The John-Henry Westen Show - October 09, 2026


Open Letter to J.K. Rowling: Why She Must Become Catholic

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00:00:00.000 That God-shaped vacuum inside you will never be filled with just one truth here and there.
00:00:08.720 What you need is truth himself.
00:00:14.560 Harry Potter is back in the news.
00:00:17.260 At Christmas, HBO is starting what looks to be a 10-year series of all seven books.
00:00:24.020 Twitter is currently obsessed with the fan-created character Malfoy, and since the woke left want
00:00:31.500 nothing to do with it, conservatives are enthusing about the Harry Potter series in a different way
00:00:38.600 today. So right now, I know that the Harry Potter series is, well, controversial anyway, and that
00:00:46.700 many Christians, including priests, think it shouldn't be read at all. But that's a different
00:00:53.480 story, I want to address something rather startling that the author J.K. Rowling said
00:01:01.480 just over a year ago, and it's not about her being against the trans agenda, which I know
00:01:08.000 comes to the mind or should come to the mind of all of us. However, just about a year ago,
00:01:13.760 she said on X, and I quote, I appear to have a God-shaped vacuum inside me, end quote.
00:01:23.480 So those were the words of one of the world's most famous authors, the creator of Harry
00:01:30.920 Potter.
00:01:31.980 She confessed that something vital is missing inside her and that that something was God
00:01:39.500 because what else fits into a God-shaped vacuum?
00:01:44.480 She also said she'd struggled with faith for decades and that she'll, and I quote again,
00:01:50.440 probably go to her grave, end quote, with that question unanswered. Well, let me address you,
00:01:58.840 if I might, Ms. Relling, because this show is actually for you and for any of your fans
00:02:05.920 in the same position as you. I'm here to tell you that you can resolve that question,
00:02:13.340 and I'm going to tell you how.
00:02:17.080 And if you do get to the bottom of it, Ms. Rowling,
00:02:20.920 you won't need to keep battling the darkness 0.73
00:02:24.080 of the trans movement all by yourself.
00:02:27.480 You'll have a power beyond even the, quote,
00:02:31.820 magic at its deepest, its most impenetrable, end quote,
00:02:36.200 as you write in Harry Potter.
00:02:38.780 This is about your soul, J.K. Rowling.
00:02:43.340 and it's about the truth let's begin as we always do with the sign of the cross
00:02:48.860 in the name of the father and of the son and of the holy ghost amen
00:02:56.140 so mrs rowling you're one of well if not the most popular and best-selling children authors
00:03:05.820 of all time. Once you were the darling of the media. You were a feminist icon. You captured
00:03:14.240 the imagination of the world. And now you've risked it all being rather fearless in fighting
00:03:22.780 certain cultural evils and defending the truth on hot button, unpopular issues. And now you're,
00:03:34.100 at least in many circles, demonized as the great dogmatic rigid and hateful 0.99
00:03:39.780 turf, as they call it, the evil queen, as the trans movement sees it, and the anti-trans feminists.
00:03:50.400 That's why one of your many enemies challenged you recently, sarcastically asking you whether
00:03:56.240 you'd ever changed your mind on anything, and your answer was beautiful. It surprised many.
00:04:02.340 It detailed your drift away from certain liberal dogmas or creeds that are firmly held or should
00:04:09.880 be held by the elite.
00:04:12.620 And it was a rather candid reflection on your faith and on God.
00:04:18.000 Here's what you said.
00:04:19.420 You said you changed your mind on a few things.
00:04:22.120 Whether the nature or nurture plays a greater role in human life, whether differences between
00:04:29.880 the sexes are based on socialization or something intrinsic, whether cannabis is harmless or
00:04:36.800 not. 0.97
00:04:37.880 You even mentioned your changing views from being in favor of assisted suicide to being
00:04:42.820 against it, with the change being, thanks as you said, to your husband, a doctor opening
00:04:48.820 your eyes to how the vulnerable could be coerced into euthanasia.
00:04:54.400 You know that was a stunning reversal and you said it just as Britain's House of Lords
00:04:59.380 was about to debate
00:05:01.620 legalizing assisted suicide.
00:05:04.260 And we know how that turned out.
00:05:06.240 I want to thank you
00:05:07.300 for that intervention
00:05:08.900 because it certainly helped.
00:05:12.360 But there's no doubt
00:05:13.900 that your comments about God
00:05:16.360 were the most interesting
00:05:18.000 and surprising,
00:05:19.140 probably to a lot of people.
00:05:20.980 And for that too,
00:05:22.100 I'm really grateful.
00:05:23.540 Although you've always said 0.96
00:05:25.980 you're a Christian,
00:05:27.120 you've emphasized
00:05:28.460 the importance of Christian themes in your work that has been somewhat hard to see in your public
00:05:33.780 life, I have to admit. And your message actually tells us why. And here it is again. You said,
00:05:41.460 I quote, I've struggled with religious faith since my mid-teens. I appear to have a God-shaped
00:05:52.220 vacuum inside me, but I never seemed quite able to make up my mind about what to do about
00:05:57.340 it, end quote.
00:06:00.040 You know, I too had doubts in, you know, struggled with religious faith in my mid-teens, but
00:06:10.800 in my early 20s, I came to a different thing.
00:06:14.520 You also said that you expect you'll never answer this question of what to do about it.
00:06:20.060 You said you'd change your mind about anything and everything on the basis of clear evidence.
00:06:26.900 Except this.
00:06:29.080 God conundrum, as you called it, because you don't know what evidence you'd have to see in order to come down on one side or another.
00:06:38.840 That's why you said, I'll probably go to my grave with that particular personal matter unresolved.
00:06:45.160 End quote.
00:06:45.980 so let me tell you that vacuum you talk about that fear it's heartbreaking and you know it's
00:06:55.980 totally unnecessary there is an answer so you once said that you were
00:07:06.720 wrestling or that you wrestle with the faith and the afterlife my dear friends the mother of god
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00:09:31.240 You know, the great mathematician that we all know, Blaise Pascal, we know him for Pascal's
00:09:38.140 Triangle, he actually called the vacuum you mentioned, an infinite abyss that only God
00:09:47.760 can fill.
00:09:49.720 The famous Saint Augustine, we know from his confessions, said, our hearts are restless
00:09:55.860 until they rest in God.
00:09:58.780 And I'm going to show you the only way
00:10:01.440 to fill that God-shaped vacuum inside you.
00:10:05.680 But that vacuum isn't just in your soul.
00:10:09.340 It's written large over all of society.
00:10:14.300 When a people banish God,
00:10:17.680 the vacuum does not stay empty.
00:10:20.460 It fills.
00:10:21.480 And you know what it fills with?
00:10:22.380 It fills with gullibility.
00:10:25.860 The willingness to believe whatever.
00:10:29.680 When you deny the creator, you end up denying the creature.
00:10:34.600 The road, it sort of runs from contraception to castration clinics.
00:10:44.140 From sentimental companionship to euthanasia.
00:10:51.320 But do you see how it all snowballs? 0.99
00:10:54.420 Once sex differences are denied in principle, transgenderism follows in practice. 1.00
00:11:03.580 You saw at least that much and you refused to lie. 0.99
00:11:11.600 But the only solution is to return, not to, you know, some kind of different new form of feminism,
00:11:20.920 is to return to God.
00:11:25.200 I know, many know and have seen
00:11:27.620 you've paid a heavy price for staying true,
00:11:30.960 for saying true things in public.
00:11:34.820 You've received threats and abuse and doxing.
00:11:38.420 You've consistently pointed to those harmed
00:11:41.700 far more than yourself
00:11:43.720 whenever people point that out to you.
00:11:46.040 But you've been harmed as well.
00:11:48.060 Nevertheless, you've chosen to be slandered and canceled by those progressive circles
00:11:57.680 that once adored you because you wanted to stick to the truth.
00:12:04.860 You just wanted to say that men can't become women.
00:12:08.540 Many of the Harry Potter actors who owe their careers and fortunes to you and your work
00:12:13.980 now disown you with insulting ingratitude.
00:12:21.420 Very few people would keep going under such pressure. So why? Why do you keep going?
00:12:30.460 I know why. It's because you have a visible love for the truth. And that love for the truth is
00:12:39.180 good. It's also a homing signal. It points you back to the one who made you and that God-shaped
00:12:47.540 vacuum inside you will never be filled with just one truth here and there. What you need
00:12:56.040 is truth himself. More and more people realize this. Gone are the days when Richard Dawkins
00:13:07.000 sort of was gloating about the new atheists. No one's interested in that anymore. It's
00:13:14.420 only been a few short years since he was gloating about it. And even in those short years, people
00:13:20.940 already are already horrified by what that kind of thing has unleashed and what's grown
00:13:28.760 in that vacuum.
00:13:33.020 Even more than that,
00:13:35.120 I'm sure you know Dawkins himself
00:13:38.140 has said this.
00:13:41.020 One commentator,
00:13:42.640 our own at LifeSite News,
00:13:43.740 Jonathan Van Maren,
00:13:44.740 put it this way,
00:13:46.060 and I quote,
00:13:46.980 Many who crowed with glee
00:13:49.120 at the alleged death of Christianity
00:13:51.040 now suddenly feel the urge
00:13:53.440 to mourn at its funeral.
00:13:56.800 But in truth,
00:13:57.820 Christianity isn't dead at all. It's just out there in the wilderness waiting to be 1.00
00:14:04.780 rediscovered. Your own fiction, your own writing points this way. The voluntary self-sacrifice
00:14:13.720 of Harry's mother, Lily, it shields her son for life. Evil is broken by love that faces death.
00:14:22.700 The last book, Deathly Hallows, literally puts scripture before your own readers in the graveyard at Godric's Hollow.
00:14:33.980 And I quote, the last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
00:14:38.420 And he said, and I quote again, where your treasure is, there will your heart also be.
00:14:52.700 You once said that those two lines, and I quote you saying it, almost epitomize the
00:15:01.740 whole series, end quote.
00:15:03.960 But those lines from the scripture, they epitomize reality itself as well.
00:15:10.820 The reality of Jesus Christ.
00:15:14.740 In your imagination, in your intellect, you know that there is a truth.
00:15:19.300 All you need to do is choose to accept him.
00:15:24.400 The very truths that moved millions through your fiction
00:15:28.680 are true in real life in Jesus Christ.
00:15:33.380 You need to turn to him, the real hero,
00:15:38.540 whom your hero Harry Potter only symbolized,
00:15:41.900 and let Jesus, the real hero, enlighten you.
00:15:47.700 You said that you didn't know what you'd have to see to settle the God conundrum.
00:15:52.480 Well, here's a short case for you.
00:15:56.660 Staked out on objective motives for credibility, history, and public fact.
00:16:03.960 First of all, you know all about the power of prophecy.
00:16:07.400 The entire plot of Harry Potter is based on the prophecy of the one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord.
00:16:15.360 But for us, prophecy isn't just a plot device for a story.
00:16:20.940 It's one of several proofs that God exists, that Jesus of Nazareth is the one who He says
00:16:26.700 He is, and that the Catholic Church is His mystical body on earth, the very way we are
00:16:34.260 to reach Him and be united with Him forever.
00:16:37.480 Long before Jesus was born on earth, Israel's prophets foretold that a real chosen one would
00:16:45.160 come, and through him their people would be a light to the nations. How? Well, by the nations
00:16:52.680 of the world, recognizing their chosen one, the Jewish Messiah, whom they would hail as their king
00:16:58.880 and who would lead them to the worship of the one true God, the God of Abraham. This is exactly
00:17:06.240 what happened. It's a clear fulfillment of prophecy written, in some cases, thousands of
00:17:13.780 years before. The evidence of which is right in front of our eyes because we know the scriptures.
00:17:19.840 We know the ancientness of the early books of the Old Testament and its fulfillment to the letter
00:17:26.720 in the person of Jesus Christ. Many of the prophecies about the Messiah himself were
00:17:32.060 really specific, marking out where he would come from, where he'd be born, when he'd be born,
00:17:39.300 what he'd do in his life, how he would die, and why, and what would happen to him after his death.
00:17:46.440 Even today, the Jews who reject Jesus retain these prophecies in their scriptures,
00:17:52.420 proving that we Christians didn't just make them up. 0.97
00:17:56.460 That's a kind of hostile witness, you might say, which proves the case even more.
00:18:03.040 So there is proof out there.
00:18:06.100 Jesus fulfilled these ancient prophecies,
00:18:09.100 appearing at the right time,
00:18:10.540 fulfilling all sorts of other criteria,
00:18:12.940 teaching with divine authority,
00:18:14.460 being crucified, rising again.
00:18:17.160 Christianity begins with a public claim
00:18:19.800 about a public event verifiable in history,
00:18:22.980 and there's no doubt that this historical coming of Jesus
00:18:26.720 was an event foretold in detail long in advance.
00:18:31.460 The only adequate explanation of this
00:18:34.520 is that He is who He said He was,
00:18:39.380 the divine Messiah and Savior of the world.
00:18:42.120 Any other explanation is far too far-fetched.
00:18:47.260 Again, we have a church
00:18:50.640 which shouldn't really still exist at all.
00:18:54.240 But nonetheless, it does.
00:18:56.860 Jesus Christ founded a visible body
00:18:58.840 to continue His mission
00:19:00.240 with leadership deriving from His 12 apostles.
00:19:03.080 with the sacramental worship that he left them.
00:19:08.300 So against all the odds,
00:19:10.420 and despite really brutal persecution,
00:19:13.720 this church spread across the Roman Empire
00:19:16.400 and much further.
00:19:18.220 It spread, though not via violence,
00:19:21.860 but by the strong and sweet force of its own arguments,
00:19:26.720 the supernatural witness of the martyrs,
00:19:29.320 prophecy and miracles,
00:19:30.440 and by providing the answer to that God-shaped vacuum in the hearts of so many,
00:19:37.660 from emperors and kings right down to slaves.
00:19:43.460 Across 2,000 years, despite sinners and scandals and repression,
00:19:48.960 the Catholic Church still exists with one creed, one Eucharist across the centuries
00:19:56.300 and across the continents, throughout the whole world.
00:20:00.440 That very endurance is itself a standing moral miracle, proving that Christ is who he said he is.
00:20:10.400 But the moral miracle continues in society.
00:20:14.340 In every age, it gives us saints, holy men and women, whose lives are morally inexplicable on natural terms
00:20:23.740 and whose miracles, understood in the more conventional sense,
00:20:28.180 have been very stringently investigated and found to be legitimate.
00:20:35.360 Miracles beyond the explanation of nature or medical science.
00:20:40.080 But even that's not all.
00:20:42.500 Think about this.
00:20:43.320 The history of the world is divided in two by Jesus Christ.
00:20:48.320 Living in the time after His coming,
00:20:50.700 We're tempted to attribute the radical change in society to causes other than Jesus.
00:20:56.740 And we're tempted to underestimate just how bad things were before his coming.
00:21:04.300 Well, let's look at this. 1.00
00:21:05.740 You call yourself a feminist. 0.99
00:21:08.020 But I'm not a feminist. 0.75
00:21:10.940 However, feminism would never even be possible without Christ and the church reordering things 0.97
00:21:18.340 in favor of women in the first place. 0.95
00:21:20.700 Prior to his coming, women were simply chattel, a tool for sexual pleasure and essentially inferior to men. 0.58
00:21:31.600 It was Christ's church which asserted the dignity and standing of women and elevated them to a status unknown in the world prior.
00:21:43.060 Now, let me be clear about what I'm saying.
00:21:46.440 I'm not saying the church is the real feminism or that you should become a Catholic out of
00:21:53.040 gratitude or something like that. So I'm saying that the change to the world from contempt for
00:22:00.980 women to their elevation, from barbarism to civilization, from rule by the strong to rule
00:22:08.660 of law, from kind of an individual might makes right to respect for the moral law, and the 0.97
00:22:18.140 adoption of a religion which preaches sacrifice and love and death to self and humility.
00:22:27.840 Where could that fly?
00:22:29.820 That itself is a miracle.
00:22:31.920 At any rate, it's a truly remarkable phenomenon that demands an explanation.
00:22:36.980 because over time things decay they don't build up so what is it that could cause this
00:22:46.340 how how can this be how can this stand how can this keep going
00:22:50.460 it's the truth of the christian religion and of christ himself that's how these phenomenon
00:23:00.360 on, they really require this conclusion because the alternative, the other explanations, they're
00:23:10.540 simply unbelievable. They're non-credible. You said that faith is believing without seeing proof.
00:23:20.060 Well, that's not quite true, but it depends on what you mean by proof. I've already shared with
00:23:27.380 you. Some of the things we call motives to credibility. They're external reasons, which
00:23:34.500 are sufficient for rational people like you to judge that God has spoken and that the Catholic
00:23:42.480 Church speaks with his authority. They actually give you moral certainty enough to act and give
00:23:49.100 your ascent. You will not have any greater certainty than this, nor do you need it. But
00:23:57.520 the next step from this kind of moral certainty, this kind of thought process that takes you there,
00:24:06.600 is not against reason. It's this. You have to freely ascent to what has been revealed.
00:24:15.860 because God himself who cannot lie
00:24:18.660 has actually, is actually the one who revealed it.
00:24:22.960 Only then when you have given your free ascent,
00:24:27.900 that action by the way is moved by grace,
00:24:31.520 but it's something we're all called to.
00:24:34.200 It's based on the motives of credibility
00:24:37.440 that I've mentioned,
00:24:38.900 others that come to you in your life.
00:24:40.980 But God will infuse into you
00:24:44.720 the supernatural virtue of faith
00:24:46.440 and the certainty which comes with it
00:24:49.320 and which secures your assent
00:24:52.120 in a way that any mere argument
00:24:54.340 or scientific evidence could not do.
00:24:57.460 But you have to give your consent.
00:25:00.420 Reason will take you there,
00:25:01.820 right to the precipice.
00:25:03.640 You sort of have to dive in.
00:25:05.320 And it's diving into His love.
00:25:09.220 And guess what?
00:25:11.020 It's then that your God-shaped vacuum
00:25:14.200 will actually be filled.
00:25:16.960 It will overflow.
00:25:19.200 God himself will fill it,
00:25:20.600 as you will see when you first receive
00:25:22.800 Holy Communion at the Mass.
00:25:26.500 Your books even include the idea
00:25:28.800 of someone investing a physical thing
00:25:31.580 with a part of themselves
00:25:32.840 so that they live on.
00:25:34.600 But in the Holy Eucharist,
00:25:36.460 Jesus himself is fully and really present
00:25:39.640 under the appearances of bread and wine,
00:25:42.160 And he is there not for his own sake, but for you, to nourish you, to fill you, J.K. Rowling, to fill your God-shaped vacuum with himself.
00:25:57.300 As God said in one of the Psalms, I am the Lord thy God who brought thee out of the land of Egypt.
00:26:04.220 Open thy mouth wide and I will fill it.
00:26:07.220 that low-level conflict and doubt that you alluded to in that tweet will stop because your soul will
00:26:17.660 finally be resting in truth himself and he will be resting in you. You have already been a brave
00:26:25.820 warrior for the truth on many fronts of the culture war, but you have not overcome your
00:26:32.780 enemies and you cannot fight on your own strength forever. Your battles for womanhood, the sanctity
00:26:40.900 of life, and even just the basic sanity in a post-truth world cannot be won by human effort
00:26:49.380 alone. Only with Jesus Christ as King can our civilization be saved from the abyss. And not only
00:26:59.580 you know an abyss which just leads us to more and more of getting and ignoring a real abyss 0.69
00:27:07.660 that leads to catastrophe and you'll find that only in the catholic church particularly in the
00:27:14.560 holy eucharist will you find the full armament the full arsenal of spiritual weapons for this war
00:27:22.080 strengthened by jesus christ in the sacrament of the holy eucharist you will come from the altar
00:27:28.520 as you say, like a lion breathing fire having become terrible to the devil, as St. John
00:27:36.060 Chrysostom once said. Illuminated by the sacred magisterium of the Church, Jesus Christ will give
00:27:42.780 you a mouth and wisdom, as he himself said, which all your adversaries shall not be able to resist
00:27:48.880 and gainsay. Accompanied by the saints and the light of truth, I actually tremble to think what
00:27:56.780 J.K. Rowling, the Catholic, could accomplish. And don't be afraid that in becoming Catholic you
00:28:04.300 would lose yourself or the causes you cherish. Nope. It's actually the opposite. They will be
00:28:10.780 purified and you will find your true self and the true fulfillment of all your best desires.
00:28:16.840 All the virtues you admire, courage and loyalty and sacrifice and love, are perfected in Jesus
00:28:24.180 and he will perfect them in you.
00:28:26.340 All the evil you hate,
00:28:27.700 injustice and tyranny and lies
00:28:29.180 are ultimately conquered only by Jesus
00:28:32.000 and he will conquer them in you.
00:28:35.260 You have stood nearly alone
00:28:36.940 as you have been disowned
00:28:39.340 by friends and colleagues and the like
00:28:41.320 and those who owe you
00:28:43.420 because you were the cause of their fortunes.
00:28:46.340 But in the Catholic Church,
00:28:47.320 you will never stand alone. 0.88
00:28:50.420 Please stop with the lingering on the threshold.
00:28:53.800 Knock and the door shall be opened.
00:28:55.200 Step through into the arms of the Father
00:28:57.940 who has been waiting to embrace you,
00:29:00.400 His beloved daughter.
00:29:02.220 The Church is ready to rejoice over a soul coming home.
00:29:05.660 And we, your Catholic friends and admirers,
00:29:08.180 we are ready to stand with you in Christ's army
00:29:10.480 under the banner of truth that never changes.
00:29:14.580 So dear J.K. Rowling, if I may,
00:29:18.280 I appeal to you.
00:29:20.700 We all appeal to you today.
00:29:22.380 The time has come.
00:29:24.040 Close the final chapter of doubt and step into the truth of Jesus Christ.
00:29:29.400 Don't go to your grave, like you said, with the God question unresolved.
00:29:33.760 Don't settle for that empty vacuum inside.
00:29:36.900 The God who shaped your heart for himself is calling you to more than that.
00:29:42.100 He's been calling you in the stories you felt compelled to write,
00:29:45.380 in the conscience that led you to stand up against the fashionable lies,
00:29:49.560 and in the words of truth you chose to quote on a fictional tombstone.
00:29:55.200 Jesus Christ is the answer, the only answer, to every question your heart asks.
00:30:01.460 And his church is the living bridge that will carry you to himself.
00:30:06.600 So to my fellow Catholics watching this, let's pray fervently for J.K. Rowling's conversion.
00:30:12.460 Pray that she receives the light of faith and the courage to act on it.
00:30:16.200 And let's be ready to welcome her with open arms.
00:30:18.420 Can you imagine the impact of a mind and heart like hers, fully alive with the grace of God?
00:30:24.940 The cultural influence she wields when it will be united to the truth of the gospel
00:30:30.360 could help transform our wounded societies.
00:30:34.700 You know, more important than that, her immortal soul, infinitely precious to our Lord,
00:30:40.340 would be saved from the misery of a life and eternity with a God-shaped vacuum,
00:30:45.460 which he is longing to fill.
00:30:48.420 For LifeSite News and Sign of the Cross Media, I'm John Henry Weston.
00:30:51.140 May God bless you.
00:30:52.820 Pray for J.K. Rowling.
00:30:54.540 J.K., please come home.