How we will win the final battle between our Lord and the Reign of Satan
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Summary
Christian persecution is at an all-time high, with even the so-called "friendly" not-so-friendly, not so friendly to Christians, saying this month that Christianity faced being wiped out from parts of the Middle East. It warned that Christianity, and I quote, is at risk of disappearing in some places of the world.
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Hello and welcome to this episode of the John Henry Weston Show.
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We are often asked at LifeSite how we remain hopeful in the midst of the horrible revolution in society,
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and especially in the church which is going on all around us.
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Well, today I'll tell you exactly how to maintain your hope,
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and not only how to survive, but how to thrive in our times.
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We have the answer to not only how to remain hopeful,
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And Christian persecution is at an all-time high,
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with even the so-called, well, not-so-friendly, not-so-friendly to Christians anyways, BBC,
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They said that a study finding that, and I quote,
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Christianity faced being wiped out from parts of the Middle East.
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is at risk of disappearing in some parts of the world,
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pointing to figures which claimed Christians in Palestine represent less than 1.5% of the population.
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In Iraq, they said Christianity had fallen from 1.5 million before 2003 to less than 120,000.
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evidence shows not only the geographic spread of anti-Christian persecution,
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The secular persecution of the church is every bit as intolerant in the West,
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with ridicule against Christians being the only acceptable prejudice in Western nations.
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And the church is riddled with the crimes of its clergy,
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which have brought its reputation and moral authority to an all-time low.
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such that clergy are ashamed or afraid to wear their clerics in public
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due to the overt hostility coming from passersby with epithets of pedophile and the like.
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The phenomenon is so widespread as to have virtually ended
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the tradition of priests leading camping trips with altar boys,
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once a most common and relished part of a bygone era.
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the most devastating reality of our day is the crisis of faith in the church,
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where many of the hierarchy, including the Holy Father himself,
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with failure to preach the truth and at times statements,
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both official and unofficial, contradicting doctrine.
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The crushing of orthodox clergy and religious by their own superiors.
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The wholesale abandonment of the underground faithful
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to the wolves overtly seeking to destroy the faith.
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And the promotion of wolves in shepherds' clothing
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and the ruthless attack even on young Catholics
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with the dismantling of orthodox doctrine in our day
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like the one holy Catholic and apostolic church
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and the blood of martyrs that followed in his footsteps.
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but with a seductive, slow and deliberate progress
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which has brought the Catechism's number 675 to life