The John-Henry Westen Show - LifeSite co-founder John-Henry Westen： Virginia goes red, COVID-19 reporting, Communion on the hand

00:00:00.000 Welcome to this week's episode of the Sustainer Segment. I'm Danielle Zuccaro, the Sustain Life Coordinator with LifeSite News, and we are privileged to bring you this week's episode of Sustainer Questions and John Henry Weston's answering of your questions.

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00:01:20.040 We'll begin as we always do with the sign of the cross.

00:01:23.740 In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

00:01:27.960 Welcome, John Henry, to the show, and thank you so much for being here to answer our sustainer questions.

00:01:33.240 Thank you, Danielle. Always a pleasure.

00:01:34.660 Our questions this week are quite varied.

00:01:37.580 We have things related to the recent election, the COVID and vaccines, and also some issues related to the church.

00:01:45.740 So we'll dive right in with our very first question this week from Joe in New York City, New York.

00:01:51.880 He asks, why are you at LifeSite covering so much of the COVID and COVID vaccine issues and not a lot more on your core life and family issues?

00:02:03.320 Well, thank you, Joe, for the question.

00:02:05.680 It's an interesting one because we've often got that kind of question over our nearly 25 years of existence at LifeSite.

00:02:12.600 Because we're called LifeSite, a lot of people think, hey, why are you covering the LGBT issue or why are you covering the church issues?

00:02:22.560 Why are you covering, and now it's often why you're covering the COVID issues.

00:02:25.520 Well, for one thing, LifeSite's approach has always been, from our very, very beginning, to cover what is going on both in terms of life and family and cultural issues.

00:02:38.520 We have fought the kind of communist sort of tyranny right from our outset.

00:02:45.540 In fact, one of the first projects that I was on prior to even the start of LifeSite, when we were all still working with Campaign Life Coalition, the pro-life group in Canada out of which we were founded,

00:02:58.440 was actually to research what was going on with the machinations toward a new world order, one world government, that were already happening way back in the early 90s.

00:03:10.640 And so at this point, we've been covering what actually we started reporting on way back then, because it's finally we're seeing the imposition of this kind of a communist control, not only in Canada and the United States, but globally.

00:03:29.100 And so it's very much in line with our reporting, not only that, with the COVID vaccines, of course, they are abortion tainted.

00:03:37.420 And so abortion itself is also in the mix, if you will, of what's going on.

00:03:44.260 But also it's fundamentally a life issue in many respects with regard to the COVID and the vaccines themselves.

00:03:51.960 And I'll explain that really quick.

00:03:53.040 Remember with COVID, you had Dr. Zelenko, actually where you're from, who started treating patients because he had the highest, probably one of the highest concentration of COVID patients in the whole of the United States, perhaps the whole world.

00:04:09.380 And he was trying to figure out because he was an Orthodox Jew, as were most of his clientele or his patients were.

00:04:18.000 And so he was trying desperately to figure out a way to treat these folks who had come down with this, you know, deadly pathogen and that we know as COVID-19 now, which of course was lab originated in China.

00:04:34.900 And so we have a treatment that was denied people knowingly.

00:04:41.360 So old treatments, ivermectin, HCQ, and so on, which were actively denied people when they were known to be saving lives.

00:04:50.180 And then that information suppressed and suppressed and suppressed.

00:04:53.180 So there's very much a life agenda at play.

00:04:56.560 And what we're seeing with the imposition of vaccines and the ignoring of the vaccine adverse event database that showing massive numbers of deaths from the vaccine, far more than any vaccine rollout has ever had.

00:05:11.500 In fact, more so than all of the vaccine injuries recorded over the years.

00:05:16.900 You really do start to wonder what the agenda is here.

00:05:20.880 And we know that it's very much a pro-life question.

00:05:23.980 Our next question is based on the church and also it's an interesting one from Aaron in Iowa.

00:05:33.620 And he writes,

00:05:35.040 A huge modern fallacy is that we have been programmed to blindly believe authority.

00:05:41.540 This is obviously a primary channel for the devil to work through, corrupt authority.

00:05:46.880 But as Catholics, we have been primed to trust our authorities.

00:05:49.920 When we know they are corrupt, how does a person recognize truth from lies?

00:05:55.760 How do I recognize truth?

00:05:57.560 In the Catholic Church, we do have authorities.

00:06:01.320 You know, we are in a way the sort of spiritual children of our spiritual fathers.

00:06:07.100 First of all, our priests, our bishop, and then ultimately the Pope.

00:06:10.220 But it's always in line with Jesus Christ.

00:06:12.380 The Pope is not the head of the church by any means.

00:06:17.540 The head of the church is Christ.

00:06:18.900 The Pope is obviously subservient, not only to Christ, but to all of his teachings.

00:06:23.280 And they're unchangeable teachings.

00:06:25.320 So it's very easy to understand in light of a family.

00:06:30.420 And often the things in the church are very understandable by means of family.

00:06:36.660 In fact, when Christ was trying to explain to us the relationship between himself and

00:06:42.880 the church, he used that image of the family himself.

00:06:44.900 So St. Paul himself through his apostles, of course.

00:06:47.420 So St. Paul, when he's talking about the relationship of Christ to his church, gives

00:06:52.400 the image of a husband and wife.

00:06:54.480 And so that familial imagery is very important.

00:06:58.640 And so here you can actually see how that imagery works very well.

00:07:03.540 So in the case, and you mentioned when there's corrupt leadership, corrupt authority, what

00:07:08.700 do you do?

00:07:09.400 Well, very much like what you do in a family.

00:07:12.720 In a family when, and sadly, we've seen this a lot, when the father, the head of the family

00:07:18.920 is abusive, things need to be done.

00:07:22.620 Actions need to be taken because he is the rightful authority in the family.

00:07:27.480 Normally, the person to whom wife would go and children would go for children, especially 0.99

00:07:35.020 for authority and wife for consultation and help and the wife being a help to the husband.

00:07:39.480 So all of that in a normal circumstance works perfectly well.

00:07:43.260 That's what it's all aimed for, what it's all about.

00:07:46.300 And so normally in the church, the faithful can look to their priest, to their bishop, to

00:07:51.060 the Holy Father for clarity.

00:07:53.060 And that's what it's all supposed to be for.

00:07:54.980 In fact, the job of the Pope as laid out by Christ to St. Peter was confirm your brothers 0.74

00:08:00.160 in the faith, in the truth.

00:08:02.940 And that's sadly not what's going on.

00:08:06.140 We do have an abusive situation right now where massive division and confusion is coming

00:08:12.920 right from the Pope himself.

00:08:15.780 And that sort of brings us to this situation where we have in the world abusive fathers.

00:08:21.080 And so then what happens?

00:08:23.680 Well, sometimes the children in the family, when they're old enough, or the spouse, the

00:08:30.180 wife, needs to bring that truth, needs to bring that fact that the abuse is going on out to 1.00

00:08:37.340 the children to protect them.

00:08:39.660 The children, maybe older children, need to protect their younger siblings or even their

00:08:43.400 moms in abusive situations.

00:08:46.180 They don't do that out of any kind of hatred for the dad.

00:08:49.880 If they're doing it properly, they don't do that out of hatred for the dad.

00:08:53.020 In fact, they're doing that out of love for the dad so that the dad doesn't see himself

00:08:58.400 lost in terms of the moral life, the eternal life.

00:09:02.680 They do that to protect the mom and the other siblings.

00:09:06.220 And so it really is an act of love, just like it's an act of love when parents need to correct

00:09:12.320 children.

00:09:12.880 It's not easy to do.

00:09:13.920 It's not comfortable to do.

00:09:14.860 It's not comfortable for the child or comfortable for the parent for that matter.

00:09:18.340 But yet it has to be done out of responsibility and out of love.

00:09:21.980 And so that's the situation we're in.

00:09:24.780 We do have an authoritative structure set up by Christ that way on purpose, exactly the

00:09:30.640 same way that, you know, we have in a family.

00:09:33.140 And yet there can be these abusive situations, which are sad, but we have to deal with.

00:09:38.700 Ultimately, in terms of authority, the church has been very, very blessed, both with scripture

00:09:44.200 and tradition.

00:09:45.020 And so we can always look to scripture to see where we're at.

00:09:49.140 But the scriptures have to be interpreted properly in, uh, in the writings of St. Peter, in the

00:09:54.580 scriptures, we learned that some of the writings of St. Paul can be interpreted to people's

00:09:58.420 own destruction.

00:09:59.520 And so we can't just rely on the scriptures.

00:10:02.360 So we rely on tradition of the church.

00:10:04.120 And so you can see all through the history of the church, the teachings haven't changed.

00:10:08.980 And that's really, really key because we know there was a lot of fooling around in

00:10:14.380 the church that didn't just start, you know, in the last seven years with Pope Francis.

00:10:19.960 It started a long time ago.

00:10:22.320 In fact, it probably started before the Second Vatican Council, but definitely at the time

00:10:27.100 of the council, there was a lot of consternation.

00:10:29.280 A lot of the same figures we see now manipulating the church, trying to steer her in a false direction,

00:10:35.000 Cardinal Casper and the Sangal and Mafia group, who we know about now, they were involved

00:10:41.140 in the Second Vatican Council and already trying there by their own admission to make mess of

00:10:46.240 things.

00:10:47.040 And so we have, uh, you know, before the council, a very authoritative catechism, a writing, a

00:10:54.620 compilation of all of the teachings of the church that pertain even to this day in the

00:11:00.100 Roman catechism, in the catechism of the Council of Trent.

00:11:02.520 And I would encourage people to go have a look.

00:11:05.760 If you're wondering about what is the exact teaching of the church on a particular question,

00:11:10.500 that's probably the most authoritative thing.

00:11:12.780 We know with the 1992 catechism, uh, which by the way, was compiled with the help of Cardinal

00:11:18.580 Sean Bourne, there were errors in it.

00:11:20.760 Uh, in fact, uh, I was one of the earlier recipients of it.

00:11:23.320 And when we got it, uh, a while later, we had to have a correction.

00:11:27.240 Uh, interestingly, uh, one of the correction, uh, you were sent, uh, corrective pages, if you

00:11:33.220 will.

00:11:33.360 Uh, but one of the questions was on homosexuality.

00:11:35.820 The very issue which Cardinal Sean Bourne is so plagued with now, you know, having these

00:11:41.620 homosexual activists come to his, to his cathedral church, wrapping his, um, the, um, pillars at

00:11:47.820 the cathedral in rainbow, uh, rainbows and things like this.

00:11:51.560 So I would very much encourage people if they're looking for solidity, uh, in terms of the teaching

00:11:57.280 of the faith, go check out the Roman catechism.

00:11:59.440 The next question is actually a good follow-up to that.

00:12:03.120 The question is from Bernadette, who is in England, and she asks, how can we proceed further

00:12:09.060 to enlighten our bishops when they fail to both recognize and address the serious issues

00:12:15.100 raised to them?

00:12:16.760 There's something really encouraging we can do.

00:12:18.560 First of all, the obvious answer is prayer and penance.

00:12:22.200 Remember our Lord said that, you know, some demons only, uh, leave with prayer and fasting.

00:12:28.420 And so fasting for your spiritual leaders, for your bishops, uh, for the Pope, uh, for their

00:12:35.460 conversion sometimes, uh, is, is really essential.

00:12:39.480 It's, it's a really powerful thing to do.

00:12:42.280 In addition to that, there's also practical things we can do.

00:12:46.060 So over the years of LifeSite, we've learned a number of things.

00:12:50.120 One of them is that, first of all, bishops, in addition to being the spiritual leadership

00:12:55.140 that they're supposed to be, uh, even if they're not acting the way they should, are also men.

00:13:00.640 And so men act on a number of things, just like we all do.

00:13:04.800 They're influenced by friends.

00:13:07.080 They're influenced also by pressure.

00:13:10.040 Um, and so if you're in a position or you know someone who's in a position who's good,

00:13:14.600 encourage them to befriend their priest or their bishop because they're men and they need

00:13:21.080 friends and they have friends and very often they're not good friends because the, the

00:13:26.600 powers that be on the other side, as our Lord said, often, you know, often the children

00:13:29.900 of this world are wiser, uh, than the children of light, but we've got to be as cunning as

00:13:36.960 serpents and innocent as doves.

00:13:38.260 And so to learn this truth that our spiritual leaders are also men and they also need companionship,

00:13:47.200 friendship, and friendships are often very, very influential.

00:13:51.340 Uh, I've witnessed it myself.

00:13:53.280 We're good.

00:13:54.240 Uh, laymen have led priests and bishops to do the right thing.

00:13:58.700 Other priests, of course, as well.

00:14:00.220 But, uh, very often you have this influence and it's incredible thing.

00:14:05.180 Bishops get backbones by some laymen who are so good, so holy, so influential in their lives.

00:14:12.000 And it's an amazing thing.

00:14:13.520 There's also the issue of pressure and that's why at LifeSite, we have life petitions, we

00:14:19.040 have a voter voice campaigns, we encourage sometimes rallies and all sorts of demonstrations

00:14:25.520 in order to apply pressure.

00:14:27.940 And I'm going to give you an example that quote unquote worked, if you will.

00:14:32.420 Um, you know, we've had cases where bishops have done the wrong thing.

00:14:38.580 And even when they're not, uh, particularly good bishops, uh, when given the pressure,

00:14:45.560 uh, from the faithful, good pressure to do the right thing, they will acquiesce and do

00:14:51.700 the right thing.

00:14:52.320 Remember our Lord's example in the scriptures of the unjust judge who wouldn't act and wouldn't

00:14:59.060 act, but that persistent knock of the widow on his door drove him so crazy.

00:15:04.100 He finally gave in to do the right thing, not because he was wanting to do the right thing

00:15:09.280 at all.

00:15:09.860 In fact, because she was so persistent. 0.98

00:15:11.820 And so, um, at LifeSite, we've had several campaigns where, um, even bishops have been,

00:15:20.620 um, encouraged.

00:15:23.880 I guess you could say, uh, to do the right thing, both by petition, by demonstrations,

00:15:28.520 always done in charity.

00:15:30.380 We have to remember though, whenever we're doing this, it really doesn't help someone

00:15:36.260 to badger them in a way that is, um, insulting in a way that is, um, uh, you know, uh, trying

00:15:45.340 to cast them down because that actually serves the opposite purpose.

00:15:49.260 They might get their backs up.

00:15:50.900 They might just decide, ah, forget it.

00:15:53.260 I'm never going to, you know, help these kinds of people.

00:15:55.340 But if we do it still creating pressure, but with a real charity, um, we're out there, let's

00:16:02.640 say, uh, on our knees in front of the Bishop's palace, uh, praying the rosary for the Bishop's

00:16:07.460 conversion.

00:16:08.120 Uh, we're out there demanding for our children, the right to have catechetical teaching.

00:16:12.520 That's true and honest.

00:16:13.940 The, when we go and report on the sometimes horrific things that are being taught in Catholic 1.00

00:16:19.580 schools and therefore calling the Bishop to, uh, and or pastor, of course, this works for

00:16:25.340 pastors as well to account in a way that's charitable, but demonstrates their lack of

00:16:31.180 appreciation for our proper role as parents, uh, and our authority over our children's

00:16:35.680 education, um, these things work and sometimes can be very powerful.

00:16:41.040 Um, do you remember the Bishop who condemned the young man who was being confronted at the

00:16:48.140 March for life?

00:16:48.900 There was, uh, there was a young man at the March for life and some, uh, native American

00:16:53.780 leader came and was banging a drum in his face.

00:16:56.000 And of course the media spun it to be, you know, the young man was, uh, all in the wrong.

00:17:00.940 Uh, and, uh, he was condemned by a couple of bishops publicly.

00:17:05.580 They never talked to him.

00:17:07.060 They just condemned him publicly.

00:17:08.620 And then it was found out, oh, but he was the young man was the innocent party.

00:17:14.480 And it was actually the bullying action of that native American leader. 0.70

00:17:19.260 And then the bishops didn't apologize, except there was quite a bit of pressure applied to

00:17:27.000 one of the bishops who did in fact come out and apologize.

00:17:29.840 So we've had these incidences where pressure has been successful.

00:17:35.740 It was a pressure done that, uh, was done respectfully, uh, but it was done nonetheless.

00:17:42.220 And the Bishop's office got a lot of phone calls and he came out and did the right thing

00:17:47.100 in the end.

00:17:47.460 And this is what we hope for because these men are our spiritual leaders.

00:17:52.980 We are trying to get them to do the right thing in Christ and we should be grateful.

00:17:58.100 One last thing on this, on this thing, because bishops are men as well, some people refer to

00:18:05.260 them as politicians and miters, but let's not go there.

00:18:08.000 But, you know, very often they hear from the faithful only when something is wrong.

00:18:17.680 And very often we forget when something good happens to tell our bishops how grateful we are.

00:18:25.300 We need to do that.

00:18:26.740 We need to do that for our politicians too, but for the bishops who really need to do that.

00:18:31.040 So if your bishop, for instance, is during this time of COVID allowing communion on the

00:18:38.960 tongue still, please, please go out and say thank you because that, you know what?

00:18:43.400 That's rare.

00:18:44.640 If your bishop has stood up to defend Catholic education in a Catholic school and let's say

00:18:52.800 on life issue or the family issue, tell him thank you.

00:18:56.420 Very important things they need to hear when they do the right things because surely they

00:19:02.260 are going to hear from the other side.

00:19:04.340 And again, it's about us taking up our proper role as the laity.

00:19:08.820 But thank you for the question.

00:19:10.260 Very good answer.

00:19:10.900 Thank you so much, John Henry.

00:19:12.200 This is a political question, so we'll go into that vein for a second.

00:19:17.180 The question is from Linda in Richmond, Virginia.

00:19:20.780 Linda writes, what do you make of the recent election victories in Virginia and the future

00:19:25.960 of conservative issues in politics?

00:19:28.760 It's so nice to have good news to report.

00:19:33.620 And that was not only a shot in the arm for all of America, it's a shot in the arm internationally

00:19:41.520 to see basically the Biden agenda shot down in a very real way, not only in the governor's

00:19:50.340 election, but then also in the races around Virginia.

00:19:53.400 These are very powerful signals that really send a message to politicians generally, but

00:19:59.560 also to the public in that the faithful public who care about life and family and general American

00:20:06.660 values as the founding fathers intended.

00:20:10.200 There's still a fighting chance.

00:20:12.500 And that's the thing, not to be discouraged, because I think really, had we seen something

00:20:19.340 go awry in Virginia, the deflation of the movement for life and family for morality would

00:20:26.720 have really taken a massive hit.

00:20:28.960 But with this victory has come really a boost in the arm that I think a lot of people needed.

00:20:34.940 So it was a great joy to see, and I think it should inspire other states to go for it,

00:20:41.840 other political leaders to recognize, hey, wait a minute, sometimes they have these values

00:20:47.340 themselves and they feel, oh, I have to just go against that because there's no support

00:20:51.380 for it.

00:20:51.640 Actually, there is.

00:20:52.440 You know, people have talked a lot about a silent majority and whatnot, but what's going

00:20:58.820 on right now is threatening democracy as we know it, the whole, any kind of semblance

00:21:06.140 of freedom.

00:21:07.620 And there's a lot more people than you might think who are on side over this, including

00:21:14.540 people who have themselves been, you know, gotten the jab because they're still for freedom

00:21:20.400 for their relatives and friends who are being denied their jobs, who are being kicked out

00:21:26.040 of places of worship.

00:21:27.620 That's not the American way. 0.96

00:21:29.080 That's not freedom at all.

00:21:30.900 Also, with regard to, you know, in Luden County in Virginia, you had this horrific thing going

00:21:37.900 on in the bathrooms where there was abuse.

00:21:41.180 There was sexual abuse by a male, of course, pretending to be a female.

00:21:45.500 Um, and then this was covered up in one school, transferred to another school, and then tried

00:21:54.280 to be covered up again.

00:21:55.380 So it's unbelievable.

00:21:57.220 Who would think that you would, could possibly cover up rape?

00:22:02.980 What, haven't we gone through enough?

00:22:04.900 Everybody says, oh, it's the church that has done that forever.

00:22:07.100 And it's so terrible.

00:22:08.000 We would never do that as a society.

00:22:09.380 Well, nonsense.

00:22:09.760 Here we saw it go on in a public school over what?

00:22:15.080 To protect the LGBT agenda.

00:22:18.520 And so honestly, I think that also had a, that was going on all during the elections.

00:22:24.480 And I think that has a major role as well, uh, in terms of the outcome.

00:22:28.000 So we've seen, in a way, a beating down of the agenda of this radical LGBT agenda, of this 0.91

00:22:37.920 radical anti-freedom, you know, vaccine agenda.

00:22:42.000 And, uh, it's, it's really brought a lot of hope.

00:22:44.900 This one comes to us from Teresa, who lives in the Bahamas.

00:22:49.200 Teresa writes, in my country, the Bahamas, our bishop has forbidden all priests to give holy

00:22:54.360 communion on the tongue.

00:22:55.560 One can only take it on the hand.

00:22:59.200 This came into place in February of this year.

00:23:02.040 I believe it is wrong to take holy communion in the hand as our unconsecrated hands should

00:23:07.240 not touch the body of our Lord.

00:23:09.480 What should I do?

00:23:10.620 I have not received holy communion since February, although I attend daily mass, except for three

00:23:16.480 times when I had the opportunity to go to Florida on a short trip to attend mass there.

00:23:21.700 There is no end in sight.

00:23:23.460 What would God's will be to continue to refrain from taking it on the hand or to take it as

00:23:29.740 there's no other option?

00:23:31.880 Wow.

00:23:32.360 So let me start saying I'm no theologian, but I can just tell you from my conversations with

00:23:38.680 Bishop Schneider and my own conviction that, you know, I don't feel in conscience I could

00:23:44.720 receive holy communion in the hand.

00:23:46.580 I agree with you with regard to unconsecrated hands.

00:23:52.200 You know, it's funny.

00:23:53.060 We watch the priest hold the monstrance, which is the golden sort of receptacle that's used

00:24:01.480 to hold our Lord in the Eucharist when he's exposed in the Blessed Sacrament for adoration.

00:24:07.340 And we watch the priest put a covering over his hands to touch the monstrance.

00:24:14.260 And that's always very confusing nowadays, because if everybody can traipse up and receive

00:24:19.680 our Lord in the hand, then is it the gold maybe that we're thinking is so reverential

00:24:27.320 that we have to?

00:24:28.360 No, obviously not. 0.95

00:24:29.500 It's ridiculous.

00:24:30.660 But such confusion happens when we start down these practices.

00:24:36.200 By the way, which were forbidden in the church?

00:24:38.720 Remember, in the early church, they forbade, I believe it was sometime around 400 or something

00:24:46.180 like that.

00:24:46.480 But anyway, they forbade communion in the hand for, what was it, like over a thousand years.

00:24:54.320 So it is a very strange practice.

00:24:57.320 And if you listen to an interview I did with Bishop Schneider on the question, he was very,

00:25:03.240 very serious about wondering if, you know, all of what we're experiencing right now isn't

00:25:07.620 some kind of punishment for just such an abuse.

00:25:10.880 So no, I wouldn't receive Holy Communion in the hand.

00:25:14.800 Now, with regard to being in a particular place where it's sort of not allowed, application

00:25:21.080 can be made to priests because there is a higher law than the bishop's law.

00:25:26.700 So the bishop might have said no communion on the tongue, but that's a right reserved to 1.00

00:25:32.000 Catholics by the Roman Curia, which supersedes the bishop.

00:25:36.760 So you can't have a law that is from a lower court, let's say, that says, oh, I want to

00:25:42.240 trump the Supreme Court just because.

00:25:44.180 They can't.

00:25:45.340 So that ruling by the bishop is totally illegitimate, doesn't stand for anything.

00:25:49.880 So any good priest should be able to know that they can and should and must distribute

00:25:56.600 Holy Communion to those in a worthy state to receive on the tongue, as the church has always

00:26:01.560 done.

00:26:03.120 And if you're looking for references on that, I actually did a blog post where I quoted

00:26:09.140 how the Vatican responded to just such a question, saying, no, the priest isn't bound to obey his

00:26:17.880 bishop in an unlawful order like that.

00:26:19.560 So going to talk to good priests, getting them that Vatican letter, which you can find

00:26:25.260 in my blog post on the question of receiving Holy Communion in the hand, knowing too that if you can

00:26:32.700 get to an SSPX church or of FSSP, where I think they do still allow communion on the tongue, but also

00:26:41.680 even Byzantine Rite and Ukrainian Rite churches where they actually give Holy Communion, they

00:26:49.760 can't give it on the hand because they give communion with intinction.

00:26:54.260 So they dip the body of our Lord into the precious blood and administer Holy Communion that way. 0.62

00:27:01.200 And those churches have and still continue to administer Holy Communion the only way they can

00:27:07.880 receive communion on the tongue or in the mouth, if you will. So you might want to go that route as

00:27:14.000 well, because those are legitimate ways to receive our Lord and Holy Communion, legitimate ways to

00:27:20.580 attend your Mass. And yeah, but I really, I really feel for you. I went through a little period here

00:27:28.260 where we were also not permitted. And it's a very great cross to bear, but one that you can bear in

00:27:34.800 love. And our Lord will provide for your spiritual sustenance with, you know, because you're doing

00:27:43.740 this for him out of reverence for him. And he being the loving God and father that he is, will bless you

00:27:50.480 for honoring him in this way. Think about it yourself. If your child came to you and, you know,

00:27:58.900 someone was demanding that, uh, in order to see you that, uh, he first, um, I don't know, uh, ripped

00:28:06.780 up a picture of you or, or spit on a picture of you or something. And you refused, um, and tried to

00:28:14.060 profess your love from out the window or whatever. Instead, you wouldn't resent that child for, uh,

00:28:21.800 not spitting on your image or whatever out of reverence for you. You would honor that child.

00:28:27.100 You would love that child. And it's the only thing I can think of with regard to our Lord.

00:28:32.120 He will honor you for that decision as painful as it is.

00:28:35.280 Thank you. And our final question is an interesting one to wrap us up for this week's segment. It's

00:28:42.200 from Mary Jo in Overland Park, Kansas. And she writes, I have a daughter that has been homeschooled

00:28:49.460 for all her life and went to a conservative college. Should a good Catholic date a Jewish man? 0.91

00:28:54.900 I think the, the scriptures are very clear. The church teaching is very clear and it comes from

00:29:00.080 the scriptures. It's, it's very obvious. Do not be unequally yoked. Um, and, uh, unequally yoked

00:29:06.700 obviously refers to, you know, marrying within your faith. And, um, it's very difficult. Dating

00:29:13.880 isn't something that, uh, the, the modern concept of dating isn't Christian at all. So the modern concept

00:29:20.820 of dating to, to, uh, God knows what is, you know, we should be doing dating or probably better called

00:29:30.280 courtship is it you, you date someone, you court someone who you have a possibility of marrying.

00:29:36.380 So, uh, these things are, are difficult for with young people. It's, it's hard to know what to do

00:29:42.980 properly. There's always the hope that people convert. Yes, that's true. But, uh, this is not a,

00:29:50.060 a good way to go. Um, and, uh, it, it's something that you really need to consider if your first and

00:29:57.180 foremost love is Christ and our, all of our other considerations, whatever they may be, even family

00:30:04.920 considerations are, have to be second. And to, uh, get into a relationship, an amorous relationship

00:30:13.320 with, with someone of a, of a different faith is a very dangerous road to go down for your own faith, 0.99

00:30:20.540 but also for the faith of your children. Um, and, um, it's not only not advisable, it's a very, um,

00:30:28.620 it's very precarious. Can you like a person? Yes. Can you encourage them to convert? Yes. By all means.

00:30:36.160 In fact, you're showing them true love when you try and present them with the fullness of the truth

00:30:39.900 and hopefully you can get there, but to enter into, uh, something more than a friendship before,

00:30:47.320 uh, a conversion is had is something that's very dangerous indeed. 0.77

00:30:50.860 Well, that brings us to the end, John Henry. So thank you very much for your time. And thank you

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The John-Henry Westen Show - November 12, 2021

LifeSite co-founder John-Henry Westen： Virginia goes red, COVID-19 reporting, Communion on the hand

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