The John-Henry Westen Show - March 12, 2025


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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00:00:00.000 Of the Novo Sordo faithful, 51% approved of abortion.
00:00:03.020 In the traditional at-mask community, 1%.
00:00:06.580 You heard my talk is entitled Make the Church Great Again.
00:00:12.020 I think that's great because I'm from Canada.
00:00:16.360 So I'm looking over here, seeing the counter-revolution of common sense,
00:00:20.220 going, wow, I'm so enthused for you.
00:00:23.400 I'm actually enthused that Trump says Canada could be the 51st state, believe it or not.
00:00:30.000 So let me just get a quick grounding of the room.
00:00:34.080 How many of you in this room are patriotic Americans?
00:00:37.440 Hands up.
00:00:39.700 Okay, that's not everybody.
00:00:42.080 But it's lots anyway.
00:00:44.700 But I really need you to understand this one thing because, well, you know what?
00:00:49.900 I need to understand first.
00:00:51.240 How many of you are Catholics in this room?
00:00:54.880 Okay.
00:00:56.260 Okay, hands down.
00:00:57.600 How many of you are non-Catholics in this room?
00:01:00.000 Okay, so a good number of you.
00:01:02.820 How many of you appreciate the removal of Biden and the counter-revolution of common sense that's going on right now?
00:01:10.620 If every hand is not up, this is going to be weird.
00:01:13.740 Okay.
00:01:14.420 So what it gives me is an opportunity, especially for the non-Catholics in the room, 1.00
00:01:19.780 and also for some of the Catholics in the room, to go over something.
00:01:24.060 Because Make the Church Great Again is a very good title because it sounds like Make America Great Again,
00:01:30.340 which we know was the slogan.
00:01:32.980 And we need it.
00:01:36.400 But before we get started, let's begin, as we always do, with the sign of the cross.
00:01:40.080 In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.
00:01:45.820 Amen.
00:01:47.580 So, we are here in the season of Lent for all the non-Catholics in the room. 1.00
00:01:53.260 Catholics on Wednesday.
00:01:54.360 Just started the greatest period in the year.
00:01:58.380 That sounds weird for all the Catholics in the room, I know.
00:02:00.960 But that's what we do.
00:02:02.540 We make the sign of the cross before we start everything because, what did Jesus say?
00:02:06.200 He said, if you love me, if you love me, take up your cross and follow me.
00:02:10.560 In fact, deny yourself and take up your cross daily and follow me.
00:02:15.360 Ouch.
00:02:16.220 But Lent is a great opportunity for that because, you know, I don't know about you,
00:02:20.700 but I find it really hard to fast.
00:02:22.560 Like, you have the best intention in the morning, like, yeah, I'm going to fast today.
00:02:25.520 Yeah, I'm just going to do it.
00:02:27.020 And then you get into the day and you're like, you know, I'm just hungry.
00:02:30.640 I'm just going to eat.
00:02:31.140 And, but Lent, all of a sudden you're able to go, yeah, just no.
00:02:37.600 It's like an outside power comes and gives you that thing.
00:02:40.860 And it is an outside power.
00:02:42.000 It's our Lord who gives you a season with which to grow closer to him.
00:02:47.440 That's where we're in right now.
00:02:49.960 And it is true. 0.71
00:02:51.780 We're living in a crisis.
00:02:53.360 We're living in a crisis in the world, in the church.
00:02:57.040 It's a crisis of truth.
00:02:58.520 It's a crisis of leadership.
00:02:59.780 It's a crisis of courage as well.
00:03:02.540 You have, in America, a total revolution in seven weeks.
00:03:05.860 Like, if I planned this talk, like, before seven weeks ago, I would have been, like, totally gone.
00:03:09.960 Because, you know what?
00:03:10.880 It just totally, the whole enchilada has changed.
00:03:15.080 Seven weeks of the most unbelievable, massive change anyone's ever seen.
00:03:19.900 Europe is freaking out.
00:03:24.020 Canada has no idea what to do.
00:03:26.160 Tara, you know, I mean, it's funny.
00:03:29.260 Trudeau is up there pleading, going, you know, we're going to continue to boo the national anthem.
00:03:35.780 Not because we hate you or anything, but because, you know.
00:03:38.400 I mean, I'm sorry.
00:03:41.200 Trudeau is just, he's one of those guys that, you know what Trudeau is?
00:03:47.500 Trudeau is a young Biden.
00:03:52.960 Think of how horrible that would be.
00:03:56.340 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. 0.62
00:04:04.320 And you never had that before Biden.
00:04:06.520 Well, you had Kennedy for a little while, but he was shocked.
00:04:08.160 But nonetheless, you never had that before Biden.
00:04:11.960 Imagine living through that for a decade.
00:04:14.920 And then he promised a long time ago he would resign.
00:04:17.120 And guess what?
00:04:17.540 He's still there.
00:04:19.220 So he said he'd resign when they choose a new leader.
00:04:21.900 He knows that it'll take a long time.
00:04:23.220 It was his only play to stay in for a long time.
00:04:26.340 That's Trudeau.
00:04:26.900 So we have a similar thing going on in the Catholic Church.
00:04:36.120 And this is tough.
00:04:37.300 And it's going to be tough for Catholics in the room to hear.
00:04:39.340 We've had that revolution in the church going on for 13 years.
00:04:42.380 There's something really eerily similar about what America just experienced under Biden and what the Catholic Church has experienced.
00:04:51.080 And this is why this comparison will work very well, especially to explain or make people understand what the church is going through.
00:05:02.780 And I'm going to start with the one thing that is so characteristic of the Trumpian revolution, counter-revolution, you might say.
00:05:12.080 And it's about borders.
00:05:15.360 You could say that a country without a border is not a country.
00:05:24.880 Well, it's true.
00:05:25.800 If we had no border, there would be no country, right?
00:05:28.080 That's patently obvious.
00:05:29.900 But there's something that's really neat about borders that helps us understand what's going on in the church.
00:05:35.500 First of all, you had your president, your own leader, flood America with millions of illegal migrants, overwhelming states and cities and taxpayers. 0.91
00:05:49.940 And many of them were not just your innocent people who wanted to come over for freedom.
00:05:56.060 Many of them were criminals, even non-criminals, and nonetheless allowed in.
00:06:00.660 It empowered drug cartels to do all sorts of damage and traffic all sorts of children.
00:06:06.220 And that probably is the worst thing.
00:06:09.280 But you also had a prioritization of foreigners over your own poor.
00:06:16.380 It was very strange.
00:06:18.420 It was very, very weird.
00:06:20.220 How is this happening?
00:06:21.260 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. 0.54
00:06:33.180 Like, we're here struggling and they're bringing in people.
00:06:36.420 Yeah, they're coming from Mexico, my homeland.
00:06:37.940 But A, what about us?
00:06:40.640 We're already here.
00:06:41.240 We're already Americans.
00:06:42.280 What's going on?
00:06:42.980 It was a tough issue.
00:06:44.700 And it was tough to live in America, especially when you were confronted with this problem.
00:06:49.320 Imagine your own compatriots living near the border and having to deal with it.
00:06:54.420 Imagine those whose children got even killed and all sorts of things.
00:07:03.060 And your leader was allowing this, was encouraging this.
00:07:07.440 On behalf of the church, it's much more serious.
00:07:09.280 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.
00:07:23.840 Because in terms of the church, just like I said, with a country without borders is not really a country.
00:07:30.740 Well, a church without doctrinal walls, without walls of dogma, is not a church.
00:07:40.700 And that's where the most serious thing lies.
00:07:47.220 Moral and theological clarity in the church has been abandoned.
00:07:50.460 And it's been abandoned for 13 years.
00:07:52.680 Many of us will not know the extent of this.
00:07:55.500 I'm writing a book on it because it's so severe.
00:07:57.960 I'm going to give you a tiny, tiny, tiny glimpse of how severe this is.
00:08:04.360 One of the things is the Pope saying out loud that all religions are a pathway to God.
00:08:13.100 Think about this for a second.
00:08:16.140 Martyrs were martyred because they wouldn't give in to denying that Christ was the only way.
00:08:29.340 In fact, this is the 10-year anniversary of very modern martyrs.
00:08:37.060 Ten years ago, there were 21 Coptic Christians dragged out on a beach, on TV for us all to see, on social media everywhere.
00:08:52.240 And we literally watched as they had their throats slit on a beach.
00:08:59.340 They put them all in orange jumpsuits.
00:09:04.260 The problem was that the Islamic militants didn't gag them.
00:09:12.320 Because they thought, I'm sure, oh my gosh, they're going to like beg for mercy.
00:09:16.040 They didn't, you know what they begged for?
00:09:17.260 Jesus Christ.
00:09:18.980 It was the most beautiful display of watching martyrdom we could ever experience because it was live and filmed for us.
00:09:28.300 They were trying to horrify us.
00:09:30.040 And it gave us the glory of the representation of fidelity to Christ like we'd never seen before.
00:09:36.980 Yet the Pope says something that blows up all the barriers of the doctrine in the church.
00:09:44.940 That basically says, the martyrs, they could have gone that way because it's just another way.
00:09:51.660 It's another way to God.
00:09:52.560 It's no problem.
00:09:55.220 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.
00:10:07.020 But it's so weird.
00:10:10.120 I'm going to show you the clip because so often at LifeSite we've been told, oh, come on, they're exaggerating.
00:10:17.100 You watch and you tell me if I'm exaggerating.
00:10:19.520 If you could play the first clip.
00:10:20.320 Because every religion is a way to arrive at God.
00:10:29.880 Because every religion is a way to arrive at God.
00:10:31.200 I'll say a comparison.
00:10:35.380 There are different languages and different languages to arrive at God.
00:10:41.420 Sort of a comparison and an example would be there are sort of like different languages in order to arrive at God.
00:10:48.480 Ma Dio è Dio per tutti.
00:10:50.460 But God is God for all.
00:10:53.180 E come Dio è Dio per tutti, noi siamo tutti figli di Dio.
00:11:01.920 And if God is God for all, then we're all sons and daughters of God.
00:11:07.060 Ma il mio Dio è più importante del tuo.
00:11:09.960 But my God is more important than your God.
00:11:14.160 E' vero quello?
00:11:15.160 Is that true?
00:11:17.060 C'è un solo Dio lì.
00:11:18.800 E noi sono idiomi, cammino, lingue per arrivare a Dio.
00:11:24.180 There's only one God in each of us as a language, so to speak, in order to arrive at God.
00:11:29.520 Qualcuno is Schi, qualcuno è musulmano, qualcuno è indi, qualcuno è cristiano.
00:11:35.080 Indo, cristiano.
00:11:36.180 Sono diversi cammini.
00:11:37.520 There are different paths.
00:11:38.740 That's one example of a few I'm going to bring to you.
00:11:42.500 I could literally stand here and give you over, I think, 2,000.
00:11:46.840 And I'm not kidding.
00:11:48.220 It's been 13 years.
00:11:51.540 I want to, before I go on to a few more, I want to tell you one thing, though.
00:11:54.500 It's not about blaming just the leaders.
00:11:57.500 Oh yeah, it's about the leaders.
00:11:58.940 But it's not about just the leaders.
00:12:00.600 Look, your own Thomas Jefferson said this.
00:12:03.380 He said, the government you elect is the government you deserve.
00:12:08.040 Additionally, in 1816, in a letter to Samuel Kirchival, Jefferson warned about the dangers of government corruption and the responsibility of the people.
00:12:15.320 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. 0.92
00:12:25.320 You can't be ignorant and free. 0.98
00:12:28.360 You can't just not pay any attention. 0.87
00:12:30.080 Exactly the same in the Old Testament.
00:12:32.760 We got the teaching that God permits unjust rulers as a chastisement for people's sins.
00:12:37.900 You see that with Saul, with Nebuchadnezzar. 0.84
00:12:41.460 St. Augustine wrote in the City of God,
00:12:43.040 If the people are corrupt and depraved, they will necessarily demand wicked rulers like themselves.
00:12:51.680 And St. Thomas Aquinas put it this way, 0.63
00:12:54.400 If the people become corrupt, they will tolerate a corrupt ruler.
00:13:03.360 Do you know, the most powerful witness to that is not from any of those.
00:13:08.420 It's from St. John Hughes.
00:13:09.680 He was a priest in France who lived at the beginning of the 17th century.
00:13:15.840 He said,
00:13:17.260 The most, and this pertains to the church now,
00:13:20.500 He said,
00:13:21.040 The most evident mark of God's anger and the most terrible castigation he can inflict upon the world
00:13:28.700 is manifest when he permits his people to fall into the hands of clerics
00:13:34.800 who are priests more in name than in deed.
00:13:38.860 priests who practice the cruelty of ravening wolves rather than charity and affection of devoted shepherds.
00:13:47.600 And so we actually know the solution.
00:13:51.960 And I'll come back to the solution because that's the most important part.
00:13:55.540 But we've got to know how severe what I'm talking about is.
00:13:59.240 In addition to the all religions are pathways to God.
00:14:07.120 The Pope spoke last year on television about how he believes hell is empty.
00:14:13.720 Before in an interview with Eugenio Scalfari, he said there is no hell.
00:14:18.260 When Scalfari pressed him, then what happens to people who don't want to go to heaven?
00:14:22.560 Is God going to force them?
00:14:23.600 And the Pope said, no, they are annihilated.
00:14:27.240 Now, of course, those come with, you know, a proviso that Eugenio Scalfari is one of those guys who doesn't take notes.
00:14:34.920 He goes home and writes it up when he's finished the interview.
00:14:38.880 Except, if that was such a problem, why did the Pope go to him for interviews?
00:14:44.420 Who's, I don't know, like over half a dozen times?
00:14:49.080 He's called the Pope's favorite interviewer.
00:14:52.860 But nonetheless, we know the Pope said he believes hell is empty because he said it on television.
00:14:58.600 Also, in Amoris Laetitia, which is an official document of the church, it's an exhortation.
00:15:05.280 He said, no one can be condemned forever.
00:15:08.400 That's not the message of the gospel.
00:15:10.160 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.
00:15:25.680 Just the other day, I had on my show Monsignor Charles Pope, great Monsignor in Washington, D.C.
00:15:34.020 God knows how he survives in Washington, D.C.
00:15:36.040 But nonetheless, he's there.
00:15:37.320 He's written a new book on hell.
00:15:39.200 He told me something truly fascinating.
00:15:41.820 You know, in the Bible, we only read 31 sermons of Jesus.
00:15:48.200 31.
00:15:50.780 You know that 21 of them dealt with hell?
00:15:55.340 I'm like, Jesus is the most hell preacher in the whole Bible.
00:16:00.760 Guaranteed, no comparison, nobody even comes close.
00:16:03.480 Not even John the Baptist.
00:16:04.440 So, really?
00:16:09.060 Not only did he preach on hell, and remember, this is the greatest lover of mankind.
00:16:17.100 He loves you more than anyone ever will.
00:16:23.120 And yet, he's preaching about hell.
00:16:25.800 It's because he loves you.
00:16:26.900 The apostles would ask him, hey, like, is anybody going to get to heaven?
00:16:39.240 It was that bad.
00:16:40.600 Do you remember the parable?
00:16:41.340 We heard it in mass just like a week ago or so.
00:16:44.280 It's the camel through the eye of the needle.
00:16:46.120 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.
00:16:54.620 The apostles respond, sheesh, then who can be saved?
00:16:58.740 The Lord doesn't reply, everyone, it's no problem.
00:17:02.800 He doesn't.
00:17:03.280 He says, for man, this is impossible.
00:17:07.840 But with God, all things are possible.
00:17:11.520 It's a huge thing to deny Jesus. 0.98
00:17:14.220 It's a huge thing to intimate that Jesus is a liar.
00:17:19.860 He said, narrow is the road that leads to life, and few there are that find it.
00:17:24.820 Go look up these verses.
00:17:25.780 They're in the Bible.
00:17:26.820 I'm a Catholic, so I can't tell you scripture and verse right away.
00:17:29.000 But he said, broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many there are that go therein.
00:17:40.240 Jesus' words, not mine.
00:17:42.240 If you believe Jesus, many are in hell, and few are in heaven.
00:17:50.920 And that's devastating.
00:17:53.120 But it's the truth.
00:17:55.080 It's a truth from which we can't hide.
00:17:57.000 And it's the truth that should motivate all of us.
00:18:05.080 If you know your brother or your sister or your mother or your father or your cousin or your own children
00:18:12.060 have the potential to be separated from our Lord Jesus Christ in eternity,
00:18:17.720 for all eternity,
00:18:19.380 how much more will you pray?
00:18:24.660 Will you beg?
00:18:27.300 Will you show by your example?
00:18:29.180 Will you sacrifice
00:18:29.980 for their eternal salvation?
00:18:33.760 Our Lord asks us to be his hands and his feet.
00:18:36.220 Our Lord puts you in their lives to bring them to him, to bring them to eternal life,
00:18:44.400 to save not only their bodies, which I know you all do, but to save their souls.
00:18:50.740 The Pope presided, now years ago, and famously, over an idolatry, a literal idolatry in the Vatican.
00:19:01.220 I won't even show you the video because it's been seen horrifically so many times,
00:19:07.280 where all sorts of Catholics sat in front of the Pope and various cardinals
00:19:15.440 as they prostrated themselves, heads to the ground, literally on their knees,
00:19:19.900 heads to the ground before two idols of Pachamama, the earth goddess, Mother Earth.
00:19:27.660 How many in this room have not heard of that before?
00:19:33.260 Gosh, I can't believe that.
00:19:34.560 But anyway, some of you haven't heard of it, but the majority have.
00:19:37.860 You can look it up. It's horrific. I won't show it here.
00:19:42.940 It's the saddest thing.
00:19:44.020 Many people said, oh, it's not really Pachamama.
00:19:46.240 It's like Our Lady and the, you know, Elizabeth, 0.67
00:19:50.300 and they were like both pregnant together.
00:19:53.800 First of all, they were nude.
00:19:55.440 And secondly, the Pope was caught on the hot mic.
00:19:58.000 Saying it was Pachamama.
00:19:59.880 And since then, it's been avowed over and over again.
00:20:04.620 If it were just that they did that in front of him and he didn't condemn it,
00:20:08.620 it would be bad enough.
00:20:10.100 But he didn't.
00:20:11.420 They brought the idol over to him and he blessed it.
00:20:14.780 Then they processed the idol in a canoe into St. Peter's Basilica, the main church.
00:20:20.540 And they all said prayers around it, including the Pope and the Cardinals.
00:20:25.880 So there's idolatry right there.
00:20:28.760 That's the first commandment.
00:20:30.640 And what really, I think, turned the tide for a lot of Americans.
00:20:34.720 And you've got one of the premier spokesmen to this issue here this year.
00:20:42.140 Riley Gaines was so personally affected by the criminality, really,
00:20:48.560 that Biden allowed and promoted in the United States.
00:20:51.060 By this mockery of God's ordained creation.
00:20:56.200 By saying, man is a woman, as a woman is a man. 0.97
00:20:59.580 He destroyed Riley Gaines' career.
00:21:04.780 But just like God, he's so faithful.
00:21:07.080 That destruction of her career, of her sport,
00:21:12.800 turned her into a warrior for Christ like none other.
00:21:16.800 A warrior whose example of the suffering that she endured
00:21:20.980 drove America to reject the usurper.
00:21:25.980 Drove America to common sense.
00:21:29.220 And so, I must tell you, too,
00:21:38.500 that I've been driven by a very personal experience
00:21:42.220 when it comes to Pope Francis.
00:21:46.340 You see, I raised my kids, like all good Catholics should,
00:21:52.240 with the teaching of the faith.
00:21:54.120 I was raised myself in the Baltimore Catechism.
00:21:56.980 Yes, and it's from Baltimore, United States.
00:21:59.220 And I taught my kids that way as well.
00:22:04.160 And you're taught that you're to look up to your spiritual leaders.
00:22:07.980 You're taught that your ordained ministers
00:22:10.220 are the representatives of Christ to you, locally especially.
00:22:15.180 You're supposed to listen to your priest.
00:22:16.360 These are the people who have the heart of Christ for you.
00:22:20.780 That's their whole mission in life.
00:22:22.620 They give up having family of their own
00:22:24.980 so they can be Christ out to you.
00:22:28.000 That's what it's supposed to be.
00:22:30.860 And we believe in leadership in the church
00:22:33.460 and in the Pope,
00:22:36.360 who Catholics are supposed to submit to in mind and will 0.99
00:22:39.520 in his official teaching.
00:22:41.500 And so on July 16, 2016,
00:22:46.280 the Pope gave a talk in Rome
00:22:47.980 where he was speaking about people in northern Argentina
00:22:53.060 who were Catholics,
00:22:56.660 but they never got married.
00:22:59.240 He said their marriages were so faithful.
00:23:02.200 men were like scared of marriage.
00:23:07.140 You know, though, by the time they had grandchildren,
00:23:09.580 most of them did get married.
00:23:11.720 But the Pope said,
00:23:12.720 because of that fidelity,
00:23:15.580 those are real marriages,
00:23:17.160 and they have the grace of real marriage.
00:23:21.740 My daughter called from university
00:23:23.660 is to say,
00:23:25.580 Dad,
00:23:26.360 is it true?
00:23:28.160 Is it true that the Pope said
00:23:29.760 cohabitation is real marriage
00:23:30.900 and has the grace of real marriage?
00:23:35.140 And you know,
00:23:35.560 I asked many cardinals since then,
00:23:37.200 was I supposed to lie to my daughter?
00:23:40.220 Who is a child to believe
00:23:41.380 about a matter of faith and morals?
00:23:45.400 Their father
00:23:46.020 or the Pope?
00:23:50.460 And so it was a very personal experience, too,
00:23:53.180 for me
00:23:53.560 that got me on a course
00:23:56.000 of dealing with this
00:23:58.180 in a way
00:23:58.880 that's very straightforward.
00:24:02.820 You know, though,
00:24:03.820 a lot of clergy
00:24:05.360 did not like that.
00:24:07.620 In fact, some
00:24:08.280 very high-ranking clergy,
00:24:10.280 even friends,
00:24:11.740 chastised me.
00:24:14.460 But I told them something.
00:24:16.020 I can't be quiet about this.
00:24:20.860 And it's not only for my daughter.
00:24:23.660 It's not only for the church
00:24:24.860 that I love.
00:24:26.420 It's not only for my soul.
00:24:29.520 It's also for the soul
00:24:30.820 of Pope Francis.
00:24:33.160 Jesus called us
00:24:34.360 to love our enemies,
00:24:36.460 do good to those
00:24:37.560 who persecute you.
00:24:40.400 And yes,
00:24:41.820 in my own life,
00:24:44.260 I've been persecuted
00:24:45.040 by Pope Francis
00:24:45.840 very directly
00:24:46.460 because of what he's done
00:24:47.360 with regard to my own children.
00:24:50.520 But you know what?
00:24:52.540 I also know
00:24:53.460 in the Scriptures,
00:24:55.260 Jesus says
00:24:56.020 that he,
00:24:58.040 to the apostles,
00:24:58.780 by the way,
00:24:59.840 if you confuse
00:25:00.580 one of these little ones,
00:25:01.800 it would be better
00:25:02.520 for you
00:25:02.940 to have a millstone
00:25:03.900 tied about your neck 1.00
00:25:05.060 and you to be thrown 0.99
00:25:06.580 and you to be thrown 0.99
00:25:07.180 into the sea. 0.81
00:25:09.480 Do you,
00:25:11.160 good pastors,
00:25:12.680 do you,
00:25:15.580 good Catholics,
00:25:17.680 love Pope Francis
00:25:19.520 enough
00:25:20.100 to avoid for him
00:25:24.460 this horror?
00:25:27.240 I have never prayed
00:25:30.340 in my life
00:25:30.940 for any Pope
00:25:31.740 more than Pope Francis.
00:25:34.620 Every day at LifeSite,
00:25:36.200 we pray for Pope Francis,
00:25:38.060 for his conversion.
00:25:40.260 Let me go on
00:25:44.740 to another area
00:25:46.380 of comparison
00:25:49.120 that is so apt
00:25:50.880 between the United States
00:25:52.500 over the last four years
00:25:54.140 and then over
00:25:56.340 what's happened
00:25:57.180 in the church,
00:25:57.720 and that is
00:25:58.200 betraying your own people,
00:26:02.320 persecuting the good,
00:26:03.420 rewarding the wicked.
00:26:04.820 In Biden's America,
00:26:05.700 you had the weaponization
00:26:06.640 of justice.
00:26:08.160 The U.S. Constitution
00:26:09.260 demands equal justice
00:26:11.080 under the law
00:26:11.720 and yet under Biden,
00:26:13.260 there was a really corrupt
00:26:14.800 two-tiered system.
00:26:17.020 You had pro-life activists
00:26:18.500 like Mark Houck,
00:26:20.260 who was here last year,
00:26:22.300 and Paul Vaughn,
00:26:23.520 who's here this year.
00:26:25.100 Remember Mark's case?
00:26:26.100 Rested at gunpoint
00:26:27.480 with his whole family there,
00:26:29.420 with all his little kids
00:26:30.380 screaming,
00:26:31.180 seven little kids.
00:26:32.580 Paul's got 11.
00:26:35.920 Parents,
00:26:36.640 who opposed
00:26:37.340 radical gender ideology
00:26:38.720 in schools
00:26:39.160 were labeled
00:26:39.600 domestic terrorists.
00:26:41.600 At the same time,
00:26:42.960 by the way,
00:26:43.780 as drag queen story hours
00:26:45.460 were defended
00:26:46.060 as a civil rights
00:26:46.920 and people were encouraged
00:26:47.980 to bring their little children
00:26:49.100 to that horror.
00:26:52.720 And while they were arresting
00:26:53.860 Mark Houck,
00:26:54.400 by the way,
00:26:56.560 what ever happened
00:26:57.140 to all those
00:26:57.620 pro-abortion vandals
00:26:58.780 who vandalized
00:27:00.160 so many of our
00:27:01.140 crisis pregnancy centers?
00:27:03.900 Nothing.
00:27:05.020 And remember Biden himself,
00:27:06.640 had corrupt
00:27:07.340 family dealings
00:27:08.280 with suppressing
00:27:10.720 the FBI report
00:27:12.660 on his son's laptop,
00:27:14.560 which back in the day
00:27:15.560 was fake
00:27:16.520 Russian disinformation
00:27:17.920 and lo and behold,
00:27:19.540 just like COVID,
00:27:21.160 was not created
00:27:22.740 in a fish market
00:27:25.100 or whatever market
00:27:26.440 in China,
00:27:27.100 but it was created
00:27:27.860 in a lab.
00:27:28.780 Just like that,
00:27:30.200 the Biden laptop
00:27:30.840 is true.
00:27:31.320 So these are
00:27:34.260 unbelievable things
00:27:35.300 that happened
00:27:35.880 to you all,
00:27:36.960 but also that will
00:27:37.940 help you understand
00:27:38.740 what's going on
00:27:39.280 in the church
00:27:39.640 because in the church
00:27:40.500 there's been a weaponization
00:27:42.200 of the papacy
00:27:43.440 like never before.
00:27:45.180 In the church
00:27:45.760 you saw
00:27:46.160 the most faithful,
00:27:48.580 literally the most
00:27:49.780 faithful Catholics,
00:27:51.840 think Cardinal Burke,
00:27:53.800 think Bishop Joseph Strickland,
00:27:55.280 treated as if
00:27:57.620 they were heretics, 0.92
00:28:00.340 literally canceled,
00:28:01.940 and you saw
00:28:03.300 the most unfaithful,
00:28:06.120 those who don't
00:28:07.260 hold to the church's
00:28:08.300 teachings on life
00:28:09.320 and family,
00:28:10.840 elevated to the
00:28:12.160 cardinalent,
00:28:13.200 to the highest positions.
00:28:14.980 This March 11th,
00:28:16.980 in just a few days
00:28:18.040 from now,
00:28:19.380 Cardinal Robert McElroy
00:28:21.200 will take over
00:28:21.960 the most prestigious
00:28:23.100 seat in the United States
00:28:24.840 as Cardinal Archbishop
00:28:26.280 of Washington, D.C.
00:28:28.760 That is so severe
00:28:30.500 because he totally
00:28:32.300 rejects the church's
00:28:33.280 teaching on the family,
00:28:35.820 he disdains
00:28:37.040 the church's teaching
00:28:38.220 on life
00:28:38.780 because he doesn't
00:28:39.440 robustly accept it,
00:28:41.260 but even more than that,
00:28:43.640 even by a secular standard,
00:28:47.040 it's unbelievable.
00:28:49.880 Cardinal Robert McElroy
00:28:51.180 is a cover-upper 0.99
00:28:52.380 of sexual abuse
00:28:53.680 that's really
00:28:55.160 unparalleled.
00:28:58.860 There was a priest
00:28:59.960 in his diocese
00:29:00.780 who committed
00:29:01.640 satanic
00:29:02.680 ritual abuse 0.95
00:29:04.620 on a young woman.
00:29:09.240 He admitted it
00:29:10.800 and Cardinal McElroy
00:29:14.400 left him in circulation.
00:29:16.160 Father Frank Pavone
00:29:17.520 is no longer
00:29:19.240 father
00:29:19.920 because of his
00:29:22.740 political activism
00:29:24.020 and yet
00:29:25.840 abuser priests
00:29:27.260 and cover-upper 0.98
00:29:28.500 cardinals
00:29:29.040 are promoted.
00:29:32.460 That backwards stuff 1.00
00:29:33.940 that happened
00:29:34.360 in America,
00:29:35.180 that insanity
00:29:35.980 has been going on
00:29:37.360 in the church
00:29:37.840 for 13 years.
00:29:38.780 You also have
00:29:42.660 in the church
00:29:44.300 a stunning
00:29:45.640 pro-life leader
00:29:46.860 by the name
00:29:48.740 of
00:29:49.380 Archbishop
00:29:50.520 Salvatore Cordelione.
00:29:52.620 Archbishop Cordelione,
00:29:53.800 one of the most
00:29:54.220 generous,
00:29:54.920 wonderful guys.
00:29:56.400 After 10 years,
00:29:58.960 10 years
00:30:01.180 of begging
00:30:02.140 Nancy Pelosi,
00:30:03.640 the Catholic
00:30:04.200 Nancy Pelosi,
00:30:04.960 to come alongside
00:30:07.700 on life
00:30:08.180 and her refusing 0.98
00:30:10.700 and championing
00:30:12.040 abortion,
00:30:12.900 championing 0.63
00:30:13.460 the killing 0.99
00:30:14.120 of children
00:30:14.600 at every opportunity,
00:30:16.460 he finally said,
00:30:18.440 enough.
00:30:19.860 She's not to be
00:30:20.780 given a Holy Communion.
00:30:21.580 She's not to
00:30:22.640 present herself
00:30:24.500 for Holy Communion.
00:30:25.180 And my priests,
00:30:25.980 my deacons,
00:30:26.500 those who administer
00:30:27.160 Holy Communion
00:30:27.560 are to refuse
00:30:28.280 their Holy Communion.
00:30:29.240 Which,
00:30:30.000 by the way,
00:30:31.560 Pope Benedict,
00:30:32.720 as John Paul II
00:30:33.820 before him,
00:30:34.980 insisted.
00:30:36.420 And our bishops
00:30:37.120 in the United States
00:30:38.360 rejected
00:30:38.980 in a committee
00:30:40.200 led by none other
00:30:41.240 than once Cardinal,
00:30:43.480 now Mr. Theodore McCarrick.
00:30:45.760 But that's another story.
00:30:48.840 Nancy Pelosi,
00:30:49.640 after she was refused
00:30:50.400 Holy Communion,
00:30:52.180 said that she was
00:30:53.880 going to go to the Vatican.
00:30:54.640 And go to the Vatican,
00:30:55.260 she did.
00:30:57.520 At the Vatican,
00:30:58.420 she was given communion
00:30:59.260 at a papal mass.
00:31:01.320 And on that very day,
00:31:02.460 Pope Francis released
00:31:04.080 a document called
00:31:04.860 Desiderio Desideravi.
00:31:07.700 And in that document,
00:31:08.880 you'll read,
00:31:09.340 the only thing necessary
00:31:10.260 to receive Holy Communion
00:31:11.240 is faith.
00:31:14.060 Which is called out
00:31:15.080 as heresy
00:31:16.340 by Bishop Schneider
00:31:17.380 and Bishop Joseph Strickland.
00:31:21.880 So,
00:31:22.660 we're in a massive,
00:31:24.440 massive crisis
00:31:25.780 in the Church.
00:31:27.560 And I want to talk
00:31:28.160 about one thing,
00:31:29.380 about the Latin Mass.
00:31:31.600 Because this is very interesting.
00:31:33.560 And you should know,
00:31:34.600 I'm not a Latin Masser.
00:31:35.980 I have no Latin Mass 0.97
00:31:37.020 where I live.
00:31:37.920 I'm at a Novus Orno church.
00:31:39.160 Many people are very surprised
00:31:40.140 to hear that.
00:31:40.880 I talk a lot about the Latin Mass
00:31:42.040 because I love it.
00:31:42.840 I think it's amazing.
00:31:44.300 But I don't go to it.
00:31:46.000 I go whenever I travel
00:31:47.020 as I can.
00:31:48.800 But listen to this.
00:31:50.940 The Latin Mass
00:31:51.980 is the treasure of the Church.
00:31:54.100 And it's restricted.
00:31:55.720 It's massively restricted.
00:31:57.100 There's a document put out
00:31:59.080 Transiciones Castores 0.92
00:32:00.120 and a later document
00:32:01.760 enforcing it even more.
00:32:04.280 If you're lucky,
00:32:05.160 you still have about two years
00:32:06.280 to have it
00:32:07.520 till it's expired
00:32:09.100 in your parish
00:32:09.780 before it will only be found
00:32:11.320 at these extremely rare institutes
00:32:13.520 for the Latin Mass,
00:32:15.260 which are
00:32:15.780 the really royal rarity.
00:32:18.460 At the same time
00:32:21.320 as the Latin Mass
00:32:22.620 is being restricted,
00:32:24.520 get this,
00:32:25.060 and this is going to come
00:32:25.660 probably as a shocker,
00:32:27.500 LGBT Masses
00:32:29.080 are being promoted
00:32:30.000 by the Pope himself.
00:32:33.500 You don't believe me?
00:32:34.800 Please go look it up.
00:32:35.820 Fact check me.
00:32:36.620 Please.
00:32:37.360 I beg you.
00:32:39.040 So there was an LGBT conference
00:32:41.180 held by none other than
00:32:43.000 Father James Martin.
00:32:44.080 And the Pope
00:32:47.040 wrote him a handwritten letter
00:32:48.900 not only congratulating him
00:32:51.660 on the conference,
00:32:53.340 now get this,
00:32:54.100 but congratulating
00:32:55.660 Cardinal Gregory,
00:32:58.560 the former Archbishop
00:33:00.220 of Washington, D.C.,
00:33:01.280 for saying the Mass
00:33:03.420 at the LGBT promoting conference.
00:33:07.080 So at the same time,
00:33:11.500 the Pope is restricting
00:33:12.720 massively everywhere
00:33:14.420 the Mass of the Ages,
00:33:15.720 the Mass, by the way,
00:33:17.080 that existed in the church
00:33:18.440 for over a thousand years,
00:33:21.360 he's promoting LGBT Masses. 0.89
00:33:24.720 If you don't think
00:33:26.020 it's a revolution yet,
00:33:27.680 I don't know what more
00:33:28.520 I can tell you.
00:33:29.900 So both Biden and Francis
00:33:31.540 have used their authority
00:33:34.480 to destroy the very essence
00:33:36.480 of the nation
00:33:37.360 and of the church,
00:33:38.020 respectively,
00:33:38.740 but also the most faithful.
00:33:42.300 This Mass
00:33:43.260 and the adherence to it
00:33:44.660 are very unique.
00:33:46.680 And you know what?
00:33:47.440 Honestly,
00:33:48.560 in terms of the state,
00:33:49.820 they're exactly like you,
00:33:51.120 pro-lifers.
00:33:52.200 Because in the pro-life movement,
00:33:54.320 I think especially
00:33:55.100 of my friends,
00:33:56.060 Jason Jones,
00:33:57.400 Mark Haupp,
00:33:58.080 Paul Vaughn,
00:33:58.880 Molly Smith,
00:33:59.700 Will Goodman,
00:34:00.660 Joan Andrews Bell,
00:34:02.400 and so many of you heroes.
00:34:03.640 When I as a Canadian
00:34:06.420 look at you,
00:34:07.520 I see the most faithful Americans
00:34:10.140 that ever were
00:34:12.160 or ever will be.
00:34:14.200 You are America.
00:34:15.940 You are the faithful Americans.
00:34:17.620 You are the ones
00:34:18.280 when the fathers,
00:34:21.220 the founding fathers of America
00:34:22.240 thought of what America should be,
00:34:23.660 he thought of you.
00:34:26.000 You are the ideal of America.
00:34:28.180 You are giving.
00:34:29.140 In fact,
00:34:29.560 let me read this
00:34:30.300 because I went through
00:34:30.880 a little bit
00:34:31.260 your documents.
00:34:33.760 The Declaration of Independence
00:34:34.900 proclaims that all men
00:34:36.140 are endowed by their creator
00:34:37.280 with the unalienable right to life.
00:34:41.520 What else do you guys do?
00:34:43.480 That is what you do.
00:34:45.420 So you are upholding
00:34:47.060 the Declaration
00:34:47.520 in a way that really
00:34:48.840 nobody else is.
00:34:50.020 What else are you doing?
00:34:50.740 By fighting for the unborn,
00:34:52.060 you pro-lifers stand
00:34:53.000 in continuity
00:34:53.640 with the abolitionists
00:34:54.740 who defended human dignity.
00:34:56.600 By opposing abortion, 0.84
00:34:57.920 you align with America's
00:34:59.460 deepest traditions
00:35:00.080 of defending
00:35:00.740 the voiceless
00:35:01.640 and the oppressed.
00:35:03.620 You faithful pro-lifers
00:35:04.820 are the American ideal.
00:35:08.220 You dedicate your time,
00:35:09.620 your resources,
00:35:11.240 even personal safety
00:35:12.780 to defend children in the womb,
00:35:15.900 just as generations before you
00:35:18.300 fought for liberty
00:35:19.060 and justice for all.
00:35:21.800 But get this.
00:35:22.960 In the Latin Mass,
00:35:24.780 you have exactly the same thing
00:35:26.840 in the Catholic Church.
00:35:28.160 And I'll explain this to you.
00:35:28.980 It's unbelievable.
00:35:30.620 So there was a priest I know
00:35:32.300 called Father Closter,
00:35:33.540 and he did the first survey
00:35:35.880 of the traditional Latin Mass,
00:35:38.180 which was released in 2019.
00:35:39.880 And it's a large survey.
00:35:41.800 And you know,
00:35:42.580 when you do those surveys,
00:35:43.580 you see the surveys
00:35:44.380 of Catholics generally
00:35:45.660 in the United States,
00:35:46.800 and you see the numbers
00:35:47.940 that are pro-life.
00:35:50.300 I hate to tell you
00:35:51.160 that's not 50%.
00:35:52.880 But it's up there.
00:35:54.920 You see the numbers
00:35:55.580 that support traditional marriage.
00:35:56.680 Also, even less.
00:35:58.740 Not great.
00:35:59.680 And then you see
00:36:00.280 the numbers of attendance
00:36:01.560 at all Sunday Masses.
00:36:04.960 You're getting down
00:36:05.680 to like 11% at that point.
00:36:07.760 But listen to the stats
00:36:09.080 from traditional Latin Mass Catholics.
00:36:11.500 Again,
00:36:12.020 which I don't go to.
00:36:15.040 So,
00:36:16.160 of the Novus Ordo faithful,
00:36:17.960 and there's one other teaching
00:36:18.880 in the Church,
00:36:19.300 of the Novus Ordo faithful,
00:36:20.380 89% approved of contraception.
00:36:23.440 In the traditional
00:36:24.340 Latin Mass community,
00:36:26.020 2%.
00:36:28.740 Of the Novus Ordo faithful,
00:36:30.820 51% approved of abortion.
00:36:33.320 In the traditional
00:36:34.280 Latin Mass community,
00:36:36.060 1%.
00:36:36.780 And 67% of Novus Ordo faithful
00:36:40.980 approved of same-sex marriage.
00:36:43.240 At the traditional Latin Mass,
00:36:44.520 it was 2%.
00:36:46.380 Mass attendance,
00:36:48.100 around 11%
00:36:49.400 for Novus Ordo Catholics,
00:36:51.200 98%
00:36:52.620 for traditional
00:36:53.800 Latin Mass Catholics.
00:36:56.180 So,
00:36:57.800 there you have
00:36:58.840 a comparison.
00:37:00.080 By going after
00:37:01.120 pro-lifers,
00:37:02.160 as Biden did,
00:37:04.000 is exactly what's happening
00:37:05.140 in the Church
00:37:05.760 with Pope Francis
00:37:07.000 specifically targeting
00:37:08.680 this small group
00:37:10.480 of the most
00:37:11.520 faithful Catholics,
00:37:12.640 just by the numbers.
00:37:13.800 Again,
00:37:14.220 of which
00:37:14.760 I'm not part
00:37:15.840 of that group.
00:37:17.640 Although I love it.
00:37:18.840 Why?
00:37:19.560 In the beginning,
00:37:20.340 I mentioned,
00:37:20.940 it's not really about
00:37:21.640 the leaders themselves,
00:37:22.580 right?
00:37:23.780 We get the leaders
00:37:24.640 we deserve.
00:37:25.800 Remember the words
00:37:26.480 of St. John Eudes.
00:37:28.240 It's the sign
00:37:28.960 of God's anger.
00:37:30.420 So,
00:37:30.820 that also gives us
00:37:32.260 the solution.
00:37:35.100 The solution
00:37:35.900 will,
00:37:36.480 by the way,
00:37:37.340 surprise,
00:37:37.860 surprise,
00:37:38.200 not be the clergy.
00:37:39.740 As Archbishop Fulton
00:37:41.060 J. Seen
00:37:41.480 once said,
00:37:42.020 it'll be us.
00:37:44.600 It'll be you and me.
00:37:45.680 It'll be the faithful.
00:37:48.000 Bishop Strickland
00:37:48.620 is fond of saying this.
00:37:49.620 He said,
00:37:49.920 we must be
00:37:50.340 first century Christians
00:37:51.340 in a 21st century world.
00:37:53.840 We must have
00:37:54.900 a mystical union
00:37:56.580 with God
00:37:57.160 like the prayer
00:37:58.620 of the apostles.
00:38:00.480 Do you know
00:38:00.660 in the beginning
00:38:01.000 of the Church
00:38:01.360 it took a tiny remnant
00:38:02.660 of the first Christians 0.99
00:38:05.100 to spread that faith,
00:38:07.080 to take over
00:38:07.920 the Roman Empire,
00:38:09.040 to basically
00:38:11.980 overcome the world.
00:38:14.000 How?
00:38:14.520 How did this happen
00:38:15.300 from this tiny group
00:38:16.520 who were persecuted
00:38:17.760 and lots of them killed?
00:38:19.680 It's impossible.
00:38:20.500 It's a hunted minority 1.00
00:38:21.580 that then spreads
00:38:23.000 to everywhere
00:38:23.640 and everyone.
00:38:26.120 And the answer was
00:38:27.900 through what they did.
00:38:30.380 They united themselves
00:38:31.360 with Christ
00:38:31.840 in everything.
00:38:32.320 Remember how I said before,
00:38:34.260 Christ wants to be there
00:38:35.420 through you
00:38:36.740 for everybody else.
00:38:37.620 That's very, very, very real
00:38:39.280 and the only way
00:38:40.460 we can get there
00:38:41.680 is by repentance.
00:38:43.480 What does repentance mean?
00:38:45.120 You've heard it
00:38:45.660 for the Catholics
00:38:46.160 in the room,
00:38:46.600 you know,
00:38:46.860 Our Lady came
00:38:47.600 and says repentance,
00:38:48.880 repentance, repentance
00:38:49.600 at every apparition
00:38:50.800 you'll ever see.
00:38:51.520 Turn back to my son
00:38:52.380 because that's the definition
00:38:54.440 of repentance.
00:38:55.860 Repentance means
00:38:56.560 turning back to Jesus.
00:38:58.420 Remember the quote
00:38:59.100 from the Scriptures,
00:39:00.080 if my people
00:39:01.380 will heed my voice,
00:39:02.900 turn from their wicked ways
00:39:04.380 and turn to me,
00:39:05.460 I will restore their land.
00:39:07.480 And this is
00:39:08.340 what we're dealing with.
00:39:09.980 We need repentance.
00:39:11.080 We need to turn 0.91
00:39:11.900 back to God.
00:39:13.820 Not just sometimes.
00:39:15.900 All the time.
00:39:18.200 Jesus said pray always. 0.98
00:39:19.260 That sounds stupidly impossible 0.90
00:39:20.820 but it's not. 0.97
00:39:23.160 It's not.
00:39:24.940 We're doing a retreat
00:39:25.780 at LifeSite News
00:39:26.460 every Saturday of Lent
00:39:27.900 with a beautiful
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00:39:32.240 a canceled priest
00:39:32.900 by the way.
00:39:34.160 But Bishop Schneider
00:39:35.580 told us that
00:39:36.180 and when Bishop Schneider
00:39:37.120 tells me something
00:39:37.840 I'm like,
00:39:38.420 okay, I'll do it.
00:39:39.720 And it's a beautiful retreat.
00:39:41.340 I encourage you to join
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00:39:42.560 Saturdays at
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00:39:44.040 But all it does
00:39:46.180 is turn us to prayer,
00:39:48.700 inwardly to prayer.
00:39:49.980 Lent is an amazing time
00:39:51.460 for that
00:39:51.780 because we're supposed to.
00:39:53.740 But also,
00:39:55.680 you have
00:39:56.420 in this one thing,
00:39:59.100 there was an apparition.
00:39:59.780 I know for the
00:40:00.720 non-Catholics 0.95
00:40:01.680 in the crowd,
00:40:02.180 that's going to be
00:40:02.540 a little bit weird.
00:40:03.100 But this is a really
00:40:04.280 neat thing.
00:40:05.800 All what we're experiencing
00:40:06.940 in Biden's America,
00:40:08.960 in much of the world,
00:40:10.180 especially right now
00:40:11.120 in Europe,
00:40:12.060 and in Canada,
00:40:13.760 and in the church,
00:40:15.400 is communism.
00:40:17.140 You can't tell
00:40:18.140 it's communism.
00:40:19.520 And how many of you
00:40:20.960 watched The Passion?
00:40:22.980 Do you remember
00:40:23.700 the woman comes up 0.99
00:40:25.240 and wipes Jesus' face 0.56
00:40:26.220 in The Passion?
00:40:27.440 And then something
00:40:28.040 weird happens.
00:40:29.040 She looks down
00:40:29.700 at the cloth
00:40:30.220 and what's there?
00:40:31.380 The image of his face.
00:40:33.980 Everybody in the room
00:40:34.860 should know about
00:40:35.280 the Shroud of Turin,
00:40:37.680 Jesus' burial cloth,
00:40:38.960 where you have
00:40:39.380 an imprint of his face.
00:40:40.940 That means a lot.
00:40:43.500 God intended
00:40:45.100 to leave
00:40:46.020 his image
00:40:47.460 for us.
00:40:48.500 And he did.
00:40:50.000 And this is for
00:40:50.540 all Christians generally.
00:40:51.440 And it's there.
00:40:55.200 And in
00:40:56.040 the 19th century,
00:40:58.540 a nun
00:40:59.100 received
00:41:00.120 a message
00:41:01.080 from our Lord
00:41:01.720 saying,
00:41:02.760 basically,
00:41:03.520 if you want to
00:41:04.980 overcome communism,
00:41:07.700 which, by the way,
00:41:08.420 was just budding
00:41:09.100 at the time,
00:41:10.500 you need to turn
00:41:11.360 to my face.
00:41:14.120 And so,
00:41:15.120 she started 0.79
00:41:15.720 this devotion
00:41:16.740 to the holy face
00:41:17.620 of Jesus.
00:41:18.680 They used
00:41:19.460 an image
00:41:20.440 from the Shroud
00:41:21.260 and also
00:41:21.740 from that veil
00:41:22.400 I talked about.
00:41:23.400 And they put it
00:41:23.900 up to places
00:41:24.320 so people could
00:41:24.900 literally turn
00:41:25.580 to the face
00:41:25.940 of Jesus
00:41:26.280 and meditate
00:41:27.180 on the grace
00:41:27.640 suffering
00:41:27.960 because this
00:41:28.620 is what you're
00:41:29.040 looking at.
00:41:29.480 You're looking
00:41:29.800 at not Jesus'
00:41:30.600 happy face.
00:41:31.360 It's when they
00:41:31.960 beat him up
00:41:32.420 so much so
00:41:33.120 that he almost
00:41:33.720 didn't look
00:41:34.160 like a man.
00:41:36.060 And that face
00:41:37.240 will show you
00:41:37.940 the love he has
00:41:38.640 for you
00:41:38.820 because that love
00:41:39.560 coming into you,
00:41:40.860 your understanding
00:41:41.680 of the great love
00:41:42.480 Jesus has for you,
00:41:43.920 that's what will
00:41:44.560 give you
00:41:45.020 all the motivation
00:41:46.020 you need
00:41:46.500 to fast,
00:41:48.000 to be martyred
00:41:48.700 like those 21
00:41:49.540 on the beach
00:41:49.980 10 years ago,
00:41:51.260 and to do
00:41:52.000 everything you
00:41:52.600 need to do
00:41:53.120 to support
00:41:53.780 life and family.
00:41:54.700 We put up
00:41:55.280 these billboards
00:41:55.840 if you can play
00:41:56.320 them.
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00:41:57.420 Christ the King
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00:42:03.160 Nebraska,
00:42:03.740 New Jersey,
00:42:04.280 Tennessee,
00:42:04.700 and Texas.
00:42:05.660 Over 15 million
00:42:06.820 people have seen
00:42:07.900 these things.
00:42:10.280 Pope Pius XI said
00:42:13.020 men must look 0.95
00:42:14.460 for the peace
00:42:15.660 of Christ
00:42:16.300 in the kingdom
00:42:17.420 of Christ.
00:42:18.460 And he urged
00:42:19.140 that the faithful
00:42:19.720 give public honor
00:42:20.800 to Christ the King
00:42:21.640 so that individuals
00:42:22.780 and states
00:42:23.400 would submit
00:42:24.200 once more
00:42:24.840 to the rule
00:42:25.780 of their Savior.
00:42:26.580 And that is why
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00:42:29.460 the image
00:42:30.120 of Christ the King
00:42:31.000 across the United States.
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00:42:33.980 reach millions more.
00:42:36.020 Please pledge
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00:42:39.240 at lifefunder.com
00:42:40.780 slash
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00:42:43.240 Those billboards
00:42:44.080 are up everywhere
00:42:44.680 basically to show
00:42:45.480 the face of Christ
00:42:46.520 because we know
00:42:47.080 that is the way.
00:42:47.960 The love of Christ
00:42:48.800 for us in our hearts
00:42:50.100 is the only thing
00:42:51.160 that can move us
00:42:52.300 to give us
00:42:54.720 the grace
00:42:55.160 that we need
00:42:55.700 to sacrifice
00:42:58.000 our time
00:42:58.700 in prayer
00:42:59.100 to Him
00:42:59.500 to get it,
00:43:01.460 to get that grace.
00:43:03.360 Remember your
00:43:04.120 beautiful hymn
00:43:05.080 Turn Your Eyes
00:43:05.920 Upon Jesus
00:43:06.480 it's the praise
00:43:07.320 and worship version
00:43:07.920 I just love.
00:43:09.120 Turn your eyes
00:43:09.660 upon Jesus
00:43:10.240 look full
00:43:11.660 in His wonderful face
00:43:13.840 and the things
00:43:15.720 of earth
00:43:16.040 will grow strangely dim
00:43:17.080 in the light
00:43:17.880 of His glory
00:43:18.400 and grace.
00:43:20.480 This nun
00:43:21.560 who received
00:43:22.940 this
00:43:23.900 message
00:43:26.000 from our Lord
00:43:26.520 about turning
00:43:26.960 to His face
00:43:27.540 wrote this prayer
00:43:29.420 inspired
00:43:30.100 was inspired
00:43:30.860 by this prayer.
00:43:32.020 It was this.
00:43:34.600 May the most holy
00:43:35.600 most sacred
00:43:36.700 most adorable
00:43:37.580 most incomprehensible
00:43:39.120 and unutterable
00:43:40.080 name of God
00:43:40.960 be always praised
00:43:42.300 blessed
00:43:42.860 loved
00:43:43.560 adored
00:43:44.080 and glorified
00:43:45.020 in heaven
00:43:46.060 on earth
00:43:47.200 and under the earth
00:43:48.400 by all the creatures
00:43:50.060 of God
00:43:50.600 by the sacred heart
00:43:51.980 of our Lord Jesus Christ
00:43:53.280 in the most holy
00:43:53.940 sacrament
00:43:54.440 of the altar.
00:43:55.860 Amen.
00:43:57.640 My friends
00:43:58.540 I've laid bare
00:43:59.560 the crisis for you.
00:44:00.940 We've seen
00:44:01.420 the parallels
00:44:02.020 between America
00:44:02.940 under Biden
00:44:03.780 and the Catholic Church
00:44:04.680 under Francis
00:44:05.340 it's a war
00:44:07.000 a war against
00:44:07.860 the truth
00:44:08.260 a persecution
00:44:08.820 of the faithful
00:44:09.640 and a betrayal
00:44:10.520 of the very foundations
00:44:11.660 that made America
00:44:13.400 great
00:44:13.840 and that is
00:44:15.480 the church itself.
00:44:17.320 But it's not a time
00:44:18.420 for despair
00:44:19.080 it's a time
00:44:21.000 for action
00:44:21.540 we know
00:44:23.320 full well
00:44:24.320 that the victory
00:44:26.740 is already won
00:44:27.360 in Christ
00:44:27.820 the gates of hell
00:44:29.040 will not prevail.
00:44:30.920 It might seem
00:44:31.500 like it
00:44:31.900 Jesus actually
00:44:32.960 warned us
00:44:33.380 he said
00:44:33.660 when I return
00:44:34.280 will I find faith
00:44:35.220 but
00:44:37.220 America's waking up
00:44:38.940 the counter-revolution
00:44:39.820 has begun
00:44:40.340 but we must not
00:44:42.840 stop at politics.
00:44:45.660 The counter-revolution
00:44:46.400 in the church
00:44:47.140 will actually make
00:44:48.980 the last seven years
00:44:50.700 or excuse me
00:44:51.560 seven weeks
00:44:52.280 it seems like
00:44:53.260 it was seven years
00:44:53.740 but the counter-revolution
00:44:55.400 coming in the church
00:44:56.300 will make the last
00:44:57.800 seven weeks
00:44:58.340 in America
00:44:58.840 pale in comparison.
00:44:59.960 it will be
00:45:01.820 the greatest
00:45:02.540 turnaround
00:45:03.160 the church
00:45:04.540 has ever seen.
00:45:07.280 My prayer
00:45:08.120 isn't that my children
00:45:09.320 will live to see it
00:45:10.480 my prayer
00:45:11.000 is that I
00:45:11.940 and all of you
00:45:12.840 will live to see it.
00:45:14.840 The true battle
00:45:15.400 is spiritual
00:45:15.980 it does begin
00:45:17.540 with us
00:45:18.020 it is for us
00:45:20.160 we've seen
00:45:21.920 that we get
00:45:22.320 the leaders we deserve
00:45:23.240 and if the church
00:45:24.640 is in crisis
00:45:25.280 if wicked men
00:45:26.540 rule
00:45:26.800 if the faithful
00:45:27.360 are persecuted
00:45:28.000 is because we
00:45:29.280 have not been
00:45:29.900 the saints
00:45:30.620 that God
00:45:32.480 is calling
00:45:33.040 each of you
00:45:34.700 and me
00:45:35.900 to be.
00:45:37.560 It's not waiting
00:45:38.200 for another election
00:45:39.000 it's not hoping
00:45:39.820 that some cardinal
00:45:40.900 will finally challenge
00:45:42.040 the Vatican
00:45:42.560 it's not mere
00:45:44.180 outrage.
00:45:46.280 Hear the words
00:45:47.000 from Fulton J. Sheen
00:45:47.960 who's going to
00:45:48.960 save our church
00:45:49.880 not our bishops
00:45:51.380 not our priests
00:45:52.520 and religious
00:45:53.020 it's up to you
00:45:54.640 the people
00:45:55.200 you have the minds
00:45:56.760 the eyes
00:45:57.540 the ears
00:45:58.280 to save the church.
00:46:01.020 We must be
00:46:01.660 as Bishop Strickland
00:46:03.120 said
00:46:03.480 first century Christians
00:46:04.900 in a 21st century world
00:46:06.380 we must pray
00:46:07.560 like the apostles
00:46:08.380 with mystical union
00:46:09.500 with Christ
00:46:10.060 we must live
00:46:11.160 the faith boldly
00:46:12.200 without compromise
00:46:13.040 offering ourselves
00:46:15.080 each and every day
00:46:16.860 totally
00:46:18.000 we must fight
00:46:19.540 for the truth
00:46:20.140 knowing that the church
00:46:21.400 is Christ's
00:46:22.220 and he will never
00:46:23.300 abandon his church.
00:46:26.120 The Holy Face
00:46:26.880 devotion was given
00:46:27.820 by Christ himself
00:46:28.760 to combat communism
00:46:30.120 and atheism
00:46:30.820 and they are
00:46:32.320 the very evils
00:46:33.260 infecting both our church
00:46:35.220 and our world
00:46:35.920 and if we want to
00:46:37.160 defeat the darkness
00:46:38.000 we must turn
00:46:39.960 to Christ's face.
00:46:42.380 So I leave you with
00:46:43.860 turn your eyes
00:46:46.240 upon Jesus
00:46:46.840 look full
00:46:48.960 in his wonderful faith
00:46:50.900 and the things
00:46:52.620 of this earth
00:46:53.320 will grow strangely dim
00:46:54.980 in the light
00:46:56.380 of his glory
00:46:57.160 and grace.
00:46:58.720 Let us commit today
00:47:00.200 to prayer
00:47:01.540 to sacrifice
00:47:02.340 and action
00:47:02.920 let's make
00:47:04.240 the church
00:47:05.200 great again.
00:47:07.100 Let's make
00:47:07.860 Christ the king again.
00:47:11.020 Pius XI
00:47:11.660 that pope
00:47:12.420 that you saw
00:47:12.920 quoted there
00:47:13.460 in his 1925
00:47:14.960 encyclical
00:47:15.560 Quas Primas
00:47:16.200 said
00:47:16.980 in fact
00:47:18.140 he prophesied
00:47:18.960 when once
00:47:20.740 men recognize
00:47:21.740 both in private
00:47:22.860 and in public life
00:47:24.780 that Christ
00:47:25.380 is king
00:47:25.960 society
00:47:27.180 will at last
00:47:28.080 receive the great
00:47:28.860 blessings
00:47:29.380 of real liberty
00:47:30.920 well-ordered
00:47:32.180 discipline
00:47:32.620 peace
00:47:33.180 and harmony.
00:47:34.800 Thank God bless you
00:47:35.380 my friends.
00:47:36.840 May he strengthen you
00:47:37.540 for this battle
00:47:38.180 and may we
00:47:39.780 turn to Christ
00:47:41.200 so that we can
00:47:41.940 make the church
00:47:42.660 great again.
00:47:43.780 Hi everyone
00:47:56.760 this is Father James
00:47:57.660 Altman
00:47:57.920 for LifeSite News
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