Michael Matt: As Catholics in Lebanon open their churches to Muslims fleeing Israeli missiles, Ephraim, the last Christian village in the Holy Land, comes under brutal attack. Pope Leo calls on French bishops to find a solution for the Latin Mass Catholics. The plot thickens in a disturbing new study. It is revealed that in 2026, 15000 Christian churches will close in the United States alone. Plus, photos of Father Robert Prevost show the future pontiff taking part in a Pachamama ceremony some 30 years ago, just seven years after Pope John Paul the Second himself had spoken approvingly of Pachamama. Finally, in a new interview, Bishop Athanasia Schneider speaks out on the SSPX, consecrations, obedience, and a state of emergency in the Catholic Church. Is it schism, or is it something else?
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It is Holy Week, and we want to start tonight’s program with a quick holy war update. So far, we have over 1 million Lebanese who are apparently threatening Israel’s very existence as well. Over in Lebanon, 1 million Lebanese have been displaced, many Christians, but also many Muslims. And true to form, guess who is coming to the aid of the Muslim Lebanese, the Christians, of course.
Churches are often seen as places of refuge, but in deeply sectarian Lebanon, a church offering shelter to Shia Muslim families is unusual. Father Butrakori says when they saw people fleeing with nowhere to go, they had to do something. It is the first time in any conflict that the monastery has opened its doors like this.
Fr. Buotros Akuory: Political parties and divisions have split the sects, with each group taking its own side. Even we, as a monastery, were criticized by some people who questioned how we could host people who might one day be against us. But for us, the priority remains the human being.
Michael Matt: You know what that is, guys? That is actually Christian charity. It is good to see that it still breathes, it still lives, actual Christian charity. That is exactly what I mean by never becoming them, right? Because what they want us to do is conclude that the only good Muslim is a dead Muslim and go from there. And all it ever does is self-perpetuate.
And of course, the Muslim world gets the message that we hate them, that we want to kill them, and bomb their countries. So they go over to London and cause all sorts of havoc, and we get it. But why do they hate us? Why is this all being stirred up? That is the interesting question, isn’t it? Not that we are not under threat, the world is extremely destabilized right now, believe me.
And speaking now of our Lord’s parable about the Good Samaritan, the last fully Christian village in the Holy Land is posing a clear and present danger to the State of Israel. So the last Christian village in the Holy Land is being taken out this week. Here we are now, this is Ephraim, that is what its biblical name was. This is where Jesus went to rest about this time before his Passion began.
And the last followers of Jesus Christ in Ephraim today, in the modern world, the Christian Palestinians, are being taken out, killed, murdered. It does not matter, right? It is all part of the defense of Israel.
Now I know what some of you are going to say. You are going to say that is Hamas. Hamas is using the Christians as human shields, and they are using babies and children as human shields. I have been saying this for a couple of years, and I do not understand that. Because that would mean the Christians are hostages, right?
Isn’t it true that even in the movies, when the bad guy grabs someone and puts a knife or a gun to their throat, that is how he preserves his life? If you come any closer, I am going to kill this person, right? And the cop lays down his gun in almost every case. Not in this case. In this case, you shoot both of them. When Christians or children are being used as human shields, it is considered acceptable to kill the hostage. I do not know when that happened, but apparently, that is part of our new morality.
So let me try this. It is a little graphic, but take a look. These two men, the one in the back has a shotgun to the head of the one in front. If the man in front is an innocent Palestinian Christian and the one in the back is Hamas, apparently, the position is that both should be shot. Just shoot them both because one is using the other as a human shield.
Only in this case, bomb seventy thousand of them, the innocent ones, the ones in the front. And this is to say nothing of the fact that when it comes to Hamas, everything Sean Hannity told you about how Hamas came into being was a lie.
News: Netanyahu was all the time helping Hamas survive. He arranged for Hamas to receive thirty-five million dollars every month from Qatar.
Suitcases of money were given to Hamas at the request of Benjamin Netanyahu personally. Because the Qataris knew him from the beginning, they asked him to send requests in writing, because they knew he might deny it later. He allowed more than one billion dollars to be transferred into the hands of Hamas because he believed he could control the level of hatred.
The strategy was to sustain the extremists and weaken the moderates. This exploded in our faces in the most brutal way on October 7.
Michael Matt: So, before we get started on the disappearance of Christianity from the world stage, which is exactly what is happening under massive persecution, we have this reminder that everything you are seeing is a lie. They have been lying about everything.
But I do not think people in this audience are still blind. The one bit of good news this Holy Week is that many people are waking up. They are not buying this anymore. It is so out of control now.
And again, the concern is what is going to happen when the Democrats get back in. The retaliation, the vengeance, people without conscience, the way they will attack Christian, pro-life, conservative politicians and citizens in this country will be unlike anything we have seen, serious chastisement, and for what, for Israel?
So let us look at the most important part of all of this: what is the takeaway for us? It is important because until events bring us back to our knees, begging God to save us, it will keep going like this. It is a spiritual war.
The one thing that is true, good, and beautiful about what is happening in the Holy Land this Holy Week is that Palestinian Christians are holding their ground. They are not apostatizing in the face of militarized Christophobia. They are showing the world what we will all have to do if this does not stop.
They are showing how it is done in the epicenter of Christianity, where Christ lived and died and rose from the dead. His followers are showing what happens when Christ is removed, the chaos that follows, how we are left defenseless, and how we get out of it, by keeping the faith and bearing witness to Christ, just as the early Christians did when the Roman Empire collapsed.
So right now, if you have the perspective to see it, the beautiful thing is that Christians in the Holy Land are showing the world the only way out of this nightmare. The only way out is something we have been pointing out ever since October 7, 2023: level the place. Why not? There are just Muslim terrorists in Palestine, right?
Oh, see, friends, look at these people here. You know what, they are Palestinians. They are Palestinians too. They kind of look like us, don’t you think, chapel veils, icons of Jesus, going to church. These are Christians living in Gaza right now. At the moment, with the backing of your country and mine, they are evacuating their homes. They are going to be homeless soon. Some of them are going to be dead later on today, some of these people right here.
Are you okay with that? Those Christians we just saw, they are obeying. They are showing a Catholic spirit. They are doing exactly what their Cardinal Archbishop asked them to do, which is what we showed you last week. He is asking them to stay, to suffer, and to witness to Christ, because it is the only way out.
Priest: So I cannot blame them, but I keep insisting that we have a mission here. We have a vocation to keep alive the Christian faith here in the place where Jesus was born, died, and resurrected.
Michael Matt: The priests are also showing the way. Father Bashar here is a West Bank native, and he has responded to the Cardinal’s call as well. He says, quote, our mission is to help people remain in their land, to live with dignity, and to keep the Christian presence alive in the Holy Land. Our presence here is a living testament to the roots of Christianity, where it all began, end quote.
Which is something we all can say as traditional Catholics worldwide. Our refusal to leave the Church under fire, our presence here is a witness, because it is going to rise again. The faith, the old faith, that is what I mean. They set such a beautiful example for the rest of the Christian world.
This latest aggression by Israel should concern everyone, says Father Bashar. He says, for the Christian presence in the Holy Land is not merely a local matter. It is about the future of Christianity, the whole world over. And this, friends, is what that looks like.
News: The small Christian community, just over 1000 people before the war, has been impacted like any other. Twenty-three Christians have been killed, and more than 400 have left the strip, according to the Holy Family Church.
All over the world, Gaza is in the heart of the people. Wherever I go, people ask about Gaza.
But as the service comes to an end, in the distance, the buzz of Israeli surveillance drones is never too far away, a reminder that their future is more uncertain than ever.
Michael Matt: Another example, Father Firas Corey here, another priest in the West Bank. He is also calling on his flock to witness to Christ crucified. He says, quote, even though it has become incredibly difficult, Christians must remain in the Holy Land, or the region will lose the living history that carries the story of Jesus Christ to the whole world, end quote.
And how important is that right now, when that story of Jesus Christ, the true story of Jesus Christ, the story of Jesus Christ the Redeemer, is dying throughout the world. And this should concern everybody, Catholic or not, as every religion calling itself Christian is dying.
News: 15000 churches will close in 2026. That is not a projection, that is not a worst-case scenario, that is what is actually happening to American Christianity right now. 15000 congregations that survived wars, depressions, and every cultural shift of the twentieth century will not survive this year. That is 41 churches closing every single day, 287 churches every week.
Michael Matt: So why is this happening? Why are all Christian denominations done? You want to know why. You want to know why Christianity is either disappearing from the face of the earth as a religion or being mercilessly persecuted. It is because Christianity’s largest and oldest denomination has surrendered. The Catholic Church has surrendered.
So all the smaller denominations that came from the Catholic Church are looking at it and saying, if they are giving up, if they do not believe in this, even with post-conciliar popes now insisting, as we showed you a few weeks ago, that all religions are paths to God.
Pope Francis: Might be ideal, but my God is more important than your God. Is that true? No, there are different paths.
Michael Matt: Let us think about that for a moment. If all religions are paths to God, just different languages, different paths, then if the Catholic Church is saying that, why be Catholic at all? Why be Christian at all? Why bother making a change?
You see how diabolical this is. And for Catholics, why bother being Catholic when Christian theology, which contradicts itself from one denomination to the next, is still considered Christian by the Church? That is what the ecumenical movement is.
You are okay, I am okay, everyone is okay. Do not be so rigid. Some say the Eucharist is Jesus. Others say it is just a symbol. What is the difference? Some say Jesus Christ founded a Church with popes, bishops, and priests. Others say that is false. Who cares, it is all considered Christian.
Some say contraception is fine. Others say it is not. Some say homosexuality is a sin. Others say it is not, that it is a virtue. It does not matter; it is all Christian now because we are progressive, enlightened Christians.
And while this theological confusion is happening in the Catholic Church, the rest of the world has gotten the message. Christianity has become nothing more than a joke.
Life, even in religions that are not the true Christian religion, is fading away. And why did this happen? It happened because the Catholic Church surrendered. It is our fault, because we are the only true Christian Church established by Jesus Christ, outside of which there is no salvation. If that one surrenders, all the rest are finished. It is just a matter of time.
So how did the Church do this? Was she attacked from the outside? Is that how it happened? To some degree, Freemasonry and others attacked the Church. But ultimately, this happened when the Catholic Church reneged on its own claim to be the one true Church. Once she did that, she became insecure, apologizing constantly, trying to appease everyone.
That happened because the Catholic Church lost its confidence, lost faith, and stopped condemning the errors of the day, errors that are opposed to the teachings of Jesus Christ and to the truth. It became more important for everyone to get along. Do not confuse people with theology or dogma, just let them live and let live, follow Jesus however they want. That is essentially the message now, and that is deadly for the entire world.
As Robert Morrison points out in his new article over at remnantnewspaper.com, this threatens the life of the whole world. He writes, when Catholic truth is hidden or obscured, even non-Catholics suffer from the aftermath. He is quoting Father Dennis Fahey.
You can think of the Second Vatican Council as a lighthouse. The spirit of the council extinguished the light in the Catholic lighthouse. The message became that all churches are fine, all paths lead to the same place. And when that happened, the world became lost at sea, with no direction, nowhere to go, nothing to follow. Christian morality no longer mattered.
Once belief went, morality went as well. And what did governments do? First, they stripped away their Christian identity. Christian confessional states were abandoned. Then, governments stopped defending the souls of their citizens. The purpose of the state was no longer the common good, no longer helping people fulfill the end for which they were created, to know, love, and serve God.
Then, governments stopped defending the bodies of their citizens. Life itself was endangered, even the unborn. And after decades of this, God did exactly what these societies told Him to do. They rejected Him, and He left them alone.
And that is the greatest chastisement, to be left alone by God, the silence of Christ in a world at war. That is the consequence.
And what is happening to these countries that have abandoned Christendom and Christian morality? They are on life support.
Official Trailer “Suicide of a Nation”: Millions of people in the United Kingdom now share the same feeling. It is overwhelming and unavoidable, a feeling we would rather ignore, yet we cannot. It can be described in five words: we are losing our country.
You walk down the street and feel like a foreigner in the place where you were born. You move through your cities, towns, and villages, and no longer recognize them. You hear unfamiliar languages. You see symbols, behaviors, and cultures that were not there before.
The country of your childhood, the country your parents and grandparents described, no longer exists in front of you. It exists only in old films, fading books, and nostalgic images on social media. The country you search for, the one you thought would always remain, is nowhere to be seen. It feels as though it disappeared before your eyes. You have not left your country, yet it feels as though your country has left you.
Michael Matt: No, no, no. Great bit, sir, but that’s not it. Your country has left God, and that’s the problem. Your country told God to go to hell, and that’s the problem, and that’s why your country is now a living, breathing hell on earth. Your country is what happens when man throws Christ out, when man uncrowns Christ the King. But don’t feel bad. It’s not just you, it’s not just the UK. This Christless chaos is a truly global phenomenon.
Now the Western world went to bed, at least nominally Christian, and woke up religious nuns. And no, I don’t mean nuns as in sisters. I’m talking about nuns, N-O-N-E-S, people who checked “none of the above” in surveys about what religion, what religious affiliation they have. None. Now the nuns are the fastest growing group in America; nuns believe in anything. And I say, well played, Vatican dude, boy, did that ever work out?
Well, it’s because it’s heresy, as Pius X attempted to call it, the synthesis of all heresies. It’s the worst, the mother load of all heresies. Modernism, the thing that jumped the wall and infiltrated our Church. The modernist heresy in the Catholic Church, then, is strangling the world to death. Do you see why this fight for Catholic restoration is more important than anything else? Because heresy has a tendency to do that, to kill first the soul and then the body, including the body politic, including the state. It has happened before.
Back in the fourth century, the world went to bed Catholic and woke up Arian with the Arian heresy. It was the great St. Athanasius of Alexandria, doctor of the Church, sorry, father of the Church, who tried to comfort the traditionalists. It’s all repeating itself, friends, it’s all repeating itself. St. Athanasius tried to comfort the traditionalists of his day who were being kicked out of their own churches. Sound familiar? St. Athanasius writes that it is a fact that they occupy our churches, but they are outside the true faith. And where does the faith dwell, he asks them? Is it in the steeples and the state? No, the faith dwells within you, and the faith will be preserved by you. And with those words, St. Athanasius became history’s first rad, Trad.
Bishop Schneider: And so when Saint Athanasius disobeyed the Pope, he was excommunicated. I consider that excommunication, although it was formal according to the law, is invalid in the eyes of God.
Michael Matt: They have our churches, but we have the faith. This is something traditionalists have been quoting ever since I was a boy, quoting Saint Athanasius all our lives. And now, with hindsight, we have lived long enough to see what has been done with our churches.
News: Since 2000, over 3000 Catholic parishes have closed or merged. A Catholic priest in New York told me, “We are closing parishes that have been here for 150 years, and now we are selling them to developers who turn them into condos and breweries.
Michael Matt: Now, friends, even if you’re not a traditional Catholic, I want you to really think about this. This next clip is juxtaposed with what we just saw, because right now, as Catholicism disappears, falls into rack and ruin, churches close all over, Christianity disappears from the face of the earth, the Vatican is shutting this down. The flags of all the nations, the statues of all the saints, the crosses, and the 300 priests who have walked with the Pilgrims all the way from Paris will now enter the cathedral and lead the 20,000 in the sublime worship of God. That is the Latin Mass of Christendom, Lauda Jerusalem Dominum.
That is the most thriving youth movement in the Church today. From what we just saw, the other religions are collapsing. It may be the most thriving youth movement in any religious group today, in any church today. So why is the Vatican shutting it down? You see how this works? And people say, well, you get the religion, you get the leadership you deserve. Man, no, no, we didn’t ask for this. This has been a revolution from the top down, imposed on the people of the world and the Catholics of the world, and they’re still at it, literally shutting down the thing that is working all throughout the world.
Francis, what does he do? Come on. Oh my gosh, there are thriving traditional Latin Mass parishes going all over the world, and I am going to shut them down now. Can you even come up with a reason why that would be a good idea? Well, he says it’s because we must stay unified, unified with all the people who are leaving the Church, unified with the 80% of Catholics who no longer go to Mass, even on Sundays. That’s the most important thing: stay unified with them. That’s insane. So then, if it’s not truly insane, it’s diabolical, isn’t it? And that’s what we’re up against.
Think of churches a little as little forts in every town all around the world, little fortresses where people could go for what? For sanctuary. All throughout the Middle Ages, if you got in trouble, no matter what the problem, if you could get to the sanctuary of a Catholic church, they would leave you alone. You had sanctuary. You claimed sanctuary. That’s what all those churches did throughout the world. They provided true sanctuary for you, for your children, for the children of Christendom, against the world, the flesh, and the devil.
What happens when they’re all gone? Where do we go in the winds that will blow? Then what comes next, after all our churches, which are scheduled to be gone in a generation? What comes next when all our churches, our sanctuaries, have become condos and breweries, as we just saw? Maybe we should ask our Christian brothers and sisters in the Holy Land, because they’re finding out the hard way exactly what comes next. And as I just said, they’re actually doing a pretty good job of doing the Catholic thing. They’re living through it right now. And the thing that will save them, the thing that is saving them and will save them, is the very thing that St. Athanasius said would save our fathers in faith: the indwelling of the old faith inside of us.
Don’t you see, it’s not Maga, friends? If MAGA means you have to be pro-abortion pills, pro-gay marriage, pro-IVF, and all the other things, pro-neocon war forever, if that’s what MAGA means, we can’t be MAGA. We’re just going to lose, just putting off the inevitable, making things worse if we apostatize. Nothing else matters right now, nothing. Not ecumenical blather, not this insidious Dr. Suan synodality. No, that doesn’t matter. Not even, dare I say, Pachamama, whatever that means, Pope Francis’s trusty little helper as he went about bulldozing what was left of the Catholic Church over the past 12–13 years. Pachamama, and wouldn’t you know it, just when you thought you had enough, Pachamama is back in the news after 30 years.
Photos of a young Father Robert Prevost resurfaced recently, where he was attending an academic symposium down in South America, somewhere on St. Augustine from a Latin American perspective. Participants held classroom lectures and then went outside for what, as the caption reads, a “celebration of the Pachamama rite,” Mother Earth, whatever that is. But it’s linked to the Andean agricultural traditions.
How long, O Lord, how long, you know, and I guess I’m supposed to get all exercised about that, all worked up about this. At this point, it seems to me this is par for the course, the way things are going. And let’s not forget that young Father Robert Prevost, at that point, probably didn’t recoil from whatever that ceremony was back in 1995 because just seven years before, guess what happened? The Supreme Pontiff himself had trotted out the Pachamama ceremony down in Bolivia.
Here’s what the Supreme Pontiff, St. John Paul the Great, said: “This is the work of God, who knows that we need the food that the Earth produces, that varied and expressive reality that your ancestors called the Pachamama, and that reflects the work of divine providence by offering us His gifts for the good of man.”
So yeah, what does it all mean? I don’t know. This ambitious employment of the Pachamama was on full display 30 years later, as we all remember, at the Amazon Synod. I know because I was there, and it made no sense then either. Interestingly enough, in response to this, the press panelist, now Bishop David Martinez, special secretary to the Synod, didn’t do what I think was expected. He didn’t deny that what happened in the Vatican Gardens, that symbol, was essentially pagan. Instead, he said he couldn’t identify this statue one way or the other, and said, “It’s an image I wouldn’t know how to interpret. We all have our interpretation of the Virgin Mary or of Mother Earth, but those who use this image wanted to have it represent a living presence, because Amazonia is meant to be full of life. I don’t think we need to interpret it as the Virgin Mary or a pagan element.”
The man was positively babbling, ladies and gentlemen, about an incident that scandalized many people because it looked very pagan. But he didn’t say, “No, it wasn’t pagan, it was Christian.” He said, “It could be pagan, might be Christian, hard to say, not important.”
That’s the clarity we got at the press conference. At least Father Bob, as Pope Leo attempted to clarify some of that confusion, the Pachamama confusion last year, in his address to the bishops of the Amazon. He said, “No one should submit to natural goods as a slave or a worshiper of nature, since these things have been given to us to reach our end of praising God and thus obtaining the salvation of our souls.” Some Catholic news outlets reported this as a papal rejection of Pachamama-style ecology, whether you accept that or not.
The point is, it all goes back to the big guy, the head honcho, Pope John Paul the Great. His homily in Bolivia, which reflects the work of divine providence, happened in 1988, the same year as the Assisi prayer meeting, when they put a Buddha up on the altar. It was also the same year that His Excellency Archbishop Marcel Afeb finally had enough and consecrated four bishops without papal mandate. Oh my goodness. Why did he do that? Because there was a state of emergency in the Church then, just like there is today, only it’s worse today, and that’s why this is happening now.
News: 15,000 churches will close in 2026, that’s not a projection, that’s not a worst-case scenario, that’s what’s actually happening to American Christianity right now.
Michael Matt: And we’re supposed to be worried about the canonical status of the Society of St Pius the 10th, friends. There’s not going to be a church left anymore from which we could separate ourselves by schism; it’s that bad. Back in ’88, everybody was, ooh, what if society starts its own new church, right? Well, irony of all ironies, it wasn’t the society that started a new church; it was the Vatican that started a new church. They call it the synodal church. Hey, Vatican, whatever happened to the Catholic Church? They started the new church. But no, everybody’s like, what the heck is this? It’s a new religion, and we’re all worked up because the Society of St. Pius the 10th is going to disobey the Pope, which means schism, because I’m an expert in canon law, and that means they’re going to go into schism. Is that what it really means, Mr. Expert in canon law?
Bishop Schneider: It is not schismatic at all, and therefore, we must correct the meaning of schismatic. In the last centuries, we had a very reductive view of what is schismatic, a completely legalistic one. We had a reductive view of what obedience is. We even absolutized obedience to the Pope, who is a creature; he is not God. Really, I must state it, in the psychology of so many people, traditional or conservative, even bishops and Cardinals, there is an implicit divinization of the Pope. I say implicit, not formal, not explained, implicit. Therefore, any disobedience is suddenly labeled as schismatic because you are disobedient. This was alien to the large tradition of the Church, completely alien to the Fathers of the Church.
Michael Matt: Yeah, that’s it. And you know what, it worked exactly as we’ve been talking about. Could we please develop some strategic sense, some common sense? It worked. The Vatican blinked. On March 25, the Feast of the Annunciation, the 35th anniversary of Archbishop Marcel’s death, Pope Leo the 14th comes out and tells the French bishops to seek concrete solutions to integrate Catholics devoted to the traditional Latin Mass while maintaining ecclesial community, whatever that means. Suddenly, the Vatican is talking about the traditional Latin Mass again, because the traditionalists once again put them on notice, we’re not messing around here, we’re not backing down. No matter what you think of the Society of St. Pius, let’s whisper this part, whisper this even if you don’t like the society: make your bishop think you might go there, make the Vatican think you might just go to the society. See the advantage that provides for us. Play it smart. You come out there and say, “We shall never, ever go to the schismatic society, your bishop goes, “Okay, well, I don’t have to worry about these guys. I will take their Mass, I will take their sacraments, I will take their children, I will do whatever I want, because they’ve told me they’re never going to take the option of the SSPX. You see how it works? Because now everybody knows the jig is up. Everybody is calling out this massive revolution in the Church, this massive crisis in the Catholic Church, which for 40 or 50 years the Vatican has been trying to ignore or cover up.
Bishop Schneider: In this huge confusion of the Church, which is so visible before our eyes, the ongoing relativization, the ever more blasphemous and sacrilegious Holy Mass celebrations, the bishops and cardinals who publicly proclaim heresies unpunished, and demand that women should be ordained, one bishop even proclaimed he will ordain married priests, and they are not punished, they are not admonished at all. Not to speak of the so-called German synodal way, which is completely undermining the entire church structure, shaping it into a Protestant community. And Rome has not intervened for years, I would say again.
Michael Matt: If you have not seen the new interview with Bishop Schneider, please check it out and send it to everyone you know. The link is down here in the description, friends. Obviously, this is war, and again, it’s a spiritual war. Think of yourselves, we are standing at the bottom of the hill, watching Jesus Christ walk by. He’s scourged, he’s crowned with thorns, he’s struggling beneath the weight of the cross, being mocked. We have this moment where we have to decide, are we going to go with him or not? Do we know the man or not, friends? That’s exactly where we are. This might not be the apocalypse, but it is an apocalypse, and it might be the apocalypse. Whose side are we going to be on now? That’s the question. Do we have the courage, do we have the faith to walk all the way up the hill and stand there? It’s not going to be easy, don’t get me wrong, but we need to have this conversation right now, don’t we? Will we follow him up the hill or not? We have to make up our minds, it’s Christ or Antichrist.
What’s happening in the Middle East right now, friends, in the Holy Land, is not politics. This is total war on what’s left of Christianity in the world today. They want to obliterate the Christian faith of our fathers. I’ll close by reading something for you. It’s short, don’t worry. His name is Father Jean Michel Gliese, I believe you pronounce it. It’s called True Israel and False Judaism. If you can see that in the camera, get this book, because it really rips the mask off what’s actually going on. Let me give you a little sample:
The globalist idea of the unity of the human race is, therefore, according to Judaism, a religious idea, and it is necessarily connected to the priestly role assigned to the Jewish people. It is the idea of the universal monarchy of the Messiah of Israel reigning over the whole earth from the Temple rebuilt. At long last, the people of Israel will be the priests of humanity, but the realization of this universal monarchy requires the destruction of Christianity, the destruction of the religious power of Catholic Rome, the destruction of the political power of Christian societies, and the destruction of the social reign of Christ the King. The reconstruction of the Temple of Jerusalem thus goes hand in hand with this expectation of the destruction of Christianity and of the political and spiritual power of Rome and the Popes.
Sobering stuff, isn’t it? But that’s what’s happening here, that’s what this is all about. We’re living through it. The question of our Lord comes to mind again: when the Son of Man returns, will He find faith? Will he find faith? That’s the question. Please God, if it’s left up to us, yes, an emphatic yes, He will find faith. And if that means persecution, so be it. You, me, and friends, we need to get ready. I need you to back me up, but I will back you up. We have to get ready to fight, a real fight, which could mean persecution. For some, it might even mean death. The whole history of Christianity is full of people who were willing to lay down their lives, and many of them died to preserve the faith. If it means persecution, so be it. Every apostle, except for St John, died for Him. The early Christians died for Him, mostly children. Right now, the Christians in the Holy Land are suffering and dying for their Christian religion and refusing to give it up. And if it comes down to it, we will join them. We’re not going to vote our way out of this. We will be prepared to join the Christians of the world who are dying or suffering for Jesus Christ and for the Church, not for synodality, but for the traditional Church, the religion of Christianity founded by Jesus Christ Himself, the true religion.
So this Holy Week, especially, we pray to God that we will be given the grace to die for what we believe, that finally, we will come to the realization that it is worth living for and it is worth dying for.