The John-Henry Westen Show - Sister Dede. Byrne On The Crisis In The Church and The World

00:00:00.000 I believe, just from my 40-plus years of medicine, that the last four days of our lives are more important than the last 40 years.

00:00:11.500 Hello, my friends. Welcome to the John Henry Weston Show.

00:00:14.040 I've got a guest for you whom I know you all know and love.

00:00:18.060 Sister Didi Byrne is with us, and there is a book out on her, SisterSoldierSurgeon.com.

00:00:23.800 You can go and get that book by Lisa Marie Corazon.

00:00:26.460 own. And we want to talk to her about what's going on in the church and in the world. And

00:00:32.020 boy, there's lots to talk about. One of the latest ones revolves around what's going on

00:00:37.700 in the Archdiocese of Chicago with a new memorial to suicide. It suggests that all people who commit

00:00:46.160 suicide go to heaven. We're going to talk to the sister about that and much more. Sister Didi

00:00:51.580 Byron, so good to be with you. Thanks, John Henry. Always good to be with you. Let's begin as we

00:00:55.560 always do with the sign of the cross in the name of the father and of his son and of the holy ghost

00:01:01.500 amen so first of all i think everybody wants to know what have you been up to great to see you

00:01:08.260 and uh yeah what tell us what's what's your latest what are you doing now i think uh great to see you

00:01:13.900 too and um you know right now we we just um had a very um sad happy sad farewell from my mother

00:01:23.300 she lived with us for three years she died at the age of 102 um last november we really miss her

00:01:30.220 but she had a beautiful death um and where i know we're going to hit these topics but i'll just

00:01:34.860 mention that uh so my mother lived we have in our company we have hospital rooms two rooms that i

00:01:41.420 like hospital beds just around the corner from our chapel where we have mass holy mass every day

00:01:48.720 And so at any need, any time, anyone who's there and who's sick can get anointed, can get Holy Communion, confession.

00:02:00.020 And then we have adoration in our house two or three times a day, a Eucharistic adoration for three hours, broken up in the day.

00:02:09.760 Sometimes we do a prayer walk up to the Franciscan monastery.

00:02:14.000 We pushed my mother up in a wheelchair, whoever else we have.

00:02:17.920 So so we have that beautiful experience. But the day that mom I've been fighting three weeks of a pneumonia or something for her in the morning that I knew as a physician, I knew she was probably going to die that day that happened to be at the USCCB was having a conference in Baltimore.

00:02:36.660 That's an hour from us.

00:02:38.500 And my youngest brother is Bishop Bilburn from Springfield, Mass.

00:02:42.780 That's a good nine hours drive.

00:02:45.440 I text him, I said, are you in Baltimore?

00:02:48.500 He said, yeah.

00:02:48.940 I said, well, I think mom's going to die today.

00:02:51.560 So he came and gave her the apostolic pardoning, which is a beautiful gift that the apostles gave.

00:03:00.660 gave you know we have passed from the apostles all the way to the holy father who then

00:03:04.980 gives it to every priest so my mother was given the apostolic pardoning which erases all your sins

00:03:12.960 you're that little bank account of sins that we usually do you know increase even though we've

00:03:18.680 been forgiven in the in the confessional we do have this little bank account that

00:03:23.600 in our Catholic faith, gives us that purgatorial time.

00:03:29.040 But with the apostolic pardoning, that's completely erased,

00:03:33.980 and it's a straight shot to heaven, so we believe.

00:03:37.600 And the words of the pardoning is absolutely beautiful.

00:03:41.140 So God, in his mercy, gave my mother's little boy, baby son, priest,

00:03:48.780 the opportunity to be with her and to give her that pardoning the day that she died and a week

00:03:55.140 later and then we spent the rest of the day he had to go we spent the rest of the day at her

00:03:59.800 bedside praying the rosary praying our priest father franklin who i called him over and we just

00:04:05.660 did prayer of a prayer because she was struggling it was really tough to see her that way because

00:04:12.180 She was a happy little-go-lucky mother of eight kids.

00:04:17.360 And so I just wish everybody could have the type of life

00:04:23.560 and the send-off that we were able to give her to her greatest reward.

00:04:31.020 And a week later, I dreamed of her.

00:04:35.000 And I don't dream this way usually, but she was ecstatic. 0.97

00:04:38.460 She was all white. 0.98

00:04:39.600 She was brilliant.

00:04:40.180 And she was like, like she had her finger in an electric socket.

00:04:43.980 I said, Mom, Mom, you know, do you see Dad?

00:04:46.480 Do you see Dad?

00:04:46.980 She's too busy and having a good time.

00:04:49.360 So I just feel, you know, so the Lord gave me that consolation.

00:04:53.580 You know, so you can akin it to, I always give this example, then I go like this, but

00:04:58.540 President Trump pardoned 20-something pro-lifers when they went against the FACE Act.

00:05:03.260 they had many years left to spend in prison and he pardoned them the night before the march for

00:05:10.080 life in 2024 which erased all their federal imprisonment including you know john andrew

00:05:15.540 bell who had many many years left so i remember i saw her the second after she because the shooting

00:05:21.440 she was released she came to the march and i was able to see her right away so amazing yeah she

00:05:26.680 and chris came to our place too that morning before the march she was there and if i had

00:05:31.260 If I had dentures, they would have flown across the room because Chris had to drive up to Pennsylvania and he picked her up for the march.

00:05:40.000 So so but that's the gift that our church gives to each one of us, because our mission here on Earth is to keep ourselves pure as best we can to be the soldiers for Christ and to bring as many as we can with us.

00:05:58.740 I know you do that in the great work you do, John Henry, and so we're in this battle together because so many things are happening.

00:06:06.980 So that was kind of a long answer to what we've been up to with that.

00:06:16.440 Really beautiful.

00:06:17.240 So many people are afraid of these final moments and call it quits and want to just say, I want to end it all.

00:06:27.160 I don't want to go through this.

00:06:28.740 So you've, as a physician, watched many people die, now get to see your own mom.

00:06:37.080 But what can you tell people about how this should go?

00:06:42.860 I mean, it's amazing that doctors are able to know, like you said, you were able to know

00:06:46.280 she's going to die today.

00:06:47.900 But so step Catholics through. 1.00

00:06:51.680 So we're not so, because there's so many Catholics, I'm like, oh, no, I can't. 1.00

00:06:55.440 I just, I have to, because now that in Canada and my country, 1.00

00:06:58.980 MAID is available, very readily available.

00:07:01.280 In fact, you're offered it over and over again.

00:07:04.020 But they're looking at it and thinking, oh, maybe this is an easier excuse.

00:07:08.080 What would you say to a Catholic thinking that?

00:07:11.100 First of all, you know, we are all going to be given, I believe,

00:07:15.640 with my whole heart, we're all going to have this opportunity

00:07:18.220 to have this moment of this enlightenment.

00:07:23.280 The Lord's going to come to us.

00:07:26.320 And I know that my superior, my dearest friend who died, she told me she was afraid to die.

00:07:33.480 Sister Leach, a little Italian sister, because they witnessed the death of her sister, her older sister, who was also a religious sister, Sister Salvatrina, who had died suddenly of a heart attack.

00:07:44.300 And she told me, Sister, I'm afraid to die.

00:07:47.100 I was afraid to die.

00:07:49.620 And then she was in our little, I call it a mystical chapel here in Washington.

00:07:54.420 The experience she had was probably 30 seconds, but to her it was endless.

00:08:01.140 It was timeless.

00:08:02.800 We were having a Eucharistic adoration.

00:08:05.180 The priest was lifting the monstrance.

00:08:07.280 And then during this time, between that and putting our Lord in the tabernacle,

00:08:11.820 she had this experience where she went through the back window of our chapel

00:08:15.800 and saw Jesus our Lord as the judge and her whole life came went before her and there were periods

00:08:24.120 of time from the little being a little girl in southern Italy in Acri where she would the image

00:08:31.720 would freeze when she had to say I'm sorry until the present moment she said that's it I'm going

00:08:37.980 to die but she came back through the window and at that moment the priest was just putting our

00:08:43.540 lord back in the tabernacle she said after that moment she said i'm not afraid to die because i

00:08:49.880 know we're all going to have that opportunity to say i'm sorry and i love you jesus i mean just

00:08:57.700 every day wake up with those words i love you jesus i love you so that if we're in the middle

00:09:02.860 of a car accident i love you jesus i mean that's he wants us with him and we may not all be able

00:09:09.880 to have that apostolic pardoning or have that moment we might have to spend some time in

00:09:14.740 purgatory but you know as a priest friend who's now an oratorian father sebastian jones in wales

00:09:22.880 used to say from the saddle to the ground mercy is sought and mercy is found so that soldier might

00:09:30.460 have that sword piercing his heart and he may have been agnostic or atheist but that moment

00:09:37.400 from the saddle to the ground, you seek mercy and you find it because Jesus is there. He will show

00:09:44.960 himself to everybody, whether you're, I believe, whether you're baptized or not, because at that

00:09:51.760 moment that could be a baptism of spirits going through. But so there's nothing to be afraid of

00:09:58.780 except not loving Christ. That's the biggest fear we should have.

00:10:04.120 I want to talk to you about what's going on in the church a little bit, because just recently, the Archdiocese of Chicago, under Cardinal Blaise Cupich, opened up a memorial to suicide. And it's a little bit strange. Let me read you from their press release.

00:10:23.000 it was a memorial to honor lives lost to suicide and offer a sacred space for prayer and

00:10:29.940 remembrance and they tell people that the people who die by suicide are not condemned

00:10:36.640 and it says that historically the church denied catholic funerals and churches and burials

00:10:42.980 in consecrated ground for individuals who died by suicide the church has undergone a significant

00:10:48.520 transformation, its understanding of suicide. And then they say the church now embraces these

00:10:54.580 individuals and affirms they are with God, not condemned. And of course, there's a lot of

00:11:00.520 strangeness in that because the, well, Judas, probably the best example, is someone who a lot

00:11:09.420 of people say, well, he seemed to repent because he was like, he threw the money back and everything.

00:11:13.540 but the church's teaching was that he committed suicide despairing of god's love or ability even

00:11:19.940 to forgive him but i'd love to hear your take well just again what i was talking about earlier

00:11:25.700 um we really don't know someone's soul many people who have committed suicide are people who have

00:11:32.900 who are emotionally or psychiatrically not them and or maybe they've got some kind of demonic

00:11:41.720 possession or something but for the most part I think most people who have done it felt recently

00:11:49.040 I just had a friend's son who 29 year old who had bipolar disorder who is has died and so I don't

00:12:00.500 think we really can judge I cannot I don't think anyone can judge anyone's state of the soul at the

00:12:07.940 time that they take their last breath and when they take their last breath that's the body may

00:12:13.120 be dying or may appear dead the heart is still probably fibrillating a bit but that period of

00:12:19.840 time that the soul that love relationship with our soul and our lord he's there trying to

00:12:27.340 bring us to him again from the saddle to the ground mercy is sought and mercy is found

00:12:32.720 whatever the state of the mind of that person was when they see total love the love that none of us

00:12:41.100 can even fathom you're married you've got a big family you can't imagine loving anyone more than

00:12:46.940 your wife and your kids but that's just a drop in the bucket to how much Christ loves us and I know

00:12:53.080 that's hard to fathom but so that love relationship it can be rejected and I think that that rejection

00:13:00.120 you know you're destined for hell i do listen to because i'm a bit of a purgatorial souls and 0.58

00:13:07.780 purgatory fanatic i pray the saint gertrude we pray the chaplet every day and i've had some 0.54

00:13:14.340 experiences where i feel like the the souls are thanking me for their prayers um and so i i and

00:13:22.520 i heard with um you know one one of the talks from someone who claims they have visits from

00:13:29.080 the souls in purgatory from ireland that the souls there are souls that are that are in purgatory

00:13:35.700 but there's levels of purgatory and they possibly may be at the lowest level because they

00:13:41.040 they didn't have the faith in christ during the lifetime but they they're not destined for hell

00:13:48.220 but it will take time souls cannot pray for themselves we have to pray for them the souls

00:13:55.540 in purgatory that's why you know we have mass for our faithful departed um to pray them up to heaven

00:14:03.660 we have to pray them up and if you had a child who committed suicide don't despair i believe

00:14:11.960 if that child has an inkling of what they did when you raised them which is to love christ

00:14:17.840 i'm sure they had that and there's a sorrow to that loss i don't think they go straight to heaven

00:14:23.800 unless they you know but i don't believe that i don't i definitely i'm not going straight to

00:14:31.520 heaven i'm gonna i'm sure i'm gonna spend a little time or a lot of time in purgatory

00:14:35.580 but but i rejoice if i go get into purgatory it's heading north at least so that's my take

00:14:43.120 and also father chris alar wrote a very good book on that and he brings that up

00:14:48.500 the souls and you know you wrote a book on suicide yeah i think the church's understanding

00:14:54.080 uh of it's never taught that all people commit suicide are going to hell uh because of the issue

00:15:01.000 of mental illness but one of the things when when you have a situation of the um basically saying

00:15:09.040 everybody who commits suicide is is going to heaven that's uh it also could encourage that

00:15:15.540 the very thing, you know, especially here in Canada, where it's offered and recommended and

00:15:21.880 you're coaxed and pushed and encouraged and everything else to it. It is rather nightmarish.

00:15:30.180 I wanted to get your take on that too, because the beauty you described about dying, about the

00:15:37.780 process, tell us a little bit more on that, about the value that that has. I remember a story of

00:15:45.220 Padre Pio, was taking someone around his monastery

00:15:50.120 and wanting to show where the real power center was,

00:15:54.900 in other words, where the real work was done.

00:15:59.460 And he brought them to the infirmary where the brothers were dying.

00:16:03.460 And that was where.

00:16:06.160 Give us something on that.

00:16:07.500 I believe just from my years, 40-plus years of medicine

00:16:12.900 and now doing my doc we just did this documentary on a dear friend who was euthanized

00:16:18.620 called no mercy and being with the dying especially with our elderly sisters and now my mother

00:16:24.780 that i i the last four days of our lives are more important the last 40 years and how we live those

00:16:32.660 last four days and if it's cut short by suicide or euthanasia or made medical assistance in dying

00:16:43.080 and euthanasia by the way is taking one's life without their desires someone so i believe that

00:16:49.900 those last four days are powerful times to be able to offer up we have this beautiful catholic

00:16:58.280 believe that suffering is actually a gift that christ died on the cross he was our

00:17:03.840 he was our greatest role model of suffering for others redemptive suffering his greatest

00:17:10.380 pulpit was the cross the wooden cross where he spoke love and compassion and sacrifice in a

00:17:20.340 silent way because he took upon all our sins and we now have that opportunity to be eternally with

00:17:27.620 him in that beautiful beatific vision that moment those four days or weeks or whatever

00:17:35.420 every ounce can be used to help others our children our wayward grandchildren souls in

00:17:43.840 purgatory our spouse ourselves can be used as a as an opportunity to heal those wounds it's a time

00:17:52.920 to mend those wounds and uh family members who may be separated or whatnot um so i it's a it's

00:18:02.120 it's beautiful and i also have now come to the belief and i used to as a surgical resident

00:18:07.800 we used to you know get put central lines in and get you know nodes and to figure out the blood

00:18:13.540 type and the tissue type so they could do transplant surgery but now i believe that

00:18:20.320 if someone even if there's a heartbeat and dr paul burns talks about this i wish i was related

00:18:26.380 to him because he's so smart but he speaks about how how you know the you know people in a coma

00:18:33.560 really shouldn't be used as as a organ transplant i believe we still have that time there's just

00:18:41.540 this beautiful relationship between the soul communicating in a in a way that we weren't

00:18:48.420 unaware with our lord and you may be in and that happened to the miracle of our founder where

00:18:53.980 a woman was in a coma hematoma of her brain um they had her on a ventilator she was in a coma

00:19:00.960 pupils were pinpoint and the husband who was a doctor was going to pull the tube our sister said

00:19:08.980 can we have a nine-day novena can we just pray for our founder he was venerable at the time

00:19:15.060 and he said sure nine days after nine days she didn't budge pupils still didn't react she was

00:19:20.620 brain dead they removed the tube and she woke up completely with um no neuro deficit and she said

00:19:30.980 during that period of time which was she said absolutely beautiful our founder had come to her

00:19:37.760 and said god has more work for you your time is not over and and so so that is an example of

00:19:47.140 someone who's in a coma or even beyond that that beautiful time of healing and reconciliation and

00:19:55.340 it's like a power pack of prayers going out to the world like our little contemplative nuns

00:20:01.500 praying for all of us. I feel like, as Padre Pio said, the powerhouse, the souls that are doing

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00:21:12.560 Speaking of what's going on in the world, there's also something going on in the church.

00:21:17.500 And I thought I'd address this with you.

00:21:18.760 I know it's controversial, but we've just experienced an excommunication, the likes of which

00:21:25.080 it hasn't been in my lifetime. And because it's massive, it's not only the bishops as it was in

00:21:34.260 88, it's now the bishops and the priests and the religious, even the faithful who are formally

00:21:41.160 attached, whatever that means. But I mean, I've seen now, you know, letters from bishops around

00:21:48.120 the world saying you know you need to come and it's not even simple to to get back in as it were

00:21:54.940 it's um i was saying the other day it's unbelievable because you know the automatic

00:22:00.140 x communication you get for engaging in abortion uh it can be lifted by any priest because uh you

00:22:07.560 can do that if you want uh to say left lift the automatic x communication for being formally

00:22:14.520 attached to the SSPX. You can't go to your priest. The priest will have to refer you to the bishop.

00:22:19.740 Then you have to sign something that you won't do it, that all sorts of things to sign. 0.52

00:22:27.240 None of that's needed for abortion. Abortion is like go to confession, done.

00:22:31.500 So I just thought, wow, what are we doing? At the same time, that exact same situation,

00:22:39.380 much worse but same situation is going on in china in china the they're consecrating bishops

00:22:45.960 without papal mandate and they're all accepted and none of them are excommunicated so it's hard

00:22:53.060 to figure out what's going on i'm with you john henry i um that's the first thing that came to my

00:22:58.180 mind when um i heard the uh pious the tenth priest the bishops were excommunicated i mean i believe

00:23:06.940 that they, I don't know a whole lot about it, but they, I know they had reached out to the Holy

00:23:12.520 Father in April or August of last year. There was not any communication. It's all a lack of

00:23:18.000 communication. And then they were, they reached, the Holy Father reached out a week before and

00:23:25.220 said, let's start. The day before. The day before. The day before. And so, so that was, so that's

00:23:32.300 very, very sad, but I'm with you. We've got, you know, Pope Francis opened the doors for

00:23:38.940 Chinese communist bishops to be installed. And what's happened is, I don't want to mention his

00:23:47.900 name because he's already been, you know, but he's a beautiful priest from Hong Kong

00:23:51.880 who's now in the States for speaking against this. And he, you know, basically the underground

00:24:00.660 Chinese Catholics who are faithful to the church and the Pope are suffering.

00:24:07.260 There's about, I don't know how many, Nina Shea is an expert on this topic with the Hudson

00:24:12.280 Shee, but I don't know.

00:24:13.700 There's 10, 15 maybe cardinals, bishops underground and many, many Catholics that are underground.

00:24:22.720 Yet we have these bishops that are really anti-Catholic because they're communist.

00:24:30.660 So, so basically we have to fight this battle on our knees because there's a lot of, I'm a, I consider myself a little, like a, a grunt, a little soldier on the ground.

00:24:41.880 I hear the, the, the, the cries of the faithful, the laity, and they're not, they're all confused.

00:24:49.820 And I am too, actually, I don't understand.

00:24:51.940 The Holy Father is the Pope.

00:24:53.320 We have to respect him, and especially for the issues that are, you know, what's the word I'm blocking now?

00:25:04.700 The ones that are solid, dogmatic.

00:25:06.660 Dogmatic, yeah.

00:25:08.560 But we can be critical lovers and speak out when things don't look right.

00:25:16.560 And I wish I had five minutes.

00:25:18.700 No, I need 10 minutes, 10 minutes with the Holy Father to discuss a few issues.

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00:25:30.660 We're blessed to have it every now and then in our convent.

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00:25:45.580 And the Latin is the beautiful shield protecting us, especially in that special experience of the holy sacrifice of the mass.

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00:27:05.760 May God bless you.

00:27:06.520 lastly sister i want to remind you of something you did in 2023 with a whole bunch of catholic

00:27:14.020 women you made a statement when uh they were doing the preparations for the synod on synodality

00:27:20.760 which we're now living through and living out and it's become central to the papacy of leo

00:27:25.860 and you had some rather stark warnings you said that the preparatory documents themselves

00:27:31.720 poisonous errors insinuated into the effect to the effect that unrepentant notorious public

00:27:38.360 sinners should be welcomed into the church without repentance talked about such a welcome would only

00:27:43.740 ensure more terrible torments for these individuals in the world to come as anyone who professed the 0.91

00:27:50.340 Catholic faith would know. We're doing this today. We have Pope Leo just made a bishop of a German 0.99

00:28:04.360 monsignor who rejects the church's teaching on homosexuality. And unbelievably,

00:28:13.640 Uh, Cardinal Radcliffe, whom, uh, Pope Leo actually made the, uh, I think he was the one to give the reflection to the consistory of bishops or of cardinals when he had it, um, actually participated in a 50th anniversary mass for a homosexual couple.

00:28:32.800 um and uh there was a couple bishops celebrating that mass and a priest as well um and they gave

00:28:41.340 this really strange blessing to the homosexual couple um asking god to what was it where the

00:28:49.140 words here uh yeah so that oh god of love that your grace may come down upon julian and martin

00:28:56.800 as they mark the 50th anniversary of their relationship father charles murray on my show

00:29:01.780 called faith and reason um that we do every week talked about how another bishop talked to him about

00:29:09.480 the gayification of the church it sounds so insane but it is actually you were present back in 2023

00:29:20.220 you and the group of women as actually a lot of women who signed it like i think over 2000 but

00:29:25.360 how did you see this back then and did you imagine that it would just continue and just

00:29:30.480 we'd be where we're at right now well i was i was uh supporting the this mission that i think

00:29:38.220 really needs to be brought out to the light the only way that we can heal an infection is to open

00:29:46.240 up the abscess to open up the wound and there's a you know our lord's heart is wounded so much this

00:29:52.880 celebration of 50 years of sodomy

00:29:57.100 is wounding the heart of Jesus

00:29:59.540 we're all affected by it too

00:30:02.780 many people who may have wayward faith

00:30:06.000 may be

00:30:07.680 having difficulty with

00:30:11.760 staying Catholic but we have to remain

00:30:14.780 strong, we have to realize

00:30:17.680 that the church, our leader

00:30:20.740 is our lord jesus christ who started us our church so many thousands of years ago i'm not a i'm not a

00:30:27.780 mystic i don't see forward like this but i just say that each day we have to take at a time and

00:30:33.780 and speak truth and and with love that but i think germany needs some prayer big prayers

00:30:41.700 because there's a lot of things going on there that do need to be cleaned up and that's one of

00:30:50.400 them. To be celebrating sodomy by our priest is a terrible atrocity, and it confuses so many of

00:31:02.120 our, like I said, I have the feet on the ground of the laity, and we're all confused. And we just

00:31:11.120 need to fight this battle on our knees and continue to pray, because the battle's not over,

00:31:16.020 and things could get worse before they get better.

00:31:18.980 And we just have to remain faithful to our Lord

00:31:22.120 and keep ourselves in the state of grace.

00:31:25.580 Be pure as much as we can.

00:31:28.060 Before the Eucharist, go to confession as often as we need to.

00:31:32.440 Receive our Lord as often as we can.

00:31:34.840 Daily would be a gift if we're in the state of grace.

00:31:38.460 And so that we can be able to see as clearly,

00:31:41.620 as best we can as our Lord sees.

00:31:43.500 that way we can be best be better warriors for him in christ and love amen to that and finally

00:31:51.500 sister um our lady's role um in i know the church will turn around uh the lord promised the gates

00:32:00.760 of hell will not prevail it seems like a dark time right now our lady promised in the end my

00:32:06.500 immaculate heart will triumph and a time of peace will be given to the world um i've often thought

00:32:12.440 that time of peace would be a peace that we don't understand that, you know, it's not going to be

00:32:20.440 a legal abortion. Of course, there'll be still be sins in the world and people might commit an

00:32:24.500 abortion, whatever, but it's going to be a real time of peace, not like a peace that we'd say,

00:32:30.160 but that our lady says peace to me, that means a lot. Um, I don't know what you've ever thought

00:32:35.880 about our lady's promise of peace. And if you have a feeling that might be on the horizon soon.

00:32:41.380 Oh, well, I don't know about soon, but, you know, I guess my favorite, you know, the Fatima is just powerful.

00:32:50.040 And she wants us to, that message is still new today, you know, the pray, pray, pray, repent, pray.

00:32:58.540 And so we can only, as Mother Teresa would say, when she was trying to free, save the paralytics or the children who were in Blitz in Lebanon, Beirut.

00:33:13.100 And the American ambassador said, Mother, we're in the middle of a war.

00:33:18.520 And she said, but tomorrow is Our Lady's feast day and she'll give us a ceasefire.

00:33:23.660 And he said, if she gives us a ceasefire, I'll personally drive you.

00:33:27.880 and the next day there were crickets playing all they could hear were crickets and she went in and

00:33:33.140 they just took one child out at a time that's all we can do is our blessed mother is going to

00:33:39.420 give us that ceasefire and that opportunity so that we can do the work that our lord has called

00:33:45.560 us to do um and so that's all i can say is that that i agree with you our lord is the door

00:33:53.440 to love, pure love,

00:33:56.820 but she's the doorknob.

00:33:58.060 She can help us get in much better

00:33:59.800 than busting through, so.

00:34:03.040 Beautiful.

00:34:03.660 Sister Didi, thank you so very much

00:34:05.080 for joining us.

00:34:05.740 Thanks, John Henry.

00:34:06.860 Take care.

00:34:07.540 God bless you.

00:34:08.480 And God bless all of you.

00:34:10.100 And we'll see you next time.

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00:34:15.940 This is Jason Jones for Lifeside News.

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The John-Henry Westen Show - July 17, 2026

Sister Dede. Byrne On The Crisis In The Church and The World

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