The John-Henry Westen Show - August 14, 2026


This Air Force Colonel, PhD Chemist & Pro-Life Champion Is Here to Kick You Into High Gear

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true femininity obedience in life
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John-Henry Westen
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Pat Castle John Henry Patrick McCaskey Francisco Marto Sister Lucia Peter Angie Paige
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00:00:00 This absurdity that's going on culturally with muddying identity and making people think that
00:00:06 they can choose their identity and be the sex that they want to be. You were assigned it.
00:00:12 And guess what? Things then click forward, forward, always forward, all the way to heaven.
00:00:21 Hey, my friends, welcome to the John Henry Weston Show. I have for you someone very special,
00:00:26 one of my great friends, and probably yours as well. He's a real hero in the pro-life movement.
00:00:31 His name is Dr. Pat Castle, Colonel Pat Castle. He is, in addition to being a fighter for America,
00:00:39 a soldier, a decorated soldier, he's also the founder of a massive pro-life group known as
00:00:44 Life Runners. He runs everywhere, including in Morocco, proclaiming Christ, which, well,
00:00:51 we'll get into that. And he's never shy about his faith. It's all about Christ. It's about
00:00:57 Christ's truth. It's about pro-life. And you're going to learn some fascinating things today.
00:01:03 Actually, he's going to talk to us as well about what true femininity really is. Pat,
00:01:10 thank you so much for joining us. You bet. Hey, God morning, God afternoon,
00:01:14 God evening. Wherever people are on the planet and whatever time of day, it's all God's time.
00:01:19 so here we are amen to that let's begin as we always do with the sign of the cross
00:01:24 in the name of the father and of the son and of the holy ghost amen you have decided to
00:01:32 enter into a conversation that's very controversial um when you put across to me earlier that um
00:01:39 you'd be open to speaking on true femininity well that's uh that's one of those topics that's
00:01:44 It's kind of foreboding. In a lot of places, even from our pulpit, when people talk about
00:01:51 even abortion or the LGBT thing, it's even more rare to hear about talk of true femininity. 0.99
00:02:01 It's one of the great taboos. So much so that when today they ask for a definition of what a 0.74
00:02:07 woman is, nobody's willing to venture a guess or statement as to what that might be. So we'd love
00:02:14 to hear you out on your views on true femininity. Well, to begin it, I remember as a cadet at the
00:02:21 Air Force Academy in 1989, sitting in the barbershop, getting ready to get my hair nicely
00:02:28 in rags. And I looked over and there was a magazine, Time magazine, and it said on the cover,
00:02:35 it's proven men and women are different i just remember thinking wow i wonder what went into
00:02:47 that study well for my study i grew up with three brothers and i knew with just you know my mom's
00:02:54 femininity in an incredible example of you know true femininity she did a wonderful job raising 1.00
00:03:01 and four boys, that she was different. I have two daughters, and my wife, me, clearly, 0.93
00:03:10 I see the differences. But it is absurd where we've come, and praise God that there's a lot
00:03:19 of people now gaining confidence, confide, with faith, to realize that we're all in Christ for
00:03:27 pro-life, and in that is our true identity. And we need to celebrate, acknowledge, and just be
00:03:35 grateful for the differences between male and female. Hey, my friends, I just heard about a
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00:04:45 What to you are the distortions that have played out for the last hundred years,
00:04:52 but particularly today? How do we come back to the truth?
00:04:56 Well, it starts with the lie. The lie is that you can do anything and everything that you want to
00:05:02 do. It's just, I'm a scientist. My PhD is in nano analytical chemistry. I taught biochemistry
00:05:09 at the United States Air Force Academy.
00:05:12 It's not true.
00:05:13 You can't have it all.
00:05:16 You can't do everything.
00:05:19 Life is about, one, your identity and your true nature and your mission.
00:05:25 I mean, we won't talk about biology, but how about a little theology?
00:05:28 I mean, certainly in our theology, we can see that God has a very intentional purpose
00:05:36 for each of us.
00:05:37 I mean, the book of Jeremiah, you know, you think about the life runner's jersey with the Trinity on the front, you know, Jeremiah 1.5, this little baby onesie and the back also Jeremiah 1.5.
00:05:48 But in that book of Jeremiah, do you remember God was talking to a young teenage boy, Jeremiah?
00:05:56 And you remember the big line from Jeremiah 1.5 was, Jeremiah, like basically, if you read the whole chapter, he was arguing with God.
00:06:06 He was like, Jeremiah, like, stop arguing with me.
00:06:09 I knew you even before you were in your mother's womb.
00:06:13 So there's that's just God's fingerprints that there is purpose and mission for all of us.
00:06:20 And and we've got to I mean, this talk about a swear word in our culture, be obedient to our calling, be obedient to each mission for all, you know, wherever we're at seven billion plus people on the planet.
00:06:35 Yeah, God can handle it.
00:06:37 You know, God's math, this is not a problem.
00:06:39 When we think about what we can do with numbers from number of cells and biology to everything
00:06:46 from engineering with building a road to the number of particulates, I mean, God is no
00:06:51 problem with 7 billion missions and purposes and blessing them and anointing them.
00:06:59 I mean, come on, God doesn't have a problem with problems.
00:07:01 We limit God.
00:07:02 So there's just some kind of warm-up thoughts when people are listening.
00:07:07 Why do we have to say this krigma, the basic proclamation of the gospel, or in this case,
00:07:12 the basic proclamation of God as creator in our identity?
00:07:17 Why do we need to do this?
00:07:18 Because from an apologetic standpoint, from an argument standpoint, you've got to start
00:07:23 with definitions.
00:07:25 You've got to start with proofs.
00:07:26 You've got to start with what we know.
00:07:28 And there's a lot of what we know from a theology and biology standpoint.
00:07:32 And John Henry, when you have a conversation with real definitions and what we really know, guess what?
00:07:39 This absurdity that's going on culturally with muddying identity and making people think that they can choose their identity and be the sex that they want to be.
00:07:50 You are assigned it.
00:07:52 You have a mission.
00:07:54 You need to be obedient to your calling.
00:07:56 You need to joyfully live out that beautiful calling.
00:07:59 And guess what?
00:08:00 things then click forward forward always forward all the way to heaven okay so i'm gonna challenge
00:08:09 you now because you used a word that's probably the focal point of the whole entire debate it
00:08:15 stems back over 100 years but actually even back to the beginning of the creation of the world
00:08:22 because that very o word that you used is the very one satan hated because he said originally
00:08:30 I will not serve. And that was his great cry. I will not obey. I will not serve God.
00:08:37 And it's interesting because that then becomes the pivotal argument, the pivotal point in the
00:08:43 turning of man against woman in the modern day. Because the scripture is super clear about the
00:08:51 order in the family. And it's challenging. It's challenging as anything can be nowadays.
00:08:57 is everybody, every person is supposed to be absolutely obedient to our Lord. There's no
00:09:04 question there. But then God puts into the world a hierarchy. And we see it very easily in the
00:09:12 smallest unit of society, and that's in the family, where wife is called to be obedient to serve her 0.80
00:09:19 husband. And the children are called to be obedient to their parents. And according to the scriptures, 0.94
00:09:25 this is the case. It's not making it up. That's what it actually says in the Holy Bible that
00:09:32 we're supposed to hear is the Word of God. It's a lot. However, some reject this today.
00:09:41 In fact, some can't even hear the Word because it basically, it's like it doesn't exist.
00:09:47 When you're talking about a job, what your job is, you have to listen to, you have to adhere to
00:09:55 what your boss says, there's not any question of the same thing. In fact, it's even more the case
00:10:02 for those in your former profession, in the military, in the Air Force, in the Army. So
00:10:08 there, you're a soldier. There's no question of obedience to your commanding officer.
00:10:15 So I'm wondering, where is that disconnect today from where we see it in the workplace,
00:10:21 We see it in the military, in the army.
00:10:24 But how is it that the God-ordained, scripture-driven order in the family, that hierarchy he established
00:10:31 there is so rejected?
00:10:34 For the culture to digest it, you need to start with the end.
00:10:40 You need to start with the end.
00:10:41 It goes like this with the O word, the obedience word, which has become such a swear word culturally.
00:10:47 The end looks like this.
00:10:48 the end do you desire to be happy yes i do oh great would you like to be happy forever oh great
00:10:58 well guess what in obedience when you have the freedom to do what you ought to do so there's
00:11:06 god's gift of freedom and in that freedom we choose god no god life or death good or evil
00:11:14 But in that choice, when you choose God, when you choose life, when you choose good, when you're obedient to those higher things, those callings that you know are the right answer, the better answer, ultimately, then guess what?
00:11:34 That alignment, that order alignment also comes to those gifts of the Spirit.
00:11:38 Peace, joy, enjoyment, fulfillment, purpose, mission, all these beautiful things that
00:11:50 someone's life is amplified when it's in the will of God.
00:11:55 And so it's worth it.
00:11:57 Give me one example from your life where you had to obey, and while it was uncomfortable
00:12:04 and painful, it ended up in joy, because you followed the will of the Lord.
00:12:09 Because I think that's one of the missing points as you're saying this conceptually.
00:12:15 We can see it.
00:12:16 Yep.
00:12:16 And I'm supposed to obey God, and it will enrich my life.
00:12:20 And he's set up the world in his order.
00:12:23 And I might not understand it.
00:12:26 I might not like it, but I'm going to do it because I love Him. And I know it's good for me
00:12:30 in some theoretical sense. But do you have an example from your own life where it's a real
00:12:37 thing experientially as well? Do you follow this prompting of the Holy Spirit and step forward
00:12:46 in faith? And do you share something very odd, weird, an encounter with a dead saint by the name
00:12:57 of Padre Pio, whose that encounter is, you know, 20-year anniversary is the 19th of August of this
00:13:04 year. And so, yeah, how about it? So I had a decision to make. Do I share that very odd
00:13:16 encounter with a dead saint in a secular world? Those encounters, I was still a commander in the
00:13:25 Air Force. I was a professor at the Air Force Academy. How do you communicate that when that
00:13:32 gets out. So there was an obedience in that. There was an obedience to this, you know, if it's odd,
00:13:40 it's God. Oh, this is going to be kind of weird. But his ways are above our ways. Talking about
00:13:46 faith sometimes, especially today, can be couched as odd or weird. And we need to fight for what it
00:13:55 really is. And it's normal. It may be uncommon and getting less common culturally, but it's
00:14:01 actually normal to worship. It's normal to acknowledge the creator of everything, the
00:14:11 giver of all things, the giver of life. That's actually normal and good. And so to make that
00:14:19 normal again, to make it common, sorry, again, we need to talk about it. And so there was an
00:14:25 obedience and deep breath talking to your neighbors about such things like conversations
00:14:31 with dead saints, or praying the rosary, you know, St. Padre Pio, bring me my weapon,
00:14:37 or wearing a shirt out your front door that says, remember the unborn on the back and
00:14:43 the trendy on the front.
00:14:45 That's not common, but it certainly is normal from a human expression to the creator of
00:14:55 the universe, the giver of life, to worship God, to give praise and gratitude.
00:15:01 So there's an example. We know how that went by going deep breath.
00:15:05 Ooh, I'm going to be obedient. This prompting what started out with one life runner.
00:15:11 Me is now twenty five thousand seven hundred and fifty seven life runners and four thousand and sixty one cities across fifty three nations getting ready to come together and little five K segments coast to coast, border to border and put a cross over America.
00:15:31 again with the Across America Relay for Pro-Life, September 4th to October 25th.
00:15:37 Yeah, it's in one week from now, exactly to the day. So you've got many, many, many thousands of
00:15:45 people crisscrossing, not only America, but all over the world, proclaiming Christ on their t-shirts.
00:15:51 You know, sometimes I think there's a certain, well, there's certain personalities that get
00:15:56 away with it easier. And others are called to stretch more, if you will, to wear such a thing,
00:16:02 to wear a thing that proclaims you're pro-life in an area in your own hometown that's not going to
00:16:10 be all that well accepted, or that you're pro-God, you're Christian in an area that's not going to
00:16:15 be in favor of that, especially not of that proclamation of the Christian gospel. Tell us a
00:16:21 little bit more about the relay coming up. What are the dates again? The dates are September 4th.
00:16:28 I'll be at Star of the Sea Catholic Church in San Francisco with Father Ilo and the academy there,
00:16:38 kindergarten through high school. And we're going to kick off the relay, you know, about 100 of us
00:16:45 students, and Father Ilo, myself, and a name that some people might also recognize, Eva
00:16:52 Montaigne, the co-founder of the Walk for Life West Coast San Francisco, which she invited
00:17:00 to be the keynote speaker this coming January.
00:17:02 So I'll get everyone going, All in Christ for Pro-Life, echoing that in January.
00:17:08 So this is a nice warm-up for that in San Francisco.
00:17:11 And we're going to walk 2.6 miles from Star of the Sea Catholic Church to San Francisco Planned Parenthood with the youth, with an eight-foot Remember the Unborn banner, signs, cheering, joy, piercing the darkness.
00:17:27 I'll get on a plane that day and fly across the country to New York.
00:17:31 And the next morning, join the Witness for Life group with the Sisters of Life that they do the first Saturday of the month.
00:17:38 So I'll join them with mass and benediction rosary in front of an abortion facility there.
00:17:46 And then after that, we will do the first leg from the East Coast, from the abortion
00:17:53 facility in New York City to Times Square.
00:17:55 And that first leg finishes at the Father Duffy statue, a World War I military chaplain,
00:18:02 a statue in the middle of Times Square.
00:18:04 I bet a lot of listeners didn't even know, what?
00:18:06 there's a statue of a catholic priest in the middle of times square
00:18:10 sure is now you know and so we're gonna rally in prayer there in times square with the big
00:18:17 eight foot remember the unborn banner after walking through new york city you can picture
00:18:23 this awesome and we've done this for a number of years and it's always really well received
00:18:29 good boy's like oh that sounds scary and dangerous no it draws the goodness out of the culture it
00:18:35 draws the body of Christ out of the city. People honking and cheering and wow, look at that,
00:18:41 the body of Christ in action. And then on September 12th, we will launch from the University
00:18:49 of Texas at Austin on a football game, home game with 100,000 people. We'll walk the big banner
00:18:58 across the campus. I'm sure one can imagine that's an important witness with 40% of abortions 1.00
00:19:06 happening in that demographic, that college age group. And then we'll finish up on September the
00:19:11 19th. We'll launch the North Arm from Fargo, North Dakota, St. Mary's Cathedral, and we'll walk 2.7
00:19:20 miles from Fargo across the river to Moorhead, Minnesota, to their abortion facility. And that's
00:19:26 always met with resistance in Minnesota. Like the other side, they know we're coming and you can
00:19:32 picture how distorted and sad that other side looks lined up against the goodness of God,
00:19:40 defending life from the moment of conception to eternity. So then that's rolling. And then
00:19:46 about 50 days later, we conclude with homecoming weekend at Benedictine College in Atchison,
00:19:53 kansas and we finish at the abbey there we do a one mile you know the students parents whoever
00:20:02 wants to join in a nice big group of people for the final mile into the abbey at benedicton
00:20:09 college so it's just a beautiful conclusion of our event all in christ for pro-life but that's
00:20:15 the roadmap and people can get on liferunners.org hit the relay link and register and you can do a
00:20:23 5k leg as you mentioned john henry anywhere in the world so you can adopt segments you can either do
00:20:29 them on the course or remotely in your own neighborhood anytime between september 4th
00:20:34 and october 25th and you can register for free with promo code lifer l-i-f-e-r all capitals so
00:20:44 i'd love to have you and your family and friends join in this all in christ for pro-life getting
00:20:49 the message out amplifying this life-saving message because we know 60 percent of post-abortion
00:20:58 women reported that hey if someone would have been there encourage me or there been just an
00:21:04 encouraging sign here's a person a life runner wearing such a shirt that would have been enough
00:21:10 to stop the abortion that little bit of encouragement would have been enough so let's go
00:21:15 help someone have a birthday, let's go spare a mother and a father from abortion, the most
00:21:21 horrific evil imaginable. How do you overcome that initial fear to be seen kneeling on the street,
00:21:29 praying outside of an abortion center, you know, in my hometown where my friends, people at work
00:21:35 are going to see me and stuff like that? You know, God works in moments. Every miracle is
00:21:40 preceded by an act of faith. And those acts of faith often are just moments, a moment of decision
00:21:47 to choose God. You know, whether it's an adult baptism or an adult decided to go through OCIA
00:21:53 and say, I want to be baptized. Whether it's a moment of a young person or an older person
00:21:59 deciding to be confirmed. Guess what? I remember a priest when I said, how long have you been a
00:22:06 priest. And he said, since I got up this morning. And of course, the vocational reality is that each
00:22:12 of us in our vocation, each time we get up in the morning, before we put our feet onto the floor,
00:22:18 we make a decision. Are we going to live out our faith today? And so if it's a matter of living
00:22:23 out our baptism and confirmation, we're born again. John chapter three, verse five, born,
00:22:29 unless you're born again in water and spirit, you will not have life in me. So it's in that,
00:22:34 that it's really a daily decision so to your question john henry when you put on such a shirt
00:22:42 you know with the trinity on the front and this message and decide you're just going to go for a
00:22:48 walk just a walk around the block hey just that walk around the block some young lady some middle
00:22:56 aged lady that has an unexpected pregnancy that's considering abortion that little sign of hope that
00:23:02 little nudge of encouragement that could save her baby from abortion and save her from the regret
00:23:10 of abortion. So when you do that, it's a decision and it's a decision. We have some neat little
00:23:18 fun teamy things with Life Runners, but one of our slogans is God first, life always, teammates
00:23:26 forever. And so if you walk out your front door with such a shirt, you've made a decision. You've
00:23:31 given God that moment, that life-saving, soul-saving, really ripple to eternity,
00:23:38 heaven-choosing moment that you chose God first when you walked out. And then life always,
00:23:44 the message on your back that you're going to encourage life always. And you know that that
00:23:49 then postures you. Gratitude, humility, holiness, that order postures you to receive God and receive
00:23:58 cabin. So LifeSite is very proud to sponsor LifeRunners in the Across America Relay. Now,
00:24:05 why don't you show everybody the LifeSite logo on the side of your shirt there on your sleeve?
00:24:10 I like it. I feel kind of tough, but I'm like, hey, LifeSite.
00:24:14 At LifeSite, we very much admire your courage. You told me recently that you were in a place
00:24:21 walking with not only your t-shirt that proclaims God and pro-life, but you were doing so in a spot
00:24:29 where particularly the Christian message might not be all that welcome. Tell us about that.
00:24:34 Yeah. So I did a mission trip across Morocco, not wearing this baby onesie,
00:24:40 but in the spirit of that, you know, the Life Runners, the classic Life Runners shirt
00:24:47 has the Trinity on the front. And so rolling 240 miles on a bike across Morocco along the Atlantic
00:24:55 Ocean, where there's lots of people along those roadways. And each time you stop for water or a
00:25:05 meal, that's what I was wearing. And so I had some wonderful conversations. One, it's a joyful
00:25:13 witness you know so it's exuberant you know i'm on a bike with a fellow life runner from turkey
00:25:19 and we're wearing our shirts and our bikes are loaded down with our gear so tent sleeping bag
00:25:26 food water so we stand out not just with the trinity but we're not from you know we're not
00:25:33 from around here in many many ways is how we look and so everybody's looking and that's beautiful
00:25:39 You know, we want people to look. And on the back of the shirt, you know, remember the unborn. And for the, you know, a lot of people I'm sure could could read that English. And if they weren't sure, I'm sure they looked it up in this day when everyone's carrying a translator in their hand.
00:25:55 And so we were interesting, and we were very interesting for the five days riding across
00:26:03 Morocco in wonderful conversation.
00:26:05 So the first thing to your setup is just the courage.
00:26:11 And of course, we receive that courage.
00:26:12 We're encouraged by the Holy Spirit, the great helper.
00:26:15 We're sacramentally encouraged.
00:26:17 We're encouraged that we're made in the image of God, that we're a child of God.
00:26:21 we're encouraged that we have a purpose and we believe we have a mission and a vocation
00:26:26 so when you take such a mission on you you're i entered it encouraged and i knew that it's about
00:26:33 as close as i was going to get to hanging out with saint paul and barnabas like on a boat across the
00:26:40 mediterranean or paul and timothy you know walking across asian i knew this is about as close as i 0.97
00:26:48 was going to get in terms of piercing the culture that's worshiping false gods and golden 0.98
00:26:55 calves everywhere you looked. In that culture, when people would say, are you Muslim? They already
00:27:03 knew the answer. I mean, look at the big cross on the front of a shirt. And then I had to take
00:27:07 that deep breath, almost like a moment like Peter, denying God. And it felt that way, John. I'm like,
00:27:14 I'm about to answer a question that could have consequences.
00:27:19 I mean, I'm not far around here.
00:27:21 This isn't safe in a lot of respects, my answer.
00:27:24 And I'd be like, uh-uh.
00:27:27 No.
00:27:29 And I would just smile.
00:27:30 You know, I thought, well, joy is contagious.
00:27:34 It's disarming.
00:27:36 Love is neutralizing.
00:27:38 Love is engaging.
00:27:40 You know, the power of God is love.
00:27:43 that is god and so i just joyfully went no i'm a christian oh and almost everyone it's interesting
00:27:54 because that diffusing joy and generosity was like that's okay and i remember thinking well
00:27:59 yeah it's better than okay it's salvation it's it's a way back it's eternity and little mini
00:28:07 You can imagine whether I had 30 seconds or they sat down for several minutes, I would give a little mini krigma, the basic proclamation of the gospel, a little mini RCIA, OCIA, and think that maybe this is the only time this person has received the gospel personally as I represent Christ.
00:28:32 so it was beautiful those at bats were just so they're different i mean in a lot of ways i mean
00:28:38 just a segue walking out our front door from an evangelization standpoint i mean a lot of people
00:28:45 are it's really no different where they're at in their journey or their relationship with god right
00:28:52 in our own neighborhoods so you don't have to go to morocco to have such evangelization and you know
00:28:57 And we could talk and talk about that, the new evangelization, and really it's a re-evangelization.
00:29:04 When I look at the church in many ways, John Henry, they talk about the new evangelization.
00:29:08 Well, let's call another word, re-evangelizing. 0.82
00:29:12 Like a lot of Christianity is having to be like the krigma again, like sharing the gospel
00:29:19 again, sharing who we are and what God asks each of us to do.
00:29:23 I mean, listen to some of these real general basic things that Christ asks all of us to do.
00:29:29 Repent.
00:29:31 Pick up your cross. 0.83
00:29:34 Liferunners put on our four-ounce t-shirt cross and follow Jesus as we make a cross over America.
00:29:42 That's evangelization, like Christ asked us to do.
00:29:45 What else did he ask us to do?
00:29:46 He said, proclaim the kingdom of God.
00:29:49 Heal the wounded.
00:29:50 It's healing wearing that encouragement.
00:29:53 It's healing having those conversations, bringing people closer to God who's going to deliver that healing as we escort them to that healing.
00:30:03 Really, churches are like spiritual hospitals.
00:30:07 We should be going to church for weekly, daily healing.
00:30:11 We need healing in this world.
00:30:14 And then lastly, deliver people from evil.
00:30:18 And you can do that quite literally in many ways in our day-to-day lives, whether choosing what movies we watch or letting people know, hey, this isn't such a good idea.
00:30:30 You're diverting them.
00:30:32 Someone who's thinking about an abortion and you overhear it in your teacher's lounge and you take the deep breath and go, hey, that's not a good idea.
00:30:44 What?
00:30:45 That's not a good idea and I'll tell you why.
00:30:47 That's delivering people from evil.
00:30:50 These are the things that God asked the multitudes, Jesus asked the multitudes to do.
00:30:54 If you read scripture, we are in the multitudes.
00:30:57 That's us.
00:30:58 That's the body of Christ.
00:30:59 So there's a life runner biking across Morocco, kind of weird.
00:31:06 But then the really awesome opportunities for evangelization.
00:31:12 And it was beautiful and wonderful to evangelize in such a place and plant those seeds.
00:31:18 Pat, you had a stellar career in the Air Force as a teacher, as an instructor, and you reached
00:31:25 a very high level colonel in the Air Force.
00:31:29 It's not like you were an unknown.
00:31:31 You went out on a limb.
00:31:33 You told this story, which people might have gone, oh my gosh, why throw away your whole
00:31:40 career?
00:31:40 But you went out in faith. And it's interesting because rather than being shunted off to the side and ignored for the rest of your life because you just went crazy, the Lord saw to it that he would bless your obedience, your willingness to be foolish in the eyes of this world. 0.97
00:32:01 And you've now achieved a funny status because not only is the organization that you founded up to 25,000 members, plus members right now, into how many different countries?
00:32:13 Over 50 different countries in the world.
00:32:15 It's crazy.
00:32:17 But you also are Hall of Famers.
00:32:20 What is that?
00:32:20 Who knew there was such a thing as an international sports faith Hall of Fame?
00:32:27 So I got a message from Patrick McCaskey.
00:32:34 His family is the ownership family of the Chicago Bears, and this is a ministry that
00:32:40 he does, to let me know that I've been selected to be inducted into the International Sports
00:32:49 Faith Hall of Fame.
00:32:50 And when I went to the Bears headquarters, Chicago Bears headquarters, to receive this,
00:32:57 it was great that Bishop Pabrocki, the national chaplain for Life Runners, was there. He celebrated
00:33:03 Mass before the event. Nice having my mom was also there. My wife Angie, daughter Paige, a brother.
00:33:12 So just to have family there for such a neat thing. But when I gave my words, I acknowledged
00:33:18 that really that induction is for Life Runners. Yeah, I just obediently shared the story of what
00:33:27 god did of what saint padre pio did and people have heard it they've been inspired by it i've
00:33:35 said hey here's a really simple way to help end abortion put on a shirt that says remember the
00:33:43 unborn on the back and the trinity on the front and invited people to go to liferunners.org
00:33:51 hit the join button get our monthly update of encouragement order a shirt or a jacket and wear
00:33:57 your witness to help end abortion to encourage mothers to choose life so that simple simple
00:34:05 you know call i mean it's simple in a lot of ways i was obedient to it and look what god did
00:34:14 you know look what god did pretty awesome so on behalf of life runners i accepted that induction
00:34:21 and to the International Sports Fake Hall of Fame.
00:34:24 Shows you exactly what God will do with you
00:34:26 when you're willing to be obedient to him.
00:34:30 So good to be with you, Pat.
00:34:31 Thanks so much for joining us.
00:34:32 God bless you.
00:34:33 God bless you.
00:34:34 And God bless all of you.
00:34:35 I encourage you very much to go check out Lifebrunners
00:34:37 and join them in their Across America Rally.
00:34:40 You'll be doing not only the little ones in the womb,
00:34:45 a great blessing, but yourself as well.
00:34:47 We'll see you next time.
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