The John-Henry Westen Show - February 26, 2025


GAY Anime Vatican Jubilee Mascot？ IVF Jewelry Madness


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When you replace reverence with commercialism, and sacred beauty, with sort of childish gimmicks, you invite mockery. The Vatican's official mascot has spiraled into a full-blown internet phenomenon, complete with sacrilegious means and also with a meme coin. Yep, the Vatican's mascot is now a cryptocurrency. And in addition to that, a jewelry company making jewelry from human embryos.

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00:00:00.000 When you replace reverence with commercialism and sacred beauty with sort of childish gimmicks,
00:00:06.360 you invite mockery.
00:00:09.900 Welcome to the John Hunter Rustin Show, where we bring you the truth that the mainstream media
00:00:14.220 just won't touch. And today, my friends, we have two stories that are so bizarre,
00:00:20.220 so you might say surreal, that you'd think we're making them up, except we're not.
00:00:25.600 First up, we are talking about the Vatican's official Jubilee Year mascot,
00:00:30.000 which has now spiraled into a full-blown internet sort of phenomenon,
00:00:35.760 complete with sacrilegious means and also with a meme coin.
00:00:41.680 Yep, the Vatican's mascot is now a cryptocurrency.
00:00:45.800 In addition to that, there's also something very, very bizarre.
00:00:49.320 There is a jewelry company making jewelry from human embryos,
00:00:56.680 putting human embryos into rings and pendants and necklaces and so on.
00:01:03.320 This is bizarre stuff, but that's what we're dealing with today.
00:01:07.320 Let's begin as we always do at the side of the cross.
00:01:09.500 In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.
00:01:12.560 Amen.
00:01:14.240 Check out this image.
00:01:15.880 So what are we looking at?
00:01:17.080 We're looking at Pope Francis holding up the Eucharist,
00:01:20.480 a consecration at Mass, with the image doctored to remove the body of Christ
00:01:25.320 and replace it with the Vatican's official Jubilee mascot.
00:01:30.020 That, my friends, is sacrilege.
00:01:32.400 It's outrageous.
00:01:33.640 But it is everywhere on social media,
00:01:37.020 and it stems from the Vatican's choice of mascot designer Simone Lengo,
00:01:42.580 whose anti-Catholic record was plain for all to see
00:01:45.880 before he was selected for this role.
00:01:49.280 His company, Tiki Doki, has previously endorsed LGBT pride,
00:01:55.500 selling pride-themed merchandise,
00:01:57.840 such as digital wallpapers, art, and hats on its website.
00:02:01.180 So, believe it or not, this is the official mascot for the 2025 Jubilee year.
00:02:08.180 It's an anime-type figure, complete with its, you know,
00:02:11.880 the typical sort of immodesty characteristic of anime.
00:02:15.780 And the Vatican unveiled it with much fanfare back in the day.
00:02:21.260 And perhaps it, let's say they expected, some people hoped, I guess,
00:02:26.600 it would be kind of a charming symbol of faith and unity.
00:02:29.780 Here's Archbishop Rino Fisichella holding up the mascot.
00:02:33.500 But the mascot is now totally out of control.
00:02:37.180 And I was alerted to this by Italian reporter Dr. Andre Sianci.
00:02:43.300 And there has been a meme explosion on social media about this mascot.
00:02:50.060 It's twisted what was already a controversial mascot
00:02:53.340 into every sort of sacrilegious and irreverent
00:02:56.780 and all of that that you can imagine.
00:02:59.320 Look at this.
00:03:00.000 The mascot has been photoshopped into everything from Freemasonic symbolism
00:03:04.760 to bizarre transhumanist mock-ups.
00:03:08.220 And honestly, the Vatican has no one but itself to blame.
00:03:12.380 When you replace reverence with commercialism and sacred beauty
00:03:16.600 with sort of childish gimmicks, you invite mockery.
00:03:20.360 And now, incredibly, this thing has gone so viral
00:03:24.520 that people have actually turned it into a cryptocurrency, a meme coin.
00:03:29.100 There is now an actual cryptocurrency named after the Vatican mascot.
00:03:33.320 And there is a sacrilegious promotion of this as well.
00:03:37.420 Watch.
00:03:37.740 To me, anyway, seems to be the natural consequence
00:03:54.480 of treating sacred things like corporate branding.
00:03:58.340 The church's leaders have been trying to be relevant or hip or marketable
00:04:04.420 instead of being shepherds of souls.
00:04:07.060 And what's the result?
00:04:07.780 The world isn't taking them more seriously.
00:04:10.660 They're laughing at them.
00:04:12.280 The official mascot is up all over the place,
00:04:15.520 on churches and stadiums.
00:04:17.840 But all over social media, this mascot has become a joke.
00:04:21.840 And worse than that, it's become an instrument of sacrilege,
00:04:25.920 as you can see with these examples.
00:04:28.180 The Vatican actually had every opportunity
00:04:31.440 to commission something that would inspire souls
00:04:34.360 and elevate the faithful.
00:04:35.840 And instead, they chose an artist
00:04:37.500 whose work undermines the very foundations of Catholic teaching.
00:04:42.940 And now, the faithful are left to watch
00:04:45.660 as the Jubilee mascot is twisted into a tool for internet mockery.
00:04:51.160 All the while, its creator continues to push an agenda
00:04:54.780 at odds with church teaching.
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00:05:29.280 The faithful do not need cartoon mascots.
00:05:32.480 We need the truth.
00:05:33.740 We need reverence.
00:05:34.740 We need the sacred.
00:05:36.840 The Vatican must return to its true mission,
00:05:40.500 saving souls, not selling out to pop culture.
00:05:44.360 And until that happens,
00:05:46.200 we must continue to be voices crying out in the wilderness,
00:05:50.020 calling for the restoration of Catholicism.
00:05:53.960 But as we've seen so often,
00:05:56.560 secular culture is downstream from the church.
00:05:59.380 And when the church leadership loses it,
00:06:01.820 secular culture follows.
00:06:03.860 But it's at an accelerated pace of evil.
00:06:08.640 LifeSite reporter Calvin Freiberger
00:06:10.560 covered this story of a specialty jeweler
00:06:14.360 that offers to incorporate organic tissue,
00:06:18.140 including frozen embryos,
00:06:20.380 into its products.
00:06:22.980 Blossom Keepsake says on its official website,
00:06:26.580 I'm going to show it to you, watch this,
00:06:28.100 that it specializes in keepsakes
00:06:30.180 using unused IVF embryos,
00:06:33.960 and it says that are destined to be destroyed,
00:06:37.500 to provide families with a way
00:06:39.140 to honor and cherish the journey
00:06:41.540 they have taken to bring life into the world.
00:06:45.160 Obviously, they have no clue
00:06:46.660 what they're dealing with.
00:06:47.960 When you create embryos,
00:06:49.860 they are human life
00:06:50.780 because human life begins at conception.
00:06:53.640 So this company purports to believe
00:06:56.500 that every life is precious
00:06:58.100 and deserves to be celebrated.
00:07:00.200 Well, then they wouldn't be offering
00:07:02.360 to take the embryos that you create 0.80
00:07:05.140 and when you move them to them, 1.00
00:07:08.140 kill them, by the way, 1.00
00:07:09.880 which is why, and they say 1.00
00:07:12.260 they carefully handle each embryo
00:07:14.780 with the utmost care and respect.
00:07:16.820 Well, first of all,
00:07:17.860 by the time they get them,
00:07:19.360 unless they're still in a frozen state,
00:07:20.640 which means they're still alive,
00:07:22.520 they're handling dead embryos.
00:07:24.980 But even in that case,
00:07:27.800 embryos are people too, by the way,
00:07:32.060 and they deserve a proper burial.
00:07:34.560 So they don't.
00:07:36.560 They make them somehow into jewelry.
00:07:40.880 They incorporate them into jewelry.
00:07:42.720 You can take a look at this photo.
00:07:44.160 And, you know, it's on rings and necklaces
00:07:46.640 and all sorts of stuff.
00:07:47.980 And they brag about how wonderful this is.
00:07:51.900 So rather than allowing
00:07:54.300 these tiny human beings to live
00:07:56.140 or even giving them the dignity
00:07:57.660 of a proper burial,
00:07:59.060 this company encourages parents
00:08:01.080 to encase or, you know,
00:08:04.580 encase their remains in jewelry,
00:08:06.940 to wear them as trinkets.
00:08:08.940 It's dehumanization.
00:08:11.560 The very fact that society
00:08:12.960 has reached a point
00:08:13.840 where human embryos,
00:08:15.320 children in their earliest stages of life,
00:08:17.480 are being turned into jewelry
00:08:19.120 is a real indictment
00:08:21.320 on how far we've strayed
00:08:23.340 from any kind of moral sanity.
00:08:25.840 The church has always been clear.
00:08:28.560 Human life begins at conception.
00:08:30.660 Every embryo is a person.
00:08:33.000 Freezing or discarding
00:08:34.580 or repurposing them
00:08:36.280 like raw materials
00:08:37.740 for personal adornment
00:08:38.860 is horrifying.
00:08:41.400 But what's also horrifying
00:08:42.540 is the very way
00:08:44.380 those embryos are created
00:08:46.520 because the whole process of IVF
00:08:49.320 is contrary to God's will
00:08:51.420 in addition to being deadly
00:08:53.980 for the vast majority
00:08:54.980 of babies it creates.
00:08:57.120 God has made His plan
00:08:58.860 for conception
00:08:59.560 and that is
00:09:00.640 the right of each child
00:09:02.920 to be conceived
00:09:04.260 in the loving union
00:09:05.920 of a husband and wife.
00:09:08.420 Think about that.
00:09:10.260 That statement is so important.
00:09:11.940 It's the right of each child
00:09:13.480 to be conceived
00:09:14.320 in the loving union
00:09:15.660 of a husband and wife.
00:09:17.740 That's how God intended it.
00:09:19.260 He intended one man,
00:09:20.960 one woman for life. 0.72
00:09:22.380 He intended that man
00:09:24.100 and woman to be married
00:09:25.180 and come together
00:09:26.360 and generate new life.
00:09:29.440 My dear fellow Christians,
00:09:31.320 we must continue
00:09:32.140 to stand firm
00:09:33.080 in defending the dignity
00:09:34.440 of all human life
00:09:35.300 from conception
00:09:36.340 to natural death.
00:09:37.940 This grotesque practice
00:09:39.960 of IVF
00:09:41.140 must be condemned
00:09:43.420 even if it comes to us
00:09:45.580 from great political leaders
00:09:47.460 who probably mean well
00:09:49.220 but the church
00:09:50.280 has not taught this truth.
00:09:53.320 How often have you heard
00:09:54.720 a homily
00:09:55.480 on the problems,
00:09:57.200 on the immorality
00:09:58.620 of in vitro fertilization?
00:10:00.580 Never!
00:10:02.140 And so we must pray
00:10:03.300 for a return
00:10:04.260 to a culture
00:10:05.320 that values life
00:10:06.360 and does not commodify it.
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