The John-Henry Westen Show - November 12, 2024


War in the Holy Land： What Christians Need to Know


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50 minutes

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145.53423

Word Count

7,383

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498

Misogynist Sentences

4

Hate Speech Sentences

50


Summary

When we talk about Israel and everything else, there are all sorts of charges thrown around: are you pro-Hamas? Are you anti-Semitic? Well, we come at it from a very studied perspective with our lead reporter, Patrick Delaney.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 As Catholics, we need to be vocal about the truth that religious Zionism is an antichrist heresy.
00:00:06.980 The ramifications of heresy can be genocide, can be snipers shooting prepubescent children,
00:00:13.160 blowing up buildings, collapsing them on families.
00:00:15.940 Hello, my dear friends. We are going to delve into a subject today that is probably one of the most controversial in the world today,
00:00:33.020 let alone on LifeSite. We're going to talk about the war in the Holy Land.
00:00:38.460 When we talk about Israel and everything else, there's all sorts of charges thrown around.
00:00:43.760 And are you pro-Hamas? Are you anti-Semitic?
00:00:48.480 Well, we come at it from a very studied perspective, you might say.
00:00:54.780 I'm going to bring you in touch with our lead reporter on the subject.
00:00:59.120 His name is Patrick Delaney. He's been a reporter with LifeSite for a long time now.
00:01:02.900 He's a man of deep faith. He loves his faith very much.
00:01:06.820 In fact, he's got degrees in this study of the faith, in theology.
00:01:11.000 And he's been studying this question for years, starting from, and this is what LifeSite starts from,
00:01:20.020 the take on this situation from the bishops in the Holy Land itself.
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00:02:00.500 Patrick Delaney, welcome to the program.
00:02:02.120 Thank you, John Henry. Great to be with you.
00:02:03.760 Let's begin as you always do, with the sign of the cross.
00:02:06.700 In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.
00:02:12.100 So, Patrick, you do for LifeSite what very few are willing to do,
00:02:16.660 deep dives into very hard subjects.
00:02:19.280 You are one of our COVID experts.
00:02:21.160 You have delved deep into all sorts of controversial subjects.
00:02:25.860 But this one is probably at the height of controversy,
00:02:30.660 because we're sort of getting it from all sides on this subject.
00:02:35.720 And it's a very strange situation,
00:02:39.280 because normally the sides of the moral question line up
00:02:45.580 almost with the political right and left.
00:02:48.300 You know, your abortion, the conservatives' tendency,
00:02:52.260 the Republicans tend to be more pro-life,
00:02:54.940 and the Democrats more pro-abortion.
00:02:59.340 And you see that with, you know, LGBT issues,
00:03:03.000 with contraception, and the list goes on and on.
00:03:06.680 But here, with this question on Israel,
00:03:09.000 there's no clear delineation.
00:03:10.680 It's all over the place.
00:03:12.740 It's one of the ones where you see movement,
00:03:14.180 and it's confused, because it's movements on both sides of the issues in weird directions.
00:03:20.620 What does it mean?
00:03:21.560 So you're really dealing with a mess.
00:03:23.100 Tell us, just give us a little synopsis of where your research has taken you.
00:03:27.120 Thank you, John Henry.
00:03:28.300 You know, as you were saying,
00:03:30.600 there's sort of political divides on all of this.
00:03:33.080 And what's funny is, I went on pilgrimage in 2006 to the Holy Land,
00:03:39.520 and it really opened my eyes to a lot of things.
00:03:42.500 Of course, I'm pro-life, and I have, you know, voted Republican.
00:03:48.460 But at the same time, I was really surprised to see what was happening in Israel,
00:03:54.300 because I felt like I'd been conditioned to be very sympathetic to Israel.
00:03:58.400 But when I got there, what I saw was that it was sort of the opposite of what I expected.
00:04:04.080 The image that stuck in my mind at the time was that the Israelis were prison guards,
00:04:10.020 and the Palestinians were prisoners.
00:04:12.260 And the prisoners were just destitute, and just lived in terrible poverty.
00:04:18.700 And of course, in all the Israeli areas, you know, the roads were great,
00:04:23.800 and everything looked very much like it does in the West.
00:04:26.560 But there was also fences everywhere, there was rubble.
00:04:31.000 And what I saw was that the Israelis appeared to be, at the time, the aggressors.
00:04:37.940 And it made me scratch my head, like, what's going on?
00:04:41.320 Because that's kind of the opposite of what I've been led to believe.
00:04:45.980 And so we see in our media this certain portrayal,
00:04:52.340 and we can maybe talk about this a little later, this sort of deference to Israeli interests.
00:04:58.380 And I wanted to see what the church said about it in the Middle East.
00:05:02.940 I came across a writer.
00:05:04.240 He was a priest, a Jesuit priest from Lebanon.
00:05:08.120 And he was writing in Asian news, as I recall.
00:05:10.800 I don't recall his name, but he was very good.
00:05:12.520 And he confirmed everything I saw when I read this one essay he wrote.
00:05:20.220 And then I dug up the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, and I found their statements.
00:05:26.240 And it confirmed everything I saw.
00:05:28.580 And I just realized that, my goodness,
00:05:32.160 I had been led to believe that the situation there was pretty much precisely the opposite of what it was.
00:05:39.120 And so that type of insight was not very welcome in the West, where information is very controlled here.
00:05:48.960 And we all know that.
00:05:50.540 We know the media is biased.
00:05:51.920 That's why LifeSite News exists, because people have to have a reliable source for their news.
00:05:58.740 And I had exchanges with friends on this.
00:06:02.800 And it was almost as if I was violating a religious doctrine when I took issue with what the Israelis were doing to the Palestinians.
00:06:13.720 And, of course, while I was there in the Holy Land, I met a lot of Palestinian Catholics who were the most wonderful people.
00:06:20.660 And I'm still in touch with one of them.
00:06:22.540 I count as a friend.
00:06:23.620 I'm honored to call him a friend.
00:06:25.220 He's a Catholic Palestinian gentleman.
00:06:27.400 He's also an Israeli citizen.
00:06:29.900 That began the journey for me, John Henry, looking into this and following these issues and figuring out where we can find the truth and where the truth lies and where propaganda can really kind of take us off the path.
00:06:46.420 You said a number of very interesting things there, because I think a lot of people have this in mind as if it's a religious conflict.
00:06:55.920 And, you know, it's really Jews versus Muslims.
00:07:00.080 And that's what we're dealing with.
00:07:01.280 Except that you just said that you were with Palestinian Catholics.
00:07:06.820 What then does that mean?
00:07:08.140 And you said you talked with the patriarch of Jerusalem or you learned from him.
00:07:14.940 Explain the sort of religious and racial cultural makeup of the lands there.
00:07:20.720 Yeah, the Christians in the Holy Land were a high percentage before 1948 when Israel was instituted by what the Palestinians called the Nakba, the catastrophe, where Israeli armies, after the partition from the United Nations, took more land and pushed Palestinians off their land, burned down their villages.
00:07:43.200 There's a great book called Blood Brothers by Archbishop Shakur, and he is an archbishop in Galilee.
00:07:51.960 I think he's in the Melkite rite.
00:07:54.900 He might be the Maronite rite.
00:07:57.260 But he wrote a book.
00:07:58.980 He was a boy when this happened in his village.
00:08:01.940 And the Israelis asked them to leave.
00:08:04.020 And they just thought they were going camping for a while, the kids, you know.
00:08:08.300 And then the Israelis wouldn't let their family and the other villagers back to their village.
00:08:14.540 And it set in motion a court case.
00:08:18.780 And even when they won the court case, the Israeli army came with bombers and leveled their village.
00:08:27.100 I did go back to the Holy Land in 2018 with my wife, Anna, in a pilgrimage group.
00:08:33.720 And I sat with one of the bishops in Jerusalem.
00:08:37.080 He's a vicar bishop.
00:08:38.500 I think he's retired now.
00:08:39.840 His name is Bishop Marcuso.
00:08:41.540 And we sat there, the Latin Patriarchate, and he just gave a whole description of all of this, of the history of the region and the different peoples and so forth.
00:08:50.960 So there was a high percentage of Christians there.
00:08:55.020 When you say high, what are you talking?
00:08:57.240 Just give us a round.
00:08:58.200 I think I mean like from what I recall, John Henry, at least in Bethlehem, in 1940, they had about 70 to 80 percent Christians in that population.
00:09:11.400 70 to 80 percent.
00:09:12.420 They were the majority.
00:09:13.980 And now I think it's down to about 12 percent.
00:09:18.100 And so there's been a mass exodus of Christians.
00:09:20.800 There's a big effort on the part of the church to support the Christians in the Holy Land to ensure that there are living stones there, that there is a vibrant church where our divine Lord Jesus Christ walked and where he, you know, was crucified, died and rose again.
00:09:37.860 That percentage is so stunning because to go from 70 to 80 percent Christian down to 12 percent and perhaps now lower because of the wars going on in the Holy Land.
00:09:52.260 That's just that's stunning.
00:09:54.260 That seems to fit the idea of genocide.
00:09:56.080 How do the bishops explain what happened there?
00:09:57.980 That's a great question, because the Christians in the Holy Land are very clear.
00:10:03.080 And in fact, this gives us an insight into why our information is sort of skewed here in the West as well.
00:10:10.040 60 Minutes, I think this was back in 2012, did a segment on the Christians in the Holy Land.
00:10:17.440 And while they were filming it, the Christians said that the entire reason they were leaving was because of the Israeli occupation of internationally recognized Palestinian territories and the terrible conditions they have to live under.
00:10:37.340 The major problem in the West Bank, as in elsewhere in the Middle East, is that the Christian communities are living under duress.
00:10:43.880 And this duress is coming from Muslims, not from the Israeli occupation?
00:10:48.480 I believe that the major duress is coming from that.
00:10:51.340 Great selling point.
00:10:53.900 Easy to sell to the American public.
00:10:57.400 Zahi Hurri is a Palestinian businessman.
00:11:00.740 He owns the West Bank Coca-Cola franchise.
00:11:04.140 I'll tell you, I don't know of anybody and I probably have 12,000 customers here.
00:11:12.460 I've never heard that, that someone is leaving because of Islamic persecution.
00:11:17.060 So what we see from this clip is that the Christians in the Holy Land say that basically the only reason they're leaving is because of the Israeli occupation.
00:11:28.740 And the checkpoints that they have to cross, the humiliations, the insecurity, the wall that the Israelis put up, this enormous wall that isolates them, the settlements, the violence, and so forth.
00:11:46.220 And the Zionist side in the United States wants to say, oh, they are under the thumb of the Muslims, and they are being persecuted by the Muslims.
00:11:57.640 But the Christians say that nobody says that there, that this is in the 60 Minutes segment, and that it's entirely the Israeli occupation.
00:12:08.400 And then what happened, while this was CBS News doing a 60 Minutes show, the ambassador to the United States from Israel, Michael Oren, I believe his name was, called the president of CBS News to try to get the story spiked.
00:12:25.560 What frightens Zionists, in my judgment, more than anything, is for Christians to understand what the Christians in the Holy Land are saying.
00:12:34.740 Because obviously they have enormous credibility.
00:12:37.600 And when the unanimous and constant voice of all the bishops in the region, all the different local churches, the Catholic rites, and the Orthodox rites are all saying the same thing,
00:12:54.320 then that becomes a very prudential piece of information if we're going to make sound prudential judgments about what's happening there.
00:13:03.700 In 2009, this group of Christian activists did something unprecedented.
00:13:10.140 They published a document called Kairos, criticizing Islamic extremism and advocating nonviolent resistance to the Israeli occupation, which they called a sin against God.
00:13:22.780 It was endorsed by the leaders of 13 Christian denominations, including Greek Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Lutheran, and Anglican.
00:13:32.660 These are denominations who have been exceedingly critical of the state of Israel, and sometimes to the point of going beyond legitimate criticism.
00:13:40.740 So what does that mean, to go beyond legitimate criticism?
00:13:43.020 Well, I think accusing us of crimes that would be very, I think, historically associated with anti-Semitism.
00:13:51.340 And it was actually so inflammatory, Bob, that we didn't, many of us didn't even bother responding to it.
00:13:58.400 They are fearful of this document because they are afraid this might influence the Christian world.
00:14:05.340 Reverend Rahib, who helped write the document, says it's anything but anti-Semitic.
00:14:10.340 This document doesn't ask for violence.
00:14:15.340 It doesn't ask for revenge.
00:14:18.400 The most powerful thing in this document, actually, is that asking for hope and love and faith.
00:14:25.920 So you mean to say that the Christians are saying the same thing, and all of the Christian leadership, Catholic, Orthodox, etc., they're all saying this same thing.
00:14:36.280 And yet, here in the West, it seems like we, Catholics and Christians of Protestant denominations and Orthodox altogether, seem to have the opposite opinion.
00:14:49.520 Yes, precisely, because we watch television.
00:14:52.340 Because most of us watch television.
00:14:54.920 And what happens with our bishops?
00:14:56.720 First of all, they're obviously focused most on their own dioceses, their own flocks, and so forth.
00:15:04.480 I've never seen a bishop contradict what the bishops in the Holy Land are saying about this issue.
00:15:11.460 And what we have seen is confirmations from the Holy See.
00:15:14.260 In 2010, Pope Benedict XVI hosted a synod on the Middle East, and they confirmed everything that the bishops in the Holy Land were saying.
00:15:24.880 They supported the end of the occupation, joining their voices to the United Nations Security Council and the United Nations as a whole, and asking that the Israelis withdraw.
00:15:36.400 And I have an essay called, How Do Christians in the Holy Land Understand the Israeli Occupation in Palestine?
00:15:43.580 And that's on the homepage of LifeSite News.
00:15:46.000 If you go down to Special Reports, you can find it there.
00:15:49.380 And all those sources are there, multiple sources for readers to study and access.
00:15:55.640 This is super interesting, especially for our readers.
00:15:58.200 Like, we've got a lot of feedback saying, Oh my gosh, you guys are being anti-Semitic.
00:16:02.460 I can't believe it.
00:16:03.220 Don't you understand that the Muslims are the, it's the most evil thing in the world, and they're persecuting everybody, and we've got to support the Jews, and blah, blah, blah.
00:16:11.260 And yet, we're relying on the reports of the bishops in the Holy Land, of the testimony from your fellow Catholics, your fellow Christians.
00:16:22.380 And yet, because the media control, the censorship is so strong, most of the Catholic, most of the Christians in America, in Europe, believe the opposite of the truth.
00:16:34.920 That all by itself is super stunning.
00:16:37.180 When we got into this issue at LifeSite, one of the things we did was we actually talked to the bishop over there, one of the auxiliary bishops, and he told us exactly this, that the persecution that they are receiving from the IDF, from the Israeli Defense Forces, and he described the brutality.
00:16:55.920 Watch, this is a clip from an interview we had with the auxiliary bishop of Jerusalem.
00:17:00.200 Watch.
00:17:00.420 Our Christians in Gaza suffered a lot.
00:17:04.900 They are 1,000 among a population of 2,000,000.2.
00:17:11.220 The war was heavy on them, with many negative consequences.
00:17:18.820 In the Greek Orthodox compound in Gaza, where live around 250, 18 people fell dead after an explosion.
00:17:30.420 In our Catholic compound, two ladies were shot dead while they were moving within the compound of the church.
00:17:41.860 In fact, one old lady of 70 years wanted to go to the restroom.
00:17:48.260 She was shot by an Israeli sniper.
00:17:52.340 No one could help her while she was bleeding because the sniper continued to shoot on all those who moved towards her.
00:18:03.100 But her daughter, but her daughter risked her life and wanted to help her mother.
00:18:10.540 She was shot dead as well.
00:18:15.020 In the same hour, three others were wounded and couldn't be brought to the hospital because of a curfew imposed on all the quarters.
00:18:27.020 Two days before, the compound of the missionaries of charity in Gaza, who live in the same compound of the Catholic Church,
00:18:39.500 received two explosions and part of their house was destroyed, as well as the generator, electrical generator, and the fuel tank.
00:18:54.540 An enormously relevant statement from this good bishop and from the bishops in the Holy Land.
00:19:00.700 You know, Dr. Matthew Sakonikis is a theologian at Christendom College.
00:19:07.580 And he has done a tremendous job speaking out, talking about the dangers of religious Zionism,
00:19:14.060 the heresy of religious Zionism.
00:19:16.540 He calls it Antichrist because it is based on Christ not being the Messiah and so forth.
00:19:25.960 So it rejects Jesus Christ.
00:19:28.120 But he has also spoken very eloquently on why it's so important to listen to these bishops.
00:19:34.400 And he says that who is better to listen to than these bishops who understand the moral law, understand the apostolic tradition.
00:19:43.820 They are right there in the Holy Land.
00:19:45.920 Their families are involved in all of this.
00:19:48.460 They know the history of the region.
00:19:50.100 They know the intricacies of the politics and so forth.
00:19:54.480 So is it better?
00:19:54.900 Tell us about this is a professor at Christendom, which is one of the most faithful Catholic colleges in the United States.
00:20:01.260 And he studied this question for a long, long time.
00:20:03.660 Why don't we just take a look at that clip of him explaining this?
00:20:07.320 You talked about all the bishops of the Middle East, of all the particular churches that exist in that geography.
00:20:14.940 And I want to remind people, who knows better, the bishops as the preservers of apostolic tradition who are on site in the Middle East or Americans making commentary from ideologies limited by the press coverage and political affiliations to which they belong.
00:20:37.560 Now, who is on the ground with better insight to tell us what is going on and what church teaching is?
00:20:44.400 People need to consider that very carefully.
00:20:46.580 These are the apostolic successors whose family members are involved in all of this, who know the tradition.
00:20:55.300 And the church began in the East.
00:20:57.880 And so they're from the most ancient churches who have come together to say, do not use just war theory to justify what's going on.
00:21:05.320 Anyone who ignores that needs to seriously consider how well they're listening, gathering the facts, taking counsel from wise men, which is what we're supposed to do when it comes to making prudential decisions.
00:21:25.040 We're talking a lot about the bishops here, and that's very important.
00:21:30.140 But of course, this isn't per se a Christian issue.
00:21:33.500 It's not a Jewish issue.
00:21:35.320 It's not a Muslim issue.
00:21:36.840 It is really a moral issue.
00:21:39.780 It's about the universal moral law that we can understand by reason alone.
00:21:45.080 And therefore, it's binding on all human beings with reason.
00:21:49.140 And when we see this level of carnage going on, every person who is honest with themselves, who is not contaminated by ideology, cannot tolerate it.
00:22:02.140 And what carnage are you referring to?
00:22:03.700 Well, I'm talking about in the Holy Land.
00:22:05.420 We have at least 42,000 dead, including 69% women and children.
00:22:13.540 And this cannot be tolerated.
00:22:16.760 The confirmed casualties, injuries are over 100,000.
00:22:21.580 The buildings being destroyed, like the entire north, from what I've seen.
00:22:27.100 In northern Gaza, it's about 72% of all the buildings are destroyed or damaged.
00:22:32.560 In the south, it's about 52% as of late June, as I recall.
00:22:39.360 So we see this terrible decimation going on.
00:22:41.940 But it's important that we recognize that this isn't a Catholic issue or a Jewish issue, because we have at the vanguard here in the United States, in resistance to this terrible war, this terrible assault upon Gaza and the Palestinian people, we have a lot of Jewish groups.
00:23:02.660 We have Jewish groups on the political left, we have Jewish groups on the political right, we have Jewish Voices for Peace, who have been sponsoring enormous rallies in Washington, D.C. and in New York City.
00:23:15.560 And we have these more conservative Orthodox Jews who criticize Zionism altogether.
00:23:21.560 They say Zionism has absolutely nothing to do with Judaism.
00:23:27.120 And that Judaism and Zionism are completely different.
00:23:30.300 And this Rabbi Shapiro says that Zionism was created to supplant Judaism.
00:23:40.360 And he's very forthright about it.
00:23:42.620 And there's a great clip, actually, of him before a conference of about 15,000 other rabbis.
00:23:51.900 And they're all going to be discussing this issue.
00:23:55.260 We're about to begin a historic event.
00:23:58.200 This stadium that you see is not really a stadium.
00:24:01.840 Today, the stadium is a classroom.
00:24:04.820 This is going to be an educational lesson, lectures given by experts in Judaism about Judaism in particular.
00:24:12.760 The incompatibility between Judaism and Zionism.
00:24:16.160 Many Jews believe wrongly that Zionism is either part of Judaism or is compatible with Judaism or is even the main part of Judaism.
00:24:26.760 All of those are actually false.
00:24:29.800 Zionism was created to negate Judaism.
00:24:33.140 Zionism was created to replace Judaism.
00:24:35.800 The differences between Zionism and Judaism are vast.
00:24:38.760 They're vast and profound.
00:24:40.220 Look, the Zionist propaganda is everywhere.
00:24:42.580 We live in a world where every day this message that has been deliberately promulgated by the Zionists is fed to us.
00:24:52.240 Israel, Jewish state.
00:24:53.620 Israel, Jews.
00:24:54.820 Israel, the Jewish people.
00:24:56.080 Israel protects the Jews.
00:24:58.020 It's all bogus.
00:24:59.180 So, this is really stunning.
00:25:01.760 I mean, it's almost hard to believe because what we keep seeing from the mainstream media is, you know, all these demonstrations are all crazy people.
00:25:13.120 They're like destroying stores and they're beating people up.
00:25:15.780 And that's all what these demonstrators are and what they're doing.
00:25:18.260 And, yeah, they're totally anti-Semitic.
00:25:21.380 It's against Jews.
00:25:22.800 And all of a sudden now we're seeing, like, Jewish people, Jewish groups and rabbis and tons of rabbis all trying to fight this same thing.
00:25:33.200 It's just totally bizarre.
00:25:34.480 Absolutely.
00:25:35.400 It just shows that the Zionist charge, they always want to say, oh, this is anti-Semitism because it frames it in such a way that people don't want to object to what's happening there in Gaza and in the West Bank as well.
00:25:51.520 And right at the forefront, you have these Jewish groups.
00:25:55.760 You have great journalists like Max Blumenthal, who's been very forthright.
00:25:59.820 You have scholars like Norman Ficklestein, who has been assiduously, you know, paying attention to this issue, writing books, doing interviews.
00:26:09.620 They're all Jews themselves.
00:26:10.760 Yeah, they're all Jews themselves.
00:26:12.340 And like I said, they're at the vanguard.
00:26:14.220 They're right at the front of the opposition to this Zionist attack, which is happening upon Gaza and the West Bank.
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00:26:55.820 It's stunning information because it's so completely unknown.
00:27:00.080 And I know you've been doing a lot at LifeSite.
00:27:01.740 But I also know the reports often I get from people who I know aren't believed.
00:27:07.840 So one of the questions, for instance, what would you do if some group came and attacked your people?
00:27:14.700 Wouldn't you want to end the threat?
00:27:17.440 Wouldn't you think that the threat must be stopped no matter what?
00:27:21.620 How would you respond?
00:27:22.860 Well, I would ask the same question.
00:27:24.560 What would you do if you were born in a concentration camp?
00:27:28.060 There's a Jewish writer who Norman Ficklstein quotes very often.
00:27:33.320 He's famous.
00:27:34.260 He's written books.
00:27:35.440 And he calls Gaza the largest open air concentration camp in the world.
00:27:40.220 It's under blockade by the Israeli army.
00:27:43.040 They control the land, the air, and the sea.
00:27:47.700 They control everything that goes in and out.
00:27:50.200 They allow no exports so there can be no economy.
00:27:54.100 And they ration the food that goes in.
00:27:57.780 When this attack happened last October,
00:28:02.040 we had Defense Minister Gallant saying,
00:28:05.520 we are going to have a complete siege of Gaza.
00:28:08.620 No food, no water, no electricity, no fuel.
00:28:12.120 And why could they do that?
00:28:15.000 Because they were in total control of that small strip where there are...
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00:28:36.060 Wherever the conflict zone is, Jason and his group tends to be there.
00:28:41.040 And we help him do that because LifeSite donors are generous
00:28:44.200 and want to help where they can.
00:28:46.660 He was trying to get food to people in the Holy Land
00:28:51.740 and aid and help some of them out who need to get out
00:28:54.520 because it's so threatening there for their lives.
00:28:56.600 In doing that, they are bombed.
00:29:00.640 They are under fire from Israel.
00:29:03.520 So this is the thing.
00:29:04.940 And we've seen multiple cases of food trucks, aid trucks,
00:29:08.440 that are going to...
00:29:11.160 Those who are starving to death be bombed by Israel.
00:29:14.440 So we know that firsthand.
00:29:16.120 It's not like we're getting reports from the Hamas group or whatever.
00:29:20.620 No, we know this firsthand.
00:29:22.760 So there's honestly a blockade in terms of information.
00:29:29.580 And we're trying to get to the ground of the information
00:29:34.160 from the most trusted sources there,
00:29:37.600 the bishops themselves, the Catholics on the ground.
00:29:40.580 And that's the kind of information that we're trying to get out.
00:29:43.540 And it's so hard because when we do point it out,
00:29:46.460 you get beat up by people who normally would be on site,
00:29:51.760 Christians in the West,
00:29:53.240 because they have this E-Day fix about what's actually happening there.
00:29:57.240 Yeah, it's amazing.
00:29:58.580 There's a new video out by Al Jazeera, a new documentary.
00:30:05.100 And some people might say,
00:30:06.300 well, Al Jazeera is not a reliable news source
00:30:10.020 and that they're biased.
00:30:11.520 But if we look, every news source has a certain bias.
00:30:15.380 And of course, they have a bias in the West.
00:30:19.380 The CNN staffers came out.
00:30:21.820 They spoke to The Guardian and said that CNN itself
00:30:25.460 had a skewed and systematic institutional bias towards Israel,
00:30:31.180 which amounts to journalistic malpractice.
00:30:35.180 The BBC had a similar incident in January, just the month before.
00:30:40.640 And so we have bias here as well.
00:30:43.140 Norman Ficklestein says that the media in general
00:30:47.040 has a large number of Jewish people who work there,
00:30:52.340 and they act in sort of ethnic solidarity,
00:30:56.000 which skews our coverage as well for Israel.
00:30:59.800 I would encourage people to watch this Al Jazeera documentary
00:31:04.320 and decide for yourself.
00:31:05.840 It is basically made up of videos and pictures
00:31:10.260 that were put together by Israeli soldiers themselves in the field.
00:31:17.120 They posted selfies.
00:31:19.180 They posted videos of what they were doing,
00:31:22.400 blowing up buildings, torturing people, laughing at it.
00:31:27.440 And that's the basic substance of this documentary.
00:31:30.480 And so we have to sort of be able to look at these different sources.
00:31:35.700 But Steve Jelcevek, our own Steve Jelcevek,
00:31:39.000 wrote that this video was very well done.
00:31:44.580 And this is a quote.
00:31:46.660 And it was a believable work of high-quality journalism.
00:31:50.460 And he said it accurately and compassionately tells the story
00:31:55.020 of what the Palestinians in Gaza have been enduring
00:31:59.060 from their point of view, which is only fair and just.
00:32:03.960 It's very interesting because that same video was put together by Al Jazeera
00:32:08.520 sort of as a work of commemoration of several of their own journalists
00:32:13.500 who were targeted by the IDF and killed,
00:32:17.080 one of whom the family members were all killed.
00:32:19.280 And it's stunning.
00:32:20.240 They've compiled basically, as you said,
00:32:22.920 the videos of the IDF soldiers themselves
00:32:26.400 rejoicing and making fun of doing the most horrific things.
00:32:32.740 And that's stunning.
00:32:33.980 They're war crimes.
00:32:35.020 It's an interesting documentary also
00:32:36.640 because they have a war crimes expert
00:32:39.420 who is commenting throughout
00:32:41.080 and looking at the evidence that they're presenting.
00:32:43.900 And he himself is stunned
00:32:45.180 because it's all publicly available evidence
00:32:47.760 that the Israeli soldiers are themselves posting.
00:32:50.900 And he says, these are war crimes.
00:32:52.460 And when it comes to it,
00:32:54.160 this will be called up as war crimes.
00:32:56.380 And the evidence is right out there for everybody to see.
00:32:59.740 One of the things that we should add,
00:33:02.460 no one is saying,
00:33:03.900 let alone LifeSite,
00:33:05.000 that there is not Islamic violence.
00:33:07.760 We report all the time on Islamic violence.
00:33:10.480 We know that, for instance, in Northern Nigeria,
00:33:13.680 there is horrific Islamic violence
00:33:16.460 with the Boko Haram group.
00:33:19.280 And at LifeSite,
00:33:20.460 we make no bones about the fact that we're Catholic,
00:33:22.880 that we see Jesus Christ as the only road to God,
00:33:28.960 despite what Pope Francis might say.
00:33:31.260 And that the only one truth
00:33:34.680 is the truth of the Catholic Church.
00:33:36.140 So when it comes to Islam,
00:33:38.640 no, we don't regard it as a true religion,
00:33:42.480 nor do we regard Judaism post-Christ
00:33:45.420 as a true religion either,
00:33:47.680 because both of those systems of belief
00:33:50.900 are against Jesus Christ.
00:33:53.320 Judaism, modern day Judaism,
00:33:55.300 is of course against Jesus Christ.
00:33:57.560 In fact, if you look in the Talmud,
00:33:59.380 you will have Jesus in hell.
00:34:01.300 Worse than that, actually,
00:34:02.100 but I would rather not go into it like that.
00:34:03.980 And obviously, Islam is a system
00:34:06.860 that is against Christianity.
00:34:09.340 So there's not like there's sides here.
00:34:13.100 And I guess that's part of the complication
00:34:15.320 of the war that's going on there
00:34:19.740 and the larger war that this threatens,
00:34:23.220 which I want to get into as well,
00:34:25.140 is that you do have a,
00:34:28.520 especially for people who regard this wrongly
00:34:31.120 as a religious war,
00:34:32.420 they see it as Islam versus Judaism,
00:34:35.860 and therefore the sides to choose are obvious.
00:34:38.540 It's not that.
00:34:40.120 And when it comes to the religions,
00:34:41.820 even if we were doing that,
00:34:43.900 you'd have two anti-Christ religions
00:34:46.680 that are, you know,
00:34:49.260 you can't choose a good side here.
00:34:51.540 And that's one of the grave difficulties
00:34:53.820 that we're dealing with
00:34:54.680 when people see this as,
00:34:56.120 you know, and that confusion
00:34:57.440 that's particularly prominent
00:35:00.020 among U.S. Protestants
00:35:01.900 of Israel is the chosen people.
00:35:06.340 And the Bible says that,
00:35:08.240 you know, they will be persecuted.
00:35:10.660 And therefore, this is the one
00:35:12.640 we have to fight for Israel.
00:35:14.220 And it is a religious fervor
00:35:16.720 and it is misplaced.
00:35:19.440 Why is that?
00:35:20.820 Well, because the entire Old Testament,
00:35:23.220 the entire Old Covenant
00:35:25.260 is ordered to Jesus Christ.
00:35:27.320 Jesus Christ is the fulfillment
00:35:28.700 of all prophecies,
00:35:30.640 the fulfillment of all prefigurements,
00:35:32.720 the very purpose of the Old Covenant.
00:35:36.660 And I mentioned Dr. Matthew Sackinesis earlier,
00:35:40.900 a theologian from Christendom College,
00:35:43.060 and he has just been phenomenal.
00:35:45.440 He wrote an article
00:35:46.320 that we reprinted here at LifeSite News.
00:35:49.440 And he also has done a couple interviews.
00:35:52.840 The first one I wrote
00:35:54.420 an extended article on
00:35:56.040 and added some more information as well.
00:35:58.580 And I'm working on a second interview,
00:36:00.700 which is much better by him,
00:36:02.600 where he unpacks the fact
00:36:04.740 that God, in order to save humanity,
00:36:08.480 always had Jesus Christ in mind.
00:36:10.840 Jesus Christ is the goal.
00:36:12.640 And therefore, he built up a people.
00:36:16.600 And if you're going to have a nation,
00:36:17.880 you have to have a land.
00:36:19.440 And so he gave them a land
00:36:20.640 and he gave a dynasty.
00:36:23.900 He made sure they had memories
00:36:25.640 so they could recognize Christ
00:36:28.940 when he came.
00:36:30.420 And in promising the land
00:36:32.360 and the temple,
00:36:34.100 the presence of God
00:36:35.280 for the Jewish people,
00:36:37.280 being in the land
00:36:38.300 was always a symbol
00:36:39.660 of being in communion with God,
00:36:42.420 being where the temple is.
00:36:44.620 But our divine Lord Jesus Christ
00:36:46.900 is the new temple.
00:36:48.320 And we recall in John chapter 2,
00:36:51.660 where he talked about,
00:36:54.740 they said,
00:36:55.260 by whose authority
00:36:56.100 are you cleaning out the temple?
00:36:58.820 And he said,
00:37:00.200 tear down this temple
00:37:01.220 and in three days,
00:37:02.260 I'll build it back up.
00:37:03.520 But he was talking about
00:37:04.700 the temple of his body.
00:37:06.460 So the presence of God
00:37:08.320 is in the body of Christ
00:37:11.400 in a whole new way,
00:37:12.560 in a physical way
00:37:14.260 and in a way
00:37:16.400 which negates the temple.
00:37:19.120 And so Dr. Sakinesis explains
00:37:21.840 how God always had in mind
00:37:25.240 the salvation of the whole world
00:37:26.840 through Jesus Christ.
00:37:29.060 Now communion with God
00:37:30.640 is communion with Jesus Christ
00:37:32.700 physically with his body and blood
00:37:34.980 as we receive in the sacraments.
00:37:36.860 And those who are in Christ
00:37:39.560 are the true Israel.
00:37:42.960 Those who are in Christ
00:37:44.600 are the fulfillment
00:37:45.580 of the old covenant Israel.
00:37:48.340 And Vatican 2 refers to the church
00:37:50.920 as the new Israel.
00:37:52.520 We also see this in scripture.
00:37:54.200 We see it in St. Peter,
00:37:55.960 Acts chapter 3,
00:37:57.420 verses 22 and 23,
00:37:59.640 where he says
00:38:01.680 Moses himself promised
00:38:03.780 that God would raise up
00:38:06.300 a prophet like me
00:38:08.000 and those who don't listen to him
00:38:09.960 are cut off from the people.
00:38:13.440 And it's right there
00:38:14.760 that Christ is the new
00:38:17.060 reconstituted Israel
00:38:19.280 as Dr. Sakinesis explains
00:38:22.240 very eloquently.
00:38:24.140 And those who are in him
00:38:25.400 are the successors
00:38:27.840 of all the promises
00:38:29.200 given to Abraham.
00:38:31.780 And we see this
00:38:33.140 in St. Paul as well.
00:38:34.320 Galatians 3,
00:38:35.800 verse 16 and 29,
00:38:38.840 where St. Paul writes
00:38:41.340 that God's promises
00:38:43.220 were made to Abraham
00:38:44.440 and his offspring.
00:38:46.520 He didn't say offsprings
00:38:48.680 as in many,
00:38:50.240 but offspring as in one
00:38:52.280 who is Jesus Christ.
00:38:54.360 And if you are in Christ,
00:38:56.220 you are heirs of the promises
00:38:59.540 given to Abraham.
00:39:01.800 And so Christians
00:39:03.760 are the heirs
00:39:05.160 to the entire Old Covenant.
00:39:08.020 God's intention
00:39:09.280 was through the Old Covenant
00:39:11.960 to bring all into communion,
00:39:14.500 Jews and Gentiles alike
00:39:16.100 at the, you know,
00:39:18.480 completely the same
00:39:19.620 level of dignity,
00:39:21.980 of course.
00:39:23.180 And that is the new Israel.
00:39:26.200 The Catholic Church
00:39:27.280 is the kingdom of Israel.
00:39:29.080 And that is a theological
00:39:31.000 flat truth.
00:39:33.840 The Zionist belief
00:39:35.820 held by so many
00:39:37.220 so-called Christians,
00:39:38.520 Catholics included,
00:39:40.580 is therefore denying
00:39:43.560 the reality that
00:39:45.480 Jesus is the fulfillment.
00:39:47.000 That's what for me
00:39:48.340 is so stunning.
00:39:48.980 And it leads to such
00:39:50.660 also theological error
00:39:52.040 because you have,
00:39:54.220 and I'm going to pick
00:39:55.260 on the Catholics
00:39:55.740 because you have
00:39:57.420 ridiculous notions
00:39:59.540 from even some high ranking
00:40:02.340 like Cardinal Casper,
00:40:03.900 for instance,
00:40:05.220 who says,
00:40:05.900 we don't need to convert the Jews.
00:40:08.480 They misuse the phrase
00:40:09.640 there are elder brothers
00:40:10.880 in the faith
00:40:11.460 as if that's true today.
00:40:14.020 That was true before Christ.
00:40:16.180 It was true.
00:40:16.860 But today,
00:40:18.920 the current Jews are not.
00:40:20.240 In fact,
00:40:21.800 it is so misunderstood
00:40:24.940 that the Jews who get it,
00:40:28.760 the Jews who understand,
00:40:31.580 refer to what
00:40:32.560 some Christians
00:40:34.160 and some Catholics do
00:40:35.340 by saying,
00:40:36.320 oh, the Jews are good.
00:40:36.960 They still have
00:40:37.400 their first covenant.
00:40:38.080 We don't even have to
00:40:38.920 bring them into the church.
00:40:40.360 No, no, no.
00:40:40.660 They're good themselves.
00:40:42.400 They refer to that
00:40:43.460 as anti-Semitism itself.
00:40:45.220 In fact,
00:40:45.420 I'm going to play
00:40:46.000 this clip for you.
00:40:46.460 This is from Mother Miriam
00:40:48.180 who was a Jew herself,
00:40:51.420 raised a Jew.
00:40:52.300 Rosalind Moss was her name
00:40:53.340 before she entered
00:40:54.280 religious life.
00:40:55.340 And while she was a Jew,
00:40:56.580 she became a Christian.
00:40:58.960 She became actually
00:40:59.980 first a Protestant.
00:41:00.900 She was in this movement,
00:41:02.820 Jews for Jesus.
00:41:03.820 And she actually tried
00:41:04.980 to convert Catholics
00:41:05.660 for like a decade.
00:41:07.400 And then she became a Catholic.
00:41:10.000 And later,
00:41:10.640 she became a Catholic nun.
00:41:12.100 And later,
00:41:12.620 under Cardinal Burke,
00:41:13.660 founded her own order.
00:41:14.800 It's interesting.
00:41:15.840 Her take on this question
00:41:17.980 of, you know,
00:41:19.720 not bringing Jesus
00:41:20.920 to the Jews
00:41:21.480 is this.
00:41:22.160 Watch this.
00:41:22.960 Dear Excellency,
00:41:24.180 that the greatest form
00:41:26.740 of anti-Semitism
00:41:28.260 ever
00:41:29.100 is to deny
00:41:31.320 the Jewish people
00:41:32.840 the knowledge of Christ
00:41:34.060 who they gave
00:41:35.020 to the world
00:41:35.620 through God.
00:41:36.360 you are damning them
00:41:39.680 if you deny them.
00:41:41.280 And if you say
00:41:41.860 they can come to God
00:41:42.780 in any other way,
00:41:43.680 they cannot.
00:41:45.240 Isn't that stunning?
00:41:46.880 She said the worst form
00:41:48.280 of anti-Semitism,
00:41:49.540 and by the way,
00:41:50.620 she's including
00:41:51.540 the Nazi Holocaust,
00:41:54.420 but the worst form
00:41:55.340 of anti-Semitism
00:41:56.000 is keeping Jesus
00:41:57.200 from the Jews.
00:41:58.320 It is so true
00:41:59.900 because you're dealing
00:42:00.980 with eternal life
00:42:02.140 and the lack of...
00:42:05.000 Jesus himself says,
00:42:07.560 no man comes
00:42:08.780 to the Father
00:42:09.240 but by me.
00:42:11.000 And that's why
00:42:11.880 that teaching of...
00:42:13.480 the false teaching
00:42:14.600 of Pope Francis
00:42:15.300 where he says,
00:42:16.320 you know,
00:42:16.860 all religions
00:42:17.840 are paths to God
00:42:18.800 is so horrific
00:42:21.240 and that God
00:42:23.100 willed the diversity
00:42:23.820 of religions.
00:42:25.500 So horrific
00:42:26.460 because there's
00:42:27.200 one truth
00:42:27.860 and that is Jesus Christ
00:42:28.920 and that's the way,
00:42:30.260 the truth,
00:42:30.980 and the life,
00:42:31.420 and that's the way
00:42:32.320 to the Father.
00:42:33.060 No man comes
00:42:33.940 to the Father
00:42:34.380 but by Jesus Christ.
00:42:36.200 Given all of this,
00:42:38.660 you know,
00:42:39.040 horror that we're
00:42:39.700 dealing with right now,
00:42:41.180 let's go first
00:42:42.700 to what you think
00:42:43.500 the answer would be.
00:42:44.620 Well, the answer
00:42:45.340 is always the same,
00:42:46.100 John Henry.
00:42:46.580 The answer is
00:42:47.520 Jesus Christ.
00:42:48.960 Jesus Christ is the way,
00:42:50.140 the truth,
00:42:50.520 and the life
00:42:51.080 and when we are
00:42:52.960 incorporated into Christ
00:42:54.840 and we grow in holiness,
00:42:56.380 we are able
00:42:57.360 to better explain
00:42:59.020 and I would say
00:43:00.440 vanquish heresy
00:43:02.160 and when we look
00:43:03.860 at this heresy
00:43:04.720 of religious Zionism
00:43:06.720 that can be Christian
00:43:07.700 or it can be Jewish,
00:43:09.780 the ramifications
00:43:10.560 of heresy
00:43:11.280 can be genocide,
00:43:13.160 can be snipers
00:43:14.720 shooting
00:43:15.300 prepubescent children,
00:43:17.440 can be just bombs
00:43:19.340 just blowing up buildings,
00:43:22.620 collapsing them
00:43:23.360 on families
00:43:24.060 just by the tens
00:43:25.360 of thousands.
00:43:26.980 And just to add there,
00:43:28.860 Jason Jones,
00:43:29.720 I had him on my show
00:43:30.420 and he's been in Israel
00:43:31.980 and was doing,
00:43:32.840 trying to rescue work there.
00:43:34.420 He said,
00:43:35.380 every church,
00:43:36.520 every Catholic church,
00:43:38.240 every Catholic school
00:43:39.340 and every Catholic hospital,
00:43:40.580 every Christian hospital
00:43:41.360 is bombed.
00:43:43.140 Everyone.
00:43:44.200 Yeah,
00:43:44.500 that bombing
00:43:45.220 is not a mistake.
00:43:46.580 They're very precise
00:43:47.660 with their targets.
00:43:49.440 As Colonel McGregor
00:43:51.160 has said,
00:43:51.780 he said their goal
00:43:52.720 is to level the place
00:43:54.480 and expel
00:43:55.560 all survivors
00:43:56.640 and make sure
00:43:57.560 that they can't return.
00:43:59.460 And in that
00:44:00.160 Al Jazeera video,
00:44:01.460 there are videos
00:44:02.840 of these soldiers
00:44:04.540 just smashing houses,
00:44:08.240 you know,
00:44:08.500 destroying houses
00:44:09.340 and saying that
00:44:10.040 they won't have anything
00:44:10.940 to come back to.
00:44:12.440 So,
00:44:13.000 that is the goal
00:44:14.160 of what's going on
00:44:15.180 is propelled by heresy.
00:44:17.260 And we need
00:44:18.340 to understand that.
00:44:19.500 As Catholics,
00:44:20.440 we need to be vocal
00:44:21.660 about truth
00:44:22.760 that religious Zionism
00:44:24.740 is an antichrist heresy.
00:44:27.420 And I would beg
00:44:29.120 our dear bishops
00:44:30.460 to look closely
00:44:32.000 at that question
00:44:32.800 and consider speaking
00:44:34.740 out on it themselves
00:44:35.940 because we're seeing
00:44:38.180 the Christian community
00:44:39.200 and the Holy Land
00:44:39.980 destroyed.
00:44:40.640 We're seeing,
00:44:41.220 you know,
00:44:42.000 just normal,
00:44:43.680 innocent,
00:44:44.600 Palestinian Muslims
00:44:45.700 being destroyed
00:44:46.800 who have no reason
00:44:48.280 to be attacked
00:44:49.180 whatsoever.
00:44:49.920 and so we need
00:44:52.180 Christ,
00:44:52.780 we need orthodoxy,
00:44:54.100 we need holiness,
00:44:55.360 we need personal holiness,
00:44:56.800 each one of us,
00:44:57.720 so our prayers
00:44:58.520 can be more efficacious.
00:45:00.420 And we need to ask
00:45:02.220 the good Lord
00:45:03.100 to intervene
00:45:03.820 and bring this horrific,
00:45:06.460 you know,
00:45:07.620 hell on earth
00:45:08.660 that is happening there
00:45:10.280 in Gaza
00:45:10.940 to an end.
00:45:12.380 Truth has a power
00:45:13.420 of its own.
00:45:14.520 It moves hearts
00:45:15.500 and saves lives.
00:45:16.580 I'm pleased
00:45:17.320 to announce
00:45:18.160 the launch
00:45:18.800 of the new
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00:45:38.620 One of the things
00:45:40.380 we haven't discussed yet
00:45:41.680 and I want to get
00:45:42.600 into it just a little bit
00:45:43.460 and I know you
00:45:43.920 haven't written on it
00:45:44.620 that much
00:45:45.100 and we have other
00:45:46.640 writers who have
00:45:47.600 but the potential here
00:45:49.360 for an expanded war,
00:45:51.100 even a world war,
00:45:52.260 is becoming more
00:45:52.960 and more relevant
00:45:53.500 every day.
00:45:54.620 So, especially
00:45:55.540 with the attacks
00:45:56.300 on Iran right now
00:45:58.160 that have been going on
00:46:00.000 in reprisals
00:46:01.080 for whatever
00:46:01.980 and then in Lebanon,
00:46:03.380 the potential,
00:46:05.380 because remember,
00:46:06.680 with Israel,
00:46:07.240 we have nuclear capability,
00:46:09.960 also so with Iran.
00:46:12.100 Israel itself
00:46:12.920 has really threatened
00:46:15.080 the use of nuclear weapons
00:46:16.140 and where does that leave us?
00:46:19.320 Yeah, so we can have
00:46:20.620 a heresy that goes beyond
00:46:22.080 genocide in Palestine
00:46:23.980 and it could lead
00:46:25.920 to a nuclear Armageddon
00:46:27.280 is basically
00:46:28.680 what might happen here
00:46:31.020 because these different
00:46:32.580 BRICS countries
00:46:34.040 that are joining
00:46:35.580 this BRICS alliance
00:46:37.200 with Russia
00:46:38.360 and China
00:46:39.220 and India.
00:46:40.520 They need to do that
00:46:42.080 in order to defend themselves
00:46:43.620 from the Western NATO,
00:46:45.980 what I would say
00:46:46.780 is clearly aggression
00:46:47.960 in Ukraine
00:46:49.120 and other places
00:46:50.660 here in the Levant
00:46:51.700 as well.
00:46:52.600 As foreign policy experts
00:46:54.420 have said,
00:46:55.060 like Colonel Douglas McGregor
00:46:56.840 and others,
00:46:58.720 Iran is aligning itself
00:47:00.080 with Russia
00:47:00.960 and will be getting
00:47:01.800 support from Russia.
00:47:02.820 Russia and China
00:47:04.840 I believe
00:47:05.680 have hypersonic missiles,
00:47:07.480 a technology
00:47:08.180 that the West
00:47:09.680 does not have.
00:47:10.840 It's a certain superiority.
00:47:12.800 There's no defense
00:47:13.660 against them.
00:47:14.760 If Israel
00:47:15.500 attacks Iran
00:47:17.840 in a significant way
00:47:19.560 and the United States
00:47:21.420 of course
00:47:21.960 is attached
00:47:22.800 at the hip
00:47:23.540 with Israel
00:47:24.440 and we are drawn
00:47:26.000 into that war,
00:47:27.480 Russia will probably
00:47:29.540 have to support Iran.
00:47:31.560 China might as well
00:47:33.240 and then we have
00:47:34.320 a world war
00:47:35.120 among nuclear powers
00:47:37.120 and an Israeli government
00:47:40.380 that uses
00:47:42.800 disproportionate deterrence
00:47:45.120 as a form of policy
00:47:47.580 and could be very trigger-happy
00:47:50.540 with their nuclear weapons.
00:47:52.780 Even if, Patrick,
00:47:54.160 this does escalate,
00:47:55.860 the solution actually
00:47:57.140 is still the same.
00:47:57.960 You know,
00:47:58.600 we had that FBI whistleblower.
00:48:01.000 He gave a testimony
00:48:01.860 in Congress recently.
00:48:03.180 I think we wrote a story on him
00:48:04.640 and he said
00:48:05.100 that
00:48:06.040 the answer is
00:48:08.380 he told people
00:48:09.020 to pray the rosary
00:48:09.940 and to do
00:48:11.060 the First Friday devotions
00:48:12.540 and then do
00:48:13.380 some practical things
00:48:14.480 as well
00:48:15.040 but
00:48:15.900 we are totally
00:48:17.300 reliant
00:48:18.460 upon God.
00:48:19.980 I mean,
00:48:20.200 every breath we take,
00:48:21.540 the orbit of our planet
00:48:22.920 around the sun,
00:48:24.260 we are totally
00:48:25.920 dependent on the Lord
00:48:27.120 and in this
00:48:28.620 scenario
00:48:29.720 it looks like
00:48:30.380 that's the same
00:48:31.700 case here.
00:48:32.860 So we have to pray,
00:48:34.420 we have to dig into
00:48:35.380 our sacramental life,
00:48:37.280 our communion with God
00:48:39.040 and beg the Lord
00:48:41.000 for his mercy.
00:48:42.180 Amen to that.
00:48:42.960 And this is right
00:48:43.740 in the Holy Land.
00:48:45.280 This is right
00:48:46.060 in the lands
00:48:47.080 that Jesus walked
00:48:48.060 in where Jesus was born,
00:48:50.180 where the Holy Family lived.
00:48:51.520 So this is
00:48:53.140 right at the center,
00:48:54.680 right at the heart
00:48:55.460 of Christianity,
00:48:57.020 even though
00:48:58.220 most of the Christians
00:49:00.020 are now being moved out
00:49:01.120 and have been forced out.
00:49:03.320 Nonetheless,
00:49:04.280 it is where
00:49:05.380 our home is
00:49:06.360 in terms of Jesus Christ.
00:49:08.100 So there's lots
00:49:09.380 to pray about.
00:49:10.200 In one thing,
00:49:11.040 we don't want to paint
00:49:12.000 too bleak a picture
00:49:13.220 because
00:49:13.760 even though there are
00:49:15.020 absolute atrocities
00:49:16.720 going on,
00:49:17.080 like you said,
00:49:17.500 and I think
00:49:18.520 many consider it genocide.
00:49:21.540 Even in the midst
00:49:22.860 of a hell like that,
00:49:25.000 God's in control
00:49:25.760 and he offers
00:49:27.160 everybody one thing.
00:49:28.320 He offers everybody
00:49:28.960 eternal life.
00:49:30.260 So despite
00:49:31.500 all the suffering
00:49:32.660 in the world today,
00:49:33.900 nevertheless,
00:49:34.680 he offers
00:49:35.580 the truth of salvation
00:49:37.320 to everybody
00:49:37.800 and that is what
00:49:38.940 we're really here for.
00:49:40.640 This earth is not
00:49:41.460 meant to be
00:49:42.220 just,
00:49:42.880 oh,
00:49:43.260 just a wonderful time
00:49:44.300 and then we die
00:49:44.940 and go off into
00:49:46.060 who knows what,
00:49:47.140 get amalgamated
00:49:47.780 with the universe.
00:49:48.320 No,
00:49:48.960 this is a testing ground
00:49:50.060 to get to heaven.
00:49:50.880 We have that opportunity.
00:49:52.840 Everyone does.
00:49:54.040 And it's also on us
00:49:55.700 to offer that opportunity
00:49:57.620 to everybody else.
00:49:58.380 Patrick,
00:49:58.640 I know you do
00:49:59.120 a lot of heavy lifting
00:50:00.300 at LifeSite
00:50:00.800 in terms of
00:50:01.800 taking on
00:50:02.620 the hardest issues.
00:50:04.140 God bless you
00:50:04.640 and you come at it
00:50:05.660 from a heart of faith
00:50:06.600 which adds to
00:50:07.860 your great intellect
00:50:08.620 which is beautiful.
00:50:09.720 Thank you.
00:50:10.420 Thank you,
00:50:10.820 John Henry.
00:50:11.240 Great to be here.
00:50:12.100 God bless you.
00:50:13.220 Pray for us
00:50:13.760 at LifeSite News
00:50:14.420 that we're able to
00:50:15.840 always,
00:50:16.560 as we do strive
00:50:17.600 to follow the will
00:50:18.900 of our Lord Jesus Christ
00:50:19.860 and God bless you.
00:50:21.980 We'll see you next time.
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