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And we're going to have a talk a little bit about some of the things,
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sadly, that are going on in our country today.
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And one of the things, of course, the big story is that Charlie Kirk,
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the person who formed and was president in charge of Turning Point USA,
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was assassinated and killed just recently.
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It is a sad thing that so much of this has been going on.
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Prayers also to all of the children that were hurt, injured,
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and the two children that were killed at the Annunciation Catholic Church in
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, another sad thing.
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And then a knifing down in South Carolina, or North Carolina,
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I'm sorry, I think Charlotte, North Carolina, just over the border from South
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Carolina, very close to South Carolina.
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It just seems as if there are demonic forces going on in the country.
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And I think what happened to Charlie Kirk is demonic.
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And the reaction to it, of course, Charlie was a very, very strong Christian,
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and he stood for his faith and what he believed.
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I don't see why anyone would want to kill Charlie.
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He always was fair-minded, gave people a chance to debate him and talk on their
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points on both sides of an issue,
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believed strongly in free speech, and went on college campuses and empowered
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kids there to be able to speak on both sides or three sides or four sides or
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whatever side they wanted on any issue.
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He never did name call or was never derogatory to anybody that I ever saw.
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So the fact is that he won a lot of people over, and I think that's one of the
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reasons why perhaps he was hated by the forces of so-called progressiveness
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or the left or whatever you want to call it.
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Satanism. Satanism. And we
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saw that film, I saw on TV where he was here at Illinois State University.
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When he was here, I didn't even realize that he was, never did comment on it.
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But we saw some cuttings on TV and there was a picture of someone dressed up
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as Satan, you know, challenging him, really not challenging any more than just simply being a pest.
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And the fact is, is that the person representing Satan was far more accurate,
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what's going on in this country than most people realize.
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Is there anything further you want to say on that issue, Lynn?
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On Satan? Yeah. Yeah.
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You know, not only this country, this world, we have to know that we are at war.
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And I think I've heard that this past week more than any other time, that we are truly at war.
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Different speakers and so forth have come out and said, we have to recognize what's going on.
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And it's a war. It's a spiritual war.
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The demons are really after us. And I think, you know, on this show,
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we adopted as our prayer, and Lynn and I both are ourselves personally sort
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of adopted as our prayer, the St. Michael prayer.
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And we had that prayer on this show before they started saying it again at Sunday Mass.
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And now it's at a lot of churches, and it is at our church at Epiphany,
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and I'm sure at a lot of other churches in the Peoria Diocese, the whole diocese.
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And probably in quite a few other dioceses, maybe not everywhere,
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but in a lot of places, they're saying the St. Michael prayer again.
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And, you know, you people listening out there are probably, you know, familiar with it.
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But Lynn and I sort of adopted that prayer, and we had that prayer at the end of our shows.
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And that prayer was formed by Pope Leo XIII.
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And back probably in the early part of the 20th century,
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probably very early 1900s or maybe even in the late 1800s, I'm not sure exactly,
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when he put that prayer together and gave it to the church.
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But in that St. Michael prayer, I think the key phrase in that prayer is defend us in battle.
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And I think most Catholics and probably a lot of Christians in general have
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forgotten that, that we are in battle.
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I mean, the prayer is defend us in battle.
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And Pope Leo XIII took it for granted that we are in battle, didn't he, Lynn?
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Well, yeah, he had a vision after saying Mass one morning and collapse.
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He had this vision, and it was that Satan had appeared before God the Father
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and asked for another hundred years or another period of time,
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and he said he would destroy the church.
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And God says, well, go ahead and try.
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Well, he gave him a period of time, and we are in this period of time.
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But this so shook up Pope Leo that he wrote the prayer, St.
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Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle, be our protection.
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In fact, we've got that on the flip side of our, the back side of our tombstone.
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The St. Michael's prayer. Yeah, we've got some of the words of it,
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not the whole thing, but yes, that's true.
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And it's a good prayer. And I think it reminds us that we are,
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you know, Christians are in battle.
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We're at war. And I think people need to start recognizing that.
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And when you forget that and you start giving in to the secular forces and to
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the demonic forces that are in the world around us, you can see what starts to happen.
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And we're going to talk about that a little bit here in the show.
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We're going to read an article here about Christ the King.
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So I think that's important to remember, and it's important to say prayers and
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remember what's happening to Christians all over this country,
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and not only all over this country, but all over the world. Oh, yeah.
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It's not limited to here. Yeah, and before we start, though,
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I do want to remember from last week we were talking, you know,
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about San Domino College for the Trades.
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And I think we had Kent Lasnovsky on, and we talked about almost everything about the college.
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But I don't think we stressed and forgot to get in that if you go to San Domino
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College for the Trades, you will graduate without debt. you will,
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and that's the important thing, one of the very important points.
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So that's something to remember.
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And if you want to find out more about it, you can call Kent Lasnowski and the
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number is area code 217-622-8994.
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Again, that's 217-622-8994.
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Or you can, you know, if you just Google San Domino College for the trades.
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You know, Springfield, Illinois, you'll get information about it and get more information there.
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But it's important to understand that if you go to the college,
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you will end up graduating without debt. So that's an important point.
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Very important. And it was very timely to have Kent on last week because this
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week, the period of time, seven days since he did that.
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Look at what has happened in the world. My God, people are killing each other.
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They're calling each other horrible names and accusing.
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It's just things are getting, they're reaching the boiling point.
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And be very, very wary of the Internet.
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If you go on that Internet, remember everything on it is exaggerated in order
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to get and keep your attention.
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And it's, you know, the evil and the bad and the dark and so forth and everything.
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Is exaggerated in order to get more attention and more likes and more money
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for websites and so forth.
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And the algorithms and so forth are all designed to keep your attention that way.
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Get away from that screen, you know, get out and go for a walk and,
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you know, go out to our parks, go out into nature, you know,
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get out of that, leave your phone at home.
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And the schools, I think, in the state of Illinois should start banning these
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screens and phones in school.
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We have to start getting hold of this because the internet is responsible for a lot of this thinking.
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People standing and they're sitting in front of that screen all day,
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listening to people with all these negative ideas and contents and so forth. It is demonic.
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And, you know, demonic forces can take over that internet and they can bend
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people's minds, especially young minds.
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Young minds are not fully formed yet in shape.
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And we need to spend more time, the Catholic Church needs to emphasize more
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time in formation and forming kids and getting them in church and getting them
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well catechized and so forth, that this has got to stop.
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Right. It has to stop.
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And then you want to say something. I'm going to read an article here about Christ the King.
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And do you want to say something about that before we start?
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About 1850, 1870,
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somewhere in there, the pope at the
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time saw how modernism communism
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socialism you know the one of the
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ism lines but anyway how this was becoming overcoming people's faith and building
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the government to the idea to build government to serve supposedly the people and.
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Of course, they don't. They haven't. They will not.
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They want to dominate the people. But the Pope understood this,
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and it was the modernization, I guess, what he was speaking against.
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And the idea is that man, actually what man could be equivalent to God or government could,
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well, he decided we're going to celebrate and bring to people's minds the idea that Christ is the king,
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not the government, not your ideas and so forth.
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It's all, everything is in God's hands.
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And people had forgotten that. And this was a period of time of revolutions in many countries.
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Mexico was a big, big thing that went on when they were persecuting all the
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Catholics in Mexico during this period of time.
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And that lasted until early 1940s, maybe mid-1940s, the persecution of the church in Mexico.
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But anyway, the Feast of Christ the King comes from that, the idea to remind people who is king.
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And you know, when you listen to Erica Kirk, and she talks about her husband
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and the movement he started and so forth and their faith.
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It very much echoes that whole thing.
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And we have to remember that, take a look at the name Charlie Kirk, Charles Kirk.
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Charles means strong. You know, we had in our Catholic Church itself,
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Charlemagne, Charles the Hammer.
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And Charles means strong. And Kirk, of course, is the English word,
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Old English word for church.
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And so the name itself means strong church. And there isn't any doubt that Charlie Kirk died a martyr.
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And we have to remember that Catholicism teaches that the blood of the martyrs
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is the seed of the church.
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And you're right about his wife when she says that this movement will come back
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stronger than ever before.
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And Charlie would be more powerful as a martyr than he was in real life.
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And his assassin didn't kill Charlie.
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He just made the people who have been following Charlie more determined to carry
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on the work that Charlie was doing.
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I think she mentioned that the world is, you know, we're at the mercy of that
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we're at war. This is a war.
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Yes, it is a war. She said the battlefield. She said, you know,
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it will be a battlefield.
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And we are on a battlefield, and we're in battle.
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And that's what Pope Leo XIII reminded us.
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And I think that, I hope our new Pope, Leo XIV, reminds us that we are in battle.
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And people forget that. And we have maybe too many clergy and too many bishops
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and so forth in the country who want to sort of quiet things down. No.
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People need to be reminded as Christians, you are in battle.
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You know, defend us in battle. We are in battle. And you need to pick up your
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sword and join the fight because you're in a war.
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And that's the way things are. Take a look around you. And just as soon as we
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slack off, you can see what happens to the world.
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So we're going to come back here and read this article from the Remnant newspaper
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entitled, Christ the King Must Be Re-Crowned to Save the World by Andrew Pollard.
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And it starts off with, Christ the King has been un-crowned.
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So we'll read from that when we come back here in the next section.
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Hi, this is Bob Johnston. You're listening to Being Catholic right here on Catholic Spirit Radio.
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We're back from our break, and we're going to talk about Christ the King and
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Christ the King must be re-crowned to save the world.
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An article, as I said, in the Remnant newspaper, and it's the,
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I should have said what issue it is, it's the current issue,
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August 31st issue, and it's by a man I don't know, Andrew Pollard,
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but it's a very good article, and so I'll go ahead and start reading from it.
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And it says, Christ the King has been uncrowned. The greatest disaster to befall
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the world has been the uncrowning of Christ the King,
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the abandonment by much of the world of belief in Jesus Christ as King of all
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individuals and of all civil authorities.
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This rebellion by individuals and governments against Christ the King has led
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to a rejection of true beliefs and the acceptance of false ideas and ideologies.
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Most seriously, it has resulted in a dying world.
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In the past, the doctrine of Christ the King was a crucial Catholic belief,
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which thought that Jesus Christ is King of all individuals in the world,
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individual kingship, including Catholics, non-Catholics, and non-Christians.
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Christ is also king of all civil authorities, collective or social kingship.
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Not only has the world rejected Christ the King, it has also denied the teachings
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of Christ's Holy Church, the Catholic Church, and excluded it from the active
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life of countries, a grave and destructive error.
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Tragically, in the modern world, man has crowned himself in place of Jesus Christ.
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God the State and God the Man have replaced Christ the King and the teaching
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of the Catholic Church with false secular ideas.
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The results are appalling.
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Human beings are destroying their countries and their civilizations.
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In 1925, Pope Pius XI promulgated the Encilical Qua Primus to remind the world
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that Christ reigns above all earthly rulers.
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In the Encyclical, the Pope lamented that Jesus Christ and his holy law was
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being thrust out of people's lives.
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The world has rejected Christ's teaching that all power in heaven and earth has been given to me.
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Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations in the world,
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baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost,
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and teach them to observe the command I gave you.
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Christ's rejection from everyday life dates back centuries to the Reformation
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and the French Revolution.
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The Declaration of the Rights of Man rejected the social reign of our Lord Jesus
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Christ and replaced it with the heresy that all power resides in the people.
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And I'm sure people out there have heard that before, you know, power to the people.
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You've heard that, especially communist nations. But we've heard it right here in this country.
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And in the French Revolution? and in the French Revolution as well, Glenn's right.
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It rejected the words of St. Paul that there is no authority but from God alone.
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Pope Pius had hoped that the new feast of Christ the King would increase people's
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faith in Jesus Christ and in his holy Catholic Church, the kingdom of Christ on earth.
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The doctrine of Christ the King emphasizes the truth of the Catholic faith and
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the falsehood of false religions.
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Yet the Pope, were he alive today, would be horrified to discover that since
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1925, the power and authority of Christ and his Holy Church have declined substantially.
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Many of Christ's commands and those of his Church are ignored and replaced by
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false secular beliefs and government policies contrary to Catholic teaching
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and to objective reality,
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despite Christ's warning to his disciples that, if you love me, keep my commandments.
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Christ the King has even been uncrowned by part of the Catholic Church itself,
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which has largely turned its back on traditional Catholic doctrine regarding Christ the King.
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In some parts of the Catholic Church, even the teaching of the social reign
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of Jesus Christ has been forbidden.
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Pope Pius XI established the Feast of Christ the King to be celebrated on the
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last Sunday in October, yet in 1969, less than 50 years after the promulgation of Qua Primus.
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Paul VI replaced the Feast of Christ the King with a solemnity called Jesus
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Christ, King of the Universe, which is celebrated at the end of the Church's
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liturgical year, towards the end of November.
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Paul VI also replaced many of the prayers and hymns in the original Mass of
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Christ the King and in the breviary.
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Previously, these prayers had focused on the here and now, but in the new solemnity,
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the emphasis of the revised prayers is on the end times.
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For example, in a hymn from the Vespers for the traditional feast of Christ
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the King were the words, The wicked mob screams out, We don't want Christ as King,
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while we, with shouts of joy, hail thee as the world's supreme king.
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Both the above two lines were discarded in 1969.
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Also abandoned were verses of other hymns which had clearly spelt out the traditional
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doctrine of Christ's kingship and which authorities in the 1960s considered outdated.
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Today, only in the traditional Mass, based on the 1962 calendar,
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do we find the original prayers for the Feast of Christ the King still included
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and the Mass still celebrated on the date originally established by Pope Pius XI.
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Most governments in the present world have rejected the social kingship of Jesus
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Christ, despite Pope Pius XI emphasizing in Qua Primus that it would be a grave
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error to say that Christ has no authority whatever in civil affairs.
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Heads of nations should not neglect the public duty of reverence and obedience to the rule of Christ.
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Disastrous consequences of uncrowning Christ the king happen.
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Pope Pius taught in Qua Primus that uncrowning Christ the King and rejecting
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the teaching of His Holy Church would have deplorable consequences.
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All beliefs, true and false, secular and religious, have consequences,
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and beliefs which reject the true teaching of Christ the King conflict with
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the objective reality and end up leading to serious negative outcomes,
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even to the collapse and dying of some of the largest countries in the world.
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Where Jesus Christ does not reign, there is inevitably disorder,
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death, and dying countries.
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We cannot reject the commands of Christ and His Catholic Church without inflicting
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serious damage on ourselves.
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Christ has all power and authority and has complete supremacy over all the world,
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but God has also given human beings the free will to reject His commands.
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Uncrowning Christ the King leads inevitably to self-inflicted destruction.
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Human beings have separated themselves from reality, and boy, that's certainly true.
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And as a result, believe all kinds of false beliefs, religions,
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delusions, and ideologies.
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If our beliefs do not conform to the objective truth, appalling results will
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inevitably follow, and they certainly are following.
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Consider the crucial area of human fertility.
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Many governments around the world have introduced free access to reproductive
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health services, a euphemism for contraception and abortion,
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in direct contradiction to the doctrines of the Catholic Church,
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which teaches that they are both grave sins.
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As a result, many countries today are suffering from deadly beliefs and behavior about fertility.
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In most Western countries, many believe that contraception and abortion are
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human rights, even though they lead inescapably to dying countries.
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These so-called reproductive health services are significantly undermining the
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economic and social foundations of many countries.
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And that's one thing that Charlie Kirk emphasized was for young kids in college.
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He said, get married, you know, even if you can't afford it.
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He said, get married and have a bigger family than you can afford.
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You know, be fertile, be fruitful and multiply.
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Much of the current world is dying from a new, more deadly variant of the Black
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Death, far worse than the bubonic plague that killed a third of Europe,
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the population in the 14th century.
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Today, they're dying from a worldwide plague of false beliefs and behavior,
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which have led to below-replacement fertility, less than 2.1 children per woman.
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Which leads to dying countries.
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The majority of countries in the world, such as China, South Korea,
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and several countries in Europe, including the UK,
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are currently suffering from massive collapses in fertility and huge slumps
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in working populations.
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Japan's population is collapsing. Even the USA's fertility is below replacement
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fertility, caused largely by contraception and abortion, and by lifestyles with
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sub-replacement fertility.
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Human beings have also uncrowned Christ the King by disobeying His commands
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and those of His Holy Church about marriage, children, pornography, and education, etc.
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Countries have fallen into an abyss of false beliefs, heresies, apostasy, and sin.
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Rejecting the social reign of Jesus Christ leads to below-replacement fertility.
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The more fertility levels fall below replacement, the faster countries die.
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According to research carried out in recent years by Fr.
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Donald Closters in the USA and published in Lifestyle News,
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Novus Ordo Catholics have much lower levels of fertility compared with traditional
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Latin mass Catholics and very much higher levels of abortion and contraception.
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Pope Pius XI observed in Qua Primus, Human society is tottering to its fall
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because it no longer has a secure and solid foundation.
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The Pope wrote these prophetic words 100 years ago in 1925.
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Unlike future generations, he understood the disastrous consequences of rejecting
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the individual and collective kingship of Christ.
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Christ the King must be re-crowned to save the world.
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The only way to save previously Catholic countries from dying is to re-crown
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Christ the King by a worldwide traditional Catholic renaissance,
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or as Pope Pius X describes it, the restoration of all things in Christ.
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In countries that are largely non-Catholic, Christ must be crowned by evangelizing
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them with the traditional Catholic faith.
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Christ is not only king of our hearts and souls, consciences,
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intelligence, and wills, but also of our families, cities, peoples, and countries.
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Not only private individuals, but also rulers in all countries are bound to
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give public honor and obedience to Christ.
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Today, qua primus is as important as it was when it was first proclaimed 100 years ago.
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The world simply cannot survive the uncrowning of Christ the King.
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Christ must conquer, Christ must reign, and Christ must command.
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All human beings must obey the commands of Christ the King.
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And Charlie Kirk certainly taught that. Disaster follows if Christ's Church
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and a state do not jointly promote the Catholic faith.
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Moral laws must conform to the traditional teaching of the Catholic Church.
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Contraception and abortion must be rejected, and traditional marriage,
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which considers the primary purpose of lifelong marriage to be the rearing of
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children, must be reestablished.
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True religion is about the real world. It is not a religious fantasy.
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And boy, are we ever living in a world fantasy. I mean, this idea,
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and Charlie Kirk opposed it, that people can somehow change gender,
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that men can become women and women can become men.
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I mean, these things are simply not true and not possible.
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I mean, we used to go to movies when we were kids, you know,
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that were scary and funny at the same time.
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And entertaining, you know, with Bela Lugosi or Lon Chaney, where someone could
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change into, you know, a man could change into a wolf, werewolf movies,
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the Wolfman, and the Dracula movies, where Bela Lugosi could change into a bat
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and so forth and all of that.
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And today, we're actually believing in that stuff and being forced to believe
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in that stuff. Like I said earlier, at some point, people are going to be persecuted
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if they simply proclaim that the grass is green.
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And that is something that one of our Catholic converts, G.K.
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Chesterton, a very famous Catholic convert and writer, said that at some point
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in time, people will be persecuted for simply observing that the grass is green.
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I mean, Charlie was being persecuted for simply observing that men are men and women are women.
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Belief in Christ the King is not just a pious religious practice with nothing
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to do with everyday life, but a truth with concrete material consequences,
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and you can see them happening around you.
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Jesus Christ really is King of the world, even if we don't believe that He is.
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Rejection of Jesus Christ and his holy church leads to fantasies, delusions, and sin.
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And boy, I'll tell you, take a look at right, Lynn, at all of the fantasies
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and delusions that we're living in today.
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I mean, people have this term, the dark ages.
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And I can't remember the name of the man who actually coined that phrase.
33:46
Isn't it the one that wrote the history of Rome? No, it wasn't him, actually.
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I mean, he used it, but there was another man that actually coined it.
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And I can't remember his name right now off the top of my head.
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But it was such a, you know, got something like that.
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Sometimes, you know, it gets picked up and used, and it's simply not true at
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all. Take a look at our age.
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Talk about an age that is superstitious. In the 21st century here,
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we are becoming the most superstitious and absolutely the most delusionous people
34:22
that ever existed on the face of the earth in believing in stuff that is absolutely fantastic.
34:29
And you know what? One of the signs of that is tattoos, the marking of the body. Yes, it is. It is.
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It is. Tattoos and art are when art starts to change and become fantastic and so forth.
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This is true. It says here, Christ must reign in China, India,
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and Japan just as much as in formerly Catholic countries.
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The Catholic faith must be the basis of public law and public policy in all countries.
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The state must recognize the truth of Catholicism, not because it wants to,
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but because there is no other set of beliefs that conform to objective reality.
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And I've said on this show so many times, It was the Catholic Church that built Western civilization,
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science and the universities and civilization and law and everything else because
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it looks at the world through the lens of objectivity and reality.
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It's the first religion that incorporates the entire universe and makes sense out of it.
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Hi, this is Bob Johnston. You're listening to Being Catholic right here on Catholic Spirit Radio.
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We're back from our break, and we're talking about Christ the King,
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and Christ the King must be recrowned to save the world.
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And the fact is, is that I've said so many times on this show and taught so
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many times all through the shows that we've had here, that it was the Catholic
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Church that built Western civilization.
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And the fact is, is that if you look at the preaching and teaching of Charlie
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Kirk, he had a lot of Catholicism in his soul and in what he said and what he taught.
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And the fact is also is even though we as Catholics teach that,
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of course, the church preceded the Bible, we don't teach that the church comes from the Bible.
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We teach that the Bible comes from the church.
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Nevertheless, the Bible, we believe that New Testament and the Old Testament
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are God-breathed, along with our Protestant friends.
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And the fact is that you can learn a tremendous amount from Scripture.
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And if you study it, and especially if you study it through the eyes of the church,
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and Charlie directing people to join a church and his wife, you know,
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emphasizing a biblical church, a church that emphasizes the Bible,
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and I would assume that that means to try and
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study it as thoroughly as Charlie did
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and try to look at the Bible in a very
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intelligent way and understand it in that way and realize that there are difficult
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books to understand and it's not something you can just pick up and read and
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understand without help.
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But the point is that it is getting people back to looking at church,
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looking at Christianity and looking at Scripture,
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and we as Catholics need to emphasize the fact that the church incorporates all of that.
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It has from the very time of Christ, and that the Catholic church is the church
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that Christ founded from the very beginning.
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But we have a lot in common with our Protestant friends, and Charlie had a lot
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in common with our Catholicism, and our vice president, J.D.
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Vance, of course, was Protestant who changed over to Catholicism,
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I think, especially from an intellectual point of view.
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And so there's a lot in common that we have. And the more that we can come together
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and stand as one and stand unified, and I think Charlie, in what he was doing,
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was helping along those lines.
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And Catholicism can add a lot to it, but we have to remember that we are in
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battle and that we have a mission,
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and that is to hand on through Catholic tradition what Christ gave to the apostles,
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and they handed on down to us,
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and it's our duty to hand on to others.
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The world urgently needs a traditional Catholic renaissance and regeneration,
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I'll say it again, and the evangelization of the non-Catholic world.
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The traditional Catholic faith is the vital heartbeat of the world.
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In the last 70 years, much of the world has suffered the equivalent of a massive heart attack.
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In other words, the Catholic faith incorporates much of all the different Protestant
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faiths because they're all derivatives from it.
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And to the extent that they're closer to it and to its core teachings, the stronger they are.
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True religion must be restored and transmitted throughout the world for the
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survival of the human race.
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God will not abandon us, but those who abandon him will perish.
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Human beings must look for the peace
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of Christ in the kingdom of Christ by restoring the empire of our Lord.
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Pius XI emphasized in Qua Primus that Christ and His Church,
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the Catholic Church, is the one and only source of salvation.
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And we need to start remembering that.
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Christ Himself declared, no one comes to the Father except through me.
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That's so true and you know when you talk about charlie kirk and vice president vance they both,
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were very involved in reading and not involved were very interested in what
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the church fathers had said and wrote and i think this is what brought vance
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to the catholic church Yes,
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I think so. And they were very good friends.
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And, you know, at one time, President Trump was very close to Catholicism.
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There were some things that came in between, and I can see why that I can't
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get into right now. But at any rate, Christ himself declared,
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no one comes through the Father except through me. St.
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John, in the early third century, St.
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Cyprian of Carthage taught, outside the Catholic Church, there is no salvation.
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Now, the Catholic Church, of course, is a huge, huge organization and incorporates much.
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And much of what our Protestant friends have, they took with them from the Catholic
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Church when they left it.
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So they have much of what the Catholic Church teaches.
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And it's scattered throughout the various denominations of Protestantism.
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They need to come back closer and closer to the Catholic Church.
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Christ taught his disciples in truth. I tell you, whatever you bind on earth
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will be bound in heaven. whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.
43:56
And the fact is, is that Christ uses, you know, I'm sure Christ was using Charlie
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Kirk, and Christ uses men everywhere.
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And what Charlie had was one thing that the Catholics need to have,
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and that he's a very, very strong and determined faith.
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And the idea and understanding that we are in battle.
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We're at war. His wife understands that. that we as Catholics have to understand that we are in battle.
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You know, when we say that in the church, St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle.
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And we need to understand that. Take a look around you. We're at war,
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and we had to be better prepared for war.
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Current restrictions on the traditional Catholic liturgy in the Catholic Church
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must be completely removed.
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As Pope Pius XI said in Qua Primus, in Christ is the salvation of the individual,
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in Christ is the salvation of society.
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Both the individual and society. We're not individually saved.
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That's one thing that the Catholic Church emphasizes, I think,
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perhaps more than our Protestant friends.
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The salvation is not just an individual thing, it's also a social thing.
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Jesus Christ must reign, otherwise countries will die.
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Japan is the world's fourth largest economy, but its population is collapsing
45:19
because of very low births, which are well below replacement level and from
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over a million abortions a year.
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Just imagine that, a million citizens a year being killed by abortion.
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Young traditional Catholics have begun crowning Christ the King.
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And the fact is, is Charlie was part of this. Charlie was part of a movement
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of restoring Christ to his proper stature.
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The world may be dying, but there is some good news, despite the current serious
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collapse of many parts of the Catholic Church.
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A traditional Catholic renaissance has been growing in recent years,
45:57
both in the New World as well as in the Old.
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One notable example is the annual Char pilgrimage in France,
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which has grown since the early 1980s to become probably the biggest traditional
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Catholic pilgrimage in the world.
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And I think that's one thing the church needs to start emphasizing again, don't you, Lynn?
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Oh, definitely. Pilgrimages and processions. Yes.
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And, you know, in the traditional, those that celebrate the Latin rite of the
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church, it's still very prevalent there.
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For example, up in LaSalle, Peru, up north of us here about an hour, right up 39.
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They have the traditional Mass there, and on the Holy Days, not only the Holy Days.
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Like Our Lady of Sorrows is going to be celebrated this week.
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They are going to have a procession and a meal together in the Latin Mass.
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And they do this frequently.
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That's good because the procession represents the fact that we are on a journey.
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Yeah. You're going towards Christ.
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We are going right towards the heaven coming down to touch the earth.
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And at Mass, heaven comes down to touch the earth at the altar.
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And we have to start understanding that we're beginning to know,
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I'm going to do a show here, and Lynn's going to, you know, with me.
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We're starting to learn something about where consciousness comes from.
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It doesn't necessarily come from the cortex of the brain at all.
47:34
And there are things in the universe that may actually impart consciousness
47:39
to and through the brain to our human bodies.
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The universe is more mysterious than we think. and we need to start understanding
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this and religion is an important part of it.
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It's almost instinctive. And the forces that work against religion are forces
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trying to go against that.
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There's a lot that we humans in the 21st century are ignorant of that people
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in earlier centuries took for granted.
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We need to start relearning a lot of these things.
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We're not as smart as we think we are. Take a look at the world around us,
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what's happening to it. And it's fucking coming on and falling apart. Exactly, my God.
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And this battle that Erica Kirk said is spiritual.
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Yes. It's not just a physical battle. It's a spiritual battle as well.
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And we have to understand we're in the battle one way or another.
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You know, modern man discards that whole idea that man is not the God.
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Really, I mean, we think we can create life, my God, look at.
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We don't even know what it is. No, and we have this artificial intelligence.
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It's not intelligent. It doesn't even know what it's doing. Yeah.
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In 2025, for three days during Pentecost, more than 20,000 pilgrims,
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mostly under 20 years old, walked, sang, and suffered the 70 miles from Paris to Char.
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They recited the rosary, went to confession, took part in nighttime adoration,
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and above all, they assisted at the three traditional Masses in reverent silence.
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The first Scharer pilgrims in 1982 were locked out of Scharer Cathedral by church authorities.
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In 2025, Rome tried to force the pilgrimage to use the Novus Ordo and to ban
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the traditional Latin Mass, but the lay organization that runs the pilgrimage firmly refused.
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The huge increase in the number of pilgrims on the Scharer pilgrimage reflects
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a growing Catholic Renaissance, in the traditional Latin Mass,
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and in traditional Catholic doctrines.
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A regeneration which is not just happening in France, but also taking place in other countries too.
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The world has begun to recover from the terrible disaster of the uncrowning of Christ the King.
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The recrowning of Jesus Christ has started. And Charlie was part of that movement,
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the recrowning of Christ the King, starting in the college campuses and moving
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through the United States and throughout the world.
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And this is what the opposition is terrified of.
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The fact that more and more young kids are realizing that the path that we've
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taken in the last 50 years or 60 or 70 years of modernity is not the right one.
50:30
And they're beginning to lose their power and their control and it terrifies them.
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And so they magnify their attacks against us in that respect.
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And we have to start understanding that and we have to start building in resistance to it.
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Anything more that you want to say along those lines? I think that we all need
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to recognize, of course, that we are in battle, that we are dependent on God.
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God doesn't depend on us, but I think in the modern man's mind,
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that God is only there because man created him. It's just the opposite.
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And isn't that what Paul taught? And I always forget what verse that's in the Bible.
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We are against, our enemy is not people, individuals, but principalities. Yes. Yeah, exactly.
51:30
That and in the end times, what's going to happen?
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Paul had said 2,000 some years ago, what was going to happen?
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Man would not know good from evil. Yeah.
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And evil for good. Man, not only he would not know it, but he would confuse
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evil for good and good for evil.
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He would call evil good and good evil.
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Yes. And that's exactly what we're doing.
51:58
Yes. I mean, Charlie Kirk was condemned by the forces that opposed him as an evil man. Mm-hmm.
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And, you know. It's his fault he's dead because he was evil.
52:09
Right, because he was evil. He asked for it. Right.
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And that, that's pathetic when people. Minds are clouded and warped and darkened.
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And, you know, we can live in a darkened world. And the darkened world that
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happens when we abandon the very principles that built our civilization in the first place.
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Yeah, because we think you're so smart.
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You won't know good from evil. The principles about light brought light to the
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world and, you know, overcame the darkness. I mean in these dark times,
52:45
If you want to talk about the, as I've said many, many times,
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you want to talk about the dark ages, the dark ages after Rome fell,
52:54
those ages were overcome by Christianity. Christianity brought the light.
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Christianity brought with it all of the accoutrements of civilization. Right.
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And when you start seeing the evil things and so forth that are done,
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even in modernity and by modern man, it is Christianity that brought those things.
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Those things were always there. It's Christianity that overcame them.
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We can see with the abandonment of Christianity, this so-called utopian world
53:25
that was supposed to result is not resulting at all. Things are growing worse.
53:30
And we're using our power for evil instead of good.
53:34
And I don't know how anybody could be not aware that things are building faster
53:42
and faster. It's like that snowball.
53:46
The rock that goes down carries no moss. It goes faster and faster and faster.
53:53
We're going to have to stop here and say our prayer.
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I think that at the beginning of the Gospel of John, what did he say?
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In the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God.
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And the Word was God. And the Word was God.
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And nothing will prevail against it. It's the gist of it.
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So we've got to keep that in mind, too. We won't be here next week.
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But the week after, maybe we'll start with talking about how the human mind
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works and how it may be in contact with the universe itself. Right.
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St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. be our protection against the
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wickedness and snares of the devil.
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May God rebuke and humbly pray, and do thou, Prince of the heavenly host,
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by the power of God, thrust into hell Satan, and all evil spirits who wander
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through the world for the ruin of souls.
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Amen. You've been listening to Being Catholic with Bob Johnston on Catholic
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