August 5, 2025 • 49 mins
In this raw and passionate episode, I get into some uncomfortable truths about the state of the Church today. From the undisciplined and unholy behavior of the faithful to the alarming trend of irreverence in the sanctuary, I challenge listeners to confront the reality of the Church's position in the world today. Do we stand up to, or challenge to the secular counter-culture, or do we merely coexist with it—sometimes even cooperating with it? I call on all Catholics to a return to seriousness and to take a collective stand against a culture that is increasingly hostile to the faith. Not by violence, arrogance, or even rage, but by a fresh effort to grow in holiness and more fearless evangelization, even on a person-to-person level.
It’s time to stop tolerating mediocrity—if we want to win the battle between good and evil, we must first learn to take our faith seriously, both individually and as a community, and to inspire others to do the same. Join the conversation and reflect on how we, as members of the Mystical Body of Christ, can raise the standard and strengthen the Church.
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Show Notes:
- 00:00 - 01:00 – Introduction: Setting the tone for a hard-hitting discussion on the current state of the Church.
- 01:00 - 06:00 – A disturbing pattern of irreverence: A personal story from John about an incident at Mass that exemplifies the lack of respect for the sanctuary.
- 06:00 - 10:00 – A bold call to action: Addressing the need for serious commitment to Catholic teachings, both in individual lives and as a collective Church.
- 10:00 - 20:00 – Church's position in the world: Why the Church is not taking a collective stand against the surrounding culture and the need for more disciplined action.
- 20:00 - 30:00 – The failure during COVID-19: Reflecting on how the Church's response to the pandemic highlighted its weaknesses, and the consequences of not taking the faith seriously.
- 30:00 - 35:00 – Generation Z and the future of the Church: Discussing the influx of young people back to the Church and the importance of solid catechesis to support them.
- 35:00 - 40:00 – The final battle: Exploring the idea of the spiritual battle between good and evil and how the Church is currently not in a position to win it.
- 40:00 - End – Wrapping up with a call for greater commitment to the faith, and a plea for stronger, more clear leadership from the hierarchy to guide the Church forward.
- (00:00) - Introduction and Opening Thoughts
- (02:28) - Frustrations with Modern Catholic Practices
- (14:44) - The State of the Church and Its Challenges
- (25:26) - The Crisis in Catechesis
- (29:01) - Church Fires and Arson in Canada
- (32:12) - Call to Action and Community Engagement
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Speaker 1 (00:24):
Welcome to the Catholic Experience. I'm your
host, the Catholic adventurer,the one, the only, and I thank
you very much for joining me.This is recorded Sunday, August
3 in the year of our lord 2025.Yes, sir. And I thank you again
for joining me, and I thank you,Catholic church.
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Are we taking this thing we callCatholic seriously? What do you
think? Are you taking itseriously? Are your brothers and
sisters in the pews taking itseriously? What about those who
aren't in the pews?
Are they taking it seriously?Clearly not. And frankly, and I
mean this, this is not me tryingto be dramatic. I am really
getting very, very sick of it.We're gonna talk about that a
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little bit today.
This is gonna be a rather shortshow. Of course, I always say
that, and then it's like a sixhour show. Let's see. And we're
going to talk about a disturbingpattern in in Canada that we are
seeing around the world, andwe're going to talk about that
as a component to this point,this ultimate point I want to
make. It goes a little somethinglike this.
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The church would lose the greatbattle between good and evil
were it to happen today. Youdon't believe me? Look around
you. It's already happening.We're already in a losing
position.
We're already of a losingposture. We're going to talk
about that today, not to behopeless, but as a reminder that
we need to get serious in thisthing we call Catholic. All of
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us as a family, youindividually, me individually.
Let's fade that music out. Getright on down to it.
Hello, those of you catching meon demand throughout my many and
varied distribution channels.I'm very happy that you are
here. I hope you are enjoyingwhat you're getting. I have a
little news for you guys whotypically catch the the podcast
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on demand. Little update aboutwhat I'm doing with the podcast
going forward.
Good stuff. Nothing, like, earthshattering and and nothing bad.
That's the important thing.Let's get on with it. I have to
tell you, sometimes I reallyhate being Catholic.
And I'm I'm being very serious.Sometimes I just hate being
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Catholic. The other day I was atconfession, and it was a long
line. I I have to say, I shouldI should give thanks to god for
long lines at the confessional.It was a pretty long line, and I
was, like, in the middle of it.
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And there was someone in front
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of me whose child was there with her. This child was
traipsing about the sanctuarylike it was a playground. I'm
sure it was a very well meaningperson. I'm obviously, I mean,
the child was very young. Thechild obviously knew no better.
And that's the problem is thechild knew no better because the
child's mother was not teachingthe child any better. What is
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that child going to grow up tobelieve about the sanctuary, I
wondered? And I really did wantto I had to I had to gnash my
teeth and grind my teeth to holdback the words. I was I was
really upset. What's that childlearning about the sanctuary?
That it's just a playground?That's that it's just any other
space. Now I'm not one of thesepeople who's, like, super
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intense about everything rightand wrong. Okay? So hard to
believe, right, given what Ijust said.
I'm not one of these people whoare like, you have to face the
tabernacle. You can never walkaway from the tabernacle and,
you know, have your back to thetabernacle. You have to face the
tabernacle. You have to kneeldown. You have to crawl up for
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communion on your knees on longtrail of of broken glass before
you can consider yourself worthyto receive the most holy I'm not
that guy.
Okay? But some lines should notbe crossed. The sanctuary is a
holy place. It is not aplayground. And one of the
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reasons why we have to berespectful of the sanctuary,
don't run through it, mindyourself should you ever need to
be in it at all, The reason isbecause in respecting the
sanctuary, we respect whathappens there.
We acknowledge and respect andinternalize the depth and the
seriousness of what happensthere, the holy sacrifice, the
offering of the holy Eucharistat Mass. And it's this sort of
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thing that I am I can't say I'mthrough being tolerant of or
patient with, but I'm just aboutthere. It's this sort of thing
that I have really lost a greatdeal of patience for. I'm tired
of saying, you know what?They'll figure it out one day.
I'm tired of that. I'm tired ofsaying, yes, this is a
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flirtation with heterodoxy oreven heresy, but they'll figure
it out. I am tired, not justbecause I don't really exercise
that level of tolerance, a levelof tolerance that equates to
indifference or not not caringat all. But as a church culture,
we do. We do tolerate it to adegree that is dangerous to the
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faithful and to
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the church. We tolerate too much.
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We will not tell people you shouldn't be talking
up a storm. You shouldn't behosting talk shows right before
mass. We don't tell men, takeoff the damn baseball hat when
you're inside the church. Wedon't tell ladies you cannot
walk into this building dressedthat way. Are you nuts?
Because we're afraid of pushingthem away. I get it. I'm an
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evangelizer. I don't wanna pushthem away either. But damn it.
Where is the line that we hold?You shouldn't let your child
play in the sanctuary. Where isthe line that we hold? I am
tired of being part of a machinethat does not hold the line
because it's afraid that peoplewill just abandon the line
altogether. My friends, they'vealready abandoned the line.
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They've already abandoned it. Itdoesn't matter that they're
there bodily. They are absentspiritually, mentally,
psychologically. They've alreadyabandoned the line. At what
point do we stop and say,listen.
I'm glad that you're here, butthere's a line here. There's a
line here for a very importantreason. Whatever the line is,
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maybe it's hats in in church orthe way you dress in church or
the damn coffees that peoplebring to bring with them to
mass. Maybe it's the sanctuary.You know how many times I've had
to tell my son, do not run-inthe sanctuary?
Why? Here's why, and I wouldteach him why. Of course, it it
took, like, three or fourlessons before it finally got
through. But I wouldn't justsay, don't run into the
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sanctuary. I would explain why.
What's wrong with telling peoplethis is serious? This is not
symbolic. This is real. And thisis why we have to take this line
seriously or that lineseriously. When do we stop just
chuckling and laughing it off?
When we hear that people arecoming into the church and
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willfully, knowingly supportingabortion, or they're active mask
goers willfully, knowinglysupporting abortion, and we say
nothing, well, I guess we'llhave
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to agree to disagree. Is that
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the best we can do? And sometimes, feeling like I'm
the only one who gives a damn,it makes me hate being Catholic
sometimes. And I'm beingserious. Sometimes it makes me
hate being Catholic because Ifeel like Abraham and Sodom and
Gomorrah. That I'm the only onewho sees this?
Am I the only one who cares? I'mtired of being the only one who
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cares. I'm tired of being theonly one saying anything about
it. I'm tired of being in thevanguard, in the front of the
battle because I'm an activeevangelizer or a Catholic
educator and so on and so on.I'm just tired.
Sometimes, I hate that I'm part
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of a of a church
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where it feels like everyone else is just living in
a dream, and I'm the one in thissordid reality. And honest to
God, man, sometimes it makes mehate being Catholic because
sometimes it's painful to care.That's the truth. Sometimes it's
really painful to care, andsometimes I just get damn tired
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of it. What do we do about that?
I have no idea, man. I don'thave a solution. I have no idea.
I'm not coming to you with asolution. I'm coming to you with
this to share my heart.
Maybe it reflects what some ofyou feel, experience, think. And
maybe that will help you to feela little bit less alone
yourselves, if you
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can relate to what I'm saying. Maybe it will remind
you we really I, as a person, asan individual, should take this
more seriously too. And me too.Me too. Who am I
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to judge? I'm not perfect. I have my issues. There
are lines that I cross and nonecome to mind right now, but I
know how I am. I know that I canget sloppy.
But I'll tell you, damn, if Idon't feel like Abraham and
Sodom and Gomorrah more timesthan not.
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And it's just so damn lonely and so damn infuriating.
And I
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asked the Lord to give me patience and and and let
me tell you. I'm I'm not gonnatell you the rest of it, but
that's one of three stories Icould tell just over the past
two days, and the other two arefar worse. But those I won't
share. So I ask the lord togrant me patience,
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grant me an eye that sees to the
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extent that it benefits my soul, my salvation,
my work as an evangelizer. And Iask the Lord to make me blind to
everything if
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it doesn't benefit my salvation. If it if it's not
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if it won't be fruitful, then don't let me see
any of it. I don't wanna see anyof it. To the extent that it
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will be fruitful in the work of the gospel and
service of the truth,
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then let me see and let me see clearly and deeply
and come and completely andunderstand it. Not just see it,
but understand it fundamentally.And, Lord, grant me the wisdom
to do something about it firstin my own house, you know,
because those are the souls I'mresponsible for. I'm not
responsible for other people'ssouls. First in my own house and
then to the souls that I touchin in my work and in in my lived
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experience.
What's your prayer? Drop a line.Drop a comment. Let me know if
you if you can really and I'mserious. Let me know if you can
relate to this.
Folks, if you don't know, I amnot an engagement whore. I do
not do, hey. Everybody comment.Comment. Comment.
I don't do that. First of all,when people leave comments, I
actually read them. And when Iask you to comment, it's because
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I really wanna know what youhave to say. So what's your
prayer? Do you feel what I feel?
Do you experience what Iexperience? How do you deal with
it? And what's your prayer toGod to help you along the way? I
really wanna know. And I thinkothers can benefit from that
too.
So don't be shy. Chime in.Speaking of not being in an
engagement whore, here I ambeing in an engagement whore.
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You know, folks, it occurs to methat I never say like and
subscribe because I hate it. Ihate that that's said at all,
all over the socials.
But things have really changedin social media. Like, it's not
really social media anymore.It's more about your interests
than about the people you'refollowing. When was the last
time you saw someone that youfollow in your timeline? It's
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more about interests and lessabout social media.
And because it's aboutinterests, the algorithms are
gonna show you what you'reinterested in. The way the
algorithms know what you'reinterested in is in those damn
likes, comments, shares, and soon. And so unfortunately, I have
to play this game a little bit.If you like something I am
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posting on socials or thispodcast, whatever, I beg you,
please tap like, drop a comment.Don't drop a fake comment.
You know, don't just comment forcomment's sake. But if something
is thought provoking, drop yourthought in the comments. Okay?
And and tap like, because thisreally is about it's it's an
interest medium. It is not asocial one.
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It's about
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interests. And the way you tell the algorithms that
this content is interesting isthrough your engagement.
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So comment like, and subscribe, hit that little bell,
hit the notification button,send up a smoke signal, dispatch
a carrier pigeon, let the bigblue bird know that you love
what I'm doing. Let the bigblack X know that you let them
know that you love this stuff.Let the IG know that you're a
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fan of what I do. Tap lie, all
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that stuff. Anyway, enough shit about that. And that
having been said, I'm
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gonna get into part two of what I'm talking about.
But also stick with me becausethere there are some some
developments and things that Iwanna share with you that I
would like you to to kinda hookup with me on. Okay? Let's move
on. I dropped this note.
If you're catching the video, Idon't I don't I I'm not sure I'm
gonna keep doing video podcasts,but for now, I'm still doing a
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video podcast. If you'recatching the video, look at your
screen. Drop that coffee andlook at your screen. Also,
you're catching the video,please don't judge me on this
really effeminate looking mug.It's the only giant mug that I
had left.
The others were still in thedishwasher. Don't judge me. I I
can smell it. You're judging mealready. Stop it.
And there's one one of you outthere is laughing. Stop.
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Alright. I dropped this note on,Substack notes,
Super active on Substack.
If you don't know, you're goingto hell. So I dropped this on
Substack notes, it went a littlesomething like this, for those
of you who are catching theaudio only. The church would
lose the great and final battlebetween good and evil were it to
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happen today because the churchis undisciplined and largely
unholy. Pause. There's more toit, let me pause there.
This was before this was set afew days ago. So what I just
shared with you at
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the top of this happened after this. Okay.
Moving on. The church isundisciplined and largely
unholy.
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You know what was going through damn, wrong
screen. You know what was goingthrough my head when I when I
wrote that was, without gettinginto the whole story, it's just
how sloppy the whole damn churchis. Just incredibly, incredibly,
incredibly, incredibly sloppy.We are undisciplined and largely
unholy. When I say church here,I'm not really talking about the
institution.
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I'm talking about the people.The people compose the the I
don't wanna say they compose. Weare the members of the mystical
body of Christ. The institution,the mystical body, will never
fail or falter. It's twothousand years, folks, and we're
still here.
We will never the churchinstitution will never fail or
falter. But the members of thebody are a total freaking mess.
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Incredibly undisciplined.
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Look at what you see from
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Catholics on social media, comments being left, and
stuff like this. I cannotbelieve, and and so many of them
swear to God that they are theremnant. Wow. You know what that
is, my friends? That is a careercriminal who swears to God he's
of the elite forces of theUnited States Marine Corps.
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No. You live in prison becauseyou are a hardened criminal.
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You are of that quality. But you think you're
the best of the best in theworld? My friend, you're only
fooling yourself.
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Look around you at the state of things through the
prism of how the members of themystical body act, behave, the
things that they know, thethings that they that they don't
know, and swear to God that theyknow everything anyway.
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Incredibly undisciplined and largely
unholy. There's a deficiency ofholiness in the church that is
deep and frightening. My commentcontinues.
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What is that great and final battle between good
and evil? I wonder if we'reseeing signs of it already.
Wonder if we're seeing signs ofit already. Not the battle
itself, but a foretaste. Now incase you don't know folks, in
case you're not really up onyour bibble stuff, I'm talking
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about the final battle betweengood and evil which the church
will face and win just beforethe second coming of Jesus
Christ.
It's in the catechism. It's inthe book of Revelation. Enough
said about that.
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So what is this great and final battle? I wonder, and
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this is me saying in the comment, I wonder if we're
seeing signs of it already. Notthe battle itself, but a
foretaste of it. Because I dothink, folks, that the battle
itself will be worse than whatwe see in the world today. So I
wonder if this is a foretaste ofit. The comment continues.
Look at the world and analyzethe church's place in it right
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now. This is already a war thatwe are not winning. We're
surviving. And in some ways, insome areas, we're growing. But
we are not taking a collectivestand against the culture of the
world we find ourselves in.
Let me explain. The Holy Spiritis hyperactive all over the
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church. I know it. I believe it.I've seen it in person.
In my in my work, I have, I readabout it, stuff like that. Holy
the Holy Spirit is super active.And there are areas where the
church is improving. Forinstance, I don't have it in
front of me now, but wait. Giveme just a second.
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Let me just get this up on the
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screen right quick. This is something
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else I posted the other day. Global crisis sending
or global crises, I think itsays, sending Gen Z to church.
There is an elevation of GenZers coming back to the church.
That is the truth. Now
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my first thought is what kind of Catholics will they
be? Because they are really,really, really
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victimized by the culture they grew up in. What
kind
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of Catholics will they be? I'm not gonna talk
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about that. Maybe I'll talk about that a little
bit in an after show, but let meget back to the to the point.
There are things like that wherethe where we're seeing growth,
improvement. That's for sure.That's for sure.
But my concern is what I sayhere. We are not taking a
collective stand against theculture of the world we find
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ourselves in. Rather,
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we're cooperating with it. Yes, there
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are things improving throughout the church. That is
true, and it's undeniable.
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But it's also true that we're just sort of getting
by. We're surviving. Sometimeswe give up ground. We're not
being defeated, but
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we are just barely surviving. It's like, you know,
you throw someone who can't swiminto the water, and they flap
their arms and legs like crazyjust to keep their nose afloat,
their nose above the surface sothat they can breathe. I feel
like that's what the church
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is doing. We
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are not taking a collective stand against the
culture of the world that thechurch today finds itself in.
Instead, we cooperate with it.We laugh it off. We chuckle. We
say, okay, let's agree todisagree.
The culture of the world, itsshadow, is cast over us
everywhere. The the shadow ofthe culture of the world is cast
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over us, the church, everywhere.And we laugh it off, and we say,
let's agree to disagree. We letthe children play in the in the
sanctuary because it's a aplayground. Comment continues.
But this will change. God willhave the last laugh. He's
already setting up for it. Oh,boy. Do I believe that.
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Oh, yes. I believe that.Absolutely, a 100% I believe
that. The Lord is letting thingshe's allowing it. He's not
causing it.
He's allowing things to get thisstupid because he's setting up
the biggest laugh in the historyof reality So that when God sets
it all straight, no one will beable to deny that God did it.
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Because how else could all of
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that have happened? There's no
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way it got set straight on its own. Not as far
not as as far low as
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it has all sunk. I believe it. And I believe what
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I said in this comment. I wonder, are we seeing
a foretaste or a foreshadow ofthe final battle between good
and evil? Look around you folks.People don't know what a man is,
what a woman is. My friends,even people who know what males
and females are do not know whata man is or what a woman is.
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Men are not gentlemen. Women arenot ladylike. Beautiful people,
I'm sure. I'm I folks, I don'tdoubt that. But no one knows
what being masculine meansanymore or what being ladylike
means or why it why it evenmatters.
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We're surviving the church.We're surviving. In some areas,
we're even growing. But we arenot taking a collective stand
against the culture of theworld. And frankly, that first
falls to the agents of thechurch.
Clergy, religious. We needsomeone to finally stand up and
say, Father James Martin is agood hearted priest, but his
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theology is often terrible. Andhe does not accurately or justly
represent what the holy churchholds, teaches, believes, with
regard to same sex attraction ormarriage or whatever. Father
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James Martin is not thetheological scout well, let me
back up. He's he's not thedevil.
He really is not the devil. Buthis and sometimes his theology
in general, I don't mean onspecific things, sometimes his
theology is good, but histheology with regard as it
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relates to his his apostolate isshady at best. And it's shady in
a way that is so intentionallydeceptive, it makes me wonder
about the heart of the man whoconceived it.
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When is someone going to stand up and say that?
Someone who's not a
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layperson, someone whose statement means something,
has authority, has impact, andmay actually change the course
of his of of of his
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rhetoric. When will that happen?
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When will agents in the church, whether it's from
the Vatican or nationalconferences or local diocese,
when will someone say this iswhat the church teaches? This is
this thing that you thought thechurch has moved away from? No.
This is what the church teaches.When will we have a collective
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of pastors say, listen, you'reno longer allowed to receive
communion if we know you are notready to do so.
When will we see that? Becauseyou you can't just have one
pastor say that. It has to be abunch of pastors saying, we will
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all act to that end. Forwhatever reason, because we know
you're a heretic, because weknow you support abortion,
because whatever, whatever.Because because we know you
never had first communion.
You told me just yesterday younever had first communion. Here
you are standing up. Know,folks, and if you're a priest
watching this, I don't care. Iknow you have to be pastoral.
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And you know what?
After thirty years, I got itdown. Now I have to ask you,
after fifty years of taking alash to the mystical body of
Christ, after fifty years offailing to teach God's children
good, strong, thoroughcatechism, at what point do we
say, in pastoral interests wehave to be a little clearer and
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we have to take a stand on thelines that matter. Because if we
look like we don't care about Xor Y or Z, the Eucharist, the
sacraments, whatever, if we looklike we don't care, how do we
expect them to ever care? How dowe expect them to be Catholics
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who stick around if the churchbehaves as though it's not worth
being stuck to? Come on, man.
Pardon me as I clear my throatthere. I'm getting so worked up.
I'm getting so worked up thatI'm screwing up my throat. How
do we expect them to stickaround if we don't even take
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ourselves seriously? My friends,and I said this before in a
podcast that I think now is forsubscribers only, so I even
mention it.
I mean, subscribers. I said thisbefore that had I not known if I
didn't know any better, I don'tknow that I would still be
Catholic. Because sometimes, andI I wanna step lightly as I say
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this, sometimes the church looksso stupid. The things not the
not the things that the churchteaches, but the things that are
taught about what the churchteaches, what people are getting
in catechetical programs,religious ed programs, adult
programs, sometimes in retreats,and so forth. So it's not what
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the church teaches.
It's what is said about what thechurch teaches. What is said to
represent what the churchteaches when often it does not.
It just looks so stupid. Istarted this saying, sometimes I
hate being Catholic for thatreason. Because everywhere I go,
I feel like Catholicism is justso damn stupid.
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I know that it is not, but Ifeel like I'm the only one in
the world who does know that.
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And and I wanna say too, all
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credit to God and to the Holy Spirit because all
credit to God and to the HolySpirit because the priesthood is
solid. The priesthood is solid.I know a handful, a rather large
handful, of really good priests.Really good priests. You know,
very orthodox, very old school,and not and several of them
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aren't even old.
They're my age or a little bitolder. Thanks be to God. Thank
you, Holy Spirit, for for yourpriesthood and and for the work
that you're doing in thepriesthood. So it's not it's
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not doom and gloom. Okay? But I long for the day
that
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we see more of them and that they're normal. That
they're they're the normal classof priests, which right now,
sadly, they're still rather theexception. Not the great
exception, but the exceptionnevertheless.
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Let me go to this here. You can call this a
segment three.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Something a little disturbing. I'm sorry, but I
want you to watch this. This isnow this is old news. I think
this happened in October. Thisis a church, Notre Dame Des
Something, De La Something, QuaSomething, whatever, some French
place in French sounding placein Canada.
And this is a historic church.It's more than a 100 years old,
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burned to the ground. K? There'snothing left of it.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Well, there's practically nothing left of it.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
I'm just letting you watch this for a second. I mean,
that's a ferocious fire, man.That's a really, really serious
fire. So the caption actually,let me go back to it. The
caption says, a massive fire hasdestroyed the historic Notre
Dame De La A La Grege Church,whatever, in Tra Riviera,
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whatever, Canada.
Another tragic blow to religiousfreedom and Western identity. It
seems seems a little dramatic tome, but okay. Since 2021, over a
100 churches across Canada havebeen burned or vandalized. This
isn't coincidence. It's apattern.
Okay. So my first thought is,well, hang on. Was it vandalism?
Was it intentional? Or was
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it an accident? I did a
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little research, and I'm very shocked to discover
that this fire happened inOctober, and there's still no
official word on the
Speaker 2 (30:26):
start of it on the cause of it, I should say.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
No one? What? Wait. No one knows what started this
fire?
Speaker 2 (30:35):
It's been since October. No one knows what
started this? You know
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what that tells me? It was probably arson, and
they're keeping it hush-hush.Could be that that they suspect
it's arson, but they're willthey're waiting to get
bulletproof evidence before they
Speaker 2 (30:51):
come out saying that. But I don't think so. I think
Speaker 1 (30:55):
this was arson, and someone is afraid to say it. But
I did a little bit of research,couldn't find any anything
Speaker 2 (31:02):
conclusive. But
Speaker 1 (31:05):
I will say this. It does appear that this is part of
part of a pattern. Clearevidence of a disturbing pattern
nationally in Canada of firesand arson attacks targeting
historic Christian churchesacross Canada over the past few
years. That's my conclusionbased on personal research. So
this is part of a pattern.
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I mean, dozens of churcheseither conclusively or strongly
suspected of being arson. Dozensof churches since 2021. That's a
lot. Do you know what thatmeans? That means the world has
gotten so used to us beingchumps that they are dumbasses
who think nothing of settingfire to these national
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treasures.
Whether you're Catholic or not,a 100 year old church is a
national treasure. They thinknothing of it because we're just
a bunch of sods, a bunch ofsuckers, a bunch of chumps. Of
course we are. That's themessage we've been sending for
the past fifty, sixty years. Ofcourse that's true.
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Let me go back to my comment.This is already a war we are not
winning. No, folks, I do not sayit's a war that we're losing,
but we're getting there. I say,this is already a war we're not
winning. We're surviving in someareas we're surviving in some
areas growing, but we're nottaking a collective stand
against the culture of the worldwe find ourselves in.
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It's a culture whose shadow iscast over us everywhere.
Everywhere. Now, what does thatmean? How do how do you expect
us this is you speaking to mehow do you expect us to take a
stand a collective stand againstthe culture? I don't know.
What I do know is what we'redoing is stupid, and it is not
working. That's what I do know.What I do know is each of us
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individually compose thecollective. And so each of us
individually have to change theway we talk, the way we act. I'm
not saying we need to take uparms unless it's a rosary.
I'm not saying that. I'm sayingwe, each of us, hold a piece to
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this puzzle of showing the worldand the secular culture that we
are serious. We are seriousabout our faith, about what the
church teaches, about what Godhas revealed in Jesus Christ, in
sacred scripture, in sacredtradition, the teaching of the
church. We are serious aboutwhat God has revealed. And we're
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done feeling bad about it.
You really believe the church?You know, you really believe
what the church teaches in termsof
Speaker 2 (33:48):
X and Y and Z? Absolutely. Why don't you? No.
But you really be able
Speaker 1 (33:53):
to stop. Why don't you? Okay. If you think I'm
ridiculous, that's fine. Whydon't you believe it?
Well, because there's noevidence. What evidence would
you like? Be more aggressivethat way. I don't know. That's
just how I am.
That's just how I am. But yousee what I'm saying? It's very
different from saying, yeah, youknow, we believe that, you know,
marriage between a man andwoman, but, you know, no big
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deal. Whatever. Yeah, I stillbelieve that.
I know, it's crazy these days.Come on, man. Stop being
apologetic and ashamed of it.And immediately again, I'm not
saying this is my prescriptionfor all of you. I'm telling you,
how would I, as an individual,improve things as a component to
the whole to the whole church?
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Maybe I need to turn it around more more frequently.
Not be less charitable, butmaybe less passive? I
Speaker 1 (34:43):
don't know what we do as a collective. What I do know
is, what we're doing as acollective is not working and
really is stupid. So we needeach of us to be doing something
differently. Or to be doing thisdifferently. Read through the
comment one more time, then I'mgonna move on.
The church would lose the greatfinal battle between good and
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evil were to happen today. Myfriends,
Speaker 2 (35:05):
I believe that. And I
Speaker 1 (35:07):
believe the Lord is preserving us. Maybe the great
great battle between good andevil would have happened
already, except the Lord knowsthat we're laughably weak
laughably weak and inept. And heknows we would lose. The church
would lose. We'd lose the battlebetween good and evil were to
happen today because the churchis undisciplined and largely
(35:29):
unholy.
I'm going to
Speaker 2 (35:29):
add something to that, and this is
Speaker 1 (35:31):
going to shock and scandalize a lot of you. The
church is large and, again, I'mtalking about the mist the
members of the body, lowercase cchurch, undisciplined and
largely unholy. I'm gonna addsomething to that. And this
points a finger directly at thehierarchy. Okay?
Still the lowercase c church,but now I'm talking about the
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hierarchy. And I mean this
Speaker 2 (35:55):
with all due respect. But someone has
Speaker 1 (35:57):
to say this because everyone is seeing it, and no
one is saying it. If we learnedanything from the COVID nineteen
lockdowns, it is this (36:04):
The church is weak and impotent and
not taken seriously. Forgetabout that third part. We can
focus on the first two. Weak andimpotent.
The church proved itself to beweak and impotent. How could you
betray your own children? Howcould you let them be locked up
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inside, no sacraments? And I'mgoing to say something else.
There were, in many dioceses,there were churches that
secretly stayed open, weresecretly and safely
administering some of thesacraments, and there were
parishioners who ratted thosepastors out.
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If you are one of those, you area traitor. You are a traitor.
How could you dare do that toyour brothers and sisters and to
your spiritual father, thepastors of those parishes? How
dare you? You're a traitor.
And everyone who knows you didthat, they know you're a traitor
too. They're just afraid to tellyou. You think you think my
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courage comes from the fact thatI'm behind this? Oh, my friend,
you don't know me.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
You don't know me at all. Because believe me, I'm
quick to go there in person. Thechurch proved itself to be
halfway incompetent, but fullyimpotent. Because the church and
I'm sorry, I I love thehierarchy,
Speaker 1 (37:36):
and I'm I defend the hierarchy all the time. I love
priests, and I love bishops.Yes, some of
Speaker 2 (37:42):
them are stupid. Most of them are not. A good number
of
Speaker 1 (37:45):
them are saints, but you don't hear about them. And
even the stupid ones, they arebishops or they are cardinals,
and I still respect them. So Isay this to you, as your son in
the church and as your brotherin Christ, you've betrayed and
failed the church's children byletting them be locked up
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without any sacraments, withoutany hope. And most diocese in
The United States barely put upa fight. Most didn't put up any.
And the ones who did, fickle andstupid, the fight they put up.
What did the church prove duringCOVID nineteen? You're impotent.
That's what you proved. How manypeople died alone because you
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wanted to play ball?
How many people died withoutlast rites because you wanted to
play ball? And for those of youwho are heroically doing what
you had to do as priests and asbishops, God bless you, and you
are you are going to be
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one of God's saints. God bless you,
Speaker 1 (38:53):
and thank you. Because I I know one or two, I
mean, personally, I know one ortwo who were heroic, and there
were news reports of someothers. I know they're out
there. Those of you who who justwould not sue your governors
because you just wanted to playalong, those of you who just
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wouldn't sue unless someone elsesued first, and then you added
your name to the lawsuit, shameon you. You should be ashamed.
And you should spend the nextyear in prayer and penance for
that betrayal alone. Impotent,foolish, weak, scared, and
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stupid. What is the great andfinal battle? I wonder if we're
seeing it seeing signs of italready. Not the battle itself,
but a foretaste.
And this is what I mean, folks.It it I do believe it's a
foretaste of the battle to come,and we're barely surviving it.
So if the real battle were tohit tomorrow, how do you think
the church would fare? Not well.That's my opinion.
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And it's a rather informedopinion. Let me tell you. We're
surviving, and in some areas,we're growing. And that is true.
In some areas we are growing.
Believe me, there's a lot
Speaker 2 (40:14):
of hope out there. But we
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are not taking a collective stand against the
culture of the world that wefind ourselves in today.
Instead, we're cooperating withit. Hashtag COVID nineteen.
That's just one of many examplesI could give. So what should we
learn from this?
I mean, mostly folks, know, thisis the Catholic Experience
(40:39):
Podcast. This is where I sharemy experience with you. And
that's where I am in myexperience. I am damn I am damn
tired of the king behaving likea pig in the slop. That's a good
analogy, I think.
I mean a good and noble andwonderful king behaving like a
(41:03):
pig and slop. And you almostwanna pick him up out of that
pigpen and say, hey, you're theking. You realize that.
Speaker 2 (41:12):
Right? The most noble king that ever lived? The most
charitable, the most beautiful,the
Speaker 1 (41:19):
most at one point, the most respected. You're the
king. You're the king. You'rethat amazing, unbelievable king.
Why are you wallowing in slopwith the pigs?
Don't you remember who you are?And my God, don't you care?
Because somebody has to care.Because the people are out there
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alone, looking for something,looking for meaning, looking for
purpose, looking for truth. Andthe church is where that comes
from, or it it comes from God,but the church is where it comes
through.
Speaker 2 (42:00):
They're looking for their king, and
Speaker 1 (42:03):
you're out here playing with the pigs. Don't you
remember who you are? And, damnit, don't you even care anymore?
Let me go back to this realquick. I know I said I wasn't
gonna talk about this, but Ijust do wanna say a word real
quick about this.
Global crisis sending gen z tochurch. Well, that's great.
Here's what I had to say aboutit. This is a very this is very
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positive. Now it's up to thechurch to not screw it up on the
follow through.
Give them, Gen Z, give them goodcatechesis. In other words, not
stupidity. Give them goodcatechesis. I should have bolded
that. Give them good catechesis,bold preaching, Catholic
culture, which is somethingthat's very lacking or deficient
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in the modern Catholic world.
Catholic culture. And stoppretending that hippie Jesus is
a real person because he is not.Give them the real Jesus for
crying out loud. Again, talkingabout Gen Z here. They're coming
for guidance, grounding, andpurpose.
Stop depriving them. Stand outand stop trying to fit in.
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That's all I've got to say aboutthat. Folks, let me share some
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Okay? The only access I have toyou is social media and this
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I've got your ears. But let mejust explain this anyway.
(43:34):
Everything I do, I do onSubstack. But I do I have
developed a middle groundbetween the podcast and social
media and Substack. Noteverybody is interested in
everything that I'm doing onSubstack.
Some people are only interestedin, I don't know, short little
blog posts instead of longarticles. Some people are
(43:55):
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as long as, you
Speaker 2 (44:02):
know, an hour and a
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Okay? And also, I'm going to putup, like, brief articles,
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Then go to my Substack and dothat. Catholic Adventurer dot
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(45:53):
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(46:39):
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God bless you. God be with youall. Bye bye.
Welcome to the Catholic Experience. I'm your
host, the Catholic adventurer,the one, the only, and I thank
you very much for joining me.This is recorded Sunday, August
3 in the year of our lord 2025.Yes, sir. And I thank you again
for joining me, and I thank you,Catholic church.
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Are we taking this thing we callCatholic seriously? What do you
think? Are you taking itseriously? Are your brothers and
sisters in the pews taking itseriously? What about those who
aren't in the pews?
Are they taking it seriously?Clearly not. And frankly, and I
mean this, this is not me tryingto be dramatic. I am really
getting very, very sick of it.We're gonna talk about that a
(01:07):
little bit today.
This is gonna be a rather shortshow. Of course, I always say
that, and then it's like a sixhour show. Let's see. And we're
going to talk about a disturbingpattern in in Canada that we are
seeing around the world, andwe're going to talk about that
as a component to this point,this ultimate point I want to
make. It goes a little somethinglike this.
(01:28):
The church would lose the greatbattle between good and evil
were it to happen today. Youdon't believe me? Look around
you. It's already happening.We're already in a losing
position.
We're already of a losingposture. We're going to talk
about that today, not to behopeless, but as a reminder that
we need to get serious in thisthing we call Catholic. All of
(01:52):
us as a family, youindividually, me individually.
Let's fade that music out. Getright on down to it.
Hello, those of you catching meon demand throughout my many and
varied distribution channels.I'm very happy that you are
here. I hope you are enjoyingwhat you're getting. I have a
little news for you guys whotypically catch the the podcast
(02:15):
on demand. Little update aboutwhat I'm doing with the podcast
going forward.
Good stuff. Nothing, like, earthshattering and and nothing bad.
That's the important thing.Let's get on with it. I have to
tell you, sometimes I reallyhate being Catholic.
And I'm I'm being very serious.Sometimes I just hate being
(02:36):
Catholic. The other day I was atconfession, and it was a long
line. I I have to say, I shouldI should give thanks to god for
long lines at the confessional.It was a pretty long line, and I
was, like, in the middle of it.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
And there was someone in front
Speaker 1 (02:54):
of me whose child was there with her. This child was
traipsing about the sanctuarylike it was a playground. I'm
sure it was a very well meaningperson. I'm obviously, I mean,
the child was very young. Thechild obviously knew no better.
And that's the problem is thechild knew no better because the
child's mother was not teachingthe child any better. What is
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that child going to grow up tobelieve about the sanctuary, I
wondered? And I really did wantto I had to I had to gnash my
teeth and grind my teeth to holdback the words. I was I was
really upset. What's that childlearning about the sanctuary?
That it's just a playground?That's that it's just any other
space. Now I'm not one of thesepeople who's, like, super
(03:40):
intense about everything rightand wrong. Okay? So hard to
believe, right, given what Ijust said.
I'm not one of these people whoare like, you have to face the
tabernacle. You can never walkaway from the tabernacle and,
you know, have your back to thetabernacle. You have to face the
tabernacle. You have to kneeldown. You have to crawl up for
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communion on your knees on longtrail of of broken glass before
you can consider yourself worthyto receive the most holy I'm not
that guy.
Okay? But some lines should notbe crossed. The sanctuary is a
holy place. It is not aplayground. And one of the
(04:21):
reasons why we have to berespectful of the sanctuary,
don't run through it, mindyourself should you ever need to
be in it at all, The reason isbecause in respecting the
sanctuary, we respect whathappens there.
We acknowledge and respect andinternalize the depth and the
seriousness of what happensthere, the holy sacrifice, the
offering of the holy Eucharistat Mass. And it's this sort of
(04:45):
thing that I am I can't say I'mthrough being tolerant of or
patient with, but I'm just aboutthere. It's this sort of thing
that I have really lost a greatdeal of patience for. I'm tired
of saying, you know what?They'll figure it out one day.
I'm tired of that. I'm tired ofsaying, yes, this is a
(05:07):
flirtation with heterodoxy oreven heresy, but they'll figure
it out. I am tired, not justbecause I don't really exercise
that level of tolerance, a levelof tolerance that equates to
indifference or not not caringat all. But as a church culture,
we do. We do tolerate it to adegree that is dangerous to the
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faithful and to
Speaker 2 (05:34):
the church. We tolerate too much.
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We will not tell people you shouldn't be talking
up a storm. You shouldn't behosting talk shows right before
mass. We don't tell men, takeoff the damn baseball hat when
you're inside the church. Wedon't tell ladies you cannot
walk into this building dressedthat way. Are you nuts?
Because we're afraid of pushingthem away. I get it. I'm an
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evangelizer. I don't wanna pushthem away either. But damn it.
Where is the line that we hold?You shouldn't let your child
play in the sanctuary. Where isthe line that we hold? I am
tired of being part of a machinethat does not hold the line
because it's afraid that peoplewill just abandon the line
altogether. My friends, they'vealready abandoned the line.
(06:25):
They've already abandoned it. Itdoesn't matter that they're
there bodily. They are absentspiritually, mentally,
psychologically. They've alreadyabandoned the line. At what
point do we stop and say,listen.
I'm glad that you're here, butthere's a line here. There's a
line here for a very importantreason. Whatever the line is,
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maybe it's hats in in church orthe way you dress in church or
the damn coffees that peoplebring to bring with them to
mass. Maybe it's the sanctuary.You know how many times I've had
to tell my son, do not run-inthe sanctuary?
Why? Here's why, and I wouldteach him why. Of course, it it
took, like, three or fourlessons before it finally got
through. But I wouldn't justsay, don't run into the
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sanctuary. I would explain why.
What's wrong with telling peoplethis is serious? This is not
symbolic. This is real. And thisis why we have to take this line
seriously or that lineseriously. When do we stop just
chuckling and laughing it off?
When we hear that people arecoming into the church and
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willfully, knowingly supportingabortion, or they're active mask
goers willfully, knowinglysupporting abortion, and we say
nothing, well, I guess we'llhave
Speaker 2 (07:44):
to agree to disagree. Is that
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the best we can do? And sometimes, feeling like I'm
the only one who gives a damn,it makes me hate being Catholic
sometimes. And I'm beingserious. Sometimes it makes me
hate being Catholic because Ifeel like Abraham and Sodom and
Gomorrah. That I'm the only onewho sees this?
Am I the only one who cares? I'mtired of being the only one who
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cares. I'm tired of being theonly one saying anything about
it. I'm tired of being in thevanguard, in the front of the
battle because I'm an activeevangelizer or a Catholic
educator and so on and so on.I'm just tired.
Sometimes, I hate that I'm part
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of a of a church
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where it feels like everyone else is just living in
a dream, and I'm the one in thissordid reality. And honest to
God, man, sometimes it makes mehate being Catholic because
sometimes it's painful to care.That's the truth. Sometimes it's
really painful to care, andsometimes I just get damn tired
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of it. What do we do about that?
I have no idea, man. I don'thave a solution. I have no idea.
I'm not coming to you with asolution. I'm coming to you with
this to share my heart.
Maybe it reflects what some ofyou feel, experience, think. And
maybe that will help you to feela little bit less alone
yourselves, if you
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can relate to what I'm saying. Maybe it will remind
you we really I, as a person, asan individual, should take this
more seriously too. And me too.Me too. Who am I
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to judge? I'm not perfect. I have my issues. There
are lines that I cross and nonecome to mind right now, but I
know how I am. I know that I canget sloppy.
But I'll tell you, damn, if Idon't feel like Abraham and
Sodom and Gomorrah more timesthan not.
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And it's just so damn lonely and so damn infuriating.
And I
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asked the Lord to give me patience and and and let
me tell you. I'm I'm not gonnatell you the rest of it, but
that's one of three stories Icould tell just over the past
two days, and the other two arefar worse. But those I won't
share. So I ask the lord togrant me patience,
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grant me an eye that sees to the
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extent that it benefits my soul, my salvation,
my work as an evangelizer. And Iask the Lord to make me blind to
everything if
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it doesn't benefit my salvation. If it if it's not
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if it won't be fruitful, then don't let me see
any of it. I don't wanna see anyof it. To the extent that it
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will be fruitful in the work of the gospel and
service of the truth,
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then let me see and let me see clearly and deeply
and come and completely andunderstand it. Not just see it,
but understand it fundamentally.And, Lord, grant me the wisdom
to do something about it firstin my own house, you know,
because those are the souls I'mresponsible for. I'm not
responsible for other people'ssouls. First in my own house and
then to the souls that I touchin in my work and in in my lived
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experience.
What's your prayer? Drop a line.Drop a comment. Let me know if
you if you can really and I'mserious. Let me know if you can
relate to this.
Folks, if you don't know, I amnot an engagement whore. I do
not do, hey. Everybody comment.Comment. Comment.
I don't do that. First of all,when people leave comments, I
actually read them. And when Iask you to comment, it's because
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I really wanna know what youhave to say. So what's your
prayer? Do you feel what I feel?
Do you experience what Iexperience? How do you deal with
it? And what's your prayer toGod to help you along the way? I
really wanna know. And I thinkothers can benefit from that
too.
So don't be shy. Chime in.Speaking of not being in an
engagement whore, here I ambeing in an engagement whore.
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You know, folks, it occurs to methat I never say like and
subscribe because I hate it. Ihate that that's said at all,
all over the socials.
But things have really changedin social media. Like, it's not
really social media anymore.It's more about your interests
than about the people you'refollowing. When was the last
time you saw someone that youfollow in your timeline? It's
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more about interests and lessabout social media.
And because it's aboutinterests, the algorithms are
gonna show you what you'reinterested in. The way the
algorithms know what you'reinterested in is in those damn
likes, comments, shares, and soon. And so unfortunately, I have
to play this game a little bit.If you like something I am
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posting on socials or thispodcast, whatever, I beg you,
please tap like, drop a comment.Don't drop a fake comment.
You know, don't just comment forcomment's sake. But if something
is thought provoking, drop yourthought in the comments. Okay?
And and tap like, because thisreally is about it's it's an
interest medium. It is not asocial one.
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It's about
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interests. And the way you tell the algorithms that
this content is interesting isthrough your engagement.
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So comment like, and subscribe, hit that little bell,
hit the notification button,send up a smoke signal, dispatch
a carrier pigeon, let the bigblue bird know that you love
what I'm doing. Let the bigblack X know that you let them
know that you love this stuff.Let the IG know that you're a
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fan of what I do. Tap lie, all
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that stuff. Anyway, enough shit about that. And that
having been said, I'm
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gonna get into part two of what I'm talking about.
But also stick with me becausethere there are some some
developments and things that Iwanna share with you that I
would like you to to kinda hookup with me on. Okay? Let's move
on. I dropped this note.
If you're catching the video, Idon't I don't I I'm not sure I'm
gonna keep doing video podcasts,but for now, I'm still doing a
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video podcast. If you'recatching the video, look at your
screen. Drop that coffee andlook at your screen. Also,
you're catching the video,please don't judge me on this
really effeminate looking mug.It's the only giant mug that I
had left.
The others were still in thedishwasher. Don't judge me. I I
can smell it. You're judging mealready. Stop it.
And there's one one of you outthere is laughing. Stop.
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Alright. I dropped this note on,Substack notes,
Super active on Substack.
If you don't know, you're goingto hell. So I dropped this on
Substack notes, it went a littlesomething like this, for those
of you who are catching theaudio only. The church would
lose the great and final battlebetween good and evil were it to
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happen today because the churchis undisciplined and largely
unholy. Pause. There's more toit, let me pause there.
This was before this was set afew days ago. So what I just
shared with you at
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the top of this happened after this. Okay.
Moving on. The church isundisciplined and largely
unholy.
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You know what was going through damn, wrong
screen. You know what was goingthrough my head when I when I
wrote that was, without gettinginto the whole story, it's just
how sloppy the whole damn churchis. Just incredibly, incredibly,
incredibly, incredibly sloppy.We are undisciplined and largely
unholy. When I say church here,I'm not really talking about the
institution.
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I'm talking about the people.The people compose the the I
don't wanna say they compose. Weare the members of the mystical
body of Christ. The institution,the mystical body, will never
fail or falter. It's twothousand years, folks, and we're
still here.
We will never the churchinstitution will never fail or
falter. But the members of thebody are a total freaking mess.
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Incredibly undisciplined.
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Look at what you see from
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Catholics on social media, comments being left, and
stuff like this. I cannotbelieve, and and so many of them
swear to God that they are theremnant. Wow. You know what that
is, my friends? That is a careercriminal who swears to God he's
of the elite forces of theUnited States Marine Corps.
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No. You live in prison becauseyou are a hardened criminal.
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You are of that quality. But you think you're
the best of the best in theworld? My friend, you're only
fooling yourself.
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Look around you at the state of things through the
prism of how the members of themystical body act, behave, the
things that they know, thethings that they that they don't
know, and swear to God that theyknow everything anyway.
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Incredibly undisciplined and largely
unholy. There's a deficiency ofholiness in the church that is
deep and frightening. My commentcontinues.
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What is that great and final battle between good
and evil? I wonder if we'reseeing signs of it already.
Wonder if we're seeing signs ofit already. Not the battle
itself, but a foretaste. Now incase you don't know folks, in
case you're not really up onyour bibble stuff, I'm talking
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about the final battle betweengood and evil which the church
will face and win just beforethe second coming of Jesus
Christ.
It's in the catechism. It's inthe book of Revelation. Enough
said about that.
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So what is this great and final battle? I wonder, and
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this is me saying in the comment, I wonder if we're
seeing signs of it already. Notthe battle itself, but a
foretaste of it. Because I dothink, folks, that the battle
itself will be worse than whatwe see in the world today. So I
wonder if this is a foretaste ofit. The comment continues.
Look at the world and analyzethe church's place in it right
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now. This is already a war thatwe are not winning. We're
surviving. And in some ways, insome areas, we're growing. But
we are not taking a collectivestand against the culture of the
world we find ourselves in.
Let me explain. The Holy Spiritis hyperactive all over the
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church. I know it. I believe it.I've seen it in person.
In my in my work, I have, I readabout it, stuff like that. Holy
the Holy Spirit is super active.And there are areas where the
church is improving. Forinstance, I don't have it in
front of me now, but wait. Giveme just a second.
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Let me just get this up on the
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screen right quick. This is something
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else I posted the other day. Global crisis sending
or global crises, I think itsays, sending Gen Z to church.
There is an elevation of GenZers coming back to the church.
That is the truth. Now
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my first thought is what kind of Catholics will they
be? Because they are really,really, really
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victimized by the culture they grew up in. What
kind
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of Catholics will they be? I'm not gonna talk
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about that. Maybe I'll talk about that a little
bit in an after show, but let meget back to the to the point.
There are things like that wherethe where we're seeing growth,
improvement. That's for sure.That's for sure.
But my concern is what I sayhere. We are not taking a
collective stand against theculture of the world we find
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ourselves in. Rather,
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we're cooperating with it. Yes, there
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are things improving throughout the church. That is
true, and it's undeniable.
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But it's also true that we're just sort of getting
by. We're surviving. Sometimeswe give up ground. We're not
being defeated, but
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we are just barely surviving. It's like, you know,
you throw someone who can't swiminto the water, and they flap
their arms and legs like crazyjust to keep their nose afloat,
their nose above the surface sothat they can breathe. I feel
like that's what the church
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is doing. We
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are not taking a collective stand against the
culture of the world that thechurch today finds itself in.
Instead, we cooperate with it.We laugh it off. We chuckle. We
say, okay, let's agree todisagree.
The culture of the world, itsshadow, is cast over us
everywhere. The the shadow ofthe culture of the world is cast
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over us, the church, everywhere.And we laugh it off, and we say,
let's agree to disagree. We letthe children play in the in the
sanctuary because it's a aplayground. Comment continues.
But this will change. God willhave the last laugh. He's
already setting up for it. Oh,boy. Do I believe that.
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Oh, yes. I believe that.Absolutely, a 100% I believe
that. The Lord is letting thingshe's allowing it. He's not
causing it.
He's allowing things to get thisstupid because he's setting up
the biggest laugh in the historyof reality So that when God sets
it all straight, no one will beable to deny that God did it.
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Because how else could all of
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that have happened? There's no
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way it got set straight on its own. Not as far
not as as far low as
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it has all sunk. I believe it. And I believe what
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I said in this comment. I wonder, are we seeing
a foretaste or a foreshadow ofthe final battle between good
and evil? Look around you folks.People don't know what a man is,
what a woman is. My friends,even people who know what males
and females are do not know whata man is or what a woman is.
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Men are not gentlemen. Women arenot ladylike. Beautiful people,
I'm sure. I'm I folks, I don'tdoubt that. But no one knows
what being masculine meansanymore or what being ladylike
means or why it why it evenmatters.
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We're surviving the church.We're surviving. In some areas,
we're even growing. But we arenot taking a collective stand
against the culture of theworld. And frankly, that first
falls to the agents of thechurch.
Clergy, religious. We needsomeone to finally stand up and
say, Father James Martin is agood hearted priest, but his
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theology is often terrible. Andhe does not accurately or justly
represent what the holy churchholds, teaches, believes, with
regard to same sex attraction ormarriage or whatever. Father
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James Martin is not thetheological scout well, let me
back up. He's he's not thedevil.
He really is not the devil. Buthis and sometimes his theology
in general, I don't mean onspecific things, sometimes his
theology is good, but histheology with regard as it
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relates to his his apostolate isshady at best. And it's shady in
a way that is so intentionallydeceptive, it makes me wonder
about the heart of the man whoconceived it.
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When is someone going to stand up and say that?
Someone who's not a
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layperson, someone whose statement means something,
has authority, has impact, andmay actually change the course
of his of of of his
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rhetoric. When will that happen?
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When will agents in the church, whether it's from
the Vatican or nationalconferences or local diocese,
when will someone say this iswhat the church teaches? This is
this thing that you thought thechurch has moved away from? No.
This is what the church teaches.When will we have a collective
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of pastors say, listen, you'reno longer allowed to receive
communion if we know you are notready to do so.
When will we see that? Becauseyou you can't just have one
pastor say that. It has to be abunch of pastors saying, we will
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all act to that end. Forwhatever reason, because we know
you're a heretic, because weknow you support abortion,
because whatever, whatever.Because because we know you
never had first communion.
You told me just yesterday younever had first communion. Here
you are standing up. Know,folks, and if you're a priest
watching this, I don't care. Iknow you have to be pastoral.
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And you know what?
After thirty years, I got itdown. Now I have to ask you,
after fifty years of taking alash to the mystical body of
Christ, after fifty years offailing to teach God's children
good, strong, thoroughcatechism, at what point do we
say, in pastoral interests wehave to be a little clearer and
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we have to take a stand on thelines that matter. Because if we
look like we don't care about Xor Y or Z, the Eucharist, the
sacraments, whatever, if we looklike we don't care, how do we
expect them to ever care? How dowe expect them to be Catholics
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who stick around if the churchbehaves as though it's not worth
being stuck to? Come on, man.
Pardon me as I clear my throatthere. I'm getting so worked up.
I'm getting so worked up thatI'm screwing up my throat. How
do we expect them to stickaround if we don't even take
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ourselves seriously? My friends,and I said this before in a
podcast that I think now is forsubscribers only, so I even
mention it.
I mean, subscribers. I said thisbefore that had I not known if I
didn't know any better, I don'tknow that I would still be
Catholic. Because sometimes, andI I wanna step lightly as I say
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this, sometimes the church looksso stupid. The things not the
not the things that the churchteaches, but the things that are
taught about what the churchteaches, what people are getting
in catechetical programs,religious ed programs, adult
programs, sometimes in retreats,and so forth. So it's not what
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the church teaches.
It's what is said about what thechurch teaches. What is said to
represent what the churchteaches when often it does not.
It just looks so stupid. Istarted this saying, sometimes I
hate being Catholic for thatreason. Because everywhere I go,
I feel like Catholicism is justso damn stupid.
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I know that it is not, but Ifeel like I'm the only one in
the world who does know that.
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And and I wanna say too, all
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credit to God and to the Holy Spirit because all
credit to God and to the HolySpirit because the priesthood is
solid. The priesthood is solid.I know a handful, a rather large
handful, of really good priests.Really good priests. You know,
very orthodox, very old school,and not and several of them
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aren't even old.
They're my age or a little bitolder. Thanks be to God. Thank
you, Holy Spirit, for for yourpriesthood and and for the work
that you're doing in thepriesthood. So it's not it's
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not doom and gloom. Okay? But I long for the day
that
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we see more of them and that they're normal. That
they're they're the normal classof priests, which right now,
sadly, they're still rather theexception. Not the great
exception, but the exceptionnevertheless.
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Let me go to this here. You can call this a
segment three.
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Something a little disturbing. I'm sorry, but I
want you to watch this. This isnow this is old news. I think
this happened in October. Thisis a church, Notre Dame Des
Something, De La Something, QuaSomething, whatever, some French
place in French sounding placein Canada.
And this is a historic church.It's more than a 100 years old,
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burned to the ground. K? There'snothing left of it.
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Well, there's practically nothing left of it.
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I'm just letting you watch this for a second. I mean,
that's a ferocious fire, man.That's a really, really serious
fire. So the caption actually,let me go back to it. The
caption says, a massive fire hasdestroyed the historic Notre
Dame De La A La Grege Church,whatever, in Tra Riviera,
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whatever, Canada.
Another tragic blow to religiousfreedom and Western identity. It
seems seems a little dramatic tome, but okay. Since 2021, over a
100 churches across Canada havebeen burned or vandalized. This
isn't coincidence. It's apattern.
Okay. So my first thought is,well, hang on. Was it vandalism?
Was it intentional? Or was
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it an accident? I did a
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little research, and I'm very shocked to discover
that this fire happened inOctober, and there's still no
official word on the
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start of it on the cause of it, I should say.
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No one? What? Wait. No one knows what started this
fire?
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It's been since October. No one knows what
started this? You know
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what that tells me? It was probably arson, and
they're keeping it hush-hush.Could be that that they suspect
it's arson, but they're willthey're waiting to get
bulletproof evidence before they
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come out saying that. But I don't think so. I think
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this was arson, and someone is afraid to say it. But
I did a little bit of research,couldn't find any anything
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conclusive. But
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I will say this. It does appear that this is part of
part of a pattern. Clearevidence of a disturbing pattern
nationally in Canada of firesand arson attacks targeting
historic Christian churchesacross Canada over the past few
years. That's my conclusionbased on personal research. So
this is part of a pattern.
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I mean, dozens of churcheseither conclusively or strongly
suspected of being arson. Dozensof churches since 2021. That's a
lot. Do you know what thatmeans? That means the world has
gotten so used to us beingchumps that they are dumbasses
who think nothing of settingfire to these national
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treasures.
Whether you're Catholic or not,a 100 year old church is a
national treasure. They thinknothing of it because we're just
a bunch of sods, a bunch ofsuckers, a bunch of chumps. Of
course we are. That's themessage we've been sending for
the past fifty, sixty years. Ofcourse that's true.
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Let me go back to my comment.This is already a war we are not
winning. No, folks, I do not sayit's a war that we're losing,
but we're getting there. I say,this is already a war we're not
winning. We're surviving in someareas we're surviving in some
areas growing, but we're nottaking a collective stand
against the culture of the worldwe find ourselves in.
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It's a culture whose shadow iscast over us everywhere.
Everywhere. Now, what does thatmean? How do how do you expect
us this is you speaking to mehow do you expect us to take a
stand a collective stand againstthe culture? I don't know.
What I do know is what we'redoing is stupid, and it is not
working. That's what I do know.What I do know is each of us
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individually compose thecollective. And so each of us
individually have to change theway we talk, the way we act. I'm
not saying we need to take uparms unless it's a rosary.
I'm not saying that. I'm sayingwe, each of us, hold a piece to
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this puzzle of showing the worldand the secular culture that we
are serious. We are seriousabout our faith, about what the
church teaches, about what Godhas revealed in Jesus Christ, in
sacred scripture, in sacredtradition, the teaching of the
church. We are serious aboutwhat God has revealed. And we're
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done feeling bad about it.
You really believe the church?You know, you really believe
what the church teaches in termsof
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X and Y and Z? Absolutely. Why don't you? No.
But you really be able
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to stop. Why don't you? Okay. If you think I'm
ridiculous, that's fine. Whydon't you believe it?
Well, because there's noevidence. What evidence would
you like? Be more aggressivethat way. I don't know. That's
just how I am.
That's just how I am. But yousee what I'm saying? It's very
different from saying, yeah, youknow, we believe that, you know,
marriage between a man andwoman, but, you know, no big
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deal. Whatever. Yeah, I stillbelieve that.
I know, it's crazy these days.Come on, man. Stop being
apologetic and ashamed of it.And immediately again, I'm not
saying this is my prescriptionfor all of you. I'm telling you,
how would I, as an individual,improve things as a component to
the whole to the whole church?
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Maybe I need to turn it around more more frequently.
Not be less charitable, butmaybe less passive? I
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don't know what we do as a collective. What I do know
is, what we're doing as acollective is not working and
really is stupid. So we needeach of us to be doing something
differently. Or to be doing thisdifferently. Read through the
comment one more time, then I'mgonna move on.
The church would lose the greatfinal battle between good and
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evil were to happen today. Myfriends,
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I believe that. And I
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believe the Lord is preserving us. Maybe the great
great battle between good andevil would have happened
already, except the Lord knowsthat we're laughably weak
laughably weak and inept. And heknows we would lose. The church
would lose. We'd lose the battlebetween good and evil were to
happen today because the churchis undisciplined and largely
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unholy.
I'm going to
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add something to that, and this is
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going to shock and scandalize a lot of you. The
church is large and, again, I'mtalking about the mist the
members of the body, lowercase cchurch, undisciplined and
largely unholy. I'm gonna addsomething to that. And this
points a finger directly at thehierarchy. Okay?
Still the lowercase c church,but now I'm talking about the
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hierarchy. And I mean this
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with all due respect. But someone has
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to say this because everyone is seeing it, and no
one is saying it. If we learnedanything from the COVID nineteen
lockdowns, it is this (36:04):
The church is weak and impotent and
not taken seriously. Forgetabout that third part. We can
focus on the first two. Weak andimpotent.
The church proved itself to beweak and impotent. How could you
betray your own children? Howcould you let them be locked up
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inside, no sacraments? And I'mgoing to say something else.
There were, in many dioceses,there were churches that
secretly stayed open, weresecretly and safely
administering some of thesacraments, and there were
parishioners who ratted thosepastors out.
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If you are one of those, you area traitor. You are a traitor.
How could you dare do that toyour brothers and sisters and to
your spiritual father, thepastors of those parishes? How
dare you? You're a traitor.
And everyone who knows you didthat, they know you're a traitor
too. They're just afraid to tellyou. You think you think my
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courage comes from the fact thatI'm behind this? Oh, my friend,
you don't know me.
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You don't know me at all. Because believe me, I'm
quick to go there in person. Thechurch proved itself to be
halfway incompetent, but fullyimpotent. Because the church and
I'm sorry, I I love thehierarchy,
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and I'm I defend the hierarchy all the time. I love
priests, and I love bishops.Yes, some of
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them are stupid. Most of them are not. A good number
of
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them are saints, but you don't hear about them. And
even the stupid ones, they arebishops or they are cardinals,
and I still respect them. So Isay this to you, as your son in
the church and as your brotherin Christ, you've betrayed and
failed the church's children byletting them be locked up
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without any sacraments, withoutany hope. And most diocese in
The United States barely put upa fight. Most didn't put up any.
And the ones who did, fickle andstupid, the fight they put up.
What did the church prove duringCOVID nineteen? You're impotent.
That's what you proved. How manypeople died alone because you
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wanted to play ball?
How many people died withoutlast rites because you wanted to
play ball? And for those of youwho are heroically doing what
you had to do as priests and asbishops, God bless you, and you
are you are going to be
Speaker 2 (38:50):
one of God's saints. God bless you,
Speaker 1 (38:53):
and thank you. Because I I know one or two, I
mean, personally, I know one ortwo who were heroic, and there
were news reports of someothers. I know they're out
there. Those of you who who justwould not sue your governors
because you just wanted to playalong, those of you who just
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wouldn't sue unless someone elsesued first, and then you added
your name to the lawsuit, shameon you. You should be ashamed.
And you should spend the nextyear in prayer and penance for
that betrayal alone. Impotent,foolish, weak, scared, and
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stupid. What is the great andfinal battle? I wonder if we're
seeing it seeing signs of italready. Not the battle itself,
but a foretaste.
And this is what I mean, folks.It it I do believe it's a
foretaste of the battle to come,and we're barely surviving it.
So if the real battle were tohit tomorrow, how do you think
the church would fare? Not well.That's my opinion.
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And it's a rather informedopinion. Let me tell you. We're
surviving, and in some areas,we're growing. And that is true.
In some areas we are growing.
Believe me, there's a lot
Speaker 2 (40:14):
of hope out there. But we
Speaker 1 (40:17):
are not taking a collective stand against the
culture of the world that wefind ourselves in today.
Instead, we're cooperating withit. Hashtag COVID nineteen.
That's just one of many examplesI could give. So what should we
learn from this?
I mean, mostly folks, know, thisis the Catholic Experience
(40:39):
Podcast. This is where I sharemy experience with you. And
that's where I am in myexperience. I am damn I am damn
tired of the king behaving likea pig in the slop. That's a good
analogy, I think.
I mean a good and noble andwonderful king behaving like a
(41:03):
pig and slop. And you almostwanna pick him up out of that
pigpen and say, hey, you're theking. You realize that.
Speaker 2 (41:12):
Right? The most noble king that ever lived? The most
charitable, the most beautiful,the
Speaker 1 (41:19):
most at one point, the most respected. You're the
king. You're the king. You'rethat amazing, unbelievable king.
Why are you wallowing in slopwith the pigs?
Don't you remember who you are?And my God, don't you care?
Because somebody has to care.Because the people are out there
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alone, looking for something,looking for meaning, looking for
purpose, looking for truth. Andthe church is where that comes
from, or it it comes from God,but the church is where it comes
through.
Speaker 2 (42:00):
They're looking for their king, and
Speaker 1 (42:03):
you're out here playing with the pigs. Don't you
remember who you are? And, damnit, don't you even care anymore?
Let me go back to this realquick. I know I said I wasn't
gonna talk about this, but Ijust do wanna say a word real
quick about this.
Global crisis sending gen z tochurch. Well, that's great.
Here's what I had to say aboutit. This is a very this is very
(42:24):
positive. Now it's up to thechurch to not screw it up on the
follow through.
Give them, Gen Z, give them goodcatechesis. In other words, not
stupidity. Give them goodcatechesis. I should have bolded
that. Give them good catechesis,bold preaching, Catholic
culture, which is somethingthat's very lacking or deficient
(42:46):
in the modern Catholic world.
Catholic culture. And stoppretending that hippie Jesus is
a real person because he is not.Give them the real Jesus for
crying out loud. Again, talkingabout Gen Z here. They're coming
for guidance, grounding, andpurpose.
Stop depriving them. Stand outand stop trying to fit in.
(43:11):
That's all I've got to say aboutthat. Folks, let me share some
news with you. Please don't tuneme out.
Okay? The only access I have toyou is social media and this
podcast. And this podcast doesnot get a lot of a lot of
listeners. Well, I guess that'sa stupid thing to say because
you're listening now. Right?
I've got your ears. But let mejust explain this anyway.
(43:34):
Everything I do, I do onSubstack. But I do I have
developed a middle groundbetween the podcast and social
media and Substack. Noteverybody is interested in
everything that I'm doing onSubstack.
Some people are only interestedin, I don't know, short little
blog posts instead of longarticles. Some people are
(43:55):
interested in something longerthan an Instagram reel, but not
as long as, you
Speaker 2 (44:02):
know, an hour and a
Speaker 1 (44:04):
half of an episode. The middle ground I've developed
is called the Waypoint Dispatch.It is a website and a
newsletter, and it's pretty damncool. The Waypoint Dispatch, you
can get there by going towaypointdispatch.fm or the
waypoint.co. And check it out,and I hope you sign up.
(44:27):
Here's what I'm doing with that.I'm going to start sending out
weekly bulletins of of the thethings that I've done, whether
it's something that I'vepublished or things that I've
put on social, something thatstood out. Weekly bulletins.
Okay? And also, I'm going to putup, like, brief articles,
extended clips, but not veryextended.
(44:48):
Instead of being a minute and ahalf to two minutes, the clips
I'll have there will be likethree minutes long, four, five,
seven minutes long. You know,because sometimes you want a
segment, not just like a littlepiece of a segment, segment
being just a little piece of awhole show. Right? So check it
out. If it makes it easier, justthink of it this way.
(45:08):
Meet me at the Waypoint. Youknow what a Waypoint is? Meet me
at the Waypoint. Thewaypoint.co.It's the waypoint dispatch, and
I want you to join me there.
Check it out. You can seeeverything that I have there.
You don't have to subscribe toit. But if you subscribe, you
get that weekly bulletin. Okay?
Or maybe you're like, no. I Iwould love a week a weekly thing
(45:31):
or whatever. I would love foryou, you know, to get your
content in my inbox. Why don't Ijust go to your Substack and do
that? Yes.
Then go to my Substack and dothat. Catholic Adventurer dot
Substack dot com. The WaypointDispatch is although I don't do
weekly bulletins from Substack.With Substack, every time I
publish something, you get it inyour inbox. But the weekly
(45:53):
bulletins is just the WaypointDispatch.
But, anyway, sup the WaypointDispatch is for people who don't
wanna go as deep as my Substack,but they would like to go deeper
than just, like, social media.The Waypoint Dispatch. You can
find it at the waypoint.co.Thewaypoint.co. Do check it out.
And consider subscribing. Folks,I don't do anything shady with
(46:17):
your information. I want you toknow that. I was in a store just
the other day, and they werelike, hey. Would you like $10
off?
Just give us your email. Hellno. Hell no. Don't make me tell
you where you can stick that$10. I ain't giving nobody my
email, son.
Are you nuts? Because I know I'mgonna wind up on 37 different
emailing lists, and all of themwill be emailing me every few
(46:39):
days, every single week. Oh no.Keep your $10. How about I make
it 20?
No. If you like me that much,just give me $20 off without my
email address. I don't likepeople abusing my email address.
I don't do anything shady withyours either, because I don't
want mine disrespected. Okay?
(46:59):
I do not sell your information.I do not trade your information.
I do not let people peek at yourinformation. The info the
mailing list, whether it's onSubstack, or the Waypoint
Dispatch, or the soon to comewebsite for the Catholic
Experience podcast, it's only sothat I can keep connected to
(47:20):
you, and you can keep connectedto me, without an algorithm,
which the algorithm is murderfor a podcaster. The algorithm
is murder for a podcasterbecause we never have direct
contact with you, or hardly anycontact with you because of an
algorithm, because of how socialmedia works.
So that's the update. Keep aneye out for that because I think
(47:44):
you might enjoy that.Waypointdispatch.fm or the
waypoint.co. It'll take you tothe same place.
Waypointdispatch.fm.
Check it out. Alright, man. So Isaved the worst for last. People
hate an announcement. I did theshow first.
Saved the announcement for last.Are you thankful? You're
(48:05):
welcome. Hey, man. Remember tosubs not subscribe or subscribe
to the newsletters, but,remember to, tap like.
If you have some if something Isaid provoked a thought, share
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likes and the pity comments. I'mnot trying to stress you and and
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pressure you. But if you didlike something that I posted on
social or a podcast orsomething, please tap like.
Okay?
Because, otherwise, thealgorithm has no idea that my
stuff is likable and will notdistribute it to anybody else,
especially don't get me startedon TikTok. TikTok just changed
their algorithm. That's reallybrutal. Anyway, if you even a
(48:48):
little bit liked something thatI post, tap like. If it was a
even a little thought provokingmade you go, drop a comment.
Let me know what you thoughtbecause believe me, I read them.
I'm a little fella. I'm not withsome big organization. I'm a
little fella. I've got I've gotI get so few comments, it's very
easy for me to read all of them.
This has been an episode of theCatholic experience, and I've
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been your host, the Catholicadventurer. Follow me everywhere
you find me. Go tocatholicadventurer.substack.com
for the main hub, and check outthe Waypoint Dispatch at
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