The John-Henry Westen Show - July 11, 2023


When the vaccine crippled a seminarian ｜ The horrifying story of Julian Young

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Wang Winyai Wong Pope Francis Faith Divine Providence Doug Mainwaring Anthony Murdoch Josh Alexander Michael Haynes Steve Jelcevac John Halliwell Markham Hotel Sam Altman Jesus Christ Henry Nowen Jim Hale Liz Yor Foreperson Jehovah Moderna Reason
Vatican's Most Famous Exorcist In 500 Years - Fr. Gabriele Amorth ｜ Fr. Carlos Martins Explains Bishop Joseph Strickland Must Resist Pope Francis If Told To Step Down ｜ Dr. Peter Kwasniewski

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Julian Young was in seminary when Pope Francis told him to get the HPV vaccine Gardasil. He got it, and it changed his life. Now, he s in a wheelchair, and he s looking for help to get some treatment.

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00:00:00.000 And then by the time it came to the summer of 2021, things had gotten so bad and the burning and the inflammation spread up my body to the point where I just I had to be in a wheelchair because I couldn't even I couldn't walk.
00:00:13.320 There was so much pain in my feet that I could barely do anything but take a few careful steps.
00:00:24.520 There's a young man by the name of Julian Young.
00:00:26.680 He was in seminary right at the middle of COVID.
00:00:30.320 And guess what?
00:00:31.200 He heard the encouragement of Pope Francis to get the vaccine.
00:00:36.440 He heard his seminary repeat that encouragement.
00:00:38.840 And he's one of the ones who did get it.
00:00:42.300 He got vaccine one, vaccine two and the booster.
00:00:45.900 And guess what?
00:00:47.540 He's received some absolutely horrendous effects.
00:00:51.520 In fact, he's now in a wheelchair.
00:00:53.240 He's looking for help to get some treatment.
00:00:57.280 He's tried all sorts of things already.
00:00:58.920 There's this one treatment that looks promising and he's asking for help to get that.
00:01:05.160 But we're going to talk to him now about, you know, about his vocation and about how he got into this and what happens with the taking of this vaccine, so-called.
00:01:18.940 This is Jonathan Weston Show.
00:01:20.600 Stay tuned.
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00:03:00.100 God bless you.
00:03:01.980 Julian Young, welcome to the program.
00:03:04.380 Thanks for having me.
00:03:06.240 Let's begin, as we always do, with the sign of the cross.
00:03:08.980 In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.
00:03:13.860 Amen.
00:03:15.440 So, Julian, unbelievable what happened to you.
00:03:19.420 I'm going to let you tell us a story from the start, if you wouldn't mind.
00:03:22.820 I think a lot of people need to hear this.
00:03:27.260 Yes.
00:03:27.600 And they should know, too, right off the bat, we've got a LifeFunder going for Julian at LifeFunder.com.
00:03:33.340 But please go ahead.
00:03:34.880 Growing up, I wasn't really raised strictly in the faith.
00:03:38.140 My mother's side of the family was Catholic.
00:03:40.360 My father's side was actually Jehovah's Witnesses.
00:03:43.320 But I wasn't strictly brought up in any particular tradition.
00:03:46.080 So, it really wasn't until after high school, after I graduated in 2010, that I had my own conversion.
00:03:53.580 God kind of awakened me.
00:03:55.880 And it really set me on the path towards spiritual truth.
00:03:58.620 Although, like I mentioned in the article, I didn't immediately recognize Jesus Christ as the truth.
00:04:05.580 So, unfortunately, I started dipping into a bunch of different religious traditions.
00:04:12.180 And I subscribed to religious pluralism at that time, naively.
00:04:17.800 So, that kind of led me down, unfortunately, a path where I opened up some doorways to spiritual attack.
00:04:24.560 And at that point, I kind of got a little nervous and anxious about what was going on.
00:04:29.820 So, I kind of froze with everything.
00:04:32.180 And it wasn't until an interior voice prompted me to pray to our Lord, which was not something I had ever done before.
00:04:39.880 But once I did that, I started to feel a flame ignite within me as if my soul just intuitively recognized its Lord and wanted to worship him.
00:04:53.040 And that was kind of like the journey that, the start of the journey that set me on the path towards Christianity in general.
00:05:00.400 And I did have a little bit of a sidetrack with Protestantism for a while.
00:05:03.780 But eventually, Divine Providence led me into the Catholic Church.
00:05:07.660 So, I was fully received.
00:05:09.040 What was that move, if you don't mind?
00:05:10.380 A lot of people go through that.
00:05:12.300 What brought you into Catholicism from Protestantism?
00:05:17.340 Right.
00:05:17.760 So, while I was a Protestant, it was only for about roughly a year that I was a Protestant.
00:05:23.700 But during that time, I just started getting the sense that there was something missing.
00:05:30.320 And I also started to recognize some contradictions that I was hearing from the teachings of the pastors
00:05:36.920 compared to what was actually in Scripture.
00:05:40.940 And it wasn't until I actually, I had met a friend who happened to be Catholic at that time.
00:05:45.940 And I started having Bible studies with him.
00:05:48.260 And he's the one who kind of really started to open up Scripture to me in light of the Catholic tradition.
00:05:54.160 And those Bible studies with him, I think, were very critical for me because things started to click.
00:06:00.720 And I reached a point eventually where I just realized the Catholic Church really does have the fullness of the truth.
00:06:07.440 And I really just needed the grace of the Holy Spirit at that moment to just make the full transition, which he did clearly give me.
00:06:15.980 So, I eventually was fully received into the Catholic Church in 2017.
00:06:22.080 So, yeah, that was the transition process for me.
00:06:26.860 Beautiful.
00:06:27.340 So, you know, how did your vocation spark?
00:06:33.180 So, becoming Catholic is one thing, but a lot of people are Catholic.
00:06:37.180 They don't become priests.
00:06:38.720 Right, right.
00:06:39.980 So, actually, during my whole conversion, I did have a girlfriend at the time, and I thought that I wanted to be married.
00:06:47.000 But once I became Catholic and I started growing deeper in my faith, I started recognizing this desire growing within me, particularly while I was at Mass.
00:06:59.380 I started feeling the desire that I wanted to be the one up there, and I felt this strong desire to be able to unite myself to Christ in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.
00:07:08.260 And I think my girlfriend at the time recognized this, because we eventually came to a point where we had a mutual agreement that I think we both thought God was calling us in different directions.
00:07:20.200 So, we eventually went our separate ways.
00:07:23.060 It was a very peaceful end to the relationship, and that's when I really started discerning my vocation seriously.
00:07:30.800 So, I didn't immediately think that I wanted to be a diocesan priest.
00:07:35.960 In the first place, I wanted to maybe do evangelization in terms of, like, missionary work overseas.
00:07:44.460 So, I did end up leaving the country in 2019, and I went to join the foreign missions of Paris.
00:07:53.560 And their mother house is in Paris, but they evangelized the eastern countries for the most part.
00:08:00.180 So, I joined them as a pro-kodudic novice for a period of five months in discernment.
00:08:07.820 And then I eventually realized during that time of discernment that it really wasn't the calling for me after all.
00:08:14.080 So, that's when I made the decision to come back home to the States and join the seminary.
00:08:19.220 And that was, by that time, it was around 2020.
00:08:21.920 So, you came back, and to think of it, what was going on in 2020 when you arrived?
00:08:29.740 Was there any already signs of COVID, or what was going on then?
00:08:33.620 Yeah.
00:08:34.060 So, I actually, I feel like it was divine providence, the timing that I left France,
00:08:39.140 because I was just beginning to hear about the COVID virus starting to spread.
00:08:46.460 And I came back in February of 2020, and it was shortly after that, that the lockdown started.
00:08:54.440 So, if I had come back, tried to come back any later, I might have been trapped there.
00:08:58.720 So, it really was divine providence that brought me back.
00:09:02.940 And then once I came home, I immediately just started the process to apply to a seminary in my diocese.
00:09:09.920 So, yeah.
00:09:11.780 Beautiful.
00:09:12.260 So, I mean, this sounds pretty idyllic, you know, you're going through.
00:09:19.100 How in the world?
00:09:21.740 And, I mean, I should let you unfold your story, because it's just, we'll see.
00:09:28.120 Okay.
00:09:28.680 Tell us what happens next.
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00:09:35.420 There are a few so heroic and amazing as the story we're about to tell you that's coming soon.
00:09:42.760 You got to watch this.
00:09:46.440 When I was in seminary, I was reading a book by Henry Nouwen.
00:09:50.180 He talked about a nuclear man, you know, and people who grew up in the 1980s were kind of formed by that immediate and constant threat of nuclear annihilation.
00:10:00.820 And my generation has grown up, you know, under the specter of priestly sexual abuse.
00:10:09.040 What say you, Mr. Foreperson, is the defendant guilty or not guilty?
00:10:13.360 I think that for many of us, that has also been all-encompassing.
00:10:17.920 You know, I mean, I entered the seminary in January of 2004.
00:10:22.600 And it's basically been there for me from in the beginning.
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00:10:42.420 Okay.
00:10:43.500 All right.
00:10:44.020 So I joined the seminary in my diocese.
00:10:46.680 And I began the fall semester of 2020.
00:10:50.440 And as we know, of course, that's when all the hype and fear about COVID was starting to pick up.
00:10:57.600 And all the talk about the vaccines that were, or I shouldn't say vaccines, because technically we know that's not what they really were.
00:11:04.980 But that was when they were beginning to be rolled out.
00:11:08.820 And there was a lot of disagreement, of course.
00:11:12.740 And there was a lot of, of course, we know within the church, there was a lot of trying to convince us that it was an act of charity to get the vaccines.
00:11:21.400 And then we have other people who were rightly so saying that they were produced too fast and that they're potentially dangerous.
00:11:31.060 So it was hard to know what voice to listen to, really.
00:11:34.180 And there was a lot of confusion.
00:11:35.320 And unfortunately, I did decide to receive the two Moderna shots in 2021.
00:11:44.020 And by this time, I believe I was in my, in the beginning of my second year.
00:11:50.060 And so I received those two shots.
00:11:52.540 And the effects weren't immediate.
00:11:55.320 I did start to experience some inflammation in my lower body, which seemed kind of weird because it's not something I had ever experienced before.
00:12:03.000 And it was making it a little bit uncomfortable to sit and a bit painful.
00:12:08.580 But I just, I went to the chiropractor.
00:12:10.760 I figured that would, like, be the thing that helps me.
00:12:14.140 And it had a little bit of a helpful effect, but it didn't really fix the inflammation.
00:12:19.360 That kind of persisted.
00:12:20.560 And then around that time of that fall semester in my second year, I had also injured my foot by running down some steps and landing on my foot too hard.
00:12:32.540 And the ball of my foot began to become inflamed.
00:12:35.040 And then to my bafflement, I couldn't really explain why.
00:12:40.820 And no doctor had been able to explain why.
00:12:42.960 But the other foot started to experience the same exact pain pattern and inflammation.
00:12:48.380 And I had done nothing to injure the other foot.
00:12:50.900 So it was kind of just a very odd phenomenon that I was dealing with.
00:12:55.580 Um, I, I had gone to the podiatrist at that point and he put me in a boot and he said it would be better in six weeks or so.
00:13:03.800 Um, unfortunately, that's not what happened.
00:13:06.320 Things got a lot worse.
00:13:07.760 Uh, the pain in my feet, both, both of my feet, uh, elevated to an extreme burning and a tingling.
00:13:14.980 And I eventually started having muscle spasms, like these very, very crazy muscle spasms, um, particularly while I was trying to sleep, I would experience like my limbs and my body just jolting out of nowhere.
00:13:27.340 And I really started to, um, just really freak out at this point because I had no idea what was going on with my health.
00:13:34.020 And I remember going to my dean in the middle of the semester and just really being, um, just kind of frantic and hysterical about this because I, I'm trying to focus on my studies.
00:13:44.980 And all these odd things are happening to me.
00:13:48.140 And, uh, it's very, very hard to get around campus at this point.
00:13:52.600 Um, so I did manage to, thankfully to finish the semester, but it was very hard.
00:13:57.780 I had to use a knee scooter for the rest of the semester.
00:14:01.840 Um, and then by the time it came to the summer of 2021, things had gotten so bad and the, the burning and the inflammation spread up my body, um, to the point where I just, I had to be in a wheelchair because I couldn't even.
00:14:14.980 I couldn't walk.
00:14:15.960 There was so much pain in my feet that I could barely do anything, but take a few careful steps before having to sit back down.
00:14:23.540 Um, and so I was forced to take a medical lead to, um, from my studies, unfortunately.
00:14:30.960 And, um, my bishop was very, very agreeable.
00:14:34.440 And he, he said, you know, I could come, I'm welcome to come back after I regain my health.
00:14:39.280 And he gave me that time to really try to find out what's going on and go to different doctors and specialists and try to figure out my health.
00:14:47.960 Um, so that was a year ago that I started that medical leave and I'm still not better, despite the fact that I seen, I've seen so many doctors.
00:14:57.520 I've seen so many specialists.
00:14:59.040 I've been in and out of the ER so many times.
00:15:02.140 I can't even keep track of how many times it's been.
00:15:05.020 Um, I have been able to get some answers, um, in terms of the autoimmune conditions that have developed, um, from what I believe to have been these COVID shots.
00:15:18.200 Um, and it really wasn't until, um, some friends pointed out to me, the timing between my getting the shots.
00:15:24.920 Um, I should also clarify and go back that it was after I received the booster shot, uh, of that, the same year that I got the Moderna shots, I received the booster in the winter.
00:15:35.380 And then that's when things really blew up with my health.
00:15:38.840 Um, so it was my friends who pointed out the timing between my getting the shots and the decline of my health.
00:15:45.580 That really started to open my eyes to what I may be dealing with here.
00:15:49.840 Um, and I've tried a lot of the different detox protocols, um, particularly, um, the FLCCC frontline COVID, uh, COVID critical care, um, doctors and researchers who really done a lot to try to help people recover from these, uh, injuries that have resulted from the shots.
00:16:08.540 Um, I've done a lot of the different protocols that they put out.
00:16:11.620 Some things have definitely helped.
00:16:13.680 Um, other things haven't.
00:16:15.580 Um, my progress hasn't been in any way linear, I would say, because other aspects of my health have continued to decline.
00:16:23.380 Um, so yeah, I've tried a lot of things at this point.
00:16:27.920 Um, and at this point, I think it's really a matter of dealing with the autoimmune issues now that the shots have triggered.
00:16:35.340 Um, so really.
00:16:38.280 Julian, if you don't mind me asking, how old are you now?
00:16:40.160 I'm 31.
00:16:40.780 I'm 31.
00:16:41.420 I'm 31.
00:16:41.540 Okay.
00:16:42.540 Okay.
00:16:42.620 And so life in seminary before this started happening, but in the middle of COVID, I mean, all over the world, uh, seminaries tended to be pretty strict in terms of masking and, and pushing the vaccine.
00:16:59.280 I mean, was it similar in yours?
00:17:01.340 Right.
00:17:01.740 Um, so in our seminary, thankfully, the, uh, they weren't mandating that we get these, uh, shots.
00:17:08.440 Um, I know that some other seminaries were.
00:17:11.060 So, um, I wouldn't, I'm very grateful that ours wasn't doing that.
00:17:14.220 However, they were, uh, they were trying to convince us that it was an act of charity.
00:17:18.280 Um, and, um, they really wanted us to do it because they believed it was the safe thing for us to do.
00:17:24.840 Um, and, you know, uh, being in the position of, again, I was confused in, in terms of the conflicting, um, voices as to whether this was safe or whether it wasn't.
00:17:34.760 Um, and when it's coming from positions of authority, you, you want to obey, you want to do the right thing, um, in your conscience.
00:17:42.480 So that's kind of where I, uh, part of why I made the decision also, and also coupled with the fact that, um, my mother has an already a compromised immune system.
00:17:53.000 So, um, there were not the seminary itself, but in general, how the media was pushing fear about protecting your loved ones, um, um, et cetera.
00:18:03.020 So in terms of the seminary, however, themselves, they weren't really mandating that we do get the shots, but they were strongly encouraging.
00:18:10.440 So, right.
00:18:11.360 And were they doing the whole masking thing as well, or were they?
00:18:15.160 Uh, yes, we were doing, we were required to mask, um, for a period of time.
00:18:20.900 Eventually they did lift, lift that, um, and became more lenient as the, uh, the COVID, um, cases started to die down, um, in particular on our campus.
00:18:30.800 So a lot of seminaries too, uh, forbade communion in the hand, excuse me, on the tongue, uh, and allowed it only on the hand if they allowed it at all.
00:18:39.320 Where did yours fall into that mix?
00:18:41.620 In the very beginning, um, when everything was just blowing up, they, they did make, um, a quick decision to not allow us to receive on the tongue.
00:18:51.400 Unfortunately, it did receive some, um, criticism and backlash from some of the seminarians.
00:18:58.040 Um, but it was very quick where they, they turned that decision around and they allowed us, they simply just, um, incorporated, um, uh, a little cup with a hand sanitizer for them to dip their fingers in and wipe their fingers between each person receiving Holy Communion.
00:19:14.640 Um, so that was, we're very grateful for that.
00:19:16.980 We were still able to receive, uh, on the tongue very quickly.
00:19:19.900 So, yeah.
00:19:21.440 Yeah.
00:19:21.800 So you've fared, at least in those terms, you've fared better than many.
00:19:26.420 Yes.
00:19:27.160 Um, so what's gone on since, um, you know, how are things looking for you?
00:19:32.660 What are your hopes right now?
00:19:35.300 Right.
00:19:35.740 So my hopes, um, again, I had this life funder that I, I, I've started that, uh, LifeSite has helped promote for me, which I'm very grateful for.
00:19:44.340 Um, in particular, I'm trying to, to get to this one clinic in Arkansas called the Sparrow Clinic.
00:19:50.260 Um, it's a homeopathic clinic.
00:19:52.500 They have all homeopathic modalities.
00:19:54.820 Um, and it's a, they have an intensive three month, uh, neuro-regenerative program, um, where they've combined all these different modalities aim at restoring the autonomic nervous system.
00:20:05.740 So the two different autoimmune diseases that have developed as a result of these shots, um, are both rooted in autonomic nervous system dysfunction.
00:20:15.060 So the one of, one of them is, um, called complex regional pain syndrome.
00:20:19.160 Um, and that's causing chronic inflammation throughout all the nerves of my body, which has really spread to my entire body at this point.
00:20:26.420 Um, and then the other one is postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, which affects the blood pressure and the heart.
00:20:33.260 Um, if I'm standing up for too long, um, my feet will, well, first of all, from the CRPS, the feet will spike up in nerve pain.
00:20:41.740 And from the POTS, I will start to get dizzy and lightheaded and I'll have to sit down immediately.
00:20:47.300 Um, so I'm very limited on the time that I can be on my feet, um, which is why I've had to use the wheelchair.
00:20:52.540 Um, so yes, my hope to get to this clinic is they have a very high remission rate for these conditions in particular.
00:21:01.280 And just the fact that I've spent so much time in the traditional allopathic medicine world, trying to pursue solutions to these issues.
00:21:10.840 And it's been a year, a little over a year now, and I've gotten almost nowhere.
00:21:16.320 Um, and it's very, very frustrating.
00:21:18.120 Um, the solutions that they want to give are just bandaid solutions, or they just want to give you, um, drugs that'll honestly, in a lot of cases, make things worse or won't help at all.
00:21:29.400 Um, so it's just, it's been very frustrating and I've gotten nowhere.
00:21:33.780 And given the fact that this particular clinic that I'm trying to get to has a high remission rate, and they also have a YouTube channel where you can see people going through their treatment program.
00:21:44.020 Um, and you can see how bad they were going into the clinic in a wheelchair.
00:21:48.100 Um, and you see the end result where they're standing there.
00:21:52.620 They look healthy.
00:21:53.320 They look like they've gotten their life back.
00:21:55.340 So I figured if it's possible for these other people, God willing, I think it'd be worth the shot.
00:22:01.980 And I think God can make it possible for me as well.
00:22:04.120 So that's really what my hope is at this point.
00:22:07.320 Indeed.
00:22:08.260 Um, what are your thoughts about priesthood?
00:22:11.300 Are you still, you still feel a vocation?
00:22:14.460 I do still very strongly feel a vocation.
00:22:17.180 Um, I really hope that after I'm able to get well, that I'd be able to immediately reapply to the seminary.
00:22:25.040 And my bishop has been very, again, he's been very, um, generous in that regard of saying that I can reapply once I get better.
00:22:31.960 Um, so I still feel that strong calling, um, in a way I do feel like I am still in formation because this suffering has really been an opportunity to offer it up and unite it with Christ.
00:22:44.660 And I know that's an important part of the priesthood.
00:22:47.480 So, um, although it's been very, very difficult, nonetheless, um, I do feel like, um, a lot of grace has come through it.
00:22:55.800 And it's been, uh, very, um, encouraging, I would say, in that regard.
00:23:00.700 Um, and I think it would, it's really been a experience that I'll take with me into my priesthood, God willing, um, when one day I'm ordained.
00:23:09.660 So, yeah.
00:23:10.980 Beautiful.
00:23:11.300 Now, a lot of people would, would say, hey, you know, you, you were trying to do the right thing.
00:23:15.800 You were trying to do, to be a priest.
00:23:17.880 You were trying everything and you still got hit.
00:23:20.180 And it's by God, uh, because God allows, the only way such things happens, God's allows it.
00:23:24.900 A lot of people would rebel.
00:23:26.800 A lot of people might tell you, like, Job, curse God and die.
00:23:30.100 What's been your experience of any of that?
00:23:33.000 Um, in terms of people offering any criticism for my decision?
00:23:36.380 And the whole thing, that the experience of it, going through it, working out yourself and any kind of sentiment like that you might have received.
00:23:43.040 Right.
00:23:43.440 Okay.
00:23:43.740 So, um, I, I'm thankful that I haven't really received too much, uh, criticism for my deciding to get the vaccine or, um, the quote unquote vaccine.
00:23:54.260 Uh, the, uh, really the response has been more one of overwhelming support.
00:23:59.880 People are very understanding.
00:24:01.280 They know that there was a lot of confusion around the time, uh, where these things were being rolled out.
00:24:06.280 So my friends were very supportive.
00:24:08.800 They didn't, they themselves didn't decide to get the vaccine, but they had warned me prior, um, to my getting it.
00:24:16.480 Um, unfortunately, just again, with all the confusion, I didn't really take that to heart.
00:24:20.840 Um, so that's really my fault for not really taking that into more deeper consideration before making the decision.
00:24:28.840 Um, but in general, I would say there hasn't really been too much negative criticism.
00:24:33.300 There's just been an overwhelming amount of people, um, particularly within my parish that have just seen, want to, uh, want to see me get better and go back to the seminary, uh, really.
00:24:43.840 So I'm very thankful for just the support that people have given me in that regard.
00:24:49.880 There are a lot of people that are still, um, they've taken one, sometimes two vaccines.
00:24:55.600 They're thinking about taking boosters.
00:24:56.820 Don't know if they should.
00:24:57.940 What would your advice be to them?
00:24:59.100 I would say we've been being told that these, uh, these shots are going to help us in some way, but I think we've very, very clearly seen, um, there's just mounting evidence of, it doesn't make you immune to getting COVID in the first place.
00:25:18.760 People can still get COVID as we've seen, and it doesn't make you any less susceptible to spreading it to other people.
00:25:25.060 Um, and we've seen the amount of deaths, the amount of people coming out with autoimmune issues, um, cancers, all these different things, these negative effects, people, a lot of athletes dropping dead as we've seen.
00:25:39.700 So I would say, um, very critically think about the, uh, the evidence that we've seen so far.
00:25:46.580 If you're somebody who's considering getting another booster and, and really question to yourself, whether it's even helped you to begin with.
00:25:53.980 Um, I know people who have received the vaccines and have still gotten COVID, um, and I don't think there's any evidence to suggest that had they not received, uh, these shots, that it would have been any worse.
00:26:05.200 Um, I know people got it, gotten it, and they got COVID and they didn't end up in the hospital.
00:26:10.880 And I know people who didn't get the vaccine and they got COVID and they didn't end up in the hospital.
00:26:15.780 So I don't think there's any conclusive evidence that these are really helpful in any way at all.
00:26:20.720 And I think to the contrary, we've seen overwhelming evidence that it's, it's doing a lot of harm to people.
00:26:25.660 So I would ask people to really question, uh, why they would want to put more of these toxic substances into their body in the first place, if it's not helping anybody.
00:26:37.020 Indeed.
00:26:37.760 Indeed.
00:26:38.400 Did you give much thought or where were you at with regard to the whole abortion tainted nature of the, of the shots? 0.69
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00:28:11.840 So, with that, I did give some thought to that before I received the vaccine, and that was an issue that I talked to, like, some friends about.
00:28:24.460 I think the whole thing with the Vatican coming out, with the whole moral thing in terms of it being an act of charity,
00:28:33.860 I can't remember all the reasoning that they gave behind kind of overlooking the abortion aspect of the shots.
00:28:45.220 But I know that in terms of my having considered it, unfortunately, at the time, that kind of seemed, that response from the Vatican kind of seemed to suffice for me.
00:28:56.620 If I'm looking back now, I think that was a really dumb decision on my part to overlook that and not think about that more critically.
00:29:06.080 I will say it definitely was a concern in the beginning, but I don't know.
00:29:10.660 Really, in terms of the confusion, I guess, between people saying it's good and whether it's bad and whether it's moral or not.
00:29:17.520 And also, I think the biggest factor was just wanting to protect my family, my mom in particular.
00:29:22.760 I think that's kind of what caused me to just say, okay, if the Vatican is saying it's fine, then I'll do this.
00:29:32.560 And now I know, of course, that wasn't the right decision.
00:29:36.360 Yeah.
00:29:37.460 Unreal.
00:29:38.040 Do you think that's characteristic of a lot of people?
00:29:40.360 Do you think a lot of people who would have said, no, it's abortion-tated, I'm not going to do that,
00:29:45.040 but were swayed by Pope Francis very explicitly stating this and basically saying you must get it,
00:29:53.520 and also that it's remote material cooperation, it's nothing around, in fact, then turning it on its head and calling it an act of charity?
00:30:02.060 Right, yeah.
00:30:03.440 Yeah, I think it is something that probably has swayed a lot of people.
00:30:08.120 I think that, in combined with the fear aspect, is really what maybe kind of blinded a lot of people to overlook something so serious as that.
00:30:19.700 I think the fear, if you can get a lot of people to fear, you can get them to do anything almost, I would say.
00:30:26.600 And I think the media really used that to its advantage.
00:30:32.020 So, with the whole fear component, of course, there's a lot of people who weren't swayed by the fear, and thank God for that.
00:30:41.400 But I think, yeah, if you're combining the fear and all these other aspects of confusion,
00:30:49.080 I think it's easy to kind of say, okay, the Vatican's saying it's all right, so I'm afraid and I don't want to harm my family.
00:30:56.400 I don't want to bring any sickness to my family, so I'm going to get this shot anyway, regardless of whether there's a grave moral issue involved.
00:31:06.500 I think, unfortunately, yeah, that has swayed a lot of people, myself included, and shame on me for really being swayed by that in the first place.
00:31:15.340 But I guess what's done is done, and I've definitely prayed about that afterwards and asked for forgiveness for even making that decision, despite that moral qualm.
00:31:27.680 But, yeah, unfortunately, I think that's just what we've dealt with.
00:31:32.000 Yeah. Well, Julian, thank you for speaking out, because I think that's really important.
00:31:38.860 It's hard on the other side to speak out, and you've done so.
00:31:44.820 Your witness will be a warning to many, many people.
00:31:48.120 Well, I hope people can go, and I wish you all the best with your vocation.
00:31:54.160 We'll get to your life funder, life funder for Julian Young, to help him get this treatment,
00:32:00.760 which will hopefully, God-willing, lead not only to his healing, but to his getting back to seminary and becoming a holy priest.
00:32:08.200 And can I ask you, I'm sure you'll be praying for those who donate, and perhaps even when you're a priest.
00:32:17.200 Yes, absolutely, I will.
00:32:18.800 Like I said in the beginning, I'm so grateful for the amount of support that is just within the first three days of the article being published
00:32:25.960 and the life funder being up, the overwhelming amount of donations that have flooded in.
00:32:33.940 And I'm so very grateful to everybody who supported me, who have left just comments wishing me well, wishing for my better health and praying for me.
00:32:46.040 So I'm definitely going to keep everybody in prayer.
00:32:48.560 And, yeah, I'm just looking forward to see the amount of support that continues on from here.
00:32:55.860 Beautiful. Julian Young, thank you so much for being with us. God bless you.
00:32:59.740 God bless you, too. Thank you for having me.
00:33:01.300 And God bless all of you. And we'll see you next time.
00:33:31.300 God bless you.