The Church needs a Counter-Revolution | Bringing America Back to Life
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Learn English with Pope Francis. Pope Francis delivers a speech at the Pontifical Throne Room of St. Basilica of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C., on the first day of Lent.
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Of the Novo Sordo faithful, 51% approved of abortion.
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You heard my talk is entitled Make the Church Great Again.
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So I'm looking over here, seeing the counter-revolution of common sense,
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I'm actually enthused that Trump says Canada could be the 51st state, believe it or not.
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So let me just get a quick grounding of the room.
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How many of you in this room are patriotic Americans?
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But I really need you to understand this one thing because, well, you know what?
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How many of you are non-Catholics in this room?
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How many of you appreciate the removal of Biden and the counter-revolution of common sense that's going on right now?
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If every hand is not up, this is going to be weird.
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So what it gives me is an opportunity, especially for the non-Catholics in the room,
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and also for some of the Catholics in the room, to go over something.
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Because Make the Church Great Again is a very good title because it sounds like Make America Great Again,
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But before we get started, let's begin, as we always do, with the sign of the cross.
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In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.
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So, we are here in the season of Lent for all the non-Catholics in the room.
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That sounds weird for all the Catholics in the room, I know.
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We make the sign of the cross before we start everything because, what did Jesus say?
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He said, if you love me, if you love me, take up your cross and follow me.
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In fact, deny yourself and take up your cross daily and follow me.
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But Lent is a great opportunity for that because, you know, I don't know about you,
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Like, you have the best intention in the morning, like, yeah, I'm going to fast today.
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And then you get into the day and you're like, you know, I'm just hungry.
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And, but Lent, all of a sudden you're able to go, yeah, just no.
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It's like an outside power comes and gives you that thing.
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It's our Lord who gives you a season with which to grow closer to him.
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We're living in a crisis in the world, in the church.
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You have, in America, a total revolution in seven weeks.
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Like, if I planned this talk, like, before seven weeks ago, I would have been, like, totally gone.
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It just totally, the whole enchilada has changed.
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Seven weeks of the most unbelievable, massive change anyone's ever seen.
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Trudeau is up there pleading, going, you know, we're going to continue to boo the national anthem.
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Not because we hate you or anything, but because, you know.
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Trudeau is just, he's one of those guys that, you know what Trudeau is?
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Trudeau's a young Biden, who is also Catholic, by the way, who has given the worst example of Catholicism you could ever imagine, just like Biden.
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Well, you had Kennedy for a little while, but he was shocked.
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But nonetheless, you never had that before Biden.
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And then he promised a long time ago he would resign.
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So he said he'd resign when they choose a new leader.
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It was his only play to stay in for a long time.
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So we have a similar thing going on in the Catholic Church.
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And it's going to be tough for Catholics in the room to hear.
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We've had that revolution in the church going on for 13 years.
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There's something really eerily similar about what America just experienced under Biden and what the Catholic Church has experienced.
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And this is why this comparison will work very well, especially to explain or make people understand what the church is going through.
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And I'm going to start with the one thing that is so characteristic of the Trumpian revolution, counter-revolution, you might say.
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You could say that a country without a border is not a country.
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If we had no border, there would be no country, right?
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But there's something that's really neat about borders that helps us understand what's going on in the church.
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First of all, you had your president, your own leader, flood America with millions of illegal migrants, overwhelming states and cities and taxpayers.
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And many of them were not just your innocent people who wanted to come over for freedom.
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Many of them were criminals, even non-criminals, and nonetheless allowed in.
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It empowered drug cartels to do all sorts of damage and traffic all sorts of children.
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But you also had a prioritization of foreigners over your own poor.
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And that's why you had one of the largest voting blocs that turned your election was actually Hispanic Americans who said, wait a minute.
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Like, we're here struggling and they're bringing in people.
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And it was tough to live in America, especially when you were confronted with this problem.
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Imagine your own compatriots living near the border and having to deal with it.
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Imagine those whose children got even killed and all sorts of things.
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And your leader was allowing this, was encouraging this.
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On behalf of the church, it's much more serious.
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Because even though Pope Francis criticized Donald Trump for having walls, despite the fact that the Vatican has huge walls, there's another, the comparison is much more severe.
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Because in terms of the church, just like I said, with a country without borders is not really a country.
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Well, a church without doctrinal walls, without walls of dogma, is not a church.
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Moral and theological clarity in the church has been abandoned.
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I'm writing a book on it because it's so severe.
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I'm going to give you a tiny, tiny, tiny glimpse of how severe this is.
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One of the things is the Pope saying out loud that all religions are a pathway to God.
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Martyrs were martyred because they wouldn't give in to denying that Christ was the only way.
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In fact, this is the 10-year anniversary of very modern martyrs.
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Ten years ago, there were 21 Coptic Christians dragged out on a beach, on TV for us all to see, on social media everywhere.
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And we literally watched as they had their throats slit on a beach.
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The problem was that the Islamic militants didn't gag them.
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Because they thought, I'm sure, oh my gosh, they're going to like beg for mercy.
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It was the most beautiful display of watching martyrdom we could ever experience because it was live and filmed for us.
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And it gave us the glory of the representation of fidelity to Christ like we'd never seen before.
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Yet the Pope says something that blows up all the barriers of the doctrine in the church.
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That basically says, the martyrs, they could have gone that way because it's just another way.
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It's so weird that you'd have the head of the Catholic Church saying this, knowing the lives of the martyrs throughout 2,000 years.
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I'm going to show you the clip because so often at LifeSite we've been told, oh, come on, they're exaggerating.
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Because every religion is a way to arrive at God.
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Because every religion is a way to arrive at God.
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There are different languages and different languages to arrive at God.
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Sort of a comparison and an example would be there are sort of like different languages in order to arrive at God.
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E come Dio è Dio per tutti, noi siamo tutti figli di Dio.
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And if God is God for all, then we're all sons and daughters of God.
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E noi sono idiomi, cammino, lingue per arrivare a Dio.
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There's only one God in each of us as a language, so to speak, in order to arrive at God.
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Qualcuno is Schi, qualcuno è musulmano, qualcuno è indi, qualcuno è cristiano.
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That's one example of a few I'm going to bring to you.
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I could literally stand here and give you over, I think, 2,000.
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I want to, before I go on to a few more, I want to tell you one thing, though.
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He said, the government you elect is the government you deserve.
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Additionally, in 1816, in a letter to Samuel Kirchival, Jefferson warned about the dangers of government corruption and the responsibility of the people.
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He said, if a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
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We got the teaching that God permits unjust rulers as a chastisement for people's sins.
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If the people are corrupt and depraved, they will necessarily demand wicked rulers like themselves.
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If the people become corrupt, they will tolerate a corrupt ruler.
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Do you know, the most powerful witness to that is not from any of those.
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He was a priest in France who lived at the beginning of the 17th century.
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The most evident mark of God's anger and the most terrible castigation he can inflict upon the world
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is manifest when he permits his people to fall into the hands of clerics
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priests who practice the cruelty of ravening wolves rather than charity and affection of devoted shepherds.
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And I'll come back to the solution because that's the most important part.
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But we've got to know how severe what I'm talking about is.
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In addition to the all religions are pathways to God.
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The Pope spoke last year on television about how he believes hell is empty.
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Before in an interview with Eugenio Scalfari, he said there is no hell.
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When Scalfari pressed him, then what happens to people who don't want to go to heaven?
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Now, of course, those come with, you know, a proviso that Eugenio Scalfari is one of those guys who doesn't take notes.
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He goes home and writes it up when he's finished the interview.
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Except, if that was such a problem, why did the Pope go to him for interviews?
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Who's, I don't know, like over half a dozen times?
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But nonetheless, we know the Pope said he believes hell is empty because he said it on television.
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Also, in Amoris Laetitia, which is an official document of the church, it's an exhortation.
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Also, that was one of the articles in Amoris Laetitia called out for heresy by some of the world's greatest theologians who had the temerity to publicly confront Francis in the midst of all sorts of condemnation.
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Just the other day, I had on my show Monsignor Charles Pope, great Monsignor in Washington, D.C.
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You know, in the Bible, we only read 31 sermons of Jesus.
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I'm like, Jesus is the most hell preacher in the whole Bible.
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Guaranteed, no comparison, nobody even comes close.
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Not only did he preach on hell, and remember, this is the greatest lover of mankind.
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The apostles would ask him, hey, like, is anybody going to get to heaven?
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We heard it in mass just like a week ago or so.
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Because he explains, it's easier for a camel to go through an eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.
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The apostles respond, sheesh, then who can be saved?
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The Lord doesn't reply, everyone, it's no problem.
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It's a huge thing to intimate that Jesus is a liar.
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He said, narrow is the road that leads to life, and few there are that find it.
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I'm a Catholic, so I can't tell you scripture and verse right away.
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But he said, broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many there are that go therein.
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If you believe Jesus, many are in hell, and few are in heaven.
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And it's the truth that should motivate all of us.
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If you know your brother or your sister or your mother or your father or your cousin or your own children
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have the potential to be separated from our Lord Jesus Christ in eternity,
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Our Lord puts you in their lives to bring them to him, to bring them to eternal life,
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to save not only their bodies, which I know you all do, but to save their souls.
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The Pope presided, now years ago, and famously, over an idolatry, a literal idolatry in the Vatican.
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I won't even show you the video because it's been seen horrifically so many times,
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where all sorts of Catholics sat in front of the Pope and various cardinals
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as they prostrated themselves, heads to the ground, literally on their knees,
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heads to the ground before two idols of Pachamama, the earth goddess, Mother Earth.
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How many in this room have not heard of that before?
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But anyway, some of you haven't heard of it, but the majority have.
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You can look it up. It's horrific. I won't show it here.
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Many people said, oh, it's not really Pachamama.
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It's like Our Lady and the, you know, Elizabeth,
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And secondly, the Pope was caught on the hot mic.
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And since then, it's been avowed over and over again.
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If it were just that they did that in front of him and he didn't condemn it,
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They brought the idol over to him and he blessed it.
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Then they processed the idol in a canoe into St. Peter's Basilica, the main church.
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And they all said prayers around it, including the Pope and the Cardinals.
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And what really, I think, turned the tide for a lot of Americans.
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And you've got one of the premier spokesmen to this issue here this year.
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Riley Gaines was so personally affected by the criminality, really,
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that Biden allowed and promoted in the United States.
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By saying, man is a woman, as a woman is a man.
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turned her into a warrior for Christ like none other.
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A warrior whose example of the suffering that she endured
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that I've been driven by a very personal experience
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You see, I raised my kids, like all good Catholics should,
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I was raised myself in the Baltimore Catechism.
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And you're taught that you're to look up to your spiritual leaders.
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are the representatives of Christ to you, locally especially.
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These are the people who have the heart of Christ for you.
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who Catholics are supposed to submit to in mind and will
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where he was speaking about people in northern Argentina
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You know, though, by the time they had grandchildren,