Priest： Biden and Pelosi make a 'mockery' of the Blessed Sacrament by receiving Communion
Summary
Join us as we hear from Fr. Donald Calloway, a priest and author of The Consecration of St. Joseph, about the controversial decision by the Catholic Church in Belgium to bless same-sex couples in a ceremony.
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I will not give Holy Communion to Joe Biden or Nancy Pelosi. It's just not going to happen.
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And until you repent publicly because of your stance, you're saying you're Catholic means
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nothing to me. It has to be backed up by your actions. And your public actions are a disgrace.
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You are promoting murder, the murder of children.
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Things are really topsy-turvy in the Catholic Church these days.
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And it's nice to speak to faithful clergy, clergy who are courageous, who are willing
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to speak out, but also clergy who have a very deep faith life. There was a very popular book
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recently called The Consecration of St. Joseph. I know many of you made that. If you haven't,
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you should. We have the author of that book with us, Fr. Donald Calloway.
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This is The John Henry Weston Show. Stay tuned.
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attention. Father, thank you so much for being with us.
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Yeah, thanks, John Henry. It's an honor. Appreciate it.
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If you wouldn't mind leading us, we always begin with the sign of the cross.
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In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Heavenly Father,
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bless our time. Make it fruitful. We ask this to the intercession of Our Lady and the great
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Saint Joseph. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
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Amen. Well, Father, I just saw a tweet of yours the other day and thought to call you about it. In fact,
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I saw it on Facebook. And it was about LifeSite's coverage of the Synod on Synodality, but more so
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about a homosexual blessing ceremony that was put out by the bishops in Belgium. Tell us what you
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thought about that and your message to faithful Catholics about what this is and what it means.
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You know, it's funny. A lot of people have been telling me, Father, I saw your tweet and I'm like,
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I don't have Twitter. So it was on Facebook, but everybody's sharing it. So people are trying to
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find a Twitter account that I have that doesn't exist. But yeah, I read what you guys put up and
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I did some research on it and I was like, you've got to be kidding me. I can't believe that a bishops
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conference would do something like this. This to me is next level confusion, craziness, and really
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going against Jesus Christ. And so for me, it's so shocking because I thought immediately, you know,
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as a priest, what if I were a priest over there in that diocese? What would I do? And I have to say
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that I would definitely not obey it. I would not cooperate in it. And I would be probably going
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John the Baptist from the altars on this kind of nonsense. I mean, this is nonsense. And so my heart
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goes out to the clergy over there who are solid and also the lay people, because this is wrong on so
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many different levels. And my fear, I have to say, my fear is that nothing is going to happen. There's
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going to be no correction. I pray that I'm wrong, John Henry. I really do. But it's my understanding
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that these particular bishops from the Flemish speaking part of Belgium, that they're meeting with
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the Pope next week or sometime soon. And I really pray that the Pope corrects them and publicly so.
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Something tells me it may not happen because we know we've been through this kind of stuff before.
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But this is next level. This is official on the conference, Bishop's Conference website in Belgium.
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They've approved this. It goes against what the CDF said last year, that we cannot give blessings to
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homosexual couples in any way. So is the Pope going to correct it? I pray that he does, because if he
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doesn't, we have a serious problem. And how much further is this going to go before we do have an
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all-out schism? This is schism-type stuff right here. Scary stuff, John Henry. And so I'm praying,
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I'm asking Our Lady in St. Joseph to touch the Pope's heart so that he has the courage to correct this.
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Absolutely. We've been seeing in the Church, and that's why this is so scandalous, it's in the Church
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we've been seeing over the past, even more than eight years, but at least for the past eight years,
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just a litany of, especially in this area, in the area of homosexuality. It's a difficult area,
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absolutely. Pope Benedict said of this kind of thing, that one day it will be impossible for the Catholic
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Church to teach, as she does, that homosexuality is disordered. And, you know, he actually voiced that
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himself. But this was already years ago. But to see it in the Church, with the likes of Father James
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Martin being promoted, not only just anywhere in diocese, but by the Pope himself, meeting with him,
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making him counsel for communications, but then also sort of talking to his LGBT group, personally,
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the Pope. But even beyond that, when you have the new Cardinal, the Cardinal Slupich, who,
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right before he became a Cardinal, actually agreed that homosexual couples, if they feel
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unconscious, they're okay, then they could be able to go to Holy Communion. So this is happening,
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massive confusion. We know the Synod on Synodality is doing this, especially from the German Synod.
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What is the actual teaching of the Church on homosexuality? Because from one end, we get,
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oh, there's no problem whatsoever. In fact, the Church is changing in this direction. The
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Catechism is wrong, or the Bible's even wrong. Jesus, you know, he never really talked about the
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issue. That's what's being said by headlining Catholics right now, in clergy, bishops even.
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And on the other side, we hear, oh, they just hate gays. So what is the actual teaching?
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Yeah, well, I can state, you know, 100%, the Bible is not wrong, and neither is the Catechism. So in
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the Catechism, you know, I don't know the paragraph number myself, you can find it easily. It does
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describe it as intrinsically disordered. So, you know, a lot of people today, they think, oh, that's so
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mean, that's so cruel, that seems to be hate speech. It's not. Truth is the truth. We're all
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wounded. We're all broke. We've all got baggage and issues. We're born into original sin, and we
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come with our wounds, with disordered passions and such, all of us. But, you know, we can't,
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for the sake of being kind or wanting to endlessly, you know, accompany people in their sin,
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hold back from saying the truth. It's the truth that sets us free. And so, look, I have family
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members in my family that suffer from SSA, same-sex attraction. They know where I stand. I love
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them. I'll always be close to them, and I'll help them in any way that I can. But they know that there's
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a line that I draw, that I cannot, you know, say that this is okay just because you're a sibling
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or a family member. There's right and there's wrong. And oftentimes, the immediate response is,
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why do you hate me? You know, I don't hate you. I love you, and I'm here for you. But I think that
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today there's so much confusion because people want to be so tolerant and so accommodating that
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they're really twisting the truth, the eternal truths of Jesus Christ. And so, the church teaching
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is very clear on this. So, my concern is that what is going to be the fruit of the synod on synodality?
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And I say that. I take no delight in saying this, John Henry. I really do not. But, you know,
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just maybe a month ago, maybe not even a month ago, I saw on somebody's Facebook account,
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the bishops now will allow people to complete the survey for the synod. And I thought, okay, well,
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you know, I have to say, I'm skeptical about the synod. And I was like, hmm, what does this thing
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actually look like? So, I went in, and I wanted to participate and answer these questions because it's
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supposed to be a listening session, right? They want to hear from people, including the
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clergy. So, there I am answering the questions. And then I realized, wait a minute, these aren't my
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responses. These are pre-programmed set responses. They're not listening to anybody. They're listening
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to themselves, right? So, you're not really hearing from the faithful if the responses are yours. I just
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have to choose one of them. That's not right. I mean, that's kind of twisted, actually. And when some
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of them especially include things like LGBT stuff, which I would, I want nothing to do with, you know,
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I pray for conversions. I'll minister to people, but whoa, we'll slow down now. I don't even like
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the terminology and the language. And yet, you're already using this in pre-programmed responses.
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Hmm. So, what's the end result of this going to be for bishops' conferences, for nations, and then
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globally for the universal church? Man, I wish I could say I trusted this process, but I don't.
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And that proved it. And so, I'm just praying that there's some serious conversion among the
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leaders of the church right now, because I'm worried.
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There was just recently something, I don't even think it's that widely known yet,
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but there was a correction made. Bishop Strickland from Tyler, Texas, Joseph Strickland, along with
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Athanasia Schneider, who's an auxiliary in Astana, Kazakhstan, along with a retired bishop, Rene Grisida,
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from Texas as well, as well as a Dutch bishop, Bishop Musterts. All of them signed onto a document
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with a bunch of priests and scholarly laity and whatever. But the document very clearly called out
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Pope Francis for his latest apostolic letter. The letter was Desiderio, Desideravi, which means
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with desire of desired. It comes from our Lord's, you know, talk before he had the Last Supper with the
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Apostles. And it's all about Holy Communion. Unfortunately, it mentions how basically the
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only requirement to receive or for the wedding feast of the Lamb in the wording of the document
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is for the garment of faith, which comes with the hearing of the word. That's an approximation of
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just about exactly what's there. It was released on June 29th. It's a very unfortunate day for its
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release because that was the day that Nancy Pelosi, the best known probably in the world, other than
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Biden himself, a person who refers to themselves as Catholic all the time, but promotes abortion. But
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not only just abortion, abortion to the hilt. And so she was there, she met with the Holy Father,
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and she received communion at a papal mass. And then this document was released. A lot of people
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believe there's some coordination in that. Who knows if there is, but the circumstance is terrible
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anyway. But the bishops saw fit for the first time in this papacy to mention the document by name and
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talk about how it does contradict the faith, that the plain meaning of the words and in the context
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that it was given contradicts the faith. And then they quote from the Catechism of the Council of Trent.
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And they talk about the line, I think it's Canon 11 from the Council of Trent, which talks about how
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anyone who would say that the only requirement for reception of the Most Holy Eucharist is faith,
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or that faith alone is enough, let him be anathema, which means let him be excommunicated. So
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very serious charges, but done in a way of love, love for the Holy Father, but very clearly telling
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the faithful, like you just said about, you know, the priests in Belgium, you can't go along with this.
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They tell the bishops and the clergy and the faithful, you cannot go along with this. You
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must submit, you must adhere to Christ's teaching about the Holy Eucharist that's recorded right from
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the beginning in the scriptures from St. Paul, so clear about the need to wordly receive Holy
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Communion. Otherwise, you're eating and drinking condemnation to yourself. I'd love your take on
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that. Do you know of the document? What do you think of it? Have you seen this?
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I have heard of the response from Schneider and from Strickland,
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Grissita, and I did see some of the names on the list. I think you guys posted it. I think that's,
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I think that's where I saw it. I have to say, I may be a little ignorant in this because I didn't
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have time to go through it and really unpack it, but I'll say this. I mean, those are the guys. I mean,
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Schneider, Strickland, when they speak, I hear the voice of the shepherd. And so I have confidence
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in what they're saying. I would follow those men into battle because I really and truly believe
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that they know and love Jesus Christ. So I'll have to study it a little bit more to see the
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ins and outs of the particular details. That's one of the things of being a priest, you know,
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you're so busy. Sometimes, you know, you laymen have more opportunity to sometimes study these
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things that we do because we're doing pastoral ministry and hearing confessions and saying masses
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and so forth. But those are great men. And so I would trust them on this. And I'll say for my part
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as a priest, I will not give Holy Communion to Joe Biden or Nancy Pelosi. It's just not going to
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happen. And until you repent publicly because of your stance, you're saying you're Catholic means
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nothing to me. It has to be backed up by your actions and your public actions are a disgrace.
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And what you support, what you advocate for, and the mockery that you make of, you know,
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what we hold to be holy and sacred, the blessed sacrament, the greatest of all the sacraments.
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And so, you know, that's my response is it doesn't really matter to me who says what or who writes
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what. I know Jesus Christ, and I know that he would not approve of this. So write what you want to
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write. They're not going to receive Holy Communion in my line, period. If it causes a public
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display and the media goes nuts, so be it. You know what I mean? I could care less because I'm
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going to do what's pleasing to Jesus Christ. That's my role as a priest. And what's beneficial
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for souls. And it's beneficial to your soul that I do not give you Holy Communion because you are
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promoting murder, the murder of children, and advocating all kinds of other stuff, homosexual
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marriage, you know, so-called marriage and all those things. So, no. Repent publicly? Sure,
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you're welcome. But until then, you're actually not. If you wouldn't mind, for the sake of our
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audience, I know you've told your conversion story a lot. But I think particularly in this context,
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I would love to hear or for the audience to hear where you're coming from. You're coming from on this,
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but I think your own journey in your life and how you ended up a priest is just so powerful.
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And it relates to this in a way that people can understand, oh, wait a minute. He's sort of been
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there, done that. If you wouldn't mind telling us a brief version, but you can take your time if you
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like, but I'd love to air that for you. Yeah, sure. I mean, I've been a priest 19 years now,
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but becoming a priest, becoming a Catholic was the last thing that I ever envisioned for my life.
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You know, I was raised in a home environment that was very much secular, very much living for the
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pleasures of the flesh. My mother was in several marriages, and finally, she met a great man,
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and they ended up becoming Catholic. And I always joke with my mother, I say to my mom,
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Mom, I'm the reason that you found God, because I drove you so crazy. You needed God to be able to
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deal with me, you know? And she doesn't laugh at that, but there is definitely a tinge of truth in that,
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because in my youth, you know, I really went off the rails and, you know, using drugs and
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just really an immoral lifestyle to the point where I ended up in two rehabilitation centers
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for all the stuff that I was doing. Ended up incarcerated in jail as soon as I turned 18,
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had long hair down on my waist, and that was a mess. It was a disaster. But my parents,
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when they became Catholic, they became super Catholic, like super devout, going to mass daily,
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frequent confession, praying the rosary every day, books about the saints all around the house. And
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initially, I thought they had joined a cult. You know, I had no idea what Catholicism was,
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and I resisted. I fought it. But then eventually, God gave me what I call the divine two-by-four,
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where one night, I just had this encounter of picking up a book that my parents had on their
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bookshelf about the Virgin Mary. Never heard of stuff like this, and that book was the catalyst
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that got me to look deeper into things. Went to a Catholic church for the first time in my life,
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couldn't believe it. I was even crossing the threshold of a church door, and encountered
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some incredible things that the first mass I ever attended, like a mystical experience happened to me
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where I knew that Jesus was God, and He was present in what the priest had in His hands. I didn't know
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terminology and definitions. And that began something so deep and profound that the five people that were in
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the church that day, five Filipino women—God bless the Filipinos, they're incredible. I call them the
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green berets of God, you know, their special forces—took me under their wing and taught me the rosary and
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gave me a brown scapular, a blue scapular, green scapular, you know, and all these devotions, and
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just helped me to fall in love with Jesus Christ and the teachings of the church. And so, I ended up
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going to classes, became Catholic, and then I got my call shortly after that, where I just, I asked God,
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I said, what do you want from me? You've saved my life. Do you want me to marry one of these Filipino
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girls and raise a Catholic family? If that's what you want, I'll do it. And I didn't hear that. What
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I heard was, in my heart, He wanted me to be a priest. And I have to say, at first, I was like,
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you got to be kidding me. You know, me? There's no way this is even possible. But God made a way,
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and so I joined the religious community called the Marian Fathers that promotes the divine mercy. And
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I'm kind of exhibit A for mercy. It really does work. It's incredible. And so, and they're very
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pious, devotional, very orthodox, and got Polish origins. So, during the 60s and 70s, they didn't go
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cray-cray with all the weird stuff. And thank God. So, really great guys. So, I joined and went through
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10 years of formation, you know, because I had dropped out of high school. And now I've been a
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priest for 19 years, and interesting times we're living in, because, you know, it would have been
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interesting for me if I had had these experiences now, in light of, you know, what's going on in the
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church. I know the Catholic Church is the one true church founded by Jesus Christ. There's no
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question about these things, of course, of course. But, you know, I look at people now who are, you
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know, maybe the Holy Spirit's wanting to get to and have radical conversions. And I'm thinking to
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myself, man, I really hope that a lot of these, like, Belgian bishop-type issues are not blocking
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people from having such conversions to come into the fullness of Christianity, into Catholicism.
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Because I ask myself, what would I have said back then? I fled that stuff. And all of a sudden,
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bishops are promoting it? What madness is this? So, my heart goes out to the people today, and I'm
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praying for them that these aren't blockages, and they'll be able to see through these kind of things.
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And I think maybe part of the reason why I'm speaking the way that I am sometimes on social
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media or, you know, at my conferences and events is because I want the people to know, look, we are in
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a serious battle right now. We're being attacked from not, well, definitely from without, but even
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from within today. Don't let that discourage you to the point where you don't sign up, where you don't
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want to be, you know, part of the Catholic Church. We'll get through this. We'll get through this.
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I'm praying for better days myself. And I know that a lot of my brother priests are. There's so much
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going on that we just want to cling to Our Lady, cling to St. Joseph, cling to the saints, imitate
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them. If it comes to it, viva Christo re, right? If we have to go underground and be willing to lose
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our priestly faculties, if this nonsense continues, so be it, right? We have to be faithful to Christ.
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And so I'm eternally grateful, John Henry, that the truth was revealed to me in its fullness in
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the Catholic Church. I'm grateful that we're living in these crazy times because the possibility
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for us to become saints, to grow in virtue, is right around the corner. It's only minutes away
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because we're called to that. And that's what's going to make us holy is heroic virtue.
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And there's ample opportunity to practice it today.
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Father, where can people learn more about you, buy your books? How can they be in touch?
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My religious community set up several websites for me. One is my name, fathercalloway.com.
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You have to spell out the father part. And then, you know, the whole consecration of St.
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Joseph was so wildly popular that we set up a website for that too. So it's consecration
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to stjoseph.org. So either one of those websites.
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Father, if you would give us your priestly blessing in parting, that would be awesome.
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Absolutely. In the name of the father and of the son and of the Holy spirit. Amen.
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Heavenly father poured on your grace and mercy upon all the listeners and viewers,
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their families, their intentions. We pray for the conversion of loved ones.
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We pray for the restoration of marriages and for growth and holiness and virtue
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through the intercession of our lady and St. Joseph, the blessing of the father and of the
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son and of the Holy spirit. Amen. Amen. Thank you so much, father. And God bless you.
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Thank you. And God bless all of you. And we'll see you next time.
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