(LifeSiteNews) — In this week’s episode of Faith & Reason, Father James Altman and Liz Yore once again join John-Henry Westen to discuss Pope Francis’ latest disparaging remarks on the Latin Mass, the coronation of Charles III as King of England, and the latest developments in Josh Alexander’s fight against gender ideology.
Late last month, Pope Francis, while visiting Hungary, spoke to a group of Jesuits in private regarding attachment to the Latin Mass. Addressing the Jesuits, Francis spoke about the “danger” of “indietrismo” or “going backwards,” which he said was in opposition to the Second Vatican Council, and that the “nostalgic disease” of “indietrism” prompted him to issue restrictions on the traditional Mass in 2021, subsequently adding further restrictions.
Commenting on Francis’ latest comments on those attached to the Old Mass, Yore noted, “He can use every name in the book, do whatever he tries to do within his power, but the beauty of the Latin Mass will remain. It will grow, whether it be underground or not, because it is the Mass of the ages. So he continues to double down, so I think we need to dig in our heels and double down ourselves.”
Connecting His Holiness’ comments with the Second Vatican Council and its aftermath, Fr. Altman said, “The reason why people are restoring what was stolen from us is because that is indeed a representation of the truth that Jesus spoke, of the Faith of which Jesus commanded us to have. It’s not going backward. We have 2,000 years of saints and martyrs who have showed us the way.”
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“What Bergoglio is doing is acting ultra vires, going outside the scope of what his authority is,” Altman continued. “He’s supposed to be the defender of the deposit of faith, not the ‘changer’ according to his own opinion.”
Last weekend, Charles III of the United Kingdom was crowned king by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, at his coronation at Westminster Abbey. Attending the coronation were world leaders such as Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and French President Emmanuel Macron. The ceremony, while retaining most of its traditional Anglican elements, saw an inclusion of representatives from various faiths, and included a new oath called the Homage of the People, replacing the previous Homage of Peers, which called upon dukes, the highest ranking nobility in the U.K., to swear their allegiance to the Crown, as the Daily Mail noted.
Discussing the coronation, Yore noted Charles III’s support for policies designed to curb “climate change,” and noted that he visited the World Economic Forum (WEF) summit in Davos. “Who is Charles III? … He is an avowed globalist. He is [a] climate change alarmist. Actually, for the last 24 years. … He’s been out there since the early 2000s promoting the climate change fury.”
Altman, discussing the issue of population control supported by Charles III’s father Prince Philip, saying that Charles was following in his father’s footsteps. “If we get to decide how many people there are going to be, that means we get to decide who lives and who dies. We’re the ones that get to decide this. How do you go from an ever-increasing, from the beginning of time, human population, to go [to] a dramatic 75% drop in human population, if not through deadly viruses, through contraception, through forced sterilization?”
This week, Josh Alexander, a Protestant teenager who was suspended for protesting his Catholic school’s decision to allow boys to use the girls’ restroom under the pretext of being “transgender,” tweeted that his parents are “under attack” and have been put on leave from their jobs on an Ontario school board: “My parents are under attack simply for having raised me. They couldn’t get to me so they’ve attacked my family.”
Yore, commenting on the suspension of Alexander’s parents, said “the tyrant always uses the good people as an example for the rest of us. This is what’s going to happen to you.”
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“Josh is speaking the truth,” she continued. “His parents are speaking the truth. There will be consequences, yes. But unlike England, we know … who our king is. Our king is Christ. And I think it’s is just important to be willing to get into the fight. God will present those opportunities to each of us, big ones and small ones, to speak truth to power.”
Addressing Alexander, Altman said, “Let me tell you, Josh, a cardinal once said to me, ‘Father, you’re going to feel very alone. You’re going to be feel very alienated, because even your friends who will agree with you privately will not be seen with you publicly.’ Every other student at that school, every other parent of every other student at that school got the message loud and clear. ‘You speak up and speak out on truth. You’re the next head on the chopping block.’”
“The only way you’re ever going to overcome these … evil people, is you need to unite, because united you stand. If they divide you, one Josh after another, you fall, at least [in] an earthly sense. In God’s eyes you’re a martyr.”
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