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Speaker 1: I believe they didn't give us the final number.
Speaker 2: It was either the fourth or fifth vote the first
Speaker 2: was it the fourth or fifthland, I don't remember.
Speaker 1: It was the fourth, all right, on the fourth vote.
Speaker 2: And it can happen anywhere between two and usually fifteen.
Speaker 2: And anyway, we have a new pope that has been selected,
Speaker 2: the first American born pope graduated from Villanova. He's been
Speaker 2: elected pope and his name is Robert Prevost and he
Speaker 2: has taken on the name Pope Lee the fourteenth. A
Speaker 2: very interesting background. And you know half of the Christians
Speaker 2: in the world are Catholic. Did you know that, Linda,
Speaker 2: I did not know that. Yeah, half of them. Born
Speaker 2: in Illinois nineteen fifty five. Pope Leo the fourteenth graduated
Speaker 2: from Villanova bachelor's degree in math nineteen seventy seven. A
Speaker 2: member of the Augustine and I know I'm not saying
Speaker 2: that right religious order, elected the top leader of the
Speaker 2: order twice. In an article about Pravos's selection as cardinal,
Speaker 2: the former head of the province of Saint Thomas of
Speaker 2: Villanova referred to him as.
Speaker 1: As our brother Bob.
Speaker 2: After Villanov he studied a Catholic theological union in Chicago,
Speaker 2: was ordained a priest in nineteen eighty two. Before he
Speaker 2: was named a cardinal by Pope Francis in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2: He had held other previously high positions, though, and Boast
Speaker 2: had been a leading candidate except for his nationality. Interestingly,
Speaker 2: it had been a long, you know whatever taboo against
Speaker 2: the US pope, given the geopolitical power already wielded by
Speaker 2: the US, I guess in the secular sphere. But anyway, Prayvost,
Speaker 2: it's just interesting. It's just the whole thing was interesting
Speaker 2: to watch unfold. I will tell you the years in
Speaker 2: the Catholic Church for me, twelve years of Catholic school
Speaker 2: were very, very good for me. Gave me a good
Speaker 2: spiritual foundational It's so much that I like about the
Speaker 2: Catholic Church. The thing is that the few criticisms. I'm
Speaker 2: not going to bring him up on this day, but
Speaker 2: he's a brilliant guy. He has a doctorate in canon
Speaker 2: law that he got in Rome at the College of
Speaker 2: Saint Thomas Aquinas. Two decades he served in Peru and
Speaker 2: became a naturalized citizen, and prior to that he served,
Speaker 2: you know, in many different capacities and directly for Pope Francis.
Speaker 1: You know, a.
Speaker 2: Lot of people are interested in there were basically three groups.
Speaker 2: It's kind of like everything everything's political, right. There were
Speaker 2: those that were deemed more conservative, those that were deemed
Speaker 2: more in line with Pope Francis. So I thought it
Speaker 2: was very liberal, too liberal for my liking to be
Speaker 2: very blunt, and I won't go through the whole conclave.
Speaker 2: If you want us know how conclave actually works, go
Speaker 2: watch the movie. People that actually have been through it'd
Speaker 2: say that process now, it has a kind of bizarre
Speaker 2: ending to the story, but putting that aside the actual
Speaker 2: process is kind of akin to what really happens. We
Speaker 2: do know he has said some things on some controversial
Speaker 2: issues we know. The New York Times reported in twenty
Speaker 2: twelve he indicated that pop culture created quote sympathy for
Speaker 2: beliefs and practices that are at odds with the Gospel.
Speaker 2: In a speech to bishops, he referred to the homosexual
Speaker 2: lifestyle and alternative families comprised of same sex partners and
Speaker 2: their adopted children. On immigration, he it's interesting as a
Speaker 2: bishop in Peru had him work with a lot of immigrants,
Speaker 2: and for The New York Times he was praised in
Speaker 2: the country for efforts to support Venezuelan immigrants. Not talking
Speaker 2: about the US, but I believe you're talking about Peru.
Speaker 2: In that interview, the Newsweek could not confirm any details
Speaker 2: of his position on any of the conflicts, for example,
Speaker 2: going on around the world of Russia Ukraine. Pray boasted,
Speaker 2: you know, long standing ally of the Pope Francis who's
Speaker 2: just passed, and we'll see. I don't think anybody will
Speaker 2: be as influential as Pope John Fall the second, but
Speaker 2: you know, you have high hopes. I think the world
Speaker 2: does need a spiritual reawakening in many, many ways. And
Speaker 2: that's just my own personal opinion. The President congratulated Pope
Speaker 2: Leo on a selection and said it's such an honor
Speaker 2: to realize that he is the first American pope. He said,
Speaker 2: what excitement, What a great honor for our country. I
Speaker 2: look forward to meeting Pope Leo the fourteenth. There will
Speaker 2: be a very meaningful moment for the President. I don't
Speaker 2: think a lot of people know that the President, I
Speaker 2: can tell you firsthand, is way more of a believer
Speaker 2: than people might think. Well, Hannity, what about all the
Speaker 2: alleg I don't want I just please, I can't take
Speaker 2: it anymore. Your hatred is getting old and predictable. But
Speaker 2: it was, it was just It's just a fascinating moment
Speaker 2: in history to watch. And I found myself in the
Speaker 2: middle of my my, my prep routine today watching way
Speaker 2: too much of it.
Speaker 1: Linda, did you find yourself doing the same thing.
Speaker 3: I mean, the process is very interesting. You know, some
Speaker 3: of the morning of you know, the previous pope and
Speaker 3: putting him to rest. I thought those were a little
Speaker 3: strange As a Catholic, I was like, Eh, that's a
Speaker 3: little weird. But watching the people gather today and he
Speaker 3: actually spoke the Abbe Maria and I just I don't know,
Speaker 3: there were certain things I really liked. I'm not the
Speaker 3: biggest fan of him just yet. We'll see.
Speaker 2: Oh boy, you mean there's a chance he might end
Speaker 2: up on the hate list in the backsliding.
Speaker 1: We'll get to that later.
Speaker 3: He might be a woke pope.
Speaker 1: We shall see.
Speaker 2: I don't think that there's no indication will be a
Speaker 2: woke pope, no indication at all. The other big news
Speaker 2: of the day. We will spend a lot of time
Speaker 2: on this. The president. And let me backtrack a second here,
Speaker 2: not to say that I told you so, but all
Speaker 2: the handwringing and all the skittishness on Wall Street and
Speaker 2: all of the overreaction because Donald Trump did what Donald
Speaker 2: Trump was elected to do. He ran as a disruptor
Speaker 2: and iconoclassed, won the chatters illusions, and he challenges old
Speaker 2: ways of doing things. You know, look at the Iron Dome,
Speaker 2: look at energy dominance, deporting illegal immigrants, building a wall,
Speaker 2: the Ukraine Mineral deal. Everything he does is out of
Speaker 2: the box. And most everything he thinks about doing is big,
Speaker 2: like peace in Europe, at the peace in the Middle East.
Speaker 2: I know there are people that just want him to fail,
Speaker 2: just so they could say, oh, you failed, you failed. Well,
Speaker 2: at least he at least he's in there taking a
Speaker 2: shot and taking a swing. He's up at bat And
Speaker 2: everybody was freaking out, Oh, there's not going to be
Speaker 2: trade deals. And I kept saying that just be patient.
Speaker 2: This is fifty to sixty years of establishment, institutionalized ways
Speaker 2: of doing things. And he said, no, it's it's no
Speaker 2: longer time for America to allow systemic ripping off of
Speaker 2: our country and being abused and being treated unfairly by
Speaker 2: countries friend and foe alike. And that's when he announced
Speaker 2: this big trade deal with the United Kingdom today. I
Speaker 2: can't think of a more appropriate day, by the way,
Speaker 2: for him to have done this. What is it the
Speaker 2: eightieth anniversary, I believe of the end of World War II.
Speaker 2: I think it was the perfect day to do it. Interestingly,
Speaker 2: even China now is at the table. The deal with
Speaker 2: Great Britain that he announced today will open up British
Speaker 2: markets to plenty of American farm products, chemicals, machinery. The
Speaker 2: presidents said beef, beef, ethanol, agricultural products are going to
Speaker 2: flood into the UK. The British also agreed to drop
Speaker 2: non tariff trade barriers. In return, the UK will see
Speaker 2: new business partnerships with major American companies and receive relief
Speaker 2: on sector specific tariffs. US tariffs on British cars will
Speaker 2: be reduced, you know, from twenty seven point five percent
Speaker 2: to ten percent for a quota of one hundred thousand
Speaker 2: British autos, and steal an aluminum terrace will be slashed
Speaker 2: as zero. You know, if the President didn't try that
Speaker 2: wouldn't have happened. I reported to you yesterday. You know,
Speaker 2: the widely watched Atlanta Fed. The Atlanta Fed has a
Speaker 2: lot of credibility. And we reported yesterday two major developments.
Speaker 2: The first was Goldman Sachs and the Atlanta Fed had
Speaker 2: both increased the GDP growth projections of the second quarter
Speaker 2: to over two percent. And what was interesting about it
Speaker 2: is Goldman revised their growth projection from negative three tenths
Speaker 2: of one percent to two point four percent.
Speaker 1: That is a massive adjustment.
Speaker 2: The same day, the Atlanta Fed increased their GDP projection
Speaker 2: from one point one to two point two. They doubled it.
Speaker 2: This morning, the Atlanta Fed raised it even higher. They
Speaker 2: came out with a new GDP production projection for this
Speaker 2: order are two point three percent. Now this GDP new
Speaker 2: model estimate for real GDP growth in the second quarter.
Speaker 2: Maybe they're maybe they're finally paying attention to what's been happening.
Speaker 2: Eight trillion dollars that has been committed to manufacturings in
Speaker 2: the next four years is gonna is real.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: We announced last night on Hannity the President is leaving Monday.
Speaker 2: I will be on that trip reporting.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: Going on the trip, We're going to be broadcasting Tuesday, Wednesday,
Speaker 2: Thursday next week from Saudi Arabia and Riad.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: We'll we will be in Doha, We'll be in Katar Uh.
Speaker 2: Then we're going to the UAE and Abu Dhabi and
Speaker 2: we'll be broadcasting from all three of those countries. We're
Speaker 2: going to try and bring you a a front row
Speaker 2: seat into what such a big trip is all about.
Speaker 2: One of the biggest issues is, you know, look at
Speaker 2: the investment. The UAE has committed one point five trillion
Speaker 2: dollars in investment in manufacturing in the US, Saudi Arabia
Speaker 2: one trillion dollars. Lindsey Grammill join us later says, you
Speaker 2: know this, this is the future of business, and they
Speaker 2: want to be in business with the United States. Now,
Speaker 2: one interesting other thing, you know, people I would expect
Speaker 2: after this United Kingdom announcement today that there are going
Speaker 2: to be other countries. Now I know for a fact,
Speaker 2: because I've talked to the people involved, that there are
Speaker 2: other countries that are we're very close to announcing trade
Speaker 2: deals with. And you know, when you couple that with
Speaker 2: the eight trillion in committed investment between business and other countries,
Speaker 2: when you couple that with with the specific industries that
Speaker 2: are investing, it's good for national security. Like we've got
Speaker 2: to build, we've got to manufacture our pharmaceuticals in this country.
Speaker 2: We've got to We've got to manufacture our chips in
Speaker 2: this country. We can't be reliant on China. They're not
Speaker 2: a reliable partner for these these items. We have automotive manufacturing.
Speaker 2: As the President said, we want to make our cars
Speaker 2: here in America. Now we can partner with other countries
Speaker 2: and their car companies like Honda, Nissan, Hyende, you know,
Speaker 2: have all made deals to manufacture their cars and get
Speaker 2: their parts from America. Great, that's good for American workers.
Speaker 2: And with people being deported, that's going to be less
Speaker 2: competition for high paying career jobs. As a story today,
Speaker 2: we'll get to that about how young kids in high
Speaker 2: school are being recruited to be trained in the trades
Speaker 2: and they're starting pay is seventy grand a year. It
Speaker 2: makes you really want to rethink college at that point,
Speaker 2: because you know that article I've referred to now a
Speaker 2: few times about the next generation of millionaires are going
Speaker 2: to be tradesmen. Now, in the lead up to Scott
Speaker 2: Bess and the Treasury secretaries meeting in Geneva with China representatives, well,
Speaker 2: it's interesting. It seems like an olive branch to me.
Speaker 2: Boeing announced that they received orders for more than a
Speaker 2: dozen wide body jets from China's state owned airline, and
Speaker 2: that order is apparently a calculated gesture of goodwill from
Speaker 2: my interpretation, ahead of these negotiations. On Saturday, and Boeing
Speaker 2: announced that China Airlines has become the newest seven to
Speaker 2: seven seven customer, with an order of ten passenger and
Speaker 2: four freight airplanes. In addition to the firm order, the
Speaker 2: airline has options to purchase nine more seven seven sevens.
Speaker 2: Last month, another Chinese airline delayed the delivery of a
Speaker 2: wide body aircraft from Boeing. The delay was suspected to
Speaker 2: be part of the non TERRORFF counter measure. I don't
Speaker 2: think it's an accident that it's happening just before this
Speaker 2: this meeting is taking place in Geneva this weekend. But
Speaker 2: of course, if you look at the mainstream, you know,
Speaker 2: state run legacy media mob and just their classic maneuver.
Speaker 2: You know, the New York Times continues to push the
Speaker 2: Trump recession hoax. While admitting and the data shows that
Speaker 2: the economy's healthy, they just contradict themselves, and jobless claims
Speaker 2: fell more than expected. And Doug Bergram is warning that
Speaker 2: the US could suffer widespread Biden blackouts because of the
Speaker 2: over alliance on green energy. What's stupidity between that and
Speaker 2: what Sean Duffy inherited. I can't believe what Shawn Duffy's
Speaker 2: telling us. They they haven't updated a thing that's wrong.
Speaker 2: I see that the New Post. I'm sorry, Pope Prevost
Speaker 2: apparently has been critical of President Trump, and on the
Speaker 2: issue of immigration, that's pretty disappointed.
Speaker 1: Does he not know?
Speaker 2: Do people not know how many Americans were murdered and
Speaker 2: raped and victims of violent crime because we don't have
Speaker 2: open borders? He says, there's nothing remotely Christian American are
Speaker 2: morally defensible about a policy that takes children away from
Speaker 2: their parents and warehouses them in cages. I hope somebody
Speaker 2: might tell the new Pope that the kids in cages
Speaker 2: happened under Obama and then later under Biden, because I've
Speaker 2: got the video to prove it, and nobody's taking children
Speaker 2: away from their parents. I mean, it sounds like he's
Speaker 2: been indoctrinated into the liberal way of thinking, although he is.
Speaker 2: In twenty twelve, we had a different position on the
Speaker 2: issue of gay rights. But well, it's it's fairly predictable.
Speaker 2: This is the churches has been leaning more left wing,
Speaker 2: more left wing. Once tried to criticize JD. Vance as
Speaker 2: well for talking about Americans. You know, love God with
Speaker 2: all your heart, and your neighbors yourself. The neighbor's the
Speaker 2: person next door, not the person in another continent. I
Speaker 2: twenty five now till the top of the hour, eight
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Speaker 2: we have a Memorial Day, fourth of July. It's going
Speaker 2: to be here before you. You know, flash your eyes,
Speaker 2: blink your eyes. And I hope you have your American flag.
Speaker 2: And we live in the greatest, single best country God
Speaker 2: gave man. It is for sure, we truly do and
Speaker 2: we're truly blessed. And you know what, I'm proud that
Speaker 2: I have my American flag. I just got it and
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Speaker 2: of fact, Sweet baby James just put it up. He
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Speaker 2: Can we change the location now so people can actually
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Speaker 1: Anyway?
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Speaker 2: you won't regret it. I did mention, well, it is
Speaker 2: a little bit disappointing. Apparently the new pope, which is
Speaker 2: I guess now, Pope Leo the fourteenth, whose name? Who's
Speaker 2: they come out They tell you that his his the
Speaker 2: name he was born with in this case Robert Prevost
Speaker 2: and he take he's taken on the name Pope Leo
Speaker 2: the fourteenth. But apparently he has been critical of even
Speaker 2: though it's the first American pope of President Trump and
Speaker 2: his immigration policies and very similar to Pope Francis. And
Speaker 2: I'm not really I really have a hard time understanding it,
Speaker 2: to be honest, I don't want to get too critical
Speaker 2: on this day where so many Catholics are happy, and
Speaker 2: but I wish popes would focus on the mission of
Speaker 2: of you know, helping people find salvation in Jesus and
Speaker 2: understand the mystery of the Eucharist and and the history
Speaker 2: of the Church, and and you know, understanding that human
Speaker 2: beings are mind, body, and soul, and focus on the
Speaker 2: sole part, not the politics part. But in one thing
Speaker 2: that he retweeted that there is nothing remotely Christian, American,
Speaker 2: or morally defensible about a policy that takes children away
Speaker 2: from their parents and warehouses them in cages. Now, you
Speaker 2: might recall we tried to get in the middle of
Speaker 2: COVID in early in Biden's term. They were allowing in
Speaker 2: all of these unvettered illegals, and they were putting all
Speaker 2: these kids in cages, and we sent Sarah Carter and
Speaker 2: our cameras down to get images of it, and we
Speaker 2: would denied access. And then Senator Ted Cruz was given
Speaker 2: access because he is a US senator, and I asked
Speaker 2: him if he'd take videos and share them with us,
Speaker 2: and that's how that's how those images were made public anyway,
Speaker 2: and nobody is taking their children away from their parents.
Speaker 2: And under Joe Biden, we're still missing three hundred and
Speaker 2: fifty thousand kids.
Speaker 1: That came into this. We don't know where they were.
Speaker 2: We don't know where they are, I mean, we don't
Speaker 2: know how many of them might might have been, you know,
Speaker 2: sold into sex slavery for crying out loud and sex
Speaker 2: trafficking because we know that goes on and on anyway. Also,
Speaker 2: apparently the new Pope has previously shared an op ed
Speaker 2: from the National Catholic Reporter entitled jd Vance is wrong.
Speaker 2: Jesus doesn't ask us to rank our love for others,
Speaker 2: following comments that the Vice President made on Fox News
Speaker 2: in February.
Speaker 1: I don't know if this was an interview with me
Speaker 1: or not. I don't recall.
Speaker 2: During the interview, Van said, there is a Christian concept
Speaker 2: that you love your family and your neighbor, and then
Speaker 2: you love your community, and then you love your fellow citizens,
Speaker 2: and then after that prioritize the rest of the world.
Speaker 2: He's basically saying love everybody. Why is that controversial? Anyway,
Speaker 2: the New Catholic Pope shared an op ed saying Van's
Speaker 2: was wrong. Now, both the President and the Vice President
Speaker 2: have gone out very publicly and congratulated the new Pope.
Speaker 2: In his position, what is the Bible is very clear,
Speaker 2: love God with all your heart, mind, body, and soul,
Speaker 2: and your neighbor as yourself. Okay, your neighbor the first
Speaker 2: your neighbor is the people you come into contact with
Speaker 2: every day, and that that would if you have to
Speaker 2: love your family those are the people your your number
Speaker 2: one responsibility is to take care of your family, but
Speaker 2: you got to put God first in your life.
Speaker 1: Okay, I agree with all of that.
Speaker 2: But then the people that you're most likely to need
Speaker 2: to show the most loved to are your family, your neighbors,
Speaker 2: your co workers, your community, your country.
Speaker 1: And there's nothing wrong.
Speaker 2: And jd Vance says that then you know, he goes
Speaker 2: on to say, and then then you help people around
Speaker 2: the world, the.
Speaker 1: American people the most generous people on earth.
Speaker 2: I'm not really sure you know how this ends up,
Speaker 2: to be honest, it just sounds like more of the same,
Speaker 2: very in line with Pope Francis. With all that said,
Speaker 2: I it was, it was. Actually it's a special thing
Speaker 2: to watch knowing that half the world's Christians are are Catholic.
Speaker 2: But I will tell you overall, for me, the Catholic
Speaker 2: Church has served me well in my life in many
Speaker 2: many ways, more than I can even list, because I learned.
Speaker 2: I learned that, I learned about God and the Bible,
Speaker 2: and it was instilled in me. My parents made me
Speaker 2: go to church. My parents were very devout and and
Speaker 2: until I was able old enough to be able to
Speaker 2: you know, get away. I went to the I went
Speaker 2: to the early mass. Dad and I went early Meanwhile
Speaker 2: he was sleeping. But then I then I went to
Speaker 2: Catholic schools for twelve years. I studied theology, I studied Latin.
Speaker 2: I went to Mass every day. I love the liturgy.
Speaker 2: I love the Eucharist. The last it is the re
Speaker 2: enactment of the Last Supper. You know, Jesus said, you know,
Speaker 2: take this bread, eat it. This is my body given up.
Speaker 1: For you, you know, gave thanks some phrase. Took the cup
Speaker 1: of wine.
Speaker 2: This is the cup of my blood, the blood of
Speaker 2: the new and everlasting Covenant. It'll be shed for you
Speaker 2: and for all men, for the forgiveness of sins. Do
Speaker 2: this in memory of me, which is why the Mass
Speaker 2: does that. And when you eat this bread and drink
Speaker 2: this cup, you proclaim that the death of Jesus as
Speaker 2: your Lord and Savior, sent by God himself, the son
Speaker 2: of God, to reconcile man and their sins, original sin.
Speaker 2: We're all sinners, all of sin and fallen short. That's
Speaker 2: the whole concept of it, which is in itself great,
Speaker 2: you know. But we're as long as I'm on it,
Speaker 2: I might as well stay here but my disagreement is
Speaker 2: over you know, eleven of the twelve apostles were married.
Speaker 2: I learned that in theology in high school, and so
Speaker 2: Jesus chose married men or men to be married that
Speaker 2: would be married, and they were Hisscils has chosen twelve
Speaker 2: and the first what eleven hundred and twelve hundred years
Speaker 2: I don't remember exactly priests were allowed to marry in
Speaker 2: the church, I think at that moment. And then the
Speaker 2: motivation for changing that policy was probably rooted in the
Speaker 2: fact that the church it probably had to do with
Speaker 2: financial issues. Everything I've read indicates that it does, and
Speaker 2: that the church didn't want to lose money, you know,
Speaker 2: with a divorce. I guess pre nups were on his
Speaker 2: common back then, pretty common now. And but my point is,
Speaker 2: at that point, I think you took the potential, the
Speaker 2: pool of potential priests down to a very low, negligible level,
Speaker 2: and that means that the standards then would be reduced.
Speaker 2: You're not having people compete, you know, and having you know,
Speaker 2: instead of hundreds of thousands of applicants. You know, now
Speaker 2: maybe you're down on with hous it and pretty much
Speaker 2: if you have a beating heart. That means you're the
Speaker 2: odds are pretty high that you'll make it, and so
Speaker 2: and and Sadly, it did attract some some of the
Speaker 2: wrong people. And then the church, unfortunately, rather than deal
Speaker 2: with the scandal's head on, they at the local level,
Speaker 2: the parish level, the bishops, the cardinals, you know, and
Speaker 2: all the way to Rome, they never dealt with it appropriately.
Speaker 2: In my view, that's that's that's where I feel the
Speaker 2: church went wrong, not on any of the other things.
Speaker 2: You know, it's interesting. I'll give you a little bit
Speaker 2: of background, Linda. If I'm getting boring on this, tell
Speaker 2: me you're not answering, you're not giving me. You're not
Speaker 2: giving me affirmation of saying enough is enough? Right, I'm
Speaker 2: sure it was such a big part of my life.
Speaker 3: Hey, you let us on a cliffhanger, and I think
Speaker 3: it would be interesting for the audience to know that
Speaker 3: you went to seminary and did all the things.
Speaker 2: Okay, So the Catholic Church is founded on Jesus asking
Speaker 2: his apostles, who do you say that I am? And
Speaker 2: he asked Peter, remember it was his name was originally Simon,
Speaker 2: And he said, oh, no, I'm going to call you Peter.
Speaker 1: It was a big part of, you know, the biblical story.
Speaker 2: And and Peter was fishing when Jesus met him, and
Speaker 2: he didn't catch a single fish. He said, drop you
Speaker 2: a net one more time, and he had more fish.
Speaker 2: He was able to pay off his debt. And then
Speaker 2: he said, you know, follow me, and I'll make you
Speaker 2: fishers of men. But the whole premise of the Catholic
Speaker 2: Church is founded on this scripture where you know, Peter,
Speaker 2: who who do you say that I am? And he said,
Speaker 2: you are the Christ, you are the son of the
Speaker 2: Living God. And Jesus's answer was, well, bless and blood
Speaker 2: didn't reveal this to you, Peter, My father revealed that
Speaker 2: unto your heart. And it's upon this foundation that I
Speaker 2: shall build my church, and the gates of Hell will
Speaker 2: not prevail against it. Here's the interesting side of it.
Speaker 2: When I studied theology in Latin, Peter means petros, which
Speaker 2: means rock. And upon they took it Peter the man
Speaker 2: the rock would become the foundation of the church. I
Speaker 2: took it very differently. My interpretation is my own, so
Speaker 2: take it for what it's worth that Peter understood who
Speaker 2: Jesus was because flesh and blood didn't reveal who Jesus
Speaker 2: was to him. That God the Father did. And it
Speaker 2: is upon the foundation of having a direct relationship with
Speaker 2: God and inner revelation that Jesus, Jesus's church will be built.
Speaker 2: Inner discernment called the conscience, it's called the soul. You know,
Speaker 2: how many of us, in the course of our lives,
Speaker 2: when you do something wrong, you know you're doing something wrong.
Speaker 2: You know you listen to the wrong voice, or you know,
Speaker 2: as you get older and more mature and more mature
Speaker 2: spiritually and more disciplined in life, than you make the
Speaker 2: right decisions. That's part of you know, gradually graciously abandoning
Speaker 2: the things of youth. So I think the spiritual component
Speaker 2: was way more important than than Peter the Rock, the Pope,
Speaker 2: Petros and so on and so forth. All right, was
Speaker 2: that worthwhile or not?
Speaker 1: Of course it was.
Speaker 3: I mean, I think you have a background. You know,
Speaker 3: you're basically a theologian. You know, you have a very
Speaker 3: very strong background, and you have obviously you know, you've
Speaker 3: been committed to, you know, the word of the Lord
Speaker 3: for a very very long time. And it's amazing. I
Speaker 3: don't think a lot of the audience knows.
Speaker 1: That I don't talk a lot about it. I don't
Speaker 1: proselytize in life. I messed up too much of my life.
Speaker 1: I was too much.
Speaker 2: I was so freaking incorrigible in my youth that I
Speaker 2: you know, I have no right to tell anybody what
Speaker 2: to do.
Speaker 3: To be very honest, nobody has anybody the right to
Speaker 3: tell anybody what to do. You know my.
Speaker 1: Backsliding.
Speaker 3: I'm not backsliding.
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 3: I'm more of a standing still kind of gal. I
Speaker 3: like the peloton.
Speaker 1: You know, a nice brisk card. But you have but
Speaker 1: you have a hate list I do. I hate a
Speaker 1: lot of people. Love God, love your neighbors. All you say.
Speaker 2: He didn't say anywhere in the Bible to hate anybody.
Speaker 2: He said to forgive people seventy times seven, that just
Speaker 2: never stopped forgiving them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not in math. I'm a media.
Speaker 3: You know I'm doing my best.
Speaker 2: You just you've become a liberal when this topic comes up,
Speaker 2: because you no you met, you rationalize and make excuses
Speaker 2: like liberals do.
Speaker 3: No, it's the opposite. I'm not making excuses. I'm not rationalized.
Speaker 1: Forgive us as we forgive. I mean, if you want forgiveness.
Speaker 2: It's predicated on you forgiving those people on your stupid
Speaker 2: hate list that you cling to like manna from heaven.
Speaker 3: But I do like I don't. I'm sorry. I don't
Speaker 3: forgive pedophiles. I don't forgive murderers. I don't forgive rapists.
Speaker 3: I don't forgive people who hurt animals in any way,
Speaker 3: shape or form. I do not forgive them. I do not,
Speaker 3: and I hope that you know.
Speaker 2: Listen, you mentioned pedophiles. I don't think I can forgive
Speaker 2: them either. I might be with you on that part.
Speaker 2: You know, one of the most interesting things in Pope
Speaker 2: John Paul the Second's life that he did you remember
Speaker 2: he got shot. Everyone forgets that. Remember the guy that
Speaker 2: I forgot it tried to kill him? Okay, he went
Speaker 2: to prison to pray with the guy. Isn't that amazing?
Speaker 3: That's insane?
Speaker 1: Why is that insane? He's the pope, he's practiced. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: but he's still human.
Speaker 2: So so if you were the pope and you somebody
Speaker 2: tried to assassinate your wanted to assassinate you, you wouldn't go
Speaker 2: visit them in prison, as Jesus instructed us to do.
Speaker 2: When I was hungry. You gave me food. When I
Speaker 2: needed clothes. You gave me clothes when I was in prison,
Speaker 2: you visited me. Her was you know, the hell with
Speaker 2: you and you're on my hate list?
Speaker 3: No, I'd be like, I got a guy, he's going
Speaker 3: to come visit you and let you know how I
Speaker 3: feel about this.
Speaker 1: I got a guy that's going to come there and
Speaker 1: get the crap out of you.
Speaker 3: Now you just saying I got a guy in cell
Speaker 3: block twelve, all it's going to come and say hi.
Speaker 3: His name is Frank stand By.
Speaker 2: I did not plan on talking about any of this.
Speaker 2: I don't know why where it came from.
Speaker 3: Regardless of all of this, I think it's beautiful to
Speaker 3: see that there's so many people of faith, you know,
Speaker 3: Christian's Catholic, you know, Praising.
Speaker 1: The served me well.
Speaker 2: It has served me so well in my life, and
Speaker 2: it gave me a foundation, and I'm grateful for that.
Speaker 2: Although now I consider myself non denominational, and it was.
Speaker 2: But it was nice to see. Although I wish this
Speaker 2: guy wasn't political. I hope he doesn't go there where
Speaker 2: Pope Francis did. All right, we have a lot going
Speaker 2: on around the world, not the least of which is
Speaker 2: the OLDI