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Steve Bannon (0:03)
This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies because we're going
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to medieval on these people.
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I got a free shot. All these networks lying about the people, the people have had a belly full of it. I know you don't like hearing that. I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. It's going to happen.
Steve Bannon (0:24)
And where do people like that go
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to share the big lie?
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MAGA Media I wish in my soul,
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I wish that any of these people had a conscience. Ask yourself, what is my task and
Frank Walker (0:37)
what is my purpose?
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If that answer is to save my
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country, this country will be saved. War Room, here's your host, Stephen K. Band.
Steve Bannon (0:54)
Good evening, Harnwell. Here at the helm on Steve Bannon's War Room. It's that time once again in the week when we review all things to do with Christianity, Protestants, Catholicism. That's taken place over the last seven days with me, the usual stalwart members of the team, Frank Walker, Jenny Holland. Good evening to you both.
Jenny Holland (1:19)
Hello.
Steve Bannon (1:22)
That's an enthusiastic and surreal energetic. Great. Okay, so we're going to start. Look, first, there are a couple of things I want to say because I do read the responses that come in on social media. We are doing this show not because we are anti Catholic or because we hate the Catholic Church, but because we love the Catholic faith and have perhaps to varying degrees, on various varying occasions, a sentimental attachment to the institution of the Church. But this is fundamentally a service, we hope, to the church. And I would suggest that one of the great obstacles to the possibility of the Church evangelizing the secular society right throughout the west is the phenomenon of the sex abuse scandal, the clerical sex abuse scandal against kids that had been taking place over many decades, which came to light around about 20, 25 years ago. And one of the things that most damaged the Catholic Church's credibility was the silence. Now, many people stayed silent when they might have had a suspicion of what was going on because they believe that talking about these things, bringing them out into the light, would fundamentally damage the Church's credibility. And their desire was fundamentally that. I think with the, with the benefit of hindsight, we can see that that silence and institutional silence, even the moving around of priests from one parish to another, rather than just kicking them out and going to the police, that has been, with the benefit of hindsight, a catastrophic mistake. And I think it's fair to say that here on the War Room, we don't wish to perpetuate the the same mistakes of saying, staying silent when we see things in the church which is wrong. And that is why we are called in the spirit of charity and truth, to talk about these things and try to pull the church back to the narrow path. I'm just saying that because some people, especially on Rumble, seem to think that we have an impetus, an anti Catholic impetus. And of course, nothing could be further from the truth. The real people in our crosshairs are of course the anti Catholic hierarchs or dragging our church into the ground. So folks, having said that, it is clear that in times of crisis, heroes emerge. And Frank Walker, it seems to me that one hero that is ever clearly, ever clearer, a pastor who is not abandoning the flock to the wolves, is Bishop Schneider, who said something in a private meeting. And you're going to tell us a bit about it now a couple of days ago, on the subject of something that we've been discussing every week here on the war Room, which is the imminent episcopal consecrations of the Society of Pope Saint Pius X, he suggested, because it has been, has been mentioned that that if the Lefebvrists, the sspx, if they go ahead with these episcopal consecrations, that will incur latte sentencia excommunication, automatic excommunications, because bishops are consecrating other bishops without a papal mandate. And into this debate entered Bishop Schneider and he did agree. He was speaking in a private meeting, but he did agree to the publication of his private remarks. And Frank Walker, Bishop Schneider says that from his point of view, and this is quite a strong thing to say, very courageous thing to say, very true thing to say, right. And it gives an indication of where we are in the Catholic Church that it requires a degree of courage to say things which are true. But he said, should the church respond and announce excommunications, either latte sentence excommunications and say that those excommunications have already taken place, or if it should proactively proceed with punitive excommunications, they would not be valid. And that is, as I say, a very courageous thing for, for Bishop Schneider to do who's not from a world important primatial diocese out in Astan, I think it is in Kazakhstan, all the more brave, I think, Frank Walker, because most all of the cardinals that had been showing a bit of angle to trads over the last five, 10 years have basically publicly urged the SSPX to not to go through with these episcopal consecrations, which the SSPX says it's necessary to continue its mission. Tell us, please, put what Bishop Schneider said in its context and give me your thoughts and reflections to that, please.