The John-Henry Westen Show - John-Henry Westen： The state of the Church Today

00:00:00.000 Hi everyone and welcome to the John Henry Weston Show. This is John Henry Weston, your host,

00:00:04.140 and this week the John Henry Weston Show is on the road. And so we're going to bring to you

00:00:09.340 this special report. It is a snapshot of the state of the Church today given in Rome. I hope you

00:00:16.900 enjoy it. May God bless you.

00:00:30.000 Just to show you, there's a real relationship. You'd think LifeSite is that anti-Vatican place.

00:00:45.840 That's what a lot of people think nowadays. It's not true. We had a very warm relationship

00:00:50.660 with the Church until recent times. And things have really changed in recent times. And you

00:00:57.660 need to really understand that. And so that is what a lot of this presentation is going

00:01:02.320 to be. So if you can go to the next slide. So I call it the Millstone Award. But if you

00:01:07.160 read Matthew chapter 18, you read about how it's better for a millstone to be tied about

00:01:13.940 your neck and thrown into the sea, which by the way was the gospel we had yesterday, right?

00:01:18.300 I thought that was very providential that that was our gospel. So it's true though. And Bishop

00:01:24.540 Schneider actually told us the true friends of the Pope are not the ones who give him adulation.

00:01:30.900 They're the ones who ask him for clarification, ask him to clarify the confusing mess that he's

00:01:34.980 making with the Church. Because the Pope, like every one of us, will have to answer on judgment day for

00:01:41.940 what he did. And when Jesus was talking about the millstone, he was talking to his apostles.

00:01:47.500 He was telling them, it would be better for you to have a millstone. Everybody know

00:01:51.540 what a millstone is? It's a huge stone that they use to crush wheat into flour. And it's

00:01:58.160 so heavy, it's impossible. The heavier the more you can do and the better it is. So it

00:02:03.820 was just, it's a ridiculously big, heavy stone. So if that's tied to your neck, well, you know

00:02:08.300 what's going to happen to you. So, but it's true. That's where we're coming from. We actually

00:02:13.520 see it as an act of love to correct, admonish the sinner. As the scriptures say, it's an act

00:02:21.140 of mercy, right? To, to, to church teaching is it's an act of mercy to admonish the sinner.

00:02:25.540 We're actually doing that even with prelates because we know it's better for them to be 0.98

00:02:32.140 corrected even by the laity than go to hell. In the same way our Lord talks about better for

00:02:37.940 you to lose your hand in this life than be thrown a whole body into hell. So, and it's 0.63

00:02:44.360 very clear. If you want to make it clear for yourself, because I know it's confusing when

00:02:47.820 you relate it to the Pope. Think first of all, the sexual abuse situation. How much better

00:02:53.360 would it have been for some layman to confront the priest when he was getting off into this

00:03:00.700 thing, into this lifestyle with, don't you dare do that? Or God knows what kind of,

00:03:07.360 you know, confrontation there would have been, but it would have been so much better for

00:03:11.660 that priest in the long run, even to have lost his priesthood per se, than go into this

00:03:17.420 life of horrific sin. And so it's that, that's the concept that we work with. You go to the

00:03:24.840 next slide, you'll see that in canon law, if we can, I wonder if we can move the projection

00:03:31.220 a little bit. But anyway, if you can see it in canon law, talking about the lay faithful,

00:03:35.900 they have the right indeed at times, the duty in keeping with their knowledge, competence

00:03:40.200 and position to manifest to the sacred pastors, their views on matters which concern the good

00:03:46.060 of the church. They have the right also to make their views known to others of Christ's

00:03:51.100 faithful, but in doing so, they must always respect the integrity of faith and morals, show

00:03:55.460 due reverence for the pastors and take into account both the common good and the dignity

00:03:59.520 of individuals. And so that's exactly what we're doing with Voice of the Family. That's what

00:04:03.260 we're doing at LifeSite. And trying to be clear on what we're doing, because we would

00:04:11.280 rather die than do something that Christ doesn't want us to do. So this is what we're about.

00:04:17.560 Next slide, please. Oh, perfect. St. Thomas Aquinas teaches the same. If the faith were

00:04:23.500 in danger, a subject ought to rebuke his prelate even publicly. Hence, Paul, who was Peter's subject,

00:04:28.240 rebuked him in public on account of the imminent danger for the faith. So it's interesting because

00:04:34.980 right at the beginning of the church, with the Lord's own chosen first pope, there was this example

00:04:42.760 right away of the need to correct a pope publicly. And so we have that situation today

00:04:49.720 rather grievously. We actually try so hard to do this. We not only do LifeSite, but we found there

00:04:57.920 were a number of prelates, high ranking, even cardinals, not following what was happening in

00:05:03.860 the church. And I was so startled because this back in 2014, 15, 16, I still thought the cardinals are

00:05:12.320 the ones who are going to save us because they're paying attention and they'll know what's going on and

00:05:17.160 they're going to fight this somehow. And I learned sadly that a lot of the cardinals weren't paying

00:05:20.560 attention at all. So let's get into it a little bit. This might, for some of you, be startling,

00:05:27.420 and I apologize for that, but you need to know the gravity of the state we're in so that you

00:05:31.440 understand what we're up against. We're up against something that has never happened in the church

00:05:36.720 before, and I mean never. So you've heard about the Arian heresy where it seemed like everyone in the

00:05:42.620 church was Arian, even the Pope for a time. And you had Bishop Athanasius. Isn't it funny? It's the

00:05:48.260 same name as another Bishop Athanasius today. But anyway, you had that occasion. But as several

00:05:54.520 people will, historians will tell you, Professor de Maté, at least it was one heresy. And now we have

00:05:59.860 many, many, many. So we'll get into that. One of the first indications that there was a difficulty

00:06:06.000 or problem with Pope Francis was actually on the balcony when he came out. On the balcony when he

00:06:11.160 came out was Cardinal Daniels. Cardinal Daniels is very famous because he's the cardinal who

00:06:16.400 fought always with JP II and Benedict, after JP II made him a cardinal, by the way, but anyway,

00:06:22.720 was in favor of abortion, actually told the King of Belgium it was okay to legalize abortion. But he

00:06:29.320 would say, of course, that he was doing so for legal reasons. He also praised the legalization of

00:06:33.560 homosexual marriage. He wears a rainbow stall. I've got a picture of him later with a rainbow 0.87

00:06:37.440 stall on so you can see. But he was on the balcony with Francis on the election day. And you can go

00:06:44.920 watch the video of that if you wish. It's all over the place. But even from a liberal perspective,

00:06:51.380 Cardinal Daniels is terrible because he got caught on tape telling a sexual abuse victim

00:06:56.440 who was abused by a bishop friend of Cardinal Daniels, not to go public that he was abused,

00:07:04.180 not to bring it to the courts because the bishop was going to retire the next year. So even in the

00:07:09.020 face of that, which is like one of the only sins left in the world, that the world counts as a sin,

00:07:14.380 that was the case nonetheless. Okay, so then there was a lot of other incidents. He praised Casper on

00:07:19.580 day three. But a lot of people stood up and took notice on the papal flight, the first papal flight

00:07:26.780 back from Rio in 2013, the year of his election, where he said, we cannot insist only on issues related to

00:07:33.180 abortion, gay marriage, and the use of contraceptive methods. I'm a son of the church. It's not 0.98

00:07:37.620 necessary to talk about these issues all the time. And every single pro-life leader around the world

00:07:44.380 went, where? Where is it talked about all the time? Has anybody heard a homily on contraception ever in

00:07:51.500 your life? They basically know. And interestingly, I thought to my great naivete, it must be in Argentina.

00:08:00.000 In Argentina, they're pounding the pulpits on this stuff every day. So I called up to Argentina,

00:08:04.940 the pro-life group there, and I asked them, so your priests are regularly like talking about

00:08:09.760 abortion, same-sex marriage, and contraception? Not at all. So that gave us a good indication of where

00:08:18.920 things were at. But just so that you see what a diversion this is, or difference this is,

00:08:24.940 from where the church was always. Go to the next slide. This is 2006. Pope Benedict XVI said to

00:08:34.920 members of the European People's Party, as far as the Catholic Church is concerned, the principal focus

00:08:39.780 of her interventions in the public arena is the protection and promotion of the dignity of the

00:08:44.260 human person, and she's thereby consciously drawing particular attention to principles which are not

00:08:48.940 negotiable. Protection of life in all its stages, from the first moment of conception until natural death.

00:08:54.420 The natural family and parents' rights and education. Those are what Pope Benedict called

00:08:59.500 the non-negotiables. But what I want you to notice is that's the principal focus of the church in public

00:09:06.740 intervention. And yet we heard from Francis exactly the opposite in a very public intervention. It was a

00:09:13.420 public interview on a plane. If you go to the next slide, this is Pope John Paul II, the inviability of the

00:09:20.980 human person, which is a reflection of the absolute inviability of God, finds its primary and fundamental

00:09:25.660 expression in the inviability of human life, of all the common outcry which is justly made on behalf of

00:09:32.400 human rights. For example, now get this, because this will come up later. He said, the just, sorry,

00:09:39.700 the common outcry which is justly made on behalf of human rights, for example, right to health, home, work,

00:09:44.380 family, culture, is false and illusory if the right to life, the most basic and fundamental right and the

00:09:51.120 condition of all other personal rights is not defended with maximum determination. Please remember that,

00:09:59.220 because that's going to come up later. It's the basis of one of the official teaching heresies of the Pope.

00:10:08.340 As we go through, you'll see there's a lot of things you could consider heretical.

00:10:14.580 Next slide, please. And I apologize for this, but this is horrible information, but it's what happened.

00:10:20.500 He met the chief abortionist in Italy by the name of Emma Bonino. Emma Bonino is not only the chief

00:10:26.100 abortionist, she started out as an illegal abortionist, did like 10,000 abortions, left the 1.00

00:10:30.020 country so she wouldn't go to jail, came back, became a politician, legalized abortion, joined the 0.98

00:10:34.180 party which legalized abortion, homosexuality, every bad anti-church thing you can imagine, and still

00:10:39.940 stands by it and encourages it. And nonetheless, the Pope met with her. Not to correct her, by the way,

00:10:46.500 but to praise her on her stance on immigration. So many times did the Pope meet with her that she goes

00:10:52.260 and speaks at Catholic churches around Italy. Next slide, please. And I apologize for the photo.

00:10:59.300 That's her doing an abortion. Next slide, please. We'll just clear that quickly. But the point is,

00:11:03.860 the evidence that she was an abortionist and did abortions is free for everyone to see because

00:11:08.500 she's really proud of it. You can catch her talking pro-abortion after her meeting with the Pope.

00:11:16.340 So this is not some reach out to sinners and bring them to conversion. It was praising someone causing

00:11:26.180 massive scandal. So there's another unbelievable thing. Since Pope Francis's entry into the Apostolic

00:11:36.580 Palace, or at least the hotel next to it, he has brought in just an unbelievable laundry

00:11:46.020 list of the worst population controllers on earth. So the same people John Paul II fought.

00:11:52.660 John Paul II encouraged the pro-life movement to go into the UN to fight the population controllers,

00:11:57.860 because they were foisting abortion, contraception, and so on on the world, saying,

00:12:02.260 oh, the population is overburdening the planet, and we're all going to die. Of course, that was proved

00:12:07.300 wrong about 20 years ago, but that didn't make a difference. Still today, they're pushing the same

00:12:12.260 nonsense line, and what happens? Tesla comes out. Did everybody hear? You know, Tesla,

00:12:16.740 the guy who made the cars, and Elon Musk, Tesla, everybody know him? Yeah. He came out the other

00:12:22.580 day to say that the big problem we're facing is an underpopulation problem, which has been known

00:12:29.220 for about 20 years, but so many of the most powerful people in the world are saying the opposite,

00:12:33.060 that people were confused. So much so that we've brought here who we've brought to the Vatican.

00:12:41.620 The head of Population Council, we've got the head of the UN, Ban Ki-moon, who at the time was

00:12:47.300 promoting abortion, Jeffrey Sachs, one of the biggest promoters of population control, but the father of,

00:12:53.860 and John Schellnummer, but the father of the sort of population control movement, if you will,

00:12:59.540 the guy who wrote the population bomb, that was the 1968 book that sort of stemmed this all,

00:13:08.420 was actually invited as well. The worst thing though is, yes, so you have this wonderful parade

00:13:15.860 of people who come, and it's regular now, we have these conferences in the Vatican regularly,

00:13:21.780 under the guise or agus of an environmental conference, and that's why we're doing this,

00:13:27.700 because we want to, you know, stick with the planet and have a nice, wonderful planet.

00:13:31.940 Based on false research, as we know, there's an underpopulation, not an overpopulation problem,

00:13:35.940 but these guys sit in there and talk as if we need to reduce the planet's people. And I know it's

00:13:42.580 hard to believe all that. We have video of that on Lifesite. You can watch them say it. We watched a

00:13:49.220 Japanese researcher say how it was amazing that he went to Tokyo or some country about 10 years ago,

00:14:01.140 and there were so many school children. There are half the numbers. There was 400,000, now there's 200,000.

00:14:07.140 And he said that was amazing. So it was chilling to watch, but even more chilling was Bishop Marcel

00:14:15.540 Sanchez Sorondo, who is the head of the Pontifical Academy for Sciences and Social Sciences,

00:14:20.980 who's on video saying that we need to give women, I could do his accent, but that would probably be

00:14:26.820 insulting, but we need to give women education so that they will have one or two children, not seven 1.00

00:14:32.900 children. But if that's confusing for you, when the Holy Father on the plane complained that it was

00:14:42.340 irresponsible for a woman who had children by c-section, she had seven and was going to have her 1.00

00:14:49.380 eight, he said she was irresponsible and so on and so forth. That was really harmful for a lot of women 1.00

00:14:57.060 who have heroically had many children, even via c-section. So this stuff has been shocking to

00:15:04.660 say the least. Oh, there's our, the next slide is just the members of the population control groups,

00:15:10.980 and at the end is Marcel Sanchez Sorondo. The next slide is the elevation of anti-pro-life hierarchy.

00:15:19.940 The appointments of people to high places in the church has been a nightmare in this papacy.

00:15:29.860 And I'm going to go first talk about Blaise Cupich, Archbishop of Chicago. Cupich was known

00:15:38.180 to be against, for instance, 40 days for life. But not only that, Cardinal Cupich was in Rome during the

00:15:46.340 Synods. And I was there and asked him a question, because he was talking about how Morse Letizia is

00:15:53.060 allowing for communion for divorced and remarried couples. And basically the, the Minister of Holy

00:15:58.980 Communion has to follow the consciences of the people, therefore they have to be given Holy

00:16:02.580 Communion. I said to him, well, what about, I said it really nicely, but I said, well, what about a

00:16:11.140 homosexual couple? If they come forward, does the Minister of Holy Communion give them 1.00

00:16:16.020 communion too, if they believe that in conscience they're doing the right thing?

00:16:19.620 You know what he said? Gays are people too. The Minister of Holy Communion must

00:16:23.860 give Holy Communion to the gay couple. Now, that was very interesting because nobody believed it.

00:16:29.700 Everybody thought that's nonsense. So we put out the audio of the, of him saying it, and then three

00:16:35.220 weeks later he said it on television in the United States as well. But right after that, he was made

00:16:39.540 Cardinal. So what's going on is an absolute nightmare. And you can look at different, 1.00

00:16:46.820 different people. For instance, Cardinal Casper, who under JP II, yes, was made Cardinal, but they

00:16:53.220 fought and they fought so much that basically Casper was sidelined. He didn't have much of a role anymore

00:16:57.780 in the church. And everybody thought because he was already old, that would be the last we'd hear of

00:17:01.460 him. Except on day three of the papacy, as I said before, Francis praised him as a theologian who

00:17:06.180 does theology on the knees, and then trotted him out at the first synod on the family, and the second

00:17:12.020 one as well, and talked about him when he went, when Francis went to a church in Rome here, a Lutheran

00:17:21.220 church. And he was answering a question on whether or not a woman should receive Holy Communion if she's

00:17:27.380 Lutheran, her husband is Catholic. He said, oh, I'm scared to answer in the face of the great theologian,

00:17:34.740 Cardinal Casper, who was sitting there in the audience and everybody laughed. And then he answered,

00:17:39.220 well, it's not for me to say, you pray and then go forward to the woman who was asking about that.

00:17:44.500 Anyway, just, we've got so many of these, I'll just stop there. There's over and over and over again.

00:17:49.780 And then the demotion of good and holy cardinals who worked with Popes, John Paul II and Benedict.

00:17:57.700 Cardinal Burke, for instance, he was just removed from office. Not because he's of age. He was still

00:18:06.260 what they call a baby cardinal. Because, you know, they're young enough to stay in for a long time.

00:18:12.260 But he was removed. And yet, no explanation for it, other than what? He's conservative. And he was

00:18:20.020 given what? He was given a post as a sort of chaplain, if you will, or something like that,

00:18:25.540 to the Order of Malta. Even that was taken away, by the way. But nonetheless, it was unbelievable.

00:18:30.420 Another cardinal removed was Cardinal Muller. Also, why? What did he do? He did nothing except defend

00:18:37.860 the Orthodox faith. So, we're in a real pickle in terms of what's going on, in terms of, you know,

00:18:49.300 putting up bad people and bringing down the good. But it's happening not only with people,

00:18:53.460 but also with organizations. So, the Pontifical Academy for Life, and I'm going to combine this

00:18:59.140 with the John Paul II Institute, also, which had almost exactly the same thing. So, very interesting,

00:19:07.620 both the Pontifical Academy for Life, founded by John Paul II, and the John Paul II Institute for

00:19:15.780 Life and the Family, were dismantled under Pope Francis by the same guy. He put Bishop Paglia in

00:19:24.260 charge. And Paglia did exactly the same thing. First, the mandates were changed. So, in terms of

00:19:31.540 the Pontifical Academy for Life, the pro-life pledge was removed. And he also then did this strategy.

00:19:39.700 He sort of suspended all the members, and then brought back most, but excluded some who he didn't

00:19:46.100 like. And they were all the ones that were most conservative, most pro-life, most close to the

00:19:50.820 thought of John Paul II. And the same thing was done, exactly the same thing done with the

00:19:55.700 John Paul II Institute. Again, change the mandate, suspend all the profs, bring back most, but leave

00:20:03.780 out the ones, and in case of the JP II Institute, it was Father Noriega and Melina. So, you had this

00:20:14.500 unbelievable removal of the guys who were known, and Brian, he will tell you forever about, because he was a

00:20:22.740 student there, about how those two were foundational to the Institute. So, next slide.

00:20:32.980 All right, and that is Archbishop Paglia. And, you know, it is... Did I have the other one there?

00:20:38.580 Yeah, okay. So, Archbishop Paglia, who was brought in to do that, is a real problem. It should have been

00:20:46.900 known that he was a real problem, because before he came there, he was the bishop in Terny. In Terny,

00:20:52.820 the sort of church, let's picture this is the church, okay, the tabernacle's over there. On this

00:20:58.340 humongous wall, he made an image of, he had a painter who was horrific in his sacrilegious images, 0.96

00:21:07.140 come and paint a painting with a Jesus, with a translucent garb, so you could see his genitals 0.88

00:21:13.140 under the cloth, holding two nets. And in the net are all sorts of homosexuals and transsexuals and 1.00

00:21:20.280 everything like that. They're nude and in sort of sexual poses, not having sex, but sexual poses. 1.00

00:21:25.480 The artist was going to make sex, having sex, but he thought maybe not to do that. And then he's 0.92

00:21:30.920 lifting them up to take them to heaven.

00:21:33.240 Now, if you go to the next image, you'll see part of it was the bishop having himself

00:21:38.680 painted in the image, embracing some nude guy. So, I'm sorry for the image, we can go on.

00:21:45.480 So, I mean, if you don't think we're in trouble yet, there's Cardinal Daniels, remember I told you,

00:21:51.640 the one on the balcony with Francis, there he is in a rainbow stall. Photographic evidence,

00:21:57.160 video evidence is actually very important, because this stuff is so unbelievable that

00:22:01.560 people have a hard time actually thinking. This is why people actually believe LifeSite

00:22:06.440 goes and makes this stuff up. Honestly. And yet, it's in full color. Okay, next slide.

00:22:13.560 All right. So, now, 2016. Yeah. A lot of these examples are so unreal. So, the Pope is asked about,

00:22:31.240 in 2016, by an Italian reporter about the debate in Italy regarding homosexual civil unions, the Pope

00:22:36.280 replies, the Pope doesn't get mixed up in Italian politics, because the Pope is for everybody, he can't

00:22:41.560 insert himself into the specific internal politics of the country. It's not the role of the Pope,

00:22:47.400 right? On the issue of legalization of homosexual civil unions. Okay, now, next, on the same flight,

00:22:57.320 the Pope is asked about, um, during the presidential primaries, the Pope, uh, discussed, or when, when was

00:23:08.920 this? Oh, yeah. Uh, it was, this was previous to it, but anyway, the Pope inserted himself into the

00:23:14.280 presidential primaries, the primaries, by calling Donald Trump a person who only thinks about building

00:23:19.640 walls wherever they may be and not building bridges is not a Christian. So, to think you can slough off 1.00

00:23:29.480 answering about civil unions with, oh, I don't go into politics, and then go absolutely directly into

00:23:35.320 politics is, well, today it's par for the course with Pope Francis, unfortunately. Uh, next slide,

00:23:42.120 please. Kim Davis and Yahya Grassi. So, this was, um, one of the things, by the way, ever, people know

00:23:49.800 Archbishop Vigano? Some. Hands up, who know Archbishop Vigano? Okay, Lott Stone. Okay, that's interesting.

00:23:57.880 We'll get there in a minute, then. So, when the United, uh, when the Pope came to the United States,

00:24:03.720 at that time, there was legislation to allow same-sex marriage, and a Kentucky clerk, great Christian lady, 0.53

00:24:10.840 who was a convert, actually. She lived a bad life before, kind of like me, and then she got married

00:24:15.480 properly, and, and so on and so forth. So, you're a really strong evangelical Christian. She was asked

00:24:19.480 to sign on to these marriage certificates, and she said she wouldn't, and they threatened her with jail,

00:24:24.760 and she had, you know, like three little kids, and she went to jail anyway. So, she was jailed for a few

00:24:30.600 days, yeah? Sorry, could you say that again? I didn't quite understand. Yeah, so, uh, Kentucky clerk, like a

00:24:36.360 marriage registrar, um, they're elected, they're elected, they're elected positions in the United

00:24:41.800 States. She was asked to put her signature allowing for gay marriage, because when they come in for, 0.73

00:24:47.160 you know, the marriage certificate, she's the registrar, she's supposed to sign, and she said

00:24:51.080 she wouldn't sign, and therefore she was threatened with jail for not signing, and she went to jail rather

00:24:56.840 than offend her conscience. Well, when the pope came to America, um, the, then, uh, um, nuncius

00:25:05.480 wanted to bring her, because she was such a hero, to meet the pope. She's not a Catholic, by the way,

00:25:10.760 she's an evangelical Christian, um, and thought it'd be nice for her, and maybe for the church to, to bring

00:25:16.760 her to meet the pope, so he did. Now, when she met the pope, it was very interesting. She wasn't allowed

00:25:20.760 to take photos. She was told she wasn't allowed to mention it to the press until after the pope left the

00:25:26.280 country, and so she did that. Now, anybody who knows anything about meeting with the pope,

00:25:31.880 there's photos all the time, because you get sold the photos later, right? It's a great business,

00:25:37.000 that's what there's a photographer there with everything he does, uh, and then you take the

00:25:41.960 picture, you can go get it, and pay for it, it's all wonderful. So, this time no photos, and she, after

00:25:49.640 the pope left, did what she was told, then she went to media and said, yeah, I met with the pope,

00:25:53.880 it was really nice, and the media said, oh, where's the photos? And she said, I, I was told not to take

00:26:01.240 any photos. So, the media went to Rome and asked them, hey, is this true? The, the first answer from

00:26:08.360 the Vatican press office was, uh, we can neither confirm nor deny the report. Then, the media in

00:26:14.200 America started calling her a liar. Then, her lawyer, who knew it was true, was starting to make public

00:26:20.520 statements, and then the Vatican press office put out a press release saying,

00:26:26.520 while there was a meeting, the nuncio invited her, it was with a whole bunch of other people,

00:26:31.880 and it wasn't, now, get this, they said the only real meeting, and that's the actual text in the

00:26:38.440 press release, the only real meeting or real audience that the pope had with, with, uh, the,

00:26:44.600 someone in America, in the, in the, in the, in Washington, was with his former student and his

00:26:51.240 family. Who is his former student? His former student is Yayo Grassi, who is a homosexual man 1.00

00:26:58.200 in America. And did he come with his family? Yes, he did. He came with his mom and with his sister,

00:27:03.800 but also with his homosexual lover. And there's not only photo, there's video of it, so you can watch the

00:27:10.280 pope go and embrace Yayo Grassi and embrace his homosexual lover. Next slide, please. That's the 0.99

00:27:20.600 picture of, there's Yayo Grassi, and there's the pope embracing his homosexual lover. And this is all on 0.86

00:27:27.800 video, everywhere. Next slide, please. Pope's flight to Rome, um, he referred to the woman, I told you about

00:27:38.280 this one before. Oh, no, I didn't tell you this one yet. So, in 2015, we published a story that the pope

00:27:45.080 had met with a transgender couple in the Vatican and encouraged them in their messy lifestyle. No one 1.00

00:27:51.880 believed us, even though we had a photo. Now, in October, uh, 2016, the pope told the story.

00:28:00.760 It was unbelievable. He was on the plane asked by, uh, uh, a reporter,

00:28:07.400 holy fuck, though, because, now, here's an important thing to know about Pope Francis. He says 0.99

00:28:12.600 different things all the time. So, he's said several times that transgender ideology is bad. 0.97

00:28:21.320 I can count at least five times. And so, the reporter asked, yes, you've condemned transgender ideology,

00:28:27.400 but how do you take care of transgender people? And the pope said, oh, well, I had one over to the,

00:28:35.080 I had a couple over to the Vatican. Um, and he, no, this is something really strange. He said,

00:28:44.840 and I'll read it to you. The pope explains, this is the pope explaining, a woman who felt like a man,

00:28:51.320 but was physically a young woman after a sex change surgery in her twenties. That's not his

00:28:56.600 quotes. I'm just summarizing. Uh, Pope Francis said he got married. Now, he's saying he got married.

00:29:02.520 Remember, it's a she. Reality. Um, he wrote me a letter. That's this woman with a sex change operation. 1.00

00:29:13.480 Wrote the letter, wrote me a letter saying that for him, it would be a consolation to come

00:29:19.480 to see me with his wife. This is the pope's own words saying that it's he wanted to come visit me with

00:29:29.240 his wife. And this is a transgender couple. I received them and they were very happy.

00:29:39.400 So the optics here are as bad as possible for confusion of the faithful.

00:29:45.720 Clarifying his use of pronouns then, the pope said, he that was her but is he.

00:29:51.240 In America anyway, there's a pronoun war going on right now. In other words, you don't know what

00:29:57.080 to call the person who decides to call himself a woman because he feels like it. And it's so deadly

00:30:04.280 that the pope takes the wrong side in the pronoun war. But it's more deadly that he actually allowed

00:30:10.360 for it in the first place. If you go to the next slide, you will see the photo. So here is the woman 0.68

00:30:18.840 who had a sex change operation. So when she was 20, after she was 22, and she had her breasts removed 1.00

00:30:26.920 and took hormones so that she could grow facial hair. And then married this woman and the pope 1.00

00:30:38.520 had that had that and made it public. So I'm telling you, we're dealing with some very,

00:30:45.560 very serious things. So next slide, please.

00:30:49.400 So this one got very personally relevant because the pope, and by the way, there's video of this as well.

00:30:58.040 The pope in July 16, 2016, actually was having a meeting here in Rome with priests and he was

00:31:05.240 talking about marriage. It's that one famous one where everybody said, oh, the pope said most marriages

00:31:09.960 are null. Do you remember that? I don't know if you remember that. But anyway, he said in that one that

00:31:15.160 cohabitation is real marriage and has the grace of real marriage, if there's fidelity.

00:31:20.840 This was a horrible thing because my daughter was in college at the time and she called me to ask me,

00:31:26.040 Dad, is it true that the pope said cohabitation is real marriage and has the grace of real marriage?

00:31:34.120 And when I came to Rome, I asked several, well, definitely one cardinal and other high-ranking

00:31:41.480 prelates. Was I supposed to lie to my daughter? Because no one is believing this. At this point,

00:31:49.000 it's only 2016. People aren't believing that this is true. And those were his exact quotes.

00:31:56.440 So let's go to the next slide. Antonio Spadaro, who's the chief interviewer of the pope, he heads

00:32:03.000 up Civitza Cattolica. He is a Jesuit, obviously. That's the Jesuit magazine, the main Roman Jesuit magazine.

00:32:08.520 Here's his tweet. The welcoming of those young people who prefer to live together without getting 0.54

00:32:13.560 married. There's the couple holding hands, going to meet the smiling pope. I'm sorry, this is hell

00:32:20.600 for young people. I'm a dad of young people in their 20s, and that is hell for them. If you ever

00:32:26.760 want a situation where the Millstone Award applies, it's this kind of thing. And coming on the back of,

00:32:34.040 of course, this statement about cohabitation, which, by the way, the media picks up immediately.

00:32:41.000 So all of these things are happening. Next slide, please. All of these things are happening,

00:32:46.520 but they're in plain conferences and interviews in magazines. But there are actually formal changes.

00:32:53.080 And while those other things are alarming as heck, and they are, they affect me personally,

00:32:59.240 the formal, sort of formal changes or official things are even more scary because they're,

00:33:06.120 they're made official and they're called official teaching, which actually can't happen

00:33:10.440 because they're heresies. So there's three, and I'll talk about the fourth in a second.

00:33:16.200 The change in the catechism on the death penalty.

00:33:18.600 That's impossible. In fact, in the 1200s, the, there was the Waldensian heresy, and I think it was,

00:33:27.560 the Pope was innocent, the third, he corrected the Waldensian heresy. And when he did so,

00:33:32.360 he talked about this, that it's fine or right, I'll get the wording in a second, it's up there,

00:33:39.000 to use the death penalty. And yet now, the catechism will get to the exact wording in a second.

00:33:45.480 The second, um, official change is on this question of a communion for the divorced and remarried,

00:33:53.480 not in Amoris Laetitia, because Amoris Laetitia isn't clear. People will argue till they're blue in the face.

00:33:58.760 Oh, it's fine. There's a whole bunch of theologians who made an orthodox reading of Amoris Laetitia.

00:34:03.480 How you do that, I don't know, but you can probably do mental gymnastics. But he made it formally

00:34:10.360 heretical when he put it in the Acta Apostolicis. That is the sort of, if you will, rule book for

00:34:17.240 bishops and what they use to determine what's what, um, in the Acts of the Holy See, right? So,

00:34:25.160 he called the allowance for Holy Communion in certain cases where you can't get an annulment

00:34:31.800 and where you can't live incontinence. Everybody knows what that means, living as brother and sister?

00:34:37.000 I'll run through that really quick. So, the, the, the rule of the church coming from Christ is that

00:34:43.000 marriage is forever. You can't leave a marriage. You can't marry someone else. 0.96

00:34:47.320 This messy situation where people do hook up with somebody else, live together, have kids,

00:34:54.200 even when they had a former family, is deadly. Because then what do you do? You're in those

00:34:58.200 particular horrible situations. John Paul II in Familiaris Consortio talked about which, a way

00:35:04.680 forward for that, where the, the new couple, as it were, who have kids now, it might be harmful for

00:35:11.960 the kids if, you know, one of the parents leaves or whatnot. So, he talked about, well, if they're

00:35:17.480 truly repentant, the couple can vow to live as brother and sister. And therefore, they can become

00:35:25.720 right with the church again. There's still problems, of course, but there's the need to avoid scandal and

00:35:31.480 stuff as well. Anyway, um, so that situation can go on under very specific circumstances with the

00:35:40.680 necessity of continence to live like brother and sister, no sexual relations.

00:35:45.960 That was changed. In, and it can't be changed. It's impossible to change. Um, and to, to show the

00:35:51.640 severity of how impossible it is to change that particular teaching, homosexuals will always say 1.00

00:35:56.280 to you, ha, Jesus never talked much about being gay, did he? And if you look through, he didn't

00:36:00.840 reference homosexuality. He referenced Sodom and Gomorrah once. Saint Paul talks all about it all over 0.94

00:36:07.080 the Old Testament. It's known church teaching, but nonetheless, Jesus, in the words recorded in the

00:36:12.200 the Gospels, doesn't. But you know, Jesus is super specific on adultery.

00:36:19.720 So, if we can change church teaching on something as fundamental as where when Jesus was so super

00:36:26.280 specific about it himself, how much more are we able to change anything else where he wasn't so super

00:36:33.160 specific? That's why that debate was so hot, because it was an unbelievable shaking of the church,

00:36:41.240 fooling with Christ's words himself. Um, then in the exhortation exultate, um,

00:36:48.040 gaudete exultate, uh, rejoice and be glad, you have this inversion of, um, or just falsehood of how

00:36:56.520 about, uh, immigration is, is, uh, equal or even more important than, um, than abortion in voting

00:37:03.640 considerations. So we're going to get to that. Also, uh, a side note, he, he did allow for communion

00:37:09.560 of Protestants when they had their spouses from Germany, as long as each individual Bishop decides

00:37:14.600 it not as a thing. Okay. So I had more for you here, but I want to not take too long. So

00:37:21.960 the Buenos Aires guidelines are there. Um, they very, I mean, they show through that process that

00:37:30.520 the wording goes, um, when it's not possible to obtain a declaration of nullity, so there's no

00:37:37.160 annulment, the option of living incontinence may not in fact be feasible, which makes no sense.

00:37:46.360 He does talking about direct adultery. Um, and it is equally possible to undertake a journey of

00:37:52.280 discernment if one arrives at the recognition that in a particular case, there are limitations

00:37:56.920 that diminish responsibility and culpability, particularly when a person judges that he would

00:38:01.320 fail in a subsequent, he would fall into a subsequent fault by damaging the children,

00:38:07.800 which is of course insane because you're not damaging the children by not having sexual relations.

00:38:13.240 But anyway, nonetheless, there it is. Um, and Morsetitia opens up the possibility of access to the

00:38:21.880 sacraments of reconciliation and the Eucharist. Uh, if you go to the next slide.

00:38:29.880 Um, oh, and by the way, just so that you know on that, in the Acta Apostolae Kiseris,

00:38:34.120 it was called, a re-script called it authentic magisterium, authentic teaching. So,

00:38:39.880 I don't know what that's supposed to mean because this is an official document. Um,

00:38:46.200 and there it is. But nonetheless, that's where we're at. Um, the exhortation, Gaudete Exitate,

00:38:52.680 this is an official exhortation of the Pope from last year. Some Catholics, this is a direct quote,

00:38:58.040 some Catholics consider, and he was talking about immigration, a secondary issue compared with the

00:39:03.560 grave bioethical questions. The scare quotes are in the original, by the way.

00:39:09.480 That a politician looking for votes might say such a thing is understandable, but not a Christian. 1.00

00:39:15.800 That's in the exhortation. He also said, and by the way, I encourage you, please don't believe me,

00:39:20.520 please look it up. That's the name of it. And there's the paragraph numbers 102 and 101.

00:39:24.360 He said, um, he criticized pro-lifers who he said act, quote, as if there are other more important

00:39:33.720 matters or the only thing that counts is one particular ethical issue or course that they

00:39:40.840 themselves defend. And he was talking specifically about the defense of the unborn. Please look them up

00:39:48.360 because I know it's, it's hard to believe. Um, oh yes, there, there's more for, but let's skip that one.

00:39:59.240 Okay. Uh, oh, you can go two ahead from there. Two, one more. Okay. So this is the exact language

00:40:09.320 they use. They called it authentic magisterium, as I said. Um, he made the Buenos Aires letter,

00:40:15.480 but that's too complicated. Let's just go with what we have so far. All right. Um, whoops,

00:40:20.120 one back, please. There we go. All right. Oh, just, there's that quote that I wanted to tell you

00:40:27.320 about. So this is the change in the catechism from Pope Francis. The church teaches in light of

00:40:33.000 the gospel that the death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and

00:40:39.000 dignity of the person. She works with determination for its abolition worldwide.

00:40:44.920 Okay. That's Pope Francis. This, remember the Waldensian heresy, condemned the death penalty

00:40:50.760 to let them back into the church. Pope Innocent III said, with regard to the secular power, that's the

00:40:57.560 state, we affirm, that's we is the royal we for popes, that it can exercise a judgment of blood,

00:41:05.640 meaning the death penalty, without mortal sin, provided that in carrying out the punishment,

00:41:09.960 it proceeds not out of hatred, but judiciously, not in a precipitous manner, but with caution.

00:41:16.120 You can't have church teaching, especially in an official capacity, uh, um, contradict itself,

00:41:22.840 but it, it, it seems to now. Um, okay. Next slide, please.

00:41:30.440 Okay. There is, of course, Archbishop Vigano, who made the big revelations. Most of you know about it,

00:41:35.480 but anyway, he accused the Pope of knowing about Cardinal McCarrick, um, and the abuse problems there.

00:41:43.800 Um, the, the, of course, horrible, uh, problems that way, and he, Archbishop Vigano himself,

00:41:52.280 told the Pope about it when he came into office, and he, and the Pope nonetheless,

00:41:57.720 lifted restrictions on Cardinal McCarrick that were placed on him. Um,

00:42:04.520 and, so the, I want you to know, because it's, it's becoming history now, but when the Vigano

00:42:11.240 revelations were made, the Pope said, basically, I'm going to be silent about all this. And a lot of

00:42:16.200 people said, oh, who's Vigano anyway? No one believes him. Wrong. In the U.S., go, next slide,

00:42:21.160 please. 35 bishops supported the credibility of Vigano because Vigano was a holy guy. Anybody

00:42:27.400 who's met him and knows him knows he's a holy guy. So your life's testimony speaks. He did the

00:42:33.480 most controversial thing on the planet by coming out publicly against Pope Francis and 35 bishops

00:42:39.800 who never would have stood up for him anything like this because he was such a good guy stood up

00:42:45.320 and supported the credibility of his testimony and asked for it to be looked into. Um, Cardinal

00:42:50.440 Burke obviously did. Bishop Schneider did. Swiss Bishop Eleganti did. Next slide, please.

00:42:57.080 Um, you had various Catholic leaders as well. Father Benedict Rochelle, uh, the chair of the

00:43:02.360 Board of Christendom College, a famous, uh, U.S. College. Canonist Ed Peters, who was very notable.

00:43:07.800 Biographer George Weigel. EWTN Legatus withheld a 10% tithe to the Vatican. And there was for a

00:43:14.280 petition of some 46,000 women and over 10,000 Catholic men. Um, there was even secular support

00:43:22.520 from the likes of Pat Buchanan, Rush Limbaugh, Ben Shapiro, a Jewish guy, by the way, very big names

00:43:28.760 in America. Next slide later. Next one again. And next one again. All right. So yeah, just right there.

00:43:37.240 So just, we're coming to our conclusion now, right? So these are the latest things. Pope Francis

00:43:46.520 in the Abu Dhabi Declaration declares that the diversity of religions is willed by God, something

00:43:52.840 that obviously doesn't make sense at all from any perspective, if you believe in a one true faith.

00:43:59.880 Father James Martin, the priest who goes around America talking about welcoming homosexuals in 0.65

00:44:06.600 that same way that I told you earlier is, is very harmful for them. Uh, he was made a consultant 0.66

00:44:11.720 to the Vatican's communications department. He was also placed, uh, as a speaker in the Vatican's world

00:44:17.240 meeting of families for crying out loud. Um, and, uh, just to, oops, sorry. Just to show you what he's like,

00:44:26.040 he praised the, uh, Cardinal Tobin, who was just appointed Cardinal by the Pope, uh, and the

00:44:32.120 Archbishop of Newark, who led a welcome mass for LGBT people in his cathedral. So James Martin is a

00:44:40.040 real, he's an enemy to the faith, whether he intends to be or not. I don't know. He might think he's doing

00:44:45.640 good. He's really harming. Um, and actually, if you want to find out he's harming, go and talk to the

00:44:51.320 converts. So one of our staffers, um, Doug Mainwaring was, uh, a practicing homosexual. 0.89

00:44:59.160 And he came back to the church because of the truth of the church's teaching. And he fights

00:45:04.440 Father James Martin harder than anybody else on staff because he knows how detrimental it is.

00:45:09.240 And he knows from the community of those who have come out of the lifestyle how detrimental it is.

00:45:13.560 So, uh, you heard recently that the Pope gave away some of the relics of St. Peter to the Orthodox

00:45:21.320 Patriarch, which is horrendous for what it showed. The Vatican, uh, directives for China,

00:45:27.640 um, which is another huge topic. Cardinal Zen, who was the foremost expert on that, um, he said

00:45:34.440 basically leading to the death of the true faith in China. And yet it's going forward nonetheless. 0.77

00:45:39.880 We talked about the destruction of the JP2, uh, and the Institute for Marriage and the Family. 0.85

00:45:44.040 Um, and next slide please. Father James Martin is not the first time the Pope has promoted, uh, um,

00:45:53.080 a, uh, homosexual promoting person. This is a pose of Pope Francis with the LGBT Catholics Westminster. 0.96

00:46:01.400 So if you know anything about an LGBT Catholic movement, this is not courage. This is not, 0.99

00:46:07.640 we're going to help you come out of the lifestyle and live chastely and wonderfully become a Catholic.

00:46:11.880 Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no. These are the guys who, let's have a gay mass. So what's a gay mass? Well, 0.99

00:46:18.920 we come with our partners and we come and celebrate and we all go to Holy Communion. It's all wonderful.

00:46:24.440 That's what it's all about. And there's the pose with them. And the next slide, just so that you're up to date,

00:46:31.000 is yesterday's news, the meeting of Pope Francis with Father James Martin.

00:46:36.120 So, that's where we're at. But I want to conclude with this. Next slide please.

00:46:42.680 Where sin abounds, grace abounds all the more. A quote from the Holy Bible. And it is true.

00:46:48.620 True. And this is so great for us. Because there's more sin now than ever before in human history.

00:46:58.380 And I'll prove that to you. Because a lot of people will tell you, oh, come on, it was way worse before.

00:47:05.020 No, it wasn't. And you can prove that like this. It's really fun to do. Because, first of all,

00:47:10.860 as John Smeaton loves to say, there's more children killed by abortion than in all of the world's

00:47:21.820 wars of history combined. But I love using this one. So, in 1917, Our Lady came and warned more people

00:47:31.740 go to hell because of sins of the flesh and purity than for any other reason. 1917, right?

00:47:37.340 So, we know what those sins are. We know that pornography and that kind of thing is one of them.

00:47:45.920 And guess what? There's more people today who regularly view pornography than there were people

00:47:50.960 alive in 1917. So, yes, there's more sin now than ever before. And therefore, grace abounds more now

00:47:59.380 than ever before. And it's available for the asking. And if you're wondering how Father gave it to us

00:48:03.780 this morning in his homily, let Our Lady. And that's it. You have the grace of the entire world.

00:48:13.200 That three priests he was talking about that would not allow the devil to work in France that he told

00:48:17.800 the Courier of ours. Three. We're a lot more than three in this room. And finally, this. So, I had,

00:48:28.420 there's a very good and holy priest. So, humbly was this. It was about a hockey game. So, we're in

00:48:34.380 Canada. So, you have to understand hockey is part of Canada. And so, it's about a hockey game. And he's

00:48:39.560 watching the hockey game. And his team had worked really hard for the first time to make it to the

00:48:44.000 playoffs. The ending where, you know, the final competition. And he said, the first period, we have

00:48:48.740 three periods in hockey. The first period, his team lost three goals. In fact, he didn't even get to sit

00:48:54.880 down before the first goal happened. He was still getting his beer and popcorn, which is what we do

00:48:59.120 when we watch hockey in Canada. And his team had already lost a goal. Lost two more in the first

00:49:04.380 period. Second period, he was sure they were going to rally. They didn't rally. They lost four more

00:49:08.360 goals in the second period. And it was absolutely horrible. And he thought, that's it. I should, you

00:49:12.040 know, call it quits, turn it off, and go to bed. But he thought, no, I'm a priest. I'll offer it up.

00:49:16.380 And so, he watched the third period. In the third period, the team scored seven goals to tie the game.

00:49:21.540 In overtime, they won. But he told us, 20 years later, he was watching the same hockey game because

00:49:29.780 they were playing the best hockey games ever played on television. They were playing the whole

00:49:33.100 hockey game again. So, he sat down. This time, he caught the first goal. But you know, he said,

00:49:37.960 whereas with the first viewing, all those goals in the first period and the second period hurt him

00:49:42.600 every time. It's like a stab went into his heart. It was so depressing. He said, he could watch the

00:49:48.320 first period. And the second period goals with peace, even some joy, because he knew in the end

00:49:55.540 that his team would win. That's where we are. We're in the first and second period watching

00:50:03.840 the goals against our team, if you will, the team of Jesus. But we know in the end, he wins. In the

00:50:14.140 end, her immaculate heart will triumph. So, let's be happy and be joyful warriors, despite all the hell

00:50:22.400 that we're facing. May God bless you.

The John-Henry Westen Show - January 14, 2020

John-Henry Westen： The state of the Church Today

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