The John-Henry Westen Show - August 09, 2023


These Are The Bishops You Need to Be Warned About

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Pope Francis Saint John Eudes Theodore McCarrick Cardinal Gregory Robert McElroy Cardinal Burke James Martin Cardinal Amarco Manuel Alves Aguer Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen Archbishop John Wester Bishop Joseph R. Coppaz Bishop Edward Weisenberger Bishop Ricardo Ramirez John Claude Hollerich Bishop Dennis Madden Anthony Taylor John P. Dolan John Paul II Archbishop Fernandez Cardinal Fernandez and 19 more
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In this episode, John Henry Weston, the co-founder of Life Site News, takes a look at some of the most concerning cardinals and bishops in the United States and the Vatican, and why it s time for us to stand up for our children.

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00:00:00.000 Dear Friends in Christ, I'm John Henry Weston, the co-founder of LifeSite News, and I'm no
00:00:04.200 theologian, but I am a reporter who's covered the Church in America and the Vatican and around
00:00:08.380 the world for more than 25 years. I'm also the father of eight children, and the corruption
00:00:13.120 in the Church has harmed my own family and all of our families. So it's time for us to stand up
00:00:19.400 for our children.
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00:01:12.860 So I'm going to give you a rundown of some of the most concerning cardinals and bishops
00:01:17.020 in the United States and also in the Vatican. You know, as the church goes, so goes the
00:01:22.220 world. God tells us in the scriptures over and over that it is us, it is his own people
00:01:27.760 who garner the blessings for their nations, and hence the curses as well. If you read in
00:01:32.320 2 Chronicles 7, 14,
00:01:33.680 If my people who are called by my name shall humble themselves and pray and seek my face
00:01:39.880 and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin
00:01:44.300 and will heal their land. If you read again from Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, he's the one
00:01:52.360 who said, it's we the faithful, not the bishops, who will be called to save the church. In fact,
00:01:57.220 he said this, and I quote, who's going to save our church? It's not our bishops, it's not
00:02:02.620 our priests, and it's not the religious. It's up to you, the people. You have the minds,
00:02:07.880 the eyes, and the ears to save the church. Your mission is to see that priests act like
00:02:12.720 priests, your bishops act like bishops, and the religious act like religious, end quote.
00:02:18.280 And we have to do that not with hatred for these consecrated men who are sometimes doing 1.00
00:02:26.620 evil things and leading our children astray. We must love them nonetheless, love them enough
00:02:32.040 to correct them and call them out for the damage that they are causing the church, our children,
00:02:38.000 but ultimately themselves. They are inviting hellfire on themselves, and we don't want that
00:02:44.700 for anyone. Our Lord's vengeance against unfaithful shepherds is spelled out graphically in the
00:02:50.780 scriptures. In Matthew 18.6, Jesus says, if anyone causes one of these little ones to stumble, those
00:02:56.680 who believe in me, to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung about their
00:03:03.080 neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea. And here's the warning to the shepherds of the church
00:03:09.740 from Ezekiel 33. So you, mortal, I have made a sentinel for the house of Israel. Whenever you 0.99
00:03:18.180 hear a word from my mouth, you shall give them a warning from me. If I say to the wicked, O wicked
00:03:25.260 ones, you shall surely die, and you do not speak to warn the wicked to turn from their ways, the wicked 0.98
00:03:32.080 shall die in their iniquity, but their blood I will require at your hand. But if you warn the wicked to 0.95
00:03:39.660 turn from their ways, and they do not turn from their wicked ways, the wicked shall die in their
00:03:44.540 iniquity, but you will have saved your life. So we must know that these men, we must know who they
00:03:54.540 are, because we need to. We need to know for our own protection for our children. We must call them
00:04:00.540 out by name. We must pray and actually fast for their conversions.
00:04:07.660 You know that here on LifeSite, we love to tell amazing stories. There are a few so heroic and
00:04:14.800 amazing as the story we're about to tell you that's coming soon. You got to watch this.
00:04:20.040 When I was in seminary, I was reading a book by Henry Nowen. He talked about a nuclear man,
00:04:28.440 you know, and people who grew up in the 1980s were kind of formed by that immediate and constant
00:04:34.680 threat of nuclear annihilation. My generation has grown up, you know, under the specter of priestly
00:04:43.720 sexual abuse. I think that for many of us, that has also been all-encompassing. You know, I mean,
00:04:54.520 I entered the seminary in January of 2004, and it's basically been there for me from the beginning.
00:05:04.440 One priest's sacrifice for many priestly sins. The story of Father John Hollowell.
00:05:14.600 Coming soon from LifeSite News.
00:05:19.720 I don't have the time here for a lengthy list, so I'm just going to give you a couple handfuls.
00:05:24.360 Let's start in America. Let's start with Cardinal Blaise Cupich, the Archbishop of Chicago.
00:05:29.480 He was involved in clergy sexual abuse cover-up. He permits communion for illicitly remarried Catholics 0.98
00:05:35.160 and for homosexual couples. He removed a Chicago priest after he burned a homosexual pride flag. 0.62
00:05:40.600 He instructed priests not to pray outside abortion clinics with 40 days for life. He locked the
00:05:45.960 Catholics out of church on Good Friday in protest of the traditional Latin mass.
00:05:51.080 Then there's Cardinal Joseph Tobin. He's now in the Vatican, but he's from America,
00:05:55.960 and he was the Bishop of Newark. He was the former Superior General of the Redemptorist Fathers,
00:06:01.160 and he expressed support for women cardinals. He allowed LGBT pride masses in his diocese. He
00:06:07.400 welcomed LGBT pilgrimages as one of his first acts when he was in Newark, where Catholics were
00:06:14.040 married to same-sex spouses. They were invited to participate in the Sacrament of Holy Communion.
00:06:20.120 He hired an avowed homosexual activist as his senior associate for operations, and he housed an Italian
00:06:26.840 actor in his rectory around the same time that he infamously tweeted Nighty Night Baby by accident. 0.61
00:06:34.760 And he resists Catholic teaching about homosexuality. He calls it unfortunate. He is a huge promoter of 1.00
00:06:42.200 Joe Biden and said that Catholics could vote for Biden in good conscience. You know, it goes on and on.
00:06:48.520 Well, let's move on to Cardinal Wilton Gregory of Washington DC. So, Wilton Gregory has a background
00:06:55.400 checkered with sexual abuse connections and years of pro-homosexual advocacy. He was particularly close to
00:07:02.920 serial sexual abuser Theodore McCarrick, a defrocked predecessor of Cardinal Gregory in Washington.
00:07:08.920 As the head of the USCCB in 2004, Gregory, along with McCarrick, suppressed a Vatican memo stating
00:07:14.440 that pro-abortion politicians should be denied communion. So, he was held in contempt of court.
00:07:20.440 This is Cardinal Gregory. He was held in contempt of court for not releasing records of a priest accused
00:07:25.400 of sexual abuse and later held back on other priests' names. He reinstated a priest after
00:07:32.760 a homosexual affair. And Cardinal Gregory allowed a different priest, his spiritual guide, for abuse 0.68
00:07:41.960 victims to march in an LGBT pride parade and attend homosexual clubs. The stuff goes on and on. It just
00:07:50.360 gets really gross. Well, let's take a look at new Cardinal Robert McElroy. Robert McElroy of San Diego,
00:07:59.240 also a Jesuit bishop and appointee of Pope Francis, of course, he wants to change their teaching that
00:08:05.560 homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered. He celebrates LGBT-themed mass events. And he gave 1.00
00:08:11.320 the keynote address at the 2018 AUSCP conference, which is a dissident priests' conference.
00:08:18.040 He downplayed the gravity of abortion on numerous occasions. And he's cracked down on at least one
00:08:27.080 faithful priest who forcefully condemned abortion and left-wing policies.
00:08:33.160 He goes on and on in every direction. But there's a lot to learn and a lot to know. In fact, let me just
00:08:40.520 give you quickly this list. This is a list of bishops who outed themselves as supporting an LGBT
00:08:47.320 group's outreach to youth in 2021. This list is instructive because if this is one of your bishops,
00:08:53.960 you should know it's a problem. And if any of your children are in dioceses where these bishops are,
00:08:59.960 look out. Here's the list. Archbishop John C. Wester, Bishop Stephen Beigler, Bishop John P. Dolan,
00:09:07.800 Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, Bishop Joseph R. Coppaz, Bishop Dennis Madden, Bishop Ricardo Ramirez,
00:09:14.680 Bishop John Stowe, Bishop Anthony B. Taylor, Bishop Edward Weisenberger.
00:09:20.920 So the reality of unfaithful bishops is not restricted to America. Remember that in Germany,
00:09:26.200 there was a vote among bishops for blessing of homosexual unions. It was 38 to 8. That's 38 in
00:09:31.560 favor with 8 opposed with 11 abstentions. The vast majority are heretical in Germany
00:09:37.400 or at least not willing to oppose heresy. But let's have a closer look at some of the key cardinals
00:09:43.000 whose conversions we need to offer prayers and sacrifices for. There's Cardinal Victor Fernandez.
00:09:49.080 He's just been appointed by Pope Francis, the new prefect of the dicastery for the Doctrine of
00:09:53.960 Faith, and he's set to assume this new role in mid-September. His 1995 erotic book is called
00:10:01.800 Heal Me With Your Mouth, The Art of Kissing. He argued the use of some condoms could,
00:10:08.600 in some circumstances, be a greater good, and he suggested a future possibly allowing homosexual 0.99
00:10:14.760 blessings and outlined his support for homosexual blessings themselves. If they were not given in a 0.93
00:10:19.800 way, of course, that does not cause that kind of confusion. He publicly defended an influential priest
00:10:26.680 of the archdiocese where he was in the wake of resurfaced child sexual abuse allegations dating back
00:10:32.840 to 2008. He actually went on to concelebrate mass with that priest in March of 2019 as the priest was
00:10:39.800 under fresh criminal scrutiny, and that priest has since committed suicide in that same year of 2019,
00:10:47.560 hours after a judge issued an order for his arrest. In fact, Cardinal Muller, the former head of the
00:10:53.800 Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith, revealed that there is a red flag file on Archbishop
00:11:00.360 Fernandez's file, a red flag on the file, dating back to more than a decade. And he raises this after
00:11:09.320 he's been named as a replacement for Cardinal Muller. It's just unbelievable. So there's so much more I could
00:11:17.880 tell you about Cardinal Fernandez, but we'll have to skip that. Let's go on to Cardinal Bishop Stephen
00:11:25.000 Chao, also a Jesuit of the Diocese of Hong Kong. Now it's interesting because this is a cardinal who
00:11:31.400 is now in Hong Kong, totally supports the scandalous Vatican-China deal. He's also gone on record as
00:11:37.800 looking forward to the day that the Catholic Church might ordain women to the diaconate or the priesthood.
00:11:42.520 These are things not possible in the church, but nonetheless, there they are. There's also
00:11:48.920 Cardinal Amarco Manuel Alves Aguer. He's the Auxiliary Bishop of Lisbon and the organizer of the
00:11:58.760 2023 World Youth Day, which is just about to hit us right now. In a recent interview, he said, and I
00:12:05.240 quote, we don't want to convert people to Christ or to the Catholic Church or anything like that,
00:12:11.240 end quote. What in the world is he doing in the church, let alone leading World Youth Day?
00:12:18.360 Then there's Cardinal Hollerich, John Claude Hollerich, the Jesuit Archbishop of Luxembourg,
00:12:24.680 who voiced his belief that the church's position viewing homosexual relationships is wrong.
00:12:28.600 He was actually made the Relator General of the Synod on Synodality, which is going on in Rome this
00:12:35.240 October. Well, he is a prominent pro-LGBT cardinal who has previously claimed that he's in full
00:12:44.760 agreement with Pope Francis on opposing the Catholic teaching on homosexuality. He revealed that his
00:12:53.000 Diocese of Luxembourg, a woman is in charge of all formation in the diocese, he said, and he
00:12:59.640 suggested that the Catholic Church should open its door to female priesthood. He argued that when the
00:13:04.760 church teaching was made, there was no concept of homosexuality. And he said that, of course, 1.00
00:13:10.360 in regard to legalizing or allowing for it in the church. Even the document by John Paul II disallowing
00:13:19.800 for homosexuals as priests, he said it could be changed. Then there's Cardinal Joseph de Kessel.
00:13:25.560 Now he's a retired Archbishop in Brussels, so why would we be mentioning him? Well, Pope Francis
00:13:33.320 has made him one of the cardinals of his own pick inside the Synod on Synodality. And he's notorious.
00:13:39.320 He signed and approved a document from his fellow Belgian bishops approving for homosexual blessings. 0.71
00:13:45.960 And he has told an LGBT group that he met privately with that he finds it acceptable for gays and 0.92
00:13:53.000 lesbians to live out their sexual desires, according to the Belgian magazine Zizo Online. He's made a 1.00
00:13:59.320 number of statements favorable to communion for homosexual couples as well. And finally,
00:14:04.040 let me conclude with Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, because he is actually Papabile. He's from Bologna and Papabile
00:14:12.200 means he's one of the candidates, one of the likely candidates for Pope. And according to Father
00:14:17.000 James Martin, he's a great supporter of LGBT Catholics and wrote a foreword to the Italian
00:14:23.080 version of Father James Martin's book called Building a Bridge. Totally unbelievable. So I have
00:14:30.120 to stop there because there just isn't enough time for more, but you get the picture. It's indeed a mess.
00:14:35.160 But nonetheless, the Lord remains in charge. In the end, the Immaculate Heart will triumph.
00:14:40.200 And do you know what this is? This is actually part of the chastisement already for the infidelity
00:14:47.480 of the faithful who should have been doing much more to pay attention to our Lord,
00:14:51.080 his commandments and love for him and the Holy Eucharist.
00:14:55.960 Take a look at this. This is Cardinal Burke talking in 2017 about demonic forces entering the church
00:15:02.840 at that time in 2017. Hard to believe that so long ago. This was given at Rome Life Forum,
00:15:07.880 a conference that LifeCite has been running since 2014, actually. Do you know that we're running
00:15:13.240 another one this year, October 31st and November 1st? That is right at the end of this horrific
00:15:20.840 synod on synodality. October 31st, November 1st, 2023. Come join us in Rome. Go to RomeLifeForum.com
00:15:29.960 for more information. Watch Cardinal Burke give this snippet on demonic forces entering into the
00:15:35.720 Vatican from his talk at Rome Life Forum in 2017. It seems clear from the most respected studies of
00:15:44.440 the apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima that it has to do with the diabolical forces unleashed upon the
00:15:51.400 world in the world in our time and entering into the very life of the church. For the recovery of peace
00:15:58.040 will be a gift from heaven, but it is not properly speaking the triumph of the Immaculate Heart of
00:16:05.080 Mary. Her victory is of another order, supernatural and then temporal by addition. It will first be
00:16:14.120 the victory of the faith which will put an end to the time of apostasy and the great shortcomings of
00:16:21.880 the church's pastors.
00:16:26.440 Here is what Saint John Eudes wrote in his book, The Priest, His Dignity and Obligations. He said the
00:16:33.480 most evident mark of God's anger and the most terrible castigation he can inflict upon the world
00:16:39.880 are manifested when he permits his people to fall into the hands of clergy who are priests more in
00:16:46.280 name than in deed, priests who practice the cruelty of ravening wolves rather than charity and affection
00:16:53.160 of devoted shepherds. Saint John Eudes continued, When God permits such things, it is a very positive
00:17:01.160 proof that he is thoroughly angry with his people and is visiting his most dreadful anger upon them.
00:17:08.600 That is why he cries unceasingly to Christians, Return, O ye revolting children, and I will give 1.00
00:17:14.200 you pastors according to my own heart. Thus irregularities in the lives of priests constitute 0.82
00:17:20.360 a scourge upon the people in consequence of sin. Those are quotes from Saint John Eudes.
00:17:25.480 So it's time. It's time for us to step up our prayers, especially fasting and work to cleanse his
00:17:30.600 church, which will lead to a blessing on our whole land. We know it's coming. The triumph of the
00:17:36.360 Immaculate Heart is promised and awaits our yes to live the lives as she did, completely in,
00:17:41.880 with, and through Jesus Christ our Savior. May God bless you.
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