Jerusalem Bishops Warn: ‘Christians Are Under Attack’ — Holy Sepulcher Closed for Holy Week

0:00The Holy City of Jerusalem under fire, and for the first time ever, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre is closed for Holy Week. Bibi Netanyahu is accused of blaspheming Jesus Christ, and Jerusalem's Bishop William Shemali warns of increased attacks on Christians in the Holy Land. As Christianity becomes the most persecuted religion in the world, Bishop Alexander Sample issues a passion-tied warning against anti-Semitism and violence against Jews. Meanwhile, the Latin Patriarch Cardinal Pizzabala calls on what's left of the persecuted Christians in Jerusalem not to flee, but to stay and witness to their Christian faith under fire. And finally, an urgent appeal to our Lady of Nazareth to intercede on behalf of the vanishing Christian community in the birthplace of Jesus Christ. Hello again, ladies and gentlemen, I'm Michael Mathis, the Remden Underground.

1:08With a quick reminder, don't forget to like, share, and subscribe, is that correct, Walter? YouTube has never been our friend, but lately we have our own little algorithm going, and the numbers are all going in a great direction. So thank you very much. Also, don't forget that our videos go up without any commercials. I know those commercials are going to be really annoying, and sometimes you guys think that we're putting them there. We are not putting them there. If you don't pay to be a member of YouTube, you're going to see all those crazy commercials. So if you want to avoid all that, watch our stuff at redditnewspaper.com where it goes up first anyway, without any commercials. Also, we've got a new little sign here, a new flag, I want to draw your attention to, because of our friends over at the American Warrior, we're working to put a link down here. A young guy showed up at the Catholic identity conference last year, and I look at his work and said, holy cow, it's fantastic. So he made us this, and I told him in exchange, I tell you people to check out his website, which links right down here, give him a look, so he's doing a really great work. Friends, we're going to be talking tonight about, yeah, it's some really apocalyptic things. Holy week is coming up. The Holy Land is being bombed last summer, I tell you that I really believe that they're

2:12going to need a Pearl Harbor moment, a Pearl Harbor event to get everyone on board with this ridiculous Lindsey Graham BB Netanyahu Zionist War for Greater Israel. I think they're going to do that. So I predicted it would probably be the Church of the Holy Supplicer that would be hit. Well, I certainly hope I'm wrong, but here we go. A fragment of an Iranian ballistic missile has crashed at the Church of the Holy Supplicer, the traditional location of the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus. And here's the thing, I mean, warning, if you haven't seen this clip before, this is heartbreaking. Just two days after the clip we just showed you, this happened, just yards from the old wall of Jerusalem. When you start thinking about the fact that the Holy Land is more or less defenseless,

3:15and I mean, you have really good small, but very, very small and very shrinking Christian community there, but it has no power. It has very little political influence. It just underwent, it was part of the genocide that was going on in Gaza and hardly anyone cared. In fact, most of the Christians of the world supported the guys doing the genocide, right? So you tell me, who is it in the Holy Land that's going to get particularly exercised if our holy places start going up in smoke, start getting mistletoe bombed, right? Are the Jews going to care? I don't think so, are the Muslims going to, I don't know, I don't think so. So we could be seeing some things that are very, very apocalyptic without precedent in 2000 years. What a brace for it, you know? And that's just the buildings, you know? They've been driving the Christians out of the Holy Land for a long, long time. We're going to talk about the, yeah, the 1948 Nakba, you know, which drove 700,000 people out of their homeland into Gaza.

4:16Many of those were Christians. In February 1947, the UK announced it would end its mandate over Palestine and hand responsibility to the newly formed United Nations. The UN proposed a plan to divide Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab states. Most of the land was allocated to Jews, who made up one-third of the population and were mostly recent immigrants from Europe. Once the plan was passed that November, Zionist forces began attacking Palestinian towns and villages. They seized 774 settlements and wiped out 530, forcing more than 250,000 Palestinians off of their land. The Zionists were heavily armed, using tanks and weapons left behind by the British. On May 14, 1948, the state of Israel came into being. The Nakba began the next day. Around 15,000 Palestinians were killed in a series of mass atrocities. In all, at least 750,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homes and lands.

5:16Zionists took control of 78% of historic Palestine. The remaining 22% was split into what is now the occupied West Bank and the besieged Gaza strip. The Palestinians fled to refugee camps throughout Palestine and in neighboring countries. And then they terrorized the remnant of Christians that remained. The number of Christians in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, is only 50,000 Christians. And they are subject to aggression from the part of settlers. Aggression against Christians in the West Bank are multiplying. There is more expansion of the settlements and more aggressions from the side of the settlers. They started by kicking out the farmers from the area C, from their properties, because

6:20the settlers believe that all the land of Palestine should be Jewish and Palestinians are occupying this land since hundreds of years. And now, of course, Jerusalem is getting bombed, at least coming real, real close, closing down the holy places for holy week. For the first time ever, the Church of the Holy Sepulchers closed this week and I really got to wonder, is it worth it? Is it worth it? I mean, really? Are we going to continue to support this even when you see that it might entail bombing the Holy Land, destroying the Holy Land and for what? Right now, the holiest site in all of Christianity is locked shut. The Church of the Holy Sepulchers, the place where Christians have venerated their crucifixion in the burial, the resurrection of Jesus for nearly 1700 years has been closed for weeks. No masses, no pilgrims, no processions, the great doors that have been opened for worshiped

7:23century after century are sealed shut. This has never happened before, not during the Crusades, not during either World War, not even during COVID. And we're going to have to review some of this and we're going to have to let it sink in. And it's not easy. And it's not blue versus red. It's not Republican versus Democrat anymore. We must get those ideas, those notions, out of our heads, the polarizing propaganda of the folks who want war, right? Because the Christians have been disappearing from the birthplace of Jesus Christ for a long time, not according to me, but according to the priests, bishops, even cardinals, who live there. That is a fact that the political instability to use beautiful worlds, but is a disaster. What we are living affects the life of all, especially Christians, since we are a small number, and a little bit neglected also by the different authorities, political and

8:26social civil authorities. And for the Christians, it's becoming sometimes difficult to think about their future. Everyone, those who are children, we can live here, they say, but what about our children? We don't want them to leave what we have, we have to go through. That's the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem speaking, he's been living there for decades and he's trying to let us know what's going on there. He's begging our brothers and sisters in the Holy Land to keep the faith. And to stay in the Holy Land, even in the face of outrageous persecution. Why? Because Jerusalem, no matter what the Trump administration tells you, Jerusalem is ours. Jerusalem is the heart, in a way, summarized all the history of a revelation.

9:26Is the place where the major events of our faith took place and also became, it is, a symbol, an image of the church. Don't forget also that the church was born in Jerusalem and Pentecost. So let's think about this for a moment. Like everywhere else in the post, consider yourself your church. The church is dying. The church is dying and the Christians are disappearing. And so it becomes the very sacred mission, our mission as the remnant of Christianity, our mission, our duty before God, history and our children to stay Catholic in the face of whatever persecution is coming. So I cannot blame them, but I keep insisting them that we have a mission here. We have a vocation to keep alive the Christian faith in the place where Jesus was born, died and resurrected. So you see what I'm getting at?

10:27That's what's happening right now over there. Jerusalem, the church, is under attack from all signs, literally being bombed. And the church is theologically being bombed, morally being bombed, and it is our mission to stay in the city. I think he's also part of the providence vision. Here the Christians cannot have power. The strength of the Christians here is the testimony, witness. If you have power, it's much more difficult to give witness to the authentic faith, Christian faith and the gospel. I said that this is an important way to keep the Christian presence here, which is, as you said, also in America, very, very small. And the life of the Christian here became as becoming, day after day, much more complicated. We have to do the same thing. We're not going to be able to go out there with some political solution and kick the anti-Christ lower spinal extremity, right? That's almost a blasphemous thing to say.

11:29Totally misses the point, right? We're not going to topple the New World Order with some agenda that we've got to vote in the right guys. It's all going to come apart. No, it's just getting worse, right? Worse and worse and worse. Because only God can do that. Only God can stop the anti-Christ if he so chooses. Only God can topple the New World Order. This tower of babble all around us today. And the thing is, as long as we think that Lindsey Graham is our solution, or Donald Trump is our solution, or Ted Cruz miscell is our solution, we're not going to get anywhere friends. Not at all. These princes are not going to save us, so we cannot put our faith in these princes or any other. I don't know you don't want to hear this, but it's true. Their war is not of God. I'm going to say something you're going to say, come on, man, there's our Muslims over there. They're going to take us over. If we don't kick their butts, they're going to come and kick our, so we need to kick their butts first.

12:29They're going to kill us. I go back to the same stupid playbook every single time. They don't even bother to change it up anymore. Exactly what they told us the last time around. They're coming to kill you. They're coming to take you away. Oh, my. There is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. There is no doubt that he is amassing them to use them against our friends, against our allies, and against us. We don't have time, but I love to rerun that clip again. There is no doubt. Says Dick Cheney. There is no doubt. They have weapons of mass destruction. Such confidence, right, and everybody's like, oh, what are we going to do? All right, that's what they're doing to you. They've been doing it to us all along. That's the game they play. These elites, and we keep giving them the ball again, because that was Iraq then 20 years

13:32ago. This fence, what you're going to see in a moment, is Iraq today, 20 years later, five trillion dollars later, and about a million dead bodies later, here's Iraq today. This is the Iraqi parliament right here. 20 years after we shock and odd them, because 20 years after we liberated the people of Iraq, do you see how stupid this is? Mission accomplished. Oh, what mission? Well, you're afraid of Muslims, I've said so many times, those of you who are supporting this Iranian thing, this war in Iraq is you're afraid of the Muslims. Do you really think this is helping? Did it help in Iraq? Did it help in Afghanistan? Because this is what happened in Afghanistan after we went in and liberated them. This is Afghanistan in chaos. The president has fled the country, his government has collapsed, and thousands of Afghans are

14:33desperately trying to escape, along with Western military and diplomatic personnel. Taliban rule is now a reality, after dozens of cities have fallen besieged by bombings in a campaign of deadly violence. U.S. military helicopters are evacuating embassy staff members to Kabul airport. It may be their only way out with Taliban fighters now encircling Kabul after taking control of most of the country. Well played, freedom fighters, yeah, fool me once or as Bush said, Bush, George Bush said, fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice and you can't fool me again. Well, yes, you can, in fact, yes, they did, they fooled us again. We're doing it all over again right now and they still don't have an agenda, they still don't know what's going to happen when we kill the next really scary bad guy over there. I'm not sure who's running Iran right now, much the bomb, the replacement Ayatollah, has

15:36not shown his face, have you seen them? We haven't. And we can't vouch exactly what is happening there. There is, there is a cloud here. And of course, all of this is to say nothing about the morality of these preemptive wars, these Neocon wars. I mean, baby Netanyan who's not going to help us with that one, is he? You know, Catholic just wars, something we hardly even talk about, the just war teaching of the church. Do you think these wars are, we're going to have to go over there and we are going to have to bomb a bunch of people, there are going to be a lot of casualties and the reason that we're going to do, the moral reason that we're going to do this is because at some point down the road, they might try to kill us. What kind of a nut job Catholic would think that would somehow be squeezed into the church's noble just war teaching? Got to go shoot people in case they might shoot us, we don't know, maybe they will. That's insane.

16:36So what are we doing? The church's social doctrine under the bus. The Catholic moral teaching, same thing, the Catholic moral teaching on abortion, abortion pills, whatever, none matter. The other guys were even going to kill more, babies. The Catholic teaching on IVF, I don't know, who cares? Catholic moral theology on gay marriage is just completely ignored, they come right out and they say, Donald is the first president to enter the White House supporting gay marriage. Well, I'm going to think about that tomorrow. And of course, we have the Neocon, the Forever Wars, which we all voted, I didn't. Many people, good people voted to make sure those wars would come to an end and they were promised that they would come to an end and here we are, worse than ever. Hitting places. I don't even know where we're hitting. I saw the other day, they're taking down like apartment complexes in Peru. We didn't even know what's going on. I guess when it comes to these Neocon wars, well, if we're going to retain the title

17:40of good, low conservatives, we're going to have to support them. We've got to go along with them because we're good, low conservatives and the other guys are worse. What exactly, by the way, are we conserving as conservatives? I have no idea anymore. When I look at the bizarre bedfellows, daddy, warmonger, baby, out there blaspheming Jesus Christ a couple days ago, well, history proves that unfortunately, and unhappily, Jesus Christ has no advantage over Jinnis Khan. Because if you are strong enough, ruthless enough, powerful enough, evil will overcome good. Oh, shut up. Then we have this guy, Ted Cruz-Missal. Although it is being used online in a way that is meant to say, screw you, Jew, it is

18:41being used in a context very directly to say, I hate Jews, and that's almost an online code word. Christ is King is, I hate the Jew. He's making stuff up. Even in this particular interview, even the little little fanboy interviewing him, he couldn't let it slide. He kind of goes, really, Senator Cruz, these people saying Christ the King are also hating. Is that true? Are you just kind of spitballing? That's your view. Why do you say that? Because you see the people who are saying it, and they're saying it in that context. They're saying Jews are horrible, like they're attacking Jews, and they end with Christ as King, to make it sound like somehow there's a biblical basis for attacking Jews. Yeah, well, you know, that's just like your opinion, man. And then all of a sudden, it used to be kind of funny. It was kind of amusing. Ah, ha, those silly Christian Zionists, those Pastor Paulas, hiding their own Easter eggs, nutty, but harmless, but now all of a sudden, they seem to be wanting to set up some sort

19:45of a new Gestapo based on their Christian heresy to silence us all. And the danger is that they're being heard, especially by young people, by teenagers and 20-somethings, and you are seeing views change, and I will tell you, the target of this operation is you and me. It is evangelical Christians. Tucker Carlson has said, there is nobody he hates more on planet Earth than Christian Zionists. And he named specifically me and my cock-a-pe. There you go again, Ted. You're lying again. You can see it in his eyes, he's making stuff up, making things up, saying things. Everybody knows, but simply not true. These guys are just used to lying, I guess. No matter because here comes the new Christian Zionist stormtroopers. And some of them are quite ruthless. I've learned personally, Franklin Graham, for example, I went in to see Trump.

20:46And Trump says, I just got a letter from Franklin Graham calling you an anti-Semite. Franklin Graham, an anti-Semite, really? Yes, and it's right here, he showed it to me. So I leave the meeting and I immediately call Franklin Graham. Like, what? Why would you call me an anti-Semite? And why didn't you call me first? If you think I'm an anti-Semite, wouldn't you want to persuade me not to be? Because that's pretty ugly thing to be. And as a Christian, as a fellow Christian, he wouldn't take my call. Tucker Carlson right now is finding out what it was like for the German people to be sort of arrested in the middle of the night, for example, because of some snitching, annoying neighbor who also happened to be a good Christian neighbor who only wanted to make Germany great again, you know? Deutsche Landu-Beralis. So I got a snitch on my neighbor after I'm done reading my Bible. It's all happening again. You think it'll never happen here? It never come to America? That's exactly what the Germans thought. So the other day I found out that the CIA is preparing some kind of criminal referral against me, a crime report, the Department of Justice on the basis of a supposed crime

21:50I committed. What's that crime? Well, talking to people in Iran before the war, they read my texts. So here we go again. Only this time the Catholic Church really is not going to be able to do much. The Synodal Church, can you imagine, appealing to the Synodal Church in the middle of a world war? Oh my gosh. What a nightmare. You know, and it's getting worse because I thought maybe by now they might start waking up. We're in the middle of a world war. We just got off COVID when they shut the whole world down. They locked up all the churches and the bishops are like, okay, well, okay, sacraments next year, son. Right? I thought maybe the bishops had learned something, but apparently not. They're still terrified. They're still hiding in the upper room for fear of the Jews evidently. Because they're already now, holy week is still a couple weeks out. And our good bishops on the U.S. C.C.B. are already trotting out that weird, bizarre little annual lecture, homily, that tells Catholics to knock it off with the anti-Semitism.

22:55They're actually doing it again. Sadly, the celebration of Easter has at times been the occasion for outbursts of hatred and even violence against Jews. The catechism of the Council of Trent teaches that the Jews do not bear the collective guilt for the death of Jesus. The church made this teaching explicit at the Second Vatican Council in Nostra Etaute. It is also one of the causes of a great deal of the hatred for the Jewish people that we have seen in history and continue to see today. As Catholics, we are called to walk in the truth and so to reject the conspiracies and lies that lead to harassment and even violence against our Jewish brothers and sisters. Now, here's the scary thing, friends. That's a good bishops. We all know bishops sample. A good guy. He was sort of friendly to the traditional mass over the years.

23:57Good man. He's not some crazy blazed soup, it's right? One of the better bishops, which almost makes this worse. You guys really think about what is bishops? What is his excellency bishops sample? What's he talking about? What's he really getting at? You remember that old kind of a joke-loaded question, so Stan, are you still beating your wife? Remember that one? It's a fallacy because it embeds an unverified damaging assumption within the question itself so you really can't answer. That's what I was reminded of when I listened to bishops samples, which is nothing new. They do this every year. It too embeds an unverified and damaging assumption. What are we talking about? Where is all of this anti-Semitism among faithful, serious Catholics? And if they're just nut jobs on YouTube, who cares? They're nut jobs on YouTube. They don't warrant all of this, right? Because obviously, think about this. From the perspective of the world, they're not paying much attention to religion anymore. There is an understatement. But they're just kind of like, turn on flip on the news. Maybe you know, watch a podcast or something, they say, what's this?

24:59Oh, bishops samples out there. Hmm. What's he got to say? Sadly, the celebration of Easter has at times been the occasion for outbursts of hatred and even violence against Jews. Obviously, when they see a powerful conservative bishop, he's taking time away from a church in chaos, friends. Massive sex scandal involving kids worldwide, church closings, mass apostasy plunging mass attendance numbers, right? And not even World War in the Holy Land, in the middle of all that. This rather powerful American bishop and a conservative bishop sample thinks that despite it all, what has to happen right now? I got to give these guys a sermon. I got to give the Catholic world my entire flock, I get them, give them a sermon that Catholic anti-Semites are still so prevalent, so plentiful, and pose such a serious threat right now

26:01that I need to go out there and basically accuse all Catholics of being guilty of this sin of hatred and anti-Semitism, right? Because he doesn't, it's a classic thing, he doesn't, he doesn't identify his target, he doesn't tell us who he's talking about. So that means it's all of us that he's talking about. We're all guilty. We all must be guilty of Jew hatred in a big way to warrant a dramatic statement like this. It's just open-ended, it doesn't even identify any, oh man, it must be everybody, the Catholic world, just full of haters. It's also one of the causes of a great deal of the hatred for the Jewish people that we have seen in history and continue to see today. If you don't understand your excellency, how the other side is going to run with this, how you've made their day, how you're carrying water for them, well then listen up. Because they've been trying to get you guys to do this for a long, long time. You see, because for them, for the radical secular folks, especially the Zionists, it's the church herself, the Catholic church herself that is the problem, not some random nutty

27:06guy on YouTube. It's the church herself and that random nutty guy, of course, he's just a holdover from 1,965 years of Catholic hatred, because the church herself is the traditional church, is the problem. The traditional liturgy is the problem, you see? You know they've been doing this. The church, her teaching, her traditional liturgy as the anti-deformation league claims, it's all anti-Semitic, her hateful New Testament, oh my gosh, just ask Mel Gibson about that. ADL, once again, hateful note, the hateful narrative of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, it's responsible for the problems for pizza eggs, all down through history. It's the Bible itself that's hate-literature. Most importantly, your excellency, and anyone else who might be listening, it's the Catholic church's dogmatic religious supremacism, that's the problem. Bishop Sam, do you realize this?

28:08That's what they're after here, and you're just complying, you're playing right into their hands. It's the supremacism which teaches that Christ established one true church outside of which there is no salvation. That's the target. That's the hate. I just refuse to accept the Bishop's sample that you're referring to that, but how did you miss that then? How did you miss that that is their agenda? Because that's what the American Jewish Committee, for example, that's what they say. They came right out a couple of years ago on the anniversary of Nostra Tate and said, yeah, yeah, the Catholic church has finally stopped hating the Jews. And here's where they came right out and said, and right out and admitted that that's their problem. We are a hate group. We are haters. Admit it, Catholics, or your anti-Semites. You confirm your anti-Semitism if you don't accept what we say about your church.

29:08Nostra Tate reversed nearly 2,000 years of Christian hostility towards Jews and Judaism that had led to centuries of violence, ghettos, inquisitions, expulsions, and forced conversions. Yeah, well, you know, that's just like your opinion, man. I want to stress this, friends. I don't like piling on. I don't like going after bishops that are decent, better than some of the crazy apostate, heretic ones. Bishop Samples on a heretic, Bishop Samples a good man. And I truly appreciate his fidelity to orthodoxy, his efforts to remain tradition-minded, right? Even when it comes to the traditional Latin Mass over the years. But I would say that his Excellency, Excellency, what are you talking about? Why are you carrying water for this liberal, radical, Christophobia? I don't get it. And again, I just said earlier, who are these nameless, faceless Catholics that present such

30:09a threat to our Jewish brothers that you need to publicly chastise them? I don't think they exist, so I have to ask, what is the actual agenda here? Do people who talk like this do they realize? Because EWTN did it not too long ago, the same dang thing. The Catholic Church is very anti-spentic, we're trying to get over that now. Give us a little more time. Don't they realize how this offers comfort to so many truly Christophobic enemies of the Catholic Church? So I would say your Excellency, please stop it. I mean, don't you see? No wonder the Catholic Church today stands powerless. I mean, powerless in our human element. In the face of this massive sexual revolution, a transsexual revolution that's affecting children and families, in fact, affecting them, bringing about the breakup of the Christian family. No wonder. You guys don't have any influence, you have no throw weight anymore because of this kind of thing. We're very sorry that we are a hateful organization. We're going to try.

31:10Who would listen to you and why? Where is your denunciation of the Christophopia that we as parents live through every day? The Church is the Christian moral teaching that's under assault everywhere from the back of cereal boxes to music to movies everywhere. Christophobia on brash and wild display. Don't you think the bishops during Holy Week as Holy Week your preachers might come out and say, the Christophobia has got to stop. The hatred of Christ, the hatred of the Catholic Church, the hatred of the unborn, the hatred of the Church's Christian moral theology has to stop. Because in lieu of that, no wonder abortion is getting worse every day and gay marriage and everything. No wonder. When even the Church's own bishops are out there making it very clear that the Catholic Church has really no moral authority upon which to stand or speak because she's so lame,

32:10she's so useless and most importantly, she is so hateful that her members all need a lecture from her bishops every year at Holy Week in monitoring them to stop hating an entire race of people that's probably, by the way, responsible for the Holocaust. The Church herself is responsible for the Holocaust. The Holocaust was overwhelmingly a Jewish tragedy but it was substantially a Christian scandal. Why was it a Christian scandal? Because it was perpetrated by overwhelmingly baptized Christians in ostensibly Christian lands. Of course the Shah was, as Pope Benedict XVI has described it, a pagan enterprise. But it couldn't have succeeded to the degree it did with the extermination of six million Jews if the land had not been tilled over centuries with what was called the teaching of contempt.

33:11So what do you think, Bishop Sample, do you think the rabbi there has a point? The Church has been a problem all along, right? With all due respect, your excellency, such a piscopal bootlicking is a scandal, especially when Christianity is under fire everywhere and like no other religion in the world suffers persecution, it is the number one target in the world. Sadly, religious freedom, especially for Christians, is under attack across the globe, including in the West, including right here in the United States, whether in the form of diversity equity and inclusion programs that block Christians from employment and advancement opportunities or overtly, like vandalism against churches or in some parts of the world, murderous of violence against Christians themselves. In terms of sheer numbers, and this is a fact often ignored, Christians are by far the most persecuted religious group in the world. Oh my gosh, the anti-Semitism has to stop.

34:13That's like hiding your own Easter eggs, it's like spinning plates, it's like completely out of touch with the reality. I mean, if you all listen to me, Bishop Sample, listen to the poor Latin patriarch, Harnel Pizzabala, he's over there in the holy land right now dodging bombs, that Israel's sending in, blowing everything up over there. He's right now in the homeland of the earliest Christian community in the world, and it's getting blown to hell by secular Jewish Zionist state. And his Bishop Sample, we need to stop hating on the Jews. Of course we do, we don't hate the Jews, but the point is, why is that the big thing to do this holy? We did talk about that. And it's the Christians who are dying. That the persecution of Christians remains one of the most widespread human rights crises today, affecting over 380 million believers worldwide.

35:14They suffer high or extreme levels of discrimination, violence, and oppression because of their faith. You know, and I'll close with this. I always find it so frustrating when we're supposed to sit there and beat our breasts and talk about how terrible the Catholic Church was as you know, it's just such a hateful organization. I can't even believe it. I'm so glad we grew up after Nostra Tati, well, boy, after the Second Vatican Council, yeah, we finally grew up. Never any reference, any mention to what the Church actually accomplished. Because as we talked about down here before, the Catholic Church built the greatest civilization in the history of the world. Which included missionary activity that went to the four corners of the earth to bring the light of Christ to Jesus, to feed people, to clothe the naked, right, to give strength to the thirsty, to educate the peoples of the world. The greatest system of justice and jurisprudence comes about because of the Catholic Church's

36:18social teaching. I wonder where they never mentioned that. The greatest body of theology and philosophy in the arts ever. The Catholic Church invented the hospital, system worldwide. As I always say, look it up. It's a fantastic story. The Catholic Church literally invented the hospital. The Catholic Church literally invented higher education. The Catholic social teaching is the bedrock of things like little things, like the Magna Carta. The Catholic Church, historically, is the patroness of the greatest artisans in the history of man. The greatest musicians, the greatest painters, sculptures, you name it. Greatest poets, her nuns, an army of her little beautiful nuns, sisters, went again to the four corners of the world and built the school system, oftentimes helping to found cities like New Orleans and Quebec up in Canada.

37:18We've done stories on that and videos on that. The Catholic Church's missionaries founded the great cities of the world. You could go on and on and on, Bishop Sample, talking about the accomplishments of this Church, not only for the souls of millions and millions and millions of people of the mystical body of Christ through the Catholic Church is done, but also what she did for humanity. You could talk about so many beautiful things to make Catholics proud again, especially at Holy Week. Make them proud of what the Catholic Church has accomplished. Make them want to be like that army of saints who are now the Church triumphant with God in heaven. Yet, once again, as Holy Week approaches, the message of I would argue one of the most inept classes of Catholic bishops in the history of the Church is out there saying, hey, everybody,

38:21let's stop hating the Jews. This is diabolical. We don't hate the Jews' excellency, and you know we don't. It's right in our catechism, isn't it? Jesus Christ, it's right in our scripture from the cross, Father, forgive them for they know not what they do. Holy Magdalene, Saint John, all the people at the foot of the cross, what do you think they were, Swedes? You cannot be serious, excellency. The Catholic Church taught us to love all men, especially the beautiful Bible stories, the friends of Jesus, the daughters of Jerusalem, Mary Magdalene, Veronica. We grew up on those stories. Somebody taught us to hate the Jews, nobody hates the Jews. It's a black legend. Maybe some small-minded little men somewhere had it in their head to say nasty things.

39:21Who cares? They're small-minded little men. And again, what about the rank, Christophobia that is responsible? You see it every day. How many churches burned up in Canada over the past few years? Hundreds, hundreds of churches burned to the ground, whole cathedrals over in France and other countries in Europe, burning, priests being attacked at the altars, killed, murdered, slaughtered, the church dying. These bishops, they're big on synodality, aren't they? Well, listen to this, excellencies. Stop embarrassing Holy Mother Church with your cringy little, woke lectures. The target of which is a straw man invented by the anti-deformation league and people like that who are still more of a steeped in Christophobia, in my opinion. If it's okay to point that out.

40:21Please, your excellency, can we just go back to being Catholic again? Can we do that? Can we teach the faith again? Because teaching the faith makes it so people cannot be haters and still remain faithful followers of Jesus Christ. If you follow Jesus Christ, you are by definition opposed to any form of blood hate. He is love. You want to follow Him, you better love, or you're not following Him at all. So what are you doing over there, excellency? Boms are going off in the Holy Lamb. What John Paul called the mass apostasy of the church is literally dying. A 900-year-old trappist monastery, Bob in France, is about to close. And this isn't just any monastery. There are no vocations dwindling resources in the monks and the monastic life they were dying out. The Sistertian monks of La Troppe Abbey, whose 17th century reform redefined western

41:26monasticism, they formally announced that they're contemplating departing by 2028. It didn't have to happen. It's only been in the past few years that you've seen an attack, a self-inflicted attack, a suicidal attack on the traditions of the church that resulted in that sort of thing. Now it's happening all over the place, right? Because the church and our human element collapses under this heavy cross of wokeness. Let's remember what we started the show tonight, off with. What really matters, what Cardinal Pizzabala was saying, top of the show, about the dying Christian community, the remnant of Christianity, which no matter what needs to hang on. 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 in the place where Jesus was born, died and resurrected.

42:26And to accomplish that, friends, maybe it would be a really good idea, especially as we had in the Holy Week, to turn to the woman who lived and died in the Holy Land, who gave birth to Jesus Christ and Bethlehem, who watched Jesus Christ grow up in Nazareth, who watched him die and Jerusalem. This is her homeland. I'll talk about our lady. This is where she lived every day. This is where she walked. This is what she saw. Let's pray to her. Maybe that's the problem. Not enough. They've been disobeying her for the longest time, right? And maybe there's been such a war against our lady that, especially among these Christian Zionists, with basically, it seems like they hate her guts. Let's pray for her in her session. Maybe that's the big thing that would possibly begin to turn some of this around if in fact it's not the end of the world. Let's pray for the intercession, specifically of Mary, of Nazareth, who gets it, who really gets it. And right now is watching her beloved Holy Land get hit, go up and smoke possibly. Please God, may it not happen. But let's pray that we will never cease.

43:27Let's ask her to help us to intercede for us, so that we will never cease being a follower of her son, that we will never hate our enemies, we'll never give into hatred of anyone. But rather we will forgive our enemies, we will forgive those who will offend us as her son did from the cross. And that we will not be scandalized as pray, that we will never be scandalized of what happened on the cross, because there were those who were who wouldn't been, obviously. Jesus Christ said he was God, he's dying on the cross. It's a scandal for some. They couldn't handle it. Right? Come down off that cross if you're God. They heard that. And he didn't. They were scandalized in some walked away. We would must pray that our lady gives us the strength and grace to never walk away, but to stand with her, stand with John, stand with Magdalene. Not to be scandalized by the crucifixion, but to follow the bloody footprints of her son all the way to the foot of the cross.