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WarRoom Battleground EP 782: The FBI’s Hatred Of Catholics Is The Same Evil As The CCP’s Hatred Of Lǎo Bǎi Xìng
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War Room.
Here's your host, Stephen K. Vance.
steve bannon
Okay, welcome back.
It's 4 June, Year of the Lord, 2025.
Ben Harner was actually going to be running the deal here, but we got some breaking news on what is really incredible, what's happening.
And now it's just coming out.
It's even more stunning.
This is about the FBI, Senator Grassley, the attack by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and that's what it was, on the traditional Catholic and the traditional Catholic Church in the Latin Mass.
It started with an investigation.
In Richmond, Virginia, by the field office, directed by Chris Ray, to tell the field office to look into traditional Catholics.
They actually came up with the idea.
The reason is my parents perished, that they helped start when the Latin Mass was officially allowed to happen.
But even in the Diocese of Richmond...
My parents were there at the very forefront because they were shocked and stunned when the Catholic Church post-Vatican II went to the new Mass.
I mean, they just sat there and go, what is this?
Are we Protestants?
And now to find out the depth of trying to go and tie the Hobbits.
The traditional Latin mass Catholics, which are the most patriotic people around, to extremism.
And I just got to cash for telling these guys I don't understand Bongino.
I don't understand why people are not being perp walked out, why entire sections are not being under investigation in front of grand juries.
I just don't get it.
And this is across the board on so many things.
But this one right here is so obvious, particularly what Grassley brought up.
Liz?
Can you get us up to speed?
You've gone through the documents, these new documents.
And why does it take Senator Grassley to reveal these?
Why didn't Kash Patel put these out day one?
Ma 'am.
liz yore
I don't know.
You know, the War Room Posse, I'm sure, remembers we were hammering the FBI over this leaked FBI Richmond field memo way back when in 2023.
We didn't buy the argument that they tried to sell us, Chris Gray most importantly, that this was a rogue FBI analyst in a single FBI office.
And now we have some of the documents.
I think we're still, Steve, at the tip of the spear.
This is but a blockbuster reveal.
It turns out that the documents revealed by Chairman Grassley expose the depth and the staggering breadth of the dissemination of this field office memo.
Targeting traditional Catholics as radical terrorists.
And remember, OIG Horowitz said, oh, there was no malicious intent.
There's no evidence of that.
Well, guess what?
Here we go.
Here are the documents that have been released.
Number one, FBI analysts in the Richmond Field Office consulted agents in the Louisville, Kentucky office.
The Portland, Oregon office and the Milwaukee, Wisconsin field office as they crafted this memo.
This included gathering also information not just about the Richmond Catholic Church, but also about Catholic traditional groups from the Louisville field office.
There was even, this is just so infuriating, a slide presentation produced by the Richmond FBI analysts entitled Radical Traditional Catholics, Their Core Concepts.
Now, you tell me if this is, you know, radical.
Conservative family values.
And the finding they made was that these core family values are akin to radical.
Islam ideology.
So this is what your FBI thinks about the traditional Catholics.
In fact, Steve, also in these documents, it shows that the Milwaukee FBI field office was notified that the FBI analysts in Richmond were preparing this intelligence note related to Catholics, and they also wanted more information.
This was this Richmond memo.
was distributed to more than 1,000 FBI employees nationwide.
And according to Grassley, who states in his letter to Director Patel, that many FBI offices relied on the Richmond Memo and placed these Catholic traditional groups under suspicion.
And furthermore, according to Grassley, not one person, Of course they did.
Of course they did.
terminology.
And there was the existence of a second draft memo on the same issue for external distribution to the whole FBI.
So, I want to know, was the FBI analyst who drafted this fired?
How about the special agent in charge of the Washington Field Office, or excuse me, the Richmond Field Office, who oversaw the scandal?
Apparently, he's still in place.
But the lead is that this targeted operation against probably the most peace-loving, patriotic people in this country was generated because The FBI's intelligence partner was the Southern Poverty Law Center.
And Steve, you know, it's unbelievable.
And in an email which was released also from Grassley, the FBI's, here's another office, Buffalo, New York office, discussed the Richmond memo and stated, oh, we have two of the nine hate groups, meaning traditional mass-going Catholics.
In our area, one in Buffalo and one in Niagara Falls, raising the question, were these groups also placed under surveillance?
You know, so Steve, there's many more questions I think that these documents raise.
Director Ray repeatedly, according to Grassley, obstructed this investigation by not providing answers for months.
We also have testimony.
And no one at this point has paid for this outrageous violation of religious freedom.
There's documents that have been deleted, Steve.
Grassley's demanding that they be recovered.
I think we really are at the tip of the iceberg.
There's much more information that needs to be placed.
steve bannon
This is going to be a massive investigation.
All these people have got to be imprisoned that did this, going after traditional Catholics.
Much more at the FBI.
There's got to be in prison.
But this is why I'm just not seeing any activity at all, Dan and Cash.
And they say they've got great stuff going behind the scenes.
Hey, maybe so.
But there's so many obvious low-hanging fruit that should be perp-walked out right now.
Liz, what is your...
Any comments, observations, Harnwell, on this massive, really, expose that's coming out from Grassley that's a jaw-dropper about what the FBI did for targeting traditional Catholics?
ben harnwell
Steve, Liz, good evening.
Well, firstly, let's just point out here for the viewers to remind them that amongst the many duplicitous So that was the The confection that
they were trying to do there, put these two totally extraneous groups together.
Steve, I would ask the question when I see something like this taking place from these three-letter agencies, which I would not trust with a barge pole, is were they planning a false flag event in the United States?
Having set the pretext, were they then preparing to follow through?
But I'll just quickly, before I hand back, follow on what you and Liz are saying about the need for trials here, for imprisonments, and that's absolutely the case.
It is also the case, I would suggest, that Chris Wray misled Congress in his testimony on this back in July 2013.
He deliberately misled Congress.
Congress.
So, Steve, my first thing to say, and we know the powers of congressional subpoenas because they put you away for four months because of this, because in obedience to the President of the United States, you didn't intend, let's have some congressional subpoenas.
Let's call Chris Wray back to Congress and find out why he was lying.
Why was he misleading, effectively, Congress, and why was he misleading the American public?
liz yore
I'd like to see a criminal referral to the Department of Justice.
steve bannon
And I'd like to see FBI begin a full investigation, internal investigation.
There's so much going on.
Ben, the show is yours.
Liz, where do people go?
Because you're analyzing this as we speak.
What's your social media?
liz yore
I'm everywhere on Elizabeth Yore on social media, and my website is yourchildren.com.
steve bannon
Ben Harnwell, the floor is yours, sir.
ben harnwell
Thanks very much, Steve.
Denver, I wonder if we might be able to bring in my other guests now as we carry on moving forward with the show.
Liz, okay, so I can see Frank Walker here.
Frank, I'm going to introduce your site.
I know you've been on the show before.
I'm going to introduce your site, Canon 212, which is absolutely a superb resource.
I'm going to give a little bit of an explanation as to what that is later on in the show.
But you were listening to The Exchange now.
You were listening to what Liz Yule was saying about Chris Ray's misleading...
testimony to Congress.
What's your view here of a federal agency paid for by American taxpayers misleading the American public and doing this conflation between terrorism, anti-abortion and traditional Catholicism?
unidentified
And I know that Liz Yor has a particular I think it probably goes a lot more, a lot deeper, not only into American government and society, but also into the church.
Because why do they isolate this small group of Catholics for— What is it that they're afraid of?
Why do they hate us so much?
And what does that say about the difference between the faithful Latin Mass Catholics and the rest of the church, the Leo Church, the Francis Church?
I think it says that they've been really involved in the larger church.
I think that church is a lot like what they want.
And when you see, especially the way the media has been responding to the new Pope Leo, they're just, they remind me of Operation Mockingbird media assets.
You can see the deep state working in the Catholic, faithful Catholic media.
Why?
I think that they really, they fear the influence of the faithful Catholic voter.
And that's my only guess so far.
That means so much to them, that they're even like they do in Germany against the IFDF.
That party, those group of people, they are not allowed to participate in society whatsoever.
They must be crushed.
ben harnwell
You ask the rhetorical question, Frank, why do they hate us?
And I can tell you why, you know, why in the United States, why they hate you.
Because you're good, decent, hardworking people.
That's why the regime hates you.
And today is a perfect day to remember this.
What is it?
The 4th of June today.
This is, I think, the 36th anniversary of Tiananmen Square.
What a perfect day to remember.
Because it's exactly the same reason why a corrupt, godless, atheist regime hates Chinese people, the ordinary, decent-working people in China.
It's the same hatred.
I would suggest, Frank, it has a preternatural basis to it.
It's elementally satanic.
I think when you see these godless atheist regimes punishing the most decent, ordinary, hard-working members of their population, there is a hatred in that dynamic, I think.
That goes beyond the ordinary intra-human relationships, the hatred that comes out.
I think there's a spiritual element to that.
And on this day, you know, I would definitely like to mention that.
Liz, let me come back to you because I know that you have a thesis here, which I'd like for you to bring on to the war room about exactly, because your thesis, if I've understood this conversation, Is that this isn't simply the FBI punishing traditionalist Catholics, is it?
You seem to, you've put your finger on this, you believe that actually there might well have been some kind of coordination, let me put it like that, coordination with the Catholic Church hierarchy itself.
Tell us a bit more about that, will you?
liz yore
Sure.
You know, we know about Judicione's Custodos, the encyclical from Pope Francis, that Literally crushed the Latin Mass around the world.
Specifically, Francis was concerned about the Latin Mass not only thriving with young people in the United States, but also in Europe.
It was, and we have seen the suppression of the Latin Mass, even this week, coming from the Diocese of Charlotte.
So there is a hatred, I would say, by the deep state and deep church.
Of the traditional Catholics, the timing is just, it's just too coincidental as far as I'm concerned.
When you have Tradition Ionis Custodes being imposed in 2023, and then you see using the strong arm of the FBI to impose, you know, a weaponization and intimidation of Catholics.
You know, it's not unlike what's going on in China.
One of the things that you cannot do in a Latin Mass is strip the altar of all the sacramentals and all the beauty and transcendency.
But what are we seeing in China?
Xi Jinping, who wants to be the god of all, is stripping the patriotic church of even its sacramentals.
And so there is, and we know that the CCP's partner is the Catholic Church with this suicidal deal that they made for the CCP, the atheistic sacrament.
So we know that the Deep Church The hierarchy of the church hates the traditional Catholics.
We know that they have worked in collusion with the Obama administration, certainly in the Biden administration, in coordinating the mass invasion of migrants.
They've worked on a lot of these issues that have undermined freedom and undermined the integrity of the United States.
But there is a certain hatred of the Catholic traditional church.
That is, I think, and I think it is because it is the one spiritual, physical obstacle to the one world religion.
And that's why they need to crush it and suppress it.
And I think that's what's going on.
And as we dig deeper into these documents and ask more questions, I think there is going to be some collusion that will surface.
ben harnwell
Our Lord said, didn't he?
No servant is greater than his master.
If they hate you, if they hate me, they will hate you.
That's, I think, the fundamental origin of this, certainly in this context that we're talking about with regards to the FBI.
Look, I just want to give a few words now, which we didn't do at the beginning.
We're going to try something new with the war.
Maybe every Wednesday evening, I think six to seven, as we go out.
We're going to be looking, deep diving into what's going on, these spiritual elements that underlie the political scene.
Especially, I think a lot of people are focusing on this after the death of Bergoglio and the election of Leo XIV.
So, as we were covering that very intensely.
We're going to be keeping our eyes open.
And that is exactly the point I want to make now as we just finish off this first half of the show.
I'm going to ask you both this.
A lot of people are suggesting, and the War Room isn't one of them, and Canon 212 isn't one of them, but a lot of people are suggesting that we should give Leo time.
You know, we should perhaps not be so haste to judge.
After all, he wore the red mozzetta, which is the little red velveteen cape, sort of shoulder cape that he came out on the loggia.
It's a subject for another time.
Frank Walker, when I hear the words red mozzetta, I reach for my gun.
Tell me, on the back of what is going on today with this Senator Grassley revelations, tell me.
Or tell the people who are suggesting bombarding us with messages on social media who say we should be a little slower in holding Leo XIV, who is an American, to account.
What would you advise to them?
unidentified
Here is a great story for...
ben harnwell
What would your advice be to all the give Leo, all we're asking is give Leo a chance brigade.
What would your advice be to them and to the Vatican following the story?
What intervention do you think can be made from the Vatican on behalf of ordinary, put upon, persecuted American Catholics?
unidentified
Just a word.
Just a word would be an awful lot, if you could just mention the fact that the FBI has been persecuting faithful Catholics.
I don't expect to hear that at all.
I think that the people that are saying that they just need to go slow, they just need to pay attention to the things that he says.
Every day I wake up and I think, maybe they're right about him.
Maybe he's going to, you know, not be so doctrinally, you know, destructive as Francis.
And, you know, if he just said, if he just did everything that Francis did and nothing new, that would be perfectly terrible if he did that.
Today he's made a speech and he's taken the parable of the vineyard where the different people were hired at different times of the day.
And he's turned that into a communist.
You know, tirade against capitalism.
And he says, well, God is teaching us that we need to wait for him.
Or no, he waits for us.
And it's just, you know, even today, every day, he comes out with something new.
So if he just said a word about what they're doing with the FBI, that would be wonderful.
but I don't expect to see it because he's busy crushing the mass at the same time.
If you look at everything that he said so far, You know, he met with a bunch of Jewish people yesterday.
He wants them to give their canonization to one of Benedict's saints.
I mean, not Benedict's, one of Francis's fake saints.
He's all about the Ukraine war, but he's on the Ukraine side.
And even Francis was better than that.
He affirms the death penalty heresy.
He's about fake news, disarmed communications.
He wants to put Jesus over doctrine.
Yesterday he came out with this horrible thing, saying that if you appeal to doctrine, then you'll never win everybody over this.
You'll have a moralistic, burdensome, unappealing religion.
As if that were something that, you know, as if following Christ is something different than that.
Yeah, I don't see how they see that this guy, they need to go slow with this guy.
Only the press.
Only the media.
ben harnwell
You just mentioned how voluble and how talkative Leo XIV is, and yet on crucial issues seems to be strangely silent.
Just before we go over to give the last word in this half to Liz, just tell me, does that remind you of anybody?
Someone who frankly would never shut up, but on the actual issues where you might have appreciated a word, was nowhere to be seen.
Who does that remind you of?
Frank Walker.
unidentified
Reminds me of Francis.
Francis would never shut up.
Yeah, definitely.
He's definitely like Francis.
And there's so many people out there that will say that, you know.
He's just a bit more to the one side.
He's more opus dei, more neocon than neolib.
ben harnwell
I think he's more intelligent than Francis, and therefore, being more intelligent, he's more...
Liz, I know you've got to go.
Can you just, in the closing moments, give me just two minutes now.
What would you like to see from Pope Leo XIV on this issue?
And what would your advice be to Kash Patel?
What do you want to see both from him as FBI director and Francis to show that there's really a substantial change in both of their respective offices?
liz yore
Well, heads need to roll both in the Vatican and in the FBI for those that have been persecuting the faithful, holy, traditional Catholics with big guns.
families.
Number one, the first thing I want to see from this Pope is a repeal of Traditionus Custodas, which is the suppression of the Latin mass, which has become increased.
That's precisely what they're doing with the Latin mass, which makes you really wonder what are the motivations.
So immediately he should repeal Tradiciones Vistodas.
I mean, the whistleblowers, Frank and Ben, are still on indefinite, unpaid leave.
This is outrageous.
This is outrageous.
And, you know, Leo had the advantage of following, you know, What we have often talked about is the unstable Pope Francis.
And just because he has a nicer and kinder, gentler voice does not mean that the dogma, the actions of Francis should not be immediately repealed and addressed.
And I mean, you know, he's a young man.
He's 69 years old.
Get to it.
Repeal the China deal.
Repeal Traditiones Custodas.
Repeal and answer all the dubia questions that were submitted way back how many thousands of days ago by Bishop Arch Cardinal Burke.
Go through all the climate change nonsense and repeal it.
And to restore, really, tradition and reverence back to the Catholic Church.
ben harnwell
Liz, and how about these two things to your superb list?
A public exorcism to atone for the profanity of Pakamama.
And also, how about this, Leo?
Lift the excommunications against the great hero of the faith, Archbishop Viganò.
Look, Liz, quickly, 20 seconds.
Where do people go to keep up with your analysis, which is absolutely unbeatable on these things?
liz yore
Thank you.
I'm at yourchildren.com, Y-O-R-E.
And also, I am all over social media, every getter, Twitter, under Elizabeth York.
unidentified
War Room.
Here's your host, Stephen K. Mann.
Welcome back.
ben harnwell
So I'm joined, as I was in the first half, with Frank Walker, the founder and editor of Canon 212, and by Jenny Holland.
Jenny, the warring posse, will remember, I think probably had one of the greatest hits we've had since I've been guest hosting as a...
That's a fascinating story.
And I think we're going to be sort of leaning on that, Jenny, just in a few moments when we dive into this story here about why Gen Z is turning to the faith.
But first, Frank, let's start off with you.
There's this development here in the UK that happened this week.
In the magistrate's court.
And I think it's absolutely astonishing.
Do you want to just give us a quick intro to what happened here in my beloved homeland?
unidentified
Well, it sounds to me like he's an Armenian in the UK, and he's a regular activist against Islamization, which is in the UK and in Ireland, I know it's a big deal.
In the United States, it's not so much.
We don't think of it so much, but there it's becoming quite a problem.
And as part of his effort to, you know, get everything going, he burned the Quran and he was attacked for this.
And they said he was probably attacked with a knife, but they haven't made that perfectly clear or not.
I think they said maybe it wasn't.
I don't know.
But they were both arrested and he was charged and convicted of, you know, causing a disturbance.
And also sort of a hate crime in that country because it was an Islamist thing.
And that really, it was done by, I think it's called the CPS, which is not really the, it's an illegal ruling against him because they canceled blasphemy laws about 10 or 15 years ago.
They had something akin to a blasphemy law in the UK.
But what they said, no, it was the public nature of it that made it illegal and the fact that it upsets us.
So I guess if you upset somebody enough in the UK, it's illegal these days.
ben harnwell
It only depends who you upset.
unidentified
Yeah, that's right.
ben harnwell
Not all degrees.
Not all degrees are equal, I'm afraid, in the UK.
This is absolutely fascinating.
So here's a guy who was convicted of a racially aggravated public order offence.
Now, hold on to those words, right?
A racially aggravated public order offence.
Because you mentioned the CPS.
For our American viewers, that's the Crown Prosecution Service.
It's the state prosecutor.
And they basically said, they quoted, I won't read it out, because half of my salary already goes into the SIG swear box.
I'm not going to risk losing any more of my income.
But it's basically F-Islam, and Islam is a religion of terrorism.
And you look at those quotes that he said, and you think, hang on, where's the racial element in this?
The guy was convicted of racially aggravated public order offence, and his criticism is against Islam.
I don't know how to break this to my beloved homeland, but Islam is not a race, it's a religion.
So I think that's absolutely clear.
This is absolutely clear that it's a return to blasphemy laws via the back door.
As you correctly said, they were abolished in the UK some 50 years ago.
One of the reasons that we know that what the CPS is doing is trying to bring in blasphemy via the back door is because they originally charged this guy, who's an atheist, with harassing.
The religious institution of Islam.
And the judge basically said, well, you know, you can't quite do that.
So they changed.
They simply took the same material and represented it under a different prosecution heading.
Jenny, look, tell me.
So this guy's an atheist.
From one atheist to another.
What's your reading of this story?
Because you're in London right now.
Tell me your perception of where we are now in the UK.
unidentified
Well, if anyone was surprised by the prosecution of this man, they shouldn't be.
I think the
And Ben, you and I months ago spoke about the demographic reality of the United Kingdom and the booming Muslim population, and the political power that comes along with that.
That is a reality.
And that is melding with a censorious, captured, professional managerial class, much like the United States has, specifically the judiciary.
So this is not, this is 100% of.
Grammar School in West Yorkshire.
So a Bately Grammar School teacher caused such outrage that he had to go into hiding with his partner and young children and fears for his life.
And I think that was about four years ago.
So if your life can be in danger in West Yorkshire for showing a cartoon because of the class topic of blasphemy, then that gives you an indication of where the UK is at.
ben harnwell
I want to point out that, you know, Frank mentioned this in his introduction to this particular case, that there's apparently a passerby whose background isn't referred to other than him being a passerby, but apparently he was carrying a knife.
I will let...
What is fascinating to me, of all the horrific elements of this story, what is perhaps the most astonishing to me is that the guy who was criticising Islam was convicted on Monday, right?
two days ago the guy who knifed him um Presumably that's why they've not mentioned him, his name.
He's not going to get trial until 2027.
So the CPS, the Beloved Crown Prosecution Service of the UK, you can really see how they're prioritising the most serious offences first right.
Let's get the guy who said some nasty words.
Let's convict him and then we'll move on to the guy with the knife.
Absolutely shocking.
And I guess it'd probably be slightly exaggerated to say coming to the United States, coming to a town near you.
But there are elements, there are places in the US where this sort of thing, if these dynamics continue, where these things will be seen, I think.
Frank, what's your take on that?
unidentified
Well, I think they did the equivalent of a Freedom of Information Act request to see how often this kind of thing is happening in the UK and how many charges like this are prosecuted.
And they said there were so many that they couldn't count them.
They wouldn't really give it to them.
So behind the scenes, it's like Sharia law happening in the UK.
And I think, you know, in an issue like this with the, you know, I think you can burn a Bible.
But if you have a Muslim population in there, In their communities, you cannot burn a Quran.
You're always going to provoke this kind of response.
So I would expect that one way or another, you can't have a democracy in this kind of a situation.
in the United States, it would probably happen one way or another eventually, that they would maybe, like they're in the UK, get around the laws, have sort of shadow governments and Sharia law in the background and do whatever they can if they want to keep bringing in a Muslim population.
I don't see how...
So we'll get that.
ben harnwell
You know what?
I was going to mention this at the end of the show, but I think now is the right time to talk about the Open Doors Report, which is an annual report by this international human rights organization that monitors Christian persecution on a global scale.
And this report highlights the fact that 380 million Christians face Currently facing, present tense, brutal persecution.
Where in the world are they facing this persecution?
Well, in the top ten countries, it's all our old friends.
Yet again, it's the religion of peace.
Apart from one country in that top ten, which is North Korea.
So, you know, take a look.
Christians around the world, you know, it's either going to be Islam or it's going to be the communists.
And that is the situation.
You know, again, again, you know, Frank, I want to come to this.
Excuse me, Jenny, I want to come to this story now about Generation Z. But before I do, this would be another story of if we had more time to say this is something before people fall over themselves saying, oh, you know, it isn't.
The Holy Leo is so wonderful and so great and such a refreshing change.
This is something that he could actually intervene on, I think, directly, this Christian persecution story and name names.
Jenny, tell me now, as I said, you're an atheist.
You pray the rosary every day, and you get the spiritual fruits from that.
Tell me about this article in the Financial Times today, which I think is pretty good.
Why don't you just give us a quick outline of the details?
unidentified
But as a segue, I just want to say that we need to focus the blame where it's due, and that is the British professional managerial class.
Which, much like the American one, is very self-loathing and demoralized and has no sense of pride in their history or their nation.
And that's who is allowing these terrible things to happen against people in the United Kingdom.
And I think just to move on to the Gen Z story, I think there is a sense in the ether that,
And that's putting it mildly because it ranges from empty to horrifying if you want to go down and look at, you know, sex change surgeries for children and ninth-month abortions and things that are sort of horrific and barbaric.
And I think young people are looking up at their elders and finding us lacking.
And they are not wrong to do so, by the way.
They are actually correct to do so.
So this FT story was very interesting, partly because also at least one of the protagonists in this report described herself as a queer polyamorist.
So I don't know how that works with her Christian conversion, but I would be curious to find out more.
But again, young people are searching.
In fact, they're fleeing.
They're fleeing the identities that they have been given by this toxic identity politics society.
They're desperate to recreate themselves.
And if they're finding that rebirth, which is what one of these people who was interviewed for the FT was basically describing, being able to recreate a self through Christian baptism, then that is the best possible outcome because at least then this person, this individual, then hopefully adopts a sane and humane moral framework, which then will ripple out.
ben harnwell
Frank, it says here in this article that Generation Z's attendance at church has quadrupled in recent years, and it's shaping up to be the first new generation in a very long time to be making the country more, not less, religious.
Is it going to be enough?
unidentified
Well, the...
And I think when they, you have very secular people, I mean, in that Financial Times article, I think they have a Princeton Divinity School person who had become a Catholic.
And she's, I mean, she's bringing a lot of baggage up to the Catholic mass, which is already sort of, you know, the new mass.
But there's graces in that.
So I think...
You know, they say a lot of the priests are a lot more conservative than the younger ones.
You know, I don't know.
When I see across the media poll like this, I question how accurate it is.
But it's a long way to go from But I think that, like the articles are saying, they've grown up in this family situation that's so destroyed.
And they're also, after the COVID, they're seeing such tyranny.
And these things are driving them closer and closer.
And God, even without anybody's help, can work in their life.
And worked miracles.
Just looking, even though as secular people, just looking at their own virtues and their own sacrifices and giving them some mercy, he can really bring them a long way.
So I think that, you know, the progress is good.
ben harnwell
Yeah, yeah, for sure.
For sure.
I can't help but think, you know, if the church had been exactly as it was in 1962, and if the Second Vatican Council had never taken place.
I just think what an amazing citadel of attraction it would be to a lost secular age.
As Jenny was sort of saying earlier, this, the meaninglessness of just the godless atheist values of our parents and grandparents'generations, which is now all kids, especially kids now, sort of millennials'generation, seeing what have you, that's their inheritance.
They sort of, I think, have the feeling that the family gold has been sold and all they've been left with is a handful of coloured...
And, you know, I know sort of people a lot younger than me who go to, you know, try to step into a Catholic church, perhaps thinking, knowing something of it via media.
And it's not what, you know, it's just sort of platitudinous and there's not really the depth there.
Exactly.
You know, if the church hadn't made that mistake, huge mistake in the 60s, I just think it would, you know, if it had so much more of the visibility, the visible unchangingness of it, it would be a huge draw to people.
And many people are going to Islam.
I mean, this is the thing coming back to the, you know.
For three decades, it has been the fastest growing religion in the UK because Islam famously doesn't really move with the time.
And yet that, in a counter-cultural sense, can actually be appealing.
I think it is appealing.
So we have this absurd situation where a fake religion, a false faith, a false religion, in a certain sense, is more appealing because of the way it is presented than the true faith, the true revelation to mankind.
Jenny, just give me just 30 seconds, if you will.
What do you see here?
Because I think this is a fascinating dynamic about the fact that there's guys and young guys, young men specifically, who are accelerating ahead of women on the religiousness metric.
Does that strike you as odd or something that you'd expect to see?
unidentified
No, it doesn't strike me as odd at all.
It tracks very much with a lot of research that says that young men are far more politically and socially conservative as well than young women who are getting more liberal and more left wing.
But also, you know, I have a young man, son, and they need and they yearn for meaning and structure and they respond well to anything that will give them that.
Actually, they are also they're being bombarded with the most debased and extreme promiscuity that I think the world has ever seen in the history of humanity and for a large number of young.
They find it repellent, and rightly so.
So they're seeking a refuge from this onslaught because they're essentially being psychically experimented on in a huge number of ways.
The ones that can see that happening are going to flee to a saner, safer haven and moral structure.
ben harnwell
Jenny, I wish we had more time to break this down.
Perhaps the two of you would be kind enough to join me at the same time next week.
Jenny, you're the author of Saving Culture From Itself.
You write for Spike.
You also have a substack.
Just tell us what the substack is, where people can get.
unidentified
It's saving culture from itself, and the URL is my name, jenny.substack.com.
ben harnwell
Jenny, many thanks.
Frank Walker, I have to say, folks, I say this to evangelicals listening as much as I say this to Catholics.
I go to Canon 212 every single day, several times there, hand on heart.
It is the best resource out there.
I know you must get sick, Frank, of people calling you the Catholic Matt Drudge, but just tell me just in ten seconds the site and the other site that you write for where people can get hold of your analysis.
I cannot recommend Canon 212 enough.
unidentified
Thank you, Ben.
Canon 212 is just a collection, an aggregation of all of the Catholic news and the news of...
If you want to know exactly what's going on in the Vatican, not good news, but critical, honest, truthful news.
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