The John-Henry Westen Show - April 20, 2021


Under cover of COVID, the Vatican is going haywire


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In only one month, there has been so much insanity coming out of the Vatican that I needed to give you an update to summarize everything all in one spot so that you can see the speed at which things are happening.

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00:00:00.000 Many people wrote me aghast at my last video, noting the scandal that the Pope had a painting
00:00:06.640 placed behind his desk with Christ in the nude ministering to Judas, and that the painting
00:00:12.200 was featured on the cover of the Vatican newspaper and its first three pages dedicated to the
00:00:16.800 possibility of the salvation of Judas.
00:00:18.800 But that's not nearly all.
00:00:20.740 In the last month, we've seen Pope Francis call for a new world order, and more recently
00:00:26.040 global governance.
00:00:26.880 We've seen top cardinals and bishops in the Church demand that the Church bless homosexual 0.96
00:00:31.700 sexual unions, and Pope Francis refuse to correct them.
00:00:35.120 We've seen the Pope reject the title of Our Lady as co-redemptrix, which has been used for 0.57
00:00:39.800 centuries by previous Popes, and we've seen the Pope appoint an openly homosexual man to 0.75
00:00:46.280 the Pope's Commission for the Protection of Minors, and more.
00:00:49.740 Yes, indeed, under the cover of COVID, things have gone absolutely wild in the Vatican.
00:00:55.140 Stay tuned.
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00:01:28.460 Let's begin, as we always do, with the sign of the cross.
00:01:31.160 In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.
00:01:34.520 Amen.
00:01:36.940 In only one month, there has been so much insanity coming out of the Vatican that I needed to give
00:01:42.820 you an update to summarize everything all in one spot, so that you can see the speed at which
00:01:48.640 things are happening.
00:01:49.660 You know, philosophers say that things speed up near the end, and well, if the end is nowhere
00:01:54.320 in sight, the speed and depth of the depravity coming out of the Vatican today is just unbelievable.
00:01:59.440 We just learned last week that the Vatican is hosting a health conference with Anthony
00:02:05.140 Fauci, with vaccine developers, Mormon elders, pro-abortion Chelsea Clinton, population control 0.55
00:02:12.220 advocate Jane Goodall, a New Age activist, a prominent UK Muslim scholar, and a pro-abortion
00:02:18.060 American actress, Cindy Cofford.
00:02:20.540 That is, among their 114 speakers.
00:02:25.260 Check out the report by LifeSite's Michael Haynes for full details on the Vatican's 5th
00:02:29.920 International Health Conference.
00:02:31.380 The conference is entitled, Exploring the Mind, Body, and Soul, How Innovation and Novel
00:02:37.280 Delivery Systems Improve Human Health, and is due to take place May 6th through 8th.
00:02:42.640 In mid-March, we heard the Pope call for a, quote, new world order, and say that wasting
00:02:49.240 the COVID crisis would be worse than the pandemic.
00:02:52.020 It's Vatican News that published an excerpt of the Pope's book-length interview, which
00:02:57.960 is entitled, God and the World to Come, which was in bookstores in Italy on March 15th.
00:03:04.060 Speaking to the Italian journalist Domenico Agasso, with language actually eerie, similar
00:03:09.940 to globalist Klaus Schwab, the Pope called for, and I quote, a new world order, end quote,
00:03:16.500 and he also said that the COVID crisis should not be wasted, saying, and I quote,
00:03:20.880 let us all keep in mind that there is something worse than this crisis, the drama of wasting
00:03:27.460 it.
00:03:28.220 We cannot emerge from a crisis the same as before.
00:03:31.280 We can come out better or we come out worse, end quote.
00:03:35.280 The Pope even linked the theological aspect of salvation to the promotion of a new world
00:03:41.340 order in line with globalist policies, suggesting that the salvation, that salvation was dependent
00:03:47.100 upon their success.
00:03:48.120 And I'll quote it for you.
00:03:48.880 He said, quote, we can no longer blithely accept inequalities and disruptions to the environment.
00:03:55.420 The path to humanity's salvation passes through the creation of a new model of development,
00:04:01.100 which unquestionably focuses on coexistence among peoples in harmony with creation, end quote.
00:04:09.060 The Pope continued that theme this month in a letter to the World Bank and International
00:04:16.220 Monetary Fund for their April 5th to 11th meeting.
00:04:19.980 Pope Francis called for, quote, global governance, end quote, in light of the COVID-19.
00:04:25.720 He said he was actually strongly advocating for universal vaccines and bemoaning the ecological
00:04:31.740 debt, which is owed to, as he said, nature itself.
00:04:35.520 The letter was delivered via Cardinal Peter Turkson, who's the prefect for the Holy See's
00:04:40.860 dicastery for promoting integral human development.
00:04:44.740 On March 12th, Pope Francis forbade the celebration of private masses in St. Peter's Basilica in
00:04:50.560 the Vatican, which has gone on for centuries.
00:04:53.500 Five cardinals condemned this novel measure, including Cardinals Raymond Burke, Gerhard Müller,
00:04:59.780 Walter Brandt Müller, Robert Serra, and Joseph Zen.
00:05:02.720 Also in mid-March, Pope Francis ordered a canonical investigation into the Congregation for Divine
00:05:09.300 Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments, which is largely seen by Vatican insiders as payback
00:05:14.500 for the orthodoxy of Cardinal Robert Serra, who was retired by Pope Francis in February of
00:05:20.380 this year.
00:05:21.460 On March 24th, Pope Francis rejected the Marian title of co-redemptrix, which has been believed
00:05:27.620 and taught in the Church for centuries and used by previous popes and saints.
00:05:31.360 Nevertheless, Pope Francis denounced the teaching, saying that there are no co-redeemers with
00:05:35.800 Christ.
00:05:36.460 He said, I quote,
00:05:37.600 The mother who covers everyone under her mantle. 0.99
00:05:40.120 As a mother, Jesus entrusted us to her as a mother, not as a goddess, not as a co-redemptrix.
00:05:46.620 End quote.
00:05:47.980 Also on March 24th, Pope Francis appointed one Carlos Cruz, an openly homosexual man, to the
00:05:54.660 Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors.
00:05:57.020 Cruz is himself a victim of clerical sexual abuse and was the one who Pope Francis called
00:06:03.120 to come to the Vatican in 2018 for a private meeting, where Cruz reported after the meeting 0.85
00:06:08.360 the Pope affirmed him in his homosexuality. 0.83
00:06:11.280 After the meeting, Cruz made public that Francis told him, and I quote, 0.90
00:06:15.960 That you are gay does not matter. 0.99
00:06:17.860 God made you like that and he loves you like that. 0.97
00:06:20.560 And I do not care.
00:06:22.580 The Pope loves you as you are.
00:06:24.760 You have to be happy with who you are.
00:06:27.280 End quote.
00:06:28.460 Cruz also revealed that Pope Francis told him that Archbishop Vigano was fired from his post
00:06:34.380 as nuncio to the United States for having arranged the meeting of Pope Francis with Kim Davis,
00:06:40.900 the pro-family hero who was an elected county clerk who went to jail rather than having her
00:06:46.940 name go on marriage certificates for homosexual couples. 0.61
00:06:50.660 Speaking to the media after his appointment by the Pope to the Vatican Commission on Abuse
00:06:55.560 of Minors, Cruz took the opportunity to condemn that new Vatican statement opposing the blessing
00:07:01.760 of homosexual couples.
00:07:03.300 He said that the Vatican officials who issued the new statement, quote,
00:07:07.600 are completely in a world of their own away from people and trying to defend the indefensible.
00:07:14.400 End quote.
00:07:15.520 Cruz called for a change in the leadership of the Congregation of the Doctrine of Faith,
00:07:19.880 saying it was undermining efforts by Pope Francis to create a more inclusive church.
00:07:25.800 Which actually brings me to the big item I'd like to focus on in this show,
00:07:30.220 and that is the aftermath of that March 15th document from the Vatican,
00:07:34.880 forbidding clergy from blessing homosexual unions.
00:07:39.180 Pope Francis' closest collaborators let it be known that the Pope was unhappy with the statement,
00:07:45.660 and he seemed to suggest as much in public statements after the document's release.
00:07:51.220 And even Cardinal Burke, when he was asked publicly on EWTN if that could be true,
00:07:58.200 that the Pope was distancing himself from the Vatican's statement,
00:08:01.580 the Cardinal actually said it was not unreasonable.
00:08:07.860 Have a look for yourself.
00:08:10.280 I want to talk for a moment, Your Eminence.
00:08:13.500 America magazine, the Jesuit magazine, reported this week
00:08:16.900 that the Pope may be distancing himself from that CDF statement.
00:08:21.780 They cite Francis' March 21st Angelus address,
00:08:25.580 where he said many people, often without saying so,
00:08:29.440 implicitly would like to see Jesus, to meet him, to know him.
00:08:33.180 It means sowing seeds of love, not with fleeting words,
00:08:37.340 but through concrete, simple, and courageous examples.
00:08:41.160 Not with theoretical condemnations, but with gestures of love.
00:08:45.920 Then the Lord, with his grace, makes us bear fruit,
00:08:48.660 even when the soil is dry due to misunderstandings, difficulty, or persecution,
00:08:53.760 or claims of legalism or clerical moralism.
00:08:58.580 Your Eminence, does this seem like the Pope attempting to distance himself
00:09:03.000 from that statement issued by his own doctrinal office,
00:09:05.800 or is this wishful thinking on the part of progressive Catholics?
00:09:08.660 Well, it's a very difficult statement to interpret with accuracy,
00:09:16.580 but I don't think it's unreasonable to say that he's making a statement like that,
00:09:22.360 especially referring to moralism and to the definition,
00:09:31.700 a juridical definition with regard to a relationship.
00:09:35.280 I don't think it's far-fetched to think that it has something to do
00:09:40.560 with the declaration of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
00:09:48.100 Beyond that, Cardinal Christoph Schaumborn,
00:09:51.520 who Pope Francis claimed to be one of the greatest theologians in the Church,
00:09:56.360 came out slamming the Vatican document as, and I quote,
00:09:59.960 a clear communication error, end quote.
00:10:02.600 And Schaumborn also said that homosexual blessings would not be refused.
00:10:08.220 Schaumborn, who leads the Church in Austria, said, and I quote,
00:10:11.940 if the request for a blessing is sincere,
00:10:16.120 and he added that it's, of course, by a homosexual couple,
00:10:19.340 and that they're seeking a blessing from God for a life path,
00:10:22.960 homosexual or otherwise, quote,
00:10:24.680 then such a blessing will not be refused, end quote.
00:10:30.400 Totally unreal.
00:10:31.540 Now, mayhem erupted all over the Church
00:10:35.540 because the leftists in the Church see that this is their opportunity.
00:10:39.880 The Pope's evidently uncomfortable with the document from the Vatican
00:10:44.360 that it's the same Pope who came out in support of same-sex unions,
00:10:48.460 after all, same-sex civil unions,
00:10:51.040 and Archbishop Coleridge added,
00:10:53.440 a Church which says we can't bless same-sex unions is equally obliged to ask how we might include same-sex couples.
00:11:01.000 Bishop Georg Beitzig of Limburg in Germany,
00:11:05.860 he actually chairs the German Bishop Conference.
00:11:10.120 He said that he was, quote,
00:11:11.500 not happy with the statement from the CDF,
00:11:13.840 suggesting that the teaching will not be followed by the Church in Germany.
00:11:17.960 Here's his full quote.
00:11:19.960 This gives the impression that the theological debate,
00:11:22.940 which is currently being debated in various parts of the Universal Church,
00:11:26.140 including here in Germany,
00:11:27.340 is to be ended as quickly as possible, end quote.
00:11:31.400 Beitzig added that this is not possible at all, quote,
00:11:35.020 because the discussion is intense and with good arguments in many places,
00:11:40.020 and the theological inquiries about pastoral practice today
00:11:43.440 cannot simply be put out of the way with one word of power, end quote.
00:11:49.900 Belgian Bishop Johan Bonny said that he felt, quote,
00:11:54.740 shame for my Church, end quote.
00:11:57.660 He also said,
00:11:58.820 I want to apologize to all for whom this is painful and incomprehensible.
00:12:05.800 The Belgian bishops, as a group, reacted with a statement
00:12:09.940 that they will continue to follow Pope Francis' controversial encyclical Amoris Laetitia
00:12:15.400 when it comes to homosexuals in the Catholic Church.
00:12:19.220 Now get this, the youngest Catholic bishop in Ireland,
00:12:22.520 Bishop Paul Dempsey of Aconry, I think is the name of the diocese,
00:12:27.700 he called the ban a, quote,
00:12:30.340 hurtful response from the Church to people with same-sex orientation,
00:12:34.040 and that was in a March 26 reflection
00:12:36.620 that appeared on the Irish Catholic Bishops' Conference website.
00:12:42.480 Dempsey, who was appointed Bishop of Anchory in January 2020 by Pope Francis,
00:12:48.220 called the language used by the Vatican a problem,
00:12:51.740 and he said, and I quote,
00:12:53.020 the deeper problem arises in the sphere of language.
00:12:56.380 At best, it is experienced as cold and distant,
00:13:00.540 and at worst, hurtful and offensive, end quote.
00:13:04.400 And it's not only coming from cardinals and bishops.
00:13:06.760 Priests, too, have expressed themselves as opposed to the Church's constant teaching on homosexuality.
00:13:11.860 The German newspaper Deutsche Welle reported that about 60 German priests
00:13:16.740 signed a letter stating that they will defy the congregation's teaching
00:13:21.360 and bless homosexual couples anyway.
00:13:23.440 They said, and I quote,
00:13:24.960 in view of the refusal of the congregation of the doctrine of faith to bless homosexual partnerships,
00:13:29.540 we raise our voices and say,
00:13:31.920 we will continue to accompany people who enter into a binding partnership
00:13:36.660 and bless their relationship in the future.
00:13:39.720 We do not refuse a blessing ceremony, end quote.
00:13:42.400 In a similar initiative in Austria, a group of about 350 priests organized by Pastor Helmut Schuller
00:13:50.620 stated in what they called a call to disobedience, too,
00:13:54.960 that they will continue to bless same-sex couples, end quote.
00:13:59.400 Not to be outdone, some priests in America took to their pulpits to denounce the Vatican document,
00:14:04.940 outing themselves as heretics in the process.
00:14:07.040 Clergy from America's first order of Catholic priests, known as the Paulists,
00:14:12.060 openly criticized in their homilies the Vatican's decree that the Church cannot bless homosexual couples.
00:14:17.740 The news actually came to life sight from a great convert from homosexuality, Joseph Schumbra, 0.82
00:14:22.600 who compiled videos of priests from the Missionary Society of St. Paul the Apostle
00:14:26.880 in parishes in New York, Boston, and Los Angeles,
00:14:29.860 openly lambasting the congregation of the doctrine of faith.
00:14:32.940 Here are some of the highlights, or should I say lowlights, from those videos.
00:14:39.720 And if the CDF foolishly thought that just saying no would be the end of the issue,
00:14:46.080 they just don't know us New Yorkers, do they?
00:14:48.920 I have been blessed by so many couples, married and unmarried, straight and gay and lesbian and all in between,
00:14:57.780 who have blessed me in my life by their witness, by their self-giving, and by who they are.
00:15:06.240 The Pope is very clear.
00:15:08.380 Everyone is loved by God.
00:15:10.420 God loves his LGBTQ kids as much as any other kids.
00:15:16.700 Just don't bring home your loved one to me or Mother Church.
00:15:20.040 We're just not ready for that right now.
00:15:21.560 It seemed to be what Pope Francis was saying this week.
00:15:25.480 And it only leads to confusion.
00:15:28.920 Only leads to worry.
00:15:31.440 And to say as a church that those who are not able to be in a heterosexual sacramental marriage
00:15:40.540 must observe mandatory celibacy,
00:15:44.600 we know after a year of lockdowns with COVID-19,
00:15:47.980 that isn't an answer that's going to work either.
00:15:51.560 That's just unreal.
00:15:54.940 And if you're hoping or thinking that Pope Francis will have to deal with it or correct it or bring clarity,
00:16:01.600 we know that that's not the case.
00:16:04.760 Two cardinals already approached the Pope to correct the head of the German Bishop's Conference on the very same question.
00:16:11.720 Edward Penton, one of the best Vatican reporters in the world,
00:16:14.640 reported that Jesuit Cardinal Louis Ladaria, the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith,
00:16:20.380 and Cardinal Kurt Koch, the Swiss president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity,
00:16:27.220 requested that Bishop Georg Beitzig, the chairman of the German Bishop's Conference,
00:16:31.340 come to Rome and be corrected.
00:16:32.620 Remember, Beitzig directly challenged several core teachings regarding not only the blessing of same-sex unions,
00:16:41.260 but also women's ordination to the priesthood and Holy Communion for Protestants.
00:16:46.320 A source told National Catholic Register that Santa Marta said no to the request from the Cardinal asking for Beitzig's correction.
00:16:55.300 Santa Marta, of course, is the Pope's residence,
00:16:57.880 and therefore the word was Pope Francis said no.
00:17:03.260 At least Cardinal Raymond Burke was ready to speak out against one of these bishops spouting heresy.
00:17:11.020 Speaking with Raymond Arroyo on EWTN,
00:17:13.960 Cardinal Burke called out Bishop Bonney for his rejection of the Vatican's refusal to allow for same-sex,
00:17:19.680 blessings for same-sex homosexual couples.
00:17:23.200 Check this out.
00:17:24.100 The bishop, if he's pained by what's declared by the Congregation of the Doctrine and the Faith,
00:17:31.920 then he must examine himself with regard to his own coherence with the Catholic faith,
00:17:38.660 and if he is not holding to the Catholic faith, then he should renounce his office,
00:17:43.820 as to be relieved of his office as diocesan bishop,
00:17:48.440 because this is simply unacceptable.
00:17:54.540 It can't be.
00:17:57.680 So at least someone is standing up for truth, the truth of Christ's Church.
00:18:02.860 And let me close with this.
00:18:04.240 I know in our time it's becoming more and more difficult to identify true Catholics, the true faithful.
00:18:09.460 Well, I came across a most beautiful quote, which was taken from Robert Mader's book, Cross and Crown.
00:18:17.840 Here's what it means to be a real Catholic.
00:18:20.260 He said, and this is from Mader's book again, quote,
00:18:22.720 Christianity should not be for us anything else than it was for the Apostles, a living relationship to Jesus.
00:18:30.640 Neither work nor politics, neither the press nor science nor sports,
00:18:35.520 ought to occupy us in the least in comparison to the occupation of our memory and our understanding by Jesus.
00:18:44.300 That's Christianity. 0.86
00:18:45.420 The church, the house where Jesus lives, ought to be a stronger attraction for every genuine Christian
00:18:53.320 than any other house in town, even during the week.
00:18:58.120 Not to want to love Christ, who is love, is the sin of sins.
00:19:02.820 Whoever does not love will be damned.
00:19:05.620 We want to become Christians again.
00:19:07.660 We want to love again.
00:19:09.280 Love and die for Christ the King.
00:19:12.780 End quote.
00:19:13.260 For LifeSite News, this is John Henry Weston.
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