The John-Henry Westen Show - February 22, 2022


Joe Biden is the 'product' of weak bishops who don't defend Church teaching： Catholic activist

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Deal Hudson is a Catholic activist, author, and former Catholic outreach guy for both George W. Bush and Donald Trump. He's also the author of a new book, The Desecrators, which deals with cancel culture and what it means for Catholics.

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00:00:00.000 Cancel culture is affecting us like nothing else.
00:00:03.480 We have this going on, but it's actually been going on since the 60s.
00:00:06.780 We're here to talk with the new author of a book called The Desecrators, which deals
00:00:12.000 with cancel culture.
00:00:13.180 It also tells us what's going on inside the church, inside the church in America, delves
00:00:19.080 into the bishops themselves and President Donald Trump because one of the authors of
00:00:24.260 this book is Deal Hudson.
00:00:26.160 Deal Hudson, the former editor at Crisis Magazine, the former professor and Catholic
00:00:32.540 activist and really an activist with the presidents.
00:00:36.220 Remember, he was the Catholic outreach guy for both Bush and then for President Donald
00:00:42.120 Trump.
00:00:42.820 You're going to want to stay tuned for this conversation with Deal Hudson.
00:00:56.160 Deal Hudson, welcome to the program.
00:01:06.940 John Henry, it's been way too long and I'm just amazed.
00:01:10.300 Don't look any older.
00:01:11.760 You look exactly, you know, youthful and vigorous.
00:01:15.700 Great to see you.
00:01:16.820 Good to be with you, Deal.
00:01:17.640 Let's start, as you always do, with the sign of the cross.
00:01:20.760 In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.
00:01:25.020 Amen.
00:01:26.160 So, you've written a book again, and this one called Desecrators, available through 10.
00:01:34.520 What is Desecrators all about?
00:01:36.520 Well, you know, Matt Schlapp and I have known each other since 1999 when we both worked on
00:01:42.080 Catholic outreach for President Bush.
00:01:44.000 And actually, he and Mercy met at the first event I put on after Bush was elected president.
00:01:53.160 So, I'm responsible for that duo and the five girls.
00:01:56.280 We talked about doing a book on the whole cancel culture, wokeness, white privilege, all that.
00:02:04.640 And I, you know, and I said, Matt, you know, we need to not write just a screed like everybody
00:02:10.760 else is writing.
00:02:11.660 We need to get to the foundation of what's really under all of these collective insanity,
00:02:18.620 right?
00:02:20.040 And it became very clear once you began to look at the attack on the nuclear family. 0.71
00:02:24.960 I mean, obviously, a pro-abortion back there.
00:02:28.760 But you took the attack on the nuclear family, the attack on education, on the great books, 0.56
00:02:38.180 the attack on the Constitution of the United States, the attack on white people in general 0.72
00:02:45.800 being all racist by virtue of their color. 0.61
00:02:48.320 I thought that's what we fought a civil war over.
00:02:52.880 And I, you know, go on and on and on.
00:02:55.340 And, of course, the attack on gender, on sexuality, you know, there's no such thing as fixed male
00:03:02.940 and female anymore. 0.81
00:03:04.060 It's whatever you want to be.
00:03:05.180 So, you've got little girls in gray school identifying themselves as wolves or cats.
00:03:12.380 So, we found that this attack was basically a desecration, meaning an attack on all we hold
00:03:18.680 sacred.
00:03:19.860 And we know life is sacred.
00:03:22.080 But what else is sacred?
00:03:24.000 What is sacred is our understanding of God's creation, our understanding of there being one
00:03:30.460 God, monotheism itself.
00:03:32.580 The idea that natural law is a reflection grows out of God's law, the idea of the Ten Commandments,
00:03:38.780 the idea of the supremacy of love as a virtue and what love means.
00:03:43.540 So, it's a desecration on, at every level, beginning with life, beginning with the family, sexuality, 0.99
00:03:53.680 the meaning of education, the meaning of community, the meaning of nationhood and self-governance,
00:04:01.280 and the meaning, obviously, of ultimate, or ultimates in life.
00:04:05.900 Are we going to begin with the understanding that we're all created in the image and likeness
00:04:12.640 of God, or are we going to begin with the sort of sartrean and existentialist assumption that we all define who we are from the very beginning,
00:04:20.600 and you can define yourself any way you like?
00:04:23.780 I've been wanting to ask you this for a long time.
00:04:26.240 Your background in Catholic activism and then in politics, particularly presidential politics.
00:04:33.720 Is it fair to call Joe Biden the second Catholic president of the United States?
00:04:39.260 I'm sorry.
00:04:40.920 I either have to laugh or throw up.
00:04:43.320 What you see in Biden is what the American bishops let happen to the Catholic Church in America.
00:04:51.440 In other words, Biden and all the sort of Pelosi Catholics like him are the product of a group of bishops, 0.66
00:04:59.720 not all, every one of them, of course, but a group of bishops who did not stand up for Catholic teaching
00:05:06.840 at its most fundamental level of the right to life, even when things like partial birth abortion came up,
00:05:13.780 even when things like funding American citizens, funding Planned Parenthood, the Mexico City policy.
00:05:21.460 Now, Biden's a product of the Church of the United States.
00:05:24.240 Today's bishopric that we see ongoing in the United States, it's like that all over the world right now.
00:05:31.480 It's actually somewhat better in the United States, which is hard to believe if you're in America and you're looking around.
00:05:38.900 But what have you seen?
00:05:40.540 You've been in the Catholic scene for a long time.
00:05:42.980 You've been able to witness, you know, Catholicism, and I'd say Catholicism among the bishops, if you will,
00:05:49.040 or the high-ranking clergy in America under JP II, under Benedict, under Francis.
00:05:55.080 What do you, what have you seen in that evolution?
00:05:57.760 The thing that shocked me the most when I started mixing it up with the bishops,
00:06:02.700 even before I was helping the Bush White House, I mean, in Crisis Magazine,
00:06:07.380 is how much they really hated Republicans, just by virtue of being Republicans.
00:06:14.000 How they really had no time for pro-lifers, didn't want them in their hair.
00:06:20.320 And then when I got over to the Vatican representing the president, meeting with members of the Curia,
00:06:25.180 how much they really disliked John Paul II.
00:06:27.920 So while John Paul II was Pope, you have a vast Curia of German bishops and others led by Cardinal Martini,
00:06:42.320 who were trying to undermine him at every turn.
00:06:46.680 So as a convert to the faith, based upon the beauty of the church, the truth,
00:06:52.600 and so I'm thinking, you know, this isn't exactly, Don Henry, what I expected when I converted at the age of 34.
00:07:01.000 When you reflect on the sort of reality, if you will, the current reality, anyway,
00:07:05.520 of the church in America and really much of the world, especially the West,
00:07:09.860 Christ's own statement about you're either for me or you're against me really comes to mind.
00:07:17.200 And we have such a rocking in the church today.
00:07:22.300 What are your thoughts on Christ's sort of finality and the fooling that the leadership of the church seems to be doing with that?
00:07:31.440 You know, I taught at a Jesuit school for a while, and it's all about nuance and casuistry and, you know,
00:07:37.520 trying to make the round peg fit in the square hole and all that.
00:07:40.820 And so I think one thing that this disaster situation we find ourselves in right now
00:07:47.700 has made a lot of people wake up to that very thing that you mentioned, you're either for me or against me.
00:07:53.740 And I would say that in my experience, people try to straddle the fence,
00:08:02.640 especially try to straddle the fence when I'm a good Catholic,
00:08:06.980 well-being, pro-birth, pro-birth control, no concern for the divorce rate,
00:08:13.940 no concern for the one-parent families among African-Americans, which I think risen over 70%.
00:08:21.320 You know, no concern for the parts of society that are really suffering from a lack of Christian 1.00
00:08:29.000 and especially Catholic leadership on the meaning of sexuality, on the meaning of marriage,
00:08:34.600 on the meaning of the family.
00:08:37.120 And I'm just stunned at the lack of courage, the lack of commitment.
00:08:45.260 You know, and somehow in my political work, I began hearing that to be pro-life,
00:08:54.060 you were Republican.
00:08:55.500 And since the bishops were all against the Republicans,
00:08:58.640 the bishops ended up being against pro-lifers.
00:09:01.300 And that, of course, is an irony, you know, which everybody can see at first glance.
00:09:08.860 And I began to realize, you know, that to be, and this became true,
00:09:13.620 you couldn't be pro-life and be a Democrat in Congress,
00:09:16.640 which has literally become true when your last pro-life Democrat is no longer there.
00:09:22.860 And so what kind of country is we come to when a Catholic politician to be a member of the 0.89
00:09:29.960 Democratic Party has to be pro-abortion, is required to be pro-abortion, or to be on the
00:09:37.680 Supreme Court under Biden is going to have to be pro-abortion, whether they're Catholic or not.
00:09:43.700 This, you know, this calls for, we need a truckers movement in the United States.
00:09:51.820 I love your truckers.
00:09:54.280 I embrace them.
00:09:57.560 This just proves to me that all your real Canadians came from Texas, you know, 1.00
00:10:03.120 that they fought for the Battle of Independence, because what we're seeing is you guys are being
00:10:08.140 an example to the world.
00:10:09.360 All revolutions happen in the streets, John Henry.
00:10:13.960 You can go back as far as you want in the history of revolutions.
00:10:18.140 The American Revolution began in the streets of Boston.
00:10:21.560 The French Revolution began in the streets of Paris.
00:10:24.400 The Russian Revolution started in the streets of Petrograd.
00:10:29.220 And so the fact that truckers have gotten in the street means they're putting themselves on the line.
00:10:35.740 And it's so inspiring.
00:10:38.160 It is inspiring.
00:10:39.880 And you're actually the perfect person to ask this question of, because you've been a Catholic
00:10:44.260 activist for so long.
00:10:46.100 You've been out in the streets, as it were, fighting, often having to fight the very bishops
00:10:52.340 that we're trying to support in the faith.
00:10:56.180 But what is a way forward for Catholics today?
00:11:00.340 We're getting beat up on so many levels.
00:11:04.540 And very often we've heard the saying that, you know, it's the laity that will save the church.
00:11:11.940 And how does the laity do that?
00:11:14.340 What steps should we take?
00:11:16.140 I think it's the mothers who will save the church.
00:11:18.500 You know, Aquinas said there's no stronger love, natural love, than that between a mother and a child.
00:11:24.180 And it's sort of the foundation of morality, in a sense, if you look at it just from a natural
00:11:30.060 point of view, that bond, which is, you know, so which reflects the Trinity itself, right?
00:11:36.440 And the future of the church and the future of, you might call it, the sacred, the very thing that's being
00:11:47.620 attacked right now, will require three things.
00:11:52.000 It'll require people following John Paul II, be not afraid, not be intimidated by people yelling at them,
00:12:01.700 not be intimidated by name-calling or public shaming or threats.
00:12:09.000 You know, your truckers, I mean, they have not been intimidated.
00:12:12.780 They are still there on the streets of Ottawa and elsewhere.
00:12:15.780 They're on the bridge.
00:12:17.060 And the second thing they're going to have to do is really be able to articulate what they believe in,
00:12:27.860 both as Catholics and as Americans or as Canadians.
00:12:32.080 In other words, why do they want to defend the sacred traditions of the past, whether that's a Western
00:12:41.040 tradition or they want to put it in the founding tradition?
00:12:44.860 And number three, it's going to take a deep spiritual commitment.
00:12:52.520 It's going to take a prayer, the prayer life that says, Lord, I'm going to wake up in the morning
00:12:58.480 and I'm going to look in the mirror and I'll say, I'm going to believe it today.
00:13:02.960 I'm going to believe it one more day, as Carl, the famous evangelical theologian, Carl Barth used to say.
00:13:08.160 And little am I going to believe it.
00:13:12.740 I'm going to let people know I believe it.
00:13:15.400 I just bought a whole bunch of American flag pins.
00:13:19.020 I wish I had it on right now.
00:13:20.380 But I'm putting them on all my clothes.
00:13:22.340 I mean, I just bought it like a few days ago.
00:13:24.660 I've already got the flag in the yard.
00:13:26.700 And as I say in the book, John Henry, I have a chapter on symbols, using our symbols.
00:13:30.660 Well, what happened if everyone who voted for Donald Trump on the same day put a flag in the yard, 75 million flags in the yard,
00:13:41.660 that would cause a tidal wave of anger from the desecrators.
00:13:50.180 Why?
00:13:50.600 Because, number one, it would symbolize, we're not afraid of you.
00:13:55.580 Here I am.
00:13:57.060 I'm not going to hide from you.
00:13:59.540 Here I am.
00:14:00.420 I voted for Trump.
00:14:01.460 They don't represent the big majority of this country.
00:14:05.060 They may represent a strong plurality, which is entirely controlled by the media and so forth.
00:14:12.740 But we are here and we are going to fight you.
00:14:17.460 That's what that would represent.
00:14:19.440 There was an early movement in the pro-life movement that was all about making a big tent.
00:14:26.800 In order to do that, they basically shoved Catholics, perhaps some Christians too, to the back of the bus.
00:14:35.940 If you came to the March for Life with a crucifix or with, God forbid, a picture of Our Lady,
00:14:42.720 you were told you could either leave those here in March or you can just go home.
00:14:46.280 What is your takeaway on that, the approach that you would advocate for this kind of building a big tent and where we need to go with it?
00:14:56.740 When I first came to Washington and was asked to work with Governor Bush, I met with Ralph Reed.
00:15:03.080 He was handling the evangelical outreach and I was handling the Catholic outreach.
00:15:07.280 And we met off and we said, we agreed we wanted to do something that would be a unified effort.
00:15:16.840 And of course, we were all familiar with how, you know, the history of anti-Catholicism among evangelicals.
00:15:23.740 And Ralph didn't have an iota of that.
00:15:28.020 And of course, he was then head of the Christian coalition.
00:15:32.880 And so we began messaging and having events bringing Catholics and evangelicals together, you know, on the ground rather than writing documents and having 20, 30 people sign them.
00:15:45.460 I think since that was 1999, 2000, I think here in the year 2022, I think we've seen a real healing of the historical rift between Catholics and evangelicals through their political action.
00:16:04.180 It hasn't come through doctrinal changes on either side.
00:16:09.320 It's come because of the pro-life music movement primarily and people getting over this sort of, well, I'm the only, we're the only ones saved versus you say you're the only ones saved.
00:16:22.260 I think that's, except for a few places in Florida, I think that's pretty much gone now.
00:16:27.300 Now, there are some very controversial questions because, of course, you were heading up Catholics for Trump and Trump did some very controversial things from a Catholic perspective.
00:16:38.560 One of the things was, you know, the LGBT push and the other, the vaccine push. 0.67
00:16:45.020 So I'd like to have you address both of those, if you don't mind.
00:16:47.780 So first of all, with the appointment of Rick Grinnell and Rick going out publicly saying he's, you know, Trump has done more for the LGBT community than any president in U.S. history.
00:16:59.620 And of course, you could see some of that.
00:17:01.900 He put out a very popular commercial because of that.
00:17:04.060 But how did you take that as a Catholic and what would you respond to criticisms on that basis?
00:17:10.800 He hasn't pushed the vaccine.
00:17:12.660 He just recommends people get it.
00:17:15.120 He hasn't, he's against mandates, completely against.
00:17:18.880 I mean, I was at Mar-a-Lago with him.
00:17:21.440 He talked about it.
00:17:22.440 And we had a big golf tournament down there, 30 people in Trump.
00:17:26.460 But he made it clear because he had gotten all that criticism.
00:17:30.420 He said not for mandates, not telling people what to do.
00:17:33.000 He's just saying in his case, he thinks, now I'm vaccinated.
00:17:36.020 I have a booster.
00:17:37.220 I hope I don't end up with a heart attack, you know, based upon a blood clot, which seems to be going around a lot.
00:17:42.620 Now, LGBT, I don't agree with that. 1.00
00:17:48.240 I don't agree with any action toward that community that tries to normalize their sexual values.
00:17:56.840 I'm all for equal rights in the workplace.
00:18:00.300 I'm all for equal pay.
00:18:02.680 And I'm all for mutual respect, which George Bush was, too, by the way.
00:18:07.120 But when it comes to anything that would, any kind of legislation or educational policy that would seek to normalize in the minds of the nation, and minds especially of our young people, that this is normal sexual behavior, I'm opposed to.
00:18:26.860 One of the things that your book is particular about is the cancel culture.
00:18:32.140 This really took a foothold with the whole Black Lives Matter movement.
00:18:40.000 What's your takeaway from that?
00:18:41.980 And what have you seen?
00:18:43.300 Where do you think it's going?
00:18:44.560 I don't know if you're as old as I am.
00:18:45.800 I think you're a little younger.
00:18:47.520 But back when I was in college, the University of Texas, an existentialism was sweeping through the campus along with the anti-Vietnam riots.
00:18:57.140 This was the seed time of this attitude that each individual is autonomous.
00:19:05.220 There is no normative understanding of human beings.
00:19:10.020 There is no common standard of right and wrong, virtues and vices.
00:19:15.940 You can invent yourself.
00:19:17.700 You can invent your own values.
00:19:19.500 Like Jean-Paul Sartre, you know, saying that human life is like a blank chalkboard.
00:19:27.100 You draw your own picture of existence.
00:19:29.240 It doesn't have to match up to anybody else's because there is no common understanding of human existence.
00:19:36.280 So this has been, and then you went through feminism, then you went through multiculturalism, which was very pernicious, because it was really not about multiple voices as much as it was getting rid of established Western voices.
00:19:51.940 Then you go into this thing we call deconstruction and postmodernism, which is philosophically a direct attack on the notion of truth and knowledge.
00:20:02.380 I mean, and so all of this has been growing since the 60s.
00:20:07.880 And I lived through every step of it, and I thought every step of it, obviously not very effectively, because it's taken hold, and especially took hold in education and in departments of education, schools of education, schools of journalism, so that all those people that graduated since the 60s out of journalism, out of education, what have they done?
00:20:35.360 They've gone on to educate generation after generation of people to their implicitly nihilistic point of view.
00:20:47.040 I mean, they don't come out as nihilist.
00:20:49.320 They come out as sort of multiculturalist, or they come out as feminist, or they come out as something where underneath that, and this is what we do in our book, underneath that, we show that it's a rejection of human nature, 0.64
00:21:04.020 of any kind of absolute truth or any kind of moral norms.
00:21:09.620 What do parents do today?
00:21:12.980 They are raising their kids in this most confusing of times, like probably the world has never, ever experienced, just because of that confusion at every single level.
00:21:23.420 There's not a world war, so to speak, on the body, but there's a world war on the soul, arguably thus more severe than anything we've ever experienced.
00:21:36.240 What are parents to do in such a culture, in such a time, with their children, anywhere from the little ones to the teenagers?
00:21:44.900 What are we to do?
00:21:46.200 The parents need to reignite their own minds and hearts. 0.80
00:21:52.120 In other words, they need to remember the basic values and ideas that they stand for.
00:21:59.440 They need to learn to articulate them.
00:22:01.820 They need to have their kids, seeing them read books.
00:22:06.580 Their kids need to see them reading scripture, obviously, but, you know, Moby Dick, Billy Budd, right?
00:22:13.100 The Aristotle, Plato, Thomas Aquinas, we could go on.
00:22:19.440 Do the kids see the parents spending half an hour, an hour reading?
00:22:25.880 Or are they all watching TV?
00:22:27.680 Or are they all watching, you know, Marvel comic movies?
00:22:32.160 Which, very entertaining, but life is not entertainment, and we're not in a situation where entertainment should get in the way of parents becoming representative of the culture that's being destroyed.
00:22:48.780 The children, you don't just sit there and put books in children's hands and say, read it.
00:22:54.620 But you let the children see you doing it, and then the children want to do it.
00:23:00.840 You know, they want to be like mommy and daddy.
00:23:03.080 Between fourth and fifth grade, I read three 1,000-page novels, Gone with a Wind, Advise and Consent, and what was, oh, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
00:23:14.800 Now, I didn't think it was a big deal until I told people later on I had done it, and they looked at me like, did you play baseball?
00:23:22.780 Yeah, I was the best hitter on the team.
00:23:25.180 I played baseball.
00:23:26.140 I played outside, but I also read books.
00:23:28.880 Reading changes you.
00:23:30.640 It changes your life.
00:23:32.580 It deepens your understanding of yourself and your world.
00:23:36.880 It gives you weapons because it helps you see into human nature, helps you to see what it is that motivates people, what it is that people fear.
00:23:51.200 I mean, reading is the way in which a heart and soul are strengthened.
00:23:58.100 I know that's a big claim, but there isn't any other thing other than prayer, other than liturgical experience, that can solidify a human being, an individual, a parent, like reading.
00:24:14.680 One of the underpinnings, I think, of a lot of what we've seen, both in the secular culture and in the church, probably more sadly in the church than anything else, that we're now hearing echoed in Rome.
00:24:28.720 But at least from the American perspective, it came from one of the most unlikely sources because it was the priest who headed up probably one of the most successful Catholic kind of feel-good rah-rah outreaches.
00:24:43.580 The Catholic project headed up by then Father and now Bishop Barron.
00:24:48.760 But his message that I found controversial and probably many didn't was the empty hell theory.
00:24:57.320 Now we're hearing that sort of everywhere.
00:24:58.720 But to me anyway, it underpins so much of modernism and modern day laissez-faire when it comes to the spiritual life, when it comes to acting morally in your existence.
00:25:11.260 Since, what's your take on that question?
00:25:14.840 You know, I went back and I read from Balthazar's book where, you know, a lot of people are getting this idea that if there's a hell, nobody's in it.
00:25:24.200 And Balthazar doesn't say that.
00:25:27.380 He just says he hopes there's nobody in hell.
00:25:31.240 Now, that's not saying there is nobody in hell.
00:25:34.180 I understand human life, and I think any Christian understands human life, as pointing toward an eternal divide. 1.00
00:25:43.100 There is a hell.
00:25:45.560 And if you are not prepared to meet God, you will not meet him.
00:25:50.900 You will meet something else, something hellish.
00:25:56.100 I understood when I became a Christian, he's been as a Baptist, and I certainly understood it when I became Catholics, even though the Jesuits tried to talk me out of it.
00:26:06.020 If our salvation is guaranteed, then we should, why are we even moaning and groaning?
00:26:12.880 Why are we feeling guilty?
00:26:14.340 Why are we striving to do the right thing?
00:26:17.700 Because we know, you know, as Paul says in our hearts, where we are headed, and that there will be a judgment.
00:26:27.520 So, I mean, we can do all the sophisticated arguments about Balthazar and heaven and all that.
00:26:35.140 And, of course, I mean, I'll say right now, I hope nobody's in hell.
00:26:39.280 But I think people are in hell.
00:26:41.120 And I think people will be in hell, and I think that's what the drama of existence is.
00:26:50.260 And everybody's living it.
00:26:53.700 Everybody's living that drama.
00:26:55.540 Deal Hudson, your book, The Desecrators with Match Slap, is available through TAN Books.
00:27:00.000 Where can people get in touch with you, Deal?
00:27:01.480 Well, let's see.
00:27:02.380 I have an email address.
00:27:04.660 I don't mind giving it to you.
00:27:06.860 It's HudsonDeal at Gmail.
00:27:10.540 They can also get to me through Facebook.
00:27:13.380 I have a Facebook page, Deal, Wyatt Hudson.
00:27:17.500 And you know what, John Henry, I learned long ago, I answer every email.
00:27:22.820 I answer every phone call.
00:27:25.580 I answer every text message.
00:27:27.980 And I answer every Facebook message.
00:27:31.740 Because I think that's how you should treat people.
00:27:35.220 With respect, even when they're coming after you.
00:27:38.580 Nothing to be afraid of.
00:27:40.800 If they have taken the time to reach out to you, they deserve an answer.
00:27:46.100 Deal, thanks so much for being with us on this episode of The John Henry Weston Show.
00:27:49.400 God bless you.
00:27:50.300 And thanks for the great work you've been doing for so long.
00:27:54.540 And God bless all of you.
00:27:56.180 We'll see you next time on The John Henry Weston Show.
00:27:58.500 We have been warning everyone who would listen and attempting to build up alternative platforms to continue to reach you.
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00:29:13.740 going directly to our website means that you will never encounter any censorship or sudden loss of LifeSiteNews reporting.
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