Sister Didi Byrne is a medical doctor, a surgeon, and an advocate for the right to life movement. She was invited to speak at the 2020 Republican National Convention by the White House on the sanctity of life. She talks about her decision to go public about her pro-life advocacy, and the reaction to it.
00:04:29.420She said, I have really the greatest support with her.
00:04:33.780And she said, you can continue your work with the sanctity of life and speaking out wherever you're called, but just cannot do anything in a political arena, badmouth the president or anything.
00:04:47.900And we don't really, we just, we pray for him.
00:04:50.700So that's sort of how in the first 72 hours, we received so many calls that are convent here in D.C.
00:04:59.160And I just thought, I'm a dummy, really.
00:05:01.260I thought, oh, four minutes, no biggie.
00:05:03.780But I didn't realize that I had struck a chord.
00:05:06.660I think the devil was really PO'd when I did what I did.
00:05:12.420And I just held our Blessed Mother's rosary up.
00:05:15.820You know, I could just see the winds blowing and the anger, you know, zooting.
00:05:21.800And we received many, many first 72 hours, angry, angry calls.
00:05:27.880But to this day, I'm still getting people asking, thanking me for what I did.
00:05:31.820And I just said, I didn't do anything.
00:05:34.280I just prayed and God answered a prayer.
00:05:36.980And as I said at the RNC, you have to be careful how you pray for, because we don't have any idea.
00:05:43.100But as inadequate, I really feel I am as a speaker, I, you know, I haven't said no to sharing what I believe is really, really, really important right now.
00:05:58.240And that is the foundation protecting the life of the unborn, because everything else, and maybe we'll go into it, so I'll stop talking.
00:06:06.420But everything else has come from that.
00:06:10.100If you can't support the unborn, then everything else crumbles.
00:06:15.080It actually reminds me of Mother Teresa, when she went to America and spoke with, you know, Bill and Hillary Clinton sitting there on stage.
00:06:25.300And she spoke about the right to life and about the horror of abortion in front of all of America.
00:06:54.160But we have to be in the state of grace.
00:06:57.780And to be able to be able to hear and perceive what Christ is asking us to do.
00:07:03.500So, like Joan of Arc, when she was in that great battle, and then captured by the canon lawyers, and they said, you know, Joan, are you in the state of grace?
00:07:11.980They wanted to burn her, come up with some excuse.
00:07:14.660And she just, her answer was a prayer.
00:07:16.240She said, Lord, if I'm in the state of grace, please keep me there.
00:08:17.540So rather than fighting with, you know, frustration, we fight this battle because it's not a battle between, you know, Republicans and Democrats or left and right or conservatives and liberals.
00:08:33.780This is a battle between our Lord and the devil.
00:08:38.340And I have to tell people, think about this.
00:08:44.360It hearkens, actually, to the debate that was going on among the bishops for the last year or so, and actually way back to 2004 even, over the issue of Holy Communion for pro-abortion politicians.
00:08:59.240And while it's seen by some of the bishops, actually, but I believe falsely so, as a political issue, I don't think it has anything to do with politics.
00:09:08.120In fact, if anything, it would so strengthen the movement for life if the bishops took the counsel of the Church seriously about the denying of Holy Communion for obstinate public grave sinners.
00:09:22.940But Mother, or Sister, sorry, I'd love to hear your take on that question.
00:09:27.800Well, I agree with you a thousand percent.
00:09:30.280If we're not in the state of grace, we shouldn't receive our Lord.
00:09:33.140Okay, so if we're in the state of mortal sin, and, you know, they just reflect on the Ten Commandments, thou shalt not kill is one of the lineage.
00:09:44.900And if we've been, if we're publicly promoting, you know, we have to, people don't really, I don't think people believe that life is in the uterus.
00:09:54.960And it's not, it's not a human life in the uterus because they don't really seem to care.
00:10:01.920We've become dulled in that whole issue.
00:10:05.040Because if we are promoting, if you're the abortionist, you're the nurse working in the operating room, if you go to get the abortion, if you're the boyfriend driving or a little cleaning lady who always wants to clean that area because she believes in that mission,
00:10:21.320you're in a state of mortal sin, anyone in a public position who is promoting the murder and annihilation of infants in the womb is in great mortal danger.
00:10:37.840Excommunication or not giving communion, I should say, is a form of chemotherapy.
00:10:42.700It's, it's, it's a, it's a wake-up call to say, you know, so if you're a public figure, figure who says, you know, promotes this, you should, you have to publicly, you know, confess.
00:10:56.880Because otherwise, so many people are going to be scandalized, for one thing.
00:11:00.400And we are not only the, the, the politician or whoever who promotes death in the womb, who is then receiving our Lord is doing a double whammy, because they're promoting a murder, encouraging murder and promoting it.
00:11:19.920And yet, and they're also receiving our Lord in a very grave, their soul is in grave danger, and they're not, you know, not prepared properly.
00:11:31.180And so many people will say, well, how do you know he doesn't, you know, go to the confession, say, Lord, I'm sorry, and then go on to confession.
00:11:37.940But someone in a public figure needs to publicly, I believe, in my humble little thing, that it, it's a public confession.
00:11:47.420Sister, you have spoken on this topic of abortion, which many people consider very controversial, indeed, especially your appearance at the RNC.
00:11:57.080But there is another issue that's perhaps today, even more controversial.
00:12:05.440And that's the issue of these COVID so-called vaccines.
00:12:09.360You appeared at the press conference for Truth for Health with all of those very prominent doctors who are, and lawyers and activists who are working to, as they said, stop the shot.
00:12:26.000And, you know, this was so politically charged.
00:12:30.480And so what motivated your speaking there?
00:12:32.720And how did you have the gumption to do it?
00:12:35.800Well, I've been a part of this beautiful group of Catholics.
00:12:39.000And Dr. Lee, who's really been starting this whole thing, who's not Catholic, but she's, she shines brightly in her love for Christ.
00:12:51.640So we've been meeting every week or so, batting out ideas, trying to, the initial was to try to reach to the USCCB,
00:13:01.020to try to get them to back off on their rhetoric that, you know, for the common good rhetoric of taking the vaccine.
00:13:09.940In the beginning, when we didn't have a whole lot of information on the virus, the COVID-19 virus,
00:13:16.700there was a feeling that, you know, this vaccine, which was done emergently, was done to help many people not get sick, and especially the elderly.
00:13:26.280But as we got to hear more and more, in the beginning, I didn't want to take the vaccine because of the, what I call dirty feet,
00:13:34.580the RNA viruses that, vaccines that are tested by the aborted fetal tissue stem cells.
00:13:43.320And then the J&J, which was actually developed with aborted fetal tissue.
00:13:47.460So I thought it would be hypocritical for me personally to take the vaccine for those reasons.
00:16:22.000I don't think that an experimental vaccine that has, you know, so many people who survive fine without the vaccine, and now they want to push it on children.
00:16:34.320We know children don't get sick with this.
00:16:37.600And the other issue that I think is also, I'll say the word diabolical.
00:16:40.720Diabolical, I can say it because I'm a sister, the mask thing, covering faces so that children don't see their smiles.
00:17:21.220I find that truly fascinating what you said, particularly about being called to a special ministry, a special love for life, and encouraging, as you have so many times, women to go ahead with their pregnancies.
00:17:34.780Despite all the hardships, you know, because for a lot of women who are in unplanned pregnancies, this can cost them their jobs.
00:17:44.740It definitely costs in terms of inconvenience and all sorts of, you know, perhaps future aspirations and all sorts of things that we as pro-life activists ask women to bear the brunt of when they're choosing to give life to their child, the child that's living in their womb.
00:18:02.640And so it was always struck me as strange that there are pro-life activists who want to take the vaccine or and what are they doing?
00:18:11.720Well, obviously, because we're scared for our health or because, well, we're going to be banned from travel.
00:18:23.380So in a weird way, at least for me, it struck me so hard that how can we as pro-life activists say to women on the one hand, well, yes, you're going to experience all those inconveniences and maybe lose your job and all this stuff.
00:18:37.840So please don't go ahead with that abortion.
00:18:39.620But at the same time, say, well, yes, I'm going to take this abortion-tainted vaccine, but it's because otherwise I'd lose my travel rights or I'd lose my, I might lose my job or all sorts of things.
00:18:53.680That for me was a very powerful thing.
00:18:56.860And it's, these are extremely confusing times.
00:19:02.520Sister, I had one final question for you.
00:19:04.540There's another controversial issue because we just had a couple weeks ago, we were, we were in the NFP month and there's a lot of people who embrace NFP, but do so basically because it's like contraception that Catholics are allowed to use.
00:19:23.240Um, um, um, and obviously there are people who also go into another area that's very controversial for Catholics because it's a teaching of the church that IVF in vitro fertilization is not permitted for Catholics.
00:21:09.780Cause if it's not Christ, if we're not with Christ or this is not what Christ would do, it's, it's not, it's the devil.
00:21:16.700And it's very difficult for people who have not been able to have children to, to be barren, but, um, NFP does work with many people.
00:21:28.620They, a lot of people who don't have, can see, can't conceive is because there's something physical in them.
00:21:33.720And NFP has taught, has been able to diagnose these conditions rather than giving Clomid or something that might have you help the mother ovulate.
00:21:42.700There's actually an underlying condition that can be repaired or fixed, and then they can conceive and, and, and, and IVF, um, we're losing our soul or children are being killed and forgotten.
00:21:57.320And again, that's because we're just totally unaware.
00:22:00.100We're not even thinking about the unborn and even at the most delicate little phase.
00:23:40.740And so I have one sister who's from Argentina, who's a nursing student.
00:23:44.380And so she sat down today in my clinic to explain to this, the sweet little patient, why the progesterone implant in her arm is not good for her alma, which means her soul.
00:23:55.540And she, the next appointment she's making is to talk to the family doctor about NFP.
00:24:01.880So it's a constant day-to-day teaching and educating and trying to show them the love of Christ.
00:24:10.780You know, our founder, Monsignor, he's a blessed Greco now, said, he used to say, it was before the most blessed sacrament that I found the love of Jesus and the power of that love.
00:24:22.160So it's before the most blessed sacrament that I found the love of Jesus and the power of that love.
00:24:26.480So I encourage people when they are having difficulties and trying to discern what God wants them to do, to spend time before the blessed sacrament.
00:24:38.060But when I say that, be careful what you ask for.
00:24:41.800He might launch you off to doing things.
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