00:02:34.620 It just causes my head to spin, you know, like how can we be calling him a Catholic and many people upholding him as a, you know, as an example of a devout Catholic when he's not standing up for Catholic truth?
00:02:52.140 Mm-hmm.
00:02:53.520 Absolutely.
00:02:54.360 One of the things that is said of Biden is that he carries a rosary in his pocket.
00:02:58.960 We were also told by Cardinal Gregory, even from Rome, when he was made a cardinal just recently, that he would not be forbidding Biden from receiving Holy Communion, that he would, in fact, administer Holy Communion to him.
00:03:12.540 Your stance on that, I know, is very different.
00:03:15.300 Why would you even dare to refuse Holy Communion, even to the President of the United States, who says he's a Catholic and carries a rosary in his pocket?
00:03:27.320 Yeah, well, I mean, what I always say is, like, listen, what they taught us in the seminary was very simple.
00:03:34.460 If someone is involved in public scandal, they need to repent publicly before you can give them Holy Communion.
00:03:43.920 I mean, our church speaks a lot about dialogue, and I think it's time we have a little dialogue about giving Holy Communion to politicians who are doing things that directly contradict God's law.
00:04:00.900 Like you said, the expansion of abortion, I mean, it's one of those things, John Henry.
00:04:06.980 I mean, I think you and I were both, you know, very pro-life.
00:04:10.460 But, I mean, I have to admit, if a Catholic politician would kind of say, well, listen, you know, I'm Catholic, but I'm not going to be aggressively getting in the way of preventing women from having abortions because everyone wants it.
00:04:30.660 There's not much I can do about it.
00:04:32.140 I mean, to me, it's like, it's not ideal, but it's like, I can understand that.
00:04:39.420 But when a Catholic politician is aggressively expanding abortion and, you know, seeing to it that the United States funds abortions in other countries and things like that, like, to me, it's scandalous.
00:04:56.520 It's an embarrassment to the Catholic Church. 0.96
00:05:00.520 We all have friends who are Christian, non-Catholic Christians, and they ask us, they say, why is this happening?
00:05:09.440 Like, he's Catholic.
00:05:10.680 Why don't the church authorities do something about this?
00:05:14.620 How can the Catholic Church let a Catholic leader get away with this stuff without even challenging him?
00:05:24.120 And, you know, some people say, well, he should be excommunicated.
00:05:29.520 And I don't know, like, maybe they're right, but I know, for example, you know, the archbishop in this diocese, the former archbishop in this diocese, regarding our own leader in Canada, who's Catholic, but also, you know, pushes for abortion.
00:05:44.120 For abortion, what he simply did was to make it clear that he is not to present himself to receive Holy Communion.
00:05:55.180 And, you know, that's not as radical as, you know, excommunicating him or going on a verbal rampage against him.
00:06:04.600 I mean, I don't know, maybe our leaders don't have to be that radical, but if they can at least do like the very, the excellent archbishop who was here previously did.
00:06:15.940 He made it clear publicly, you know, when journalists asked him that, no, a politician who is working for the expansion of abortion cannot present himself to receive Holy Communion.
00:06:29.820 To me, it's a no brainer. And it's right now, it's a scandal in a church. And in our church, we talk a lot about dialogue. Why don't we have a dialogue about this?
00:06:39.620 This would be a great thing for us to dialogue about. Why the heck, you know, is someone like, and it's not only, you know, the president of the United States, there are other Catholic, you know, high ranking politicians who are in the exact same boat.
00:06:53.980 They're doing the exact same thing. And, and again, we don't need to start throwing stones at these people, but something as simple as to say, they cannot present themselves to receive Holy Communion would do a huge help would be a huge help in terms of providing clarity to Catholics on where we stand as Catholics.
00:07:17.900 And isn't it even part of church teaching and scriptural that the notion to even excommunicate a Catholic is actually an act of charity? It's for their own good, is it not?
00:07:30.920 Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I mean, the thing is, we love President Biden. We want to see him spend all of eternity in heaven. We want to see him succeed. We want to see him do good. And to affirm his going along with these things, or to just ignore it.
00:07:52.180 We're not doing him, we're not doing him any service. We're not doing the countless Catholics who do look up to him as an example of a good Catholic. We're not helping anybody by pretending there's nothing wrong, you know?
00:08:10.160 And again, and again, I want to reiterate, I'm not saying we should be throwing stones at him, or again, go out on a, you know, intense verbal attack against him. No, but to simply give clarity to Catholics that he is not a Catholic in good standing. 0.84
00:08:29.260 He should not present himself to receive the Holy Eucharist until he publicly repents of advancing abortion. 1.00
00:08:44.820 Absolutely. Absolutely. You've also been discussing on your show and with, I saw you had a neat interview with Archbishop Schneider, or excuse me, with Bishop Schneider, Athanasius Schneider,
00:08:56.380 about the COVID vaccine and what to do about abortion tainted vaccines, particularly now that this seems to being forced on the planet.
00:09:07.700 I know they're saying, oh, it's not going to be forced, not going to be forced, but they're suggesting, you know, if you need to travel or you need to do anything, you really need to have the vaccine.
00:09:17.260 In fact, we are already reporting on nurses who are being fired for not accepting the vaccine, even nursing students who are being let go from their programs with it because they're, they're not taking the COVID vaccine.
00:09:30.240 So what, what have you thought about, or what do you feel with regard to abortion tainted vaccines and this mandate right now?
00:09:39.700 Yeah, like, like many of our good bishops are saying, I mean, I have nothing against vaccines.
00:09:46.240 I've, you know, I've taken vaccines over the years.
00:09:51.600 Vaccines apparently can be good, save lives.
00:09:54.640 So, you know, nothing against vaccines in and of themselves.
00:09:58.100 I mean, the two big concerns about, well, I guess three, the three big concerns about the COVID vaccines is, number one, they are rushed.
00:10:08.240 You know, like I, I just personally would be very nervous about taking a rushed vaccines.
00:10:15.420 They're already starting to report some problems, you know, or some people who've had negative side effects with, with the vaccines.
00:10:24.220 I know your, your site, LifeSite News has been kind of mentioning some of these.
00:10:28.680 I mean, I don't think the mainstream media is too keen on covering these things.
00:10:34.080 So thank you for, for doing that at LifeSite.
00:10:36.540 So that's the first thing, just, you know, it's, it's a rushed vaccine.
00:10:40.120 You know, people are so afraid of COVID, including young people who are in the category of, of really, you know, not,
00:10:49.420 they, they shouldn't be worried about themselves, you know, dying of COVID compared to, you know, other types of things,
00:10:58.560 but they're, people are so afraid of COVID and yet they're not afraid to take a rushed vaccine.
00:11:06.420 That doesn't make much sense to me.
00:11:08.700 And, and I, you know, again, I want to highlight that I'm not saying we should simply dismiss COVID.
00:11:13.060 It's something we should be taking seriously and we should, you know, be responsible and taking proper care,
00:11:19.160 especially for our, our, our, our older people.
00:11:22.260 So that's the first thing is that it's rushed.
00:11:24.120 The second thing, many of the vaccines are tainted in some way with, with abortion.
00:11:29.900 And I mean, I, I do defer to, you know, my Bishop and the Conference of Bishops and the Vatican on this one,
00:11:39.900 but my personal things, I, I, I just, my conscience would never allow me to take a vaccine that's tainted with abortion.
00:11:50.440 I really, the Lord has given me a special revelation of how much he loves every child, including a child that in the womb.
00:12:03.420 There's the scripture in Isaiah where the Lord says, even if a mother should forget her child, I will never forget you.
00:12:10.080 And, you know, the, the, the, the children who, who, whose lives were taken, um, and then their, their cells used for vaccines.
00:12:21.200 We, we might have forgotten those children, but God never forgets, you know, the, in his great love.
00:12:28.060 And so, um, again, it's, it's people, people can, can make their own decisions on that.
00:12:34.680 But, um, I think it's foolish to put all of our hope in the pharmaceutical companies to, to fix the world's problems.
00:12:45.000 Um, again, pharmaceutical companies do a lot of good, but we've turned away from God.
00:12:53.260 That's the problem.
00:12:54.720 It's, it's not, um, you know, uh, the latest virus or, or, or whatever else.
00:13:01.820 It's, uh, mankind needs to turn back to God and, and, and repent, you know, and make God the center of our lives again.
00:13:09.620 So, and then the third thing with the, the COVID.
00:13:12.100 So the first one is it's rushed.
00:13:13.420 The second one is those that are tainted with, with, with abortion. 0.74
00:13:18.040 I, again, I, I, I have serious concerns about, and including the Vatican.
00:13:22.200 I mean, the Vatican says, um, you can take one that is tainted with, um, abortion.
00:13:29.340 If there's no other alternatives.
00:13:31.080 And I think so many people say, well, there you go.
00:13:33.680 There's no problem.
00:13:34.340 Well, that's not, that's not what it says.
00:13:36.640 And so we're, we so easily just kind of give into, to this.
00:13:41.840 Um, I forget what my third one was, John Henry.
00:13:45.600 I lost track.
00:13:46.320 If it comes to me, I'll come up with it later.
00:13:47.900 Sorry about that.
00:13:49.240 Very good.
00:13:49.600 No problem.
00:13:50.140 No problem.
00:13:50.820 There's also something very concerning happening.
00:13:53.200 Um, and it relates to a larger question.
00:13:55.520 And the, the larger question, it's always been there for the past, even over 50 years
00:14:00.600 now, is the question of homosexuality.
00:14:03.440 It's a, it's a difficult problem because unlike with, uh, the abortion question, the, the,
00:14:08.320 we don't see the same kind of victimhood.
00:14:10.940 Um, you, you have what they call consenting adults and so on, or consenting to, to consenting
00:14:16.460 people doing whatever, whatever.
00:14:18.000 Um, the case is always made, well, if these two guys love each other, why can't, uh, you
00:14:22.220 know, they get married, it's, uh, you're, you're supposed to be for love, not against
00:14:25.980 love.
00:14:26.820 And this is now creeping, not so slowly anymore, creeping into the church.
00:14:32.340 Um, just yesterday, there was a major announcement from eight U.S. Catholic bishops.
00:14:38.500 I'm just going to read it out here.
00:14:40.160 Um, one of them actually is a cardinal.
00:14:42.200 Um, they've signed on to partnership with a pro-homosexual advocacy group.
00:14:46.480 Um, and, uh, basically they tell LGBT youth that God is on your side. 0.83
00:14:53.920 Um, they say, and I'll, I'll quote it for you.
00:14:56.460 It's the Tyler Clemente foundation that they've signed up to.
00:15:00.440 Um, they say that all people of goodwill should help support and defend LGBT youth who attempt
00:15:08.060 suicide at much higher rates than their straight counterparts who are often homeless because
00:15:13.300 of families who reject them, who are rejected and bullied and harassed, who are the target
00:15:17.800 of violent acts, uh, at alarming rates.
00:15:21.760 And all of that part, of course, is fine.
00:15:24.300 But then they add that the Catholic church values God, the God-given dignity of all human
00:15:31.580 life, which is again, true.
00:15:33.380 And they say, we take this opportunity to say to our LGBT friends.
00:15:38.140 Um, and of course there's a, there's a problem with identifying people as their sexual orientation.
00:15:43.540 Nonetheless, um, they say, especially young people that we stand with you and oppose any 0.98
00:15:48.320 form of violence, bullying, harassment directed at you.
00:15:51.440 Now, of course, that part, the part of, of, uh, standing with them to oppose any violence
00:15:57.600 or bullying or harassment directed against them.
00:15:59.400 Again, all of that is, uh, is, is fine and good, but they say, most of all, know that God
00:16:06.680 created you, God loves you, and God is on your side.
00:16:09.440 And in saying that, and, and of course, uh, Father James Martin is so much into this, they,
00:16:16.960 they have this belief that God created them homosexual and that they are to value this 0.74
00:16:23.820 orientation.
00:16:24.480 Um, it's signed by Cardinal Joseph Tobin, uh, Archbishop John C. Water from Santa Fe, Bishop
00:16:32.660 Robert McElroy from San Diego, Edward Weisingerber from the Diocese of Tucson, John Stowe from Lexington
00:16:39.620 Diocese, Stephen Beigler from Cheyenne, uh, the former Bishop Thomas Gumbleton from Detroit,
00:16:45.820 and also Dennis Madden of, uh, the Archdiocese of Baltimore.
00:16:50.680 So, uh, very serious, uh, you know, questions coming now in the church about homosexuality and
00:16:58.220 what, you know, we are able to do, uh, with, uh, the question of homosexuality.
00:17:04.600 No doubt all Catholics, uh, are opposed to violence and harassment, uh, directed at those
00:17:11.220 who, uh, have a sexual orientation or who feel they have, uh, an inclination towards same
00:17:17.360 sex sexual behavior, uh, which of course needs to be fought.
00:17:20.300 But how do we suss this out?
00:17:23.100 How do we as Catholics present that we do indeed love people who may have this inclination toward
00:17:30.380 homosexuality, but at the same time, uh, disagree with the behavior.
00:17:35.140 In fact, knowing that it leads, can lead to eternal perdition.
00:17:38.800 Um, yeah, that's, that's a big question.
00:17:44.620 Um, I mean, like, like you're saying, we, we certainly are glad to see people in the church
00:17:49.880 ministering to people who are dealing with same sex attraction.
00:17:54.300 Um, I, I know, you know, the priests in this diocese, other people who, you know, they're,
00:18:00.820 they're, they're caring for those people in a particular way.
00:18:03.180 I think that's great.
00:18:04.080 You know, I, I support that a hundred percent.
00:18:06.700 And if we look at some of the non-Catholic, um, Christian denominations, we see many of
00:18:13.580 them have split over the question of homosexuality.
00:18:18.760 And, um, you know, some of them have whatever lesbian bishops who are in a so-called same 1.00
00:18:28.260 sex marriage.
00:18:29.120 And, you know, I think we're living at a time when there's a lot of confusion in the area
00:18:39.440 of, of sexuality and the Catholic church has to maintain her clarity.
00:18:49.060 And, and I think a lot of our, our, our young people from such a young age are exposed to
00:18:58.060 so much, um, hyper-sexualized content in the movies they watch and the video games they
00:19:05.160 play and what they're looking at on the internet and so on.
00:19:07.720 The music they listen to that, um, so many of them, their, their sexuality is becoming real
00:19:19.060 disintegrated from a young age and there's a lot of confusion.
00:19:21.800 And so I think the Catholic church has to maintain its, its, its clarity and also it's, it's calling,
00:19:33.080 you know, we're, we're called to be holy.
00:19:35.300 We're called to be virtuous.
00:19:37.400 We're called to be chaste.
00:19:38.960 We're called to look to the blessed Virgin Mary and to St.
00:19:41.680 Joseph as models.
00:19:43.800 Um, men are called to be fathers and husbands, unless there's, you know, specifically called
00:19:49.680 to, to, to a consecrated life.
00:19:51.740 Women have the wonderful dignity of, of one day being mothers, of having children, if
00:19:56.820 that's God's will for them.
00:19:58.560 And, you know, Hollywood doesn't promote a Catholic biblical understanding of sexuality
00:20:07.560 and marriage and manhood and womanhood and fatherhood and, and motherhood.
00:20:13.620 And anytime I see leaders in the Catholic church, so confusion in the area of, of sexuality, in
00:20:24.280 the area of family, uh, manhood, fatherhood, motherhood, all that, it just, I, I, sometimes
00:20:31.200 I ask myself like, okay, what's, what, what's their end game?
00:20:36.680 Like, do they want the Catholic church to go in the same way that so many of these Protestant 1.00
00:20:42.560 denominations have gone where we're blessing same sex unions, we have, you know, lesbian
00:20:49.100 bishops and all of this kind of thing.
00:20:50.860 I think Germany is the most concerning, you know, part of the world in terms of the Catholic 1.00
00:20:56.160 church, like what, what they're kind of pushing for is, you know, it's, it's, it's kind of
00:21:03.440 concerning.
00:21:04.260 So, yeah, I mean, I, I, we'll see how all of this plays out.
00:21:09.780 But yeah, definitely the, the stance though of the, of the church, um, I guess it's, it's,
00:21:17.440 you could say it's somewhat similar to what we were talking about earlier with regard to
00:21:22.160 the, um, stance of love towards Catholics like Joe Biden, which would even go to the
00:21:28.840 extent of perhaps, uh, excommunicating him so as to bring him back into the fold.
00:21:33.660 The stance of the church with regard to homosexuality in that we want to present the truth about
00:21:39.460 the harmfulness to body and soul of, uh, of, uh, homosexual behaviors needs to be there 1.00
00:21:46.560 so that those inclined to such behaviors are, are, uh, you know, fully aware of where, not
00:21:53.240 only where the church stands, what, what's good for them indeed.
00:21:56.020 Um, and I guess it's kind of the same as for all of us who are inclined to different sins
00:22:01.040 of any nature, but also sexual nature.
00:22:03.360 Most, uh, heterosexual men, uh, period are, are inclined toward sexual behavior outside
00:22:09.820 of, of where they should be.
00:22:11.560 If it's a married man, uh, you know, with, with his wife or, uh, if it's, if it's a priest
00:22:16.380 to a celibate life.
00:22:17.600 Um, so we all have those temptations, but, uh, you know, to, to have that understanding
00:22:22.700 of the grave sin involved in going against your calling that way, um, is, is both necessary
00:22:31.100 and charitable.
00:22:33.600 Yeah.
00:22:34.340 And there's, there's something to, uh, I think really diabolical in our time.
00:22:39.860 Um, just again, the killing of children in the womb, the confusion in, in the area of
00:22:47.420 sexuality, the, the, the rejection of God and, and godly things like, I, I, I just think
00:22:55.180 it's a time for Catholics to, to wake up to, to eternity, to wake up to the gospel of our
00:23:04.300 Lord Jesus Christ and to, uh, to, to really not, uh, not compromised, not, not get caught
00:23:10.900 up.
00:23:11.180 Like it's, it's almost like the whole world we're living at a time when the whole world
00:23:15.160 is just getting caught in a drift.
00:23:16.980 We're just all drifting away from, from natural law.
00:23:22.280 We're drifting away from God.
00:23:24.520 Um, I mean, in, in, in the period of, of a few years, we've become so radically secularized
00:23:34.120 that so much of the world of Hollywood, the sports world, the, the government leaders,
00:23:41.040 um, the, the, the, the leaders in the, in the high tech companies, so many different
00:23:47.160 areas, like they don't want to hear anything about God and his laws and his truth.
00:23:53.560 There's a rejection of science, you know, people, sometimes the left keeps saying, oh,
00:23:59.060 you know, uh, science, science, but you know, why the heck aren't they listening to science
00:24:03.540 or taking science seriously?
00:24:05.120 So, I mean, I think we're living in apocalyptic, apocalyptic times, John Henry.
00:24:10.840 I think that, um, we're going to experience possibly more hardships in this world, um, because
00:24:19.320 of how far we're, we're drifting away from God.
00:24:23.060 And so it really is a time to, um, call people to, to repentance.
00:24:27.880 And, uh, yeah, it's kind of, we're seeing some scary stuff, you know, the, the purging
00:24:34.500 of conservative voices in such an unapologetic way.
00:24:38.700 I mean, I know you're aware of all of these things, uh, but I think, I think Catholics,
00:24:44.960 faithful Catholics, we, we, we need to, to, to get ready.
00:24:48.500 I mean, things, things could get a lot worse before they get better.
00:24:50.980 I hope I'm wrong.
00:24:51.820 I really hope I'm, I'm wrong on this one, but, uh, it's, it's pretty crazy.
00:24:56.620 Yeah, where can we anchor ourselves?
00:24:59.720 Because as you say, that the confusion is staggering.
00:25:03.520 The, the, uh, good is evil and evil is good.
00:25:08.560 Prophecy has been fulfilled in spades.
00:25:10.820 As you were saying, they're not paying attention to science, yet they claim we're not paying
00:25:14.420 attention to science, but you can't call a biological man, a male, uh, without being
00:25:19.780 censured.
00:25:20.300 We were just kicked off our YouTube channels for that very thing.
00:25:23.420 Um, and, but the arguments also on the other side for, uh, the LGBT youth needing safe spaces.
00:25:31.420 And, and if these two guys love each other, how come they can't get married?
00:25:34.500 Are you against love?
00:25:35.420 And it's a woman's right to choose. 1.00
00:25:37.440 And, uh, you know, are, are you wanting to go back to coat hangers?
00:25:40.140 Aren't you for women's freedom? 1.00
00:25:41.380 Aren't you for women's rights? 0.99
00:25:42.520 Aren't you for, you know, protection of women?
00:25:44.520 And, and are you going to dictate your morality on them?
00:25:47.560 Well, these arguments are confusing.
00:25:50.020 We're, we're awash in confusion and Catholics even meaning well, it's hard to, to keep a
00:25:57.580 straight line.
00:25:58.320 It's hard for a lot of us to, to like see the bombardment of, um, impurity that comes to
00:26:05.260 us through our screens, through our phones, through everything right now and, and everywhere
00:26:08.600 you look and yet maintain a straight line because the, the line is so obscured by this tidal
00:26:15.660 wave of, uh, impurity everywhere in terms of thought and everything else.
00:26:20.280 How are we to ground ourselves right now?
00:26:22.920 Yeah.
00:26:23.100 Well, I mean, like, like you're saying, I think the most important thing is just, just
00:26:26.920 to recognize the expression I use is how, how much this world has gone bonkers, you know?
00:26:33.180 And, and, you know, the image I use is everyone's familiar with the analogy of the frog that's
00:26:37.340 put in warm water.
00:26:38.600 The heat is turned up and the frog doesn't realize it, but it's about to boil to death.
00:26:43.460 And I really believe we're at this point now in, in the world where so many people who just
00:26:51.980 allow themselves to go the way of the world, um, are, are about to boil to death.
00:26:58.260 They're about to die spiritually and, and lose their eternal salvation.
00:27:02.200 And there's also been, you know, uh, church approved Marian apparitions that have spoken
00:27:09.660 very clearly about our times.
00:27:12.500 You know, many people are familiar with the apparitions of our lady of Kibeho in Rwanda.
00:27:17.700 And, um, you know, our lady said that the world is, is, um, humanity is, is approaching
00:27:26.200 a precipice.
00:27:27.280 You know, we're about to, you know, to fall into an abyss the way we're going.
00:27:31.700 And also, um, the, the approved apparitions in Argentina, our lady of St.
00:27:37.080 Nicholas, um, in Argent or the Holy Rosary in Argentina, she says, we're living at a time
00:27:43.580 similar to the time of Noah's Ark.
00:27:46.820 And the, the world has become flooded with an, an atheistic secularism.
00:27:58.720 Our, our, our young people have just been swept away with the, the godless ideologies
00:28:06.960 of our time.
00:28:08.120 We've been caught up in the, um, temptations and excitement and, and, and vanities of, of
00:28:14.960 the world and we've abandoned God.
00:28:19.160 We're embarrassed to, to, to identify ourselves as God's children.
00:28:24.100 We don't turn to God.
00:28:25.360 We've turned, we've turned religion into such a private matter that we never want to speak
00:28:31.400 publicly about.
00:28:32.260 And, and we're rejecting God's commands.
00:28:34.560 We're, we're, we're being enticed and seduced, uh, by the devil.
00:28:38.760 We're being deceived by the devil.
00:28:40.260 And again, we're seeing, we're losing our young people in, in Catholicism, in Christianity, 0.99
00:28:45.440 we're using our young people.
00:28:46.940 So again, I really think these are apocalyptic times.
00:28:50.000 I think it's important to, um, proclaim the gospel without compromise.
00:28:55.020 And unfortunately, part of that is, you know, challenging even people in the church who are,
00:29:02.300 um, promoting the spirit of the age.
00:29:05.280 And, and there are, there are those who, who are doing that.
00:29:08.740 And, and this is, um, this is something we need to, to, to, to speak out against.
00:29:16.620 Absolutely.
00:29:17.200 Father.
00:29:18.080 Well, Father, that's, uh, that is very great of you.
00:29:20.600 Thank you so very much for being with us on the John Henry Weston show.
00:29:23.440 Are you able to give us a final blessing as we part?
00:29:26.300 I'd be glad to do that in the name of the father and of the son of the Holy spirit.
00:29:30.560 Amen.
00:29:31.660 Heavenly father, pour out your grace, pour out your blessing upon us.
00:29:34.520 Lord, give us joy.
00:29:35.960 Help us to be lights in this world of darkness.
00:29:38.900 Lord, help us to, um, just, just set this world on fire by our faith, by our hope.
00:29:45.780 Um, Lord, help us to, uh, just proclaim your word with boldness, with the same boldness St. Paul had,
00:29:55.640 with the same boldness of St. John the Baptist and, and all the saints throughout the ages.
00:30:00.900 I pray, Lord, a blessing on, on those who are persecuted because of their faith.
00:30:06.460 And I ask you, Lord, to, to make us strong, even in this time of trial and blessed mother, watch over us.
00:30:11.500 And may almighty God bless you, the father, the son, and the Holy spirit and remain with you forever.
00:30:16.340 Amen.
00:30:17.060 Amen.
00:30:17.420 Thank you so very much, Father Mark.
00:30:19.940 Great being with you on this episode of the John Henry Weston show.
00:30:23.820 My pleasure.
00:30:24.700 Thank you.
00:30:25.500 And God bless all of you.
00:30:26.640 We'll see you next time.
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