The John-Henry Westen Show - Globalist Plot That Removed Benedict： SWIFT, NSA Spying & US Intel Exposed ｜ Liz Yore

00:00:00.000 February 11th, Pope Benedict announces his resignation to be operational in two weeks.

00:00:05.720 On February 12th, the ATM systems became operational and were turned back on.

00:00:12.100 It was, for anybody looking at it, was a quid pro quo.

00:00:17.120 Hey, my friends, welcome to the John Henry Weston Show.

00:00:19.460 You know, when we published at LifeSite the other day, the exclusive story about the Vatican

00:00:23.720 court actually looking into the validity of the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI, well,

00:00:29.600 it sparked a lot of interest. One of the people who reached out to me first was this lady whom

00:00:34.180 you're going to meet right now. You know her very well, lawyer Liz Yor, a child rights activist who 0.68

00:00:40.240 has been with LifeSite for many years, was originally one of the co-hosts of our Faith

00:00:46.040 and Reason program. She did a deep dive trying to investigate what went on with the Benedict

00:00:53.480 resignation and how that plays into what we saw the Vatican become, which was like a 180 degree

00:01:01.440 flip from where it used to be. Liz, so good to be with you. Great to be with you, Jen Henry.

00:01:06.600 Thank you for inviting me. Oh, it's an honor for me. Let's begin as you always do with the sign of

00:01:10.800 the cross. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. The big news,

00:01:17.520 of course, right now is this war between, very public war, between Leo and President Trump. And

00:01:24.560 yeah, there's a lot of craziness going on from President Trump. However, a lot of people are

00:01:29.240 seeing through it. They're seeing through to the political realities. Let me just read this. This

00:01:33.800 is a tweet, and it's a tweet from General Flynn. He says, and I quote, the left are so revealing.

00:01:41.940 Axelrod goes to see the Pope and three things occur.

00:01:46.040 Pope attacks Trump, cardinals do 60 minutes, and Pope goes to mosque. 0.62

00:01:51.120 More to come. 0.95

00:01:52.420 American Catholics better wake up. 0.99

00:01:55.180 As I've often said, I was weaned on the Chicago democratic political system. 0.94

00:01:59.540 So this is all very familiar to me.

00:02:01.260 This is familiar territory.

00:02:03.020 And this is the Vatican, really.

00:02:04.660 General Flynn is right.

00:02:06.040 This is the Vatican doubling down and aligning with the Chicago Obama network,

00:02:10.840 constructed by the Marxist policies of Saul Alinsky and Chicago Cardinal Joseph Seamless Garment Bernadine,

00:02:19.600 pushing the globalist policies of immigration, Muslim superiority, and globalist eco-terrorism. 0.92

00:02:26.540 You know, and what my warning to Catholics is, the clock is ticking down to Agenda 2030. 0.55

00:02:33.140 And we are in a race against time with the globalists actually are falling behind largely because of two Donald Trump terms.

00:02:43.280 It is interesting to see these lobbying back and forth of these comments between Trump and Leo.

00:02:49.560 But I think we're going to see more of a ramping up of this in the very near future.

00:02:55.040 That agenda is really the start of our story. Because this story goes back in history now to 2012, even before 2012. But it's about the opposition to the globalist agenda that was coming not from a Donald Trump in the White House, because there wasn't one, but from one Pope, who we all knew for the longest time as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who then became Benedict XVI.

00:03:25.040 Explain that for us.

00:03:26.020 Yes, we learned that in February 2012, exactly one year before Benedict's shocking abdication,

00:03:34.900 John Podesta and other Democratic operatives proposed a Catholic spring, a Catholic revolution,

00:03:41.540 to install this Catholic spring to demand an end to, you may remember, the Middle Ages dictatorship within the Catholic Church.

00:03:50.160 Pope Benedict represented the middle-aged dictator that Podesta and his Democratic operatives had targeted. He was clearly an obstructionist to their modern agenda.

00:04:04.120 And what was interesting is I went into the WikiLeaks cables and examined what was going on between the Vatican and the U.S. State Department throughout the early years and middle years of the administration of Benedict.

00:04:20.840 And what I found was that Benedict posed, in many ways, this clear and present danger. 0.64

00:04:29.520 He was the 2030 Agenda, which, as everybody may recall, in 2015, Soros announced that they were going to have a mass migration of Muslims into Europe. 0.88

00:04:43.200 And it was essential that this move with ease, without any pushing back from the Vatican.

00:04:51.780 And yet we know from the WikiLeaks cable, we know that Benedict was actually the one who was,

00:05:00.580 you remember you took the name Benedict because he wanted to re-Christianize Europe.

00:05:05.980 And he strongly criticized unrestrained migration in Europe.

00:05:10.460 And that was duly noted by the State Department cables.

00:05:15.400 Number two, he refused to sign the agreement with the CCP because he did not trust the Chinese operatives.

00:05:25.080 And he knew in these terms in the cable, he knew that the Chinese would violate the terms of the agreement.

00:05:32.320 Three, Benedict, and this is all in the cables, also demanded reciprocity from Muslim religious leaders, requiring a respect for religious freedom for Christians living in Muslim-dominated countries.

00:05:49.760 And when they kept on talking about interreligious faith and religious freedom, he kept pushing back and demanding reciprocity.

00:05:56.920 Benedict also personally and publicly castigated Nancy Pelosi when she went to meet with him in the Vatican. She lied about their meeting, and he instructed her not to present herself for communion because of her pro-abort policies.

00:06:14.040 Benedict also issued, of course, the famous Samorum Pontificum, a restoration of the traditional Latin mass, thereby infuriating liberal Catholic prelates.

00:06:27.020 And probably most personally, Benedict instructed the very powerful, connected sexual predator Cardinal Ted McCarrick to step away from public ministry because of his persistent allegations of sexual abuse.

00:06:42.600 And McCarrick, as we know, served as the spiritual mentor of all the Catholic Democratic politicians, including Biden and Kennedy. So he was the persona non grata, Benedict was, and he was that obstruction. He was that middle-aged dictator that they talked about that needed to be removed so that the modernists could roll out the UN Agenda 21 and Agenda 2030.

00:07:09.480 So he was, in my opinion, based on these cables that were coming back to the Department of State, it was clearly recognized.

00:07:18.380 They were tracking his activities.

00:07:20.040 They were tracking his comments and his speeches. 0.76

00:07:22.340 And it was presenting a picture of a pope that was going to be a huge obstacle to the New World Order, the Synodal Church, the St. Gallen Mafia agenda. 0.81

00:07:37.780 The emails themselves, they call for this new Catholic spring. These are the emails that came out in 2016 with the WikiLeaks thing from the Hillary leaked emails. And so we got this fascinating picture of the State Department, the Obama State Department, super interested in doing something about the problem they see as Pope Benedict.

00:08:01.600 And the problem not only for themselves, but for this whole global liberal plan, as you say, Agenda 2030, your contention is they might have moved to do something to get to the new scenario, to get to the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI.

00:08:21.140 Something stunning, never seen before like that in the church.

00:08:25.340 Yes, there was something 500 years ago, but it doesn't matter.

00:08:27.860 If it didn't happen in the past, you know, 100 years, you're not talking modern history.

00:08:31.380 What makes you suspicious that there is that possibility, apart from the fact that, yeah, they're very unhappy with him, they want rid of him somehow? They're hinting at a new Catholic spring, how that's going to happen, nobody knows. What's your thoughts as to how that might have played out? 0.68

00:08:46.720 Well, we know there were color revolutions brought on in the Ukraine and various other countries by the CIA and the government.

00:08:55.000 A color revolution was not unusual.

00:08:57.840 This was a recognition, of course, that one of the most powerful, albeit smallest, sovereign nations in the world is the Vatican.

00:09:06.800 And the moral voice of a Pope Benedict who is brilliant and who could articulate the issues and who understood after being head of the CDF for 25 years, he understood the global issues and both political and theological.

00:09:23.340 He posed a big problem for what was being planned.

00:09:29.460 And so, you know, a color revolution in the church was actually what they were looking at. 0.53

00:09:35.120 They called it a Catholic spring.

00:09:36.800 They did the same thing with the Orange Revolution in Ukraine.

00:09:40.660 I mean, I think it was 2014.

00:09:43.280 So this was the moving out of a leader and installing someone who would be amenable to the modernist agenda, someone that they could work with.

00:09:56.160 And I don't think they realized how momentous this resignation was, the first in 600 years.

00:10:03.060 As a result, we began to find out that, in fact, there was a secret group meeting for many years, the St. Gallen Mafia, which involved Cardinal Daniels and Cardinal Martini and all these liberal cardinals and Cardinal McCarrick, plotting to find the next replacement once John Paul II passed away and installing a modernist agenda.

00:10:30.060 Well, along came Benedict and ruined their plans.

00:10:34.820 However, you know, just like all liberals and leftists, they don't give up.

00:10:38.700 And so the 2012 WikiLeaks emails with Podesta indicate that there were discussions underway about what to do about this conservative pope in Benedict who became a real problem.

00:10:57.860 Now, I think people have to understand, somebody like John Podesta, who is Catholic, a liberal Catholic, very aware of what goes on in the Vatican.

00:11:06.680 He was very attuned to the power and machinations going on in the Vatican.

00:11:12.200 And you'll recall once Francis was installed, Francis himself, during the 2016 election, became very involved.

00:11:21.340 Remember, he called Trump unchristian.

00:11:25.980 He went after Trump left and right on the border issues.

00:11:30.820 So this was, they had felt that once Francis was in place, that they could roll out their

00:11:38.920 new agenda.

00:11:40.220 Let's get back to the resignation, because I think there's some really interesting things

00:11:44.320 that happened.

00:11:45.080 Everybody, well, everybody was alive at the time, was sort of so stunned because you're

00:11:50.540 taken aback.

00:11:51.360 At one point, you might have thought, that's a joke.

00:11:53.800 That's not really happened.

00:11:54.560 but sure enough it had happened but there was a number of anomalies right out of the gate

00:12:01.160 so for one everybody remembered that right before benedict became pope he said pray for me that i

00:12:09.780 don't flee from the wolves that was like right before he he he became pope uh like he accepted

00:12:17.200 and he said that right right out of the gate he's like uh pray for me so i don't flee but then

00:12:22.180 And this all starts to play out. But one thing that happened right out of the gate with the announcement of the resignation was there was an Italian journalist that pointed something out, Mario Blondet, I think his name was, but he pointed something out about the banking system that I think you picked up on right away. Tell us about that, what happened, and how it played out.

00:12:46.300 Before Benedict, in about, I think, January 1st, around that time, before the height of the tour season in Rome, before he actually announced his resignation, the ATM Vatican system was shut down, meaning none of the ATMs could be used to secure any kind of cash.

00:13:09.720 It was a huge problem, as you can imagine. And it is what they call the SWIFT system, which is an international system of banking, which shut down the ATMs all in the Vatican.

00:13:25.060 This was a rare, highly rare, highly unprecedented action.

00:13:31.300 It's only been done, I think, twice before in much more volatile situations.

00:13:37.600 But suddenly, the SWIFT system shut down, and it really paralyzed the financial dealings in the Vatican.

00:13:46.460 And now February 11th, Pope Benedict announces his resignation to be operational in two weeks.

00:13:55.060 On February 12th, the ATM systems became operational and were turned back on.

00:14:02.060 It was a clearly, you know, for anybody looking at it, was a quid pro quo.

00:14:06.880 There was no rhyme or reason why suddenly after the announcement of the resignation that these ATMs should be suddenly turned back on.

00:14:18.600 That was one of kind of some very curious machinations behind what was going on in the Vatican Bank and in the international financial system. Interestingly, the United States largely operates the SWIFT system.

00:14:35.960 It's a smooth running system used by most of the primary banks around the world in reconciliation with respect to debits and filings and deposits, but it also has control over ATMs.

00:14:53.360 And so this was a real head-scratcher.

00:14:57.100 The system, the financial system, basically in the Vatican, would be shut down and turned back on when Benedict announced his resignation.

00:15:07.940 The resignation has all sorts of controversy around it, because if it was forced, it wouldn't have any effect.

00:15:15.680 Of course, the contention of Andrea Cianci, who a professor, a friend of his, was on my

00:15:22.380 show to explain his position.

00:15:24.120 He feels that, you know, he didn't resign because Benedict made a difference between

00:15:29.700 a munis and ministerium, the sort of active and prayerful role of the pontificate.

00:15:35.720 You can't do that.

00:15:36.740 Therefore, he was actually not resigning.

00:15:38.820 Cianci's estimation, he wasn't resigning at all.

00:15:41.460 He was saying, basically, I can't deal with this.

00:15:43.480 So I'm going to fake a resignation.

00:15:45.680 so that they elect someone who won't really be Pope. But there's all sorts of theories out there

00:15:50.880 about that, and they differ. But essentially, we also know there's another odd thing about the

00:15:58.500 resignation, and you alluded to it earlier when you talked about the Sanghalin Mafia, and the fact

00:16:02.420 that McCarrick was part of it. It's interesting. You mentioned Cardinal Daniels, who incidentally

00:16:06.760 shows up on the balcony of Francis when he's elected. But that's because Daniels and Francis

00:16:14.640 knew each other really well. As you mentioned, in the 2005 election where Benedict came out,

00:16:20.560 the St. Gallen Mafia, this group that met in St. Gallen, Switzerland, that's why it was called the

00:16:25.020 St. Gallen Mafia. And they're called Mafia actually because Daniels lets it be known,

00:16:30.240 that's what they're called. He did a public interview where, when a biography of his came

00:16:35.140 out, where he actually explains the whole story in his own words. But he met with these different

00:16:41.360 cardinals, leftist cardinals from around the church to get rid of Benedict. They met for years

00:16:46.760 because in 2005, they tried and failed to get, guess who elected? According to him is Francis

00:16:52.500 Bergoglio. So they tried to elect Jorge Bergoglio, doesn't work in 2005. And then Benedict retires

00:17:01.200 in Julia Maloney's book, which I think is the best book on the St. Gallen Mafia. She was on my show

00:17:06.660 explaining it. She explains that Cardinal Martini had made an agreement with Benedict at the time

00:17:12.000 in 2005 to allow him the election as long as he would retire, resign. And apparently Martini went

00:17:19.000 to visit him and said, it's time. There's another point of reference, if you will. But it's very

00:17:25.000 interesting also because this conspiracy is going on. The very fact that we know absolutely beyond

00:17:33.600 any shadow of a doubt, there's this huge conspiracy of cardinals working to get rid of Benedict

00:17:38.040 and to work to elect Jorge Maria Bergoglio, who eventually comes in, is contrary to the rules

00:17:47.160 of the election of a pope. It can't be. There's a document called Universi Dominici Gregius,

00:17:53.440 which is the rule book. It's the constitution, actually. It was created by John Paul II about

00:17:59.880 how a pope needs to be elected because with all the modern nonsense with all the tampering you

00:18:06.400 can do obviously there are major problems possible and one of the things was well you can't have this

00:18:14.840 kind of collusion guaranteeing of votes etc etc and john paul lays that out in university dominici

00:18:20.400 greatest and i want to read this one section of it because it's stunning and uh it talks about

00:18:26.460 this very thing. Paragraph 76 says, and this, please go look it up, University Dominici Gregius

00:18:32.360 John Paul II Constitution says, should the election take place in a way other than prescribed in the

00:18:38.940 present constitution, or should the conditions laid down here not be observed, the election

00:18:44.640 is for this very reason null and void, without any need for a declaration on the matter.

00:18:51.100 consequently it confers no right on the one elected make of it what you will but that's

00:18:58.340 there in black and white for everyone to read we should continue with the political analysis because

00:19:02.420 i think it's fascinating in addition to this so there's a clear agenda from the obama administration

00:19:07.540 and the powers that be that perhaps even rule them the liberal agenda of the world let's say

00:19:11.940 that wants 2030 in place agenda 2030 in place major roadblock probably the major roadblock

00:19:18.360 is Benedict, refusing, as you said, to go off on the China deal. They're just terrible.

00:19:23.840 They're conspiring among the cardinals to get rid of Benedict. Then the very guy at the center of

00:19:29.920 that conspiracy among the cardinals, Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, is also a useful tool of

00:19:35.600 the Obama administration. Tell us how. McCarrick was a diplomatic envoy for both the Biden and the

00:19:42.540 Obama administration, secretly conveying messages between the Vatican and Cuba,

00:19:50.320 secretly meeting in Iran. McCarrick was everywhere. He carried a U.S. diplomatic passport.

00:19:58.660 He was also on the U.S. State Department's Religious Freedom Commission, Interfaith

00:20:06.160 Religious Dialogue Commission. He was everywhere. He had his finger in the global pulse. He was

00:20:13.900 also on how many, nine, 10 trips to China, very well known in China. And he ultimately, as we

00:20:22.320 know, became the architect of the China deal with Francis, the deal which, contrary to what

00:20:29.380 Francis said, was absolutely negated, deep-sixed, thrown in the garbage by Pope Benedict.

00:20:37.740 So we have this, the machinations of McCarrick in and out of the White House, in and out of

00:20:44.800 the Situation Room.

00:20:46.140 I mean, literally, if you read his books, his documents, actually the McCarrick Report,

00:20:53.700 You see what a masterful politician he was in promoting the liberal agenda of the Catholic Church, the radical Marxist policies of the Obama administration.

00:21:07.660 He was resurrected once Benedict was forced to step down.

00:21:13.640 And, you know, and I think it's quite interesting that they needed McCarrick in the second administration of the Obama team.

00:21:23.700 to continue these diplomatic envoy trips to cut deals in secret

00:21:31.240 with essentially some of whom were enemies of the United States.

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00:22:08.480 They had to have McCarrick, and they knew that Benedict was such a problem.

00:22:14.020 I'm going to tell you, an inter-church issue that might seem, oh, that's only church,

00:22:18.720 but it has such a massive implication on politics. So I'll take you back even further than 2012. Let's

00:22:24.720 go back to 2004. Now, these are still the days of John Paul II. However, as you mentioned,

00:22:31.000 we always had Benedict with us in the person of Cardinal Ratzinger, and he always worked

00:22:36.200 closely with John Paul. Ratzinger and John Paul and Benedict, when he became Pope,

00:22:42.840 were trying to push one thing big time, especially in America, because it has to be America first.

00:22:47.300 There's a whole reason for that, that you'll have to go to another show for.

00:22:51.820 But they wanted to push that politicians who support abortion, and by the way, people who

00:22:59.880 vote for pro-abortion politicians, are not to be able to receive Holy Communion.

00:23:06.360 Now that, my friends, would change the political scene.

00:23:10.000 At least it would have way back in the early 2000s. 0.95

00:23:13.000 If you knew as a Catholic, oh crap, if I vote for this politician, he's pro-abortion, I can't receive 0.98

00:23:18.540 Holy Communion, at least in good conscience. And the politicians themselves, oh, if I vote for 0.99

00:23:25.180 abortion, yeah, I'll get ahead politically, but oh boy, I'll not be a Catholic and that won't go

00:23:29.560 well with my Catholic constituents. So that's a big thing, perhaps even a game changer. So that 0.97

00:23:36.140 had to be gotten rid of. Who got rid of it? Well, in 2004, there was a committee of the US bishops

00:23:41.220 that were looking at the question, guess who headed up that commission? Cardinal McCarrick.

00:23:46.560 Later, who we know, by the way, is a sex abuser and now Mr. McCarrick, but that's a different 0.96

00:23:51.720 story. Nonetheless, he held so much power in the American church. It was unreal. He actually 0.75

00:23:57.540 lied. He hid the communication that came from Cardinal Ratzinger through to the U.S. bishops

00:24:05.020 because he was the head of the committee. He hid it from the other bishops on the committee and he

00:24:08.820 lied to them saying, oh, Rome wants the bishop to decide locally for himself, not do. It was a lie.

00:24:15.640 Later that came out, and at first McCarrick tried to say, oh, that's such a fake news,

00:24:21.000 and Gordon Ratzinger's office, by the way, said, no, it's a real document. So he was outed that

00:24:27.200 way as a big liar. The very fact that it has such big political implications shows that all by

00:24:32.820 itself, even though it's a church matter, has huge political ramifications, so therefore was a real

00:24:37.440 threat to the political agenda of the leftists. So now, fast forward, what happens is McCarrick,

00:24:44.520 the same guy who kiboshed it then, comes in to bring us the Pope. And remember, he lobbied,

00:24:52.020 McCarrick lobbied among the Cardinals for Francis. So he brings in their guy who wants to get rid of

00:25:00.340 Exactly that thing. Let's move over to Francis as being the answer to a lot of what the globalists were concerned about. How do you see Francis as the answer to their prayers, if you will?

00:25:16.280 Well, he immediately began pushing the UN agenda. He spoke to the UN General Assembly. He addressed them in support of the Paris Climate Treaty. He supported the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, which included contraception, abortion, transgender issues, bisexuality, the whole homosexual agenda, to say nothing of the radical modernist agenda.

00:25:45.080 He became the moral voice for the Agenda 2030, and he stepped right into it with energy and force and put his imprimatur on all these radical documents, the Paris Climate Treaty, and, of course, supported the mass migration that came into Europe, 0.69

00:26:12.440 which were still dealing with the terrible consequences of that.

00:26:16.520 So there he was following the orders to the tune.

00:26:21.420 It became, you know, very troublesome for Catholics in dealing with this, you know,

00:26:27.340 in my opinion, Marxist South American pope who was radically pushing the Obama agenda

00:26:35.100 and the globalist agenda.

00:26:37.640 So he was everything that they wanted and more.

00:26:41.000 Now, remember, folks, it's not only political because the political is so tied to the moral. 0.59

00:26:45.600 Remember, Pope Francis was the who am I to judge on homosexuality right out of the gate.

00:26:50.860 So then later comes the meetings with James Martin and the whole revolution, which changes the church seemingly almost completely.

00:26:57.800 However, there is a hiccup that's thrown into things in 2016 with the first election of President Donald J. Trump.

00:27:05.360 And it's at this point, shortly after his election, that you intervened with a number of people to get some records out of the U.S. administration. Tell us about that.

00:27:18.500 Despite Podesta and Obama and the Democratic Party's best efforts, Hillary Clinton did not win. Donald Trump won. So January 20th, 2017, the day he was first inaugurated, we sent a letter through the Remnant newspaper. I'm sure many, many Catholics have referred to it.

00:27:37.620 the open letter to Donald Trump to investigate whether or not the Obama administration

00:27:43.560 engineered a coup or regime change of the Benedict papacy to install a modernist in the chair of

00:27:51.340 Peter. So that was our request. And we had several questions that we asked the Trump administration

00:28:00.000 to look into. We were simply asking for the Trump administration to investigate the Obama

00:28:07.900 administration and what were they doing behind the scenes during the papacy of Pope Benedict.

00:28:16.320 And because we felt that there appeared to be a very coordinated campaign to radicalize the

00:28:22.180 Catholic Church leadership and to create the coup that we saw. So we asked these questions.

00:28:29.160 Now, there was a lot of information, news reports coming up that the NSA, the National Security Agency, monitored the conclave over the years that elected Pope Francis.

00:28:40.640 We asked that question, to what end was the NSA monitoring the conclave that elected Pope Francis?

00:28:47.760 Number two, what other covert operations were carried out by the U.S. government operatives concerning the resignation of Pope Benedict and the conclave that elected Pope Francis?

00:28:59.980 Number three, did the United States government operatives have contact with the St. Gallen Mafia?

00:29:07.260 Number four, international monetary issue transactions with the Vatican were suspended by SWIFT during the last few days prior to the resignation of Pope Benedict through the SIS system.

00:29:20.460 Were any U.S. government agencies involved in this?

00:29:24.780 If so, how?

00:29:26.760 And a couple of final questions.

00:29:28.440 Why were international monetary transactions immediately resumed?

00:29:32.260 What documents existed that turned the ATMs back on on February 12th, 2013, the day that Benedict, the sixth day after Benedict XVI announced his resignation?

00:29:46.320 We did not believe that that was a coincidence.

00:29:48.340 And what actions, if any, were actually taken by John Podesta, Hillary Clinton, and others tied to the Obama administration who were involved in discussions proposing the fomenting of a Catholic spring?

00:30:04.800 Finally, what roles were played by George Soros and other international financiers regarding the abdication of Pope Benedict?

00:30:12.440 Now, John Henry, I have to say that this letter had an enormous impact in the Catholic world.

00:30:19.560 I heard from people around, Catholics from around the world, hoping and praying that the Trump administration would jump in and answer these questions.

00:30:30.620 They had access to all these intelligence files.

00:30:34.380 They could declassify these files. 0.82

00:30:36.660 We were arguing a coup of the Catholic Church.

00:30:39.780 and in opposition to rules that had been set down by Pope John Paul II.

00:30:46.520 We sought an investigation, a search for records based on these questions.

00:30:52.920 And should any investigation reveal that the U.S. government interfered inappropriately in a papal election,

00:31:01.060 that that should be immediately told to the Vatican authorities.

00:31:05.760 However, we never received an acknowledgment or response from our 2017 letter to President Trump.

00:31:15.180 He obviously got very busy with his own Russiagate problems, but nevertheless, that was an opportunity where they were sitting on information, documents from the Obama administration, where they could have done a search of those documents to determine what, in fact, what kind of meddling, interference, communication, strategy sessions were ongoing between the Obama administration.

00:31:43.600 and in the Vatican, the St. Gallen Mafia, and to elect Pope Francis and to force the

00:31:53.040 abdication of Pope Benedict.

00:31:55.300 Sure. We just saw exactly that happen with the current Trump administration, because they just

00:32:01.940 did a deep dive into the use of the Biden administration to attack pro-lifers. They did

00:32:08.020 an 800 plus page report showing the documents that prove the Biden administration colluded

00:32:15.060 directly with abortionists to target Catholics, to target Christians, to target pro-lifers.

00:32:21.140 It was unbelievable. And when you see it, you're like, oh my gosh, I can't believe it. Everything

00:32:25.320 we suspected and worse is true. This is a 900 page report from the Department of Justice Civil

00:32:31.260 Rights Division, detailing newly uncovered documents that show direct collusion between

00:32:38.380 former Joe Biden's DOJ and pro-abortion groups like the National Abortion Federations and going

00:32:45.520 after and targeting and weaponizing the justice system against pro-life advocates. And this report

00:32:54.260 also details the use of undercover informants to infiltrate pro-life meetings and build cases

00:33:00.940 against advocates. And it was a targeted, weaponized campaign using the FACE Act against

00:33:07.860 pro-lifers. We know many pro-lifers, senior citizens, spent long months and years in jail

00:33:15.580 because they were prosecuted unfairly, inequitably under the FACE Act. So this is not a fishing

00:33:23.840 expedition. This is not some pie in the sky. We have not only the documents of the 900-page report

00:33:30.620 on the pro-life weaponization under the FACE Act, but we also know, and you featured him on your

00:33:37.720 show yourself, the weaponization against traditional Catholics by the FBI, that the FBI infiltrated

00:33:45.920 Catholic Church, the traditional Catholic community, sent an intelligence memo around

00:33:51.800 the United States FBI offices targeting traditional Latin mass-going Catholics as radical, extreme,

00:34:00.620 terrorists. This is what the Biden administration did in secret, unbeknownst to us, although we

00:34:10.020 suspected, in order to take out conservative Catholics who they view, and this is important

00:34:17.060 for traditional Catholics to understand, they view traditional Catholics, Catholics who go to mass,

00:34:23.320 whether they're traditional or not, but weekly mass goers, as the largest threat to the radical

00:34:30.040 modernist agenda of the globalists and the radical lefts in the Democratic Party.

00:34:36.300 They recognize that we, in their mind, are the enemy, and they have used all the weapons

00:34:41.900 in government to put us under heel.

00:34:46.780 And so that's why I feel very strongly that this is not a fishing expedition that we're

00:34:52.580 going on with respect to what happened in the Obama administration while Benedict was

00:34:59.780 creating, you know, his agenda in the Vatican and really promoting his policies of restoring

00:35:06.840 Christianity into Europe and around the world and actually fighting tooth and nail in his own

00:35:14.900 quiet, genteel way against the modernist eco agenda. Obviously, if the U.S. is and has done

00:35:22.600 and now it's known publicly that they have done color revolutions and do the expenditure to have

00:35:28.900 spies, if you will, go out to Catholic churches and do their research, surely they could have

00:35:34.680 done that with regard to the papacy as well, especially considering it's so important in the

00:35:39.880 estimation of the Obama administration, as is pointed out by the emails themselves. But some

00:35:44.440 of those allegations that you made in the 2017 letter might seem extreme until, because I want

00:35:50.120 to focus on this first one, until you actually see the evidence. So to what end was the National

00:35:55.940 Security Agency monitoring the conclave, the elected Pope Francis. What? And everybody's like,

00:36:01.400 come on, were they really? Actually, yeah. So here, this is from the Los Angeles Times

00:36:09.440 headline magazine says NSA spied on Vatican U.S. denies it. The U.S. National Security Agency may

00:36:17.080 have spied on the future Pope Francis in the run up to his election in March. An Italian magazine

00:36:22.820 reported wednesday the nsa strongly denied the report but without citing sources panorama magazine

00:36:28.220 said the nsa intercepted calls in and out of the rome residence where cardinals stayed before the

00:36:35.440 papal conclave and while of course la times is spinning that to be against francis oh guess what

00:36:42.220 it also works against benedict la times is not a junior junior newspaper they're not going to

00:36:47.660 report. Well, some wacko Italian magazine said this, but not only is it on their credibility,

00:36:52.840 also National Catholic Register, which we know is a very serious news outlet. Edward Penton,

00:36:57.620 probably the best Vatican reporter ever. He had this to say in the National Catholic Register.

00:37:03.960 Italian magazine says NSA listened into Vatican and Pope. The National Security Agency has been

00:37:09.460 listening into telephone calls of the Pope and senior Vatican officials. And Italian magazine

00:37:14.340 has claimed in an article in Panorama, which will appear on newsstands tomorrow, the NSA is reported

00:37:19.980 to have allegedly taped the phone calls of Vatican officials and senior prelates before and during

00:37:27.060 the conclave, as well as incoming and outgoing calls from Domus Internacionalis residents where

00:37:34.840 the Pope was living before his election. So in other words, that refers to Francis. But isn't

00:37:41.180 that interesting. So these requests you're making for information from the Trump administration in

00:37:48.080 2016 that he got in, you're asking in 2017, they're questions based on what's actual fact.

00:37:55.520 So, but then you hear nothing from them for a long time. And then you pursue this again

00:38:02.320 last year. Why is that? What happened? Fast forward to April of 2025, myself and another

00:38:08.840 signatory to the original 2017 letter, submitted numerous FOIAs to the Trump administration.

00:38:17.160 A FOIA is a Freedom of Information Act. It's a request for information from the government

00:38:23.540 regarding documents, emails, communications, correspondence that are in the possession of

00:38:31.400 the government. The purpose of the FOIAs is transparency. It's openness in government that

00:38:37.860 We are the people, this is our government, we are entitled to know information.

00:38:43.540 I mean, so this FOIA system is available to all citizens to ask government to provide information that we request, any kind of information that's submitted to the government.

00:38:57.980 And so we, in April of 2025, once Trump got back into office, we submitted several FOIAs to the FBI, the Department of Justice, the State Department, the NSA, the Office of Tulsi Gabbard, the Treasury Department,

00:39:20.700 All these relevant federal agencies that would have had information regarding the circumstances surrounding the abdication of Pope Benedict.

00:39:32.900 We are not asking for Trump. This is not information under the Trump administration that the Trump administration created.

00:39:40.220 These are documents that were created during the Obama administration.

00:39:45.520 FOIAs under law are supposed to be responded to. It was a hefty request, but we just took that original letter because, frankly, John Henry, nothing's changed, if anything, in the interim of the last eight years or so or six years.

00:40:00.700 We have only been further confirmed that our hunch, based on the conduct of the Democrats who came into the Biden administration, that our hunches about what went on during the abdication and the conclave are ones that we should pursue.

00:40:18.700 So those FOIAs went to the Trump administration. The Trump administration has responded acknowledgement of the receipt of these FOIAs, but has not responded substantially to any of these FOIA requests.

00:40:36.760 And what is so frustrating is that, you know, now we have this volley of words and war between Leo and Trump.

00:40:45.320 The Trump administration, I'm convinced, has information that for the sake of the Catholic Church and, frankly, civilization,

00:40:54.740 we'll uncover the violation of church and canon law with respect to the abdication of Pope Benedict and the election of Pope Francis.

00:41:05.760 I mean, the church has been in a pitch battle with respect to what is going on between the modernists pushing their agenda and the traditional Catholics who are just exploding yet are not having any ability to practice their faith, having churches shut down.

00:41:25.020 And here the Trump administration needs to respond to these FOIA requests and if they need to declassify this information.

00:41:39.060 And this information needs to be in the hands forthwith to the Vatican Criminal Commission that is investigating the abdication of Pope Benedict.

00:41:53.080 The Vatican Office of the Promoter of Justice at this point formally has opened a criminal investigation into the validity of Pope Benedict.

00:42:02.140 Now, it's 14 years later, mind you, and I frankly don't have a lot of confidence that the Vatican is going to, you know, conduct the proper investigation, but I'm convinced that the Trump administration has information that is highly relevant and probative of this investigation.

00:42:22.660 And this information needs to be in the possession of the Vatican.

00:42:28.120 It needs to be disclosed to the Catholic world in order to ensure that a proper investigation for in memoriam.

00:42:36.960 The Trump administration has got to submit all this information regarding the abdication of Benedict and the possible role of the Obama and U.S. government.

00:42:47.000 I mean, if it's not there, it's not there.

00:42:48.740 But at least look. And as I said before, this is not a fishing expedition. We know that the Biden administration covertly, but actively harassed and intimidated and strategized with enemies of the Catholic Church in order to bring down the American Catholic Church.

00:43:10.480 And they were nearly successful. We recognize that Francis and Cupich and Pritzker all shut down, all the Catholic churches in America during COVID. They all mandated the COVID vaccine. They were all in lockstep.

00:43:28.460 The Catholic Church was in the lockstep with the globalists during the pandemic.

00:43:33.860 And so this is not only urgency for the for the salvation of the church, but also for humanity, because if we are going to continue to allow this radical globalist agenda, push forward, take away our rights, enslave mankind,

00:43:52.920 than without even bothering to look for the documents that proved that machinations were underway,

00:44:00.380 that this whole scene was concocted.

00:44:03.080 I don't know how much more I can do than to plead with the Trump administration to abide by the law,

00:44:11.960 look for these documents, and bring some sanity and restore some civility and faith to the Catholic Church

00:44:21.160 And some understanding about what happened, not only during the really tumultuous years of the Benedict papacy, where he was just harassed and terrorized and frustrated in all of his efforts to restore the church, but also the pressure he was put under to resign.

00:44:45.320 And so what's so interesting, John Henry, is we saw this week what happened.

00:44:52.100 You know, why did Pope Leo meet with David Axelrod, the foremost political operative in America, Obama's campaign architect who has pushed the political narratives of the American Democratic left?

00:45:07.500 Axelrod, on April 9th, he met with him.

00:45:10.780 He hasn't met with the president of the United States.

00:45:13.080 And as Frank Walker of Canon 212 said, Leo went and hired a consulting firm to promote his politics.

00:45:19.720 And why did Leo spend a 40-minute meeting with the purported 2028 Democratic candidate for president, J.B. Pritzker, but not the president of the United States?

00:45:31.880 And then by pure coincidence, the pope starts attacking the Trump administration and the three most prominent cardinals, liberal cardinals come out on 60 Minutes to start trashing the policies of this administration.

00:45:46.200 This feels like a political operation in motion.

00:45:52.960 And, you know, now we have the Pope in Algeria.

00:45:56.860 He has gone to a mosque and he is calling for communion between Christians and Muslims under the patronage, God help us, of the Blessed Mother, calling a mosque a place that represents the space proper to God.

00:46:10.580 But he has been silent on the Islamic terrorism and persecution in Algeria, in the Middle East, all over Africa.

00:46:20.980 So these are huge stakes at the forefront of our globe.

00:46:29.560 And we need to be aggressive, as aggressive as the left has been.

00:46:35.640 We have the truth.

00:46:37.120 We have the beauty of the faith.

00:46:38.580 Look, I wasn't born yesterday.

00:46:40.020 I was raised and weaned in the Chicago political democratic political machine.

00:46:45.020 This max of a political, as Chris Jackson would say, midterm psyop in a cassock.

00:46:51.460 But in Chicago politics, we call this clout to take down an opponent.

00:46:56.660 And Leo's and his three leftist cardinals want to play politics, hardball politics with Donald Trump.

00:47:03.120 And he better ready to take this incoming.

00:47:06.540 But he has the tools to fight back, not just his tweets, but the information the Trump administration is sitting on.

00:47:15.260 To be honest, there's no better motivation, I think, than Trump has ever had in seeing that now the Democratic church is trying to clobber him and the Republicans out of the midterms.

00:47:27.800 Liz, thank you so much for joining us. God bless you.

00:47:29.960 Thank you, John Henry. Thank you.

00:47:31.440 And God bless all of you. And we'll see you next time.

00:47:36.540 Hi everyone, this is John Henry Weston for LifeSite News.

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The John-Henry Westen Show - April 17, 2026

Globalist Plot That Removed Benedict： SWIFT, NSA Spying & US Intel Exposed ｜ Liz Yore

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