The John-Henry Westen Show - May 04, 2022


Why Pope Francis' election could be invalid according to John Paul II document


Summary

In this episode, John Henry McCartan sits down with the host of the popular show We Go There, Patrick Coffin, to discuss Pope Benedict's resignation and why it may have been the best thing that ever happened to the Catholic Church.


Transcript

00:00:00.640 There is an incredible document that was made by Pope John Paul II.
00:00:06.560 It was made about papal elections.
00:00:10.120 It actually talks about the rules for elections and says that if violated, it nullifies the
00:00:17.920 election of a pope, who is not then pope, and there doesn't even have to be an announcement
00:00:25.320 about it.
00:00:27.500 That document exists, it's called Universi Dominici Regis.
00:00:31.320 Very few people would be willing to talk about that, especially in the current context.
00:00:35.420 There is one person who would.
00:00:38.060 Almost all of you, perhaps all of you, know him.
00:00:41.060 His name is Patrick Coffin.
00:00:42.060 He is The Patrick Coffin Show, a super popular show, and his moniker is We Go There.
00:00:48.060 And boy, does he ever.
00:00:49.880 You're going to want to stay tuned.
00:00:53.880 Patrick Coffin, welcome to the program.
00:01:11.700 John Henry, it's an honor to be with you, sir.
00:01:14.700 We invite you.
00:01:15.700 Let's begin, as we always do, with the sign of the cross.
00:01:18.520 In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.
00:01:23.520 Amen.
00:01:24.520 So, I recently had on the show Dr. Edmund Mazza a fascinating talk about his research into
00:01:33.940 Pope Benedict's resignation.
00:01:37.300 And I know that you've gone down that road.
00:01:39.340 In fact, you did a show that was sort of a succinct version of seven reasons why Pope Francis
00:01:48.100 might not be Pope.
00:01:50.000 And it was startling, startling in that you would go there.
00:01:56.700 And without trepidation, and I know you to be a very faithful Catholic.
00:02:04.720 And this is the thing, with Dr. Mazza it was the same.
00:02:08.240 Someone who's willing to live their life with faith amidst the struggles that that takes,
00:02:13.640 the hardship that it is.
00:02:16.000 But they're doing so, as you do, out of love for Christ, love for his church, and a willingness
00:02:22.240 to even sacrifice for it.
00:02:25.200 So, start us off.
00:02:27.000 I know you've been on the show before, but for those who might know, give us, or might
00:02:31.640 not know, give us sort of the 20-second version of Who's Patrick Coffin?
00:02:35.480 I'll begin after the tiny amoeba began all life on earth, and start with my entry into
00:02:42.880 the United States.
00:02:43.880 I was born and raised in Nova Scotia, I went to McGill University in Montreal, ended up at
00:02:49.480 the University of Toronto and the Stratford Festival.
00:02:51.880 But I found my true love, which is theology, after I recommitted my life to Christ as a
00:02:57.280 revert, as a young adult.
00:02:59.280 I got a master's degree from Franciscan University of Steubenville, was recruited then to a film
00:03:04.120 and TV company in Los Angeles.
00:03:06.780 And through, I won't bore you with the whole story, but cutting to the chase, I auditioned
00:03:11.160 and got the job of host of Catholic Answers Live, which I did happily from 2009 to 2016.
00:03:16.740 After which time, I started my own podcast and membership site, which you can find more
00:03:21.060 about at kafa-nation.com.
00:03:23.580 And every Tuesday, I get to drop the most amazing conversations with people that I call sages
00:03:30.440 and survivors of the culture war.
00:03:32.820 And these are people who have either been beaten down and shamed and banned and deleted, who
00:03:36.960 have a voice that deserves to be heard.
00:03:39.740 Or they have some wisdom to distill about, what's the DNA of our culture?
00:03:44.560 What do we mean by the West or Western civilization?
00:03:46.780 What's the US Constitution?
00:03:47.940 What's the Canadian Bill of Rights?
00:03:49.140 What are the foundational building blocks of what we call culture?
00:03:53.180 And how did it get broken?
00:03:54.540 So that's the sweet spot of my show.
00:03:58.280 To your question about the fear and trepidation, there was plenty of that when I began to see
00:04:03.500 what was happening in Rome under Francis.
00:04:07.700 And I have to credit you, John Henry.
00:04:09.940 I remember you were way ahead of the curve on how deep the rot was at the Vatican after
00:04:17.100 Pope Benedict left the public eye.
00:04:19.540 And I remember reading some of your coverage at LifeSide News, and I remember kind of wincing,
00:04:24.000 thinking, boy, that seems awfully harsh.
00:04:26.820 Isn't there any good news?
00:04:27.940 You were on it like a hound dog with a bird in the forest, and then another one, then
00:04:34.500 another one.
00:04:35.920 And it all added up to confusion in my mind.
00:04:38.580 It did not seem to compute with me that our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, the greatest
00:04:43.020 teacher in history and imaginable, would will for his church one diabolical confusion after
00:04:49.680 another.
00:04:50.680 Everyone listening and watching right now has their own first domino where they thought,
00:04:55.180 yeah, that smells bad.
00:04:57.180 For some people, it was the night of, or the fact that the press made a big deal about
00:05:01.960 his brown leather shoes instead of the, you know, I guess sinful red leather shoes that
00:05:06.560 Pope Benedict wore, paying his own bill, carrying his own luggage.
00:05:10.120 Something didn't add up.
00:05:11.540 And then we got who am I to judge with respect to homosexuality.
00:05:14.900 Then we got Amoris Laetitia chapter eight, which indeed provides a loophole for divorced
00:05:20.940 and civilly remarried Catholics to receive Holy Communion.
00:05:23.520 And as John Gravino has proven so well in his book, Confronting the Pope of Suspicion,
00:05:28.300 Amoris Laetitia is the official codification of 1960s and 70s era dissent.
00:05:34.900 And almost all of it on matters sexual.
00:05:37.300 Uh, the dissent that, that, that grew like weeds under Paul VI and was never really tamped
00:05:43.080 down.
00:05:44.080 Even the norms of humana vitae were never, uh, there was no disciplining of priests and prelates
00:05:48.620 who, who, uh, disagreed publicly with that teaching.
00:05:51.080 And so where did it go?
00:05:53.300 Well, when, when John Paul II took, took the, the chair of Peter in 1978, uh, it was a new
00:05:59.040 sheriff.
00:05:59.740 Uh, it was not the old sheriff.
00:06:00.960 It was more, uh, Will Cain, Gary Cooper.
00:06:03.380 And, uh, John Paul II, um, suffered very few fools gladly.
00:06:07.780 And a lot of the dissent either vanished, went away, or, uh, in its own way, um, got sublimated
00:06:14.380 and, and put into this, into what I would call the shunt tracks of the church and things
00:06:19.300 like seminary textbooks and so on.
00:06:21.520 And then in 2015 and 2016, we had the synods on the family.
00:06:25.540 And that's when Amoris Laetitia, the resulting apostolic exhortation arrived, especially section
00:06:30.800 eight and the footnotes thereof.
00:06:33.540 And by that time I'd already realized there's something seriously wrong with the church.
00:06:38.080 And we can't keep saying, why did God give us a bad Pope?
00:06:41.500 Well, you know, we Catholics are used to talking about our bad Popes, whether Medici Popes
00:06:46.220 or Borgia Popes, but this is not merely a bad Pope.
00:06:50.080 A bad Pope is a man who in his private life is a sinner, as we all are.
00:06:54.820 Francis is a usurper.
00:06:57.740 He has assaulted in a very deliberate way, the deposit of faith, the things of sacred tradition,
00:07:04.300 and has allied himself with all of the enemies of John Paul II and Benedict XVI, by the way,
00:07:09.780 all the worldly powers, global acclaim, plaudits and cheers from the New York Times and CNN,
00:07:16.160 all the legacy media love Francis in a similar inverse way to which they hated previous pontiffs.
00:07:24.240 So here you have pontiffs, and Jumpall II reigned well into his 80s, who commanded the largest
00:07:29.880 live event in human history at World Youth Day in Manila.
00:07:33.620 So how is someone reviled by the New York Times and that cabal able to draw millions?
00:07:40.200 I think it was 5 million people showed up that day in the Philippines.
00:07:42.760 Beautiful.
00:07:44.720 And yet Francis is revered by these worldly powers and hard left journalists.
00:07:51.560 He's their cheerleader and their mentor and their model.
00:07:54.500 And yet his crowds are tiny.
00:07:55.780 I've had the unmerited privilege of meeting both John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI, both
00:08:02.300 in Rome, unforgettable encounters.
00:08:04.640 And the crowds were jammed, sitting in standing room only.
00:08:10.240 Whereas with Francis, it was, I won't say a trickle, I want to be accurate, but it wasn't
00:08:14.580 anywhere near the public unconscious love just to be with these great men of God and to listen.
00:08:21.760 With Francis, it was more, let's just say modest.
00:08:26.200 So the evidence that I collected, at first, it drew my attention because of the things that
00:08:34.120 really don't matter.
00:08:35.100 And by the things that really don't matter, I mean the behavior of Francis and the focus
00:08:39.560 on the St. Gallen Mafia and the March 13th conclave.
00:08:42.980 Which, by the way, I think the evidence is clear.
00:08:44.720 There were canonical crimes committed in that conclave that were identifiable in a very
00:08:51.820 obvious way by Austin Ivory, author of this book.
00:08:55.660 This is called The Great Reformer.
00:08:57.660 Interesting subtitle.
00:08:59.000 Francis and the Making of a Radical Pope.
00:09:02.540 The Making of.
00:09:03.540 Not the voting for a regular pope.
00:09:05.060 No, the making of a radical pope.
00:09:06.620 And he's not even called Pope Francis in the subtitle.
00:09:09.340 This is a very hard to find original edition in English that came out the year after Francis
00:09:15.620 arrived.
00:09:16.780 And it was immediately attacked by his former boss, Cormac Murphy O'Connor, the Cardinal
00:09:20.920 Archbishop of London, saying the chapter on the conclave never happened.
00:09:24.200 It must be excised.
00:09:25.740 Well, guess which chapter I raced to when the book arrived in my mailbox.
00:09:30.160 And that chapter, I'm writing a book about this myself, by the way.
00:09:33.120 And that chapter describes in a very casual way the very behavior that John Paul II made
00:09:39.340 punishes with excommunication in the document you referenced, Universi Dominici Gregus from
00:09:44.160 1996.
00:09:46.100 Now, this is an apostolic constitution.
00:09:47.820 It's not a modu proprio.
00:09:49.360 It's not an interview given at 37,000 feet.
00:09:52.040 This is the highest level of papal document, short of a dogmatic definition.
00:09:56.460 This is a solemn summary of the prescriptions and proscriptions of how future conclaves are
00:10:02.280 to be conducted.
00:10:04.100 Conclaves, the actual gathering of the cardinals to elect the pope.
00:10:07.080 The gathering of the cardinals to elect the pope and the day of voting and so on.
00:10:10.160 It all has to be in accord with these prescriptions and proscriptions.
00:10:14.320 And the reason I say this is the thing that was the noisiest, the thing that got my attention,
00:10:18.680 but not the most important, is that there's something upstream from that.
00:10:23.500 Let's get to that in a moment.
00:10:24.940 Sure.
00:10:25.180 I want to unpack this because you did indeed.
00:10:29.620 Just to go through your laundry list, I notice, you know, some of the things that caught most
00:10:36.060 people's attention.
00:10:37.760 The Pachamama idolatry.
00:10:38.960 The, you know, Father James Martin promotion.
00:10:44.520 I mean, that was very plain.
00:10:46.740 The whole Pope Francis himself talking about how civil unions are the way to go, meaning
00:10:51.140 homosexual civil unions.
00:10:53.040 All sorts of things that rattled, as you were saying, which domino is it that's going to
00:11:00.120 convert you to the other side or convince you that something is really, really amiss, much
00:11:04.580 more so than in other papacies.
00:11:06.840 You were mentioning that some people didn't see early on.
00:11:10.580 And it's true.
00:11:11.420 On the day of the election, at the election, in fact, right when the Pope first comes out
00:11:18.240 onto the balcony after the election, he brings with him those cardinals, the Carmelingo,
00:11:24.140 yes, but also those who are most important to him among the group of cardinals.
00:11:29.540 And some people notice.
00:11:30.440 We didn't catch it at LifeSite.
00:11:31.620 We didn't watch the actual thing live.
00:11:33.580 But you noticed Cardinal Daniels were there, Godfrey Daniels, who was horrifically anti-life,
00:11:42.600 anti-family, known by people in the pro-life, pro-family movement as, you know, one of the
00:11:48.280 dissident cardinals.
00:11:50.760 And yet he was there.
00:11:53.100 Interestingly about Daniels, he is not only a pariah for the faithful who are pro-life and
00:12:00.300 family, even for those outside the realm of life and family who are concerned about sexual
00:12:07.400 abuse, he's a massive offender.
00:12:10.460 Tell us about that, if you will.
00:12:13.200 Cardinal Daniels was caught on audio tape explaining to the sexual abuse victim who was the biological
00:12:19.900 nephew of another Belgian archbishop who had abused his own biological nephew.
00:12:27.000 Basically, it's the same script with these guys, John Henry.
00:12:30.280 For the good of the church, you have to forgive, et cetera, et cetera.
00:12:34.000 I don't have a transcript because if I read those things, I lose my lunch.
00:12:37.000 But it's the same shutting down of a legitimate hurting soul.
00:12:41.220 A child, the one about whom our Lord warned about something about millstones and being
00:12:47.100 cast into the sea.
00:12:48.400 Here's the highest ranking member of the church in Antwerp, Belgium, basically telling the victim
00:12:55.300 to shut up so he could protect his brother Bishop.
00:12:59.040 And that's the beginning of a long list, but it's bad enough.
00:13:01.760 So he was part of the photo op on the loggia that night, March 13, 2013, over Francis' left
00:13:07.300 shoulder.
00:13:08.500 And this is clearly a reward.
00:13:12.040 This is part of the quid pro quo.
00:13:14.660 I'll give you the moment in how many hundreds of millions of people are watching that.
00:13:19.360 And it's a statement about his priorities, his agenda.
00:13:24.120 You know, they say personnel is policy.
00:13:27.040 Well, so is photo op and photo optics.
00:13:32.260 Unbelievable.
00:13:33.420 Cardinal Daniels was then invited as a special appointee of Pope Francis.
00:13:37.300 to the First and Second Family Synods.
00:13:40.220 It went on and on.
00:13:41.380 Cardinal Burke was, of course, sidelined in the most unbelievable way, as has happened
00:13:45.720 to Cardinal Serra, Cardinal Müller, and other cardinals who had been the stalwarts under
00:13:53.800 both popes, John Paul II and Benedict.
00:13:58.440 So some unbelievable times we've been living through.
00:14:01.080 There's an additional contrast here, since you're talking about the treatment of Cardinals
00:14:05.920 Burke, Serra, and Müller, all good men.
00:14:09.820 And that is the protection of actual either pedophiles or predators, like Bishop Gustav Zancheta
00:14:16.940 from Argentina, who is now going to jail or is in jail.
00:14:21.180 Also the pedophile, Father Julio Grassi.
00:14:25.360 These are criminals who identify strongly with the support that then Cardinal Bergoglio, now Francis, protected, both in jail.
00:14:35.560 So, you know, the phrase birds of a feather means something.
00:14:40.440 I'm not saying he's a pedophile.
00:14:42.200 Someone's going to say, oh, Patrick Coffin claims that the Pope.
00:14:44.360 I'm not saying that at all.
00:14:45.620 I'm saying that over time you see a pattern of good men being fired or ignored or sidelined
00:14:53.040 and evil men being promoted and protected.
00:14:58.760 That should be of concern for people who are Catholic, Protestant, or atheist.
00:15:02.960 You can see the pattern here.
00:15:04.960 Yeah.
00:15:06.180 So one of the comebacks, and just to play devil's advocate,
00:15:10.840 look, we've had bad popes in the past.
00:15:13.640 You mentioned the Borgia popes.
00:15:15.040 They had relationships with bad actors.
00:15:18.300 They promoted them because of financial gain or sexual who knows what or perhaps blackmail.
00:15:25.440 Aren't we just reliving the same thing?
00:15:27.380 Many people have said that.
00:15:28.420 Many people have said, oh, we've gone through worse even in the past.
00:15:31.480 Why not?
00:15:33.600 Let me make an analogy with everyone's pastor.
00:15:36.860 So if you're watching, listening to us now, think of your pastor.
00:15:40.940 If you discovered that your pastor was having an affair with his housekeeper,
00:15:44.520 you wouldn't necessarily conclude that his sermons on chastity were hypocritical.
00:15:52.300 Maybe they were meant for him, and he's not living up to his own ideals.
00:15:57.760 So someone can be a sinner in private, living a kind of double life.
00:16:02.460 But some of the Borgia popes were actually, although they had mistresses
00:16:06.220 and they had even murders committed, mafioso style,
00:16:09.900 they were ironclad guardians of orthodoxy.
00:16:17.000 So whether they were buying hookers on Friday and having people killed on Saturday,
00:16:20.420 by Sunday, the documents that they wrote and produced and promulgated
00:16:24.280 or the homilies that they gave were faithful to the gospel,
00:16:27.780 to the standard of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
00:16:30.280 That's what Francis is not doing.
00:16:32.280 That standard is being undermined, usurped, attacked, contradicted.
00:16:37.760 Almost every time he gets a chance to, there is some slight against sacred tradition.
00:16:44.220 And by slight, that runs the gamut, all the way to suppressing the traditional Latin mass,
00:16:51.840 which according to Pope Pius V is irreformable.
00:16:57.200 So why would Francis deliberately target hotspots of Catholic orthodoxy,
00:17:01.480 of evangelization, of large families, of generosity with fertility,
00:17:05.000 while promoting with handwritten letters,
00:17:08.560 people like the highest profile homosexualist in the Catholic Church,
00:17:12.680 Fr. James Martin, who's now, with the help of Martin Scorsese,
00:17:17.460 producing a documentary version of his book, Building a Bridge.
00:17:20.480 How do these people get promoted with the Pope's own handwriting,
00:17:23.460 but people who are faithful to Christ to the point of heroism are denied?
00:17:27.800 Meanwhile, Katy Perry, Hollywood Romans like Leonardo DiCaprio,
00:17:33.300 they get the red carpet treatment.
00:17:34.540 But people like Cardinal Zan, the retired cardinal of Hong Kong,
00:17:38.500 they're out in the cold.
00:17:40.800 Quite literally so.
00:17:41.680 That's just a small summary of the proof I'm talking about.
00:17:45.260 Indeed.
00:17:45.740 So we have this dire situation about, you might say it from some respects,
00:17:54.480 the worst Pope ever in the history of the Church.
00:17:58.040 But you're going beyond that.
00:18:00.600 You're saying that the very papacy itself is in question.
00:18:05.260 And let's go back to the discussion that I guess first led you down this road
00:18:10.840 about Universi Dominici Gregius, this document, this, as you said,
00:18:15.300 Apostolic Constitution, highest teaching document in the Church
00:18:18.680 next to an ex-catheter statement.
00:18:22.220 So unpack that one for us, and what does it mean for the Church?
00:18:27.180 Well, it's a longish document.
00:18:29.400 I did mention it in the first iteration of my evidence video.
00:18:33.840 And some people have said, hey, Patrick was confusing
00:18:36.180 because he put it out of order.
00:18:37.280 The reason I did that is that Section 81,
00:18:42.120 and you can put a link in your show notes, John Henry,
00:18:46.880 Sections 80, 81, 82 have to do with,
00:18:50.700 I won't read it because it's a little bit technical,
00:18:53.540 but if people want to sit with it,
00:18:54.900 they can find out that behaviors that are illegalized canonically
00:18:59.400 by the late John Paul II describe vote blocking, schmoozing,
00:19:04.760 creating conspiratorial behavior,
00:19:07.800 treating the papal office like a political office,
00:19:10.340 arranging quid pro quo deals behind the scenes,
00:19:13.020 that sort of thing.
00:19:13.940 This is the kind of behavior that Austin Ivory
00:19:16.380 casually mentions in his book.
00:19:19.920 The biography of Cardinal Daniil's also mentions it.
00:19:24.600 Ted McCarrick, the molester,
00:19:26.500 mentions this kind of behavior in his 19,
00:19:28.760 excuse me, 2013 talk at Villanova University.
00:19:31.520 Don't believe me, believe them.
00:19:32.920 So these crimes, canonical crimes, I mean,
00:19:37.860 according to John Paul II,
00:19:41.540 have this attached to them.
00:19:44.900 This is number 76.
00:19:46.240 Should the election take place in a way
00:19:48.180 other than that prescribed in the current Constitution,
00:19:50.780 or should the conditions laid down here not be observed,
00:19:54.340 the election is for this very reason null and void,
00:19:58.380 without any need for a declaration on the matter.
00:20:00.600 Consequently, it confers no right on the one elected.
00:20:06.320 You don't need to be a canon lawyer to understand
00:20:08.240 that a man who's excommunicated cannot be Pope.
00:20:10.880 So that invalidates the papacy of Francis.
00:20:13.760 The trouble with this piece of evidence, John Henry,
00:20:16.720 although I hold that it's valid,
00:20:19.860 is that it becomes difficult to establish in a canonical court forum,
00:20:23.360 because the cardinal electors who perform these illegal acts
00:20:28.040 would be part of the dynamism of adjudicating on it,
00:20:32.800 sort of the fox watching the hen house.
00:20:35.740 It's possible,
00:20:37.040 but I think it's difficult to establish that.
00:20:40.740 And it's also downstream from the first thing,
00:20:42.800 which maybe we'll get to.
00:20:44.240 But that alone invalidates the papacy of Francis.
00:20:47.860 It means he's an anti-pope.
00:20:49.260 Again, anti-pope does not mean anti-Christ.
00:20:50.980 It doesn't even mean he's necessarily a bad man.
00:20:54.260 I think if you can't see that Francis is a bad man,
00:20:56.920 I'm not sure what to say.
00:20:59.060 But even if he's a very good man, a holy man,
00:21:01.120 a completely orthodox man,
00:21:03.000 you can't be Pope if someone else occupies the office of papacy.
00:21:09.080 Those words again from paragraph 76.
00:21:14.040 Could you read them one more time?
00:21:15.200 Their significance is so stark,
00:21:17.820 if you wouldn't mind reading them again.
00:21:19.480 Sure.
00:21:19.920 Should the election,
00:21:21.140 meaning a future papal election,
00:21:23.500 and remember, if I can pause here,
00:21:25.260 John Paul II knew all these cats.
00:21:29.140 Their behavior as a future possibility
00:21:32.040 was not a surprise to him.
00:21:33.720 He became Pope in October 1978.
00:21:36.660 In fact, he appointed some of these men with red hats.
00:21:39.500 So this is someone who is seasoned
00:21:42.040 both in Romanita, in Vatican politics,
00:21:44.700 but also an astute reader of human nature in many ways.
00:21:49.360 So here's the penalty.
00:21:51.720 Should the election take place in a way
00:21:53.320 other than that prescribed in the present constitution?
00:21:56.080 Or should the conditions lay down here,
00:21:58.040 not be observed?
00:21:59.480 The election is for this very reason,
00:22:02.200 null and void,
00:22:03.440 without any need for a declaration on the matter.
00:22:06.040 Consequently, it confers no right
00:22:08.600 on the one elected, unquote.
00:22:11.660 This is analogous to a decree of nullity for a marriage.
00:22:14.980 It's not saying that there was a marriage
00:22:16.280 that suddenly stopped being,
00:22:18.300 but it was a putative, non-valid marriage
00:22:20.860 from day one.
00:22:24.220 Unbelievable.
00:22:24.740 Please don't believe us.
00:22:26.280 Please go.
00:22:27.460 You can go online,
00:22:28.480 look up Renuversi, Dominici Gregis,
00:22:31.120 paragraph 76.
00:22:32.760 It's right there for you.
00:22:34.620 So let's go on from there,
00:22:35.940 because as you said,
00:22:37.400 this is actually downstream
00:22:38.800 from something else that takes precedence over it.
00:22:43.660 What would that be?
00:22:45.780 That would be the document
00:22:47.120 that's only two paragraphs long
00:22:48.920 that was written by his own account
00:22:51.320 at his walnut desk by hand.
00:22:54.140 And that's called the Declaratio,
00:22:56.540 the resignation two-paragraph document
00:22:58.720 that Pope Benedict XVI read on television
00:23:02.080 on February 11th, 2013.
00:23:05.900 We're talking about a man,
00:23:08.300 not only fluent in Latin,
00:23:09.680 but who lectured in Latin,
00:23:11.260 who was fluent in the mother tongue of the church,
00:23:13.200 which is Latin,
00:23:14.420 the man who was the previous prefect
00:23:16.640 of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith,
00:23:19.540 the guardian of Catholic Orthodoxy,
00:23:22.060 the loyal lieutenant of John Paul,
00:23:23.860 the great.
00:23:25.140 The man who had a hand in editing
00:23:27.560 the 1983 code of canon law,
00:23:30.680 which updated the P.O. Benedictine code from 1917.
00:23:35.520 Pope Benedict is excessively,
00:23:37.840 acutely familiar with every line of canon law
00:23:41.100 with respect to papal abdications.
00:23:43.280 And if you read canon 332.2,
00:23:48.080 again, don't believe me,
00:23:49.060 you can find it at vatican.va.
00:23:51.240 Canon 332.2 does refer to the conditions
00:23:54.180 surrounding a valid renunciation of the papal office.
00:23:59.900 I can probably quote that to you.
00:24:01.800 Do you want me to read that?
00:24:03.100 Sure.
00:24:03.280 It's quite short.
00:24:03.740 So let me give the before and after canons
00:24:07.100 so I won't be accused of cherry picking.
00:24:09.080 The context here is the section called,
00:24:11.560 it's article one in the code.
00:24:13.480 It's called the Roman pontiff as a subhead.
00:24:15.640 Canon 331.
00:24:16.820 The bishop of the Roman church
00:24:20.100 in whom continues the office
00:24:22.320 given by the Lord uniquely to Peter,
00:24:26.180 the first of the apostles,
00:24:27.640 and to be transmitted to his successors
00:24:29.680 is the head of the college of bishops,
00:24:32.640 the vicar of Christ
00:24:33.940 and the pastor of the universal church on earth.
00:24:37.580 By virtue of his office,
00:24:41.160 he possesses supreme, full, immediate
00:24:44.200 and universal ordinary power in the church.
00:24:46.820 Which he's always able to exercise freely.
00:24:50.920 Canon 332.1.
00:24:52.100 We're getting close now.
00:24:53.420 The Roman pontiff obtains full and supreme power
00:24:56.060 in the church by his acceptance
00:24:57.520 of legitimate election
00:24:59.080 together with episcopal consecration.
00:25:02.800 Therefore, a person elected to the supreme pontificate
00:25:06.240 who is marked with episcopal character
00:25:07.980 obtains this power from the moment of acceptance.
00:25:11.720 If the person elected lacks episcopal character,
00:25:14.640 however, he is to be ordained a bishop immediately.
00:25:16.820 This makes provision for the fact
00:25:18.460 that you don't have to be a consecrated bishop
00:25:20.400 to be pope.
00:25:21.340 If you are named pope,
00:25:22.600 you must be canonized,
00:25:23.660 excuse me, consecrated as bishop immediately.
00:25:26.100 Okay.
00:25:26.740 Here's Canon 332.2.
00:25:29.080 And by the way,
00:25:29.620 I'm pausing on the words election and office
00:25:32.140 because they are key.
00:25:33.180 The office in this English translation
00:25:36.400 in the original Latin is munus,
00:25:39.060 M-U-N-U-S.
00:25:40.020 Now, munus is a rich word.
00:25:41.200 It doesn't just mean office.
00:25:42.300 It also means gift.
00:25:43.720 In this context,
00:25:44.640 it refers to being the pope.
00:25:46.820 It's the container of the papacy.
00:25:50.400 Here it is.
00:25:52.600 If it happens that the Roman pontiff
00:25:54.660 resigns his office,
00:25:57.100 munus,
00:25:58.080 it is required for validity
00:25:59.680 that the resignation is made freely
00:26:02.280 and properly manifested,
00:26:04.600 but not that it's accepted by anyone.
00:26:08.020 Let me just do the next one as well
00:26:09.820 because there's a way to put a red bow on this here.
00:26:13.080 Canon 333.1.
00:26:15.340 By virtue of his office,
00:26:17.860 the Roman pontiff not only possesses power
00:26:19.900 over the universal church,
00:26:20.920 but also obtains the primacy of ordinary power
00:26:23.160 over all particular churches
00:26:24.720 and groups of them.
00:26:26.940 And it goes on.
00:26:27.580 But I wanted to read the next canon
00:26:29.560 because of its reference to office.
00:26:31.280 That's the context of papal resignation.
00:26:34.480 You can resign many things,
00:26:36.240 elements of the papacy
00:26:37.440 that have to do with juridical authority,
00:26:40.600 writing magisterial documents,
00:26:41.980 appointed cardinals,
00:26:44.100 acting as the pope.
00:26:46.300 That's covered by the word ministerium.
00:26:48.760 Now, munus sometimes means ministerium.
00:26:51.240 Ministerium does not ever mean munus.
00:26:53.380 So you can do a symbolic logic Venn diagram
00:26:56.800 on the linguistics of it.
00:26:59.260 This helps explain
00:27:00.560 why the evidence is very strong
00:27:02.740 that Pope Benedict
00:27:03.600 didn't make a mistake here.
00:27:05.940 He deliberately resigned
00:27:07.840 not the office,
00:27:10.800 but the functions thereof.
00:27:12.360 Think of a bowl of cherries.
00:27:13.740 You dump out the cherries.
00:27:15.080 What do you have left?
00:27:16.220 The bowl.
00:27:16.740 Just an empty bowl.
00:27:18.700 He wears the white ziketo,
00:27:19.680 the skullcap.
00:27:20.440 He wears the white papal cassock.
00:27:22.340 He's called his holiness.
00:27:24.020 His personal signature is
00:27:25.520 Benedict XVI, PP,
00:27:29.080 which is a reference to it.
00:27:30.460 There's several different Latin ways
00:27:32.140 to understand that,
00:27:32.760 but it's the official designation
00:27:33.900 of the papacy.
00:27:36.180 I want to mention
00:27:37.380 this amazing book.
00:27:38.860 This was a huge red light bulb for me
00:27:41.920 and helped me understand
00:27:43.700 both the election problems
00:27:45.580 but also the declaratio.
00:27:46.680 And that's Benedict XVI,
00:27:48.240 Pope Emeritus, question mark,
00:27:49.640 by the Colombian attorney,
00:27:51.300 Estefania Acosta.
00:27:52.340 It is an excellent book to get.
00:27:54.500 I recommend anyone,
00:27:55.600 skeptical or friend of this evidence,
00:27:56.960 to read what she collates
00:28:00.200 in that book.
00:28:02.760 Francis does not use PP
00:28:05.660 in his papal signature, so-called.
00:28:08.340 It's just Franciscus.
00:28:11.860 Why didn't Pope Benedict,
00:28:15.280 upon retiring,
00:28:16.720 do what he said he wanted to do
00:28:18.220 in several public speeches,
00:28:19.540 interviews, and books
00:28:20.160 with Peach Saywald,
00:28:21.040 which was retire to his beloved Bavaria
00:28:23.560 and write theological tomes
00:28:25.360 and pray?
00:28:27.060 Why didn't he pick up a black
00:28:28.620 or even a red cassock
00:28:29.740 since he was a cardinal?
00:28:30.800 Well, he told Andrea Tornielli
00:28:33.700 a year after he left public life
00:28:36.840 that there were no black cassocks
00:28:38.660 to be had,
00:28:39.200 which I know you've been to Rome
00:28:40.620 many times, as have I.
00:28:43.800 Clerical stores are ubiquitous in Rome.
00:28:46.420 That's not really an answer
00:28:47.640 that coheres with reality.
00:28:51.020 Why didn't he do that?
00:28:52.420 Well, no,
00:28:52.840 he stayed in the Amante Ecclesia,
00:28:54.140 the mother of the church residence
00:28:55.820 in the Vatican Gardens.
00:28:57.700 Very, very, very close
00:28:59.420 to the levers of power
00:29:01.000 in the Vatican.
00:29:02.340 Even Cardinal Pell has pointed out,
00:29:03.860 this is confusing for the faithful.
00:29:05.720 This two popes idea,
00:29:06.920 even our ideological enemies
00:29:08.380 who run Netflix
00:29:09.400 were quick to make a movie about this,
00:29:12.080 the two popes.
00:29:13.800 So that's the beginning
00:29:16.300 of a long list
00:29:16.980 that's been compiled
00:29:17.740 by the Italian researcher
00:29:20.060 and writer Andrea Cianci,
00:29:22.180 C-I-O-N-C-I,
00:29:23.540 I probably butchered his name.
00:29:24.760 He's written the most
00:29:25.760 about the Ratzinger Code.
00:29:27.320 And I think that code,
00:29:28.880 so consistent,
00:29:29.880 so logical,
00:29:30.700 if you have eyes to see
00:29:31.600 over the last nine years,
00:29:33.120 is the answer to the question
00:29:34.280 or the controversy,
00:29:35.860 was this a mistake
00:29:36.800 that Benedict was making?
00:29:38.280 And this evidence
00:29:39.400 is overwhelming,
00:29:40.140 but no, he knows.
00:29:41.180 He's created
00:29:41.680 not an empty chair,
00:29:43.660 but an impeded C.
00:29:45.780 So I like to think of it
00:29:47.280 as Benedict wasn't
00:29:48.680 outfoxed by the wolves.
00:29:50.820 He outfoxed them
00:29:51.880 by creating an impeded C
00:29:54.380 that they walked into,
00:29:56.580 knowing that he was
00:29:57.680 no longer able
00:29:58.640 by his advanced age,
00:29:59.860 by his weakened
00:30:00.420 physical condition.
00:30:01.340 He just couldn't play
00:30:02.720 the Johnny Weismuller whack-a-mole.
00:30:05.480 There's a reference
00:30:06.320 for your older viewers.
00:30:08.100 Whack-a-mole
00:30:08.740 with all the modernists,
00:30:09.760 all the homosexual agenda,
00:30:12.280 all of the globalists,
00:30:13.780 all the enemies of Christ
00:30:14.740 in his church.
00:30:15.260 He was too weak to do it.
00:30:16.940 He was surrounded by enemies.
00:30:18.800 Even in his beloved Germany,
00:30:20.280 if you watch the footage
00:30:20.980 of his first papal visit
00:30:21.980 to Germany,
00:30:22.600 it's very sad
00:30:23.580 how they won't extend
00:30:25.040 their hands
00:30:25.660 to greet their German pope.
00:30:28.500 So what he did was,
00:30:30.000 he set the world's largest trap
00:30:31.960 for the enemies of Christ
00:30:33.460 in his church
00:30:33.960 to step into
00:30:34.740 because he knew,
00:30:35.960 eventually,
00:30:36.920 these clues would be found out
00:30:38.360 and they would have
00:30:39.800 walked into a trap,
00:30:41.280 meaning all of it,
00:30:43.120 all of the papal acts
00:30:43.980 of Francis,
00:30:44.900 will be declared
00:30:45.500 officially null and void.
00:30:48.240 That, in a nutshell,
00:30:49.520 is the kill shot.
00:30:50.520 In the original video
00:30:51.740 that I made,
00:30:52.260 it's piece of evidence
00:30:53.440 number two.
00:30:56.240 Okay.
00:30:56.640 obviously for Catholics
00:30:59.100 who are faithful,
00:31:00.960 that is like a dream.
00:31:02.920 That would be
00:31:03.720 the best possible outcome
00:31:05.900 of the insanity
00:31:07.240 of the last nine years.
00:31:08.840 It would, in a way,
00:31:10.100 be the simplest explanation.
00:31:13.320 But there's a problem
00:31:14.680 with the thesis,
00:31:16.520 or perhaps not with the thesis,
00:31:17.640 but with its unfolding,
00:31:19.800 how do we ever get back?
00:31:24.020 Because we've got
00:31:25.280 a College of Cardinals
00:31:26.160 that's mostly appointed
00:31:28.720 by Francis.
00:31:30.960 We've got a church
00:31:33.000 in disarray
00:31:33.500 where even the best,
00:31:36.460 if you might say,
00:31:37.420 of the Cardinals
00:31:38.600 don't appreciate
00:31:39.880 this position.
00:31:40.900 I've known,
00:31:41.560 I've talked to some of them
00:31:42.400 who don't agree
00:31:43.480 with this at all.
00:31:44.120 What are we supposed
00:31:47.440 to do with that?
00:31:49.580 Except that it's a fact
00:31:51.040 that the evidence
00:31:52.900 is not only clear
00:31:56.260 and sufficient
00:31:57.420 for one to come
00:31:58.800 to a morally
00:31:59.400 certain judgment,
00:32:00.900 but also that it's
00:32:02.040 so world-rocking.
00:32:03.480 It's so foreign
00:32:04.460 to anyone.
00:32:06.080 Anyone living
00:32:06.860 has never undergone
00:32:07.760 anything like this,
00:32:08.500 even though we've had
00:32:09.160 30-plus antipopes
00:32:10.640 in history.
00:32:11.800 So the idea,
00:32:12.960 it's not only
00:32:13.600 is it foreign
00:32:14.680 and kind of scary
00:32:15.600 at first,
00:32:16.600 it seems to open
00:32:17.960 up the ground
00:32:18.640 into an abyss
00:32:19.360 of nothingness
00:32:20.060 beneath our feet.
00:32:21.080 What, are you
00:32:21.560 a sedevacontist?
00:32:22.880 Are you crazy?
00:32:23.960 Did Christ leave us orphans?
00:32:27.420 I'm familiar
00:32:28.220 with the people
00:32:29.040 who are not quite there
00:32:30.160 yet with this.
00:32:31.000 I respect them immensely.
00:32:32.460 I'm not here
00:32:33.260 to convert anyone.
00:32:34.620 It's to continually
00:32:35.600 go back and review
00:32:36.740 why this evidence
00:32:37.840 uniquely
00:32:38.620 and immediately
00:32:39.380 makes sense
00:32:40.100 of all of it.
00:32:41.700 There's no canon
00:32:43.420 there's no document
00:32:44.620 in the magisterium
00:32:45.540 of the Catholic Church
00:32:46.280 that says
00:32:46.900 that lay people
00:32:48.000 are supposed
00:32:48.520 to stay mum
00:32:49.520 and let this
00:32:50.360 monstrous
00:32:51.500 machine
00:32:53.600 of corruption
00:32:54.400 continue
00:32:55.300 to bulldoze
00:32:56.200 Christ and his bride.
00:32:57.780 An unlettered woman,
00:33:00.040 unlettered,
00:33:00.520 uneducated lay woman
00:33:01.540 was right
00:33:03.000 and one of the greatest
00:33:04.160 saints in the Catholic Church,
00:33:05.480 the great Dominican
00:33:06.120 Saint Vincent Friar,
00:33:07.260 was wrong
00:33:07.920 on the question
00:33:08.920 of the Avignon papacy.
00:33:10.760 Saint Catherine of Siena
00:33:11.880 was urging people
00:33:13.700 to follow the true Pope
00:33:14.580 which is Urban VI.
00:33:17.140 Saint Vincent Friar
00:33:18.300 got it wrong
00:33:19.160 and he had to repent
00:33:20.420 because he was saying
00:33:21.160 the wrong man's name
00:33:22.020 in the Te Egyetor
00:33:22.800 of the Holy Mass.
00:33:24.400 So it doesn't matter
00:33:25.520 what office you hold
00:33:26.540 and we don't have to wait
00:33:27.620 for some future Pope
00:33:28.800 or conclave
00:33:29.540 to,
00:33:30.480 or not conclave,
00:33:31.320 a synod or council
00:33:32.240 to manifest
00:33:36.040 that this is true.
00:33:37.440 They have to
00:33:37.860 definitively
00:33:39.260 judge on the matter.
00:33:41.140 That's not my job.
00:33:42.020 That's above my pay grade
00:33:42.960 and yours.
00:33:44.060 However,
00:33:44.500 you can come to a certainty
00:33:45.680 about the truth
00:33:47.320 of the declaratio
00:33:48.460 and once you,
00:33:50.460 once the light bulb
00:33:51.420 goes off,
00:33:51.940 you stop hand-wringing
00:33:53.020 about Francis.
00:33:53.860 I have dear friends,
00:33:54.840 I'm worried that they're
00:33:55.540 going to break
00:33:55.880 their wrist bones
00:33:56.560 or something,
00:33:57.040 all the hand-wringing
00:33:58.380 about what Francis
00:33:59.220 has done,
00:33:59.840 what his plans are,
00:34:01.440 the fact that he doesn't
00:34:02.160 speak up against heresy
00:34:03.340 and all of the isms,
00:34:05.000 all the agenda
00:34:05.680 that are a completely
00:34:06.920 antichrist in nature.
00:34:08.940 Well,
00:34:09.920 my reply to that is,
00:34:11.740 what do you expect?
00:34:13.320 He's just behaving
00:34:14.020 the way you'd anticipate
00:34:15.060 an antipope
00:34:15.600 to act.
00:34:18.760 And if it's not,
00:34:19.840 if it's not
00:34:21.340 a legitimate papal act,
00:34:22.780 that means his
00:34:23.820 cardinal appointments
00:34:24.980 are not valid.
00:34:27.540 That's one of the things
00:34:28.600 that flows from this.
00:34:29.920 So the goal here,
00:34:32.040 and I could speak
00:34:32.920 of a three-pronged goal
00:34:33.880 that I have,
00:34:34.440 one is to continue
00:34:35.640 to educate the Catholic
00:34:36.580 lady and to draw
00:34:37.500 attention at this
00:34:38.260 evidence.
00:34:39.180 Number two is to
00:34:40.120 continue to connect
00:34:41.240 priests that I know
00:34:42.620 whose names you
00:34:43.260 might recognize
00:34:43.960 who actually agree
00:34:45.240 with it,
00:34:45.820 who now have a
00:34:47.180 conscience problem
00:34:47.960 because when they
00:34:48.620 pronounce the words
00:34:49.420 Francis,
00:34:50.060 our Pope,
00:34:50.520 and whoever,
00:34:51.300 our bishop in the
00:34:52.380 mass,
00:34:53.480 they have a problem
00:34:56.480 because they don't
00:34:57.520 believe it's true.
00:34:59.120 And the old
00:34:59.720 commercial used to say,
00:35:00.600 friends don't let
00:35:01.140 friends drive drunk.
00:35:01.900 Well,
00:35:02.140 friends don't let
00:35:02.640 friends lie in public
00:35:03.400 either.
00:35:04.740 The day that such a
00:35:05.720 priest would come out
00:35:06.520 and say,
00:35:07.200 I can't pronounce
00:35:07.840 these words,
00:35:08.480 is probably the day
00:35:09.600 that he'll have his
00:35:10.720 faculty suspended
00:35:11.560 by his local ordinary.
00:35:12.860 And that will also
00:35:14.040 draw an abundance of
00:35:15.480 attention at the
00:35:16.260 evidence itself.
00:35:18.320 The final,
00:35:19.080 you could say the
00:35:19.760 final,
00:35:20.240 the third prong of
00:35:21.000 this approach is to
00:35:22.200 get this evidence to
00:35:23.560 the cardinals whose
00:35:24.820 job it is to
00:35:26.240 adjudicate and settle
00:35:27.300 this definitively.
00:35:28.100 And that is the
00:35:29.120 cardinals that were
00:35:29.680 appointed by John
00:35:30.380 Paul II and
00:35:31.520 Benedict XVI.
00:35:32.540 The 80 plus that
00:35:33.640 Francis has given us
00:35:34.620 are the result of an
00:35:36.300 invalid anti-Pope's
00:35:37.660 actions.
00:35:38.100 They don't count.
00:35:40.560 Wow.
00:35:41.560 Well,
00:35:42.180 let me get to this
00:35:43.000 because this is
00:35:43.740 obviously hugely
00:35:45.160 controversial.
00:35:46.040 We had on Dr.
00:35:47.320 Edmund Mazza,
00:35:48.140 who of course gave us
00:35:49.240 some of this evidence
00:35:49.920 as well.
00:35:51.340 But there are some
00:35:52.980 very,
00:35:53.820 very confusing parts.
00:35:54.880 And I'll throw one
00:35:58.720 at you.
00:35:59.820 So you will notice
00:36:01.220 that Pope Benedict
00:36:02.720 has several times
00:36:05.220 now,
00:36:05.780 I remember very
00:36:06.620 distinctly the one
00:36:07.360 at his birthday,
00:36:08.860 but has praised
00:36:10.540 Pope Francis
00:36:11.460 in ways that almost
00:36:13.480 seemed like he was
00:36:14.600 idolizing him,
00:36:15.920 being so over
00:36:16.700 thankful.
00:36:17.960 And these public
00:36:18.860 occasions where we
00:36:20.660 really don't hear from
00:36:21.920 Pope Benedict anymore,
00:36:23.420 but all of a sudden
00:36:24.080 he speaks,
00:36:24.560 and it's to speak
00:36:25.960 in this way,
00:36:27.580 kind of like,
00:36:28.540 oh,
00:36:28.820 extolling Pope Francis
00:36:30.600 and so on and so forth.
00:36:32.140 What is that supposed
00:36:33.300 to mean?
00:36:34.680 Especially
00:36:35.160 if,
00:36:36.980 as you suggest,
00:36:38.020 he has this
00:36:39.360 other agenda.
00:36:40.740 He's actually
00:36:41.780 trying to
00:36:42.860 do the right thing
00:36:44.040 here
00:36:44.320 and somehow
00:36:45.520 demonstrate that
00:36:46.300 this is a falsehood.
00:36:47.460 So how are we
00:36:48.600 to make sense of that?
00:36:50.000 I think it's very
00:36:50.980 important on this point,
00:36:52.040 which is,
00:36:52.620 I'm glad you brought
00:36:53.720 it up,
00:36:54.080 John Henry,
00:36:54.560 to go back
00:36:55.220 to the text
00:36:55.800 of what he said
00:36:56.540 and to realize
00:36:57.780 that everything
00:36:58.460 that Pope Benedict XVI
00:37:00.080 said goes through
00:37:01.840 at least one
00:37:02.600 and usually two
00:37:03.460 filters.
00:37:04.880 The interpretation
00:37:06.780 or the memory
00:37:08.180 of Archbishop
00:37:10.480 Georg Ganschwein,
00:37:11.560 his longtime
00:37:12.260 personal secretary,
00:37:13.800 or Peter Seywald,
00:37:15.580 the journalist
00:37:16.060 who has interviewed
00:37:17.140 him in many
00:37:17.760 Q&A format books,
00:37:19.540 or the Vatican
00:37:21.300 press office.
00:37:23.180 I'm not
00:37:23.600 automatically
00:37:24.120 saying these
00:37:24.820 are deceptive
00:37:25.440 men or that
00:37:26.220 they're not
00:37:26.800 telling the truth,
00:37:27.940 but as they
00:37:29.220 say in
00:37:29.620 scripture studies,
00:37:30.660 we don't
00:37:30.980 necessarily have
00:37:31.700 the ipsisima verba
00:37:32.920 of the man
00:37:33.620 himself.
00:37:34.700 I noticed a lot
00:37:35.380 of the photos
00:37:36.000 that they release
00:37:37.440 of Pope Benedict.
00:37:38.680 It's almost like
00:37:39.600 they're doing
00:37:40.800 a Joe Rogan
00:37:41.520 on him.
00:37:41.880 Remember the
00:37:42.320 photos that
00:37:42.940 they kind of
00:37:43.720 made Joe Rogan
00:37:44.780 look sick
00:37:45.460 because he
00:37:46.020 was pro
00:37:47.280 ivermectin.
00:37:48.680 Some of them
00:37:49.280 he looks almost
00:37:49.840 corpse-like,
00:37:50.580 very kind of
00:37:51.080 strange,
00:37:51.640 unflattering
00:37:52.100 photos,
00:37:52.660 and I think
00:37:53.300 to myself,
00:37:53.820 why are they
00:37:54.140 doing this
00:37:54.520 to him?
00:37:55.320 Why this
00:37:56.300 sort of
00:37:56.580 public
00:37:56.880 humiliation?
00:37:58.600 And I
00:37:59.240 think Pope
00:38:00.380 Benedict XVI
00:38:00.980 is a Christian.
00:38:02.600 I had the
00:38:03.220 unmerited grace
00:38:03.900 of meeting him,
00:38:04.560 spending some
00:38:05.040 time,
00:38:05.460 not long,
00:38:06.400 but it was
00:38:07.300 enough to get
00:38:07.820 a sense of
00:38:08.440 this man's
00:38:09.560 interior peace,
00:38:10.760 his serenity.
00:38:11.780 He was tired
00:38:12.260 the day that
00:38:12.680 I spoke with
00:38:13.420 him,
00:38:13.600 introduced him
00:38:14.060 to my late
00:38:14.520 father.
00:38:15.460 Jack,
00:38:16.500 after which
00:38:17.140 my poor dad
00:38:17.740 sobbed for an
00:38:18.420 hour.
00:38:18.800 He was so
00:38:19.440 overwhelming
00:38:20.020 meeting the
00:38:20.460 vicar of
00:38:20.800 Christ.
00:38:22.200 I think
00:38:23.040 he's walking
00:38:24.280 a line
00:38:24.880 that involves
00:38:26.580 mental reservation
00:38:27.680 where he's
00:38:28.940 not deceiving
00:38:29.680 the universal
00:38:30.240 church.
00:38:31.120 What he's
00:38:31.380 doing is
00:38:31.740 saying things
00:38:32.540 that are
00:38:32.900 true as
00:38:33.620 far as
00:38:33.980 they go,
00:38:34.860 and he
00:38:36.420 doesn't want
00:38:37.040 to disclose
00:38:37.640 everything
00:38:38.400 because he's
00:38:39.500 still in the
00:38:40.280 middle of
00:38:40.600 this impeded
00:38:41.380 sea.
00:38:42.760 Patrick,
00:38:43.140 if you could
00:38:43.480 explain for
00:38:44.100 us what do
00:38:45.040 you mean by
00:38:45.440 an impeded
00:38:46.300 sea?
00:38:48.020 An impeded
00:38:48.800 sea is a
00:38:50.020 situation of
00:38:53.180 ecclesial life
00:38:54.060 in which the
00:38:55.300 papacy is not
00:38:56.960 public, it's
00:38:57.820 not exercised,
00:38:59.160 it's born by
00:39:01.260 the person of
00:39:01.820 the pope, but
00:39:03.140 in a hidden
00:39:04.200 way that's not
00:39:05.340 public, such
00:39:06.520 that the
00:39:06.880 anti-pope who
00:39:08.340 succeeds the
00:39:09.560 true pope in
00:39:10.880 an impeded
00:39:11.360 sea is doing
00:39:12.240 so under a
00:39:13.040 non-canonical
00:39:13.700 status so
00:39:14.440 that his
00:39:14.780 so-called
00:39:15.460 pontifical acts
00:39:16.240 are null and
00:39:17.120 void.
00:39:18.480 And beyond
00:39:18.960 that, it's
00:39:19.720 speculation.
00:39:20.700 I don't want
00:39:21.060 to get over
00:39:21.480 my skis and
00:39:22.320 I try to
00:39:23.140 carefully
00:39:23.380 distinguish
00:39:23.900 between what
00:39:24.420 I think is
00:39:24.860 going on in
00:39:25.900 this particular
00:39:26.320 situation and
00:39:27.200 what I can
00:39:27.580 prove using
00:39:28.320 black and
00:39:28.880 white quotes
00:39:29.400 that are
00:39:29.700 either on
00:39:30.080 video or
00:39:30.720 from someone's
00:39:31.480 literal hand.
00:39:32.440 When it
00:39:32.740 comes to the
00:39:33.340 remarks that
00:39:34.220 Benedict has
00:39:36.080 made about
00:39:36.580 Francis, that's
00:39:37.860 harder to
00:39:38.460 discern.
00:39:38.880 One
00:39:40.120 counterexample
00:39:40.920 might be
00:39:42.200 Pope Benedict's
00:39:43.140 deciding to
00:39:44.560 not validate
00:39:45.840 or endorse
00:39:47.140 the summary
00:39:48.120 books written
00:39:50.460 by Francis.
00:39:51.960 Remember that
00:39:52.780 a few years
00:39:53.480 ago?
00:39:54.540 Monsignor
00:39:54.880 Dario
00:39:55.160 Vigano, no
00:39:55.940 relation to
00:39:56.520 Archbishop
00:39:56.980 Carlo Maria
00:39:57.460 Vigano,
00:39:58.520 infamously
00:39:59.540 blurred out
00:40:00.560 the part
00:40:01.100 where Pope
00:40:01.940 Benedict says
00:40:03.060 nah, no
00:40:03.760 thanks.
00:40:04.580 That was a
00:40:05.260 scandal.
00:40:05.640 That was an
00:40:06.060 open lie
00:40:06.680 for which he
00:40:07.700 was removed,
00:40:08.460 but then
00:40:08.840 promoted
00:40:09.160 later.
00:40:10.280 So I
00:40:11.120 don't think
00:40:11.560 it's clear
00:40:11.960 cut that
00:40:12.580 Pope Benedict
00:40:13.760 XVI is full
00:40:14.720 of praise.
00:40:15.520 While I
00:40:15.880 remember it
00:40:16.320 very clearly,
00:40:16.920 I think our
00:40:18.140 audience would
00:40:18.640 appreciate hearing
00:40:19.720 that specifically
00:40:20.660 once again.
00:40:21.480 Several years
00:40:22.180 ago, the
00:40:23.180 man who was
00:40:24.460 appointed to
00:40:24.980 run the
00:40:25.220 Vatican press
00:40:25.760 office, his
00:40:26.600 name is
00:40:26.860 Monsignor
00:40:27.240 Dario
00:40:27.760 Vigano,
00:40:28.900 it's a
00:40:29.120 different family
00:40:29.720 from the
00:40:30.140 American
00:40:30.980 former
00:40:31.660 papal
00:40:32.360 nuncio,
00:40:34.280 they were
00:40:34.860 trying to
00:40:35.240 get the
00:40:35.460 endorsement
00:40:35.900 of Pope
00:40:37.420 Emeritus,
00:40:37.920 which is
00:40:38.460 an
00:40:38.640 anti-canonical
00:40:39.360 term with
00:40:40.040 no precedent.
00:40:41.260 And by the
00:40:41.500 way, the
00:40:41.720 word emeritus
00:40:42.380 means he
00:40:43.440 who merits
00:40:44.720 the office
00:40:45.460 doesn't just
00:40:46.340 mean retired
00:40:47.160 or ex.
00:40:47.920 He's not
00:40:48.380 called the
00:40:48.720 ex-pope,
00:40:49.540 although Google,
00:40:50.220 this is another
00:40:50.680 thing that Andrea
00:40:51.440 Cianci has
00:40:52.120 pointed out,
00:40:53.060 Google have
00:40:53.520 modified their
00:40:54.260 search, now
00:40:54.800 he's the
00:40:55.140 ex-pope.
00:40:55.900 That's another
00:40:56.440 talk for
00:40:57.340 another day.
00:40:58.420 They were
00:40:58.640 trying to
00:40:59.060 enlist the
00:40:59.700 good name and
00:41:00.260 reputation of
00:41:01.500 Pope Benedict
00:41:02.000 XVI to
00:41:02.840 endorse a
00:41:03.660 series of
00:41:04.140 books containing
00:41:05.660 the theology of
00:41:06.300 Francis, for
00:41:06.840 lack of a
00:41:07.400 better phrase.
00:41:08.280 Pope Benedict
00:41:08.680 wrote a
00:41:09.040 handwritten,
00:41:09.840 thank you very
00:41:10.320 much, I'm
00:41:11.180 quite busy with
00:41:11.860 my writing
00:41:12.780 projects, etc.
00:41:13.820 I gently
00:41:14.800 decline, God
00:41:15.700 bless.
00:41:17.400 Well, much
00:41:18.760 was made of
00:41:19.540 that as
00:41:21.340 though Benedict
00:41:22.420 was still in a
00:41:23.500 sort of way
00:41:24.040 lending his
00:41:24.760 moral authority
00:41:25.460 to get rubber
00:41:27.040 stamped these
00:41:27.640 books that
00:41:28.040 contain the
00:41:28.560 theology of
00:41:29.180 Francis.
00:41:29.520 Now, Benedict
00:41:30.620 is a
00:41:31.300 renowned biblical
00:41:32.860 scholar.
00:41:34.420 There's no
00:41:34.800 way he could
00:41:35.280 endorse the
00:41:36.640 I just call
00:41:38.620 it Franciscan
00:41:39.800 word salad that
00:41:40.880 Francis produces.
00:41:41.900 Literally, when
00:41:42.700 he speaks to
00:41:43.200 him, when he
00:41:43.380 writes, I
00:41:43.820 have no idea
00:41:44.620 what he's
00:41:44.960 saying.
00:41:45.380 I literally
00:41:45.840 do not know
00:41:46.340 what this
00:41:46.620 man believes.
00:41:47.960 So that's
00:41:48.900 an attempt to
00:41:49.820 kind of enlist
00:41:51.480 him to sell
00:41:52.540 books on
00:41:52.920 Francis, and
00:41:53.520 he gently
00:41:54.100 declined.
00:41:54.500 So that
00:41:55.820 would be a
00:41:56.440 counterexample
00:41:57.060 to the
00:41:57.680 presupposition
00:41:58.340 here, or
00:41:59.220 the claim
00:41:59.700 that Benedict
00:42:01.200 is just full
00:42:02.080 of peons of
00:42:02.920 praise for
00:42:03.440 the great
00:42:04.880 Oz.
00:42:06.200 To get back
00:42:07.660 to your
00:42:08.060 specific example
00:42:08.920 of what
00:42:09.160 happened, when
00:42:10.560 they showed
00:42:11.620 the photos
00:42:12.520 of the
00:42:13.600 letters from
00:42:14.960 Benedict, so
00:42:16.400 called endorsing
00:42:17.020 the book,
00:42:17.500 they actually
00:42:19.880 blurred out
00:42:20.820 the portion
00:42:22.680 where he
00:42:23.980 says,
00:42:24.500 thanks, but
00:42:25.120 no thanks.
00:42:26.760 And then
00:42:27.640 that, of
00:42:28.160 course, got
00:42:28.640 caught in
00:42:29.100 our great
00:42:29.780 world of
00:42:30.660 social media
00:42:31.780 and people
00:42:32.080 paying attention,
00:42:32.780 at least some
00:42:33.120 attention, they
00:42:34.000 noticed, hey,
00:42:34.520 something's wrong
00:42:35.220 with that.
00:42:36.140 And that was
00:42:36.760 a big scandal
00:42:37.300 for which
00:42:37.980 Dario
00:42:39.220 Vigano was
00:42:40.760 removed from
00:42:41.440 office, and
00:42:41.980 then, as
00:42:42.300 you said,
00:42:43.120 appointed later
00:42:44.040 on to
00:42:45.060 another higher
00:42:45.540 post.
00:42:46.620 John Henry,
00:42:47.200 that's sort
00:42:47.500 of like you
00:42:48.200 see a movie
00:42:48.880 poster and
00:42:49.720 a movie
00:42:50.580 critic says,
00:42:51.660 quote,
00:42:52.060 dot, dot,
00:42:52.440 dot, a
00:42:52.860 great movie.
00:42:53.600 So you
00:42:54.420 go see it
00:42:54.940 and it's
00:42:55.440 awful, and
00:42:56.420 then you
00:42:56.860 want your
00:42:57.180 money back,
00:42:57.680 and then you
00:42:58.000 go back to
00:42:58.400 the review
00:42:58.840 itself, and
00:42:59.720 it says,
00:43:00.220 such and
00:43:00.860 such is not
00:43:01.480 a great
00:43:01.760 movie.
00:43:02.320 Just blur
00:43:03.460 out the
00:43:03.720 not part.
00:43:06.300 Unbelievable.
00:43:07.860 Okay, so
00:43:09.700 this is still
00:43:12.260 a hugely
00:43:13.000 hard pill to
00:43:13.820 swallow, because
00:43:14.720 it's so,
00:43:17.040 I mean, it
00:43:19.200 makes sense
00:43:19.700 of a lot
00:43:21.300 of the
00:43:22.680 actual
00:43:23.420 happenings,
00:43:24.360 but to
00:43:25.300 think that
00:43:25.960 there is
00:43:26.720 sort of
00:43:27.340 this game
00:43:27.860 being played
00:43:28.480 out with
00:43:30.000 Benedict at
00:43:31.740 his super
00:43:33.200 advanced age
00:43:34.220 and frailty,
00:43:35.700 wow.
00:43:39.440 Where does
00:43:40.120 this make
00:43:40.600 you go in
00:43:41.640 your thoughts
00:43:42.200 about the
00:43:42.700 church currently?
00:43:43.220 gratitude for
00:43:46.120 this great
00:43:46.560 man who
00:43:47.780 gave his
00:43:48.180 life for
00:43:48.560 Jesus Christ
00:43:49.240 as a
00:43:49.620 priest.
00:43:50.660 Gratitude for
00:43:51.580 the kind of
00:43:52.780 courage that
00:43:53.240 he mustered
00:43:53.740 in doing
00:43:54.260 this.
00:43:55.280 I do not
00:43:55.960 regard him
00:43:56.440 as a liar
00:43:57.260 or a
00:43:57.740 coward.
00:43:58.500 I think he
00:43:59.060 is a
00:43:59.660 weakened king
00:44:01.320 who had no
00:44:02.220 support when
00:44:02.740 he needed it
00:44:03.200 most.
00:44:04.200 He referred
00:44:04.620 to his
00:44:04.920 enemies in
00:44:05.380 his very
00:44:05.940 first homily
00:44:06.840 mid-April
00:44:07.920 2005,
00:44:09.760 pray that I
00:44:10.320 might not
00:44:10.960 flee out of
00:44:12.260 fear of the
00:44:12.680 wolves.
00:44:13.220 He was a
00:44:13.980 man who
00:44:14.220 does know
00:44:15.420 his own
00:44:15.740 frailty.
00:44:17.360 And he
00:44:18.000 mentions in
00:44:18.660 that declaratio
00:44:19.500 that he
00:44:20.900 is letting
00:44:21.440 go of
00:44:22.060 the words
00:44:23.980 and the
00:44:24.280 deeds,
00:44:24.800 but not
00:44:25.700 the prayer
00:44:26.180 and the
00:44:26.560 suffering.
00:44:26.920 He mentions
00:44:27.280 four
00:44:27.700 characteristics
00:44:28.300 of what
00:44:28.680 he's doing,
00:44:29.560 words and
00:44:30.000 deeds,
00:44:30.560 but also
00:44:30.920 prayer and
00:44:31.500 suffering.
00:44:32.400 As he
00:44:32.760 said,
00:44:33.060 he has
00:44:33.280 not left
00:44:33.980 the
00:44:34.400 crucified
00:44:34.760 Lord,
00:44:35.140 but rather
00:44:35.540 is participating
00:44:36.480 in his
00:44:37.420 redemptive
00:44:37.960 sacrifice as
00:44:39.280 a co-redeemer,
00:44:40.700 so to speak.
00:44:41.520 Suffering so
00:44:42.280 close to
00:44:42.880 for my
00:44:44.660 money,
00:44:44.880 the worst
00:44:45.140 papacy or
00:44:46.120 pretend
00:44:46.520 papacy in
00:44:47.100 history.
00:44:48.520 How that
00:44:49.180 man must
00:44:49.560 be suffering,
00:44:50.200 how he
00:44:50.480 must do
00:44:51.020 daily face
00:44:52.740 palms,
00:44:53.140 we'll never
00:44:53.440 know.
00:44:53.880 He's
00:44:54.040 perhaps
00:44:56.040 prisoner of
00:44:56.600 the Vatican
00:44:56.940 is an
00:44:57.260 overstatement,
00:44:58.080 but he's
00:44:58.620 not free
00:45:00.780 to speak
00:45:02.880 his mind
00:45:03.360 fully.
00:45:04.540 Remember
00:45:04.860 when
00:45:05.180 Daniels
00:45:06.020 said in
00:45:08.380 an interview
00:45:08.780 that he
00:45:09.680 sort of
00:45:09.960 chortled
00:45:10.380 that the
00:45:10.780 St.
00:45:10.960 Gallen
00:45:11.180 mafia
00:45:11.440 were
00:45:11.680 sort
00:45:11.880 of a
00:45:12.100 mafia
00:45:12.380 club.
00:45:13.120 That was
00:45:13.760 kind of
00:45:14.080 true and
00:45:14.520 jokey,
00:45:14.920 but maybe
00:45:15.420 not kind
00:45:16.000 of true.
00:45:16.440 There are
00:45:16.880 reasons why
00:45:18.660 Archbishop
00:45:19.260 Viganò is
00:45:19.940 in hiding.
00:45:21.240 There's some
00:45:21.780 remorseless
00:45:22.320 people who
00:45:23.480 are a
00:45:24.760 part of
00:45:25.180 this
00:45:25.500 Vatican
00:45:26.280 under
00:45:26.520 Francis,
00:45:26.980 the globalist,
00:45:27.580 and they
00:45:30.140 don't want
00:45:31.080 voices of
00:45:31.600 dissent.
00:45:32.380 They don't
00:45:32.780 want heroic
00:45:33.360 witnesses to
00:45:34.060 Jesus Christ.
00:45:35.400 The enemies
00:45:36.080 of Christ
00:45:36.460 have never
00:45:36.840 wanted Christian
00:45:37.480 voices out
00:45:38.000 there.
00:45:38.620 So they
00:45:39.080 are banned,
00:45:40.220 they are
00:45:40.660 shunted
00:45:41.380 away,
00:45:42.120 they are
00:45:42.420 silenced
00:45:42.960 rather than
00:45:44.020 debated
00:45:44.300 directly.
00:45:45.680 And so
00:45:46.120 I regard
00:45:47.160 Pope Benedict
00:45:47.720 as a man
00:45:48.320 who did
00:45:49.560 the very
00:45:49.940 best thing
00:45:50.420 that he
00:45:50.660 could in
00:45:51.640 a way
00:45:52.000 that was
00:45:53.160 missed at
00:45:53.620 first.
00:45:54.900 And it's
00:45:55.120 not just
00:45:55.620 that he
00:45:56.160 did not
00:45:56.520 resign the
00:45:57.080 munis,
00:45:57.580 the office
00:45:58.440 of the
00:45:58.700 papacy,
00:45:59.200 which he
00:45:59.460 was required
00:45:59.880 to do
00:46:00.180 under
00:46:00.380 canon
00:46:00.600 332.2.
00:46:02.140 It's
00:46:02.520 that there
00:46:02.960 are other
00:46:03.480 Latin
00:46:03.940 declension
00:46:04.700 errors in
00:46:06.640 the text.
00:46:07.720 This is
00:46:07.960 something that
00:46:08.680 Cianci and
00:46:09.860 brother Alexis
00:46:11.100 Bonolio have
00:46:11.660 pointed out as
00:46:12.300 well.
00:46:13.140 Absolutely
00:46:13.660 impossible
00:46:14.640 given the
00:46:16.020 great and
00:46:16.920 detailed
00:46:17.300 knowledge of
00:46:17.760 Latin that
00:46:18.280 Pope Benedict
00:46:18.760 has and
00:46:20.060 had.
00:46:21.120 So I
00:46:21.580 believe that
00:46:22.200 he set a
00:46:23.240 kind of trap
00:46:23.680 for his
00:46:23.960 enemies that
00:46:24.520 he knew
00:46:24.800 would over
00:46:25.280 time
00:46:25.620 eventually be
00:46:27.120 exposed and
00:46:28.540 with it
00:46:28.960 all the
00:46:29.980 last nine
00:46:30.460 years or
00:46:30.740 how many
00:46:31.100 years the
00:46:31.540 Lord in
00:46:32.260 his providence
00:46:32.740 has for
00:46:33.640 Pope Benedict.
00:46:34.920 It will all
00:46:35.480 be disclosed
00:46:36.160 as an
00:46:36.580 impeded
00:46:37.060 C and
00:46:38.480 therefore the
00:46:39.280 acts of
00:46:39.920 Francis are
00:46:41.320 null and
00:46:41.660 void.
00:46:42.080 Now I
00:46:42.500 don't believe
00:46:43.020 this John
00:46:43.380 Henry just
00:46:43.840 because it
00:46:44.300 seems to
00:46:44.680 fit.
00:46:44.920 It's like my
00:46:45.320 wish list
00:46:45.740 scenario.
00:46:46.720 I'm doing
00:46:47.300 this for the
00:46:47.740 sake of the
00:46:48.100 truth and
00:46:48.500 the good of
00:46:48.820 the church.
00:46:49.360 I want to
00:46:50.020 be corrected.
00:46:51.140 My magic
00:46:51.700 words as a
00:46:52.140 Catholic are
00:46:52.860 Patrick here's
00:46:53.740 where you're
00:46:53.960 going wrong.
00:46:54.500 And so
00:46:55.440 far no one
00:46:55.960 has said
00:46:56.400 that in
00:46:57.000 a way that
00:46:57.520 lays much
00:46:58.560 of a glove
00:46:58.920 on the
00:46:59.160 evidence.
00:46:59.880 That's why
00:47:00.400 I have
00:47:00.840 serenity about
00:47:02.120 this.
00:47:02.620 I pray for
00:47:03.900 Francis that
00:47:04.420 he convert,
00:47:05.480 that he go
00:47:06.540 to our
00:47:06.900 Lord Jesus
00:47:07.300 Christ in
00:47:08.360 his exit
00:47:08.900 interview in
00:47:10.500 a way that
00:47:11.060 he'll eventually
00:47:11.660 see the
00:47:12.020 beatific vision.
00:47:12.700 I have no
00:47:13.100 ill will.
00:47:13.840 I don't
00:47:14.360 have bad
00:47:16.440 thoughts in
00:47:16.880 that way.
00:47:17.800 I do feel
00:47:18.420 terrible,
00:47:18.900 however, at
00:47:19.380 the great
00:47:19.700 damage that
00:47:20.160 he's done
00:47:20.540 to the
00:47:21.420 church,
00:47:21.840 not just
00:47:22.200 reputation-wise,
00:47:23.080 to the
00:47:23.980 children who
00:47:24.460 will die
00:47:24.800 of abortion
00:47:25.280 because he
00:47:25.800 refuses to
00:47:26.480 make this
00:47:27.040 the heart
00:47:27.720 of his
00:47:28.560 papacy.
00:47:29.480 I feel
00:47:29.960 terrible for
00:47:30.480 the victims
00:47:30.880 of all the
00:47:31.540 globalism,
00:47:32.320 the zero
00:47:33.020 population
00:47:33.560 people,
00:47:34.640 the profiteers
00:47:35.860 of big
00:47:36.460 pharma that
00:47:37.120 have been
00:47:37.720 directly helped
00:47:39.060 by Francis
00:47:39.700 calling the
00:47:40.600 clot shot,
00:47:41.760 the experimental
00:47:42.820 mRNA vaccine
00:47:44.440 euphemism,
00:47:46.400 injection,
00:47:47.460 a moral
00:47:47.820 obligation.
00:47:49.200 Calling that
00:47:49.680 an act of
00:47:50.380 love is a
00:47:51.440 huge tell
00:47:52.180 that we're
00:47:52.900 not dealing
00:47:53.440 with a
00:47:53.740 vicar of
00:47:54.080 Christ here.
00:47:54.880 By the
00:47:55.180 way,
00:47:55.420 vicar of
00:47:55.760 Christ is
00:47:56.280 officially
00:47:56.740 removed from
00:47:57.260 the
00:47:57.400 annuario
00:47:57.920 yearbook of
00:47:59.040 the Vatican.
00:47:59.520 He does not
00:47:59.880 want to be
00:48:00.200 called vicar of
00:48:00.740 Christ.
00:48:00.980 He hasn't
00:48:01.300 from the
00:48:01.620 night he
00:48:01.980 was revealed
00:48:04.720 on that
00:48:05.240 loggia in
00:48:05.740 St.
00:48:05.960 Peter's.
00:48:07.240 He said
00:48:07.560 something like
00:48:08.060 the church
00:48:09.980 had to go to
00:48:10.440 the ends of
00:48:10.780 the world to
00:48:11.260 find a
00:48:11.580 bishop for
00:48:12.000 Rome.
00:48:14.760 That's
00:48:15.160 either false
00:48:16.100 humility or
00:48:16.860 deliberate
00:48:17.380 confusion.
00:48:18.400 So,
00:48:18.660 John Henry,
00:48:19.060 if I may,
00:48:19.560 since I ask
00:48:20.060 Christians for
00:48:20.520 a living,
00:48:21.320 how would you
00:48:22.000 flesh out
00:48:22.840 your,
00:48:24.020 what's the
00:48:25.060 hardest,
00:48:26.520 reddest part
00:48:27.240 of the
00:48:27.680 hard red pill
00:48:28.240 for you?
00:48:34.720 Well,
00:48:35.560 in a way,
00:48:37.220 the damage
00:48:40.380 that
00:48:41.340 Benedict
00:48:42.600 caused,
00:48:44.160 even if
00:48:46.280 this scenario
00:48:47.040 is the
00:48:48.920 true scenario,
00:48:50.280 there is
00:48:52.440 massive
00:48:53.400 damage
00:48:54.100 that flows
00:48:56.700 from this.
00:48:59.120 And perhaps
00:49:00.080 you can say
00:49:00.940 there was
00:49:02.000 greater damage
00:49:02.680 that was going
00:49:03.400 to come,
00:49:03.680 whatever.
00:49:04.220 It's hard to,
00:49:05.460 that's hard to
00:49:06.000 imagine.
00:49:07.540 The damage,
00:49:08.580 because
00:49:08.920 while some
00:49:10.460 people might
00:49:11.320 see this,
00:49:12.460 it's the
00:49:14.120 minority of
00:49:14.880 minorities.
00:49:16.720 So,
00:49:17.300 for the
00:49:17.540 vast
00:49:18.020 majority,
00:49:19.940 even over
00:49:21.040 the last
00:49:21.460 nine years,
00:49:22.340 they have
00:49:23.000 lived,
00:49:23.680 and some
00:49:24.220 died,
00:49:25.620 with that
00:49:27.100 as the
00:49:27.540 new normal.
00:49:29.080 And some
00:49:29.560 have,
00:49:31.700 and I hate
00:49:32.420 to say this,
00:49:32.980 but have
00:49:33.680 converted
00:49:34.520 to this
00:49:35.340 deformation,
00:49:37.660 perhaps in
00:49:38.480 good conscience,
00:49:39.300 God willing not,
00:49:39.860 but I know
00:49:40.880 there have
00:49:41.240 been.
00:49:42.060 I've watched
00:49:42.820 as we've
00:49:45.020 seen that
00:49:45.500 happen to
00:49:46.580 good people.
00:49:48.600 For me,
00:49:49.460 that really
00:49:50.260 is the
00:49:50.640 hardest part.
00:49:53.720 I know
00:49:54.520 that you
00:49:54.820 know that
00:49:55.320 there's no
00:49:56.160 correlation
00:49:56.520 between truth
00:49:57.340 and majorities.
00:50:00.000 Do you
00:50:00.720 believe that
00:50:01.540 damage was
00:50:03.980 done under
00:50:04.460 Pope Paul
00:50:05.300 VI?
00:50:07.320 Yes,
00:50:07.920 indeed.
00:50:08.260 Would you
00:50:10.040 regard him
00:50:10.500 as a
00:50:10.820 saint?
00:50:14.080 How about
00:50:14.680 put it
00:50:14.980 this way?
00:50:16.280 Wasn't he
00:50:16.800 declared such
00:50:17.400 by Pope
00:50:17.780 Francis?
00:50:19.920 That's
00:50:20.320 right.
00:50:21.020 He was.
00:50:23.720 Under this
00:50:24.320 evidence,
00:50:24.860 under this
00:50:25.180 evidence,
00:50:26.040 he ain't
00:50:26.760 under this
00:50:27.160 evidence,
00:50:27.540 is what I'm
00:50:27.860 saying.
00:50:29.300 We could
00:50:29.840 do a
00:50:30.060 whole show.
00:50:31.540 I mean,
00:50:31.840 it got a
00:50:32.780 little bit
00:50:33.020 awkward when I
00:50:33.560 was still at
00:50:33.920 Catholic Answers
00:50:34.420 Live.
00:50:34.720 I'm not
00:50:34.960 going to
00:50:35.100 reveal any
00:50:35.860 priest names,
00:50:36.420 but I
00:50:36.860 had priests
00:50:37.840 after Francis
00:50:38.980 came to
00:50:39.360 Rome who
00:50:39.660 said,
00:50:40.680 please don't
00:50:41.480 make me
00:50:42.500 talk about
00:50:43.460 Paul VI.
00:50:45.220 At this
00:50:48.000 point,
00:50:48.780 he was
00:50:49.040 going from
00:50:50.940 venerable to
00:50:52.140 blessed Paul VI.
00:50:54.660 So there
00:50:54.960 was already
00:50:55.540 rumblings among
00:50:56.420 traditional-minded
00:50:57.000 Catholic priests
00:50:57.920 saying,
00:50:58.560 please,
00:50:58.960 I don't need
00:50:59.280 to speak
00:50:59.560 with this.
00:51:00.020 This is not
00:51:00.520 going to go
00:51:00.820 anywhere.
00:51:01.080 This is a
00:51:01.520 non-starter.
00:51:02.640 Well,
00:51:03.160 he was raised
00:51:03.880 to the
00:51:04.740 Franciscan
00:51:05.260 altars.
00:51:05.700 A man
00:51:08.180 whose last
00:51:08.800 encyclical was
00:51:09.500 Humana Vitae,
00:51:10.260 written 10
00:51:10.980 years before
00:51:11.840 he finally
00:51:12.300 died,
00:51:12.920 who witnessed
00:51:13.520 tens of
00:51:14.060 thousands of
00:51:14.900 priests and
00:51:15.580 nuns fleeing
00:51:16.480 their vows.
00:51:18.380 No priest or
00:51:19.320 bishop was
00:51:19.820 ever disciplined
00:51:20.960 for dissenting
00:51:21.620 from Humana
00:51:22.140 Vitae.
00:51:24.020 It even got
00:51:25.660 worse than
00:51:26.120 that.
00:51:26.860 If you
00:51:27.420 recall,
00:51:28.400 one of the
00:51:29.380 bishops who
00:51:30.040 tried to
00:51:30.800 discipline a
00:51:32.120 priest for
00:51:32.560 going against
00:51:33.500 Humana Vitae
00:51:34.960 got basically
00:51:37.680 spanked by
00:51:38.280 the Vatican
00:51:38.680 so that
00:51:40.220 it was even
00:51:42.120 the opposite
00:51:42.640 of what you
00:51:44.040 were saying,
00:51:44.440 just crazy
00:51:45.620 stuff.
00:51:46.300 Right.
00:51:46.580 The Winnipeg
00:51:47.120 statement from
00:51:47.740 the Canadian
00:51:48.140 bishops was
00:51:49.060 not opposed in
00:51:50.560 any way by
00:51:51.020 Francis,
00:51:51.420 which allowed
00:51:51.940 a huge loophole.
00:51:53.180 I talk about
00:51:53.600 this in my book,
00:51:54.660 The Contraception
00:51:55.320 Deception.
00:51:56.060 I don't know
00:51:56.420 why I remember
00:51:56.860 certain things.
00:51:57.600 It's section
00:51:58.380 126 of the
00:51:59.600 Winnipeg
00:52:00.000 statement.
00:52:00.920 Basically,
00:52:01.300 it's a
00:52:01.880 truck-sized
00:52:02.460 hole.
00:52:03.200 If you
00:52:03.380 follow your
00:52:03.800 good conscience
00:52:04.300 and you
00:52:04.640 try your
00:52:04.920 best,
00:52:05.280 then you
00:52:05.600 contracept in
00:52:06.640 good conscience.
00:52:08.200 Just a
00:52:08.480 disaster.
00:52:08.520 Not taken
00:52:09.340 up by
00:52:09.920 Paul VI
00:52:10.580 at all.
00:52:11.460 Correct.
00:52:11.940 Correct.
00:52:12.440 No one was
00:52:13.720 clamoring for
00:52:14.460 the destruction
00:52:15.000 of the
00:52:15.260 traditional
00:52:15.580 Latin mass.
00:52:16.180 That was a
00:52:16.600 top-down
00:52:17.240 oligarchic
00:52:18.140 decision to
00:52:18.900 install the
00:52:20.000 Novus
00:52:20.300 Ordo
00:52:20.540 Missae in
00:52:21.000 1969 and
00:52:21.940 70.
00:52:22.400 No one was
00:52:23.060 clamoring for
00:52:23.660 communion in
00:52:24.620 the hand.
00:52:25.520 In fact,
00:52:25.960 the council
00:52:26.340 fathers voted
00:52:27.060 in this.
00:52:28.080 I think the
00:52:28.560 context was
00:52:29.120 Sacrosanctum
00:52:29.840 Concilian,
00:52:30.480 the sacred
00:52:30.840 document on
00:52:31.400 the liturgy,
00:52:32.480 and 80%
00:52:33.380 said,
00:52:33.780 no way,
00:52:34.160 we can't
00:52:34.600 give Holy
00:52:34.940 Communion in
00:52:35.940 the hand.
00:52:36.900 That would
00:52:38.680 be another
00:52:39.080 example of
00:52:40.200 an invalid
00:52:42.180 papal act
00:52:42.760 of Francis
00:52:43.200 that I
00:52:43.680 don't regard
00:52:44.240 as authoritative.
00:52:45.860 To me,
00:52:46.420 it's a
00:52:47.500 non-issue.
00:52:48.760 I'm with you
00:52:49.420 on the
00:52:49.640 confusion,
00:52:50.280 which is why
00:52:50.700 I continually
00:52:51.180 talk about
00:52:51.740 this,
00:52:52.060 why I'm
00:52:52.300 writing a
00:52:53.120 book about
00:52:53.560 this.
00:52:54.260 I don't
00:52:54.660 want to
00:52:54.880 just sit
00:52:55.200 and twiddle
00:52:55.480 my thumbs
00:52:55.900 and hope
00:52:56.380 for the
00:52:56.620 best.
00:52:57.160 I do
00:52:57.460 want to
00:52:57.720 provide the
00:52:58.180 counter-narrative
00:52:58.820 that I
00:52:59.180 believe is
00:52:59.640 faithful to
00:53:00.560 the gospel
00:53:01.040 and to
00:53:01.560 the witness
00:53:02.020 of Benedict
00:53:03.040 XVI.
00:53:03.660 I'll let
00:53:04.300 the good
00:53:05.100 Lord and
00:53:05.480 his providence
00:53:06.040 sort out
00:53:07.160 losses and
00:53:09.000 gains and
00:53:09.840 damage done.
00:53:11.220 I have no
00:53:12.200 way of
00:53:12.460 knowing what
00:53:13.000 that equation
00:53:13.540 really looks
00:53:13.980 like in
00:53:14.600 the light
00:53:15.160 of providence.
00:53:18.620 Final
00:53:19.180 question for
00:53:19.660 you,
00:53:19.760 Patrick.
00:53:21.520 Your own
00:53:22.500 faith life,
00:53:23.100 are you
00:53:26.680 seeing it
00:53:27.360 as negatively
00:53:28.360 impacted
00:53:29.060 by this?
00:53:31.560 When I
00:53:32.340 was first
00:53:32.840 uncovering
00:53:33.820 it all,
00:53:34.240 especially
00:53:34.560 going
00:53:34.960 through
00:53:35.800 the
00:53:37.140 St.
00:53:37.360 Gallen
00:53:37.560 Mafia
00:53:37.960 nefarious
00:53:39.640 acts and
00:53:40.440 their schemes,
00:53:42.020 when it
00:53:42.720 first entered
00:53:43.160 my mind,
00:53:43.880 maybe he's
00:53:44.400 an antipope,
00:53:45.540 my first
00:53:46.160 thought,
00:53:46.560 frankly,
00:53:46.980 was fear.
00:53:47.940 it scared
00:53:49.440 me,
00:53:50.360 because I
00:53:51.120 had never
00:53:51.880 read
00:53:52.320 Estefania
00:53:53.320 Acosta's
00:53:53.840 book.
00:53:54.080 I wasn't
00:53:55.140 exposed to
00:53:56.120 the evidence
00:53:56.560 about the
00:53:56.920 declaratio,
00:53:58.020 and there
00:53:58.520 was a
00:53:58.760 kind of
00:53:59.260 shudder
00:54:00.060 went through
00:54:00.460 me,
00:54:00.720 a sort
00:54:00.960 of,
00:54:01.740 no way.
00:54:03.360 My first
00:54:03.900 thought was
00:54:04.280 millions of
00:54:05.340 souls,
00:54:05.900 scandalized,
00:54:06.740 faith lost,
00:54:07.580 there's no
00:54:08.040 real pope,
00:54:08.600 now what?
00:54:10.220 But
00:54:10.560 discovering
00:54:12.100 that we do
00:54:12.820 have a pope,
00:54:13.800 we don't
00:54:14.160 have an
00:54:14.460 empty chair,
00:54:15.280 we have an
00:54:15.760 impeded sea,
00:54:17.440 exquisite
00:54:17.940 one might
00:54:19.200 say elegantly
00:54:19.840 designed,
00:54:21.480 as was his
00:54:21.920 want and
00:54:22.240 other things,
00:54:23.720 by Pope
00:54:24.780 Benedict XVI.
00:54:25.820 My faith in
00:54:26.720 Christ and
00:54:27.200 his church
00:54:27.600 is stronger.
00:54:29.200 I see the
00:54:29.720 hand of
00:54:30.060 God's
00:54:30.480 protecting
00:54:31.200 providence,
00:54:33.700 not leaving
00:54:34.620 me an orphan,
00:54:35.420 or nor you
00:54:35.880 an orphan.
00:54:36.700 We've been
00:54:37.060 through 30
00:54:37.700 plus antipopes
00:54:38.680 in history,
00:54:39.080 and sometimes
00:54:39.540 there were
00:54:39.800 two or
00:54:40.160 three vying
00:54:41.240 for that
00:54:41.620 title in
00:54:43.160 real time.
00:54:44.440 So this
00:54:45.020 is a lot
00:54:45.400 more clear
00:54:45.780 cut than
00:54:46.160 even past
00:54:46.880 controversies,
00:54:47.580 that had
00:54:48.180 to do
00:54:48.400 with antipopes.
00:54:49.160 So there's
00:54:50.500 nothing new
00:54:50.900 under the
00:54:51.200 Catholic sun.
00:54:51.880 This is not
00:54:52.280 our first
00:54:52.680 rodeo.
00:54:53.140 We will
00:54:53.460 get through
00:54:53.840 this.
00:54:54.600 There are
00:54:55.180 people,
00:54:56.340 very intelligent
00:54:57.060 people,
00:54:57.780 who are
00:54:58.300 coming to
00:54:58.740 see it,
00:54:59.640 people who
00:55:00.140 when they
00:55:01.160 do go
00:55:01.480 public,
00:55:02.380 the momentum
00:55:03.840 around the
00:55:04.420 world is
00:55:04.880 going to
00:55:05.120 gather,
00:55:05.840 and this
00:55:06.120 is going
00:55:06.360 to be
00:55:06.540 something
00:55:06.800 that the
00:55:07.240 cardinals
00:55:08.680 appointed by
00:55:09.400 Pope
00:55:10.200 John Paul II
00:55:10.840 and Pope
00:55:11.480 Benedict will
00:55:12.220 meet in
00:55:13.080 what's called
00:55:13.480 an imperfect
00:55:13.980 synod or
00:55:14.500 an imperfect
00:55:14.980 council,
00:55:15.600 such as
00:55:16.160 was done
00:55:16.480 in the
00:55:16.680 mid-11th
00:55:17.820 century at
00:55:18.180 the council
00:55:18.580 of Sutri.
00:55:19.620 You can look
00:55:20.000 that up.
00:55:20.520 It's a very
00:55:20.840 interesting way
00:55:22.140 the church has
00:55:22.800 settled this
00:55:23.740 definitively.
00:55:24.960 In the
00:55:25.480 meantime,
00:55:26.380 John Henry
00:55:27.200 and your
00:55:27.520 viewers,
00:55:28.180 Jesus Christ
00:55:28.940 came to
00:55:29.260 take away
00:55:29.620 our sins,
00:55:30.420 not our
00:55:30.880 minds.
00:55:31.400 We're
00:55:31.620 supposed to
00:55:31.960 use our
00:55:32.300 mental muscles
00:55:32.960 and figure
00:55:33.900 this out.
00:55:34.860 We have
00:55:35.460 access to
00:55:36.100 Logos,
00:55:36.560 and Logos
00:55:37.040 is always
00:55:37.540 rising.
00:55:38.200 It's
00:55:38.580 intelligible,
00:55:39.380 and here
00:55:39.800 it's hiding
00:55:40.640 in plain sight.
00:55:41.280 Wow.
00:55:44.460 Patrick
00:55:44.860 Coffin,
00:55:45.260 thank you so
00:55:45.720 much for
00:55:45.980 being with
00:55:46.300 us on
00:55:46.580 the John
00:55:47.220 Henry
00:55:47.440 Weston
00:55:47.740 Show.
00:55:48.420 Thanks for
00:55:48.920 your time,
00:55:49.320 John Henry.
00:55:49.880 God bless you.
00:55:50.440 Keep up the
00:55:50.800 great work.
00:55:52.280 God bless you,
00:55:53.660 and God bless
00:55:54.680 all of you.
00:55:55.700 We'll see you
00:55:56.300 next time.