In this special edition of the John Henry Weston Show, Life Site News' Austrian correspondent Andreas Welzer speaks firsthand with Alexander Chuguel, getting his personal experience of what we need to do to save the West from idolatry, pagan worship and other ideologies, pro-abortion and otherwise, pushed by globalists.
00:00:00.000This is a big lie. The Bosch industry always uses the weakest spot of humans in order to bring in their deadly ideology.
00:00:11.600In this case, they say, well, you care for children, but you also have to care for the grown-up, for the mother.
00:00:17.000If you really care for the mother, you don't want her to die.
00:00:20.000And they act as if this would be a common problem, that the people die. It's not.
00:00:24.600In Malta, we have black and white, again, zero mortality for more than a decade already, just because of normal health care.
00:00:34.600Alexander Chuguel, he is the one who rocketed to international fame when he confronted the pagan worship and idolatry permitted by Pope Francis in the Vatican.
00:00:44.600He's widely known as the Pachamama Destroyer. He's been praised by cardinals for his zeal.
00:00:52.600Alexander stood for true orthodoxy, hurling the Pachamama idols into the Tiber River.
00:00:59.600Now, in this special edition of the John Henry Weston Show, LifeSite News' Austrian correspondent Andreas Welzer speaks firsthand with Alexander Chuguel,
00:01:08.600getting his personal experience of what we need to do to save the West from idolatry, pagan worship, and the many ideologies, pro-abortion and otherwise, pushed by globalists.
00:01:20.600You, our faithful supporters and viewers, stand in the breach. Stay tuned. You're not going to miss this one.
00:01:26.600I'm John Henry Weston, and this is the John Henry Weston Show.
00:01:33.600I'm here with Alexander Chuguel. Many know you for throwing the Pachamama statues into the Tiber back in 2019, but that's not what you usually do on a day-to-day basis.
00:01:45.600You're a pro-life activist and you have been for many years and a leader in the pro-life movement.
00:01:50.600And right now there's a big fight in Austria that maybe many people haven't heard of in the state of Tyrol.
00:01:57.600There's an abortion law that could be introduced that could basically introduce state-funded abortion.
00:02:03.600And what is going on there? And you're, as far as I know, leading a campaign right now to prevent this law or to fight this law.
00:02:11.600And can you talk a bit about that and what exactly is going on here?
00:02:15.600Yes. So what we see in Tyrol is a very severe attack on the right to life, especially as everything we will see now maybe being introduced in Tyrol will definitely be introduced in a not so far future in the rest of Austria as well.
00:02:34.600So if we talk about Tyrol, please keep in mind that it's always about the whole country and therefore always about all of Europe, because you know how it works.
00:02:41.600They try to implement certain pro-abortion rules in different parts of Europe and then start a legal process by saying, well, but in this member state of the European Union, it's legal.
00:02:52.600Why it's not in my member state, etc. Good. So what they do in Tyrol is there is a government between the so-called Conservative Party, Ă–VP, the Ă–sterreichische Volkspartei, and the Socialist Party, SPĂ–.
00:03:04.600And in this coalition program they issued, they say that one of their goals is to make sure that every woman always has the right to decide whether she wants abortion or not.
00:03:19.600That's one of the main sentences of the program. And in addition to this, they say that in order to ensure this, they either have to support and to help private abortionists so that they can grow and that maybe more private abortionists come to the role and erect abortion clinics there, or they have to do this via public hospital.
00:03:46.600So that's one of the two ideas they had. Maybe just to give you a status quo in Tyrol right now, we talk about 700 to 1000 abortions every year, and we talk about one doctor performing them.
00:03:58.600There's one doctor named Dr. Wolf, and he performs them. So the situation is, as you see, not as easy for the abortionists as there are hardly any doctors who want to perform abortions, obviously.
00:04:10.600Because the more, the better actually your science gets, the closer you see that this is life from the very conception up until the natural end in general.
00:04:22.600So it's very difficult for them to find new abortionists. So the situation is that they now ask in public, one part of the, one member of the coalition parties from the Socialist Party asked now publicly to introduce a new law saying that every abortion must be funded by the public insurance system.
00:04:41.600What we call Abtreibung auf Krankenschein is the German term for this. It means abortion must be paid by the insurance, which therefore means everyone pays for abortion, because as you know, in the United States, it's a little bit different.
00:04:55.600But in Austria, we have, we cannot opt out of our insurance, we have to pay the insurance. So that's one of the situations, one of the, one of the, one of the things. And obviously, it's a little bit difficult to introduce such a law because you cannot say, okay, now everyone has to pay for a certain, a certain decision of certain people, even though our law officially considers abortion still a crime.
00:05:19.600So it's very difficult, even though, I don't know, you know, the legal, legal status in Austria, it's officially a crime, but you're not punished for the crime, if you follow certain rules, and the rules are unfortunately very, very open and are getting more and more open every year.
00:05:32.600Good. So that's the situation. So what lies behind this idea of the socialist is obviously that they want to push the agenda they have in the coalition program.
00:05:42.600And the agenda in the coalition program is not this, but to introduce abortion, to make sure abortion is available always in every part of their own. So that's the whole fight. What are we doing? I'm not the main initiator behind the campaign, but we're supporting a campaign done by a wonderful pro-life organization, Jugend fĂĽr das Leben, founded already decades ago. It's the oldest, I think one of the oldest pro-life organizations in Austria. I'm also a member of them.
00:06:09.600And the Jugend fĂĽr das Leben started a campaign where they organized a demonstration on the 14th of January, so the weekend after Epiphany, in order to state very clearly that Tyrol cannot, the Tyrolians especially, cannot allow this to happen.
00:06:25.640So we decided to support them. So we decided to support them as we always do.
00:06:30.640So as you know, I was working with March for Life, so obviously March for Life also helps them and is part of the organization committee.
00:06:40.640But also I'm part of the help in a way that I try to get as many Catholics as possible to see what's going on there and to also understand that if they do not fight abortion, they will not win any other fight.
00:06:57.640If you do not defend the unborn life, you should not go out and pretend that you can win any other political fight. It's impossible.
00:07:03.640If you do not defend the most innocent unborn, you cannot pretend and defend anyone else. It's just impossible.
00:07:10.640So that's my situation right now. We are rallying as much as we can in order to get as many people as possible on the 14th of January on the streets of Innsbruck to demonstrate against this terrible law.
00:07:22.640Okay, thank you. Why is Tyrol? I think it's especially important to you and also to Austria in general.
00:07:32.640It's called the Holy Land of Tyrol sometimes because it's like the Catholic lung of Austria. It used to be for a long time.
00:07:41.640Why is it so important to you and so shocking that they are now trying to introduce this terrible law?
00:07:48.640Well, there is quite some family importance to me because my family origins from Tyrol, so that's where my roots are.
00:07:55.640Even though I was born and raised in Vienna, my family origins in Tyrol and I have lots of connections there.
00:08:02.640I went there with my family every summer and things like this. So yes, Tyrol is important for me.
00:08:07.640The Holy Land of Tyrol, the reason why we call it this is that in the past we did not only see amazing, amazing high numbers of priestly vocations and non-vocations and friars, etc.
00:08:23.640We had one of the highest density of priesthood in all of Europe was in Tyrol, which is quite amazing.
00:08:30.640And from ancient times, Tyrol was always Catholic.
00:08:35.640So in Tyrol, we had once, obviously during the Protestant Revolution, there was a very, very short Protestant phase, but it never went through like it did in many other parts of society.
00:08:46.640And the interesting aspect about this is that not only in Tyrol, if you go, Tyrol is a, you know, Tyrol is a mountain country, so we have tons of mountains there, very high mountains, very beautiful mountains.
00:08:58.640And in Tyrol, if you go in the main valleys of Tyrol, you can really climb any hilltop you find and you will find 20 to 30 to 40 churches, chapels everywhere.
00:09:10.640It's one of the, one of the countries where you cannot really move more than 100 meters without discovering a new church or a new cross or something.
00:09:18.640And it's not strange. It's part of the, of the tradition and the blood of the Tyrolians to be Catholic.
00:09:24.640Why do we call them not only the, why was the holy country of Tyrol, the holy land of Tyrol?
00:09:31.640And there was many reasons for this, but one of the reasons is that when the Freemasons and revolutionaries from the French Revolution brought forward and pushed their revolutionary agenda, the Tyrolians resisted quite a lot.
00:09:43.640And when then Napoleon came in, made an alliance with the Bavarians and through the Bavarians tried to force Catholicism out of the Tyrolians.
00:09:52.640And by the way, tried to introduce the first vaccine mandate in history in Tyrol. Very interesting.
00:09:57.640He wanted to force vaccinate the Tyrolians and was a very, very brave father of the Capocin father, who gave really brilliant, brilliant homilies against it.
00:10:08.640Where he said, if you accept the forced vaccination, you actually accept Protestantism and you actually reject the Catholic understanding of, of, of, of also health and life.
00:10:18.640It's very interesting that Tyrol fought this battle 200 years ago already.
00:10:21.640And the hero of this Tyrolian battle was a farmer, a farmer named Andreas Hofer. Andreas Hofer, every Austrian knows him, obviously, used to know him.
00:10:32.640Let's put it, maybe, unfortunately, the young generation doesn't learn about him.
00:10:36.640But Andreas Hofer was a very pious man. He prayed the rosary every day. He went to confession very regularly.
00:10:42.640He attended mass as often as he could. He tried to go there every day if possible.
00:10:45.640And he then started to form a resistance against the Bavarian slash French troops.
00:10:51.640It was most Bavarian there. And this resistance was extremely successful.
00:10:56.640And why was this resistance so successful? So, at the end of the day, they lost the war because he was betrayed by someone who was pried for money and was then kicked out of Tyrol and was dying completely alone outside of Tyrol.
00:11:11.640Poor man, Mr. Raffer is his name. He is called, by the way, the Judas of Tyrol is the one who betrayed Andreas Hofer.
00:11:19.640So, the interesting thing about him was when he was betrayed and he was killed, he was executed, even then the Tyrolians did not lose the fight here.
00:11:29.640They did not lose it in their minds. They did not lose it in their family, etc.
00:11:33.640They stayed Tyrolian, they stayed Catholic, especially through this whole time of persecution.
00:11:37.640And how did he do it? By introducing a very, very, it was already there, but he was one of the main proponents of it.
00:11:44.640By introducing a very good understanding of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
00:11:55.640we see exactly the same thing happening in Austria, in Tyrol.
00:11:59.640That's the reason why we call it the Holy Land of Tyrol.
00:12:02.640Because we see that it was the Sacred Heart of Jesus leading the people into battle in a very, very good way.
00:12:08.640Not brutal at all. Very strong and very committed. And they won the biggest fight of all.
00:12:14.640They did not reject their religion. They did not lose their faith.
00:12:17.640And they stayed faithful up in the end.
00:12:19.640Tyrol was, up to the Second Vatican Council, the part of Austria we normally got the most priestly vocations from.
00:12:26.640In every family. I do not know any Catholic Tyrol family who do not actively know that one of their relatives was a priest.
00:12:33.640It's more or less impossible to find such a thing in Tyrol.
00:12:37.640Yeah, thank you. It's amazing. It's even more sad that this is happening now in Tyrol.
00:12:43.640And another thing that's really sad and disappointing that one of the parties you mentioned, the Ă–VP, the Austrian People's Party.
00:12:51.640They are part of this government coalition that is trying to introduce this law now.
00:12:56.640And they're known as the Conservative Party in Austria.
00:12:59.640And they used to be actually very Catholic 50, 60 years ago still.
00:13:04.640And now we've seen that they've really betrayed a lot of the conservative values and Christian values.
00:13:12.640Especially on these life and family issues as we see here.
00:13:18.640What happened here? What is your view here?
00:13:21.640Because this is something that's happening or that has happened across Europe.
00:13:25.640We have this in Germany. It's the same situation with the CDU, with the Christian Democrats in Germany and with the Tories in Britain.
00:13:31.640It's also kind of the same that these so-called conservative parties have really, you know, lost touch with Christian values, especially when it comes to family values, traditional family values and life values and so on.
00:13:44.640What is your view on that? And why is that happening?
00:13:48.640What's up with these conservative parties in Western Europe?
00:13:53.640So there are two things I want to add in order to understand a little bit the history of those parties.
00:13:58.640All those parties, the CDU in Germany as well, which means the Christian Democratic Union and also the CSU, so the counterpart in Bavaria, the Christian Social Union.
00:14:10.640Both, as the Ă–VP, have as their traditional colour black.
00:14:15.640And the reason why they have black is because the black refers to the black castle of the priests.
00:14:20.640So this was not only a Christian party, it was really rooted in Catholicism.
00:14:45.640In Austria, we had people like Leopold Fiegel, et cetera, who led the rosary possessions, you know, the rosary reparation crusades together with a servant of God, Pater Petrus Pavlicek.
00:14:54.640So we had all those things, a very big heritage of Catholic tradition, Catholic faith.
00:15:09.640So when we see that a revolutionary process, a revolutionary process suddenly happens inside traditional structures like into the parish and diocese structure,
00:15:18.640inside different foundations and different, you know, old ancient organizations, orders, et cetera.
00:15:25.640The same thing obviously happens also for them who work together with them.
00:15:28.640So unfortunately, the loss of faith in the clergy can be wonderfully seen here.
00:15:34.640But you can just look at the loss of faith at these parties.
00:15:38.640So the main reason why those so-called conservative parties are not conservative anymore and actually one of our biggest problems are two.
00:15:47.640First of all, they still call themselves conservative and they still officially are Christian.
00:15:51.640So the first, if you look at the parties program of the Ă–VP, the first, very first sentence of the party program is that they are a Christian party.
00:15:59.640That the Christian principles are their principles.
00:16:01.640And they betray the Christian principles every day.
00:16:04.640In this coalition program, you see it black and white.
00:16:07.640It says that there is no doubt, it says, that abortion must always be the pure right of the woman.
00:17:04.640So if the enemy comes and you know, I did a very good preparation with my wall.
00:17:08.640The people inside the city are living happily together, have a good fundament of faith, a good fundament of trust where they can work with each other.
00:17:17.640And there are good structures around the city, which help us getting food inside the city, even if there is the enemy outside through, I don't know, hidden tunnels, whatever.
00:17:26.640You can win even against very big enemies.
00:17:29.640The problem is that the people who betray you most are within your own roles, more or less, the people who are in your army.
00:17:38.640And the main problem with the Ă–VP is that they still, in every election campaign, send out one or two or three or four politicians which played the Catholic Christian card in order to attract those voters.
00:17:50.640And this needs to stop. It needs to stop.
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00:18:27.640It's really, like you said, it's sort of an attack from within, within people who proclaim to be Christians or claim to be Christians.
00:18:35.640And yeah, so, but other than that, there's other pro-life fights going on in Europe, obviously all the time.
00:18:44.640We've just seen one huge fight and we've seen a huge protest in Malta because Malta, it's a small country, but they had one of the biggest pro-life protests ever probably.
00:18:54.640And especially if you compare it to, to the size of the country with 20,000 people and they protested against a law that could, you know, allow abortion for the first time.
00:19:03.640Because in Malta it's until now, it has been outlawed completely, but now they could introduce, you know, abortion for health reasons, which critics say could mean everything.
00:19:14.640It could mean, you know, it could basically mean abortion until birth.
00:19:17.640If, you know, if you find the right health reasons to do it.
00:19:22.640And the president of Malta, a brave man, I think, has said that he is willing to resign if he would.
00:19:30.640So if he would have to sign this law, he said he'd rather resign than sign this law, basically.
00:19:35.640And there are other fights, like there are legal cases all the time at the European courts for human rights against the Polish pro-life laws.
00:19:44.640Because as most people will probably know, Poland also has very strong pro-life laws, one of the strongest in Europe.
00:19:50.640And in Germany, it's very bad because in Germany has a very pro-abortion, anti-family, you know, government right now.
00:19:59.640And they are trying to, well, they already abolished the so-called advertising ban on abortion.
00:20:06.640And now they plan to, or they've said it several times, that they want to decriminalize abortion completely.
00:20:13.640And what do you, these are some examples of the fights going on.
00:20:17.640And what are the most important fights in Europe, in your opinion?
00:20:21.640And how do you see maybe the biggest dangers and chances that you have in Europe right now in the pro-life movement?
00:20:28.640Let me talk about the three examples you brought up, because I think they're all very good examples.
00:20:33.640I have in front of me a press release about the thing going on in Malta.
00:20:38.640The thing, it's a wrong word for it, was one of the biggest and best protests I've ever seen in the whole pro-life movement.
00:20:44.640It's really amazing, very well organized, etc.
00:20:47.640And it's interesting because 20,000 people, more than 20,000 people going on the streets in Malta is really four or five percent of the population, which is quite something.
00:20:57.640Because just imagine you have five percent of the population of any country on the streets.
00:21:00.640This is, we would consider this a very, very serious protest.
00:21:05.640The main argument they use in Malta in order to introduce abortion as a health issue, as I already said, is that they say, well, we need to reduce maternal mortality.
00:21:15.640The maternal mortality in Malta is zero for more than 10 years already, just by taking care of the women in a normal medical way.
00:32:40.640In Austria, there's a rough estimation, it's a little bit difficult to get the real numbers on this,
00:32:44.640that on every child being born and put out for adoption, there are ten couples who want to adopt the child.
00:32:52.640So I think that this is really not a problem.
00:32:54.640And I believe that a Christian society would always and will always find an answer, as we did in the last thousands of years.
00:33:01.640We always had an answer for this, and we still have.
00:33:04.640And then they say that the consultants, that they have to go, consultancy is bad because it's difficult.
00:33:11.640They have to decide and then they have to go to the doctor to ask them for help.
00:33:14.640Well, obviously, that's a nonsense argument because you have to have this in many other aspects as well.
00:33:17.640You can, for example, not do certain operations in hospital without being first signing a paper that you actually know what's going to happen.
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