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#665 Cooperating with Satan to Build his “Anti-Creation”: Cardinal Blase Cupich Honors Sen. Dick Durbin

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A Claymore Sword on the wall, sweat from a hard ride, and a straight look at the battlefield we all feel but rarely name. Jack traces a line from John Paul II’s “final confrontation” warning to today’s cultural flashpoints and ask what it really means to fight for the dignity of the human person and the covenant of man and woman without losing our charity—or our nerve. Along the way, we wrestle with scandal inside the Church, why “dialogue” without truth becomes doublespeak, and how honoring those who legislate against life confuses the faithful and emboldens a counterfeit moral vision.

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Welcome to the Become Who You Are podcast, a production of the John Paul 2 Renewal Center. I'm Jack Rigert, your host. I'm really glad to be with you. I want to always come with some good news, and there is good news. There's always good news when you're talking about the gospel. But I also want to talk about the battle because we're working with, you see the big sword behind me. As most of you know by now, that's the Claymore sword that was made famous by William Wallace in the movie Braveheart. If you haven't seen that movie, go out and see it. Everybody should see that movie five to ten times. It's an amazing movie. Based on a true story. Anyways, it's a big two-edged sword. And it's the apostle that we have for young men. Young men are waking up. That's why I keep the Trump hat back there. They voted for Trump, they saw something there, and now they're saying, What? What what is this? You know, I'm looking for something more than this crazy world has to offer. Well, it's the battlefield of the heart, John Paul would say, between lust and love, between becoming self-giving and grasping and taking. This is an old story. I want to go a little deeper into this and I want to talk about something. And and maybe I should apologize for this. I might start sweating again. I had a little break and I could have started this podcast, and I went outside and I decided to ride a bicycle. And I wanted to ride before the traffic got bad, so it was around three o'clock or so in the afternoon, something like that. And uh so I took off and it's 90 degrees out today. It's beautiful. It's it's not very humid because it's in uh Chicagoland area. It's fall, so it's hot, but I love it. I love to ride like that, you know. The wind is blowing on you and and you don't really feel that hot until you stop. Until you stop. And then you realize, whoa, it's hot out there. And uh so I rode really hard for about an hour and ten, hour and fifteen minutes, and then I got back home and I uh I tried to cool off a little, jumped in the shower, you know, got cleaned up a little bit, and tried to cool off, but as I'm sitting here, I realize uh I'm still a little warm. So, anyways, hey, with all of that said, I want to talk a little bit about this war that's going on, and it reminded me of Cardinal uh Blaise Supich. So I want to get into that story. I call this cooperating with Satan to build his anti-creation. Cardinal Blaise Supic honored Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois with a lifetime achievement award. You can't make this stuff up. Cardinal Wotiwa, now John Paul II, I'm gonna back up now, before he became Pope in Philadelphia. So John Paul became Pope in 1978. In Philadelphia, he was here in the United States in 1976, two years previous to that for the bicentennial celebration of our country. And he said something that caught people off guard. He said this. I do not think that wide circles of American society or wide circles of the Christian community realize this fully. Now, this was three years after Roe v. Wade and abortion became the law of the land. You hear that? He knew it put a stain on the United States. You know, the United States had all kinds of issues. We talk about that all the time. Again, this is a battle between good and evil. And um Roe v. Wade became the law of the land in 1973, and he saw this. He said, Oh man, you're putting a stain on your country. You're killing the most innocent and pure and defenseless among us. But that which images God most closely, which are are the innocent, the pure, the children. They even had time to sin, huh? And God will not respect that, and he's not going to protect the United States, the most beautiful, the most spectacular, the freest, the most successful country in the history of the world. But this is what he said. But I do not think, again, that wide circles of American society or wide circles of the Christian community realize this. This battle we are now facing is what he called the final confrontation between the church, the body of Christ, and the anti-church, of the gospel proclaimed by Jesus Christ versus the anti-gospel. This confrontation lies within the plans of divine providence, God's providence. It's winding down, history is winding down. It's a trial which the whole church must take up. It's a trial of not only the church, but in a sense, a test of 2,000 years of culture and Christian civilization. And with it all the consequences for human dignity, individual rights, and the rights of nations. He said we must be prepared. They had just got out of high school. We must be prepared to undergo great trials in this not so distant future, trials that will require us, and this is the time we're in now, to be ready to give up even our lives and a total gift of self to Christ and for the church. He said, through your prayers and mine, it's possible to alleviate this tribulation that's coming, but it's no longer possible to completely avert it. I think about that. And when I see Tucker Carlson and Charlie Kirk and many others, but Charlie Kirk and Tucker come to my mind right away. Charlie who was martyred for standing up for the child in the womb and marriage in the family, love of country, which are all Catholic social teaching, all came right from John Paul II, but passed down to us all this time. Neither of those two, Tucker or Charlie, is Catholic, but yet they understand this warning that I just read and proclaim the gospel of life more courageously than the vast majority of our so-called shepherds in the church. You know, John Paul II was a prophetic voice. So where's the good news in this? I said in the beginning I like to bring out good news. Where's the good news in this? We see it. We see it around us. You say, well, is that good news? Yeah, because you know it's all real. Everything that God has been saying to us in scripture and being passed on, everything we sense in our human heart is not only real, it's not only the covers. You know, we all have uh, or at least the young people we're talking to, and so many in American society and across the world are on antidepressants and painkillers, etc., because they feel anxiety, depression, even suicidal thoughts. Well, where is all that coming from? It comes from not acknowledging and seeing in reality, seeing with eyes to see, ears to hear what's going on in the world. This is not our final home, is it? This is just a little temporary space to get us to heaven. A little time to have free will. And when I'm talking to young guys, they get this. Men were made for this to stand up with that sword and fight and lose their lives even, just like John Paul said, you may lose your life in this battle. Charlie lost his life. I mean, how real can it get? So evil is no longer hiding. It's holding up signs. You see these signs of these mad people all over the world, you know. And these are our brothers and sisters. We pray for them. They're lost, they're lost children of God. Well, God says pray for them, so that's what we do. But they're sticking those signs right in our faces, you know. One of those signs is Chicago Cardinal Blaze Supic. One of those signs in your face. Here's here's evil standing right in your face, who is honoring U.S. Senator from Illinois, my state, Dick Durbin, a rabid defender of legalized abortion, with a lifetime achievement award. He's given them a lifetime achievement award. He knows what's going on. Durbin knows what's going on. You know, Durbin calls himself a Catholic in good standing. He not only loves abortion, this year he even voted to murder babies born alive. Think about think about how sick this is. I'm trying to bring you good news, but I mean we have to face the reality. Think about how sick this is. If a baby is born alive during a botched abortion, they're left to die. It's a legal right to leave them to die. And of course, Cardinal Supich, let's honor him. Well, anyone who knows Supic and has been listening to this podcast for all these years, nobody is surprised by this. He also has the audacity, I should say, to call himself a Catholic in good standing. Cardinal Supich of course, of course, has steadfastly defended the award. The award he's given to uh to Durbin. Now people have come out. A lot of voices have come out, and even some of the faithful bishops, there aren't many. Of course, Strickland we know is going to come out on this thing right away. And he did. Cardinal Burke will usually stand up fairly quickly against this stuff. Athanasius Schneider will stand up. He was just on our show a couple weeks ago. If you haven't caught that, you should go catch that one, speaking about the truth. But there's not many of them, right? And uh at the heart of all of this, right, he says this when he's he's defending himself. He said that saying it's meant to recognize Durban's efforts to advance Catholic social teaching in immigration, cure of the poor, environmental protection, and the promotion of world peace. He said at the heart of the consistent ethic of life is the recognition that Catholic teaching on life and dignity can't be reduced to a single issue. That's true. But what do we say? Can't be reduced to a single issue, but it's got to start with life. Our country is based on that. Our ability to speak the truth and live this way has to be based on life first. If we don't have life, we have nothing, right? But he says it can't be reduced to a single issue. Well, he's right. But just like every good Marxist, you know, he's going to give you this double speak, right? He said he said this. In the same statement, the Cardinal invoked the Vatican's call for bishops to reach out to engage in dialogue with Catholic politicians within their jurisdictions as means of understanding the nature of their positions and their comprehension of Catholic teaching. Again, super just right. We're supposed to do that. Go dialogue with Catholics, especially those in power, you know, they can codify into law abortion, same-sex marriage, all these things. They're going to take down the baby, marriage and the family, etc. Of course, go speak to them. Make sure they understand Catholic teaching. Yes. But you have to proclaim the gospel to them. You have to teach them and know why Catholics believe what they do. These Marxist tactics and head fakes, dialogue, uh synodality, compromise, he might have unfortunately learned this from, as we know, Pope Francis. But as everyone who listened to the synodal toxic soup coming out of the Vatican during Francis knows when you get that sick pit that you feel in your stomach when you hear this mumble jumble of nothingness intentionally meant to confuse and bring us into this world of moral relativism, who embraced even the likes of Father James Martin. I mean, this heretic, you know. And you don't compromise, though. This is not that complicated, and this is what I'm going to get down to because this can seem like a confusing mash of mishmash, and it's supposed to. It's supposed to. But I want to bring it down to the two pillars of the faith because you don't compromise on the murder of innocent children, and you don't compromise on the fact that every child has a mother and father, and the best way for them to grow up is with a mother and father. What we learned, of course, during the reign of Pope Francis and Supic, his right hand man, is that the lady can no longer sit on the sidelines. You know, there was a time where we were afraid to speak out, you know, but but there were many good prelates in the church at that time. Well, we have to take seriously what Bishop Fultons, who prophetically saw this time coming, just like John Paul, said back when I was still in high school. He said this, who's going to save the church? Not our bishops, not our priests and religious. It's up to you, the people. You have the minds, the eyes, the ears to save the church. Your mission is to see that your priests act like priests, your bishops act like bishops, and your religious act like religious. Where were the bishops when Francis closed down the churches at the behest of the globalists? Where were the bishops when Francis pushed the mRNA fake vaccine on the faithful? And when I say fake vaccine, this has been proven now, right? It didn't protect us and it didn't stop transmission. So what is that then, right? This is just the facts. Where were the bishops when Francis began to bless same-sex marriage, embraced the heretic Father James Martin? How who how many stood up against Francis who gutted out the St. John Paul II Pontifical Institute for Marriage in the Family and the Pontifical Institute for Life? This was early on in his pontificate. This is when I sensed right away with people that I was working with an early sign of what was to come. Why would he do that? Why would he take down John Paul II's Pontifical Institute for Marriage in the Family and the Institute for Life? Why would he do that? What was going on? I can go on. But I'm going to quote Archbishop Nauman, who is retired now, but good, faithful Shepherd. And he still has a voice there. And yes, we still have a few, a few. Bishop Nauman is the past uh chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishop Bishop's Pro Life Committee, said such a rationale, I'm going to use his words instead of just mine, so you know that I'm not just getting mad because I am a little bit. He said it makes no rational sense. He said dialogue does not require giving awards to Catholic political leaders who disregard the most fundamental of human rights, the right to life of the unborn, he said in a statement. Archbishop Nauman emphasized that U.S. CCB, United States Council of Catholic Bishops, has consistently identified the protection of the unborn children and their mothers from the tragedy of abortion as the primary human rights issue of our time. He explained that the Bishop's Conference takes this position because abortion attacks the life of the most innocent and vulnerable, harms the family and the most fundamental of human relationships by pitting the welfare of mothers against the lives of their children, destroys innocent life on a horrific magnitude, and harms the women involved physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Moreover, he went on, legalized abortion encourages the irresponsibility of men, absolving them from providing for the children they have fathered, as well as caring for their mothers. Archbishop Nauman said, ignoring the policies and recommendations of the Bishop's Conference is not synodal and serves to fracture unity. Okay, so enough. I want to change gears. Cut, like I said, through the so-called sonatal press process of never-ending noise and man-made dialogue, listening to themselves above all, and leaving God out of it. Reminds me of Genesis three, right? No. Did God say you shouldn't eat from that tree? No, you can become like gods who can call evil good and good evil. This is Cardinal Supic, you know, at the heart of it. And you know what? He doesn't have to say all of that with words. It's in his actions. It's on all of our actions that we really find out what the truth is. I wrote an article for young men called Stand Up and Testify, The Battle for Truth, the two pillars of creation that we must defend. Jesus said, When I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw all men to myself. And then one John, John the evangelist, says, the whole world is under the power of the evil one. And here we go. The world that we live in is under the power of the evil one. To defend and overcome, right? To to overcome that presence, almost like a gravitational pull of evil on all of us, Jesus comes and builds a bridge to what? To heaven. Bridge to unite us to the divinity. He does that on the cross, of course. The cross, the crucifixion, is that bridge. So this is the two things. Reading these divine words, I want to read from Cardinal Carlo Kafara. Reading these divine words, he said, gives us perfect awareness of what is really happening in the world within the human story, considered in its depths. The human story is a confrontation between these two forces, the force of attraction, whose source is the wounded heart of the crucified risen one, and the power of Satan, who does not want to be ousted from his kingdom. This is the battle we're in. He said it simply, succinctly, this is the battle. He continued, the area which the confrontation takes place is where? In the human heart. It is human liberty, human freedom. And the confrontation has two dimensions, an interior dimension, which he just said within the human heart, and then an exterior dimension. He says we will briefly consider the one and the other. In other words, what goes on in our human heart is then manifested into the world. What goes on in the heart of Senator Dick Durbin is this manifested into the work he does. And as a politician, he codifies into law what is in his heart. Cardinal Supage, what is in his heart, is seen like a sign in your face to honor those actions of his, right? Now they don't say this is honoring the actions of abortion, of course not. But you can simply read through the lines, right? Brothers, and this is when I'm writing this article to young guys, brothers, what Cardinal Kafara's addressing here ties in all three components of the Claymore battle plan. That's the big sword again. This is the battle plan that we have, which are three things restoring the dignity of the person, the human heart, restoring marriage in the family, the Imago Day, and then going out from your heart and your mind of understanding that into social political activism, reclaiming the culture for Christ. We have to do that. Otherwise, all the laws and all the culture are pushing down on this. We have to fight it from the grassroots, and then also make it the law of the country. You can't have abortion, the law of the country. Cardinal Kafara was a trusted friend of John Paul II, and he was tasked by John Paul to head up that Pontifical Institute for Studies on Marriage in the Family and Life that John Paul had founded in 1981. So this is the same pontifical institute for studies on marriage in the family that I had just said that Francis gut it and took out when he came in to the papacy. It was a difficult task to set this up, Cardinal Kafaro went on from the very beginning, because the Institute was not wanted by dark forces working within the church and outside the church. You see how this works? In the church, outside the church. He was very concerned, of course. And since the patroness of the Institute was Our Lady of Fatima, he wrote to Sister Lucia, the Fatima visionary, asking for her prayers. Sister Lucia died in 2005, not so long ago, the same year that John Paul did. Well, anyway, she wrote back a long letter to Karnakafara, and then she knew John Paul II would get this. And she said, Father, a time will come where the decisive battle between the kingdom of Christ, Satan will be over marriage and the family. This is what John Paul II saw, and this is this is that warning that I read in the very beginning. And those he said, so maybe I should say it again, right? The decisive battle between the kingdom of Christ and Satan will be over marriage and the family. And those who work for the good of the family will experience persecution and tribulation. This is what Tucker feels. This is what Charlie Kirk died for. But do not be afraid. Do not be afraid because Our Lady has already crushed the set. This battle has been won outside of this temporal space. We all get a chance now in this temporal space in our short little lives to decide because it's based on freedom. We're here because of freedom. Do not be afraid because our lady won this battle. All we have to do is draw from that crucified and risen one to be a bridge to eternity. But we have to take this on. We have to testify to the truth. So I wrote, brothers, this time has come. Marriage in the family is the focus of Satan's attack on humanity in this the decisive battle. It makes sense in this way. Satan, who hates God, knowing that his time to rule the world is winding down, providence is going down, like John Paul II said, goes after the Imago Day, God's image and likeness in the world, which is what? It's the individual human heart and marriage and the family. The opening chapter of Genesis, it's written. How did he create them? Male and female he created him. God blessed them, saying to them, Be fertile, have babies, and multiply, fill the earth and subdue it. Satan seeks then to construct an anti-creation. But since he doesn't have his own clay, he's not the creator, he can only twist, distort, and destroy what God created good. To build this anti-creation, he attacks the two pillars of the Imago Dei. The first of these is the individual human person, a person who is not a something, but a someone created in the image of God. Reason, intellect, free will. Then he goes on after the second pillar, the relationship between man and woman, which is sacred, the woman being an even more specific target of Satan's attacks because creation finds its completion when God creates the woman. Read this in scripture. So much so that after he created woman, the Bible says that he rested. Today, what do we observe? First the legalization of abortion, destroying the most innocent, pure, and defenseless. Second, the attempt to equate same-sex marriage with actual marriage. And as Sister Lucia wrote, those who work for the good of the family will experience persecution and tribulation, but do not be afraid because our lady has already crushed his head. Brothers, it's vitally important that you grasp the reality that the world's a battlefield, and when we came into the world, you're in the middle of it. We all are. Carna Kafara dropped some serious truth concerning this war raging in our hearts and in our culture in his address at the fourth annual Rome Life Conference in May of 2017, organized by Voice of the Family. In that address, he quoted Jesus, but I started with When I am lifted up from the earth, he's talking about his crucifixion on his cross, I will draw all people to myself. But he also warns straight from Scripture that the whole world is under the power of the evil one. This isn't just poetic talk. It's the real deal. You'll never understand what's going on around you unless you understand those two. The human story is a clash between these two forces. Christ attracting you toward truth, truth, and life, and Satan fighting to keep his grip on the world with lies. You're not just watching this fight. You're in it. And Cardinal Kafara's message to you is this. He said, Don't be a deserter. Stand up, speak out, testify to the truth. He was talking to the lady here. Of course, all the religious too, but he was addressing this to the lady that were there in the audience. This battle plays out in two arenas again. Inside your heart and then out in the world. And let's break it down. Inside, it's about your freedom to choose truth and cultivate a culture of life inside your heart, or fall for the lies and help Satan build this anti-creation, the creation of death. Jesus told Pontius Pilate at his interrogation, right? Pontius Pilate brings him in. He's going to have him scourged, he's going to have him crucified ultimately, but he's interrogating him first. And Jesus told Pontius Pilate at that interrogation, I came into the world to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice. Christ's kingdom isn't about power or control. It's about truth. And he reigns in his world by drawing you to the truth. The truth is the power that we have. We have to stand for the truth. On the cross, Jesus showed the ultimate truth. What is that? Love that sacrifices everything to bring life, right? No greater love is this, he said, right? That a that a man gives up his life for his friends. And this is what he's calling all of us. But that truth only hits home if you're open to it. And if you're hungry hunger for all that truth, the good and the beautiful, as the philosopher Pascal said, you would not seek me if you had already not found me. If you're chasing truth, Tucker, Charlie, even outside the Catholic Church, right? They're chasing the truth. They're proclaiming the truth. Well, Christ is already working in them. This is the reality. Pascal, you wouldn't seek me if you had not already found me. They found Jesus Christ and there's proclaiming the truth and at the risk of their own lives. Satan, though, he's the opposite. Jesus called them out. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth because there's no truth in him, Jesus said. When he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, for he's the liar and the father of lies. John chapter eight, verse forty four. Satan's plan is to kill your desire for truth, to make you doubt God's word, to trap you in unbelief. It's not just some cartoon devil. He's the force between behind every lie that says you're not enough, young guys, that truth doesn't matter. That you should just go with the flow. By inducing man to unbelief, he wants man to close himself to the light of the divine revelation, which is the word incarnate, which is Jesus, who made himself visible in the world. He took on a body and walked into our world, right? Therefore, these words of Jesus on uh on Satan do not speak of the fall of angels. They speak of something more profound, Cardinal Kafara said, something frightful. Satan continually refuses the truth, and his action within human society consists in opposition to the truth. Satan is this refusal. He is this opposition. Can you imagine the human heart can be that away from the truth and still call themselves Catholic? This is really uh heretics, huh? Cardinal Kafara warned that in our time, Satan is hurling at God the ultimate and terrible challenge. He's got that sign in our face to show he is capable of constructing an anti-creation that mankind will be deceived into thinking is better than that which God created. Most of the evil done in this world is through men cooperating with Satan, with men cooperating with evil. He can most effectively build his anti-creation when shepherds in the church bring scandal by affirming the actions of politicians who legislate evil into law. When that happens, it's left to the laity to stand up and proclaim the truth. Again, Bishop Fulton Sheen, who is going to save the church? It's the laity, huh? Cardinal Kafaro and Bishop Sheen are challenging you and I to proclaim the truth. It's a challenge that demands self-education, courage, prayer, and fasting on our part. It is through you and I linked and united to the wounded heart of the crucified one who bring the good that overcomes evil into the world by proclaiming him who is the way, the truth, and the life. Your heart, your interiority, in union with the sacred heart of Jesus, which is expressed through your action, is the good that spills out. Just like Jesus got boom, hit with the lance, what spilled out water and blood. I take that in, and now I spill this out into the visible world that you see. This is our job, right? Then it builds and shapes the culture. Culture being the mode of living, which is specifically human. We bring art and music, our relationships, the way you want to live into the world. This is what creates the culture. Right now, two cultures are clashing. You see this all over. Just watch any news station. Just scroll through social media. These two cultures are going, the culture of truth built on Christ, and the culture of lies built by Satan. Cardinal Kafar describes it this way: The book of Revelation, the last book in the Bible, the apocalypse, describes the final confrontation between these two kingdoms. In this book, the attraction of Christ takes the form of triumph over the enemy powers commanded by Satan. It is a triumph which comes after a lengthy battle. We're finishing up that battle now. It's been going on for a long time. The first fruits of this victory are the martyrs. The great dragon, it says in that book, serpent of the primal age, he who we call the devil or Satan, seducer of the whole world, was flung down to earth. But they, the martyrs, overcame him by the blood of the lamb and by the words of their testimony of their martyrdom. So us united, Charlie Kirk, united with Jesus Christ, expresses that, makes those words true in our world by their martyrdom. I pause here for a moment to remember Charlie Kirk and his family. Charlie suffered many persecutions and tribulations, yet he courageously spoke out to defend what God created good when was martyred for this belief. A reminder of just how vicious the battle for truth is. Yet Charlie was not afraid of dying. He said, We all die. He understood that. He was more afraid of not speaking the truth and fulfilling his purpose to proclaim Jesus Christ to young people. His concern was always their eternal salvation. And for this task he was fearless. But do not be afraid because our lady has already crushed this head, wrote Sister Lucia. Charlie, it's very, very interesting because Charlie was starting to talk about her blessed mother toward the end, wasn't he? He he sensed this and she was there. She was there for them. This won't be for vain. Charlie's life won't be for vain. It's calling a lot of young people now. So we're all called to be like Charlie, not sitting on the sidelines, but stepping into the fight. And it's worth Repeating that Cardinal Kafara pointed to two signs that Satan's culture of lies is gaining ground. Here's the two signs. Don't forget this. If you don't remember anything else, these are the two pillars that hold up all of civilization, everything that we're talking about here. When all this confusion and synodality and all this mumble jumble out of these pro uh abort people comes, just remember this. These two pillars. First, abortion. It's not just an act between two people, but it's been twisted into a right, something good, when it's the opposite. So again, this is not, I'm not talking about an abortion, you know, that one woman had here, and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I'm talking about, and Cardinal Kafar was talking about when we legislate this into law, when we call it a right, huh? When it's the actual opposite. Vatican II called it a heinous crime, but today, today's world calls it what? Freedom. That's Satan's lie at work, flipping good and evil, light and shadow. Why is abortion so serious? Because it attacks the individual human person made in God's image. Scripture says this in Genesis 9.6, right off the beginning here. Whoever sheds the blood of man, by a man shall that person's blood be shed. For in his own image, God made man. When you destroy a person, you're attacking God Himself, desecrating his creation. Satan's goal is an anti-creation where God's presence is erased. The second sign is the push to equate homosexual relationship with marriage. Again, this is not about your neighbors down the street. It's that we codified this into law. I can talk to my gay neighbors down the street. I am supposed to talk to them. I'm supposed to love them, which I do. And, you know, we have to be civil about this. But, but, but what we're talking about here is we codified this into law. We're saying this is normal. See, this denies God's design for marriage, the union of a man and a woman where life is created. God made us male and female, not as opposites, but as partners who become one flesh, cooperating with what? His creative power. Marriage is a sacred space, a liturgy where God brings new life into being. When society redefines marriage, it's not just changing laws, it's rejecting God's plan and tearing down the foundation of human life. We're seeing this evil play out in our culture today. These two moves, abortion as a right and redefining marriage, are Satan's attempt to build an alternative to God's creation. He's saying this, I can build a better world than God's and you're gonna like it more. It's a lie rooted in contempt, and Satan wants you to believe you're too weak to handle the truth, too small to chase infinite happiness, too selfish to live for authentic love. Dostoevsky's great inquisitor sums it up like this great book. Telling Jesus. He's talking to Jesus in Dostoevsky's uh Dostoevsky's book. He said, Man is weaker and lower than you have ever imagined him to be, Jesus. Man is weak and cowardly. But we're not weak. We're made for more. So how do you fight back? Cardinal Kafara says that you need to testify. That's your mission as a man in the world. Grab your sword. It starts on the battlefield of your own heart. You gotta get your own heart united to Christ first. And then we go out into the world and we testify. Testify to the truth. Testify isn't just thinking nice thoughts, it's action. Here's what it looks like, right? Speak out boldly. Testify means speaking the truth loud and clear no matter who's listening. If you stay silent, you're not a witness. You're a deserter, like a soldier running from battle. Instead, participate in events like pro-life events, rosary. You know, we've got all kinds of things that we can do. We vote for pro-life and support pro-life politicians. We stand for the truth. That's testimony and action, showing the world you stand for life. Proclaim the gospel. Testimony is sharing God's truth, especially the gospel of life and marriage. It's not just about faith, it's about our using our reason too, seeing the world as it really is. Every person is sacred. Just repeat that to people. Every human being is sacred. And marriage is God's design for life and love to bring that new life into the world. And it's the best way to ever raise children, of course. Stand firm in the trial. The world's like a courtroom. And Jesus and his gospel are on trial. You see this. We're on trial. Christians are getting martyred all over the world. You're a witness for the defense, speaking up in a culture that's hostile to the truth. Why is all this happening? Watch this. Church is getting burned. It's amazing violence right now. We're in exactly what John Paul said. This is the final battle between our Lord and Satan. The gospel and the anti-gospel. That doesn't mean being a jerk. That doesn't mean you know condemning people. I don't like that. When I pray outside abortion clinics, I bring my rosary. I stand there with my rosary. My dad taught me that. I don't have to say anything to anybody, but I'm standing in the truth. I'm standing for the truth. Saint Augustine said, love the sinner, but persecute the sin. Hunt down the lies, expose them, show they're empty. Saint Thomas Aquinas put it this way: a wise man seeks truth and rejects falsehood, like a doctor curing a disease. This is your call, brothers. The world's calling you to shut to shut up, go along, to believe truth is whatever it feels good. There's no objective truth, just your truth or my truth, huh? This malu of moral relativism that all our young people are being taught. But you're made in God's image, built for greatness. Karnakafara ended with a quote from the great confessor of the faith, a Russian priest, Pavel Florensky. He said this Christ is the witness. You say, Well, what is the truth? How do I live? Just look to Jesus. I am the truth. I am the way, the truth, and the life. I am that witness up on the cross. When Jesus was crucified, the world thought it was just another execution, but it was the truth revealed. He drew the world to himself on the cross, and he's calling us to do the same, testify, stand up, fight for the truth. Do you not see that when Charlie Kirk is united to Jesus Christ and he was martyred like Jesus was? Right? What happened? They're being drawn to him. See what happens? We're drawn to that. We're drawn. How does it work? It's a mysterium pietatis, right? The mystery of Jesus' passion, death, and resurrection to defend and defeat Mysterium inequitatis, the mystery of evil. Testify, stand up, fight for the truth. The battle's on. Don't be a deserter, be a man of Christ. It's not easy, is it? But we never said it's going to be easy. This life is over very, very quickly. Stand for the truth. It's going to take a man to do that, but men for all times have stood for the truth, stood for the love for children, for marriage in the family. And then they love their nation, huh? They're patriots out in the world. And they want to bring this truth out into this country and into the culture so that we have a culture of life and not a culture of death. Hey, God bless you. Thanks for being with me, everybody. Talk to you again soon. Bye bye.