Conservative Bishop Hosts Heretical Women's Preaching Conference

0:00Brought to you by PrayLatin.com, makers of prayer cards featuring complete English phonetic renderings of Latin pronunciations. We all know that the Jesuits are a rot in the church at this point, at with some day, the sons of St. Ignatius of Loyola will have control of their religious order again. Until then, the Jesuits are a mess. There are other groups like them too, in the church, the kind of hard, kind of progressive modernist types. The ones who think that Joseph Rattsinger was too rigid and too conservative when Rattsinger was one of the pushers of changes in the church I've had again too. And while certainly his attitudes about things clearly changed over time by pre-conciliar standards, even his papacy would have been considered fairly moderate at best compared to a lot of other things.

1:00But the usual suspects were aware of. But just like in politics, when you have these progressive types pushing for radical changes, who are the ones who enable them? Oftentimes it's the conservatives, either through their inaction or their well-dressed inevitable, so we should just try to implement this just a little slower than everybody else. So it doesn't cause as much of a mess. And that kind of attitude causes nothing but trouble. We have a story like that today of a conservative bishop, allowing for a actual training of women to be preachers in his diocese. But I want to go first to a brief update yesterday. Not a huge amount of details out of this yet, but we'll be monitoring the situation as they say, Mr. Newell-Limbo from Advanticon, I'm posted this to X. The General Secretary of the Senate has, yesterday, published the final report of study group

2:026 on the revision in a sonatial missionary perspective of the documents governing relations between bishops, consecrated life, and ecclesial associations. Together with the second part of study group 7 on ad-Lemon visits. Ad-Lemon visits are like the annual or semi-annual meeting of an entire bishops' conference with the Pope. We all get to meet with him, shake his hands, have some time with him privately. They're like ad-Lemon visits like every day, vatican. The text calls for a relational conversion and urged the church to move beyond purely hierarchical approaches, proposing diocesan delegates for consecrated life, jointly prepared ad-Lemon visits and mandatory protocols between bishops and institutes. And they'll have more reports on this as the story develops and will be monitoring the situation as they say. However, one of the things that they did say was that this sort of changes to ad-Lemon

3:04visits and reducing hierarchy, hierarchical stuff in the church may not actually be possible at this time. Why is that? Well, because they discovered it would create a whole host of new work, and they'd have to bring in a whole bunch of people to do it for the bishops. And it's kind of wonder, what is it that the bishops are hoping to get out of elevating layity and religious into the hierarchy to, at their own power, expense? What are they hoping to get out of it? Is this just some gigantic exercise and coming up with a way to delegate authority in a formal way? Is it because they're overworked? What's their reasoning here? Christ initiated a church. He founded a church. It's not an invisible communion of believers. It's a visible institution, a visible body. Jesus Christ was incarnated as a visible man. His church is also visible. And that church is visibly hierarchical.

4:04You see it right in Scripture. There's a difference between the people who just kind of follow from a distance to the disciples and of course a difference between them and the apostles. And there's between the rest of the apostles and Peter. And you kind of see this, that's where the hierarchy comes from. You saw this after Christ in the Acts of the Apostles. There were different, there's a rank order of people. So what, what are they hoping to do by correcting Jesus' mistake? Because that's clearly what they think they're doing. Maybe they should be reminded that Jesus founded a hierarchical church and that all their best efforts to change things aren't going to work out. Speaking of Jesus's, how Jesus founded the church, of course, our main story. The modernists through their sonnual process are trying to get women ordained. And failing that immediately, they're going to settle on women preaching. Once you get the ladies up at the Ambo giving homilies, do that long enough and people

5:09will be used to them there. They're ready at the altar, helping with the offering of the mass, through being a Eucharistic minister or being an altar server or all these other things that used to be reserved exclusively for either ordained men or men on their way to ordination. But now you get the ladies up there, get them around the altar long enough, doing priestly functions and pretty soon people will say, well, why can't they be priests? They're already doing all the stuff of it anyway except for the consecration that's all that's left. Just let them do it. What's the harm? Right? Jesus founded a church and he founded a specific way. And it's not just the hypermodernists, not just the James Martins and the Cardinal for Nandises and the Timothy Radcliffe's of the church. It's conservative vishops too. Tegrity magazine gives us this story that seems to have just escaped the attention of everybody else. Headline, say Mary's College hosts women's preaching conference, our female clergy next.

6:12Bishop Kevin Rhodes lent his support for the program which seeks to give women a more prominent role in the conciliar church. Yeah, that's what we need. That is what we need. What we need is the church to just ignore the letter to Timothy giving women some very uncomfortable teaching about their role in the teaching structure of the church. Don't shoot the messenger. You have a problem with that. Take it up with St. Paul. It's in Scripture. You know, that in-errant book that is the court teaching guide for the entire faith, take it up with him if you got a problem with it. Details from the article. No, I'm not going to read the whole thing because it gives you a lot of context in the back half of this. I'll put a link to this in today's show notes at the Anthony Stein's sub-stack. You can read this for yourself if you are interested. St. Mary's College in Notre Dame, Indiana. Sister School, the University of Notre Dame, seems to be fully on board with preparatory indoctrination for the next phase of the post-concilier religion.

7:15According to the colleges on website, it recently welcomed 27 women for the first summer intensive of per claim. A 22-month formation program intended to develop Catholic women as quote, ministers of the word and preachers and settings permitted by the Catholic Church. That's a... The in-settings permitted by the Catholic Church is doing a lot of heavy lifting here because we've seen, including in dioceses in America, where women are, during the homily, the homily is replaced with a reflective message that a lady comes up and gives. And then the mass continues after that. The homily is a part of the mass on Sunday. You can't really get around it. So they know what they're doing when they replace the homily. They're just letting the woman give the homily. While claiming to operate within the boundaries of canon law, the initiative seems to be an open indication of the direction in which the post-concilier church is going. A case of changing hearts to borrow Lear the Fourteenth language in order to later change

8:16dog, want, doctrine and disciplines. The fact that the college's own article states that the events organizers quote, invited and received the support of the supposedly conservative Bishop Kevin C. Rhodes, Bishop of Fort Wayne South Bend, is evidence that this program is not merely for the work of a bunch of radical feminists going astray, but that it carries a pesquable approval. The program grew out of cooperation between St. Mary's and Descerning Deacons, which is a non-profit, and received a remarkable $1.25 million grant from Lilly Endowment. The train participants through courses preaching circles, coaching and practical preaching exercises. The Lilly Endowment group is a prominent nonprofit organization that has nothing to do with the Catholic Church. The law claims to strive to quote, deepen and enrich the religious lives of Christians in the United States, principally by supporting efforts that enhance the vitality of congregations. And quote, ah yes, lay preaching, and especially from the ladies, help us to

9:18enlighten and create a more vibrant, more vibrant church community. Well, here let's go take a look at the actual Lilly Foundation website. This is under their religion tab, a non-profit, non-Catholic organization founded in 1937. This is how long these people have been at this. A primary aim in religion is to deepen and enrich the religious lives of Christians in the United States. We, civly by supporting efforts that enhance the vitality of congregation. We value a broad range of Christian communities and traditions and endeavor to support efforts to carry forward their missions in a wide variety of context. We believe that the long term health of congregations depends on excellent pastoral leadership, and we seek to ensure that all types of congregations have leaders who are prepared to meet the needs of diverse communities across the nation. We work to strengthen theological schools, as well as religious institutions and networks that nurture pastors and support the ministries of congregations.

10:19We support efforts that help Christians draw on the wisdom of their theological traditions, as they strive to understand and respond to contemporary challenges and live their faith more fully. We are especially interested in efforts that nurture the religious lives of children, youth, and young adults, and share the beauty and vibrancy of Christian faith with a new generation. Nothing there sounds like a problem, right? You recognize this is like Protestant kind of framing of things, but sounds fine, right? You ever notice that some of the worst organizations you find out that some of the worst organizations have the most innocuous sounding boilerplate. Oh, I could probably support this kind of stuff. That's what this is. This is aimed not a Catholic so much, but they gave this organization, gave $1.2,000,000 to a Catholic organization to help up and the church's teaching and who can actually be a preacher. They can actually give a homily. And once you get that homily part out of the way, you're really just whittling away at

11:19ordination. All the barriers are mostly gone at that point. We also work to foster public understanding about religion. While we seek to lift up the contributions that people of all religious faiths make to our greater civic well-being, we also encourage fair and accurate trails of both the negative and positive effects of religion on the world. So all their undermining traditional religion, they're undermining religion more broadly. That's how they talk about it because they're the ones who get to frame what a negative effect of religion in the world is. Is there a negative effect of religion in the world? Religion? According to Catholic view, there really is only one religion, the Catholic one. The rest are all demons and things. All of the rest of them are all demons are basically grifts. That's all they are. So if you're taking this from the most charitable Catholic view you can take, sure there are negative effects of false religions, so that's all they do is negative effects, right? But that's not what this is. They work to undermine religion.

12:21They work to undermine religion. And they have been invited in by or at least given tacit approval by the bishop of his diocese, a conservative. Remember, it's not just the progressives that are undermining the church. Do another example of this one comes from the Vatican and this one's going to touch some nerves a little bit here. Teller Shardin was one of the most notorious Jesuits in the 20th century history. He was a paleontologist. He had an encounter with something in the desert. I've read his account of it, his own handwritten account of it. I've read it on this channel before called the thing. Just look up Shardin, the thing either on this channel or elsewhere and you'll find his account of and create of encountering a free floating spirit or something out in the wilderness that he turned himself over to fully.

13:21It looks like every account of perfect willing possession you've ever seen. He is revered as a, you know, again, as a paleontologist, even though he helped one of the great frauds in scientific history, at least in the 20th century, but he still revered that way. The reason this is going to touch some nerves is that the floating sheen is saying his praises. And that's why I think this is the context because we are not long from the beatification of floating sheen. And unlike most tribes, I don't have it. I don't have a hate for a floating sheen. I recognize that he was a, he was one of the people who got caught up with or was a full throated supporter and organizer of the post-concilior stuff. But I also recognize when I watch his homilies from the last few years of his life, he clearly recognize something had gone horribly wrong. So I have writings of floating sheen on this channel. I will continue to have writings of floating sheen on this channel from time to time. But I'm taking a break from that right now for the beatification because it looks like

14:24the modernists are using his beatification to make Talehart Shardin mainstream. He who's writings had been condemned by the church by prior to Vatican II. The rehabilitation of him started under Ratsinger who praised him. But the man was a heretic. He was a monstrous heretic. And now we have this coming from life site. Headline Vatican document revised the heretical ideas of Talehart Shardin, caring for a common home endorses pantheism, pan-entheism as a new way to understand God's relationship with the world and idea previously rejected by the church. And look, the gusting glass picture of Shardin right there. With John the 23rd comes from a church in Germany. According to a new Vatican document, it is quote, indisputable that the universe is in continuous evolution and that space and time evolve along with it. On August 21st, the International Theological Commission published a new document titled caring for a common home, responsible for eternal response to the trinitarian God.

15:28It openly revives the heretical ideas of Jesuit theologian Pierre Talehart Shardin claiming that the universe is constantly evolving and moving toward the future and that every reflection about God must take into account this holistic ever-changing nature of the cosmos. In short, every theology must be grounded in an essentially evolutionary understanding of reality. And that's why you can change everything about religion. Because if reality is changing then there are no immutable truths. All truth can be changed. Two features of cosmic reality are indisputable. Its holistic evolution opened to the future and the fact that space and time are integral parts of nature. It's like matter and energy and that they, together with these, participate in the evolutionary history of the cosmos, the document states. On this basis, an adequate model for an essentially evolutionary reality is that of a relational ontology which presents an interesting analogy with the trinitarian imprint of creation. Philosophers and theologians are called to take these fundamental characteristics of cosmic

16:31reality into account and to draw the possible consequences within their respective fields of competence. This is a perspective that deserves further exploration by philosophers and theologians the text continues. Moreover, the same text declares that traditional theism, the belief and a completely transcendent creator is outdated and it endorses pan-antheism as a way to understand God's relationship with the world. Even though this view was previously rejected by official church teaching. According to this perspective, pan-antheism, not pan-theism, pan-end-theism. The world exists in God, while God at the same time transcends it. Only classical theism, which often emphasizes the distinction between God and creation, and pan-theism, which identifies God with the world, pan-entheism combines divine immanence and transcendence. This view offers an interpretive framework for understanding how God can be intimately present in every aspect of reality without determining it in a coercive way the document

17:32claims. However, the first Vatican counts on the dogmatic constitution, Defilius, solemnly condemned and enathematized pan-theism and all its variants, which would include pan-entheism. In the chapter dedicated to God, the creator, Defilius establishes an insurmountable ontological barrier between the creator and the creature, defining the divine nature with attributes that exclude any form of immanentism. Since God is eternal, infinite, and intellect will in every perfection, distinct from the world, ineffably exalted above all things that are and can be conceived outside of him, it follows that if anyone says that the substance or essence of God and of all things is one in the same, or that the divine essence by its manifestation and evolution becomes all things, he is proposing a doctrine that is not Catholic, established by the canons, or the aforementioned constitution. And then it goes into how this is all just how their new idea is completely not Christian. Anthheism, all is in God, also preserves intact the root of pantheism, all is God, namely

18:35that the idea that the universe possesses a divine substance. Both views imply God is not pure spirit and pure act, is classical theology teaches, and that he possesses an evolving nature since everything changes in the universe. The stuff goes back to Shardan, probably one of the most monstrous heretics of the 20th century. The Vatican, like they said, and First Vatican Council, attached it in an affima to that, let them be an affima if they believe it. So the people who wrote that document, did they an affima tie themselves with it? Probably at that point it wasn't even necessary to an affima tie themselves, they probably were so far gone down the road that they had done that already numerous times. That document though, I'd leave a signature on it, pretty sure. I was saying he wrote it. Throwing that one out there. These are the people you were expected to submit to.

19:35Remember, the people who want the same Catholic religion of our grandparents are the problem. We're the ones watched with suspicion. You know the FSSP, I say this a lot lately, but the FSSP, they get an apostolic visitation from Rome practically every year. Why do you think that is? I'm going to just think of all that in the comments. They're making Shardan mainstream. Everything that was in Athens before will be made acceptable again. Pray for the people involved in that. They clearly need your prayers. We'll go to the final story. You may have seen in social media, you're more political friends, point out that

20:37some of them probably celebrating the fact that a poor, really party in Germany won an election in one of the states of Germany. They have 44% of the vote. In a multi-party system, that's pretty big. They often have ruling coalitions of parties that got like 20% of the vote each. They just put a whole bunch of them that are similar together so they can get a ruling coalition. Thus taking multi-party systems and dropping them down to two party systems, because that's how the voice works in the end anyway. For the last couple of years, I've pointed out that the German bishops have a passion project. Their passion project is not just political activism. The stuff that the American bishops do is political activism. This is something else entirely. This is whatever the next step above that is. The US or the German bishops are for all intents and purposes, just political actors. I couldn't figure out why, because this goes beyond the relationship between the church

21:41and America and the political system. The church and America, the bishops are very partisan. They have made it their mission since November 2024 to oppose everything Trump does and to do take a partisan position on immigration and things and try to invent a new theology to justify it. It really took off when the talk about defunding USAID happens. We did the math on that pretty quickly. We couldn't figure out what it was in Germany. Well, it turns out that not only is the immigration question to fake there too, as you probably are aware, it's every western country right now. There's also turned out that this for a right party called alternative for Deutschland, alternative for Germany. If you look at their policy positions, they're moderate Republicans by American standards. The head of that party right now is a woman in a parody of holy matrimony with another lady. Sounds far right to me, doesn't it?

22:41Well, that party, they just have a lot of positions that would normal people go, yeah, that sounds reasonable. Like, you know, taking care of the immigration problem. But one of the positions they have is opposition to the church tax in Germany. If you don't know what the church tax is, the separation of church and state that we have in the United States practically doesn't exist in most of Europe. They have a different kind of concept of it. But in Germany, you register with a government or what religion you are. And then you pay your tithe 10 percent enforced by law. And you pay it to the government. A government then takes that money and gives it to the church that you are a registered member of. And the AFD are opposed to that system. And that goes a long way to explaining what the German bishops opposition is about. And now the German bishops are being praised by American Catholic media for their political activism.

23:42Start here in Germany, though. Their response to this political, to this recent election is just absurd. They are losing the plot here. But now that we understand the money about this, it makes a lot more sense. From Catolecht.de, these are like four very short articles. I'm not going to go over all of them, board for word. But they all come from Catolecht.de, which is the official news arm of the German bishops conference. If there's a disclaimer, then this is more kind of a guest editorial. But any without a disclaimer, it's the, they are endorsing the position. That is how that works. If you don't put a disclaimer, that means you are endorsing. You put your name to it. AFD success at giving up is not an option. See, for the last at least two years, and really for the last decade, if you go look at German political history, recent history, every time there was an election, the AFD would do better, and better, and better in the election.

24:46And once I started doing better and better, this by American standards, very moderate Republican party, started freaking out the German establishment. International media, compared it said it was the first for a right party to hold major political power in Germany since 1945. What does that year do? What does that in comparison, suppose to mean? You know, a party run by a lady who's really into other ladies. Sounds far right to me. She talks about how, you know, this is here in an interview, but really, she talks about how the church in Germany has to stay political, has to keep fighting. I think they hit every talking point here about every single thing. But in relation to the Germans, to the election that happened in, they keep translating this as a Saxony. It's not, that's actually not accurate. I don't know why it keeps getting translated that way. But the election result in the German state in question, is causing a stir. You mentioned the international attention. The Catholic and Protestant churches

25:50in the state made many efforts beforehand to stop a moderate Republican party. They emphasized Christian values such as charity, human dignity, and democracy. Many still didn't listen. What more can be done? And she says, giving up is definitely not an option. I personally know pastors there. And of course, we have to keep this in mind. The values we're talking about, the values the churches stand for are simply not being heard by people who want to do that party and say that something has to change in that the prime minister is to blame for everything. These people are against migrants and refugees against James Martin types and only for Germans. How very dare Germans be first concerned about Germans. How very dare they? The horror. The horror. You can't reach them with that, but that must not be a reason to ban in these values. Many people in the state have tried a lot. There have been rallies, concerts, large demonstrations. Again, this is the work of the church in Germany holding political rallies, concerts, and large demonstrations that hasn't changed the

26:51outcome. The result is a catastrophe, but that can't mean we say we've lost. Now we're giving up. And they are saying that that German party is about ethnic nationalism, which is weird, because that's not what they're about. They just keep they just keep hiling on. Feelings are poor advisors for making an election decision. They're accusing here, people who wanted all the interlopers out of their country could be just voting based on feelings. Leftwing politics is all feelings based. That's how they get you. The state is voted. A clear majority gave their vote to an anti-democratic party that makes no secret of its intention to dismantle the rule of law. This is crowning against minorities and restrict freedom and restructure the education sector to its own advantage. There's no shortage of explanations. The fall of the Berlin Walls, a life-changing event, a lack of experience with

27:53democracy after all the bad stuff of World War II. Low wages, the level of education and protest against current politics. None of these explanations convinces me. Perhaps there's no need to even look for rational good reasons. The most compelling explanation defies all reason. Those voters decided to based on gut feelings. Isn't the reasonable thing to do is to turn your country over to people who aren't actually your countrymen. But some in Germany take this a step further. The peaceful acquittal of AFD voters is a moral capitulation. Where have we heard that rhetoric before? Again, German bishops website. I would call that incitement. What it looks like to me? Placid or peaceful acquittals of that party's voters is moral capitulation. Hold the voters accountable. For voting in a way the German bishops don't like. What kind of madness

28:59is that? Another German bishops article. After the AFD victory the church must be more present. The church did a lot but couldn't prevent the AFD victory in that state election. Comments of this writer here, the church must learn from this and be closer to the people. It must be more activist. I have an idea of how the church can be more active in Germany. It just hear me out here. What if they did something crazy? Like preach the gospel, the actual gospel, the same gospel that Catholic priests in Germany were preaching in like the 1800s. Preach the actual gospel. Repentance to sin, call it to conversion. The reality, the very real presence of Jesus Christ in the most blessed sacrament of the altar. The fact that he paid for your salvation, if you will accept the graces offered and pick up your cross

30:03and follow him, he paid for that opportunity to open the gates of heaven for you on the cross with his blood. He truly resurrected from the dead. How about they preach that? But they're not interested in that. They're interested in making a better world. What they're doing in Germany is speedrunning the national or the total church sinned it on sinndality. They're just speedrunning it. They're pushing it harder and faster. The end state is the same. That's why Francis warned the German church to go with the universal church. Not stop. Just go with the universal church. They're hemorrhaging Catholics in Germany. Hemorrhaging them. They make the church an America look healthy by comparison. And you know who's singing the praises of the German bishops now saying, here in America, we need to follow suit. America magazine. It's always the Jezevets isn't it? Headline. The U.S. bishops are speaking out forcefully

31:07on politics and finally being heard. I thought it was insane two years ago to suggest that you were seeing Cardinal McAroy appointed to oppose President Trump. But McAroy was like close to 75 or something when he was made the Cardinal Archbishop of Washington, DC. He is the sharpest mind of all of the American bishops as far as I can tell. From all their writings, I read his long form theological opinions. They're very clearly wrong, but they are weapons of mass destruction against theology. The man is to be taken very seriously. And ever since then, you have seen all this. And I thought it was even weirder to suggest a year ago, almost 16 months ago now, when Leo became Pope that they put him make him Pope to oppose the President because that seems nuts. And it is nuts. And it's not true. It touches on the truth. We started in Germany for a reason. This article doesn't make any

32:09sense at all by itself unless you look at the church in Germany. And then you realize if you take a broader view, which is hard to do for Americans, part of the Americanist era, a heresy condemned by Leo the 13th much st.or times was called Americanism. And essentially, he's this belief that America is like the center of the world. America is the shining city on a hill. Yadi, yadi, all that stuff. We're all familiar with it. Americanism isn't limited only to Americans. Okay, it really isn't. Americanism today looks like the Pope's laying the papal tiara down at the UN and saying it's got a special mission in history to be the shining city on the hill. Same error, just not America at the focus of it, but Leo the 13th condemned it. It's hard for Americans to get out of to get out of our sort of America centered view of things across the political spectrum. We're all guilty of a two degree. But across the West, you are seeing a populist revolt. And it's beyond the West too. They had it in Japan. No one calls them the West. You're seeing a lot of this shades of this stuff in Africa and

33:11a really negative kind of way. You're seeing this in South America. And when you understand that this is a pan Western thing, pretty much all of the old former Christendom. Suddenly, a lot of things that happened in the church in the last year and a half make a lot more sense. America magazine wants to see what the church in Germany is doing here in America. When the Catholic church speaks up about politics, who decides what to say? When the great gifts had been Catholics, the robust sense of the church as a corporate person, not only in the legal sense, but also as the body of Christ subsisting through history and the church's visible institution. That's a paraphrasing from Vatican II, by the way. The Catholic church, the body of Christ subsists in the Catholic church or however they phrase it. Previous to Vatican II, they would have said the Church of Christ is the Catholic church, but now they say the Church of Christ subsists in the Catholic church. It's a phrase enabling, essentially any vaguely Christian group to be called part of the church or part of the body of Christ.

34:12It is that sense that let's Catholics say and mean Mother Church and to cultivate a deep personal love for the church, even when his Flannery O'Connor wrote to a friend who had converted the Catholic has to fill with the Catholic culture of all socialism, can see that we have to suffer as much from the church as for it. Church is teaching here, but then goes here. When the church says something on a contentious political issue, however we are often tempted to move directly to defending our going with Wooder was the church said without thinking through how it actually got said. In the context, the church's involvement in American politics, what the church says most often means is that a bishop, usually the chair of the relevant committee or subcommittee on the US Conference of Catholic Bishops has written a letter addressed to some set of public officials that has been posted to the website of the conference and shared with journalists of a mechanism of a press release. And then the headlines say the church says X which may or may not be an accurate summary of what the bishop who signed the letter actually said. The fragmented social media ecosystem of the 21st century goes to work encouraging us to be indignant or outraged or if one's capacity for patients and discernment is sufficient, perhaps even consoled or challenged.

35:15In 11 years on the staff of America, the author has seen many of these sorts of criticism. They are the most frequent tropes in our comments and letters. And this goes on and on like this. The honest answer to why him the bishops said whatever someone thinks they should have said is that the bishops have said it but they're not always gotten heard. Over the course of the last year and a half or so prompted by the beginnings of both Leo the 14th's papacy and the second presidential term of Donald J. Trump, the bishops are using their voice in a new way. And they're being heard differently and on a wider variety of topics than was previously the case. Some of that change has been thrust upon the church and the bishops by the political choices of the Trump administration, especially with regard to mass deportation and the war in Iran. But the bishops ability to meet these moments effectively also reflects the shifts in their approach and Pope Francis encouraged and Pope Leo was consolidating alongside bolder tactical choices about how to get the church's message heard. First, Pope Francis is open letter to the U.S. bishops on mass deportation. Second, the U.S. bishops special message on migration issued during their plenary assembly.

36:17And third, President Trump's social media attack on Pope Leo. And it goes over this. What they're doing here is encouraging the U.S. bishops to go further down this path. And it just goes on like this. And on like this. And a lot of the stuff here that they stake the law of the bishops for. Again, regardless of what you might think about the war in Iran, our blessed lords and blessed be the peacemakers. It's hard to counter argue that Jesus wants the church to work for peace. Great. I will never counter signal any churchman who is trying to end a war. Especially if you know anything about, you know, what some of the mystics have said about the loss of souls and warfare. And I don't think he's just limited to people in the battlefield either. Which is horrible enough. But also involves the population who suddenly lose their minds and

37:20as a consequence often lose their souls over the conflict. But they sing here the praises of, remember this fiasco? Tobin, Macaroy, Supich, all appearing on 60 minutes. All of it, they go through like a year and a half of this stuff. And then we get here. Take in an isolation any single instance of the various interventions by the bishops detailed above might be treated as business as usual. But as a sustained pattern, they mark a new willingness on the both on part of both individual bishops and bishops acting through the conference to take the megaphone and to act to make sure the church is teaching us heard clearly. And respond directly to attempts from politicians to minimize or dismiss the church's moral voice on the issues of immigration and war. And note what they're saying is all this political activism is the church is teaching. The church is teaching is not to throw your borders open. It'll let or to let have people

38:23illegally enter a country. The church teaches quite the opposite of that. Scripture teaches the opposite of that. Before this recent shift, the public perception of the church's political advocacy was that it was focused on the sacrifice of the most young demolock, which the bishops described in 2019 and again in 2023 as our pre-eminent priority and letters introducing their voting document, forming conscience for faithful citizenship. To be sure the church's opposition to it has not changed, though the overturning of row has scrambled how the issue shows up in electoral politics etc etc and it just goes on like this. But they have shifted, their point is they have shifted their focus, which is true. Obviously it's true. The pre-eminent issue now for the church in America is not protecting the most vulnerable, the elderly and the youngest, people from being offered as a living sacrifice to a demon as essential what they're doing and name a prosperity and individual freedom. Now that now it's migration and they are encouraging more of this. They want to go back

39:29to what the German bishops are doing. The German bishops telling people the church must be more present in the political space. The German bishops rather frighteningly telling people that the peaceful acquittles of people who voted the wrong way is a moral capitulation. I don't think the US bishops are going to go quite that far collectively. But those three men I could see doing that, you know they talked about the German bishops floated the idea of excommunicating people who voted for AFT. They're still going to work on that because there are national elections coming in Germany. And I strongly suspect that the people of Germany are about done with the status quo. Just like people in England are, and Spain, and France, and everywhere else in the West.

40:30And you would think that the church would recognize that in the more historical sections of the Old Testament, the thing that led to the collapse of faith among the keepers of the Old Covenant was consistently letting people repagons it. Consistently, don't take my word for it, go read the Old Testament, you're going to see that pop up over and over again. Oh, some might say, well these people, these people in the East and America aren't pagans, well, are they not? They come from formerly Catholic countries, but most of them leave the faith when they get here. We got a non-profit organization research on that. They either leave Catholicism and become Protestants, or they maybe they stop by as a Protestant briefly before they just kind of succumb to just the godless variation of American culture.

41:32While maintaining their own cultural ties, it's kind of the worst of both worlds. And in Europe, most of the migrants aren't Christians. They're not atheists either. They're military age young men who believe they have a religious duty to subdued the population through the most protest means possible. So the people are tired of it. In the church, or at least the modernists who control the mechanisms and the buildings are party to it. Some people get mad when I have to talk politics, sometimes you have to. And the reason the US bishops are ramping this up, this talk up right now, America Magazine is ramping it up, is because we are very close to admit term election, and no one knows how it's going to turn out. But there are certain voices who want you to stay home. We're going to give the party of sacrificing the elderly and the most young, the mullock,

42:33the keys of the kingdom. I'm going to know what you think of this in the comments please. I don't like it and subscribe if you have not. It does help. Sharing this in social media helps a lot too. Prave everybody we spoke about here. I'm not joking whenever I ask you to do that. These people need your prayers. They absolutely need your prayers. And remember, it's easy when you're talking about threats to your threats to so-for-order safety, all that stuff, and the co-option of the church for evil purposes to get angry about it. An anger itself, righteous anger is not a sin, but it's not hard to slide down that path. I'm righteous anger into some sort of self-absorbed, unrighteous anger that causes you to lose your soul. So please, please, when you engage with this stuff, rude it in prayer,

43:35the writings of saints, the basic teachings of the faith, and go deeper in your faith while you do it. I'm Anthony Stein, Hava Maria.