The John-Henry Westen Show - December 17, 2025


Why Are Bishops SILENT!？ Fr. Nix EXPOSES the Vatican's Globalist Agenda & Marian Betrayal

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global sterilization program
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Fatima Mary Michael Knowles Charlie Kirk Papa James Martin John Paul II Amoris Laetitia Judas Bishop Strickland Cardinal Burke Chris Jackson Jesus Christ Pope Fiducia Supplicans Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano Padre Peregrino Scott Hahn David Nix Peter
Fr. Altman： The PLOT to REPLACE the Catholic Church Bishop Eleganti’s Final Warning： The Silence on Doctrine Is a Lie

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In this episode, Father David Nix, a hermit priest in the Diocese of Rome, joins host John Henry Newman to talk about the pro-life movement, Pope Francis, abortion, and the Catholic Church as a whole.

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00:00:00.000 Red carpet was rolled out for LifeSite News just 20 years ago for the pro-life movement,
00:00:04.580 and so one of two things happened. Either John Henry Weston and LifeSite News changed the entire
00:00:09.600 trajectory and their beliefs, or something really bad happened here in Rome.
00:00:17.920 Hello, my dear friends. We are with someone you probably all know, Father David Nix,
00:00:22.880 known probably by Padre Peregrino to many of you. He's an outspoken priest, a hermit in his
00:00:31.020 diocese where he celebrates the traditional Latin Mass and is for many people a breath of fresh air,
00:00:36.740 of clarity, especially on his blog as he points to the truth with more evidence than most reporters
00:00:44.580 ever will. Welcome, Father. Thanks for having me, John Henry. Great to see you. So let's begin,
00:00:49.040 as you always do at Santa Cross. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
00:00:53.340 Amen. Amen. So, Father, the church is in a very weird spot, I'd say. Well, it's been in that weird
00:01:00.760 spot probably for the last 13, 14 years, which is a good deal of time. Many, many of my adult
00:01:06.980 children sort of grew up in that time. Grew up in a time that I'd say is really weird in the church.
00:01:14.980 I can't describe to my children the former times because they have no reference point for it.
00:01:25.120 My oldest is 29. My youngest is 14. From the womb in this time. But it's a very strange thing because
00:01:34.960 it's hard to get them to imagine a church where, yeah, your bishops sometimes didn't like you because
00:01:40.860 you were pro-life and they thought you were weird. There were some bishops who were like right on
00:01:44.320 the side. But the Pope always had your back. The Pope was always there for most of their experience.
00:01:52.220 It's the other way around. Your bishop might like you, but, you know. How do you describe this to
00:01:57.480 people? Do you meet many Catholics who are in that kind of like, what do we do? This is just weird. 1.00
00:02:03.140 You didn't ask me to say this, but I do remember you telling me years ago,
00:02:06.500 before we came to Rome here, that story about when your daughter was in college at university,
00:02:11.480 I think you call it in Canada, and she called and said, Dad, Amoris Laetitia says divorced and
00:02:17.520 remarried can receive Holy Communion without an annulment. And you had to go into a new mode in 0.99
00:02:22.600 your mind to explain this to your daughter. And I think that was a mode a lot of good parents,
00:02:30.700 coast to coast in Canada, the good Catholic parents in Europe, there was a new mode that people
00:02:36.480 had to enter into. Now, we have a lot of different answers. I think a lot of your listeners know my
00:02:42.600 view on a lot of these things, but you're right. There's a time that has changed quite a bit.
00:02:50.960 Well, let me put it this way. Here we are in Rome, and I was just thinking a few hours ago,
00:02:58.080 LifeSite News under Pope John Paul II was like a superstar in Rome. You guys were welcome.
00:03:04.360 Red carpet was rolled out for LifeSite News just 20 years ago for the pro-life movement. And so one
00:03:09.700 of two things happened. Either John Henry Weston and LifeSite News changed the entire trajectory
00:03:15.080 and their beliefs, or something really bad happened here in Rome. I don't know how to give a third
00:03:24.580 option as far as that. And I know you and I have a lot of the same enemies that would say, well,
00:03:31.020 you're supposed to be obedient. You're not supposed to talk about that stuff. But anybody that's been
00:03:35.720 following LifeSite for a long time knows that you've always been faithful to the church. Your
00:03:40.820 mission has been for the unborn and for the salvation of souls. So I think just by process
00:03:47.900 of elimination, we can kind of say we can rule out number one there. It actually got more weird
00:03:54.400 in the last little while. Because for one thing, Leo speaks English. And that's actually much worse.
00:04:00.840 I understand some Italian. So I could tell when Francis was saying stuff. But to hear it in your
00:04:05.380 own native tongue where you can't pretend to yourself, I'm missing some nuance. There's something.
00:04:10.720 You just get it and it hits you like a ton of bricks. It's painful in a new way.
00:04:16.460 That was with the abortion comment. That was just something, you know, if you're against the death
00:04:19.820 penalty, you're not really pro-life. Yes. I remember that. That was just raw. He can get
00:04:25.920 the language. He gets the nuance. And it's still like that. And it's horrible. Where do you go with
00:04:30.540 that to people who come and say, what? What's that? All of the really controversial stuff aside,
00:04:36.200 I said from the start, Leo's going to be Francis 2.0 because he's cut from the same cloth. He was
00:04:42.700 chosen by him ahead of time. And I studied what he had taught as bishop. I mean, Liz, you're here in
00:04:49.460 Rome just presented on Agenda 2030, which is a global sterilization program. And I texted you when
00:04:54.720 she was talking, actually, a link to the Spanish where he, Bishop Prevost, as bishop was promoting
00:05:00.580 Agenda 2030. Now people say, give him a chance. Okay. But if he's been promoting a global sterilization
00:05:08.180 program from when he was a bishop, it's not like there's a magical chair of St. Peter that you sit on.
00:05:14.120 We can evaluate someone by what they teach. And so, you know, when people say you're a meanie or
00:05:22.280 you're disobedient or whatever else, it's like, why don't we just take people at their word? You know,
00:05:28.220 I'm not projecting any mind reading on anybody. If you tell me you believe in Agenda 2030, which also
00:05:36.880 promotes contraception, by the way, then I'm going to believe you. I don't need to be Padre Pio who can
00:05:42.200 read hearts to know, I believe you if you're promoting this. So we knew what we were getting
00:05:46.820 and we have a continuation of this globalism and liberal totalitarianism.
00:05:52.580 Hello, my friends. I want to thank you so much for your prayers, for your support for Life State
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00:06:25.880 It got really weird in the last few months. And people might think this is weird because
00:06:31.760 beyond the abortion comment, it got weird when they went after Our Lady. And everybody's going to say,
00:06:39.360 no, they didn't. Did you read the document? Yes. And it doesn't say, doesn't bash Our Lady openly.
00:06:46.100 It doesn't. But it does say that these titles of Our Lady that the church has used for centuries
00:06:53.700 that are biblically based. And it's actually more obvious, I think, to Protestants to know the Bible
00:06:59.240 well about the co-redentrics and mediatrics of all graces. If they just hear that all grace and truth
00:07:04.560 come through Jesus Christ, then Jesus Christ came through Mary. Yes. Therefore, that's pretty darn 0.90
00:07:10.740 obvious. And Paul talks about how I make up in my own body what's lacking the suffering of Christ,
00:07:16.520 which is nothing except that Christ wants us to be co-redeemed. So I think even for Protestants, 0.71
00:07:22.080 it's so, like, it's biblical. And yet there was that. And that scared me more than just about
00:07:28.920 anything else. Because I'm a fan of prophecies, saints, and apparitions. And often Our Ladies 0.91
00:07:35.740 describe how she is holding back the arm of her son that wants to fall in judgment. And then they went
00:07:43.180 after his mom. And that does not sit well. That's like, ooh, yeah, mom, you could have held my hand
00:07:51.060 back when they were going after me, even my father. But now they've come after you. That's not a good
00:07:56.760 picture for, you know, like the son of great strength who says you went after my mom. That's
00:08:03.380 enough. I mean, that did cross a new line, of course, at that point. And I got it from your podcast. It was
00:08:08.520 52 or 53 mentions how basically Mary was downgraded as the person who is the mediatrics of all graces.
00:08:17.420 And I can understand how co-redemptics, the theory and the notion, the reality of co-redemptics
00:08:24.080 take some theological explanation. I understand why Protestant converse of Catholicism can initially be
00:08:30.700 confused at co-redemptics. But for it to attack Mary as mediatrics of all graces, that was the big 0.51
00:08:37.280 showstopper for me because you don't really have the plausible deniability you do on co-redemptrics
00:08:43.800 where things were like a little bit more complex. Though even Pope John Paul II promoted Mary as both
00:08:49.000 co-redemptrics and mediatrics of all graces. So this isn't dug up from the early church. It's not dug up
00:08:56.100 from the middle ages. This seems to be titles of Mary for 2,000 years, even if this was in slightly
00:09:01.160 different terms in the early church. And so when people say, well, Leo gave some Muslims the rosary
00:09:07.180 in Lebanon. Okay, maybe it was rosary, maybe not. I see some mixed stories on that. But he signed off
00:09:12.500 on a document downgrading Mary. Is that a wash? No, it's not really a wash. This is a very bad idea to
00:09:21.760 put it in an understated manner to put on Vatican paper an attack on Our Lady.
00:09:28.520 Why then, in light of all of what's happened through the Francis era, there were some voices
00:09:36.080 of opposition among the hierarchy. There was people ready to stand up and say, nope, that's not the
00:09:41.800 Catholic faith. Here's the truth. It can never change. Yes, it's being said over there, and it's
00:09:47.160 wrong, and you have to just stick to the faith. The strongest voices in that former chorus are all
00:09:54.100 gone. That's right. There's a veritable silence. Now there's one handful. Well, part of that is
00:09:59.500 because who was removed under Francis? I mean, Bishop Strickland was removed. Archbishop Vigano
00:10:05.080 spoke up. They say he's excommunicated. I don't think it's a valid excommunication. He's still a very
00:10:10.520 loud voice out there. So I didn't see a lot of voices in the hierarchy doing the right thing. I mean,
00:10:14.660 think about the COVID shutdowns. I always said, even from the beginning of the COVID shutdowns,
00:10:19.100 I said, I wish just one bishop anywhere on six or seven continents would say, I'm not closing my
00:10:25.880 churches. Even if the cops came, drag them away in handcuffs, you know that bishop would have been
00:10:31.560 a hero to the entire world under these lockdowns, the scandemic. That bishop would have been a hero.
00:10:37.720 We didn't have one bishop stand up against it. So I'm not really disagreeing with you, but did we see
00:10:42.960 any bishop in the world stand up against Amoris Laetitia? I mean, even Bishop Strickland at first
00:10:48.580 said it was a beautiful document. Thankfully, he walked that back. But I didn't see a lot of
00:10:53.800 opposition to open heresy in fiducia supplicans, in Amoris Laetitia. So is it really that shocking that
00:11:01.040 the anesthetization continues on at this point? As Chris Jackson always says, you know,
00:11:07.360 the revolution simply marches on. And this is where I do think the only hope is going to be
00:11:13.920 divine intervention at this point. I do believe divine intervention is going to be our only
00:11:19.000 rescue, which is why we have to keep the faith. I think the shocking thing for me is how many
00:11:25.920 traditionalists shifted their opposition to heresy six months ago for random reasons I still
00:11:32.080 don't understand. So I'm a little bit more shocked at the lay people than the silence of the bishops,
00:11:36.680 which has really continued for a long time. Well, there's a few, but one particularly,
00:11:41.480 one that would have spoken up during all this is Cardinal Burke, because he was the guy who was the
00:11:48.340 dubia, and a couple of colleagues of his died brokenheartedly, and he knows that. But this is an
00:11:56.220 American pope. These are American issues, if you will. This is Papa James Martin. There's no more
00:12:02.600 excuse for any of that. Like, he just, you know, Francis, he didn't get the nuance. And it was,
00:12:07.800 you know, yeah, they're both Jesuits, but you know, this is like, no, this is an American. Sorry.
00:12:12.940 I mean, from proof or wrong, it doesn't matter. You still know who James Martin, everybody knows who
00:12:16.540 James is in America. And everybody knows the sly little way that he does his thing.
00:12:20.300 Nobody's saying anything. And nobody's said anything with the abortion comments with regard to
00:12:26.380 the death penalty.
00:12:27.920 We were hoping for someone courageous to step up. And again, to quote Chris Jackson, I really believe
00:12:34.340 he got it right when he said that Trad Inc. ended up in silence because they wanted the best terms of
00:12:41.320 surrender. You know, there's a lot of different theories out there, because the traditional world's
00:12:45.580 very divided right now, the pro-Leo and the anti-Leo. And there's a lot of theories, you know,
00:12:51.340 on money and back-channeling information and stuff. But I think the most charitable interpretation
00:12:57.580 of quote-unquote Trad Inc. right now, Cardinal Burke and everybody, is they just wanted the best terms
00:13:03.860 of surrender. They looked at so many years of post-Vatican II Revolution. This is me trying to be
00:13:09.300 charitable. I'm not saying I actually subscribe to this or something harsher or what Trad Inc. says. I just
00:13:13.820 mean the most charitable towards them seems to say, you know what, the best we can do right now
00:13:19.840 is save our local Latin mass by not calling out these heresies. Now I will give my opinion. My 0.99
00:13:26.740 opinion on that is the 1917 Code of Canon Law says silence or defense of a heretic makes you suspicious
00:13:34.100 of heresy. I don't want to go down in history doing that. People call me all the names they want,
00:13:39.680 schismatic, whatever. But you actually can't be a schismatic from a heretic. Let me say that again. 0.72
00:13:45.000 Schism means you're torn from. You cannot, it's impossible according to canon law, the magisterium,
00:13:50.560 and divine law to actually be schismatic broken from a heretic. So that's not something I'm afraid
00:13:56.280 of being called anymore. So we do have to stand up against obvious heresy. And, you know, when you said,
00:14:03.760 what do Catholics do with this? I also want to mention what Protestants do with this. I had dinner
00:14:08.980 with a Vietnamese woman and her husband. She was raised Catholic. She left the church. They got
00:14:15.280 married in a mega church. They had a very strong relationship with Christ or a very strong experience
00:14:20.240 of Christ. And now they're kind of looking at coming into the Catholic church. And we had a three,
00:14:24.660 three and a half hour dinner. They basically said to me the same thing Charlie Kirk did. They said,
00:14:29.140 we want to become Catholic or we're at least interested in the Catholic faith. But we can't do
00:14:35.080 that with Marxists and leftists running the Vatican. So without getting myself too much in trouble, I
00:14:40.400 basically explained what you've been saying about La Salette, the two worm-ridden you-know-whats.
00:14:46.360 We talked about that. And I happened to mention Fatima in passing. And I said, but that's too much.
00:14:52.740 She said, no, no, no. I want you to tell me about Fatima. I said, well, there's a real belief that the third
00:14:58.360 secret of Fatima was apostasy from the top down in the church. She said, what does that mean? I said,
00:15:03.800 the Catholic clergy would leave the Catholic faith. And she said, that makes sense. Now I'm 1.00
00:15:08.500 interested in the Catholic faith. And so we have to front load the bad news if we're going to make
00:15:13.460 real converts. We can't say, hey, there's nothing to see here. There's no two Marxists in a row running
00:15:19.620 the vet. We can't lie to people. They're not, they are not going to believe these lies. So when I
00:15:25.360 explained, we've had two funky conclaves, the third secret of Fatima was probably apostasy from the top
00:15:31.520 down. And here's what the Catholic church really teaches. Now I should be fair. The first two hours
00:15:36.820 of this dinner, I sounded like Scott Hahn. It was all apologetics. This wasn't all church crisis. It
00:15:41.900 was all biblical apologetics. It's not like this is all I think about is the church crisis. The first
00:15:47.760 two hours was a really good, maybe not open Bible, but open Bible in our mind conversation about the
00:15:54.440 difference between Catholicism and Protestantism. The last hour, where I honestly didn't want to go
00:15:59.100 was who is running the church? What about these clergy scandals? What about the open borders in
00:16:05.900 the USACB? How do you have two Marxists on the chair of Peter? All this stuff. And when I gave
00:16:11.300 honest answers, what I really believe, a lot of what you've been saying on your show from La Salette
00:16:16.240 and Fatima, again, that made sense to them. And so we're going to make converts of real Christians
00:16:25.460 who want to enter traditional Catholicism when we tell them the truth. We might get called all
00:16:30.740 these names like schismatics from a lot of mainstream Catholics, but the people truly searching
00:16:35.320 for the classic perennial Catholic church, we have to be honest about our dirty laundry right now. 0.77
00:16:41.900 We have never before in the history of the church needed more Bible believing Catholics. So please 0.51
00:16:49.500 come on in. And for a lot of them, I say from my own perspective, particularly men, they like that
00:16:56.720 challenge. Oh, it's actually a war in there. Yeah, it is. And we need you. So don't delay. Those
00:17:03.560 questions, they're pulled by Christ. They're not pulled by a Francis or any priest. They're pulled by
00:17:11.500 Jesus. And you can't abandon the call of Jesus because of Judas. Sure. And so, yeah, there's
00:17:17.440 going to be. But Judas was one of 12. What happens when 11 of the 12 are Judas? Yeah. Like that's 0.66
00:17:22.280 where things get a little harder. It does. But. And this isn't just my wheelhouse of yours. I mean,
00:17:27.600 you can see Charlie Kirk on Michael Knowles' podcast when Francis was alive. Michael Knowles
00:17:33.520 basically invites him to become Catholic. He says, if you think that guy's Pope, maybe he's not Pope.
00:17:38.600 That's amazing. Amazingly prophetic. Charlie Kirk said that because he said, you're claiming
00:17:43.840 a Marxist is the vicar of Christ. Now, how does a man like Charlie Kirk, who's not even Catholic
00:17:49.340 yet, see that? Well, because he's a Bible believing man. And so this is the type of stuff of doing
00:17:56.060 damage control with false conclusions based on false premises on these conclaves. God's not
00:18:02.960 going to honor that. Why? Because God is only going to honor the truth. Even if it's a very
00:18:08.220 uncomfortable truth. Even if it means getting called names like Sedivacontist or Schismatic
00:18:13.800 or all these other names. I only care about the evidence. I don't care to be in a special
00:18:19.140 group. I don't care what names another group calls me. I'm going to look at the evidence
00:18:24.220 on conclaves. I'm going to look at the evidence on Fatima. And then I'm going to speak the truth
00:18:28.100 boldly. And you know who's going to come? It's other bold Christians, even if they're
00:18:32.440 not Catholic yet. And we may not see the fruit for 10, 20 years, but I do know God will never 0.99
00:18:39.260 honor cowardice and he's never going to honor a lie.
00:18:43.040 It's really funny if you want to see how a very, very bright Catholic does with trying
00:18:50.100 to argue that, don't worry about it, it's not really this, is that. Watch that Michael
00:18:54.560 Knowles interview. Exactly. I love Michael Knowles. He's a brilliant guy. Every time
00:18:59.360 he argues, he kills his opponents. To accept that debate, it is honestly the most embarrassing 0.52
00:19:04.860 debate I've ever seen him in because he gets massacred. Not because Charlie is so much better
00:19:12.700 than him. Because he took the position of having to try to defend a Francis papacy.
00:19:19.280 Michael Knowles is 10 times smarter than me. He handles his political situations 10 times
00:19:23.360 better than I would. But he came to a false conclusion because his whole argument there
00:19:28.040 was based on a false premise.
00:19:29.660 Father, I will ask you one more thing. If you could give everyone a blessing.
00:19:33.300 I sure will.
00:19:33.840 Dominus phobiscum.
00:19:34.900 Et com spiritus utuo.
00:19:36.100 Benedictus de me patentes.
00:19:37.900 Pace sefiri. Et spiritus santi. Descend et super vos. Et mani et semper. Amen.
00:19:42.360 Amen. Thank you, Father.
00:19:43.460 Thank you.
00:19:43.860 And all of you have just been blessed. So I'll say God bless you too. And we'll see you next time.
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