June 19, 2025 - Bannon's War Room
47:49
Participants
| 
| Speaker | Time | Text |
|---|---|---|
| This is the primal scream of a dying regime. | ||
| Pray for our enemies, because we're going to medieval on these people. | ||
| Here's one time I got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people. | ||
| The people have had a belly full of it. | ||
| I know you don't like hearing that. | ||
| I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. | ||
| It's going to happen. | ||
| And where do people like that go to share the big lie? | ||
| MAGA Media. | ||
| I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience. | ||
| Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? | ||
| If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved. | ||
|
unidentified
|
War Room. | |
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Vance. | ||
| War Room. | ||
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Vance. | ||
| Good evening. | ||
| Wednesday, 18th of June, Anno Domini, 2025. | ||
| Hanwell here at the helm. | ||
| So we've got a packed show for you guys today. | ||
| We're going to Detroit to talk about the suppression, the further ongoing suppression of traditional Catholicism. | ||
| We'll be hitting that with Frank Walker a little later on in the show. | ||
| San Francisco, where we'll be discussing with Jenny Holland. | ||
| Francis Collins is on the church. | ||
| Speaking circuit. | ||
| Yes, it is that Francis Collins of COVID frame. | ||
| We'll also be going out with Liz Yor to discuss what's going on over it with our friends, the Southern Baptists and their convention in Dallas. | ||
| Some good news coming out from there last week. | ||
| But first, Brandon Showalter from the Christian Post. | ||
| Brandon, welcome onto the show again. | ||
| You've got some good news, breaking news, coming out of the Supreme Court today. | ||
| John Roberts seems to be the head of a 6-3 majority here, discussing, I think, allowing a Tennessee law that prohibited transgender meddling, biological medical meddling on youth. | ||
| And the Supreme Court has upheld that. | ||
| Tell me, Brandon, what are the implications of this? | ||
| And what exactly did the Supreme Court decide? | ||
| But first, tell us what the Supreme Court said. | ||
| And then I think other states as well, some 28 or so other states have similar laws on the statute. | ||
| But tell us a bit then about what the Supreme Court said and what the implications. | ||
| It's an absolutely huge ruling, Ben. | ||
| Landmark, if I must say. | ||
| The Supreme Court, in a 6-3 ruling just out this morning, and it was spearheaded by Chief Justice John Roberts, allowed Tennessee's law to prohibit the chemical and surgical transing of minors to stand, saying that it did not violate the 14th Amendment. | ||
| And basically what that means, it was an equal protection case. | ||
| And so whether or not, quote unquote, transgender minors constituted a special category, that would rise to the level of strict scrutiny as required by the law. | ||
| So the implications of this are absolutely massive. | ||
| And I thought Justice Thomas had a great concurrence when he said that you, There's so much that's unknown. | ||
| You have to defer to the people who are making the laws, like the legislator. | ||
| This was part of Justice Roberts' argument during oral arguments as well. | ||
| There's so much that is unknown about this, and the justices in black robes are not doctors. | ||
| And so, in his concurrence, Justice Thomas skewered the supposed experts. | ||
| You know, namely, what you think of as WPATH, who hold themselves out, the World Professional Association of Transgender Health, those types who hold themselves out as experts when in fact they are activists. | ||
| And so this was a rebuke of activist medicine. | ||
| Justice Barrett also had a very good concurrence. | ||
| I know there have been people in the War Room Posse that haven't been so keen on Justice Barrett's rulings of late, but on this she was fantastic. | ||
| And it's a 6-3 decisive decision, and of course, predictably, the leftist justice. | ||
| Justices on the bench, including Sotomayor, are dissenting from this case. | ||
| But it is hard to overstate, Ben, how enormous this is because this is a huge precedent-setting legal blow against the child castration industry, and it's not overstating to call it that. | ||
| This is a great day. | ||
| This is a substantive win. | ||
| The opinion didn't go as far as it could have gone, and it does use some language that I don't use in terms of Labeling people transgender, when in fact that itself is a falsehood. | ||
| You can't be the other sex. | ||
| But I noticed that it also avoided the euphemism, and I love that they did this, gender-affirming care. | ||
| They call it sex transition procedures. | ||
| I thought that was very interesting. | ||
| All in all, this is a very good ruling, a very good day. | ||
| Bravo to the Supreme Court. | ||
| Bravo to Attorney General Scrametti and his team in Tennessee. | ||
| And there's many, many people who prayed for this day and worked hard to see this day happen. | ||
| And yes, now, the 20-odd states, I think 26 or 27 states, that have put some kind of ban in place, those laws will be allowed to stand. | ||
| And that's huge. | ||
| Brandon, you mentioned Justice Tell me, what conclusions are you drawing by the fact that she's back now solidly in this 6-3 majority? | ||
| Because regular viewers to the Warren will notice that she's been sort of And there's a lot of dissatisfaction of that. | ||
| The strong indication is that she was put there by President Trump effectively to uphold a lot of the philosophy of what his administration is trying to achieve. | ||
| And she's sort of been dissenting quite a bit, sort of putting herself along with another great dissatisfaction. | ||
| Well, there's nothing phony about her in this ruling, and I actually know a friend of hers personally who I always thought that she would be on the right side of this issue. | ||
| Basically, in her concurrence in this case, she sort of skewers the notion that trans is some immutable trait. | ||
| I'm just going to read from her concurrence now, and it says, to begin, transgender status is not marked by some sort of obvious, immutable, or distinguishing characteristics as race or sex. | ||
| And so for her to understand... | ||
| It really sort of skewers this Gnostic notion that you can be the other sex. | ||
| And so that was great to see from her. | ||
| I think with the War Room Posse they haven't always agreed obviously with Barrett's decisions but on the social issues it's I mean, she was, as people will remember, she was the fifth vote in the Dobbs decision overturning Roe versus Wade. | ||
| And so, I mean, it's, you know, say what you will, I do not think that had Hillary Clinton put those three justices... | ||
| So even with the disagreements that people have had with some of Gorsuch and Kavanaugh and Barrett's rulings, there's no question that this law would have struck it down had three leftist judges been put on the bench. | ||
| I don't think there's any question about that. | ||
| So I can't complain at all. | ||
| I'm just thrilled to see the Supreme Court uphold Tennessee's law. | ||
| Many people have prayed for this day. | ||
| I'll just reiterate that. | ||
| Brandon, I'm very grateful for you coming on the show at such short notice to help break this down. | ||
| But before you go, just looking to the future, what does this mean, this ruling today, mean in general for the 14th Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause itself? | ||
| Does this indicate that that Equal Protection Clause really can't be invoked going forward, specifically with regards to the transgender issue, or does it leave it open for adults? | ||
|
unidentified
|
Thanks. | |
| That remains to be seen, but what my read on this is is that the Supreme Court has struck a major blow to this ideological cause. | ||
| It's possible that trans activists will try to challenge trans activists. | ||
| Justice Thomas, in his concurrence, also made the point that children can't consent. | ||
| And so I don't think that if trans activists and their allies in the legal field are going to be too keen on going to the Supreme Court for redress. | ||
| On this basis, it's possible. | ||
| But this is just such a major blow to have the Supreme Court say no to this, even though the opinion doesn't go as far as I think some would like. | ||
| I don't think that Equal Protection Grounds 14th Amendment questions with regard to transgenderism are going to pass muster at the Supreme Court for adults or kids. | ||
| It remains to be seen, of course, and there might be some other legal avenue they'll try. | ||
| But again, this really is a landmark ruling, and to see it six to three. | ||
| I'll just add that in a few weeks, the Federal Trade Commission, I said this last time I was on the War Room, the Federal Trade Commission is going to be putting on a day-long event where they will expose so-called gender-affirming care as a kind of consumer fraud. | ||
| And so that's in keeping with President Trump's executive order from January 28th, which empowered all the federal agencies to take appropriate action from their purchase. | ||
| And so I think we're... | ||
| So this ruling is just one key crucial blow against it, but it's all part of a much larger push that the federal government is taking to end this scourge, and it's been a long time coming. | ||
| Brandon Showalter, you're doing fantastic work there, the Christian Post. | ||
| Where do people go on social media to keep... | ||
| Go to GenerationIndoctrination.com to hear our documentary podcast. | ||
| Stay tuned for Season 5. It will be out in several weeks, a few weeks. | ||
| ChristianPost.com to get all of our print reporting. | ||
| And I'm already hearing from parents who are just so grateful for today's ruling, including one who's featured in the Dead Name documentary film. | ||
| And you can go to DeadNameDocumentary.com to see that moving, intimate portrait of the families who've suffered through this. | ||
| And that film, that documentary film, is also available on Amazon Prime, Apple TV, and Roku. | ||
| It's just such a sea change. | ||
| Three years ago, they tried to censor that film, and now it's on all major platforms. | ||
| So the tide is definitely turning. | ||
| But deadnameddocumentary.com, if you want to get acquainted with the families who are suffering through this. | ||
| But it's a great day. | ||
| It's a great day. | ||
| Brandon Sherwater, thank you very much indeed, once again. | ||
| God bless. | ||
| Catch up again with you on the show soon. | ||
| Thanks very much. | ||
| This July, there's a global summit of BRICS nations in Rio de Janeiro, the bloc of emerging superpowers, including China, Russia, India and Iran, a meeting with the global goal of displacing the US dollar as the global currency. | ||
| They're calling this the Rio Reset. | ||
| As BRICS nations push forward with their plans, global demand for US dollars will decrease, bringing down the value of the dollars in your savings. | ||
| While this transition won't happen overnight, the Rio reset in July marks a pivotal moment when BRICS objectives move decisively from theoretical possibility toward inevitable reality. | ||
| Learn if diversifying your savings into gold is right for you. | ||
| Birch Gold Group. | ||
| Can help you move your hard-earned savings into a tax-sheltered IRA in precious metals. | ||
| Claim your free info kit on gold by texting Steve Bannon's surname. | ||
| Bannon, B-A-N-N. | ||
| Bannon to 989898 with an A-plus rating with a Better Business Bureau and tens of thousands of happy customers. | ||
| Let Birch Gold arm you with a free no-obligation info kit on owning gold before July and the Rio reset. | ||
| Text Bannon to 989898 today. | ||
| OK, let's go now to something which I think we've been hinting at on this show quite a bit, which is the suppression of traditional Catholicism that has continued. | ||
| Let's use the term seamless garment. | ||
| That's really what it is. | ||
| From Bergoglio, stage name Pope Francis. | ||
| To Leo XIV. | ||
| Frank Walker, tell me about the latest developments in Detroit, because this was widely expected, was it not? | ||
| The bishop there in Detroit has suppressed 10 parish churches that were celebrating the traditional Latin Mass, that Mass that goes back 1000. | ||
| thousand seven hundred years um and that has been that that is the the persecution continues tell us a bit about that and and what the conclusion is that you draw from it well you Well, they had a lot of good Latin masses in Detroit. | ||
| Most dioceses aren't like that. | ||
| Around here, there's only two. | ||
| There's two at two o 'clock in the afternoon or something like that. | ||
| But they had a whole community there. | ||
| And Bishop Weisenberger has just been recently moved there before Francis died, and he was, you know, one of the worst, and he was, I mean, now that there aren't lots like him, there are, I think he was in Phoenix or something, or Tucson, and he's moved up here. | ||
| He's blaming Traditiones Christotis, which Francis issued. | ||
| The expiration date is up. | ||
| And he's left it to just... | ||
| One of them is a shrine. | ||
| And they're the only ones that are left. | ||
| And he could have done like they did in Saginaw, Michigan, and applied for an extension, which happens a lot. | ||
| But this is just followed up on what happened in Charlotte. | ||
| There was a big deal about that. | ||
| Charlotte was another diocese like that with lots of Latin masses. | ||
| So they're focusing on where the communities are growing. | ||
| I know this is... | ||
| and their portrayal. | ||
| Of Pope Leo XIV to some kind of brush of fresh air and a great change and a great opening to traditional Catholics. | ||
| And we're trying to drill down on that very strongly and urge caution. | ||
| Let's put it like that, Frank. | ||
| We're urging caution on that analysis. | ||
| And in keeping with that narrative, you're seeing here what is being spun in the Trad Inc press. | ||
| As we know, originally here, Bishop Weisenberger was just going to suppress the TLM, the traditional Latin Mass, everywhere in the diocese. | ||
| But actually he's now created these, thanks to the presence of Holy Pope Leo, he's now created this dispensation, if you will, in the non-parish churches of this allowance, which is an indication of all the blessings that we can expect. | ||
| But Frank... | ||
| And if you go back to his earlier April statement, he definitely did say he was going to prohibit it in the parishes and make some allowance. | ||
| Do you think that this is an indication that the Trad Inc. | ||
| press is running at And is this evidence of our thesis, Frank Walker, that Trad Inc. | ||
| is running... | ||
| They are quieter. | ||
| They seem quieter this week, which is, you know, they've been spiking all the strong Leo stories. | ||
| And, you know, this shows you how important the bishops are. | ||
| And one of the things that, you know, besides just the targeting of Latin mass communities all around the world, also in France, in Argentina, in Australia. | ||
| The bishops are so important. | ||
| And today, you look at the top of KNG 12 today, there's a picture of a new bishop in Brisbane. | ||
| I've never seen anything like him before. | ||
| I mean, I've seen bishops that don't look too much like bishops, but this guy, this guy looks like he's on Wall Street or something. | ||
| Incredible. | ||
| And there's a lot of different areas where Trad Incas had been ignoring Leo. | ||
| Leo is simply making... | ||
| Francis was the guy swinging the axe. | ||
| Leo is the one who's gently going to like sit there and behind the scenes, let everybody else seem to do the dirty work. | ||
| Well, everything becomes the new church that the enemies of the church have been dreaming of for a long time. | ||
| And, you know, the thesis of the war room is that the key virtue, if one can use the word virtue in this context of his, you know, I think I'm the only, you know, I think, Frank, you and I were probably the only people who will refer to Leo XIV as his holiness. | ||
| in a sarcastic tone of voice. | ||
| On that point, we're going to come back to later on in the show because there's something I think that that confirms our thesis. | ||
| Well, we have a lot in common. | ||
| We're not allowed to, like, you're going to go to an article about the Baptists. | ||
| They're sort of allowed to move with their own people, with the movement of society that's moving towards the right. | ||
| No longer, since we've had Francis, can the Catholics that are faithful, that are conservative, that are politically effective, no longer can they have a voice. | ||
| So the Protestants, they look at us and I think they, you know, they already are suspicious, but they need to know that we're out there and that like them, we're sort of, They need to have some kind of solidarity with us because in so many ways we have so much in common and, you know, they need to understand that about us. | ||
| Stay there, Frank. | ||
| We'll come back to you later on in the show. | ||
| Liz, Frank's point there about solidarity between the Southern Baptists and, that is to say, the Conservative. | ||
| Biblical-based evangelicals and traditional Catholics. | ||
| I think it's absolutely perfect. | ||
| And before we dig into the Southern Baptist Convention that took place last week in Dallas, let's just recall the fact that the late, unlamented Pope Francis actually came out and said, you know, because all we've had for 60 years in the Catholic Church is this, we've been force-fed, like foie gras, grease. | ||
| We've been force-fed this radical ecumenical agenda. | ||
| But all it's really been are Protestants who don't believe a word of their faith, getting together with Catholics who don't believe a word of their faith, pushing out these press releases, interminable and readable press releases, where they say how much they have in common. | ||
| Of course they have so much in common. | ||
| None of them agree with the fundamental tenets of their faith. | ||
| And it's all a grift. | ||
| And the late Unlamented Francis actually came out and said, specifically with the pro-life movement in mind, he's against the ecumenism of conservative evangelicals and traditional Catholics coming together to witness on the pro-life front. | ||
| And I think that's probably, of all the really scandalous things he's done, that I think for me has got to be up there in the top ten. | ||
| Look. | ||
| We've got some good news today coming out from, or that we're going to hit on the show today coming out from our Protestant brethren. | ||
| Why don't you just tell us a bit about what happened then in Dallas last week? | ||
| Yeah, and you know, this is the very thing that moves the culture and moves the Supreme Court. | ||
| To the decision we have today is the people speaking out, victims speaking out, brave doctors speaking out. | ||
| So what the largest Protestant denomination, the Southern Baptists, there are over 12 million point seven of them. | ||
| They listed a number of proposals, one demanding an overturning of laws, rulings. | ||
| Throughout the United States regarding the marriage between a man and a woman, they are asking for an overturning of the Obergefell lawsuit, a decision by the Supreme Court. | ||
| Which legalized same-sex marriage. | ||
| And these are the kinds of things that the churches should do in leading the culture. | ||
| Additionally, they went after all the social issues in this convention. | ||
| They went after sports betting. | ||
| They went after the chemical abortion pill demanding that the Trump administration outlawed. | ||
| They encouraged laws that affirm marriage between a man and a woman and also encouraged policies that support families, whether they be tax policies, legal policies. | ||
| And so they are actually, this is a Roman Catholic saying this, leading the way in this cultural battle, bringing moral clarity to the issues that are impacting our culture here in the United States. | ||
| And it's a wonderful thing to see. | ||
| Let me just stop you there. | ||
| Two things before we go on. | ||
| You mentioned Obergefell, right? | ||
| Does the Catholic Church, or at least does the Catholic Church Bishops' Conference, have a formal position on lobbying any U.S. administration to get that overturned or repealed? | ||
| Well, frankly, we hear much more about deportations. | ||
| than we do about same-sex marriage. | ||
| Frankly, there should be a constant drumbeat. | ||
| From the bishops' conference. | ||
| In fact, what did we hear from the bishops' conference about the same time as the Southern Baptists? | ||
| They were expressing their pain over the mass deportations. | ||
| That's what our bishops were doing with respect to an issue that is overwhelmingly supported by American Catholics and Americans. | ||
| And we don't hear them expressing pain over their countless victims that have been killed, maimed. | ||
| By illegal aliens who entered this country illegally. | ||
| And so you have the politicization of the Catholic Church, the radicalization, the modernization of the Catholic Church, embracing the left issues. | ||
| And you have the Southern Baptists in their conferences embracing those moral standards which built this country, which built Western civilization, and being the sole voice. | ||
| You know, in all of this, to demand that we get back to our moral roots, those things that kept our country strong. | ||
| Liz, I'm going to hold you on over the break to dig down on this, but just give me sort of 90 seconds, will you? | ||
| Because you just mentioned that the Southern Baptists are leading the way on this issue in the culture wars. | ||
| Why do you think that is? | ||
| Do you think there's some element here that nature abhors? | ||
| A vacuum. | ||
| And the Protestants are going in there to occupy the space that the Catholic Church had occupied and then relinquished for many decades. | ||
| Yeah, that could very well be. | ||
| Whatever the motivation, they are listening to their people. | ||
| They are reading the tea leaves about the destruction of abortion on the culture, on families, the destruction of pornography and betting and the destruction of marriage. | ||
| I think much closer to their people and listening to what their people are asking for. | ||
| And so I think it's a cultural shift. | ||
| You know, if you believe in ecumenism like the modern Catholic bishops do, I think they would be well advised to take a page from the strong moral voice, the cultural bomb that has just been dropped by the Southern Baptists. | ||
| And you know what? | ||
| We are going to see the fruits of this advocacy by the Southern Baptists. | ||
| I promise you, we'll see it in Supreme Court decisions. | ||
| We'll see it in policies from the Trump administration. | ||
| And so it is speaking out despite the fact that the media may think it's, or the culture may think it's old-fashioned. | ||
| They speak from a biblical center. | ||
| Liz, hold on to this, and we're going to come back to these spiritual fruits and political fruits in just a moment after this short break. | ||
|
unidentified
|
I got American power. | |
| I got American faith in America's heart. | ||
| War Room. | ||
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Band. | ||
| I'm out. | ||
| Welcome back. | ||
| Liz, let's just finish this point with you. | ||
| I noticed that USA Today, in writing about last week's Southern Baptist Convention, wrote that the predominant group of evangelical Christians in the country continues to move sharply to the right. | ||
| Now, whether you accept that analysis or not, whether you think they're simply just asserting a position that they have had faithfully, for decades, would you suggest that there is some element of the Trump effect taking place within, within conservative, even the, even the conservative evangelical sphere, that is to say, having such an unashamed proponent within the culture wars at America's highest. | ||
| Let's not forget that this convention was comprised of 10,000 or so messengers. | ||
| So when you say that the leadership is listening, that the distance between the leadership and their faithful is a lot closer than in the... | ||
| Firstly, do you think there's something here that we see of the Trump effect? | ||
| And secondly, Pope Francis... | ||
| hectored his bishops to smell the odour of the sheep, right, of his flocks. | ||
| From his perspective, what he was really agitating for was an undoing of Catholic Church teaching by projecting the fact onto the faithful, a huge progression. | ||
| They were in the episcopacy. | ||
| So those two things, Liz. | ||
| Do you think that this is the Trump... | ||
| And do you think that they are doing in practice, in an authentic way, what Pope Francis, in a duplicitous way, intended for the Catholic Church? | ||
| Well, I think certainly everybody's getting courage to speak out, to push the absolute moral center to become a larger and larger tent for all of us, that we are no longer afraid to speak out because we have learned from Donald Trump. | ||
| And we see that he follows through on the things that he does. | ||
| You know, it's interesting you bring this up, the Trump effect, because at the same time that the Southern Baptists were pushing for the elimination of the abortion pill in the United States, UK, as you well know, approved abortion up to birth. | ||
| These cultural struggles have to be led by someone. | ||
| It's either the left or the right. | ||
| And if the Catholic Protestant leaders aren't leading these struggles, the void is going to be filled by the radical left, by the Marxists. | ||
| And that is truly what Francis was. | ||
| Pushing liberation theology, Marxist theology, which did not talk about the foundation of Catholicism, the foundation of moral thought, which was the creation and protection of children, of families, of the ability to build a civilization on peace, on prosperity. | ||
| We know that Francis And so I think we're seeing, and hopefully the UK will catch that Trump effect with these moral issues. | ||
| We've got to have these discussions. | ||
| And we just saw the effect of mothers and fathers in hospitals fighting. | ||
| Fighting the hospital systems and the massive bureaucracies that were pushing for this extravagant gender mutilation. | ||
| And, you know, the dark history of this mutilation, gender mutilation and abortion. | ||
| We're going to look back in 50 years and people will say, what was wrong with these people that they were doing these horrible things to their children? | ||
| And so we've got to have leaders. | ||
| We've got to have leaders on these moral issues. | ||
| Liz, we're going to come back to you a little later on in the show. | ||
| Before we go to Jenny Holland to discuss Francis Collins, who I think is doing his best to imitate an Old Testament prophet on the church circuit, speaking circuit down in San Francisco. | ||
| Let's just... | ||
| Did you know scammers can literally steal your home? | ||
| The FBI calls it house stealing. | ||
| Criminals forge one document, fake a notary stamp, pay a small fee, and suddenly your title is gone. | ||
| They can take out loans on your equity, even sell your house out from under you, and you won't know until the foreclosure notice arrives. | ||
| When was the last time you checked your home title? | ||
| If you're like me, never. | ||
| That's exactly what they're counting on. | ||
| That's why I trust Home Title Lock. | ||
| Their million-dollar triple-lock protection gives you 24-7 monitoring, instant alerts on any changes to your title, and up to $1 million in title restoration at no extra cost. | ||
| Go to hometitlelock.com and use promo code STEVE for a free 14-day trial. | ||
| That's hometitlelock.com, promo code STEVE. | ||
| Protect your home and peace of mind today. | ||
| Jenny Holland. | ||
| I was somewhat surprised to see Francis Collins there on the church speaking circuit in San Francisco. | ||
| After everything that Liz your, which is the great news, she was telling us about Protestants in their Southern Baptist Convention and what Frank was telling us about the suppression of traditional Catholicism out in Detroit. | ||
| Tell us about this new Old Testament prophet that is going around in the churches. | ||
|
unidentified
|
What gospel exactly is he preaching? | |
| That's a very good question, Ben. | ||
| Thanks for having me back. | ||
| Yeah, I was as surprised as anyone to open this link from Vanity Fair, a piece they ran in April of this year, that opens up with Dr. Francis Collins, formerly of National Institutes of Health. | ||
| Attending an event in San Francisco called Code and Cosmos, a tech gathering to ponder the existence of God. | ||
| And it has some choice quotes from Dr. Collins, like what is the basis for morality and things like his. | ||
| And I would love to know, those of us who've lived through COVID and remember it well, we would love to know more about this and how he manages to reconcile the two worldviews. | ||
| And it unfortunately doesn't include him being quoted as saying, mea culpa, mea culpa, but maybe that will be in a follow-up. | ||
| The whole article was very interesting because it's suggesting that Christianity has come not just to Gen Z and some Gen X, but Silicon Valley itself, which is really the belly of the beast, or at least seems that way from the outside to a lot of us. | ||
| And it's a fascinating article. | ||
| Filled with absolutely telling nuggets of information, really, really indicative of where the culture is at at the moment. | ||
| And by culture, I mean, I don't mean the MAGA culture. | ||
| I mean the mainstream professional managerial class culture, of which Silicon Valley always has seemed to me at least to be on the vanguard. | ||
| You know, that's where the smart boys and girls are. | ||
| And even there, or maybe especially there, And God is starting to make a reappearance. | ||
| And I think that is an incredibly significant fact, although it would all be wise to treat it with some skepticism. | ||
| Jenny, I tell you what I think, looking at politics. | ||
| You know when something is on the up, when it really is having success. | ||
| Because you can see all of the grifters starting to gravitate towards it like moths to a lantern on a July or August night on a porch, right? | ||
| That, I think, the fact that people like Francis Collins, you sort of say that, you mentioned that God is starting to make a reappearance in San Francisco. | ||
| I think that's how you know that there is something going on deep under the level in American culture. | ||
| Because you have these people who've never demonstrated anything remotely Christian about them sort of coming in and now sort of trying to hoist themselves onto the bandwagon. | ||
| What do you think to that? | ||
| Am I being cynical here? | ||
| No, I don't think you're being cynical. | ||
| I think it's an indication that they know on some level they realized that they are in, not to sound like a first grader, deep doo-doo. | ||
| They are out in front of their skis in almost every possible way. | ||
| I mean, the article is so interesting, though, because it does have these insightful... | ||
| that living according to materialistic principles alone is an out and out disaster. | ||
| And whilst there's undoubtedly lots of grifters there, I would say maybe Francis Collins is trying to do a rebrand as some sort of like theologian, deep thinker, all merciful person. | ||
| There is a sense, even in Silicon Valley, that the culture that we are all swimming in is deeply, deeply rotten. | ||
| And there is a yearning for something that is more substantive. | ||
| substantial that will carry us through this sense that I feel is building generally, that things are going very wrong very fast in terms of how we've raised children, in terms of the culture that we've produced, and certainly in terms of our economy in real hard-nosed ways as well. | ||
| But there's something ephemeral going on that... | ||
| They are very smart as well. | ||
| And so I feel like they're a little bit like the canary in the coal mine with all the grifting as well. | ||
| Thanks, Jenny. | ||
| Look, we did have other stories that I wanted to go through, not only with you and with Liz today, but we had to make... | ||
| So the final story I'd like to hit today is held over from last week. | ||
| And perhaps, Jenny, the other ones that we wanted to hit with you and with Liz will hold those forward to the Bishop's Conference on Immigration. | ||
| We'll hold those forward to next week. | ||
| Let's just quickly go back to Frank in the closing minutes then of this. | ||
| So, because this is an important article here. | ||
| This is to do with the Associated Press piece, an article last week about headlined, Can an American Pope apply US-style fundraising and standards to fix troubled Vatican finances? | ||
| The real reason I pulled this one out, Frank, is because this here... | ||
| I think to the letter, right, to the very word, this confirms everything that we've been saying. | ||
| Why don't you just give us a quick 60-second synthesis of what this article is suggesting, and then I'm going to ask you a question on it. | ||
| Well, it has something to do with what we just heard about, the people who are ruling the world. | ||
| The money people, they're not getting the donations from these powerful people that they wish they could, and they're certainly not getting them from Catholics. | ||
| This year, I think they had a $95 million operating deficit. | ||
| They have a billion-dollar shortfall in their pension plan. | ||
| And they're hoping that Leo can turn this around. | ||
| He doesn't seem to have the experience that I think. | ||
| He might have the character. | ||
| He might have other things. | ||
| You know, he hasn't managed big budgets, you know, maybe a million dollars with the Augustinians before a bishop's budget, so I don't know how he's going to do that. | ||
| But they're really hoping that a new kind of pope will attract more donations. | ||
| I see things happening financially outside of donations. | ||
| I see more marketing. | ||
| Of the Catholic Church, the tourism industry. | ||
| There's a big thing this week that is going to go to Castle Gandolfo, this amazingly beautiful place where popes have gone for several hundred years for vacation in the summer. | ||
| Well, that's been turned into sort of a conference center now for our globalism. | ||
| And they market it now. | ||
| That's marketing. | ||
| They have a new website. | ||
| Today, Vatican News is asking for donations to Peter's pens with the new... | ||
| Frank, we called this, right? | ||
| There's no other way to say it. | ||
| All modesty aside, we called this. | ||
| We called this on the first day of this pontificate. | ||
| Look, I just want to read this one extract out from this. | ||
| And this is the associated proof. | ||
| This is one of the big... | ||
| Folks, you make your own opinions on this, but I think this is an absolute endorsement of our judgment call on day one. | ||
| I quote, Leo already has one thing going for him. | ||
| This is talking about his fundraising potential, his American-ness. | ||
| U.S. donors have long been the economic life support system of the Holy See, financing everything from papal charity projects abroad to restorations of St. Peter's Basilica at home. | ||
| Leo's election as the first American pope has served a jolt of excitement. | ||
| The US Catholics, some of whom had soured on donating to the Vatican after years of unrelated stories of mismanagement, corruption and scandal, according to interviews with top Catholic fundraisers, philanthropists and church management experts. | ||
| Frank Walker, this is, in this paragraph, this is everything, and we've been widely divided for this, right? | ||
| But this is everything that we said from day one. | ||
| Listen. | ||
| We're coming up to the close of the show now. | ||
| Why don't you just give us a quick... | ||
| Canon 212, right? | ||
| And your website, right? | ||
| I just want to say... | ||
| Because I want people to know what is happening to the attacks taking place on Canon 212. | ||
| Since you've started appearing on this show, the algorithmic suppression taking place by Google, and that's happened to me, and I can prove it, right? | ||
| This is a thing, folks. | ||
| It's not conspiracy theory. | ||
| It really does exist. | ||
| 60 seconds, Frank. | ||
| Where do people go? | ||
| And I cannot compliment the work that you do highly enough. | ||
| Thank you, Ben. | ||
| Go to canon212.com and bookmark it because there's a new algorithm just in the last few weeks. | ||
| And it's very, very different, you know. | ||
| So I would do that. | ||
| And then also we're at Rumble for the video and at Gloria TV. | ||
| And on X, Canon 212, spelt out straight there. | ||
| There's a picture of it right there. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Make sure you bookmark Canon 212 because you don't know what they're going to do to us, you know, like they used to do with YouTube. | ||
| It's the same company. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Frank, you really are the Catholic world's Matt Drudge, and I strongly, strongly endorse not only the work that you do, but also your editorial line on the headlines that you push out. | ||
| Thanks for coming on the show. | ||
| See you next Wednesday. | ||
| Liz Yor, where do people go to keep up with your analysis? | ||
| My website is yourchildren.com, and I'm everywhere on social media, Elizabeth Yor. | ||
| And thank you so much, Ben. | ||
| Thanks, Liz. | ||
| Thanks, as always, for you breaking down the news. | ||
| Today, we had a slight change as you were talking through developments within the Protestant sphere rather than the Catholic sphere. | ||
| Jenny Holland, you're on Substack. | ||
| You write for Spiked. | ||
| Tell us about your Substack specifically. | ||
| Where do people go on that to catch up with you? | ||
| It's JennyEHolland.substack.com. | ||
| The name of it is Saving Culture From Itself, and I'm on X at SemperFemina21. | ||
| Jenny, I also have to say, did you mention, what was your X handle just once more? | ||
| SemperFemina21. | ||
| Now that's Latin, right? | ||
| Or basically always a lady. | ||
| Always a lady or something. | ||
| But broadly with that. | ||
| Jenny, I'll tell you why, just as we head into the final seconds of the show, the reason I really like your analysis and your take on these things is because you're an atheist and yet you pray the rosary every day. | ||
| So I think you give us a specific, a particular interpretation on things. | ||
| And you have an original voice that people can listen to. | ||
| And they're not going to, you know, we have a lot of evangelicals following the show. | ||
| It's mostly evangelicals. | ||
| So when you break these things down, you have a credibility, I think, to expand on these things without people thinking you're just going to go straight into the Catholic dogma. | ||
| So I can't compliment your own sub-stack. | ||
| And Xaccount highly enough. | ||
| Thanks for coming on the show. | ||
| Catch up again with you next Wednesday. | ||
| Okay, so my thanks on the show today to Brandon Showalter from The Christian Post, Frank Walker from Canon 212, Liz Yor from Your Children, and Jenny Holland from Spiked. | ||
| I'm Ben Harnwell, your host, international editor of The War Room. | ||
| My thanks to our... | ||
| I'll be back at 6pm next Wednesday. | ||
| Take care. |
Export Selection