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June 21, 2023 - Stew Peters Show
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Uncensored: Catholic Hospitals EXPOSED! Transgender Surgeries, Homosexuality & Marxism
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Michael spent seven and a half years as American Life League's director of the Defend the Faith project.
His meticulous research has exposed organizations receiving grant money from the Catholic Campaign for Human Development that promotes abortion, birth control, homosexuality and Marxism.
Michael has also conducted research on Catholic hospital systems that are involved in the performance of abortions and sterilizations.
And his most recent bombshell report has found hospitals in the nation's largest Catholic healthcare system performing transgender surgeries, also known as child mutilations.
That's what they really are.
Michael is a really brave, courageous figure and we'll be hearing from him in just a moment.
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Here's Michael now.
Michael Hichborn, thank you so much for joining us today.
We really appreciate your time.
Thank you so much for having me on.
It is an absolute pleasure to talk to my friends in Australia.
Well, we have viewers from all across the world.
This particular story is relating to the United States, but at the same time, Michael, it's not just the United States.
This is a widespread problem.
So we're going to talk about all of that today.
But first, for anyone who isn't familiar with you, tell us a little bit about yourself.
Sure.
I'm a married husband with eight children.
I went to college.
I met my wife in college.
I got my degree in political science and economics.
I helped found two Catholic high schools.
I worked in the pro-life movement for seven and a half years before I founded the Lepanto Institute.
And I have spent the last 15 years using training that I received from an intelligence analyst in open resource analysis to expose the agents of the culture of death as they are operating within our own church.
Yes, and I think that that language at this point, you know, people have realised that this really is a death cult.
It really is an anti-human cult, you know, and viewers of this broadcast know that its roots are satanic in origin, and we will get into that.
But let's talk about this most recent bombshell report first and foremost.
Report alleges Catholic hospitals are linked to transgender surgeries and abortions.
Talk us through how this investigation began, Michael, and what you've uncovered.
Absolutely.
At the end of March, I was contacted by somebody who told me, That they work at a Catholic hospital in California that is performing transgender surgeries and asked me to investigate.
It was anonymous, so I didn't really have a way of getting in touch with them.
I tried following up and asking, you know, well, what hospital and where and I didn't get any answers.
I just knew California Catholic Hospital.
So I started digging around and I found Dignity Health It was not originally a Catholic network of hospitals, but it belongs to Common Spirit Health.
And what happened is, in 2019, Dignity Health merged with the Catholic Health Initiative, and they created the largest Catholic healthcare network in the United States, and they called it Common Spirit.
Well, as I was looking through Dignity Health's website, what I discovered is that they have a hospital called Franciscan, St.
Francis Memorial Hospital, where they are performing transgender surgeries, they're giving out hormone treatments so that people can change the appearance of their sex, and they are giving puberty blockers to kids.
And I wanted to know what the relationship was between this hospital and Common Spirit.
The fact of the matter is that St.
Francis Memorial Hospital itself belongs to the Common Spirit Network because it is a part of Dignity Health, which is a part of the whole network.
They also have a policy at Dignity Health that any member of the network that does not perform a particular service, like transgender surgeries or surgical sterilizations, are to refer to another hospital within the network that does.
And because they have a number of Catholic hospitals within their network, that means that those Catholic hospitals are obliged by their policy to refer to St.
Francis Memorial Hospital for the Transgender Surgeries.
So just within network, it's very clear that they are themselves deeply involved in the promotion and performance of sex change operations.
What we also discovered is that they have a health benefits package for their employees that cover for sex change operations, hormone therapies, puberty blockers for kids.
They are actively promoting this ideology through their literature, through marching in pride parades, and the list goes on.
What it just shows is that from top to bottom, Common Spirit Health is deeply committed to the trans ideology and the performance of these surgeries.
It is so disturbing, Michael, because these organizations, these are religious institutions, they are agreeing with something that is fundamentally against the Christian doctrine.
And so it is just astounding to me, not even agreeing with, not even sort of, you know, saying, oh, well, let's just tolerate it.
No, this is an active promotion of these things.
And I'm just looking at this Daily Wire article It says here that it's a 64-page report which details Common Spirit's health promotion of transgenderism, of course, published by the Lepanto Institute.
The largest Catholic health system in the United States is Common Spirit Health.
Common Spirit is a strange word in itself, but anyway, is acting directly against Catholic moral teaching in direct defiance of its Catholic identity and gross defiance of Catholic moral teaching on the part of Common Spirit Health.
Where else is this widespread problem that you're noticing, Michael?
Because this isn't just isolated to this health network.
And viewers of this broadcast would know, just last week or the week before here in Australia, we had a situation where...
We were alerted to the fact that in the Parramatta region in New South Wales, their religious teacher within a Catholic school, the religion teacher, was teaching that God was non-binary.
They're teaching children about homosexual relationships.
And a concerned mother, who is now a voice for the parents who were sending her this evidence, organised a meeting with them.
They then banned her, labelled her in a...
An official press release, an extremist, an anti-gospel aggressor, and just the most insane labels for a concerned parent.
So I really want to hear from you.
Through your investigation, I'm certain you've discovered that this problem is far more widespread than just this hospital.
It is far more widespread.
At the Lepanto Institute, one of the things that we do is we investigate charitable organizations that claim to be Catholic or Christian, and we try and figure out if they are acting in line with church teaching.
And we produce various reports.
We have a charity list of about 100 organizations that we have personally vetted, and we mark them as either safe or not safe.
Well, Through our investigations, I'm finding more and more that the LGBTQ ideology is pervasive through a vast majority of these charities.
The Catholic Campaign for Human Development, for instance, in the United States, provides millions of dollars in funds to a number of organizations, community organizing groups, and a large percentage of them are actively involved in promoting LGBTQ ideologies.
We know that in international development work, so from Catholic Relief Services and the various other aid agencies that go into third world countries, They are taking with them an LGBTQ ideology.
So whether it's homosexuality or transgenderism, they're integrating that into their literature, into the programs, into the education programs that they produce.
And, you know, they talk about how a lot of times what they're trying to do is Foster care for people with HIV and AIDS, but that translates into promotion of condoms and dealing with the trans and homosexual communities.
So they wind up facilitating the perpetuation of that ideology.
We're finding it on the level of government.
The United States actually issued a statement to, I think it was Uganda, and said, if you pass anti-sodomy laws in your country, we will cut off aid to your country.
So they're using that as leverage to maintain The whole ideology that's being pushed.
So it's an international problem and it's being facilitated primarily through charitable organizations or what ought to be charitable organizations.
Do you think that churches and religious institutions and organizations as a whole really have been conditioned to be dependent on state support because the government gives them grants and then they end up compromising for a bag of silver?
Is this how this happens or is it deeper than that, Michael, where the leaders of these institutions are actually deeply embedded in the agenda itself?
Well, I think it's both and.
I think what we're seeing is that many of them, they love the filthy lucre, so they'll do whatever they can in order to obtain that silver coin.
At the same time, we know that there are a good number of bishops, priests, and even cardinals that are, for lack of a better term, in bed with the homosexual ideologies because they are practitioners of that ideology.
I really want to hear from you because we are not, you know, whenever we have these types of conversations and people that are really defending their faith and the foundations of their faith, they're labeled as bigots and homosexual haters and so on and so forth.
I don't hate anyone.
But what I hate is an ideology that is damaging to society and that goes against my religious beliefs.
And I'm entitled to that just as other people are entitled to, you know, to hate other people's ideas.
But ultimately, I have the right to defend my faith and stand up for what I believe in.
That right is being eroded before our very eyes that, you know, they're trying to outlaw Christianity, essentially.
Why this ideology is so damaging for society?
Well, let's start with the question of hate.
Okay, they call us haters because we are standing against an ideology that is itself hateful.
But they say that we're haters.
Now, the question of hate, let's ask the question, what is more hateful?
If an individual is sitting on a street corner and he is begging, begging for a hit of fentanyl, And you've got somebody who says, no, I'm not going to give you fentanyl.
In fact, I'm going to do what I can to get you out of this gutter, and I'm going to move you into a facility where we can get you healthy and away from the influence of this terrible drug that will kill you.
Is that hateful?
Or is it hateful for the person who goes up and says, oh, I know you really want this, so I'm going to go ahead and help you get some.
Which is the more hateful?
The one who is imbibing and aiding and abetting somebody in doing terrible harm to their own bodies is really and truly the essence of hate.
That's the core of it.
The ideology of transgenderism is Luciferian at its core.
And by this, this is what I mean.
In Isaiah, we hear that the devil said to himself, Lucifer said to himself, I will rise to the heights of heavens.
I will become like God.
It's a statement of transition.
He's saying, I'm not like God, but I can change my own nature to become like God.
Well, that gets him kicked out of heaven.
And so then he goes down to the Garden of Eden and he sees Eve.
And what does he say to Eve?
Well, if you eat that fruit, your eyes will be opened and you will become, there's that word of transition again, like gods.
He's not telling her that you'll become like God because she knows that she was made in God's image and likeness as you and I are.
But the devil is saying, you will become like one of us, like one of the demons.
And isn't it fascinating that the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence and all the drag queen story hours, we see them and they paint themselves up.
They look like demons.
Yes.
They look like devils.
And so they are, in that sense, reflecting the father of lies whom they represent.
It is a satanic and a Luciferian ideology, and we all have an obligation to stand against it.
I agree with you.
Even in Canada where they refer to this as Two-Spirit, you know, they've added the term Two-Spirit at the end.
What do you mean Two-Spirit?
And most people would have no concept of what that means.
In fact, if you have a New Age belief system, You would think that that's just normal.
Oh yeah, two-spirit because they have multiple identities or whatever it may be.
It's like a multiple personality disorder on steroids, but in actual fact, what they're saying to you, and this is the point, Michael, and I make this point because I have a lot of viewers that are not Christians or not religious at all.
You may not believe this, but they do.
They do, and they know exactly what they're doing when they say two-spirit.
We used to call that demonic possession.
Yes.
Yes, absolutely.
So, okay, the problem's widespread.
We know that this has permeated almost every area of society.
The ESG's scores depend on companies promoting this stuff.
You know, it's difficult to buy a piece of clothing this day from a company because you don't know which is promoting This degeneracy.
And so, what are we going to do about the fact that this has infected religious institutions?
Is there a way back?
Well, I think the way back follows the same formula that we saw in Nineveh.
Jonah went around and he preached in Nineveh and told them that their their civilization was about to be destroyed because of their abominable sins.
And the king of Nineveh, who took the message seriously, said, we have to do penance.
And not only did he wear sackcloth and sit on a pile of ashes, but he ordered the inhabitants of Nineveh to do the same, to wear sackcloth and wear ashes on their head, which they did.
They did penance for their sins.
And because of that, God spared It's a grave debt.
And if we do penance, we can mitigate the punishment that is going to come.
But punishment will come one way or another.
But if we do penance, I think that that is the path back.
That's how we will see the great turnaround that we expect.
Do you think that if that doesn't occur and if these people that are involved in this and have compromised Christianity at the altar of Baal essentially, do you think that if they don't turn around that this is, you know, the time that we're told about in Revelation where, you know, we're about to witness the rise of the Antichrist, we're about to witness the implementation of the Mark of the Beast?
Do you think we're close to that?
We could be.
I don't know that we have all of the signs, but we do have certain signs that say that, I mean, what was it our Lord said to the apostles when they asked him what it's going to be like in the end of days?
He said, as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be when the Son of Man returns.
Well, what does that mean?
What was it like in the days of Noah?
If we read the Book of Enoch, which is an apocryphal book, but the Book of Enoch says that in the time of Noah, God destroyed the world because man was writing wedding songs for other men and for beasts.
And then our Lord said, also in the book of Matthew, that as it was in the days of Lot.
So here we have a situation where he recalls both Noah and Sodom and Gomorrah.
And what does that tell us?
That tells us, you know, he mentions marriage and giving in marriage, but it's a strange statement.
It sounds more euphemistic than anything else.
And I wonder if he's talking about sodomy.
I think it's absolutely a possibility.
Marrying and giving in marriage, it seems like...
It's a strange thing to point out specifically about the degeneracy.
He's talking about the things of that time, the days of Noah, the degeneracy that we can expect society to be.
And why would you mention marrying and giving him marriage?
And so a lot of people say that the slippery slopes started, me included, by the way, and I don't care who I offend, the slippery slope started when we accepted gay marriage.
Because, you know, this is a sacred religious union and the point is to destroy the family, destroy any religious values.
I'm keen to hear your thoughts, Michael, about the COP27 when all these religious leaders, Christian leaders included, got together and declared a new 10 climate commandments.
Where do you see this going?
Well, it's earth worship at the end of it.
I mean, what they're saying is that climate change is something that is man-made.
It's basically the paganism of old, where they're saying, oh, we have to make sacrifices and altars to the earth in order to appease the earth gods to prevent us from being destroyed by the earth.
It's stupidity on its face, but it's paganism at its core.
You know, the whole attack on the family that is the trans and homosexual movement, it's the assault on the Imago Dei.
It's the assault on the image of God.
And how do we know this?
Because the Holy Family is the image of the Holy Trinity.
God the Father is represented by Saint Joseph.
God the Son is found in our blessed Lord.
God the Holy Spirit is represented by Our Lady.
And in that respect, when we have families, when we have children, husband, wife, children, they represent in that unity, the Holy Trinity.
And from that, we propitiate the glory of God as the Trinitarian God in the world.
What the LGBTQ movement wants to do is completely deface that image of the Holy Trinity.
And that's why the assault on the family is ultimately an attack on God Himself.
I couldn't agree with you more.
And this has been a systematic attack on the nuclear family.
This has been a systematic attack on identity in general.
The more confused these children become about their identities, the more they'll search for an answer and with the eradication of God in society, they're going to look at whatever I just saw an article by The Gateway Pundit about the number of New Jersey students claiming to be non-binary has increased by over 4,200%.
We actually need to completely eradicate this ideology from society because it is a cancer.
It is spreading and the rise of children identifying as this is...
It's so alarming, Michael.
So circling back to the start of the core of this investigation that you've done, which is just amazing work, what can be done about this hospital in particular?
I mean, what now?
Well, so with regard to common spirit, there are a couple of things that we're asking people to do.
The Vatican is the only one that has the authority to strip common spirit health of its Catholic identity.
And by the way, you mentioned that common spirit has a very strange name.
I actually read an article about the name common spirit.
And it's supposed to be a combination of the common good and the Holy Spirit.
So they're merging this socialistic ideology of the common good with the Holy Spirit as if that somehow makes it a good thing.
No, it's just a representation of the Spiritus Mundi, if you ask me.
The Catholic or common spirit health can only be stripped of its Catholic identity by Rome.
So we're asking people to contact their bishops and put forth the idea that common spirit has to be stripped of its Catholic identity.
These bishops have an obligation to tell their Catholic hospitals, look, either you disaffiliate from common spirit or I'm stripping you of your Catholic identity.
And then turn to the Vatican and say, there is a serious problem here.
This network is not Catholic.
It is claiming to be Catholic.
It's representing the Catholic Church and it's committing gravely abominable acts.
And because of that, we are also calling on bishops and the faithful around them to make public acts of penance in reparation for the gravely abominable things that are being done in the name of the Catholic Church.
Well, I think that's a very, very How can I say this?
It's an approach that has a lot of humility in it, Michael.
And that's what we need.
You know, we are standing so strongly for all of these things and trying to preserve whatever is good.
You know, we truly live in times where they call evil good and good evil and we're trying to preserve this goodness and doing it from a place of humility while just, you know, attacking the lies of And really trying to dismantle the lies from society.
And it's so important to protect our children from mutilation in that process.
So what you're saying is that Rome isn't aware, that the Vatican isn't aware that this is occurring?
Do you think that this is happening in secret?
Or is the Vatican actually allowing this?
Well, I can't say what the Vatican knows or doesn't know, but I can say that they know now.
Right.
So what we need to do is watch the actions now and what will happen from here.
That's right.
That's right.
And you're absolutely right that humility is the only approach.
The enemy is using the banner of pride to march against our families and to march against our children.
And the answer to pride is humility.
And the nature of humility doesn't mean becoming a doormat and letting the world walk all over you.
Humility in its proper sense means knowing your place and then taking it.
Our Lord said, don't sit at the top of the table lest you be set down.
That's pride.
So going to the top of the table and then being asked to move, that's pride.
And you will be humiliated when the master says, you don't belong there.
Somebody else does.
I need you somewhere else.
But if you sit at the lower end of the table and allow yourself to be elevated, and then you take that place, that's humility.
And even if that place is at the top of the table, so you may have the position of honor at that time, it's not prideful to take it.
So the answer really and truly is humility in the very truest sense of the word.
And that means approaching our bishops and saying, Your Excellency, I am a member of your parish.
I'm a member of your flock.
And What is happening in the name of the church and through your diocese and through the funds that you're collecting is a direct attack on my faith, and it's a direct attack on my children, and it's a direct attack on my family.
And you, your excellency, have an obligation before God to do something about this.
And unfortunately, many of the bishops are cowards, but there are some very courageous bishops who will take a stand and we have to give them that nourishment, that encouragement to do the right thing.
Well, I have to say, you know, a lot of people were disappointed with religious leaders in Australia during the time of the COVID injections.
We had the Serbian Orthodox Church actually put out an official statement against these injections that it is in direct violation of the Orthodox faith because of the aborted fetal cells, because of this, that and the other.
And so that was incredibly encouraging at that time.
In fact, people that Were baptized Orthodox were able to obtain religious exemptions thanks to that brave act in the face of a sea of religious leaders that refused to stand against this.
So what you're talking about is not impossible.
And this is the time for those bishops, for those priests to stand up and say, we need to do the right thing here.
Michael, please let people know where they can find more information and really support what you're doing.
Absolutely.
So if anybody would like to see the report, they can go to our website.
It's L-E-P-A-N-T-O-I-N dot O-R-G. Our report is right there front and center on the website.
We have a lot of other reports that you can click on.
You can look at the charity reports that we do.
And I think it's a good service for Catholics and Christians.
I highly recommend going to our website.
Well, we're so grateful, Michael, for people like you who are standing up.
You know, I can't believe we're living in days where the people on the ground have to, you know, challenge religious leaders to get them to actually commit to their Christian values.
But at the end of the day, you know, sitting here and whinging about the fact that it's happening isn't going to achieve anything.
We've really got to take action.
And you're a perfect example of that.
Thank you so much.
God bless you.
Thanks so much for having me on and God bless you and God bless your audience.
Wow.
The times that we are living in are truly, truly unprecedented.
And, you know, I really mean it when I say this ideology is spreading like a cancer.
And I use that word on purpose because it is so destructive to society.
I want to play a quick clip.
I referenced an interview with Diana Abood, the mother from New South Wales, that is currently trying to work with the Archdiocese to get this matter resolved.
Take a quick look at this.
I had parents reach out to me about their concerns or incidents within Catholic schools.
I was shocked to how many parents came forward.
Examples that I can give you are schools that were teaching of same-sex couples.
You know, we have an ongoing issue with a school, which I've named on social media, so I'm not afraid to name it once again because it's quite out there and parents are very concerned about it.
We've got Catherine Macaulay Westmead, who the religion teacher is teaching that God is non-binary.
So parents started to write to Parramatta Diocese.
If there are Catholic schools that are teaching against the Catholic curriculum, we have a right to be concerned.
Last week I received an email from Father Chris D'Souza saying that the meeting has now been cancelled, permanently cancelled, due to my online behaviour and threading in emails.
Diana, let's talk about that fabrication.
Following that letter that you received, Making accusations that you're somehow being abusive or threatening.
The Diocese of Parramatta, this is on Catholic Outlook, has put out a notice saying that the Diocese of Parramatta is responding to hostile interactions and violent, degrading attacks from extremist groups.
It's unbelievable, isn't it?
We are truly living in unprecedented times and there is an unprecedented attack on humanity as we speak.
Now, we know their tactics.
We know they're going to come after communications.
We know they're going to come after the food supply.
We know they're going to come after the financial system.
They've told us in black and white that this is coming.
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And please pray.
Please pray.
Because that is really our biggest form of defense against the evil in the world.
For us personally and for those around us.
It is the greatest act of love.
I don't care how much they say that telling the truth is hate speech.
Did you know that one of the biggest ways to display love is to tell the truth?
Like Michael said, and he gave such a good example there.
If someone is abusing fentanyl and you know that this is going to kill them, do you go and enable that destruction of that person by lying to them and saying, no, this is good for you and let me help you along?
Or do you tell them the truth and say, listen, this is going to harm you.
Let me help you stop.
That's what rehabilitation centres are for in society.
That's why we do counselling, social work.
We try to help people out of difficult situations and rebuild their lives.
You know, this is something that I did when I worked as an employment consultant.
I worked in Sydney's ice capital.
That's methamphetamines, the capital of Australia, actually.
The worst suburb for the use of ice in the country.
I can't tell you how many of my clients I helped get off drugs, get out of social housing, move out of that area that was filled with that drug that was destroying their lives.
What should I have done?
Because it hurt their feelings when I told them, you're a drug addict and this is leading you nowhere.
Yes, it did hurt their feelings.
It's called tough love.
If I didn't tell them that they would have kept going and now it's up to them.
Yes they're initially offended and I promise you I had clients tell me when I first met you I hated you.
I hated you because you called me out on all of my bad behavior but it's because of you that I'm now out of housing that I now have a job that I don't depend on the government anymore.
Because love tells the truth and love does not enable someone to continue in their pit.
And this is what the world is presenting that it's loving to lie to people and tell them they're the wrong gender.
To lie to people and tell them that by mutilating their genitals and children's genitals being mutilated, that that's somehow going to help them.
It does not.
It is wicked.
It is evil.
And it's brutality.
And the fact that religious institutions are embroiled in this is just the next level of degeneracy, really.
So what Michael is doing is so crucial.
What every single viewer of this broadcast is doing is so crucial.
We must stand for righteousness, even if the times get worse.
And I think they may before they get better.
But even if they weren't to get better.
We want to be doing the right thing and I'm sure that everyone watching this today agrees.
So God bless you all.
Thank you.
Share this information everywhere, especially if you have Catholic friends and family that need to know this and get involved in this.
We need people pushing back within all Christian churches because we hold The greatest responsibility having the truth and standing for righteousness.
You are persecuted for what you believe in and what you stand for.
You also have the burden of waking others up to that truth while being hated.
But it is a humbling experience as we said with Michael and again we want to continue doing what's right no matter the cost.
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