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Show 98: ON THE DUTY OF CONFESSING OUR FAITH · The Uncensored Catholic

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A, Hey, y'all, welcome to today's show. We'll just pick right
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up where we left off last time with the radio replies and didn't get into
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fallow sparago and such, and you know, who knows, whatever else comes
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up along the way. You know, these shows go, they're they're really
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spontaneous, to say the least. What a beautiful cold day it is here
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today, though, I mean, it's just it's gorgeous that the sugn has
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that it's that pale winter sign, but not quite yet, you know,
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it still has that soft glow of fall. Soon, you know, soon
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it's going to be that very pale sun that can be a little bleak,
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but this one still looks really nice, and there's still some leaves on the
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trees. And I've just been enjoying the Chris cool air and a big hot
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bowl of soup and now I'm I'm in my big comfy chair with a blanket
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across my lap and oh a little swallow bourbon by my side, and it's
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just one of those days you say, you think, you know, life's
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pretty good. Actually life is pretty good, but yeah, you know,
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obviously it's not for everybody right now, and we all have our own sufferings,
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and let's just, you know, pray for each other. That's what
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we're supposed to do. Pray for each other and lift each other up.
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It's it's it's quiet here, but it's it's it's really a nice day,
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really a nice day. So let's get into it. And you remember,
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the person was questioning the priests about what they thought were inconsistencies in the Bible.
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And they've gone through the genealogy of Christ and all that kind of minutia
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that you know, modern Christians don't really pay attention to. You know,
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you don't need to. I mean, the genealogies of Jesus were very important
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to the Jews of two thousand years ago. I skipped that chapter. You
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know, maybe I'm wrong in doing that, but I skip it. It
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doesn't edify me in the least. But the person questioning them thought they had
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found inconsistencies in numbers and names. And after explaining it thoroughly that you know,
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one book was written for the Jews and another for the Gentiles, and
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one was more complete in its genealogy than the other. And they reference the
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said many scholars say, Well, the person comes back and says, as
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often happens, you say. Many scholars thus reply, do you suggest that
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others propose a more satisfactory explanation? The preachers respond, others believe that they
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have a more satisfy satisfactory solution of the difficulty. The Jews disputed among themselves
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whether the Messiah was to come from David through Solomon or through Nathan. Saint
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Matthew abstracts from the notion of consanguinity that means blood relation and deals only with
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the juridicial juridicial rights of the dividic succession. My word, could they use
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more complicated language? A successor is not necessarily a son, and Saint Matthew
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shows how the Davidic rights descend from Joseph and his legal son Jesus through Solomon.
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The genealogy given by Saint Matthew has thus only a conventional value and necessarily
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differs from the real and legal genealogy according to the consanguinity given by Saint Luke.
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Many modern scholars claim that this theory has greater probabilibility and that the preceding
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explanation would reply by denying the existence of the problem. When asked to solve
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the problem of reconciling the divergent genealogies of their principles. There would have to
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be divergence. Yeah, yeah, that's splitting hairs. As far as I'm
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concerned, I'm not going to weigh in on that. So the person goes
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on says, how could Augustus order Sin quote the whole world at that time?
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And they just simply replied the expression meant everybody, whether in a given
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province or a locality. The person says, antiquarians say that there was never
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a census of the Roman Empire. And they reply, if men say that,
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ask them to prove it. If they could mention a thousand books which
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do not mention a census, that would not prove that a census did not
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take place, but merely those books do not mention it. Josephus and his
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Jewish Antiquities describes a census of Judea, a census to which Saint Luke refers
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an acts and ounce of positive evidence is worth a thousand omissions. And you
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know, that's sort of what I was saying yesterday. When someone makes an
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accusation, the burden is on them. The onus is on them to prove
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the accusation. Not on you to defend it. When someone says to you,
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Catholics worship Mary and the Saints. Catholics worships statues like idols, tell
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them prove it. Yeah, tell me how you know that. Prove it,
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and they'll come up with a lot of anti Catholic writing, and you
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say, okay, show me a Catholic writer that said this. Show me
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a Catholic scholar. Show me a pope that told us to deify to worship
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Mary and the Saints as God. Show me a pope that says we should
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worship statues like idols. Show me in the Catechism, show me in can
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in law. If you don't want to get that technical, show me otherwise,
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it's just someone's opinion who isn't Catholic. It's not our doctrine. It's
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prejudice, it's bigotry. It's a misguided person saying something false even if they
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think it to be true. Don't even get into it with them. I
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mean, don't just save your ammo. Seriously, sit back and let them
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prove the accusation before you ever put up a defense. If they cannot prove
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it's true, you could just say, well, it's faults and move on.
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If you want to pull a you know, passage out of Catechism telling
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them what we actually believe, that's fine, they're not gonna believe it.
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But if they can't prove that their argument is true, you will do more
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to undermine their prejudice and bigotry make them question what they believe than you ever
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will. Quoting in verses from scripture, taking passages out of the Catechism because
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they don't believe Catholic writers, they don't believe Catholicism is real, undermine their
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confidence in what they believe to be real, which is an absolute faulsehood and
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lie, and then you know you've set them off balance, and then you
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can actually have a constructive conversation or just move on, which is what I
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often do. I rarely argue with anti Catholics anymore. I'm just like,
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well, okay, you're an idiot, and I move on. Seriously.
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I mean, I'll say, well, okay, the Bible doesn't say that,
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the Catechism doesn't say that, no Catholic writing says that, and what
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you're saying is stupid, and I just you know, if it's social media,
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I just block them and move on. I don't bother wasting my time
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with them anymore. If they want to read my book, they can read
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my book. If someone gets in touch with me and said, I read
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in your book this and I want to take issue with it, I have
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a long drawn out conversation with him. And sometimes someone's respectful and they just
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have an honest question or you know, an honest disagreement. Yeah, I'll
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take plenty of time with them, a lot time, longer than most people
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will. But when someone comes out and just starts throwing false accusations, I
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just say, well, okay, you think that because you're wrong, and
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it's up to you to prove me wrong. It's up to you to prove
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yourself right. And if you can't do it, if you can't win that
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argument with yourself, I'm not going to participate in it. Have fun,
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you know. Whatever the person says. But the census mentioned by Josephus took
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place in eighty six, not at the time of Christ's birth. They reply
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there was a previous census at the time of Christ's birth, of which Josephus
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makes no mention. Saint Luke is a perfectly reliable historian, both in his
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Gospel in the Acts, both in his Gospel and in the Acts. He
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proves his exact knowledge of Greco Roman affairs and beginning and begins his Gospel with
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a reference to his diligence in verifying the facts. He narrates he would not
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at once proceed to make serious and easily avoidable errors. The census did not
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necessarily take place simultaneously in all parts and the district census. Saint Luke mentions
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in Gospel two five one, I guess what they're saying. In his Gospel
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Chapter two oh, verse one. That's what their symbols mean. I think
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I could easily refer to as a preliminary census according to Jewish customs. His
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very expression in those days suggests a lawn drawn out. The person replies,
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at least Saint Luke says, it's Cyrenius, governor Syria, published the decree
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of the enrollment, but Quintilius Varus was governor at the time of Christ's birth.
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They reply, the English version has the words this enrolling was first made
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by Sirenius, the governor of Syria, but a bear translation of the Greek
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would be the first enrolling was made by Sirenius. The procurator or quaesitter.
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I don't even know that word qua e s t o r of Syria.
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Saint Luke knew of two distinct enrollments under Sirenius, the first of when he
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was procurator under Verus, which he mentions of the second Chapter of the Gospel,
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the second under Sirenius as governor and enrolling, which he mentions in the
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Acts. It is not mere high hypothesis that Serenius twice exercised authority in Syria,
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the first time under Verus and the second time in charge. It is
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the conclusion of the studies of Momson m se N. I suppose that was
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a historian, and also have zumped another historian after his study of inscriptions dealing
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with the matter of Ti Voley outside of run. So, as far as
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I'm concerned, all that's just minutia. If someone questions me in such details
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on the historical points of the Bible, I know of actual several Catholic historians,
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I would just refer them to and say this does this conversation doesn't interest
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me. I'm interested in the message of the Bible, not minution and bureaucratic
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details of who ruled what province. At what time. Now that's your thing,
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Hey, go for it. And the priests in Radar Applies give you
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plenty of ammo. Philip at miss O'Day, I believe has degrees in history,
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and he's really good on such as set me. I just plain don't
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have the patience for it. I enjoy history. I was never a dates
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and places person. You know how when you're testing school, you're supposed to
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say, on what date did Napoleon and you begin to try and invade Russia
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or something, right, and you got to write down the date, the
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day and the year and all that. I'm like, sometime during his reign
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and whenever he felt like it. Okay, not my thing. I am
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not a specifics guy when it comes to history. What matters to me is
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not is what happened what happened, not the exact day and time it happened,
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or who said what or whatever. It's just not the way I'm wired.
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I mean, honestly, Shoot, if you've read my cookbook you probably
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figured that out. I don't write detailed recipes. I'm like, adjust to
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your taste, to your taste, adjust to the quantity you're making. You
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know. I'm just not a detailed guy. I'm an overall big picture kind
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of guy, not a being counter. You know, when I was in
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college, my field of study was economics. Well, you may ask,
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how did you study economics when you're dyslexic and have trouble doing basic math.
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That's very true. I'm dyslexic and I can't keep my numbers straight. I
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mix them all up. I mean, it's a nightmare just trying to fill
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out my taxes. But yeah, I studied economics because I understood the principles
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and became a really good economist. I actually did some contract work for several
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politicians and such. I could predict what was going to happen in the economy
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six months or a year out based on trends and you know, history and
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overarching patterns. But you asked me to do microeconomics, not macroeconomics. Macro
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ecnomics thing microeconomics are accounting. You'd probably be better off getting your Doberman retriever
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to do your taxes. I mean, I kept seriously, it's just a
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nightmare for me to do really anything beyond basic addition, subtraction. And even
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then I have to count, I mean, I have to double check and
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triple check and concentrate really hard because I invert numbers. And you may ask,
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you've written twelve books, how the heck did you do that? And
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I'll tell you through a miracles, through the grace of God, who gave
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me the ability to write. And if I, I mean, yeah,
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I invert letters, I'm dyslexic. But somehow he made it so I can
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write and usually get things ninety nine percent right, and then spell check or
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a proofread or will catch my little mistakes usually. But essentially, when I
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read, my brain guesses it words. I don't read words a letter at
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a time. I read words by recognition. So if it's anything longer than
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five letters, somehow my brain guesses at the word. And you know,
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I mean, I just read to you from a book and I didn't get
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things that wrong. It's not bad for dyslexic. I consider that a miracle.
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Now, let's see what Father Spiago has to tell us today under the
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topic God requires of us that we should make an outward profession of our faith.
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Christ says, so let your light shine before men, that they may
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see your good works and glorify your Father, who is in heaven. We
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are bound in our words and actions to let men know that we are Christians
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and Catholics. It is by the open profession of our faith that we help
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others, as we see from the above words of our Lord, to know
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God better and to honor Him more. We also thereby lead them to imitate
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our good deeds. For men are like sheep, which, though lazy in
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themselves and unwilling to move, and actually sheep can be a little bit difficult,
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will follow where one of them leads the way. Sheep are so docile,
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and compared to goats, I grew up with goats. Goats are like
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dogs with hoofs. They're playful, they're mischievous, they're stubborn as can be.
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Sheep are like the opposite. They're just like docile, and they kind
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of go where somebody leads. But they're both herd animals, and when one
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goes, they all go, so it's you know, they're very interesting animals.
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Actually I enjoy I enjoyed raising goats a lot when I was a kid,
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used to play with them all the time. I studied kung fu when
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I was a kid. So when the billy goats would start to try to
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butch you and ram you. You know, when they get to a certain
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age, I would use my blocking skills and like send them flying across the
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pasture and they get mad and shake their head and charge at me. And
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it was just like a game. I'd be out there trying to feed them
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and you know, get the dozen from milking or whatever, and you know,
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yeah, there'll be four or five little billy goats just like running at
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me like a like a a linebacker in a football game. And I mean
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just I'd redirect them and send them flying or flip them over or you know,
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it was fun. I enjoy goats quite a bit. And you know,
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people have odd prejudices about goats. A billy goa, once he's full
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grind, will become very protective of you. He will consider himself he's like
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a guard dog. His job is to protect the herd. And he'll come
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and rub up against you as he walks past, and wants you to rub
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his head and his back and everything, and that that got will be as
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protective of you as a as a dog in their own odd, irrational stubborn
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ways. And goats are incredibly irrational and stubborn, and they love to climb
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on things and they're just really you, I don't know. They're almost like
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kids in a way. I guess maybe that's why they call young baby oats
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kids. You can either get annoyed with them or you can laugh at their
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antics. They're not gonna listen to you, and they're not gonna do what
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you tell them to whatsoever you have to induce them with food or just you
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know, herd them. But yeah, they're actually a whole lot of fun.
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And I hope very soon to get settled and have a few milk goats
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at the very least. I love goat cheese, especially chev or Bursanne cheese,
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which is a spice chev Feta Feta is a goat cheese and it's I
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mean, that's one of my probably top five cheeses. That is nothing but
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a goat cheese brined and saltwater and it's fantastic. Chev which is the fresh
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goat cheese, is so good. It's sour. It has almost like a
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sour cream type taste to it, with like a marscapone cheese, creamy texture
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in an almond with some fresh herbs, maybe a couple of mushrooms, some
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ham my, gosh, that's good stuff. I mean, it is so
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worth putting up with annoying, stubborn goats just to have that incredible cheese.
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And you can make an excellent like crim fresh sort of a thin sour cream
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out of it. You know, Goat milk's good too, but you know
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it's not as good as cow milk when it comes to cheese. You know,
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yeah, the milks are I mean, goat milk cheese, sheep milk
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cheese. They're so different than cow milk cheese. And I mean, I
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would not want to say one was better than the other because they're all just
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so very good. I mean, I mean, I'll take some Peccorina romano,
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and I'll take some Bursanne, I'll take some good up. Yeah,
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I mean, I love cheese. I love cheese. But anyway, oh,
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let that be a tribute to my good friend Alyssa in Italy who comes
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from a cheese making family. Please remember, pray for Alyssa. She's going
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through legal battles right now. She's actually fighting the mob for control of her
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family company, So pray for a Listen, anyway, let's just get back
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to this, all right. So he said that she will follow where one
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leads them. The open profession of our faith also strengthen us, strengthens us
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in all that is good, for practice makes perfect unhappily. Men are often
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too often cowards for fear of being laughed at by those around them, or
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through dread of suffering some injury in their business or some disadvantage in worldly affairs
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or interests. They have not the courage openly to profess their faith or defend
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their religion when it is attacked. They laugh at indeed, or they laugh
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at indecent or profane stories, join in immodest conversations, or talk against the
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church and priests and religious and eat meat on Fridays in order to escape the
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jests of their companions, and miss Mass on Sunday without excuse. They forget
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that those who at them out of doing what it's right only despise them in
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their hearts, and would respect and honor them if they should firm. They
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forget too, that at the day of judgment, the tables would be churned,
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and that those who now mock at them will be full of terror and
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shame, and those who have been loyal to their religion will be objects of
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envy and admiration of their persecutors who will bitterly omit the folly of their wickedness.
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And on that note, I actually have wonderful news today. North Carolina
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has two Catholic congressmen. The first is Virginia Fox. She's the congresswoman from
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where I live, and a wonderful nice woman who has voted horribly over the
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past couple of years and is very elderly and hopefully shore retire sin. Wonderful
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nice woman, but she's been really let astray recently and has become essentially a
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Democrat Ryan a Republican name only. The other is from the next district over
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from me. His name is Patrick McHenry. Patrick McHenry went to Belmont and
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Belmont Abbey, and he is an absolute scumbag. He is thoroughly corrupt,
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utterly immoral, and an absolute embarrassment to North Carolina. Not only that,
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but in his district people have told me. I haven't seen it myself.
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He will go to Lutheran churches and pretend to be Lutheran. He will go
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to any church, Presbyterian, Baptist, and did basically deny his Catholicism.
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That's what I've been told. I don't know, you know, I know
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he has a couple of male roommates in a very small apartment. I'm not
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gonna go way further than that. He not only votes like a Democrat and
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seems to be probably well. He was one of what the seven Republicans who
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voted against impeaching my orcis. He's Kevin McCarthy's roommate and tody. I think
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tody would be a wonderful term for him. He seems to be willing to
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violate any tenet of his religion, all morality, and any laws that allow
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him to gain power and stay in office. And he's about four feet tall,
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Napoleonic complex, and a complete utter piece of human garbage in my opinion,
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well just my opinion, my opinion. Only never met him personally,
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you know, I spoke to him one time in passing, actually in the
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men's room. We stood beside each other journals as we washed our hands and
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said hello. He said hello. That was we ever got. He announced
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today he is retiring. It seems Steve Bannon and the War room really went
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after him for his horrible votes, his horrible, rhino, disgusting liberal democrat
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posing as a Republican fake. I should not I'm not going to say he's
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not. I'm not going to say he doesn't believe in the Catholic Church and
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its teachings. And maybe he goes to Mass sometimes and his conscious is his
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business. But you want to talk about someone who, from all I've been
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told, is willing to compromise anything, even to pretend to be Protestant for
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position and power. He's the poster child. I think we could put Kevin
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McCarthy in that same category, really, really, really really. I mean,
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if we have a representative government, what does that say about us?
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If they actually represent us bad? They're named bad, They're just pathetic.
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They're just waste of carbon. They're waste of carbon. I'll put it that
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way. God willing, they'll have some kind of conversion at some point.
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But McHenry is not going to run for office again, and good riddits to
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bad rubbish. And I don't think I you know, I don't have I
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would literally rather see an honest liberal Democrat hold that seat than a lying,
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worthless, cheating, pathetic Republican in name only, because when someone calls themselves
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republican, you know people vote straight party tickets. I mean, I'm seening
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a million times you go to meetings. This guy will be as corrupt and
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pathetic as possible when everybody over the age of seventy five is going to vote
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for him, you know, because oh, you know, they like the
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young man that speaks well, doesn't matter what his record is. And you
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say, wait a minute, this guy votes like a Democrat to be Oh,
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don't talk bad about him. Oh it's so awful you'd speak so bad
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about our great Republican representative. I mean, I said, look, you
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know, I mean, I don't know anything about McHenry. I'm not saying
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this, but you know, you could walk in and say, look,
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this guy's having affairs. You could walk in and say this guy's embezzling.
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You could walk in and say, this guy just you know, I don't
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know, stole Kenny from a baby. Oh how but here you talk so
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bad about our Republican representative. Well, you know that's the way old folks
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in the Republican Party tend to be. The country club folks don't talk bad
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about anybody, don't say anything offensive. Once a Republican gets elected the first
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time, they're basically in there for life. Look at Lindsay Graham, look
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at the pathetic jackass Lindsay Graham. I mean, the powerful of incumbency is
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really something. And just think of Patrick McHenry as Lindsay Lindsey Graham's mini me.
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He's like a little tiny mirror image of the remarkably unmasculine Lindsey Graham.
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And he's out. Thank God, he's out. Chalk one up for Steve
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Bannon and the good guys. Thank god. This is a day to celebrate.
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And hopefully Virginia Fox will retire very soon so I don't have to go
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walk the district and knock on doors campaigning for anyone who will run against her.
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A very nice lady who's been in office far too long. Ah,
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And I would tell her, you know, sometimes I see her mass next
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time I got a chance, I would definitely ask her. I will definitely
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ask her if I happen to be in the pew next to her in front
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behind. Please retire. You're far too old to continue to hold the office.
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Don't embarrass us any further. Sorry. But she's also one that voted
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against impeaching my orchis. She's been in there far too long, all right.
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So among the splendid instances of those who are faithful to their religion and
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fearlessly made confession of their faith. Were the three young men who refused to
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adore the golden image set up by Nebo. Oh gosh, how is that
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you're supposed to actually pronounce this name? Let me do it fanatically, Nabo
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Chad donassor, which isn't pronounced that way. I've heard it pronounce a thousand
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times, but I'm not going to get it today. And the holy Tobias
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alone, who alone all of his kindred, refused to go the golden calfs
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at Dan and Bethel, and went up every year the Temple of Jerusalem in
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Jerusalem, Eliezer, who preferred death to even appearing to eat Sline's flesh.
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One of the wonderful stories of the Book of Maccabee's. Wonderful time of year
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to read Maccabees. I mean, this is why Hanuka is celebrated. Very
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very good to remember the great heroes of the Jewish faith that you know through
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whom we get our Christian faith. Saint Ignatius, the Martyr of the Martyr,
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Saint Agnes, Saint Lucy, Saint Marris, and the Theban religion of
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Theban Legion sorry, and countless other Christian martyrs, martyrs and confessors. It
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is by way of an open profession of her faith that the Holy Church has
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instituted processions like those of Corpus Christi, processions of our Lady, et cetera.
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We are only bound openly to confess our faith when our mission to do
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so would bring our religion into contempt or do some injury to neighbor or to
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when or when we are in some way challenge to declare and make a profession
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of our religion. We are not bound always on all occasions to confess our
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faith, but only when the honor due to God or the edification due to
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our neighbor requires it. If officious people question us about our faith, we
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are not bound to answer them. We can refuse to answer or turn away.
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So that's like you know, when the Nazis are knocking at your door
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and saying, are they're a Catholics in the house? Are you Catholic?
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You know the Soviets, you who were really big on killing everybody who was
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Christian? Did Communists Chinese who do the same thing. Well, some it
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seems like parts of the FBI in our time seem to want to persecute Christians
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for praying the Rosary outside of an abortion clinic or something. You don't actually
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have to tell them you're Catholic. It's not because it's none of their business.
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But if there was someone else around, and by doing so you would
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prove a bad example, you would absolutely be obligated to say, yes,
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I'm Catholic, this is what I believe, and I'm willing to face punishment
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for it. It's situational. It depends on the situation. It's not like
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you know, I will being a politician, a congressman in western North Carolina
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and pretending to be Lutheran and a Lutheran church and even taking communion with him,
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which is what someone told me about a certain midget who's just retired from
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Congress or said he wouldn't run again. Thank god, I love it.
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I love it. Oh my gosh, I love it. I'm very grateful.
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If only McCarthy will leave next. And what was that guy, ken
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Buck? Somebody needs to kick his butt out of there figuratively, not literally.
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I think you got that. But if we are questioned by someone who
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possesses legitimate authority to do so, we are bound to confess our faith,
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even when it should cost us our lives, as our Lord did when questioned
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before Caiaphas, and as thousands of early Christians did when called upon to sacrifice
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to idols. In such cases, the word of our Lord's apply. Fear
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not them that kill the body and are not able to kill the soul.
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To fear man more than God is to bring on us his anger. We
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should also try and avoid all wrangling, discussions and controversies about religion, which
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generally do harm and embitter men against the truth. Very true, you know,
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I say I don't always engage with Protestants. I don't pick I mean,
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I never criticize their faith. Only when they say something anti Catholic.
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Will I defend mine, because it just sow's division. I don't attack other
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people at all. Our faith is so holy a thing that it must be
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spoken of with great discretion and prudence. And I guess i'll wrap it up
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there. We'll get into part two of this tomorrow. They're about equally long,
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you know. And I did have quite a sides. Had to celebrate
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a little bit that the I had to celebrate a little bit that the rhino
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dwarf for shall we call him a Republican name only. I would probably be
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mean to say Catholican name only. I can't read the boy's heart, you
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know, at six' four and him at like, you know, four
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foot two, I can't even really, I wouldn't even be able to read
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it from the distance. You know. I'm just saying he is such a
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little jackass. I'm so glad he's retiring. Oh now, if we can
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just get a legitimate maga Republican in his office that will actually do something for
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the people rather than for the donors, it will be a godsend. North
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Carolina has historically had some of the worst, most corrupt politics in the entire
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United States, and I should say some people on the republic side learned to
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be justice corrupted is on the Democrat side, and once then you couldn't get
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him out with a crowbar. So it is actually a very good day.
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So you know what, I'm going to wrap it up here, And what
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a more appropriate time to say, in the words of Saint Padre Pio,
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pray, hope and don't worry. God is in his heavens and all is
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right with the world. Y'all have a go win and I'll talk to you tomorrow,