Why Are Bishops SILENT!？ Fr. Nix EXPOSES the Vatican's Globalist Agenda & Marian Betrayal
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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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Red carpet was rolled out for LifeSite News just 20 years ago for the pro-life movement,
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and so one of two things happened. Either John Henry Weston and LifeSite News changed the entire
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trajectory and their beliefs, or something really bad happened here in Rome.
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Hello, my dear friends. We are with someone you probably all know, Father David Nix,
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known probably by Padre Peregrino to many of you. He's an outspoken priest, a hermit in his
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diocese where he celebrates the traditional Latin Mass and is for many people a breath of fresh air,
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of clarity, especially on his blog as he points to the truth with more evidence than most reporters
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ever will. Welcome, Father. Thanks for having me, John Henry. Great to see you. So let's begin,
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as you always do at Santa Cross. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
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Amen. Amen. So, Father, the church is in a very weird spot, I'd say. Well, it's been in that weird
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spot probably for the last 13, 14 years, which is a good deal of time. Many, many of my adult
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children sort of grew up in that time. Grew up in a time that I'd say is really weird in the church.
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I can't describe to my children the former times because they have no reference point for it.
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My oldest is 29. My youngest is 14. From the womb in this time. But it's a very strange thing because
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it's hard to get them to imagine a church where, yeah, your bishops sometimes didn't like you because
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you were pro-life and they thought you were weird. There were some bishops who were like right on
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the side. But the Pope always had your back. The Pope was always there for most of their experience.
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It's the other way around. Your bishop might like you, but, you know. How do you describe this to
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people? Do you meet many Catholics who are in that kind of like, what do we do? This is just weird.
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You didn't ask me to say this, but I do remember you telling me years ago,
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before we came to Rome here, that story about when your daughter was in college at university,
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I think you call it in Canada, and she called and said, Dad, Amoris Laetitia says divorced and
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remarried can receive Holy Communion without an annulment. And you had to go into a new mode in
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your mind to explain this to your daughter. And I think that was a mode a lot of good parents,
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coast to coast in Canada, the good Catholic parents in Europe, there was a new mode that people
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had to enter into. Now, we have a lot of different answers. I think a lot of your listeners know my
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view on a lot of these things, but you're right. There's a time that has changed quite a bit.
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Well, let me put it this way. Here we are in Rome, and I was just thinking a few hours ago,
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LifeSite News under Pope John Paul II was like a superstar in Rome. You guys were welcome.
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Red carpet was rolled out for LifeSite News just 20 years ago for the pro-life movement. And so one
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of two things happened. Either John Henry Weston and LifeSite News changed the entire trajectory
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and their beliefs, or something really bad happened here in Rome. I don't know how to give a third
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option as far as that. And I know you and I have a lot of the same enemies that would say, well,
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you're supposed to be obedient. You're not supposed to talk about that stuff. But anybody that's been
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following LifeSite for a long time knows that you've always been faithful to the church. Your
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mission has been for the unborn and for the salvation of souls. So I think just by process
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of elimination, we can kind of say we can rule out number one there. It actually got more weird
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in the last little while. Because for one thing, Leo speaks English. And that's actually much worse.
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I understand some Italian. So I could tell when Francis was saying stuff. But to hear it in your
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own native tongue where you can't pretend to yourself, I'm missing some nuance. There's something.
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You just get it and it hits you like a ton of bricks. It's painful in a new way.
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That was with the abortion comment. That was just something, you know, if you're against the death
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penalty, you're not really pro-life. Yes. I remember that. That was just raw. He can get
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the language. He gets the nuance. And it's still like that. And it's horrible. Where do you go with
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that to people who come and say, what? What's that? All of the really controversial stuff aside,
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I said from the start, Leo's going to be Francis 2.0 because he's cut from the same cloth. He was
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chosen by him ahead of time. And I studied what he had taught as bishop. I mean, Liz, you're here in
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Rome just presented on Agenda 2030, which is a global sterilization program. And I texted you when
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she was talking, actually, a link to the Spanish where he, Bishop Prevost, as bishop was promoting
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Agenda 2030. Now people say, give him a chance. Okay. But if he's been promoting a global sterilization
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program from when he was a bishop, it's not like there's a magical chair of St. Peter that you sit on.
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We can evaluate someone by what they teach. And so, you know, when people say you're a meanie or
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you're disobedient or whatever else, it's like, why don't we just take people at their word? You know,
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I'm not projecting any mind reading on anybody. If you tell me you believe in Agenda 2030, which also
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promotes contraception, by the way, then I'm going to believe you. I don't need to be Padre Pio who can
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read hearts to know, I believe you if you're promoting this. So we knew what we were getting
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and we have a continuation of this globalism and liberal totalitarianism.
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It got really weird in the last few months. And people might think this is weird because
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beyond the abortion comment, it got weird when they went after Our Lady. And everybody's going to say,
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no, they didn't. Did you read the document? Yes. And it doesn't say, doesn't bash Our Lady openly.
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It doesn't. But it does say that these titles of Our Lady that the church has used for centuries
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that are biblically based. And it's actually more obvious, I think, to Protestants to know the Bible
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well about the co-redentrics and mediatrics of all graces. If they just hear that all grace and truth
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come through Jesus Christ, then Jesus Christ came through Mary. Yes. Therefore, that's pretty darn
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obvious. And Paul talks about how I make up in my own body what's lacking the suffering of Christ,
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which is nothing except that Christ wants us to be co-redeemed. So I think even for Protestants,
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it's so, like, it's biblical. And yet there was that. And that scared me more than just about
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anything else. Because I'm a fan of prophecies, saints, and apparitions. And often Our Ladies
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describe how she is holding back the arm of her son that wants to fall in judgment. And then they went
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after his mom. And that does not sit well. That's like, ooh, yeah, mom, you could have held my hand
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back when they were going after me, even my father. But now they've come after you. That's not a good
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picture for, you know, like the son of great strength who says you went after my mom. That's
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enough. I mean, that did cross a new line, of course, at that point. And I got it from your podcast. It was
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52 or 53 mentions how basically Mary was downgraded as the person who is the mediatrics of all graces.
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And I can understand how co-redemptics, the theory and the notion, the reality of co-redemptics
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take some theological explanation. I understand why Protestant converse of Catholicism can initially be
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confused at co-redemptics. But for it to attack Mary as mediatrics of all graces, that was the big
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showstopper for me because you don't really have the plausible deniability you do on co-redemptrics
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where things were like a little bit more complex. Though even Pope John Paul II promoted Mary as both
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co-redemptrics and mediatrics of all graces. So this isn't dug up from the early church. It's not dug up
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from the middle ages. This seems to be titles of Mary for 2,000 years, even if this was in slightly
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different terms in the early church. And so when people say, well, Leo gave some Muslims the rosary
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in Lebanon. Okay, maybe it was rosary, maybe not. I see some mixed stories on that. But he signed off
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on a document downgrading Mary. Is that a wash? No, it's not really a wash. This is a very bad idea to
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put it in an understated manner to put on Vatican paper an attack on Our Lady.
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Why then, in light of all of what's happened through the Francis era, there were some voices
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of opposition among the hierarchy. There was people ready to stand up and say, nope, that's not the
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Catholic faith. Here's the truth. It can never change. Yes, it's being said over there, and it's
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wrong, and you have to just stick to the faith. The strongest voices in that former chorus are all
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gone. That's right. There's a veritable silence. Now there's one handful. Well, part of that is
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because who was removed under Francis? I mean, Bishop Strickland was removed. Archbishop Vigano
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spoke up. They say he's excommunicated. I don't think it's a valid excommunication. He's still a very
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loud voice out there. So I didn't see a lot of voices in the hierarchy doing the right thing. I mean,
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think about the COVID shutdowns. I always said, even from the beginning of the COVID shutdowns,
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I said, I wish just one bishop anywhere on six or seven continents would say, I'm not closing my
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churches. Even if the cops came, drag them away in handcuffs, you know that bishop would have been
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a hero to the entire world under these lockdowns, the scandemic. That bishop would have been a hero.
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We didn't have one bishop stand up against it. So I'm not really disagreeing with you, but did we see
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any bishop in the world stand up against Amoris Laetitia? I mean, even Bishop Strickland at first
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said it was a beautiful document. Thankfully, he walked that back. But I didn't see a lot of
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opposition to open heresy in fiducia supplicans, in Amoris Laetitia. So is it really that shocking that
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the anesthetization continues on at this point? As Chris Jackson always says, you know,
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the revolution simply marches on. And this is where I do think the only hope is going to be
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divine intervention at this point. I do believe divine intervention is going to be our only
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rescue, which is why we have to keep the faith. I think the shocking thing for me is how many
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traditionalists shifted their opposition to heresy six months ago for random reasons I still
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don't understand. So I'm a little bit more shocked at the lay people than the silence of the bishops,
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which has really continued for a long time. Well, there's a few, but one particularly,
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one that would have spoken up during all this is Cardinal Burke, because he was the guy who was the
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dubia, and a couple of colleagues of his died brokenheartedly, and he knows that. But this is an
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American pope. These are American issues, if you will. This is Papa James Martin. There's no more
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excuse for any of that. Like, he just, you know, Francis, he didn't get the nuance. And it was,
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you know, yeah, they're both Jesuits, but you know, this is like, no, this is an American. Sorry.
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I mean, from proof or wrong, it doesn't matter. You still know who James Martin, everybody knows who
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James is in America. And everybody knows the sly little way that he does his thing.
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Nobody's saying anything. And nobody's said anything with the abortion comments with regard to
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We were hoping for someone courageous to step up. And again, to quote Chris Jackson, I really believe
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he got it right when he said that Trad Inc. ended up in silence because they wanted the best terms of
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surrender. You know, there's a lot of different theories out there, because the traditional world's
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very divided right now, the pro-Leo and the anti-Leo. And there's a lot of theories, you know,
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on money and back-channeling information and stuff. But I think the most charitable interpretation
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of quote-unquote Trad Inc. right now, Cardinal Burke and everybody, is they just wanted the best terms
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of surrender. They looked at so many years of post-Vatican II Revolution. This is me trying to be
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charitable. I'm not saying I actually subscribe to this or something harsher or what Trad Inc. says. I just
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mean the most charitable towards them seems to say, you know what, the best we can do right now
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is save our local Latin mass by not calling out these heresies. Now I will give my opinion. My
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opinion on that is the 1917 Code of Canon Law says silence or defense of a heretic makes you suspicious
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of heresy. I don't want to go down in history doing that. People call me all the names they want,
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schismatic, whatever. But you actually can't be a schismatic from a heretic. Let me say that again.
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Schism means you're torn from. You cannot, it's impossible according to canon law, the magisterium,
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and divine law to actually be schismatic broken from a heretic. So that's not something I'm afraid
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of being called anymore. So we do have to stand up against obvious heresy. And, you know, when you said,
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what do Catholics do with this? I also want to mention what Protestants do with this. I had dinner
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with a Vietnamese woman and her husband. She was raised Catholic. She left the church. They got
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married in a mega church. They had a very strong relationship with Christ or a very strong experience
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of Christ. And now they're kind of looking at coming into the Catholic church. And we had a three,
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three and a half hour dinner. They basically said to me the same thing Charlie Kirk did. They said,
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we want to become Catholic or we're at least interested in the Catholic faith. But we can't do
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that with Marxists and leftists running the Vatican. So without getting myself too much in trouble, I
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basically explained what you've been saying about La Salette, the two worm-ridden you-know-whats.
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We talked about that. And I happened to mention Fatima in passing. And I said, but that's too much.
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She said, no, no, no. I want you to tell me about Fatima. I said, well, there's a real belief that the third
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secret of Fatima was apostasy from the top down in the church. She said, what does that mean? I said,
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the Catholic clergy would leave the Catholic faith. And she said, that makes sense. Now I'm
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interested in the Catholic faith. And so we have to front load the bad news if we're going to make
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real converts. We can't say, hey, there's nothing to see here. There's no two Marxists in a row running
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the vet. We can't lie to people. They're not, they are not going to believe these lies. So when I
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explained, we've had two funky conclaves, the third secret of Fatima was probably apostasy from the top
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down. And here's what the Catholic church really teaches. Now I should be fair. The first two hours
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of this dinner, I sounded like Scott Hahn. It was all apologetics. This wasn't all church crisis. It
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was all biblical apologetics. It's not like this is all I think about is the church crisis. The first
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two hours was a really good, maybe not open Bible, but open Bible in our mind conversation about the
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difference between Catholicism and Protestantism. The last hour, where I honestly didn't want to go
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was who is running the church? What about these clergy scandals? What about the open borders in
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the USACB? How do you have two Marxists on the chair of Peter? All this stuff. And when I gave
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honest answers, what I really believe, a lot of what you've been saying on your show from La Salette
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and Fatima, again, that made sense to them. And so we're going to make converts of real Christians
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who want to enter traditional Catholicism when we tell them the truth. We might get called all
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these names like schismatics from a lot of mainstream Catholics, but the people truly searching
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for the classic perennial Catholic church, we have to be honest about our dirty laundry right now.
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We have never before in the history of the church needed more Bible believing Catholics. So please
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come on in. And for a lot of them, I say from my own perspective, particularly men, they like that
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challenge. Oh, it's actually a war in there. Yeah, it is. And we need you. So don't delay. Those
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questions, they're pulled by Christ. They're not pulled by a Francis or any priest. They're pulled by
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Jesus. And you can't abandon the call of Jesus because of Judas. Sure. And so, yeah, there's
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going to be. But Judas was one of 12. What happens when 11 of the 12 are Judas? Yeah. Like that's
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where things get a little harder. It does. But. And this isn't just my wheelhouse of yours. I mean,
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you can see Charlie Kirk on Michael Knowles' podcast when Francis was alive. Michael Knowles
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basically invites him to become Catholic. He says, if you think that guy's Pope, maybe he's not Pope.
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That's amazing. Amazingly prophetic. Charlie Kirk said that because he said, you're claiming
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a Marxist is the vicar of Christ. Now, how does a man like Charlie Kirk, who's not even Catholic
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yet, see that? Well, because he's a Bible believing man. And so this is the type of stuff of doing
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damage control with false conclusions based on false premises on these conclaves. God's not
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going to honor that. Why? Because God is only going to honor the truth. Even if it's a very
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uncomfortable truth. Even if it means getting called names like Sedivacontist or Schismatic
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or all these other names. I only care about the evidence. I don't care to be in a special
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group. I don't care what names another group calls me. I'm going to look at the evidence
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on conclaves. I'm going to look at the evidence on Fatima. And then I'm going to speak the truth
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boldly. And you know who's going to come? It's other bold Christians, even if they're
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not Catholic yet. And we may not see the fruit for 10, 20 years, but I do know God will never
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honor cowardice and he's never going to honor a lie.
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It's really funny if you want to see how a very, very bright Catholic does with trying
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to argue that, don't worry about it, it's not really this, is that. Watch that Michael
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Knowles interview. Exactly. I love Michael Knowles. He's a brilliant guy. Every time
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he argues, he kills his opponents. To accept that debate, it is honestly the most embarrassing
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debate I've ever seen him in because he gets massacred. Not because Charlie is so much better
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than him. Because he took the position of having to try to defend a Francis papacy.
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Michael Knowles is 10 times smarter than me. He handles his political situations 10 times
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better than I would. But he came to a false conclusion because his whole argument there
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Father, I will ask you one more thing. If you could give everyone a blessing.
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Pace sefiri. Et spiritus santi. Descend et super vos. Et mani et semper. Amen.
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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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