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#550 The Upcoming Election: (Part 2) A Short Story: Dr. Wanda Poltawska and Pope John Paul II · Claymore: Become Who You Are

• 0:10
  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Become who you Are podcast.
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: This is part two the upcoming election spiritual warfare.
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: I would kind of go back if I were you.
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: I did kind of lay this out, so I did some brown work in part one, really talking about the spiritual warfare going on.
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: But today I want to tell you the short story of Dr Wander Pultrowska and Carol Wojtyla, john Paul II.
• 0:36
  Speaker 1: In the introduction I really talked about this battle between the culture of life and the culture of death.
• 0:42
  Speaker 1: We think the upcoming election is a political thing.
• 0:46
  Speaker 1: You know who's going to save our country?
• 0:48
  Speaker 1: Well, we are going to save our country.
• 0:51
  Speaker 1: I am, you are.
• 0:52
  Speaker 1: This always comes down to the individual human heart and the human heart.
• 0:57
  Speaker 1: Though, as I read in the beginning, and I'm going to read it again, this is from Matthew 13.
• 1:02
  Speaker 1: Unfortunately, this is what's happening all around us, but this is nothing new.
• 1:06
  Speaker 1: This is Jesus' words over 2,000 years ago, for this people's heart has grown dull and their eyes are heavy of hearing, and their eyes they have closed lest they perceive with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn to me to heal them.
• 1:22
  Speaker 1: And so this is really it.
• 1:24
  Speaker 1: We all stand, in a sense before the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and we have to decide which side we're going to battle.
• 1:31
  Speaker 1: Do we choose God, which is the truth, the truth of love, or do we walk away from God and we fall for the father of lies, that a child in a womb is not important to us and we can murder them, and again, not an individual person I'm not talking about here, but to legislate it into the law of our land.
• 1:53
  Speaker 1: It's really a mess when you could tell modern civilization is okay with murdering your own children.
• 2:00
  Speaker 1: And then the distortion of marriage.
• 2:02
  Speaker 1: Marriage is the bedrock of all of human civilization, this is where all life comes from.
• 2:10
  Speaker 1: When you can distort that, then you've created the anti-creation.
• 2:14
  Speaker 1: And so Satan again doesn't have his own clay.
• 2:17
  Speaker 1: He wants to destroy humanity.
• 2:18
  Speaker 1: He hates God.
• 2:19
  Speaker 1: He wants to destroy humanity, the crown of creation, the imago Dei, the image and likeness of God in the world, and so he uses those.
• 2:29
  Speaker 1: You know, like Sister Lucia said, our lady said, the last great battle between our Lord and Satan is going to be over marriage and the family, and the most intense focus attack today is on the family members, the children themselves.
• 2:43
  Speaker 1: And so we see this distortion taking place.
• 2:45
  Speaker 1: Well, this is nothing totally new, is it?
• 2:47
  Speaker 1: So I want to, with that in mind, I want to read you this battle that's going on that John Paul and his good friend, dr Wander Pultrowska knew so well.
• 2:57
  Speaker 1: Here's an article that I'm writing actually a short story, and it really comes from Dr and it really comes from Dr Pultrowska's own words and also an article, an interview that a woman did with Dr Wanda Pultrowska when she was turning 100 years old in 2021.
• 3:15
  Speaker 1: Now she passed away at 101 plus years, but I mean, she lived just until recently.
• 3:24
  Speaker 1: She died in 2022.
• 3:28
  Speaker 1: So this is her own words.
• 3:29
  Speaker 1: It's really something.
• 3:29
  Speaker 1: When you start to hear what's going on today and then her perspective when she got out, you'll hear this she became a doctor, a medical doctor, an internist at first, and then a psychiatrist to help those that were in the concentration camps and different things.
• 3:43
  Speaker 1: So this is the battle.
• 3:44
  Speaker 1: This is the battle that we're having now.
• 3:46
  Speaker 1: If Kamala Harris and those people that side on the culture of death get in, they're no different than the ones that have been in office during the communism, socialism, communism that we see and the brutality and the human destruction of that system right, these systems.
• 4:08
  Speaker 1: Really, at the core of it, it's throwing god out, it's it's attacking marriage and the family, weakening, weakening that up.
• 4:15
  Speaker 1: The most vulnerable, of course, are children.
• 4:17
  Speaker 1: And then always a system to divide us into different ways, and I and I explained that explained that all in the first part, so let me just go on with this.
• 4:27
  Speaker 1: Kirill Wojtyla, who became John Paul II, lived through the evil, the brutality, the destruction of human life as the Nazis, followed by the communists, invaded his beloved Poland.
• 4:38
  Speaker 1: Born a free man, surrounded by the love of family, he would soon be a witness to the horror, the evil, the violence that man is capable of inflicting on man.
• 4:48
  Speaker 1: He learned firsthand when God is forgotten, the creature itself grows unintelligible.
• 4:54
  Speaker 1: We no longer know who we are.
• 4:56
  Speaker 1: He had friends, both Jewish and Catholic, who were taken from their homes, sent to concentration camps.
• 5:01
  Speaker 1: Many suffered starvation, torture, sent to the gas chambers.
• 5:05
  Speaker 1: One of them was Wanda Piotrowska.
• 5:08
  Speaker 1: Wanda Piotrowska became Dr Piotrowska, a close friend and collaborator of John Paul II, all through John Paul's life.
• 5:16
  Speaker 1: She was taken to Ravensbrück concentration camp and in her own words, in an interview with Solene Tati and I'll put the links in here to a couple of different articles that I took much of what follows out of, and so you can read those full articles if you wanted to, and this again was on occasion of her 100th birthday.
• 5:39
  Speaker 1: This interview was.
• 5:40
  Speaker 1: And then her own words previous to that, and here's a brief sketch of the events and her thoughts own words previous to that.
• 5:44
  Speaker 1: Here's a brief sketch of the events and her thoughts that are relevant to today.
• 5:49
  Speaker 1: Ravensbrück itself is a village in Germany.
• 5:53
  Speaker 1: It's a region of Bradensburg.
• 5:55
  Speaker 1: It's this beautiful landscape near a big lake, and the Nazis built one of their death factories there.
• 6:01
  Speaker 1: 130,000 people from 27 countries were imprisoned there during the war.
• 6:08
  Speaker 1: Among these were 40,000 Polish women.
• 6:11
  Speaker 1: Most of them perished.
• 6:12
  Speaker 1: They were ill-fed, kept in the cold.
• 6:14
  Speaker 1: These women were forced to work in brutal conditions.
• 6:17
  Speaker 1: They were tortured, raped, shot, gassed and then cremated.
• 6:21
  Speaker 1: Wanda was not shot.
• 6:24
  Speaker 1: Instead, she became a Kenichin.
• 6:28
  Speaker 1: Now I'm not German, so if I pronounce some of these words wrong, I'm sorry for that, even though I was German-Swiss.
• 6:35
  Speaker 1: I was German-Swiss, and so Switzerland is kind of divided up into three parts, with all the mountains separating this the Italian Swiss, the French and also the German Swiss.
• 6:47
  Speaker 1: So Riggert is my last name.
• 6:49
  Speaker 1: That's actually German Swiss, and so my grandfather spoke French, italian, german and the Swiss language as well as English.
• 6:58
  Speaker 1: So he was pretty well versed in all this stuff.
• 7:00
  Speaker 1: But anyways, she became instead a Canetian and all this stuff.
• 7:05
  Speaker 1: But anyways, she became, instead of a Kniechen, a German for rabbit.
• 7:08
  Speaker 1: So she became a rabbit.
• 7:11
  Speaker 1: In Ravensbrück concentration camp.
• 7:12
  Speaker 1: This word evoked something frightening.
• 7:13
  Speaker 1: A rabbit was a prisoner destined for surgical experiments conducted by the medical staff of the nearby SS clinic, directed by Dr Gebhardt.
• 7:21
  Speaker 1: Prisoners were employed to test experimental drugs for the treatments of the wounds received by soldiers on the front lines.
• 7:28
  Speaker 1: The women imprisoned there were deliberately wounded, given fractures.
• 7:32
  Speaker 1: Infected Pieces of wood or cloth were introduced into some of their wounds to test the effectiveness of the new drugs.
• 7:40
  Speaker 1: It was brutal really what they did.
• 7:42
  Speaker 1: Other experiments were about the process of bone muscle nerve regeneration, the feasibility of bone transplants.
• 7:51
  Speaker 1: Some women suffered amputations.
• 7:53
  Speaker 1: They took body parts and tried to sew body parts into each other I mean, this was really sick stuff and the feasibility of bone transplants.
• 8:01
  Speaker 1: They were doing on women no anesthesia in a lot of these cases.
• 8:05
  Speaker 1: It was amazing they didn't want to waste the anesthesia on them.
• 8:08
  Speaker 1: Some women suffered amputations.
• 8:11
  Speaker 1: I said so.
• 8:12
  Speaker 1: Wanda, one of the 74 Polish women, became a human guinea pig.
• 8:17
  Speaker 1: She was operated on, mostly in the legs, and that experimental operations caused her excruciating pain to the point where she was ready to go insane.
• 8:26
  Speaker 1: I remember her talking about this big needle that they would jab right through her muscle of her leg, her quadricep, and just push it through all the way into the bone and inject pus and infection into her bone marrow.
• 8:40
  Speaker 1: And when she twitched or moved, the doctor would just say, okay, we're going to have to just do this again until you lay still.
• 8:48
  Speaker 1: I mean, can you imagine what these women went through?
• 8:51
  Speaker 1: Well, she contemplated throwing herself on the high tension barbed wire fence on numerous occasions just to commit suicide.
• 8:59
  Speaker 1: Put this to an end.
• 9:01
  Speaker 1: Well, the wonderful Trotsky said.
• 9:03
  Speaker 1: When I returned to Poland after years of imprisonment, I was haunted by the question who is man?
• 9:09
  Speaker 1: Who is human beings?
• 9:11
  Speaker 1: What are we?
• 9:12
  Speaker 1: Neither my studies, she said, my friends or my confessors helped me.
• 9:16
  Speaker 1: One day I went to St Mary's Basilica.
• 9:18
  Speaker 1: St Mary's Basilica right, our lady who was right away from Genesis 3, the proto-evangelium, the pre-gospel, where Mary was coming in, already destined to crush Satan's head right, and she became pregnant with what Our Savior, you know, that baby in the womb.
• 9:41
  Speaker 1: Again, huh, we get to Jesus didn't come in any different.
• 9:45
  Speaker 1: He wanted to come right into the family, into the holy family.
• 9:50
  Speaker 1: A man born of a woman, a little zygote that starts there and grows right.
• 9:57
  Speaker 1: It's amazing what we're doing now to our children.
• 10:00
  Speaker 1: Huh, she said I began to pray in front of the large crucifix as I used to do our children.
• 10:04
  Speaker 1: Huh, she said I began to pray in front of the large crucifix as I used to do.
• 10:06
  Speaker 1: When Father Wotewa, whom I had known since the days of pastor care for doctors, entered the church.
• 10:11
  Speaker 1: He knelt down and went into the confessional.
• 10:13
  Speaker 1: I followed him as though I had been driven by a special force.
• 10:16
  Speaker 1: I confessed to him.
• 10:18
  Speaker 1: I remember the great relief and the sense of peace I had finally found somebody who could really understand me.
• 10:24
  Speaker 1: After I confessed, he said to me come to mass tomorrow morning, come every morning.
• 10:28
  Speaker 1: I soon realized that he was a saintly priest endowed with a rare aptitude for listening.
• 10:35
  Speaker 1: During my prison days at Ravensbrook, I saw the Nazis cast newborn babies into the crematoriums.
• 10:41
  Speaker 1: I swore that if I would survive, I would study medicine and be committed to the defense of life.
• 10:47
  Speaker 1: In communist Poland, abortion was legalized in 1956.
• 10:51
  Speaker 1: You see, the communists already Throw out God, create division within us, take out the life of the womb, weaken marriage and the family, and again, this is neo-Marxism that you're seeing today.
• 11:04
  Speaker 1: It's just another twisting of the same model in our modern times, right Today, the number of abortions in the world is enormous, much higher than that of people killed in the war.
• 11:16
  Speaker 1: I, as a doctor, and Kirill Vltiva, as a priest, were deeply disturbed, of course, by this.
• 11:21
  Speaker 1: So we started to work together to oppose this law, the law in the land.
• 11:26
  Speaker 1: It is then that we became involved in the defense of life.
• 11:29
  Speaker 1: Now, remember, this was still communist country a commitment which lasted over 50 years.
• 11:35
  Speaker 1: And then, in 1967, carol Wotiva established in Krakow the Theological Institute for the Family, which I directed for 33 years Later, he would institute that in Rome.
• 11:48
  Speaker 1: I knew that we had to train, educate the teachers and parents first, and then the children, because children do not know who they are.
• 11:55
  Speaker 1: We have to form children.
• 11:57
  Speaker 1: You know I always, you know I smile at them, which shake my head when parents said you know, I don't really bring my kids to church, I don't really talk to them about the gospels, because I want them to create their own value system, to make up their own value system.
• 12:13
  Speaker 1: Well, who, as a teenager or as a little kid, is qualified to create their own value system?
• 12:20
  Speaker 1: Did you feel like that when you were 16?
• 12:21
  Speaker 1: Not only did I not feel like that, I had no idea what they were even talking about.
• 12:27
  Speaker 1: So you just go in with this blank slate and the culture loves that man.
• 12:31
  Speaker 1: They can just rip you.
• 12:32
  Speaker 1: Can you imagine Satan?
• 12:33
  Speaker 1: Well, again, doesn't have his own clay, he wants to take the clay of humanity and twist and distort it.
• 12:39
  Speaker 1: How he looks at a child, the innocence of a child, and because the parents left him defenseless.
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: I mean, this is really something that we're doing to our kids.
• 12:49
  Speaker 1: So, again, because children don't know who they are, I thought psychiatry knew something about the human person, but now I don't know anymore.
• 12:55
  Speaker 1: She said I don't consider myself a doctor of souls because I can't touch your soul, but I am a doctor who knows that every patient has a soul, and this so many of my colleagues don't seem to know today.
• 13:07
  Speaker 1: They treat the body, they treat the patient as a body to be healed, which is wrong, because we are not a body.
• 13:14
  Speaker 1: We do have a body.
• 13:16
  Speaker 1: The human person is always, though, subject to the spirit.
• 13:20
  Speaker 1: So what spirit are we subject to?
• 13:22
  Speaker 1: The human body, she said, is always subject to the spirit, to the Holy Spirit or the Spirit of the world.
• 13:31
  Speaker 1: We all decide.
• 13:32
  Speaker 1: And if we don't decide, that's why Jesus said if you're lukewarm, I'll spew you out.
• 13:37
  Speaker 1: Why did he know that?
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: Because he knows that if you're neutral, you have no power.
• 13:41
  Speaker 1: This is the power of the principalities and the power of the world.
• 13:44
  Speaker 1: We're not dealing just with human flesh, we're dealing with an attack on the human person.
• 13:50
  Speaker 1: I used to be a physician, she said, who always had a lot of patients.
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: I always patients meaning clinical patients, not personal patients, clinical patients.
• 13:58
  Speaker 1: I always had a strong line.
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: I always had a long line of patients because I always gave them something that no one else gave them, something they didn't learn at school or at home.
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: They didn't know where they came from or why they existed.
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: In fact, I didn't want to be a doctor, but I was driven by the knowledge that you couldn't kill anyone because it was against Catholic ethics.
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: In this day, our society is no longer no true Catholic ethics.
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: The communists have thrown away ethics and history.
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: There are almost no ethics classes in schools anymore.
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: As a medical student, I used to have a full year of ethics, which was then abolished because there was a lack of teachers.
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: Today's medical students are superficial.
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: They don't know anything about ethics.
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: Isn't that true today?
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: When I met the new students each year, I would tell them I don't know anything about you, but I know something about all of you.
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: Yet you all have to die, and if you forget this, you are lost.
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: I don't know what you will do with your lives, but the one thing that's absolutely true is that one day you will die.
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: It is the most important thought to keep in mind, but no one wants to think about it anymore.
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: Today, now, everyone is inordinately afraid of a virus.
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: Remember this was 1921, when this interview was taking place, and it was all about COVID.
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: It doesn't make sense, she said, because you can't prevent disease, no one can decide not to die.
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: So she's saying you know, don't fear every single thing.
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: Like you remember how afraid people were.
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: I remember not wearing a mask in Costco one time, and they let me slip by somehow, and people were all looking at me and making some of them making remarks, you know, and so fearful, so fearful.
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: I remember somebody coming up to me after the vaccines had rolled out and I said well, go get vaccinated if you're so worried.
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: Oh, I have been vaccinated.
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: I said you've been vaccinated.
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: Right that they told you you can no longer get this virus or transmit it, right, yep, and you still got a mask on, right, yep, and you're still in fear, right, yep, and I'm not, and I haven't been vaccinated.
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: I said what's the difference between you and I?
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: Right, you believe the lie.
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: You believe the lie, but you don't really believe the lie.
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: Do you that the vaccines are effective in preventing and transmission?
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: Because if you did really believe the lie, down deep, you would not be afraid of me walking around without a mask on, would you?
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: No, you don't believe it, but yet you want to believe the lie.
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: This is what we do today.
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: When you look at a baby in a mother's womb kicking, you can feel the movement in there.
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: You want to believe that that's not a human being, so that you can tear the human being out.
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: You want to believe that, but deep down, you know that that's a lie.
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: You know that the marriage is between a man and a woman.
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: This is where life comes from.
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: You know, any twisting and distortion of this is not truly marriage in the biblical sense, but we accept it.
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: So again, I'm not telling people what to do or what not to do, but you can see the fear when you walk away from the truth, when you walk away from love, and that's what she's saying here.
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: No one can decide not to die.
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: My friends, now we're not in a rush to do it, of course, but the fear, really the fear, didn't come from deep Christian faith.
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: You know Catholic faith.
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: It really went deep.
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: We were a church.
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: We were sneaking into the churches right, we weren't wearing masks in there, but they were freaking out, you know so.
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: Even pastors, priests, who you would think would be close to Christ and wouldn't fear anything and they were.
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: Now, you remember when the plagues and stuff came in the Middle Ages and even before that early Christianity, everybody would flee when something happened and the early Christians went in to help all those people.
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: Now they would get sick, some of them would catch these diseases.
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: Many, many did and many of them died.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: But they knew where they were going.
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: That's Dr Wanda's point here.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: She said Carol Oltevo, when he was a priest, used to teach that one dies at a time.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: That is right for him, because God is good.
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: If God knows, there's no need to deal with that.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: And now everyone is afraid of death.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: Why?
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: And don't forget, this was Dr Wanda Petrowska.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: She saw death all around her since she was a young girl the horror, the death, what we could do to one another.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: So you know she's no naive person.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: When she speaks about this she says why?
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: Why is everybody so afraid?
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: Do you not know that you must die?
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: One must prepare for death, not be afraid of it.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: The Holy Father organized World Youth Day for the first time in 1985.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: While no one had done that before him.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: John Paul II loved the youth.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: Why?
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: Because, he said, because, living in Krakow, he understood that the whole world was changing so much by the sexual revolution that people no longer knew how to live.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: John Paul said what communism and socialism could not do in poland, which was completely destroy god and from people's hearts and merits in the family, because this was in our roots, in their hearts.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: And polish, my, my one grandmother who married my swiss grandfather, by the way came from right outside krakow.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: And so she said you know when?
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: When the, the Nazis and the communists pulled back, then then those people rose up again and filled the culture again, with God and with the truth.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: Now, unfortunately, again another generation comes and instead of fighting for this, it changed again.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: Every generation has to fight for this, but we don't anymore.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: We've given up on it, right?
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: So John Paul knew, he said what the communism couldn't do the sexual revolution, this twisting and distorting of our very sexuality, of what it means to be a human person, that would take down Western civilization.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: And was he right?
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's right, that's what it looks like right now.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: Right, he understood that the world was changing so much that people no longer knew how to live.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: Isn't that true?
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: Now, people no longer had a sense of human dignity, so the killing of children was accepted by all Western countries.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: He always fought against this, until his last breath.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: Now, unfortunately, there are not many brave men and women in the world anymore.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: There is a lack of strong populations, a lack of new saints, there is a lack of wise male adults.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: She's really picking on men.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: Here too, we need men.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: We need strength, she said, not so much physical strength, because men are now more obsessed with machines, but we need at least psychological strength, we need spiritual strength.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: Yet even through all this, john Paul II was optimistic, he said.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: I'm not as optimistic as him because I am a psychiatrist and I know the terrible things that men can do with science Worse than animals.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: Men are more dangerous than animals.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: Actually, I would say that Western societies are now being tested, now perhaps more than ever before in history.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: Remember when I had an interview with Bishop Athanasius Schneider?
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: He said too it's unprecedented.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: What's going on before we sense this.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: This is not just another communist revolution, as terrible as that was.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: There's a sense that the whole world is in this battle between good and evil.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: She said.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: I'm very convinced that everything we're experiencing, including the health crisis, is a test for our civilization.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: Our reaction to what is happening is being tested.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: It's a sort of litmus test for our societies.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: What kind of people are we?
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: Are we people of eternal life and love, or are we people that have rejected eternal life and love?
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: Or are we people that have rejected eternal life and love and just live for this little temporal time?
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: Conversion, she said then, remains the key to all of this.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: But now people no longer believe in the possibility to change.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: We don't even believe that we can change, because the human heart is only changed by the Savior on the cross.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: They do not believe, for example, in the sacrament of penance and reconciliation.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: Confession Priests, who are God's chosen men, give all of us sinners a chance to enter heaven.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: Ooh, it's a chance to enter heaven.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: If you reject that, what are you rejecting, then?
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: No wonder you're fearful.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: And now there are even bishops, cardinals, bishops all the way up into the Vatican, who do not believe in penance and reconciliation for sins, that there is no hell.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: You're finding hell right here on earth.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: When you say that I reject God, I reject eternal life, I reject heaven, I will find hell in my own life and create hell around me.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: If they don't also ask about sins committed 20 years ago, then they don't believe in the sacrament of reconciliation.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: They are blind, as John Paul II would say.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: He would say open your eyes to see something beyond the body, he extorted.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: This is the problem.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: So many men of the church, our shepherds, have become blind.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: Their eyes are blind, their ears are dulled, their hearts have been dulled.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: They must open their eyes, their soul's eyes, the depths of our hearts, our core.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: They must open the eyes of their soul to see further.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: John Paul said too Because in fact so many problems can only be solved on one's knees in prayer.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: Many people say during the war humanity got lost, but this is not the case.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: One cannot never stop being human.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: The encyclical Veritatis Splendor that John Paul II wrote reminds us of this.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: Veritatis Splendor means the splendor of the truth.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: What is the truth?
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: What is reality?
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: Always start there, huh.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: One cannot pass from human to animal, even if one can live as such.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: In August the wisest Polish priest, archbishop Henrik Hozier, who was also a doctor, died.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: I'm sure he was a saint.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: He was so wise.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: One day, in a homily to doctors for the Feast of the Sick in Poland, he said that now medicine would be forced to change to veterinarian science, because people no longer live like human beings, but we live like animals.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: This was, you know.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: This is in Poland.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: This isn't Poland.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: Poland's not so bad compared to the rest of civilization, even though it seems now, with a new government there, it may follow suit too.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: It was always Poland and Hungary that were pulling back on all this world economic form and all this garbage right.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: So many people, dr Wanda says, no longer use their brains, their reason, their intellect and then their free will.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: So this is the core of what makes us different than human beings, she said.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: We don't use our intellect and our reason, our brains, anymore, and so we don't use our free will to choose the good.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: We think we're free, but we're enslaved.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: We're enslaved by sin and afraid of death.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: Archbishop Hozier used to say that consciousness must be formed.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: Well, this is getting back to my earlier statement.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: We have to form our own consciousness, conscience and then consciousness then too, and then bring that down to our children, pass that down to our children.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: She said a sense of responsibility is lacking.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: One can indeed fail, she said.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: One can indeed fail to develop one's humanity, but one cannot change oneself into a gorilla.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: For the specific case of the concentration camps, I can say that, contrary to what you may think, I saw more humane and heroic people there during my incarceration than in the rest of my life.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: I can also say that there are more stupid people among professors at universities than among simple country people.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: Science is not wisdom.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: Whoa, is that true?
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: We've given ourselves over to the expert class.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: We saw what the expert class does in our schools, in medicine, in business.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: Corruption is deep.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: Humanity must find wisdom again, not human wisdom, but divine wisdom.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: John Paul II wrote a phrase that sums up all of his wisdom Persona humanae fierieste.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: It means that the human person is never complete, nor automatically holy, but always has to change every day, every day, give us this day our daily bread.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: Every day we fight on that battlefield of the human heart between love and lust, between self-giving love and taking and grasping, and this is the battle going on between good and evil.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: He taught that every day you have the obligation to change again, to be born a second time from the Spirit, the Holy Spirit, capital S.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: You have to choose, and really we all always have to make choices.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: Nowadays, so many people say things like I wish you all good things.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: Today, people speak with these slogans without wisdom, nobody can have everything.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: I don't want everything.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: I want one good thing for me Jesus Christ.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: So what can we do?
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: Learn.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: John Paul II used to extort Study, learn.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: We must learn to love, to believe.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: Today, too many people think they know everything, but they're devoid of wisdom.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: No wise person will ever claim to know everything, because it's not possible.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: It's interesting the more I study, the more I get, say, an advanced degree, say a master's degree in theology, the more when I get that degree, when I got that degree.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: You realize studying that you know, not more.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: You do know more but you know less overall because you see how much there is to learn out there.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: That you have to realize that you don't make all this stuff up, this value system that you have to accept Jesus Christ.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: You have to accept divine revelation.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: We know this in our hearts.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: With natural law, we can see the reality of nature, how a human being comes into a life itself.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: We can see that and you know, just accepting natural law, nature's law.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: But then divine revelation changed the human heart so that we can really know the truth and choose the good.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: And this is true wisdom.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: The saints and the mystics, like St John of the Cross and St Teresa of Avila, who were contemporaries, would say wisdom, you have to become a person of love, but not just a feeling of love Like nowadays.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: Love is love.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: No, I have to be filled with divine life and love.
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: And then I have to become that love in the world.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: And he said the second thing is you have to be humble.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: Remember the pride of life.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: It's one of the three deadly sins, or the threefold concupiscence, lust of the eyes, lust of the flesh and the pride of life.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: And now we have a month full of pride.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: What's his name?
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: Admiral Richard Levine, who thinks he's a woman, dresses like a woman and said let's have pride this summer.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: Pride, he's so proud, right, and he affirms children in their brokenness, you know, if they think they're in the wrong body, just like him.
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: I mean, this is devastatingly evil to tell a child that they're in the wrong body.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: It's scientifically not right.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: It's, you know, from a human dignity standpoint.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: It's not right that these children and when you think about it, the vast majority of them, if nothing is done, you just walk with them, talk with them, just talk therapy alone.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: They will come to accept their bodies as the way they are.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: And yet we're doing this devastation to children.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: That shows you the evil that's permeated all the way through and being pushed on us right.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: And so what can we do?
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: We learn right.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: When Father Wotiba became Archbishop of Krakow, he organized a pontifical institute for theology and the family, for marriage and the family, of which I was a director and teacher of his philosophy.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: It was a fundamental initiative.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: He taught that children are innocent, but that adults are responsible, but do not take responsibility for them.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: See, this is an old story that we're relating here.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: This is a lack of mature.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: There is a lack of mature male adults.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: This is a lack of mature.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: There is a lack of mature male adults, especially, who take action to protect life.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: Why are you alive?
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: God did not create you in isolation.
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: That's not true.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: God does not want to create alone.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: He does it to a father and a mother with whom no child exists without them.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: All these politicians who fight against life do not know that it is they who gave life to their children.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: Where do these children killed by abortion come from?
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: Did they perhaps fall from heaven?
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: No, they came from a human act.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: Among my strongest memories of the last years of John Paul II's life is that famous day when we were having lunch together, I was called on the phone by one of my students who said we had lost in the Polish parliament which had been given permission to kill sick babies, and Dr Piotrowski here is referring to a law voted by the Polish parliament in 1993.
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: Healthy babies could not be killed, it said, but the sick ones could be.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: The phone call came to me from Krakow.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: Doctor, we've lost this battle.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: This is the first time I saw the Holy Father slam his fist on the table, exclaiming where are the pediatricians?
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: Why aren't they defending sick children?
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: So we tried to find pediatricians, but this is mere political work.
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: Back in Krakow, we tried to influence this government, and so it shows you.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: We have to be involved.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: You know, I meet priests today that say no, we shouldn't be involved in government stuff.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: I said what do you?
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: I mean, where do you get your teaching from?
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: Basic, basic, basic Catholic social teaching.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: You have to be filled with divine life and love.
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: You have to bring this into your own marriages and the families.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: But then you have to be filled with divine life and love.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: You have to bring this into your own marriages and the families.
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: But you have to bring it into culture.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: You have to bring it into your work.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: You have to bring it all.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: We have to bring the gospel in.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: This is jesus.
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: Go out into the vineyard.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: If we're politicians and we leave our our, our catholic faith at home, that doesn't mean you spout off the gospels when you're speaking to politicians, but you take a stance with pro-life issues.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: I mean, if you don't do this, then the culture itself, the government itself, just turns around and attacks this, and that's what you're seeing today.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: Of course you have to go out and do this, right?
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: So, again, this is what we're referring to here.
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: She said this, right.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: So again, this is what we're referring to here.
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: She said this, she goes, but the story remains very sad, even though this law was passed to to at least not abort healthy children.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: She said the story remains very sad because half the Polish politicians are in favor of killing sick children.
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: Well, it's only a next step again, where you start to allow the doctors to decide who's sick and who's not right, and this becomes very nefarious in many cases.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: But she says this.
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: But you in the rest of the West, you also kill healthy children.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: Why this permission to kill?
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: I repeat if you remember that you have to die, you think about it here on earth.
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: If you don't think about death, you live like a fool.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: The Holy Father used to tell me that stupidity is a grave sin, because you have a brain and you are forced to be a man, not an animal.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: You're forced to use your brain.
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: What is the truth?
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: And then you use your free will as a motor to choose the good.
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: So it is your fault if you make the wrong decisions.
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: I was given the gift of God to be born in this age, dr Wanda Petrowski said not before this age, not after.
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: But you who in so many cases do not know how you were born, ask yourself first who are you?
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: Why are you here?
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: Why do you exist?
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: God has a plan for you.
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: He has a plan for all of us.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: You, ultimately, she says, are not responsible for your country or your continent.
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: You are not, she said.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: You are responsible for yourself.
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: If you are not holy, you are to blame, no one else.
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: Whoa God bless you.
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: Remember that this battle is a battle of the human heart between good and evil.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: Almost all of the evil that you see in the world today is the battle of some human heart, and millions then of human hearts that have accepted evil have grown dull.
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: If it's accepted moral relativism, there is no truth, there is no good, only my good or your good.
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: And then when those people get into power in business, as doctors, wherever they're at, politicians for sure, world Economic Forum, the WHO, all these bodies, all appointed, all with dirty money behind them, you know, and they bring this evil in the world.
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: But, like Dr Wander Piotrowski said, we're all going to die.
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: We're all going to die and the moment you die, the very last breath that you take, you're going to meet God face to face.
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: Ooh, you better hope that he judges you with a lot of mercy.
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: I hope he judges me with a lot of mercy, but at least you hope that on the battlefield between love and lust in your heart, that you have accepted God and over time you've let God go to work right.
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: We die with Christ, we rise with Christ, and then we try to do good the best we can.
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: Huh, god bless you.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much.
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: I'll keep you in my prayers, you keep me in yours.
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: Talk to you soon, everybody.
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: Go to the polls, do the right thing.
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: Bye-bye.