The John-Henry Westen Show - 'Stealth euthanasia'？ Catholic nursing home accused of killing a nun

00:00:00.000 In comes a nurse, and she introduces herself to be the hospice nurse.

00:00:03.580 I said, what's going on with sister? There's something wrong.

00:00:06.060 Has she had a stroke? She said, oh, no, no, we're helping her transition.

00:00:09.720 It was like electricity shooting through my body. 0.99

00:00:12.000 That's like the code word for we're killing her.

00:00:22.320 What if I told you that in a nursing home called Our Lady of Mount Carmel,

00:00:29.540 run by a Catholic health association in the United States,

00:00:34.440 you could be euthanized. You could be killed. 1.00

00:00:39.000 No, you'd say, no, that's illegal.

00:00:41.440 Well, actually, it's not so illegal,

00:00:44.040 because doctors are permitted to deny food and fluids to patients

00:00:48.220 and also to sedate them, even against their will.

00:00:52.180 And that's exactly what happened in 2022 to a nun, to a sister.

00:00:59.540 Properly called.

00:01:01.440 And this sister, against her will, was denied food, fluids, and sedated to death. 0.95

00:01:09.640 Now, this happens so much in the United States right now,

00:01:13.720 it mostly goes unnoticed.

00:01:15.860 But this sister, this religious, this in common parlance nun,

00:01:21.480 had a friend who's also a nun or a sister.

00:01:24.520 And that sister is a great pro-life advocate who has fought for life for a long, long time.

00:01:32.780 And she's well known to you.

00:01:35.240 Sister Dede Byrne, you will all recall from 2020,

00:01:39.000 speaking at the Republican National Convention at the invitation of the Trump White House.

00:01:43.640 But she is a former soldier and a sister and also a surgeon.

00:01:51.480 And she's a massive pro-life activist. 0.97

00:01:54.580 She doesn't fool around. 1.00

00:01:55.940 And so when this happened to her friend,

00:02:00.240 a friend of hers for 35 years,

00:02:02.180 she wasn't going to take it lying down.

00:02:04.360 She couldn't save her life.

00:02:05.600 But she is telling the story of this travesty

00:02:09.940 and trying to make it stop all over the United States.

00:02:13.000 Stay tuned for this interview with Sister Dede Byrne.

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00:02:44.640 Thank you for your support.

00:02:46.180 And may God bless you.

00:02:47.920 Sister Dede, so good to be with you.

00:02:49.400 Thank you, John Henry, for having me on.

00:02:51.320 I really, really appreciate it.

00:02:52.660 Let's begin as we always do, with the sign of the cross.

00:02:55.540 In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.

00:03:00.560 Amen.

00:03:01.260 Sister, tell us the story.

00:03:02.680 I mean, this sounds so sad.

00:03:04.260 But if you can count to us, what happened?

00:03:06.400 This was all during the COVID period of time, sort of tail end of it.

00:03:10.920 Many people were in nursing homes.

00:03:14.360 You know that whole story.

00:03:15.200 We don't need to go through all that.

00:03:16.740 Sister, Philip Marie Burley, who was a very close friend for 35 years.

00:03:20.600 I met her when I was stationed in Korea as a younger doctor.

00:03:24.700 She did international retreat work and was well-loved by many.

00:03:28.700 We stayed very close.

00:03:30.140 I traveled with her a lot.

00:03:32.080 She ended up in the hospital for an infection of the chest.

00:03:36.960 I was able to fly there and be with her.

00:03:39.520 She recovered from that.

00:03:41.040 And they put her in a nursing home, Our Lady of Mount Carmel, in St. Charles, Missouri.

00:03:45.720 In early 2022, her brother died of cancer.

00:03:49.740 Soon thereafter, she was scheduled to have surgery.

00:03:52.560 So another friend who actually beats me in the, I know, Sister Philip Marie, the longest club,

00:03:57.200 new sister for maybe 40 plus years.

00:04:00.360 Doren and I decided we were going to fly out and be at her bedside when she was going to have this

00:04:04.580 surgery that Sister felt she was going to have for her lower extremities. 0.57

00:04:08.520 When we arrived, she was basically in a coma for about two days.

00:04:12.800 She was not arousable. 0.65

00:04:14.580 She was breathing and everything else.

00:04:16.820 She had a feeding tube in, which I didn't know about. 1.00

00:04:20.420 And I couldn't see her, of course, in the 2021 period because that was the COVID period.

00:04:26.440 Things were very restricted.

00:04:28.160 So when we were there at her bedside, in comes a nurse and she introduces herself to me, 0.81

00:04:32.560 the hospice nurse.

00:04:33.480 I said, what's going on with Sister?

00:04:35.000 There's something wrong.

00:04:36.000 Has she had a stroke?

00:04:36.820 She said, oh, no, no, we're helping her transition.

00:04:40.600 And I said, then all of a sudden, it was like electricity shooting through my body. 0.99

00:04:44.540 That's like the code word for we're killing her.

00:04:48.020 And I said, now, remind you, mind you, this is January of 2022.

00:04:52.560 Just to tell you quickly, she died April 4th of 2022.

00:04:57.320 I said, you're not transitioning her.

00:04:59.640 I said, I'm a doctor.

00:05:02.020 And she always wanted to come to our convent and spend her last days there. 0.81

00:05:06.780 And I said, but I don't think she has last days.

00:05:08.740 So for two days, I said, stop the narcotics.

00:05:12.460 So I ruffled feathers.

00:05:14.240 And this was not a classic hospice setting where they like you to loved ones to be at the bedside.

00:05:20.040 And all these people were very aggressive.

00:05:21.940 When I saw the writing on the wall, Dorenda and I, and she finally woke up.

00:05:27.000 And I said, Sister, her mouth was cake. 0.98

00:05:28.920 The room was a mess.

00:05:29.920 It was really a horrific environment.

00:05:32.160 Sister said, I don't know what's going on.

00:05:33.760 I don't know what they're doing to me.

00:05:34.960 So I said, well, you have to say no to narcotics.

00:05:37.920 So the four times that I went to visit her, because my own religious sister, the beloved

00:05:43.260 superior, was also very ill.

00:05:45.040 So I had to go back and forth, plus the work, I'd still operate.

00:05:48.500 Two of the four times, they had clamped her feedings.

00:05:51.220 And I had to go marching down there and said, what's going on?

00:05:53.540 So when I saw the writing on the wall in January, I got on her phone.

00:05:58.360 And I text everybody that sister had communicated with.

00:06:03.560 We had people from Mexico, from California, Texas, Massachusetts, Maryland, D.C., just

00:06:11.440 all around.

00:06:12.280 We all got on a schedule.

00:06:13.500 We became her guardian.

00:06:17.380 A day didn't go by from January to April that someone was not at her bedside, and we were

00:06:24.240 complaining to the adult care because their room was a mess.

00:06:28.660 They would come and they'd paint the room.

00:06:30.300 So it became a battle all of a sudden, especially toward the end.

00:06:35.340 At one point, and sister had a power of attorney that was one of her sisters in her community

00:06:40.720 who never saw her.

00:06:42.880 Sister had wanted me to be her power of attorney along with her brother.

00:06:46.000 But because she was a religious sister, she was basically stated, no, you cannot have who

00:06:51.600 you want.

00:06:52.220 You have to have who we want.

00:06:54.080 When I was flying out for one of the visits, I asked a friend who was at her bedside, can you

00:06:59.360 please set up and ask the mother general and this power of attorney if I can talk to them?

00:07:04.080 We're going to get the wheels rolling.

00:07:06.740 She can be out of their hair. 1.00

00:07:08.740 We're going to bring her to Washington.

00:07:10.580 A friend of mine, Tricia Palumbo, who was a love sister very much, purchased a ground

00:07:17.800 ambulance from St. Charles, Missouri to Washington, D.C., $6,000 to carefully bring her to us.

00:07:24.580 Sister had a chronic illness, not a terminal illness, so she had Crest syndrome, which affected

00:07:30.740 the vessels and whatnot, but her mind was very alert.

00:07:34.360 In January 22, they deemed her incompetent, had two doctors deemed her incompetent, but

00:07:41.260 you'll see by the video footage, she's not incompetent. 0.88

00:07:43.700 They probably tested her while they had over-sedated her, and they started to malnourish her and 1.00

00:07:49.520 dehydrate her. 0.98

00:07:50.320 We had to fight this until April 1st, 2022.

00:07:56.980 We had Janice Clark, who's a Canadian-American. 0.97

00:08:00.820 She's a powerful street sidewalk counselor, just war hero. 1.00

00:08:05.500 She got a lot of video footage.

00:08:07.420 These people don't know we have this, and I don't care that they know now because our

00:08:11.620 documentary is going to be out in November 16th of this year in St. Louis.

00:08:16.480 But on April 1st, she said, Sister, text me, because they said at 12 o'clock, I cannot come

00:08:22.240 back, and we're forbidden to go.

00:08:24.520 And she goes, and Sister, they've stopped her two feedings. 0.88

00:08:27.100 Her oxygen is soft, and she's not getting anything.

00:08:31.300 She cannot drink by mouth because of her condition.

00:08:33.980 I forgot to mention, when I first arrived in January of 2022, her mouth was in terrible 1.00

00:08:38.740 shape.

00:08:39.540 It was caked with debris.

00:08:40.700 I had to close the door, and Doretta and I would clean her mouth out, and she would 0.99

00:08:45.700 just go, oh, Dee Dee, that feels so good.

00:08:48.480 I mean, there was such a poor care for this human being, and it just brought so much anger.

00:08:57.140 And so I was just praying that we could get her to Washington, where people live with, 0.99

00:09:02.500 we have mass every day.

00:09:04.020 We pray twice a day, at least before the Blessed Sacrament.

00:09:07.140 Sister knew our house.

00:09:08.680 She spent a lot of time here and knew what spiritual strength we get from here, our convent.

00:09:15.960 Well, April 1st, they shut Janice out. 0.99

00:09:20.920 I text my brother, Bishop Bill Byrne, who took over Archbishop Rosansky's site in Springfield,

00:09:29.080 Massachusetts.

00:09:30.280 My brother knew Sister before he even entered the priesthood, and Sister connected him with

00:09:35.620 the spiritual director, a priest.

00:09:38.420 You might recognize his name, Timmy Dolan.

00:09:41.560 So he became the spiritual director for the early part of him becoming a priest.

00:09:45.740 Anyhow, Billy texts Archbishop Rosansky, and Rosansky's message to him, and mind you, about

00:09:52.420 20 of us called the chancery without any response, because we felt that if he interceded, at least

00:09:58.280 we could buy time to get Sister prepared.

00:10:01.020 And his message to my brother was, sorry, Bill, this is between Sister and her community.

00:10:08.960 And then four days later, Sister was dead.

00:10:11.780 We had a priest come in who he wasn't even allowed to go in, and he had to force himself

00:10:16.280 in.

00:10:16.640 This is a priest who says, who is the priest for that facility, Our Lady of Mount Carmel.

00:10:21.780 But they wouldn't let him go up to see Sister.

00:10:23.660 They were so restrictive.

00:10:25.100 He finally got in, and he said, I want to anoint her.

00:10:28.740 I want to take care of her.

00:10:30.200 And he texted me that Sunday and said, Sister, I just want to tell you, she's still breathing,

00:10:35.260 but she has no IV, no fluids.

00:10:37.720 Her tube feedings clamped, or it was pulled. 0.99

00:10:39.880 I don't remember which.

00:10:40.920 And she's very over-sedated.

00:10:42.740 And then on the 4th of April, on that Monday, I got a message from friends that she had

00:10:50.200 died.

00:10:50.800 Her community did not let any of us know, and they had a very quiet, hidden funeral for

00:10:57.420 her.

00:10:58.420 And Sister, initially, we got the ambulance because Sister, we had permission from the

00:11:04.440 Mother General.

00:11:05.000 She wasn't happy, but if Sister, that's where she wanted to go, because Sister made many phone

00:11:09.680 calls.

00:11:10.440 Please let me go to Washington.

00:11:11.820 Let me go there.

00:11:12.960 I'm in a nursing home.

00:11:14.800 Mother Angelica is wonderful, but that's her only, she gets periodic communion.

00:11:20.040 But I want to be with people who I can pray.

00:11:23.900 And mind you, one day when Sister Doranda and I were together, I think, a Eucharistic minister

00:11:33.360 came in, I believe she was a sister, gave Sister the precious blood in her mouth, and then 0.97

00:11:38.860 took the syringe and threw it in the trash can.

00:11:40.820 And so, I mean, when the sister walked away, took it out of the trash can, put it in the

00:11:45.120 bag.

00:11:45.520 And the next morning at Mass, I asked Father, I said, Father, what do I do with this?

00:11:49.320 And this is like the nefarious evil that was, I believe, surrounding her.

00:11:56.500 And we tried our best to protect her.

00:11:59.400 And when she died, I said, this is not right.

00:12:05.240 She basically, like I think Michael Hitchborn, because I spoke to him earlier on, he said,

00:12:11.620 this is the vow of obedience being weaponized.

00:12:15.680 Sister was initially given permission to come to us, but then they stopped.

00:12:23.400 They said, no, she can't go.

00:12:25.180 Sister didn't want to go and be disobedient. 1.00

00:12:28.540 She didn't want to go and be, she wanted to go, but not, she didn't want to go under

00:12:31.840 the vow of, under disobedience.

00:12:33.980 Well, I mean, for a lot of religious, particularly those serious about their vocations, they'd

00:12:38.880 rather die, literally, and be killed than be disobedient.

00:12:42.540 But how did you know that sister wanted to go?

00:12:50.200 And did you record some of that so that you can show?

00:12:53.520 Let's play a few of those clips, because I think that's one of the questions that first

00:12:57.280 comes to people's minds is, how do you know she really wanted to live?

00:13:01.060 This isn't, this is her own decision.

00:13:03.780 How can you say this is euthanasia or against her will?

00:13:07.020 Let's see some of those clips.

00:13:08.780 She is Sister Philip Marie Burley.

00:13:12.160 How are you feeling this morning?

00:13:14.480 Very well, thank you.

00:13:16.140 Praise the Lord.

00:13:18.060 Something is happening.

00:13:22.760 What do you mean, Sister?

00:13:24.160 Is something going on in you that's different?

00:13:28.300 Do you feel different?

00:13:29.460 Are they using more drugs?

00:13:35.380 Are they putting more drugs in me?

00:13:38.840 In one week, Sister Philip Marie Burley will be dead.

00:13:49.800 You are a medical doctor yourself.

00:13:51.760 So it's difficult for a hospital to bambozoom you.

00:13:57.280 One of the things they told you was that she was demented and therefore couldn't answer

00:14:02.220 for herself.

00:14:02.980 Do you have evidence to suggest to you as a medical doctor that she wasn't suffering dementia

00:14:09.580 and they were just, this was just an excuse?

00:14:13.100 She could just, just by conversation, John Henry.

00:14:16.360 And she had a very clear, she had a two hour discussion with a couple of lawyers, that pro-life

00:14:21.720 lawyers who we got involved to try to help us.

00:14:24.560 Mike Seibel is one.

00:14:26.080 Mike is a pro-life lawyer in, yeah.

00:14:28.620 So he's in New Mexico and he's closed down many abortionists.

00:14:32.740 And Mike had a two hour conversation because we had several people trying to help us get

00:14:37.900 her out, spring her loose. 1.00

00:14:39.160 Clearly she's not, she does not have dementia.

00:14:41.360 He said clearly she, she was talking about the president and isn't any other.

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00:15:16.140 King.

00:15:16.480 One of the things, sister, that you said was that we tried and tried to break her out.

00:15:23.240 I can't tell you how weird that sounds because being myself in Canada, looking at America,

00:15:30.140 the land of the free, the home of the brave, where freedom is supposed to be respected, there's

00:15:36.100 a woman, forget that she's a nun right now, but there's a woman, an elderly woman who wants 1.00

00:15:42.280 help, wants out of the hospital to go and be with her friends. 0.99

00:15:47.240 And she's being denied this by the hospital.

00:15:51.300 And there's all sorts of friends of hers in there trying to get her help.

00:15:54.960 And they're refusing to let her go.

00:15:57.280 And they're refusing to feed her at all or hydrate her. 0.98

00:16:00.580 And they keep her sedated so that she's going to die soon and eventually just kill her. 0.99

00:16:05.560 That sounds unreal.

00:16:06.880 But what you're saying is this is not an isolated case.

00:16:10.960 Yes, I agree.

00:16:12.040 Yes.

00:16:12.480 I'll tell you, I did not have euthanasia on my radar until I lost sister.

00:16:19.340 And then I was like a nonstop.

00:16:21.180 You couldn't stop me.

00:16:22.000 I was like a drunken sailor telling everybody about this story.

00:16:24.960 And we want to make a documentary on it, which we're going to, we have now going to be shown

00:16:29.060 in November 16th.

00:16:30.700 People started to see me as like the euthanasia sister and even giving some talks on that.

00:16:36.620 People started to call me about their loved one being in the hospital.

00:16:41.580 And I walked them through what to do.

00:16:44.120 You can fire hospice, by the way.

00:16:46.000 You don't want your mother or your loved one to get further care, like IV fluids, chemotherapy,

00:16:52.240 whatever.

00:16:52.920 There's different levels.

00:16:54.100 Or just simply get a fever worked up, which is one of the cases for a friend of mine whose

00:17:00.360 mother was, we gave, we got a week of time on this woman and the children got to be with

00:17:08.060 her.

00:17:08.700 She had mass at her bedside.

00:17:10.040 She did die a week later, but she had that precious week with her.

00:17:13.340 I can tell you all sorts of stories, but I've also seen some sad stories where children

00:17:18.200 have, this is two cases now where children have felt, you know, mom has got dementia and

00:17:26.320 this enough is enough and let's just let her go. 0.78

00:17:29.020 One case where it took this woman nine days. 0.97

00:17:32.400 I mean, like my dear Maximilian Kolbe right here to start nine days in prison.

00:17:38.800 They already had a funeral arranged.

00:17:40.720 They had to change it because she lived too long.

00:17:42.980 That's been with a few cases.

00:17:44.500 So really, it's very important when you are, first of all, you know, to share that euthanasia,

00:17:51.100 unfortunately, it's stealth euthanasia.

00:17:52.880 It is happening in the United States.

00:17:54.200 Yes, it is illegal, but stealth euthanasia, doctors have a license to give those three

00:18:00.200 things that you mentioned, hydration, food, and over sedation.

00:18:03.780 It's very important for you to be prepared when you die, to have someone who you know

00:18:09.040 thinks like you, has the Catholic thinking cap of dying with, in the time that the Lord 0.91

00:18:17.180 has called you so that you can have that precious moment.

00:18:21.380 If you're suffering, yes, pain meds is important, but you don't have to over sedate.

00:18:26.000 We took a friend in who had myeloma and the hospital was trying to euthanize her.

00:18:31.840 We got her to our place and her children had precious time with her. 0.61

00:18:36.920 She was able to write a will and she died two months later.

00:18:42.200 And beautiful, beautiful, holy death.

00:18:44.920 She had worked with the Dominican friars here in Washington.

00:18:48.620 So it was like a nonstop Dominican priest coming in every day, giving her anointing,

00:18:53.740 giving her the Eucharist.

00:18:55.060 It was a beautiful death.

00:18:57.840 And I remember sitting with Martha and saying, Martha, you know, I wish I could switch places

00:19:02.120 with you.

00:19:02.940 I'm ready to go.

00:19:04.440 You've got children.

00:19:05.360 You've got grandchildren.

00:19:06.280 She said, sister, I wouldn't change this position in the world.

00:19:09.540 I'm ready to go.

00:19:10.480 She had her master's, she's a convert, she had her master's in theology at the Dominican

00:19:16.920 house and her thesis was redemptive suffering.

00:19:20.240 Oh, wow.

00:19:21.100 So the three things I want to do is that euthanasia is real, that prepare, have the right people

00:19:27.740 there to support you in your journey.

00:19:30.980 And including anointing, wear your brown scapula, the apostolic blessing.

00:19:36.500 And the third thing is redemptive suffering.

00:19:40.500 It's a gift that our Lord gives us.

00:19:42.880 It's something that we Catholics can really, that sometimes separates us from other faiths

00:19:49.740 because our Lord gave us this gift to be able to help those we love in purgatory or even

00:19:57.760 our own children and grandchildren or spouse by offering up the suffering you have to be

00:20:04.100 able to bring your loved one closer to Christ because that's the name of the game.

00:20:10.100 That's why I always say I'm not only a pro-life physician, I'm pro-eternal life and I want

00:20:14.700 everyone to come, but not everyone will if you reject our Lord.

00:20:19.080 But so that last, that redemptive suffering is such a gift.

00:20:24.340 And Martha lived through it.

00:20:25.600 Sister Philip Marie lived through it.

00:20:27.080 She had suffering.

00:20:29.240 Her family, I suppose, didn't like to see her having pain.

00:20:33.280 And I think they probably wanted her to get out of this pain.

00:20:37.020 But sister didn't want that. 1.00

00:20:39.240 She had such a huge, rich gift of spiritual strength.

00:20:45.720 She was on Mother Angelica a lot. 0.96

00:20:47.440 She gave retreats in Calcutta to Mother Teresa.

00:20:50.540 She was an international retreat leader.

00:20:52.920 When I lead, she taught many things.

00:20:55.160 She taught me a lot when I was in Korea in the late 1989.

00:21:00.360 She gave me holy water.

00:21:01.620 And she said, now remember, Didi, you are Jesus's doctor.

00:21:05.020 And she gave me that Lord's water.

00:21:07.100 And we actually, when I was asked to medevac a patient back to the United States who was on a ventilator.

00:21:12.860 She had been in a coma for a month.

00:21:16.120 Her daughter and I prayed over her.

00:21:18.820 And I quite honestly was just praying that I wouldn't kill her if the tube popped out.

00:21:23.640 But she woke up like that.

00:21:26.060 And it was my first miracle.

00:21:27.460 And Sister Philip Marie had her beloved hands in that.

00:21:32.580 And she guided me in so many ways.

00:21:34.360 And I'm not alone.

00:21:36.040 So many people worldwide that she helped.

00:21:38.880 So she's now the white martyr, the tip of the arrow of this fight so that others won't have to go through what she went through. 0.84

00:21:48.200 So they can actually experience that redemptive suffering that God has asked us to, you know, to be a part of him on that cross.

00:21:57.080 I should mention there's organizations that help people to fight this kind of thing.

00:22:02.200 I know Euthanasia Prevention Coalition is one such organization that I know very well.

00:22:06.660 Alex Schadenberg heads that up.

00:22:08.220 This is a cross.

00:22:09.040 This is going on all over the United States.

00:22:10.780 One of the things you mentioned there in the preparation for death I think needs some explanation because I know it very well.

00:22:17.340 But most people don't explain to us what is the apostolic pardon.

00:22:21.000 Most people don't know about it.

00:22:22.340 What is it and why should you get it?

00:22:23.940 I understand that it's like the anointing of the sick.

00:22:26.640 But it's that anointing that at the last moments of your life, a priest can pardon, remove all sins from the early times.

00:22:39.380 It's a remission, complete cleansing.

00:22:42.600 It's almost like another baptism in one way, because when we get baptized, we're immaculate.

00:22:48.760 And then, you know, our humanity, we go through and we have to confess.

00:22:52.480 But it's a complete remission of all our sins and with the hopes of being eternally with our Lord.

00:23:00.220 So our loved one can be feel we can feel more relieved or to be eternally with God.

00:23:07.920 Do you have anything you want to add there, John?

00:23:10.200 No, yeah.

00:23:11.060 I mean, the thing, what I find so sad is that so many priests don't know about this.

00:23:15.720 Priests themselves don't know.

00:23:16.940 So they come and they give you the, you know, last rites.

00:23:19.980 And then you ask for an apostolic pardon.

00:23:22.420 And basically it's a what?

00:23:25.660 You know, and so it is one thing to check and to have a priest who does know about the apostolic pardon because it's huge grace.

00:23:31.760 It's an opportunity for family members to provide for their loved ones who are dying in a way that is truly beautiful.

00:23:41.500 It's the most beautiful thing.

00:23:42.940 One of the things is, yeah, be prepared, be ready for also with pro-life power of attorney, things like that.

00:23:49.880 You want to ensure that those who are going to be looking after you in your final days are really the ones with your own interests at heart.

00:24:00.300 You're the own Catholic faith and understanding of death at heart because it's very important decisions.

00:24:05.620 And they need to be made before you enter into that situation.

00:24:09.080 Your sister, Philip Marie, was in a different situation because her family, as it were, were also the religious order that had charge over her.

00:24:19.460 So how can people find out more about this and the progress in the movie as well?

00:24:27.120 As I said earlier, credosaintlouis.org is one way.

00:24:31.700 Unfortunately, we've had a little bit of a block.

00:24:33.520 The archbishop does not want us to present the movie in a Catholic institution.

00:24:39.360 He's told his priest not to promote it.

00:24:42.460 And that's why, John Henry, I got the news and I reached out to you right away to help us get the word out.

00:24:50.040 And also, hopefully, to encourage Archbishop Rosansky to himself sort of rethink about this decision.

00:24:58.660 What's that for?

00:24:59.780 Why wouldn't he want you to show it?

00:25:01.760 That's a good question, but I do believe that because it's a Catholic sister, it's an Ascension health care health system.

00:25:08.720 You know, there was a movie done a few years ago by Chuck Neff called Scandal.

00:25:15.920 And you can get an access to that movie for free on the website, credosaintlouis.org.

00:25:23.760 I think it's org or com, dot org.

00:25:26.460 And you can see that movie.

00:25:28.420 And it portrays a true story.

00:25:31.140 They follow a young girl who they discover she has a fetal anomaly in a Catholic institution in St. Louis.

00:25:38.260 And she's referred to an abortion mill to abort. 1.00

00:25:42.500 And she doesn't want to.

00:25:44.360 They follow her back and forth.

00:25:46.180 She's been referred twice to this.

00:25:47.820 And it's basically a black eye to the health care system in St. Louis. 0.69

00:25:53.580 This story is also a black eye.

00:25:55.880 It's like two black eyes now to Ascension health.

00:25:59.100 And, you know, Catholic sister, her community.

00:26:01.560 And I just believe that they just don't understand the concept of, you know, redemptive suffering or I don't know.

00:26:09.560 On your screens here below, you can see the contact information for Archbishop Rosansky.

00:26:15.640 Hopefully some of you will reach out to him and ask him to reconsider his decision.

00:26:20.900 Even though it might give a black eye to a Catholic health association, Ascension health, they need to be called out for what they're doing anyway.

00:26:28.460 Anyway, so hopefully we can come to a full understanding of the practice of the church's actual teaching, which teaches that food and fluids can't be denied to anybody.

00:26:39.480 This is a clear teaching from John Paul II.

00:26:41.500 When these issues came forward, it's always been the teaching of the church, but it's just when the new medical methods come out, the church clarifies, no, you can't withdraw food and fluids.

00:26:51.680 They're normal treatment.

00:26:52.480 One quick thing, John Henry, sister also had a little website, S-I-S-T-E-R-B-U-R-L-E.com.

00:27:01.920 We've maintained that website.

00:27:03.900 That's also another way you can access the documentary.

00:27:07.840 We will make this documentary, I'm not sure exactly how yet, but to the world to watch.

00:27:13.580 It's a 50-minute documentary.

00:27:15.100 But then you can scroll down, and we're trying to get, for free, present some of sister's retreats and her works, one of which was the promotion of the Rosary and the Way of the Cross.

00:27:28.320 I won't go through it now because it's fairly long, but you can click into that because she was into family healing, the family bloodline from many generations.

00:27:36.940 So you can click into that and listen to her rosary.

00:27:40.200 She's praying it herself.

00:27:41.280 You will hear her voice, and you can access that for free as well.

00:27:44.540 And if you scroll down further, it's a little commercial break, but Bishop Strickland and I are going to be doing a pilgrimage to Guadalupe in June.

00:27:53.960 Oh, beautiful.

00:27:55.460 His sister, Philip Murray, and I used to go to the Holy Land all the time, and that's where she would advertise her pilgrimages.

00:28:02.980 So we're maintaining, keeping her memory alive by having that website, sisterburley.com.

00:28:09.200 Beautiful.

00:28:09.680 Beautiful.

00:28:10.280 And as you said, she is a white martyr for what's going on with youth in Asia, but she also is a martyr, you might say in a real sense, to the truth for life.

00:28:20.940 And who knows?

00:28:22.240 She might one day be declared a saint.

00:28:23.720 So God bless you, sister, and thank you for bringing to us this story of Sister Burley.

00:28:29.200 And let's pray that the truth comes out, and the church, especially those shepherds who are not being faithful with regard to life, come back before it's too late even for them.

00:28:41.860 Thank you so much, sister.

00:28:42.960 God bless you.

00:28:43.580 God bless you.

00:28:44.200 Bye-bye.

00:28:44.600 And God bless all of you.

00:28:46.080 And we'll see you next time.

00:28:50.920 Hi, everyone.

00:28:51.720 This is John Henry Weston for LifeSite News.

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The John-Henry Westen Show - November 14, 2024

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