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Show 51: Fr. Dan · The Uncensored Catholic

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Hey, y'all, welcome to today's show. Today is going to be well,
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today's show is going to be a very special show for me. I
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talk about a priest and I wrote about recently, and people want to know
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more about him. And I think, you know, in this day and
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age, when we can watch mass online, I think it's really one of
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the best ones to watch. It's gonna answer a lot of questions that you
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may have that other people really don't have the same insight, to put it
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mildly, but we'll get into that in a minute, you know. I
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like to start with a couple of questions and answers from the old book radio
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replies from the nineteen thirties. This was in this particular episode. The questions
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are really coming from the questions we're really coming from communists, and the priests,
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one in Australia and one in the United States, were of course very
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opposed to communism, which every faithful Catholic should be, because communism is utterly
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opposed to Christianity. Not only is it atheist, but it's communism, socialism,
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progressivism, Nazism, and liberal Democrats whatever, it's all the same ideology
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are based on one of the seven deadly sins. I mean it's first of
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all, it's literally based on the Thinness on covetousnessness, covetousness, it's based
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it's a political ideology based on coveting, based on wanting what someone else has,
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and then on theft stealing it through government rather than just going and pulling
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a gun on somebody. So um an envy, you know, yeah,
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let's also throw an envy. I think we can find a few more of
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them. Actually, it's an evil ideology and it has led to the deaths
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of hundreds of millions of people, and it needs to be utterly rejected,
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even and especially when it comes under the Wolf in Sheep's Clothing guide of guys
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of social and environmental justice. When you hear that crap in your church or
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in your Catholic school, say you know what, socialism, communism, progressivism,
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liberalism is incompatible with Catholicism. Get that crap out of here, and
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if they refuse, pull your kid out of school, go to a different
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parish. Do not put a dollar in that collection plate. Put a note
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in there that says, when you stop promoting communism, I will put a
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dollar in this plate. They'll get the idea eventually. All right, So
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the first question is the person actually makes a statement, not a question.
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My poverty is due to the oppression of capitalism, not to the loving will
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of God. Well, they answer, God has permitted it, but it
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has come about firstly by mistaken conduct with all good will on the part of
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man, secondly by faults on both the side of some capitalists and on some
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workers. Thirdly through mere force of circumstances. It is not against God's positive
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will to try to remedy these things. But meantime, the present state of
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affairs would not exist were it not for his permissive will. Once again,
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the priests are saying, God didn't will you to be poor. You're poor
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because of the well your own actions or the actions of other human beings.
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When a person misuses their wealth to the detriment of others, they are sitting
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gravely. They are sitting far more gravely than a poor person who is struggling
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to survive and may make a few bad choices. You remember lad Versus and
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the rich man. The rich man had a duty to care for his brother,
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his fellow jue Lazarus, but he wouldn't even worry if he could be,
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you know, enough to give him the scraps of food from his table.
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That is well, that's about as grave as sin as can be.
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You know, God said the ultimate laws. Love God with all your heart,
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and your neighbor as yourself. Yes, the employer does have a duty
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to his employees, and each of them have a duty to their community.
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We're not in it just for ourselves, the old Gordon Gecko. Greed is
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good, you know, depends on how you define greed. First of all,
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greed as defined by the Catholic Church is a grave evil. On the
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other hand, concerted self interest, which is essentially the heart of the capitalist
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system. I want to make a living, therefore I make a good product
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to sell is actually the most equitable way to distribute goods. If each person
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will work and are in an equal, fair environment, there's more than enough
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for everybody who's abundance. You remember, Thomas Jefferson's vision for America was small
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farmers, each one producing all they needed and selling their excess. Another who
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decided not to be a farmer could be a craftsman. He would trade his
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goods for some of the extra produce that came off to farm. Another might
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be a lawyer, he'd give his legal services in exchange for the many to
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buy from the craftsman and from the farmer. The idea that we should all
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be in the service industry or in government, which is what has pushed these
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days, or on the doll is absolutely destructive. This isn't capitalism. This
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is actually fascism where a few large corporations fund the government to give them special
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treatment and everyone else just has enough to survive on to buy the things those
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corporations produce. From labor in China, from resources source from Africa and South
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America. This is not the way it was supposed to be. We are
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not living in a capitalist society. We are living in a fascist socialist society.
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If you want to get back to real capitalism, buy a piece of
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property, start a small farm, figure out how to provide for your family,
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figure out how to cover your own needs, and then do something extra
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to make a little money, and then you're actually a capitalist. Otherwise,
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start a business, hire people, produce a good that people actually need.
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They can be a restaurant people need to eat. Do an actual actually care
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enough about the quality of your work, the quality of what you produce,
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and the people you're serving to give them something good in quality, not cheap
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garbage made in China by slave labor. Anyway, the person goes on and
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says, could God, could not God at least have made life much easier
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instead of making everything hard? Well, they answer, obviously, everything's not
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hard. Some things are. The things that are difficult are made easier by
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the grace of which so many people deliberately deprive themselves. All difficulty cannot be
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removed, for God has a right to ask us to overcome at personal cost,
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our self inflicted bad habits, sends, and injuries. Men's complaints are
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often about as reasonable as those of a man who cuts his throat and then
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blames the doctor because it hurts to have it stitched up again. How true
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is that we are all our own worst enemies, and we do make things
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much harder for ourselves than they need to be. And what's the most natural
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thing? At that point? Blame God, not yourself. The maturer man
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or woman will look in the mirror first, and the person says, but
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life seems to be becoming harder and more painful. They said, Well,
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there has been a succession of world depressions, of world recoveries throughout history.
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In any case, temporal trials do not mean that life is becoming worse.
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It may mean it may be a means of great good. It is easy
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to follow our lower instincts, difficult to battle against them. If your policy
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is to do only that which it is easy and pleasant in life, you
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will never be much of a man. Christ came to make men better and
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offers his grace and assistance whenever virtue demands what is difficult and painful to our
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lower natures and sensitiveness sensitivities. I guess he said he offers special grace to
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those who have the good sense to pray for it. What a remarkable statement
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in this day and age. Be a man if you don't face the trials
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and the hardships, if you don't overcome your weaknesses and temptations, you will
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never be much of a man. That one statement may be in greater opposition
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to our current society than anything else I have read from that classic book.
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As Father Sparago would say, one of the greatest duties of a man is
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to act manfully, to have courage, to have perseverance. And yet we
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live in a culture that degrades masculinity that holds up well. They champion women
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for I guess about fifty years until that had run its course, and now
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they're champion homosexuality and transgenderism. The one thing they don't want is men who
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will stand up heroically and say, I believe in right and wrong, and
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it's going to start with me. And I'm going to be a person of
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integrity. I'm going to fight my own demons. I'm not going to be
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a victim. I'm going to pay my own way in life. I'm going
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to work hard. I'm not going to go on the system. I'm not
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going on the doll I'm not going to be a drug addict. I'm not
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going to indulge all my deviant desires. I'm actually going to be a good
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man who earns his keep, who urge his way in life, who provides
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for himself and his family, who was actually a husband to one wife for
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life to death, do his part, who raises his children, and who
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goes to church and does the right thing, no matter how difficult it is,
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and no matter how opposed it is to the wants. Some whims of
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the Progressive Democratic Party and the weak, worthless Republicans and most of them are
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weak and worthless and will stand for nothing. We need men who will stand
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for something, and they need to stand for what is good. We don't
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need a bunch of social justice warriors out there running around with Antifa and breaking
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windows and setting things on fire. We need men like our grandfathers and great
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grandfathers who built this country and raised good families, who had you know,
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seven eight, nine, ten kids. All the boys did military service,
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the girls got married and raised good Christian families. They all raised good Christian
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families and went to church. And we're not bought off by the promises of
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an easy life and welfare and abortion and indulge in all your selfish fantasies.
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We need people willing to be of service and a really willing to stand in
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the breach and say that's not right, that's not what God taught. I
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believe in the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church. I renounce Satan and all
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his works. And Joe frickin Biden, you should ever call yourself a Catholic,
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and no priest should ever give you communion because you support killing babies.
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But we don't have that duing. We need a whole lot more of that.
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We need a whole lot more of that. So anyway, let's get
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into a what I was going to talk about today. In my last column
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from Mizzy O Day, I wrote it was just an aside. I've got
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a priest who had a great impact on me. His name is Father Dan,
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and I'm going to assume his last name is pronounced papanaut. It's obviously
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French, it is papi n e au papadout. I'm assuming you may remember
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Father Dan. Father Dan used to be on e wt N quite a bit.
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He's one of the big proponents of the Divine Mercy chaplet. In fact,
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he was ordained at the National Shrine of Divine Mercy in nineteen ninety eight.
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Where you think, may think, nineteen ninety eight, Father Dan must
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be a young priest. No he's not. Father Dan came to the priesthood
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later in life. He was married and had a wife and a daughter,
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and they died. I'm not sure of the circumstances. And this is where
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Father Dan's story gets very interesting. Father Dan's wife was very devoutly Catholic,
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and I think he was a devout Catholic himself. You can imagine after that,
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he was absolutely devastated, and he had a great devotion to the Blessed
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Mother, and he was given incredible gift of visions of heaven. Following the
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death of his wife and child. Father Dan has been to heaven on multiple
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occasions. He not only this is not just a dream. I mean this
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is not just a vision. He went to heaven on several times. He
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was able to speak with his wife and daughter. He was able to hug
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his wife and daughter. They kissed him, He kissed them. He's spoken
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with our Blessed Mother. He's seen Jesus. Father Dan has actually spoken with
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the Mother of God and seeing Jesus and been to heaven. He said that
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when he first saw Jesus, and I don't know if it was more than
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one time, he fell flat down on his face, prostrate on the ground
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and could only lift his head with the encouragement of the Blessed Mother high enough
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to see the feet of Jesus. His wife and daughter asked him to become
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a priest so that he could fulfill his earthly duty given to him by God,
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so he would be able to join them in heaven one day. Father
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Dan is now the priest in a tiny little parish and one of the most
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economically depressed areas of South Carolina. It's near Darlington and Florence. There's some
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really good priests in that area. You may remember the priest in Florence denied
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communion to Joe Biden. Father Dan is in the little college town of Hartsville.
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It's a little college town, a little factory town. It's kind of
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in the middle of nowhere on the well, not far from the Peadee Rivers.
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I'm seeing me twelve miles south of the Peadee River, in the historic
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Cotton Belt area. Most of the towns are our majority Black in the area,
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a lot of poverty. Father Dan has a little church and a small
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college Catholic population and a small residential Catholic population. And I happened to wander
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through Heartsful, South Carolina several years ago. It's a bad time in my
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life. Wasn't reacting to things very well, wasn't being manful, as a
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father of Sparago would say. And just happened to be passing by. Was
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a Mary Mother of God Church or Mary Saint Mary the Virgin Mother Church,
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Roman Catholic Church of heartsful South Carolina, and at the exact time he's here
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in confession. I looked at the clock. I said, wow, this
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is kind of an odd time of day to hear confession. But hey,
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I'll pull in. I need to go to confession. So pulling in the
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parking lot, and I'm totally out of place. I mean, look,
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when a big old hill billy and jeans and a flannel shirt and boots walks
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into Catholic church, Everybody's going to look at him as like, are you
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do you belong here? You know how that goes. But yeah, I'll
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walk in and you're ever in a little side chapel and they're praying the Divine
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Mercy chaplet. But you know, Father Dan is a huge proponent of the
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Divine Mercy chaplet. So I went and nell and started pulled out my rosary,
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started praying the Divine Mercy chaplet. So I guess everybody realized I was
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actually Catholic, you know. And then following that, he walks back there,
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you just say, word, walks back into his office. I'm looking
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around, I said, someone, is he here in confessions? They said,
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yeah, you know, just just walk back there. If you if
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you if you're ready to, you know, do reconciliation. It's it's very
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informal here here, so all right. Walked in and by no means a
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traditional confession confessional, no screen, no kneeler, just it's his office with
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two chairs. And walked in and I said, are you hearing confessional?
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He said, yes, come in now. One thing you need to know
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about Father Dan. If he's five feet tall, I would be surprised.
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He is an incredibly short, small framed man with the biggest voice I think
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I have ever heard. His voice is five times the size of his body.
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It is. I mean, he could have been a Shakespearean actor.
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I mean it just like projects throughout the entire church. And it's a soft,
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very gentle voice, but very bold, one would say. So I
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walk in and I sit down, and he says, what brings you here
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today? I said, well, I'm actually just kind of wandered through town.
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I said, I'm I'm just kind of looking for a place to call
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home, and I've been looking for a farm for a long time. There
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was an area of just considering. I think I'm more of a mountain type
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though, you know, the hot weather gets to me and I really it's
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hard to leave the Appalachians, you know, it's very I've moved away at
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least five times and always come back. But anyway, he looks at me,
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he says, my son, you are home and we are your family.
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The Catholic church is your home. And I was like, what is
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this James Earl Jones talking to me, you know, But he just like
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stunned me with his voice, you know, and he was so sincere,
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and he was not saying that It's not just something that he popped off with.
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He wanted me to know that any Catholic church I walked into was my
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home. He said, we are your family and you are home. Do
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you have something you need to confess? And so I gave my confession and
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he's he's a tough confessor. I gotta tell you. He's not one of
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those where you walk in and you just you know, say what you got
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to say, and he says, okay, um, try not do it
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again. There's one priest to go to sometimes in a different town who always
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says for your for your penance. If if you could, if there's someone
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you see during this week that needs a little help, could you help him
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out and I say yes. He says, okay, that's your penance,
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and I absolve you. I mean, it's you know, it's a little
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perfunctory, but he's he's a good priest too, He's well meaning. But
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Father Dan, he's going to ask you questions. He's going to say,
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why did you do this? What were you thinking? Do you realize the
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gravity of what you've done. I mean, he's not an easy confessor.
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He's a really good one, and if you ever get chances to speak with
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him, highly recommend him. But after that, I was just very moved,
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you know, I was very moved. And it was just before it
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was the beginning of COVID. So I went home and I think that was
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the last time I actually had the opportunity to go to Mass for a good
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year. You know, the churches were closed. Those that were open were
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only allowing you to go in if you're vaccinated. I was not vaccinated.
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I can't wear a mask because I have well I inherited asthma. I have
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some respiratory conditions and putting anything over my mouth is not good, not good.
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So didn't get to good a mask for a long time after that,
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and I started watching Father Dan doing live streaming Mass, which he still does,
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and you can watch his homilies. You can watch Mass at Saint Mary
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the Virgin Mother, Roman Catholic Church every Sunday Holy Day. I think he
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does the Saturday at some of the weekday Mass. It's on their site.
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It's on YouTube. Do check it out. He's gonna blow your mind.
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The man has been to heaven. You know, I guess it was.
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Was it? Saint Thomas Aquinas said that, you know, there was no
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way animals go to heaven because they don't have a soul like humans. Father
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Dan says, that's wrong. How does he know, because he's been to
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heaven. Father Dan says, your pets are in heaven because everything you love
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that is good is in heaven, and your heavenly Father will not deprive you
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of what you love that is good. You need to hear Father Dan's he's
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he's going to boil your mind. He's going to tell you the incredible love
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that Jesus has for us, the incredible love the Blessed Mother has for us,
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the truth about the communion of Saints. You know in the Bible,
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at least Saint Paul says, are you not aware we are surrounded by so
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great a cloud of witnesses. If you could pull back the veil just once
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and see the things at Saint Paul and Father Dancy blow your mind, you
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would realize that saints and angels are around us all the time, battling with
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demons. We are very much in a spiritual warfare, and the Communion of
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Saints is our family and our allies. I'm just gonna I'm just gonna say
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I couldn't do it justice. I mean, I would try to tell you
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some of the things he said that are so very deep and so very plain
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spoken, and they come from real, true personal experience of someone you know.
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I fully expect to be beatified one day. You need to check this
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guy out. I'll put to you that play. I would to be remiss
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if I did not share this incredible priest that I stumbled upon one day.
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I have only met him one time, so I'm sure he will not remember
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me, and it wouldn't even expect him to. Well, it doesn't matter,
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but I'll never forget him. And if you ever get a chance to
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go to his church, do not hesitate. I don't care if you have
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to drive two or three hours. If you're in the area, there's actually
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Heartsfull's, some nice little town by the way, some good restaurants, really
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good fish markets, nice people, very friendly, nice people. Definitely definitely
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go to Mass at Saint Mary the Virgin Mother Church of Heartsfull, South Carolina.
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But if you can't, and even if you can, you're definitely gonna
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want to watch Father Dan's homilies. Go to their website, Saint Mary's Heartsful
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dot org, pull it up on YouTube, strap in and be ready because
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this is a different kind of priest, and I know some really good ones,
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some fantastic priests, some priests that were so profound Liken singer Jeffrey Ingham
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one of the most profound homilists I've ever heard, just deep serious theology in
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every single homily. Father Dan is a totally different breed a priest, and
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he's going to give you insights and spiritual comfort that you're probably not going to
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find in many places, if anywhere else. Actually, So anyway, y'all
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have a great day. If you ever meet Father Dan, tell him I
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said, Hi, I'm sure he won't remember me, but like I said,
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I'll never forget him. Y'all have a great one, and I'm talked
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to you tomorrow