The Vatican Unleashes The Theology Of Migration

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[00:00:12]Well, you've heard of theology of the body. Get ready for theology of migration.

[00:00:19]And I predict that when this becomes more formalized than what you're going to hear in a second when inevitably some formal documents like this are issued in the kind of the same way or probably even more formally than theology of the body was back in the '90s. It will become as controversial for traditionally minded Catholics. Again, not traditionalists, but traditionally minded, which it covers the entire spectrum of anybody who considers themselves a traditionalist, including those who attend the Novasordo and are inclined towards tradition and want the same religion as our ancestors had, but maybe have slightly liturggical tastes in difference with myself and others and a different opinion on the lurggical questions.

[00:01:08]It will become as controversial among those groups as the broader question is now because as well at least the broader question here being the theology of the body because for some of you may not even know this but theology of the body was not exactly shall we say received by traditionalist Catholics. We're not here to adjudicate that that has been adjudicated at nauseium.

[00:01:30]Instead get ready for theology of migration.

[00:01:36]Yeah. I can't wait. We go here to uh Our Sunday Visitor news for this um fun story.

[00:01:44]Our Sunday Visitor, by the way, is a another one of these very very modernist outlets. It's just it knows how to present itself in the kind of same way that America magazine is very modernist, but knows how to present itself. It doesn't come off most of the time as extremely radical unlike say the National Catholic Reporter. And our Sunday visitor news is kind of cut from that similar kind of cloth. But their headline is theology of migration moves us to communion with with God. Others says expert.

[00:02:16]I'm going to invite you here to to trust the expert just as much as you did the last time anybody with authority told you to do so.

[00:02:26]From the here's the deal from this article.

[00:02:30]This is going to dubtail nicely with the news video I have for you today on um on what you can expect. Okay, if you channel members get early access to those things if they're members through the YouTube channel button, it gives you access to uh to videos when I schedule them. It's just kind of a quirk of the system and you can you'll you'll already know why I say that if you're seeing this live. If you're watching this later, watch the news video for the day and that will pair nicely with the hazards they're bringing. It's a reality check for this idiotic new theology they're pushing.

[00:03:05]Days after participating in Pope Leo I 14th's July 4th visit to the Italian island of Lampadusa were close to 50,000 I would put in quotes refugees and migrants landed in 2025 alone.

[00:03:20]Theologian and Holy Cross father Daniel G. Grooy spoke with our Sunday visitor news about his work in bringing Catholic theology to the issue of migration. A member of the Vatican's diccastry for the promotion of integral human development. Another name for that would be the diccastry for sustainable development.

[00:03:40]You've probably heard that you've probably heard those two words before.

[00:03:43]sustainable development because in sustainability literature and I know because I focused my doctoral studies on sustainable development cuz I walked into that kind of a believer in that stuff until I actually engaged with the material and saw what was really what they were really promoting.

[00:04:00]They the sustainability literature has multiple legs, not just environmental sustainability where we think, hey, maybe we should use natural resources in a way that future generations have access to. Nothing wrong with that. That actually sounds logical. That sounds like stewardship, right? Well, they also have economic sustainability, which calls for basically centralized economies essentially is what they want.

[00:04:26]economies that are sustainable. They they're not constant growth. The the growth and crashing cycles, you know, smooth out a little bit and become a little more friendly and well, again, stable and again long-term, all this stuff. Some of it sounds fine on on the surface until you kind of start reading deep into it, you realize they're they're wanting plant economies. And then there's of course there's social sustainability which is essentially just social justice the secular concept not the actually Catholic concept of social justice but that's what they mean. And so the the diccastry for integral human development could be called the diccastry for sustainable development or it could be called the diccastri for agenda 30 which is just a few years from now. just a handful of years from now. And as a someone who got a PhD in fields related to sustainable development, it looks like their plan is kind of um a little offkilter at this point. Hasn't gone quite the way they thought it would.

[00:05:24]But this theologian is a member of the Vatican's diccastry for the promotion of integral human development. Father Grooy serves as vice president and associate provost of undergraduate education at the University of Notradam Notre Dame in the United States as well as a professor of theology and global affairs at the school. He's the author of several articles and books including a theology of migration, the bodies of refugees and the body of Christ.

[00:05:55]Yeah. Again, he works in the Vatican in one of the most influential diccasteries in in the in the postal church or in the Sonatal church.

[00:06:08]This is this is the diccastry for lado for late dam the follow-up document to that and then all the stuff that all this migration stuff is going on. This is him kind of giving away what they plan to do in the next few years.

[00:06:25]And he talks about lampadusa.

[00:06:29]He says, 'I did a lot of my research on immigrants and spirit spirituality and when Pope Francis was elected, he began to highlight the topic. The first place he went outside the Vatican was Lampadusa because he had heard about the refugees trying to reach the island. The boats weren't seaorthy and would break apart and people would drown. Pope Francis was so moved by the indifference to the lives of these migrants that he went down there. He wanted to preach against the globalization of indifference and say these are human beings. They have dignity. They have value. They have worth. Nothing he says there is incorrect. Even if we are very hostile to the migration issue like I am, they are human beings. They do bear dignity. Not infinite inalienable dignity like the Vatican breaches now.

[00:07:09]But they do bear dignity. They do as human beings have value and they have worth. Which is why I'm so opposed to them getting exploited economically and for political reasons by the elites. And of course, the elites are dumb enough to actually go to think they can get away with it because these same people are not actually compatible, generally speaking, with Christian civilization.

[00:07:29]They are members of that other religion that openly talks about conquering and breaking the cross and they're bringing them in in large numbers. But despite that, they have such dignity, in fact, that you have a duty to preach the gospel to them, which the Vatican refuses to do.

[00:07:47]Francis really came to speak on behalf of those whom the world considers as nobodies and he wanted to highlight that they are somebody especially in the eyes of God that they're connected to everybody. An important element here is that they are also connected to the body of Christ because they do embody the least and the last that Christ speaks about the altar from the 2013 lampadusa mass was in the form of a boat. That should have been a red flag for everybody. 2013 Francis's the Frank year Francis ascended the throne of Peter one of the first things he did did was go to lampadusa and hold mass on an altar made from a boat should have been a red flag that should have been enough to wake everybody up the croer was made in the form of a ship's wave and made from the wood of a migrant boat so I became very intrigued by that I went down to lampadusa a number of times did research with the community there particularly the carpenter who made those vessels so that's what kind of led me to go down there initially and also figured prominently in a vision for the theology of migration.

[00:08:47]Now here are its aspects.

[00:08:50]Lampadusa where great humanitarian concern has been shown in welcoming migrants as been a symbol of mercy in a merciless sea of refugee trail and trauma travail and trauma and the island represents another way of living and being in the world. The dominant political narrative takes us from our oneness as a human family and divides us into otherness. This is here. You will recognize what he's saying here if you watch my videos in the past on I think the most pernicious thing we hear coming from the authorities in Rome these days.

[00:09:20]And that most pernitious thing is this hostility to populism. This is most notably in Germany. The German bishops have actually had rather explicit conversations about about excommunicating specifically right-wing populists. They've actually had conversations about getting about basically making it an excommunicable offense to vote for the members of the alternative for Deutselland, the German party that seems fairly right-wing by European standards. But in America, kind of moderate Republicans who just have the have a pretty striden take on immigration for if you know anything about the situation in Germany, you know why they have that. But in Germany, being a moderate Republican puts you on the fringes of the political spectrum.

[00:10:08]That's how kind of far gone things have gotten. And as such, this is what he's referencing here. Because if you take yourself out, you know, as an American, most of you are Americans watching this, and take a step back and take a look at the larger view, it it's not that the Vatican has come down on Trump so much.

[00:10:28]Trump is the kind of international figurehead for this populist movement.

[00:10:32]He really truly is. You can see him referenced positively by these populist types in countries around the world.

[00:10:38]And that's what they that's what they're doing is trying to squash this entire populist program.

[00:10:45]And that's why he includes this in his theology of migration because the populist uprising is fueled by a number of things, but one of the big ones is immigration anywhere you go. That's why he says the dominant political narrative takes us from our oneness as a human family and divides us into otherness. Us and them.

[00:11:03]If you read the Old Testament, it's not a oneness as a human family.

[00:11:10]There's a lot of warnings there to the to the keepers of the Old Covenant about not getting too involved with those from other countries that how it will corrupt your culture and and take you from God.

[00:11:21]It's a whole lot of stuff. The first time I read that and I wasn't looking for it when I was going through the Old Testament, I was kind of floored when I saw that. It was shocking.

[00:11:32]The dominant theological narrative, he says, coming out of the life of Christ is moving from our otherness to oneness.

[00:11:38]And to a certain degree, he's right. We are all one in the body of Christ. When we submit to the church, live a sacramental life, and pursue heroic virtue and sanctity through the church, that's where you get your oneness. You don't get your oneness through international programs and NOS's and political activism. You get your oneness as a human family through the spread of the gospel and the bringing of souls to Christ through the church. That's where it comes from. But even then, when we're talking about concrete realities, even if the whole world were Catholic, guess what? You would still have national differences because cultures are different. And sometimes cultures are hostile to each other. Even if they've all been baptized through the through the eukarist, they all are different and they sometimes butt heads.

[00:12:30]There were wars in Christendom among Catholic princes after all.

[00:12:36]He says, "So it a theology of migration is a theology of communion." And I think what's beneath underneath Pope Francis and Leo's vision is that we are united as a human family under God. Our care for our brothers and sisters is part of the same body. and to tear at the life of migrants. And to dehumanize them is to actually really dehumanize ourselves and deport our soul. This care for migrants and refugees is not just social work. It's actually more humanitarian concern flowing out of the dignity of the human person. Christ himself was a migrant. No, he was not.

[00:13:09]When they fled to Egypt, that's like fleet going from California to New Mexico.

[00:13:15]New Mexico as in from one state of the republic to another.

[00:13:21]Egypt was part of the Roman Empire at that point.

[00:13:25]Different places culturally, but they were still part of the empire.

[00:13:32]He he wasn't a migrant. They just left.

[00:13:36]Christ himself was a migrant. And I actually speak of him as being the primordial migrant. A wonderful the son of God who left his homeland, came into our sinful and broken territory and died on a cross to reconcile us to God. to help us migrate back to becoming citizens in God's kingdom again.

[00:13:52]Essentially, Christ is always breaking down those walls and barriers to bring us to communion, even as the political narratives are dividing us.

[00:14:01]What a way to denigrate and and just materialize the incarnation.

[00:14:09]What a way to do it. You found a way to just take the incarnation itself and turn it into a political hammer. Well done.

[00:14:21]Then he's asked how you overcome the impass of the nar of the divide even among Catholics on this. He says I would say migration and refugees are not the central pro problem. There are symptoms of deeper problems which are driving people from their homelands whether that be economic need, poverty, violence, persecution, instability, the inability to pro provide for their families. And again he's there's a lot of truth there.

[00:14:43]They tell they teach you errors by selling them to you by using the truth.

[00:14:48]They're these things are all demonstrable.

[00:14:51]A lot of those countries are economic just wastelands and all these other things. There are other things that can be done than bringing these people here.

[00:15:03]The problem with the legal argument and it's all too common, meaning that they should [snorts] enter countries legally, is that it understands neither the law nor migration because St. Thomas Aquinus said there are actually four kinds of laws. There are civil laws those are which are on the books but there are also natural laws by which people need to be safe, provide for their families, educate, shelter and protect them. There are divine laws which we know from scripture about caring for the hungry, the thirsty, the naked, the sick, the imprisoned and the estranged and by implication the migrant. And there are eternal laws through which God keeps universe in motion. Aquinas said for there to be true peace and justice there has to be an alignment of those laws.

[00:15:38]When you have civil laws in this case migrants stay out that are at variance with natural laws again the right to migration is now a na part of the natural law that is what he is saying.

[00:15:49]So when they formalize this beyond what this book he's written, it's going to be that people have a right to migrate in accordance with the law of God, the natural law.

[00:16:01]Open borders is the official policy of the Vatican. No matter how many times Leo says it's not, he says when people are fleeing their homelands and trying to keep their families safe, there's going to be a collision. And it doesn't mean you just open the borders and disregard civil law. There's the caveat because they know they can't sell that to you quite yet. At least not until attitudes change. But it does mean that unless you see other laws at work, you actually don't understand the issue. The fact is that most migrants would rather stay in their homelands and would never want to leave if they didn't have to. Most of the developing world actually shelters the burdens of providing for refugees.

[00:16:35]So the question here is how much reality how how in touch with reality is that priest?

[00:16:44]We have numerous accounts of UN employees out in the field in Central America, South America, in Africa, Indonesia, handing out pamphlets in the local language, sometimes cell phones and cash to help people get from their country of origin to Europe or North America and increasingly even to Australia and Japan.

[00:17:09]How in touch with reality is he?

[00:17:12]And I ask you this because these are military-aged young men predominantly, not always, but predominantly.

[00:17:19]They arrive often times with cell phones that are at least on par with what the you locals in Europe and North America have.

[00:17:26]And often times, many of them don't work.

[00:17:31]We know this if you've been paying attention to the situation in England or in Europe and the like historic large scale fraud going on in the US when it comes to social services that they're uncovering this all related to migration.

[00:17:50]How in touch with reality is he?

[00:17:55]But the theology of migration takes this all and turns it into a natural law command that people have a right to move and that you by weaponizing the words of our Lord must accept them. I don't know how that's not an open borders policy.

[00:18:10]He can say it doesn't mean you just open the borders and disregard civil laws.

[00:18:15]The implication there is you change the civil laws so that the borders are functionally open.

[00:18:22]Basically, imagine the Biden administration's handling of the border turned into this the actual civil laws of the country where the only purpose that immigration enforcement agents have at the border is to welcome people and make sure they get to the processing that the only people they leave out are the most obvious people. Like essentially, I don't know, somebody like a literal villain from a slasher film basically shows up on the board. turn that guy away and nobody else. That's what they do.

[00:18:55]So, we have to move out of this scarcity mindset into other mindsets of how we think about this. Again, attitudes have to change. Leo told us the game plan.

[00:19:05]Attitudes must change. I think it's too reductive an analysis to say they should just obey the law because there's no law and there's no line to get in for these people. Factually inaccurate. There is a law and there is a line. there is a process for entering the US legally.

[00:19:22]Yeah, it takes a long time and frankly I have what he would consider an uncristian attitude about it that the that the entire process should be shut down because in the US and in the west you're seeing the social fabric being torn apart through a lot of it through actual Marxist agitation in these countries. We all seen those guys who wear black head to toe holding up cities and things. We've seen that. But also through just a total collapse of the social fabric because people need time to assimilate. Aquinus himself said three generations was what the time that they'd have to wait before they got civil rights, actual like voting or participation rights in a country for new for migrants. That's Aquinus. That's right out of it's right out of the suma.

[00:20:08]Three generations.

[00:20:11]Aquinus's policies are harsher than the most harsh policies on planet Earth other than maybe like China where I don't think they let anybody in.

[00:20:20]Says the current US presidential administration, meaning Trump, has really shut down the refugee quotas, even those for those who qualify, who could show their lives are in danger and that they'd be ended or really harmed if they were sent back to their homeland.

[00:20:32]The reason they did that is because the refugee laws have been horribly misused.

[00:20:38]They've been abused.

[00:20:41]If you are a refugee, the first place that you have to stop traveling is the first country you can get to where you'll be safe.

[00:20:50]So if you are claiming refugee status from like Argentina, which is laughable, then is like what the next country north, let's use Venezuela. Okay, if you're claiming refugee status from Venezuela, which is pro plausible, the first place that's going to be say for use the first country north there, which I think is Panama. No one talks about Panama being being this wretched pit where of danger but no they keep coming all the way to the US and then look just look at Europe you know what the European examples are already he's calling here for his theology of the body to change law to make the borders functionally open he says immigration law has to be seen in light of protecting people it also has to be seen in the light of universal destination of all goods not us the right to private property.

[00:21:41]The universal destination of goods subsumes the right to private property.

[00:21:45]You know, Pope Leo the 13th said private property wasn't sacred, but it was like a step down from being sacred. It was practically inviable. It was as protected under that Catholic scheme almost as like some very libertarian readings of private property rights. He just wanted private property rights, private property in the hands of as many individuals and especially families as possible. Leo the 13th was not such a big fan of things like major corporations and such. He wanted worker guilds and he wanted families and individuals to own as much property as possible without coercive redistribution. The way you get there is of course conversion of the culture and people to Christ. And then the the all the people who have got more property than they would ever need would either give it [clears throat] away or more likely sell it at a price a fair price to those who want the property itself. But all that doesn't matter here because the universal destination of goods which is a postconilia addition to the uh Catholic social teaching subsumes private property. It supersedes it. This opens the door for coercive measures which by the way he qualifies with immigration law. Immigration law has to be seen in light of universal destination of all goods which includes places to live.

[00:23:01]This is some wild stuff he's advocating here. Catholic social teaching would say that a person does not have a right to m or does have a right to migrate even a right to cross an international border if their family does not have sufficient means to protect to provide themselves in their homeland. There it is.

[00:23:20]Catholic social teaching also says migrants have to follow Caesar's laws including how to enter and they have to assimilate. They have to adopt the culture of the place they move, which by the way is one of the reasons why you want to keep as many people out of the United States as possible because our culture, you might have noticed, is a hot mess. The number of people stopping stop who stopped going to any church of any kind is growing and growing rapidly.

[00:23:44]Maybe Christians should rethink moving to the United States as a general policy.

[00:23:51]But he says that's an argument based on the fact that all the world belongs to God and we're stewards and not owners.

[00:23:57]There can't be an absolute appeal to ownership or even national sovereignty when there are larger international issues of the common good. Destroying international sovereignty.

[00:24:09]If our job is to be conformed into the image and likeness of God, then we have no choice but to really re-evaluate the way we think about things. Attitudes have to change the way we behave and especially the way we relate to one another. That's why the bigger journey is not what do we do with immigrants.

[00:24:23]The bigger journey is how do we move towards communion with God and with one another.

[00:24:29]We don't see that we are connected to these people who are labeled as different or other. Then we've deported our soul. We actually have bigger problems than immigration that we're dealing with. In other words, you're going to end up in the fires of predition forever if you don't adopt this theology of immigration.

[00:24:49]Astonishing.

[00:24:52]That's how they're going to try to do it. They're going to get Catholics who are the largest voting block in the United States to have their attitudes changed and adopt the the these wild policies.

[00:25:04]It's why Leo hits on it so hard. It's not just the US. It's all of the West right now because the entire West is inundated with this problem.

[00:25:13]said, and the man who said his job is not to restore Christendom is out there championing open borders as his first thing he does.

[00:25:24]Let me give you an example.

[00:25:26]If you remember how I talked about sustainability, if you didn't, if you missed that, here we go.

[00:25:32]Sustainability has three legs. It has the leg of environmental sustainability, which is what everybody seems to harp on most of the time. That's the natural resources used in a way that do not impel or or cause future generations not to have access to them. Seems fine. It's got some problems logically, but seems fine. Economic sustainability built on the same thing, but it really wants a steady state economy is what they're going for, which is essentially just socialism with extra steps. And then there's of course social sustainability, which is just social justice, but without the troubling politically loaded phrase there.

[00:26:12]The Vatican's gone all in. You have the diccastri for integral human development which is the diccastri for sustainable development or the diccastry for agenda 30. They've gone all in and we have now evidence more of that because Catholic universities have gone all in on this too. Not ones on the Newman list. If you don't know what the Newman list is, the Newman list are Catholic schools that are thought to be, you know, where your kid might actually get a Catholic education if you send them there. as opposed to places like Villanova or Notre Dame or Georgetown that are Catholicish but not but not but not not really Catholic in any meaningful way. We have the the latest step here on the Vatican's embrace of the ideology of of our rulers of our secular rulers.

[00:27:01]Life sight news with this headline. Leo the 14th to personally present sustainability medal for scandalous university.

[00:27:09]Remember when Leo got on the on the Loia on the day he became pope and said he was continuing the work of Pope Francis and we all kind of hemmed and hawed and acted like we didn't know what that meant. We all told ourselves, well maybe he's going to do the cenidality thing in a way that doesn't isn't terrible. We all know he's just continuing it completely. And this is uh the loud sea portion of that.

[00:27:31]Lowado C being Pope Francis's encyclical on the environment that was praised by secular NOS's working in that field.

[00:27:38]That should have been everybody's big red flag about it. When the secular world applauds things the popes are doing, there's a problem 99.9% of the time.

[00:27:48]Details from the article.

[00:27:51]Leo the 14th will personally present the inaugural Pope Leo I 14th sustainability medal on October 13th 2026. Those not for those who forgot October 13th is the day of the miracle of the sun [snorts] at Fatima.

[00:28:11]The sustainability medal on the miracle of the sun day at a conference of scandal plagued Villanova University.

[00:28:17]The quoteunquote Catholic Augustininian University, which officially promotes gender ideology, announced a new award named after alumnist Robert Prevos with a July 20th press release. The conference responding to the cries of the earth and the poor will take place at the Borgo Lauado Sea Garden in Castell Gandalfo, the Pope's summer residence.

[00:28:39]So, Villanova University is going to fly students from the United States to the Vatican to participate in a ceremony at the Pope's summer residence. You have a students there, any if if you have children there or if you are a donor to Villanova, you should be aware of what they're using their money for.

[00:28:58]According to the university's president, the Reverend Peter M. Donna Hugh. The Pope Leo I 14th Sustainability Medal reflects a deeply held belief at Villanova University. The care for our common home and care for one another are inseparable.

[00:29:13]There's that migration stuff again. By recognizing leaders whose work advances both environmental stewardship and the common good, we hope to inspire meaningful and lasting impact communities around the world. Father Donahghue presided as president over this Augustinian university during his continued departure from the Catholic faith. In 2023, Villanova hosted a lecture by Naomi Washington Leapart, a lady who's into others ladies activist and adjunct professor in Villanova's theology and religious studies department on the end of white Christian America. She has stated that she can only remain a Christian by by imagining uh [sighs] Jesus as being African of descent and um of the strange ideology of the flesh meaning of a James Martin type.

[00:30:02]Pray for the conversion of Naomi Washington Leart. cannot imagine engaging in something that will that is more overtly publicly exposing the state of your soul than than than than trying to imagine our Lord being being of the group whose activities cry out to heaven for justice. I cannot even imagine that.

[00:30:22]Vill Nova has hosted performances by the lady parts monologue will say a play repeatedly condemned by bishops for its explicit and degrading content.

[00:30:32]In 2022, Villanova issued a genderinclusive practices guide that instructs faculty and staff to use preferred pronouns and avoid binary language, effectively embedding that ideology into university life.

[00:30:45]Catholic school, ladies and gentlemen, a Catholic school. Pope Leo the 14th decision to personally present an award created by Villanova University in his name represents a troubling endorsement of an institution that has spent years undermining Catholic teaching on human sexuality. His decision comes as no surprise to Lifeight News readers, giving papal legitimacy to an institution whose record stands in direct opposition. The church's teaching is reminiscent of his meeting with Father James Martin.

[00:31:13]Yeah, that's putting it mildly.

[00:31:17]Attitudes have to change.

[00:31:20]Let there be no doubt what Leo is doing.

[00:31:22]He's continuing the work of Pope Francis. Even if I have to be the only one standing alone saying this stuff, that's what he's doing. Thankfully, I'm not alone on this. John Henry Weston wrote that article and his podcast, Still Talk, tells you about things going on in the church without making you feel like everything is a-ok. Okay.

[00:31:47]There is no excuse for presenting an a an award on behalf of a university that is notoriously scandalous and overtly publicly denies the faith. It is the job of the of the pope's assistants to make him aware of these things. But why would we expect them to? Why would we expect Leo to not know? After all, he ordered a cardinal archbishop to hold a mass for the James Martin crowd back in September, right after meeting with James Martin. You remember when that group of people showed up at a mass in the Vatican wearing shirts with impure messages on them and the bishop got up at his homaly and said, "The Pope ordered me to welcome you here. I'm here on behalf of Pope Leo."

[00:32:33]Why would this surprise anybody?

[00:32:38]Please pray for everybody in this story today, [snorts] the president of Villanova, Pope Leo I 14th, and everybody who enables this stuff.

[00:32:49]And please pray for the the consciences be illuminated of everybody who's decided to keep their mouth shut about this stuff moving forward.

[00:32:59]Let's go to our final story here.

[00:33:02]There is an there is a scandal brewing in the legal realm because of Pope Leo's flagrant endorsement of women's ordination.

[00:33:15][clears throat] You might say, well, he has said no to women's ordination. Yes, he has. However, you'll recall that he met with Archbishop Sarah Malle. I put Archbishop of quotes there for two reasons. one, she's an Anglican.

[00:33:27]And Pope Leo the 13th declared that their holy orders were utterly null and void. And while while many of their bishops and priests have after they read his argument s realized there might be a case to be made there, they went to schismatic groups with valid holy orders to get consecrated and or ordained pre conditionally ordained as priests and conditionally consecrated as bishops. So a lot some of them actually had valid holy orders for a long time. Not possible with Sarah Mley. She can't be ordained. Metaphysically impossible. But the Pope met with her publicly, praised her, validated her office through his actions, and accepted her public blessings given in the way that a bishop or priest will do.

[00:34:12]And that, of course, we noted caused some several problems for the church. It made it very hard to argue against women's ordination. And we all thought about this on a kind of an internal church debate level. It's much worse than that. Now start. We'll start at life site. Headline. Leo the 14th's meeting with Sarah Malle fuels legal campaign against the maleonly priesthood.

[00:34:37]There are at present organizations in Europe who are going to take the Catholic Church to court to have the Catholic Church's male only priesthood abolished to make it inclusive to force legally the church to bring in to allow women to be ordained. That sounds absurd.

[00:35:00]Any authentic pope would say, "We don't care what the EU says. We can't do this.

[00:35:06]persecute us if you want. We've been down this road before.

[00:35:10]Be interesting to see what the EU does after that. The people who persecute the Catholic Church in history have never gone down in history as being on the the right side of history as our secular adversaries would say on most things.

[00:35:24]They've never been on that side of history. They've always lost. So, it'll be interesting to see where they would go with this. The problem is there have been a lot of signals from the Vatican that despite all the words against women's ordination, they're going to find a way around it.

[00:35:38]We'll start here with life site. We'll go to the source.

[00:35:45]French legal scholars point out to po pointed to Pope Leo the 14th's cordial reception of female Anglican quote unquote Archbishop Sarah Mley in renewed efforts to have the Catholic Church's male only priesthood treated as unlawful sex discrimination.

[00:35:58]In an article published in the French newspaper Lacroy on July 12th, a group of French academics pushed to challenge the Catholic Church's exclusion of women from holy orders, arguing that Pope Leo's April reception Malle reignited the issue as one of unlawful sex discrimination under European law.

[00:36:15]I can't wait to see this play out in court. I can't wait.

[00:36:20]This is what modernists have wrought that even if the European courts say strictly speaking because we officially as the European Union endors separation of church and state we can't do anything about this.

[00:36:34]This legal battle is their own fault.

[00:36:38]Well done modernists.

[00:36:41]This is from Lacroy. This is translated from the French into English.

[00:36:45]Their headline is equality between women and men is intended to apply to all social spaces including religious ones.

[00:36:56]Now I you and I know there's a certain religion there symbols the crescent moon they follow the false prophet that that isn't going to be this will never be wielded against them.

[00:37:12]They're on the verge of becoming a majority there in the next like 10 years or 20 years. So they're of course they're not going to do that. Maybe all the Catholic Church really does need to do is wait out until the uh the new Europeans become the m majority there.

[00:37:25]Then they'll just have to go underground for other reasons. But at least they won't have to worry about this stupid legal case.

[00:37:30]But they want legal standards of equality to be for all social spaces including religious ones.

[00:37:41]The reception of Leo the 14th of an Anglican archbishop in April has revived a legal debate. According to a group of personalities including Ani Krepen and Patrice Dunois K. The exclusion of women for or from ordained ministries constitutes direct discrimination based on sex which is difficult to reconcile with the European law in France. The event up there was was linked to the church's renewed appeal to pray for vocations, an invitation that implicitly reaffirmed a call reserved for men only for the priesthood. This concurrence raises a persistent question already old but revived today. How to understand in the current context the maintenance of this institutionalized exclusion? Can it still be perceived as legitimate at a time when societal and ecclesiastical developments are increasingly questioning the foundations of such distinctions?

[00:38:32]They're not increasingly questioning it.

[00:38:33]There have been the basic drum beat for this since at least the 1990s.

[00:38:38]But now you're getting bishops doing this. I'd reported to you a few days ago about a bishop who wants to split the liturgy. The novasordo. He wants the first half half of the mass to be presided over by women to have them proclaiming the gospel.

[00:38:53]He'd be leading the prayers of the faithful either too while the actual altar while the actual sacrifice is conducted by a man.

[00:39:03]He's not going to get punished or excommunicated or his automatic excommunication that he is surely already earned recognized by Rome. No, no, no, no. That's reserved for Catholics.

[00:39:14]But that's what they mean here when they say increasingly questioning the foundation of such distinctions. These are mainstream voices now calling for women's ordination or for things that will lead to it.

[00:39:25]The discussion here takes place within the legal sphere since the doctrine otherwise remains unchanged. The aim is thus to move this question beyond a strictly internal framework. Long confined to a closed normative system.

[00:39:34]Indeed, long relegated to theological or ecclesiological debates, it has irreversibly become a legal issue. It presents the jurist with a major normative tension. On the one hand, the principle of equality between the sexes and the prohibition of discrimination.

[00:39:48]On the other, freedom of religion understood as including the organizational autonomy of religious communities. This tension is no longer abstract. Ed is crystallized into a clear institutional practice. The practice of recruiting only boys and excluding women from ordination. This practice is explicitly based on a criterion of sex. It denies women access to the positions that concentrate the three structuring powers of the church.

[00:40:11]Governing, teaching, and sanctifying.

[00:40:14]The state is going to have an opinion on sanctification.

[00:40:17]That's where they have taken us while reserving them for men. In positive law, such a differentiation corresponds to the very diff definition of direct discrimination, an explicit general distinction without the possibility of an equivalent alternative.

[00:40:33]French law prohibits discrimination based on sex. European law enshrines equality between women and men as a fundamental principle. International law requires states to combat discrimination, including when it is rooted in social or institutional norms.

[00:40:48]Well done, Pope Leo. probably brought persecution to the church's door.

[00:40:53]If you think that sounds like a bit of a stretch, I'll remind you that it is by American centers, far-lefts, who run all of Europe. All of Europe, except for like the handful of countries that have had their populist right-wing parties come to power. And those populist right-wing parties are by at least American centers fairly moderate on everything except immigration. So, you might have brought EU centered persecution or French centered persecution. The French is run by far leftists.

[00:41:20]And it goes on to talk about how the European Court of Human Rights consistently protects the autonomy of religious communities and all that stuff. This, they say, quote, results in a form of immunity once a rule is linked to the religious core of an institution.

[00:41:33]Judicial review becomes minimal. But is this autonomy absolute? Nothing requires it. So to borrow Pope Leo's phrase, attitudes might have to might change in French law among the administrators of French law. European Union law now taking this broadly to Europe introduces a crucial requirement. Differences in treatment based on religious beliefs must meet strict criteria. They must be essential, legitimate, and justified. Be subject to effective judicial review.

[00:42:02]explicitly church law is subject to judicial review on certain things in in the EU.

[00:42:10]Therefore, a central question emerges.

[00:42:12]Is being a man an essential professional requirement for exercising an orderly ministry? Orderly is the word they used, not ordained. Orderly.

[00:42:23]The legal answer is far from straightforward. An essential requirement presupposes an objective link to the function performed. However, the criterion of sex applied absolutely and without exception defies any demonstration of functional necessity.

[00:42:36]It rests on doctrinal justification, not on verifiable professional requirement.

[00:42:43]It therefore must be stated clearly, the exclusion of women from ordained ministry constitutes from the perspective of general non-discrimination law a distinction that is difficult to justify. It establishes a hierarchy among the faithful based on sex. It deprivives women of access to positions of power and representation. It structurally limits their opportunities for engagement and contributes to the perpetuation of gender stereotypes incompatible with the requirements of equality and dignity. They use the dignity word against the Catholic Church.

[00:43:13]There you go. Thanks a lot, Leo.

[00:43:17]This was inevitably going to happen.

[00:43:20]We'll see how this goes. I will be monitoring the situation as they say and reporting to you as these developments well develop.

[00:43:30]What do you expect to happen from this?

[00:43:34]I'm hoping nothing.

[00:43:38]But I'm also realistic.

[00:43:41]The forces of Satan outside the church are like sharks. When they smell blood in the water, they frenzy.

[00:43:52]Leo meeting with that Anglican high priestess was blood in the water.

[00:43:59]Not only were Catholics scandalized, but apparently the secularists were scandalized too because he endorsed their worldview accidentally.

[00:44:12]Maybe Leo should in the dicash of the doctrine of the faith should stop worrying about the society of St. Pius the 10th and all that stuff and instead maybe worry about how to defend Catholic teaching against those who would crush the church under their boot.

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