Join Father Andre as he shares his harrowing escape from the persecutions in Mount Lebanon at a young age and his journey to becoming a steadfast advocate for maintaining God in the public square. This episode delves into the rich traditions of the Church, as well as the pressing teachings and struggles of modern-day Catholicism. Father Andre, alongside Father James Altman, explores the profound influence of the saints and martyrs who stood for the unchangeable truths of the faith through centuries, inspiring hope and mercy for all believers.
At age 10, Father Andre escaped Christian massacres by living in caves in Mount Lebanon with his family. Today, Father Andre works tirelessly to encourage American leaders to keep God in the public square, defending religious freedom at home and abroad, so that all might live in peace for the glory of God. Founder and President of the Mission of Hope and Mercy, Father Andre has learned the secret to safety, joy, and peace. Love God and one another. Now, let us spend 33 minutes on the Lord’s Day, re-tuning ourselves to the truth of love in the hands of God.
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Praise be the most holy name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, now and forever. Amen. I said I will be watchful of my ways, for fear I should sin with my tongue. I will put a curb on my lips when the wicked man stands before me. I was dumb, silent, and still. His prosperity stirred my grief. My heart was burning within me. At the thought of it, the fire blazed up, and my tongue burst into speech. O Lord, you have shown me my end. How short is the length of my days? Now I know how fleeting is my life. You have given me a short span of days. My life is as nothing in your sight. A mere breath, a man who stood so firm. A mere shadow, the man passing by. A mere breath, the riches he hoards, not knowing who will have them. And now, Lord, What is there to wait for? In you rests all my hope. Let me flee from all my sins. Do not make me the taunt of the fool. I was silent, not opening my lips, because this was all your doing. Take away your scourge from me. I am crushed by the blows of your hand. You punish man’s sins and correct him. Like the moth, you devour all that he treasures. Mortal man is no more. than a breath. O Lord, hear my prayer. Good holy day to you, my dearly beloved brothers and sisters. Today, in the Holy Church, we celebrate the feast day of Saint Agnes. Saint Agnes, a martyr of the Holy Church, who was venerated since the fourth century. One of the most amazing traditions we see around the feast day of St. Agnes is when in the Vatican in Rome, the Pope, at least since the sixth century, blesses a baby lamb, two baby lambs. And these baby lambs are taken to the Benedictine monastery of Santa Cecilia in the Trastevere area. not far away from the Vatican, and these are the lambs, actually, that the nuns, after they raise, they cut the fur from them, and then they make, by using the wool of the lambs, the actual pallium that the Pope and the bishops, in unity with the Catholic faith, they actually wear, as a symbol of the Good Shepherd, as a symbol of the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world, by indication to the proclamation of St. John the Baptist, who said, Such beautiful traditions that grew up from the blood of the martyrs, the blood of the innocents, the blood of little girls, young girls, young virgins who in Rome were actually slandered in public, were put to shame in public, were being dragged, including with chains and being tied to actual big chains. taurus and somehow big animals that we would come and eat and devour them and in many of these incidents in front of these versions all of these animals and these beasts knelt down and did not harm them but the harm of man was greater than the harm of the animals and the harm of the governor’s want to slander and slaughter these virgins who stood strong for their faith in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, uniting themselves in their virginity to the heavenly bride, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, as a symbol of the Church that will never fall. Yet these kingdoms, where are they today? Nowhere to be told. Today with me on the show again, our beautiful, wonderful priest and brother, Father James Altman. We want to wish you all a wonderful and happy feast day of St. Agnes. Like her, like all the martyrs of the Church of Rome, today must mean something to us in the fight against confusion and the fights against the anti-church that we see today unfolding in our world. Without no further delay, Father James, good morning to you. Good morning. Good morning. or afternoon i guess we want yeah we started in the morning we want to apologize for all these technical difficulties so without conspiracy what do you think these technical difficulties are due are due to yeah i don’t know uh it could be my own incompetence in that area you know we can’t be all things and that is not one of my skillsets It’s not my skill set for sure either. As a matter of fact, I want to ask you a few comments, first of all, about the Feast Day of the Virgin Martyrs in the Church, because I know you wrote the history of the saints and you have a wonderful book in which you use as a tool for the people to encourage them that one way to keep up the Catholic faith today is to go back to the heritage of the church.
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unchanging unchangeable truth the deposit of faith handed down to us by two thousand years of saints and martyrs i mean the saints are great and obviously they’re saints some are so incredibly god-gifted wise such as an augustine or an aquinas a bellarmine they’re just they’re so wise teresa vavila teresa lucio saint catherine center they’re all so wise but My faith is watered by the blood of the martyrs. And when you consider that they stood for the unchanged, unchangeable truth, the deposit of faith for 2,000 years, over 2,000 years martyred because of that. So when you see modernist heretics and apostates in the episcopacy, in the hierarchy, working against what is the deposit of faith. You only can shake your head and realize that they have schism from the church. They are a bunch of schisms, schismatic heretics. And then I recall, you know, of all that, I can give you a thousand reasons, but remember Bergoglio wanted to rewrite the Our Father, because the Lord’s Prayer, because he didn’t like what it said. And I’m thinking, who do you think you are? You spit on the graves of 2,000 years of martyrs that died for that Lord’s Prayer. And then remember McElroy out in San Diego, he wanted to rewrite the Hail Mary? What arrogance. What profound arrogance. You know, it’s typical, though, of what I call the Lavender Mafia. It is so typical of them to be just that pompous and arrogant. And they remain this way today. I don’t know if you saw, but McElroy, Tobin, remember Nighty Night Tobin? He says, oh, I was just texting my sister by accident. Somehow it goes to some guy saying Nighty Night, baby. That’s Tobin. And then at Supich in Chicago, who’s about the most evil current face in the hierarchy today in the USCCB. All three of them were spawn of Theodore McCarrick. All you need to know is that they and Theodore McCarrick were buds to know birds of a feather flock together. When you look at them and you hear them rant on like they stupidly did again about issues regarding illegal criminals invading our country. you realize they’re violating church law and they’re violating the civil law. They’re violating the civil law and all that. I’m actually supposed to be at a presentation in Washington, D.C., where General Flynn is giving Tom Holman An award for rescuing, I think it’s something like 56,000 of the children, the unaccompanied minors that the Democrats over the last four years, supported by such vermin as Cupich, McElroy, who was one of the worst offenders down in San Diego, and Tobin. they they rescued them from child sex trafficking there’s over almost a half a million missing children that the democrats and these viper apostate cardinals assisted aided and abetted in the trafficking by allowing them by using taxpayer money to help this invasion to help those those unaccompanied minors get into the united states Not one of them has admitted their error. Not one of them has fallen on their knees, on their face before Almighty God and for the rest of us. Not one of them has recanted their evil. So now what we’re left with is now they’re still at it. They came out, I think it was yesterday or the day before, ripping into Trump’s administration. because they deported something, I don’t know, like 2 million. I don’t think it’s been 2 million since it started. But when you realize that Clinton deported 2 million, Obama deported 6 million, I think it was George Bush deported something like 8 million, and they never said a word. Not one of these vipers from hell, I’m talking Cupich, Tobin, and McElroy, not one of them said a word about the deportations perpetrated by Biden, Clinton, Obama. They didn’t say a thing about it, but now they’re all, it’s because Trump cut off their money, right? They cut off all the Catholic charity’s money that was helping support the illegal invasion, contrary to American law and contrary to the church’s teaching. So I can’t remember why I started in on that, but you must have said something.
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Well, as usual, I mean, our blood boils with the blood of the holy martyrs on one hand for divine grace, because it’s the closest to the blood of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, in innocence and purpose and in the authenticity of the deposit of the faith. But on the other hand, you see what’s happening today and obviously inspired by the psalm. you see that they double down in their evil, and they double down in the attacks. And people get confused very easily, Father Othman. And unfortunately, it feels like the just, the persecuted, get more chastised, and we see life after life being burned. But then somehow, I feel like the evil gets perpetuated, at least by conception, somehow. And they have the microphone, they have the narrative, they have… They have the media today, President Trump, and that was sad. They have the media as well. I think this is why you started on this. And a lot of incidents happened this past week. First of all, many of the hierarchs in our Holy Church even went too far to say, if you are in the military and your country calls you and you don’t feel that this is just war, you don’t have to go to war. You don’t have to act. And I think, what do you think about that?
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They’re vermin, the hierarchies. period. They, you know, this is just another fine example where they go contrary to the teaching of the Catholic Church. And I, you know, interestingly enough, just this past week, dug deep into Aquinas and Augustine on just war theory. And Aquinas is saying that if cities even engage in conduct that causes harm, that you can, oh the word was, it was a really great word, it was like crush them, to punish them and take back what was stolen by governments and by cities. So, True Catholic teaching absolutely 100% allows for, permits, and even encourages the deportation of illegals. That’s true Catholic teaching. What these vipers from hell, these false fraudulent shepherds are saying is contrary to the truth of the Catholic Church, but also contrary to every taxpayer and the law of this land. And consequently, they’re committing treason against the United States. And they should be locked up. You know that until there are consequences for their illegal behavior. This will continue. So everybody’s afraid of, oh, we can’t lock up a cardinal. Listen, I’d be the first one. They can be thankful I’m not president because I’d be the first one to lock up every one of these movers for their violation, not of just the law of the land, which they are not permitted to do, but they’re lying, filthy lying about what true Catholic teaching is with regard to immigration. So they’re liars, they’re filth, and they have blood on their hands of every missing child because they aided and abetted it directly, but also indirectly in their public commentary, like what they just said now. They aid indirectly the continuation of child sex trafficking. Now, we shouldn’t be surprised because we also know that these are the same guys involved in the cover up of boy rapes. They covered it up, and that one bishop, we’re what, $15 billion or more in terms of actual payouts plus our own attorney fees of people’s money from the collection basket. They have paid out over $15 billion, and yet they still have a job, and that one bishop has gone to jail. Not one of them has gone to, you need to understand that, not one of these bishops who are still in power have gone to jail. And they’re all guilty because their silence is complicity. So when I think of the, you know, nearly half a million missing children that they, through their policies, which are contrary to the teaching of the Catholic Church and contrary to the laws of the United States, that they aided and abetted, they should be, they should be not just tired and feathered. They should be dragged out and put in orange and thrown into git mode. never to be seen or heard from again. These vile, fraudulent vipers of the church. I’m talking about you, Michael Roy, you, Tobin, 99 Tobin, you, Blaise Cupich, and every other bishop that has not come out and publicly apologized and recanted and repented of the evil that they do. It is so staggeringly incomprehensible to me. It’s the evil that they do, and they’re still at it. Those three cardinals I just named put out their own separate little statement without even getting the whole USCCB involved. These three pompous, arrogant mafia members have put out their own statement. You know what the beauty of this is? Is I can only say thank you, Blaze. Thank you. What’s Tobin’s first name? Is it Robert? I don’t know. And it’s Bob McElroy. Thank you very much because you just proved once again every point I’ve ever said, which is that you are completely and totally irrelevant to people of true Catholic faith.
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so and then in a strategic way and for the sake of time and i know tomorrow we’ve got to be in dc have a big event we have a lot going on with the pro-life but also there’s this big event i really liked what you just had up there on the stage what was it a medal for what was that he got a medal for 2012. obama yeah Obama deported 409,000 people. Yeah. President Trump deported 290,000 people. The difference is mainstream media brainwashing, according to Myra Flores, basically. President Obama’s ICE chief received an award for 920,000 removals under President Obama. And it’s the same job, basically, who we’re going to see tomorrow in D.C., Tom Homan. Why is this relativism?
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I’m posting it on X, and I’m going to forward it, and it’s going to get forwarded out from my account to so many others. That is a profound—my goodness, I did not know this. Not that I should know it. That is absolutely in your face. They should take that medal and stuff it down Cupich, McElroy, and Tobin’s— throat just stuff it down their throat you filthy lying vipers from hell that again we can only be joyful that they have proven themselves once again to be fraudulent shepherds of the catholic church resign and get out now you three vermin while you can i want to give you the sequence of certain events that we saw that religiously they actually stood out a little bit in the world one
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The first event was that the patriarchs and the bishops in the Holy Land, they issued a statement condemning Christianity that is not an apostolic church, but they did call it the Christian Zionism. And about three days later or four days later, we see that three main cardinals in the U.S. of our fathers, they issue a statement also saying for the first time they somehow they doubt, I’m paraphrasing, but somehow they cast doubt that the wars that we are going through and they name places in the world, they name specific places. including Greenland, including Ukraine and some other places, doubting that the US administration is losing almost its moral compass, that these are not just war. And then two days later, we see that the bishop of the military in the US, the military diocese, who was in Lebanon, who I know very well, states as well that, you know, if you feel as a US military and you’re Catholic, that This war is not a war that is just war. You don’t have to go. So do you think these events are related and there is more to come?
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Oh, sadly, sadly, sadly. By the way, isn’t that Archbishop of the military?
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We’ll wait for Father James to come back.
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There I am. Isn’t Brolio, what’s his name? Yeah. Isn’t he part of the Lavender Mafia cover up, too? He covered up things. You read Gene Jamolka and all the stuff that he has exposed in the military archdiocese. And you see nothing has been done. Again, not one bishop has gone to jail for the cover ups. which is a crime in and of itself, their conspiracy to cover up, their actual cover up, the not saying anything about those who did cover up. For him to say something like that, that’s grounds. Well, see, I don’t think he’s a military officer. It’d be grounds for court martial. But a military should just, Trump should just reject and get rid of that loser. who advises the soldiers under his command, his personal opinion. You need to understand, this is these guys’ personal opinion over which there can be proper disagreement. This is not a doctrine of faith. It is not a dogma of the church. These are ways in which we can consider whether a war is just or unjust. And anybody who’s studied war, as I have, from 1898 to today, for the last 45 years, studying the justness or injustice of any particular war or conflict, knows right away this is merely their loser opinion. And for them to then take the bold step of telling that people in the military don’t have to do something, wow, you loser fake cardinals, you loser fake archbishop of the military. They make every patriot, they make every true faithful Catholic just sick.
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Father Altman, you know, it was breaking news about 28 minutes ago to our show live today with you on the irrevocable mission of hope and mercy that President Trump from Davos, I believe, asked Pope Leo officially to sit on his board of peace. And it seems like the Vatican first report that came out that the Vatican is considering or the Pope is considering. First of all, what do you think about this invitation while the president is being criticized by major key Cardinals of our Holy Church and the bishop in the U.S. who affects directly the strongest power house, which is our military. And then the president to respond in such a way, inviting the Holy Father for a testimony. What do you think about this move? And what do you think the Vatican is going to do?
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Yeah, it’s what a brilliant move by Trump. Say, okay, Leo, you come over here and learn something. You’ve been stuck in the backwoods of Peru for 20, 30 years. Come over here and learn something, Leo. Figure it out, Leo, the implications of everything that you allow your cardinals to say. Figure out the implications, Leo. I’ve got a few things to teach you, Leo. Low information on world affairs, Leo. Sticking your nose in where it doesn’t belong, Leo. Butting your nose into elections here in America, Leo. Oh, I’ve got a few things to teach you, Leo. Come on across the pond, Leo. Let’s have a little face-to-face, Leo. Yeah. I doubt he would accept such a thing.
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But you don’t think deep down there is really some sort of, I don’t know, there is not a secret talk between the Pope and the President? You don’t think so at all?
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I think there might have been something through diplomatic channels, but, you know, you’re going into an area which I don’t know. I’m not an expert in. what has happened or transpired in the last couple weeks, all we can go by is what we see, which is that the three cardinals have ripped on Trump, as they have been doing all along, that the hierarchy was deeply involved with the Hillary Clinton campaign back in 2016, Biden’s campaign in 2020. And, you know, Nate, listen, We need to get something straight in our heads. I mean, you and I know this. They have one job to do, and that’s teach the Catholic faith, which starts and ends with repent, make straight the way of the Lord. Fall down and worship before the Lord God Almighty who sacrificed himself on Calvary and called you to sacrifice as he sacrificed. To pick up your cross daily and pick it up daily, not for five minutes a week. carry a cross of faith publicly daily that’s the one job they have to do and yet and yet they’re getting involved in all the social justice warrior stuff which is only a small part of the teaching of the Catholic Church, and they’re doing things, and even when they do, they’re doing it on the wrong side of the Catholic Church and the law of the nation. So, yeah, I don’t know what’s going on behind the scenes. Nobody does. The Cardinals don’t. And so this whole brilliant play is saying, okay, Leo, come over here and be part of the peace process. See what you can accomplish, Leo. But you’re never going to get that.
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That has a lot of consequences. As you said, it’s a brilliant move on the end of our president. Because first of all, you know, nobody has, we cannot forget that there is a secret deal, treaty between the Vatican and the Chinese government. which is since 2017, I believe, or 2000, right? Something with France and the West.
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orchestrated by Theodore McCarrick, who is known to have raped at least 16 boys, and everybody knew about it. Donald Wuerl knew about it because he reported McCarrick in 2004. So you can’t tell me that there isn’t a bishop in this United States that doesn’t know exactly what Donald Wuerl knew about what Theodore McCarrick did, and Theodore McCarrick was buds with those three gardens. You can’t tell me they don’t know full well, and not one person has gone to jail. Not one.
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But Father James, you know, the president has been talking about election interference since 2020. But this week, he did declare today, today in his speech in Davos, that there will be prosecutions and there will be arrests. And that legally, it seems he’s convinced that it is provable that the elections were rigged. But also we know that in your experience and mine, and Bishop Strickland and Father Frank Pavone, who all these clergy we salute by God’s grace, And nuns as well suffered. I mean, anybody who stood for the principles of life, for the principle of defending the persecuted Christians, defending the principle of the authenticity of our faith, faith, family, freedom, and especially the pro-life. Do you think the attacks we suffered from, which they keep now, they have big microphones, they have big mouths, they can make any law they want, but there’s no foundation to what they’re saying in the canon law. So obviously it seems we could say that canon law has been weaponized. You could see that many good, wonderful priests have been hurt. Many have been silenced in a very oppressive way. And the character assassination continues to happen. Do you think the U.S. government one day or President Trump one day, they will look at the case of the silence or of the exile or of the cancel of peace to see what was or if the role these hierarchs has ever played a role in interfering in a sovereign nation’s presidential election, which you and me seems We have received death threats. We cannot even talk about it. We have received like those folders that they made about us. When we go to look in the foundation, what saddens me, you cannot talk. You cannot say anything. I mean, what are you going to say? Because it’s not a matter of kind of law. But there is a difficulty that the civic law could solve. intervene and give rights to clerics to religious leaders if they have been unjustly treated in canada but don’t you think this is a weakness or is there something could be done to overcome this because it’s affecting our nation it’s affecting um it is affecting actually our nation itself so
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The first thing I’d say to that is that the number one canon law which supersedes and overrides any other canon law is salvation of souls, which in our minds as clerics should immediately… inspire us to focus our attention on that which saves souls, not that which necessarily feeds somebody for a day or all the social justice warrior new age nonsense that these hierarchs are involved in, that are focusing on. You never hear them come out and teach with any, at all, much less with any strength, issues of sin and repentance. So then they weaponized canon law. You brought that up in the question. You need to remember, every faithful Catholic, that canon law is man-made law. And it’s not immutable like God’s law. And the perfect proof of that is they took the, I think it was like 1913, they had a code of canon law. And then they revised it in 2000 or 1984, something like that. they revise it and who knows they can revise it again they keep adjusting canon law to suit their purposes to keep them in power and squelch any comment about their evil activities and and so they even put in one that says well if you criticize us then we can punish you through the various forms of punishment, including laicization, even excommunication. So first they put in a canon law, a man-made law, and we must obey God rather than men. Acts chapter 5 is a perfect example when Peter and the apostles specifically told the hierarchy, we’re not going to listen to you, hierarchy. We’re going to obey God, not you. not your man-made rules and your man-made commands. We’re going to obey God. That applies then, and it applies now. So when they try to do something based on their man-made canon law, and they make a rule that says, if you criticize us, you’re in trouble. And then they go about doing things that absolutely unequivocally merit, demand, require criticism. Because of what they’re doing is contrary to the church’s teaching, the doctrine of faith, the unchanged, unchangeable truth, handed down by 2,000 years of saints and martyrs like St. Agnes. So they put in a lawsuit and you can’t criticize this. And then they do something that is worthy of criticism and then complain when you criticize them. It’s such a joke. Just understand, people, I don’t give a darn. I’m being polite. what their canon law says if they weaponize it and use it against just and proper criticism of their error. And you know, you have it in sacred scripture, I think the one is Ezekiel, where if you don’t speak out against their evil, they’re going to die because of their evil, but I’m going to hold you accountable because you didn’t speak out. But if you speak out and they still are idiot error people, well then they’re gonna get their just due, God’s justice and it’s God’s time. But you will not have that burden on you of not at least speaking the truth. So we are duty bound. You know, in fact, the spiritual works of mercy, if I ask somebody today, what are the seven spiritual works of mercy? I’ll bet you 99.9% of Catholics couldn’t recite the seven spiritual ones or the seven corporal works of mercy. But two of the spiritual works of mercy are instruct the ignorant and then admonish the sinner. And that includes any priest, bishop, cardinal, or pope. If they’re in error, it is our duty to tell them. But then they throw down that canon law that they made up that says, oh, you’ve criticized this. Therefore, we’re going to punish you. We’re going to kick you out of the priest. They can’t do that, by the way. That’s another man-made law. This whole concept of laicization, that’s one of their new man-made things. There’s no such thing. Yeah.
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