All right, guys, welcome to a special episode of Candice. I'm always reading your comments. So many people ask me, Candice, when are you going to share your conversion story? Why the Catholic Church? How did you get there? You guys are definitely sensing that there has been a change in me over the last year, and there certainly has been a change in me in the last year. While I'm still not fully there yet and ready to talk about that story, I can tell you for sure that the expression that to become a student of history means to become a Catholic is something that I have taken to heart and that I believe to be real. There are a lot of aspects right now of people recognizing that we are in this spiritual battle. We can't make sense of a lot of the things that are happening here in the West. Why would people want to implement the changes that we're seeing? Why does How did we feel like we're fighting for our children from the state? How did we get into this predicament so quickly? You feel it, I feel it, and we're all searching for answers.

I believe the answer really can be found in the Bible. There's nothing new under the sun, but what really does that mean? A lot of history, I believe, has been hidden. I've been particularly interested in the history of Christianity, the things that we don't learn in our textbooks at school. It is my belief that it has been, is, and forever will be a war against Christ. One moment in history that I'd like to speak about, a long moment in history, is the Soviet Union. We don't learn enough about what what happened in the Soviet Union, the victims of the Soviet Union, and really what happened to the people that were executing those punishments, those deaths. Today, I am so honored to have a conversation with somebody who is well equipped to speak about that time in history. His Excellency, Bishop Schneider, is here to join me. Welcome to Candice.

Thank you, Candice.

I am just thrilled to have you, and I guess a perfect place to start would be before we get into your background. Have you heard what I just said about Americans not knowing much about the Soviet Union? Does that strike you as odd, or did you know that the West was in a little bit of a bubble?

Yes, I have this sensation. I grew up in the Soviet Union. I know I had the Communist school, and I passed all the indoctrination of the Communist system. And my were also persecuted by my grandparents, by the communists. And so and later, I was still in high school, we could emigrate from the Soviet Union to West Germany, to the Western world. And there, slowly, I discovered such elements of the Soviet dictatorship methods, even in the Western world. It means a totalitarianism. So it must be a totalitarian system. So only one way of thinking. And it was imposed in my time in Soviet Union by all means of television, of radio, of newspapers, all was in the hands of only one thinking. And And when you dare to decline from this line, you were suddenly declared by the system Soviet Union as an enemy. So as a dangerous person, even they had said, maybe you are a spy of the Western world. You are making conspiracy Even this concept of conspiracy was very much used in my time by the Soviet Union, dictators, to simply intimidate people and to shut them down in the public. And so I can recognize, especially now in our current time in the Western world, a growing, increasing element of a true dictatorship, and not only dictatorship, but totalitarian system and an intolerance.

By the name of tolerance and freedom, we are now living in the Western world to be oppressed, to be declared hate, speech or enemies or conspiracy people. These same concepts, the same methods were used since Lenin, Stalin, and all the time of the Soviet Union. And also a a sarcastic method. I mean, in my time, Soviet Union, they claimed always, We are the most free We have the greatest freedom in the world, Soviet Union, and full with gulaks, it means camps of concentration. And in the same time, they claimed all the day, We are the freest country in the world. For example, when Stalin built up the most horrible gulaks, where my grandfather was also imprisoned, he asked to compose a song which must had to be song in all schools, universities, and workplaces. And this song, well, it was a beautiful music, but the text was saying, Soviet Union, Communism is such a beautiful place. And I do not know another country where people can breathe so freely. Full with camp of concentrations, people labeled and target as enemies, as conspiracy, and so on. So therefore, we have to be aware in our day, in our Western society, and of these existing already methods of Soviet dictatorship, Communist dictatorship, which already infiltrated so much our public life, political life, social life in the Western countries.

When I look back on my public education and I realize that I took years and years of history and I learned nothing. And I realized that within American culture, we have almost a lack of reverence for history. We pull down old buildings, we put up new ones that are glossy, and everything is quite modern. I realized that this is intentional, that they don't want us to explore true history, to have a reverence for history, because from knowing the history, you can avoid certain traps in the future. When I hear you describing the Soviet Union, and it sounds exactly like America today, exactly like the West today, the proclamation of freedom, we've never been more free. We don't want to be like this other country. And yet, not just me, everyone senses this squeeze. We don't actually feel more free. We've actually maybe never felt more restricted. It scares me, and it makes me want to really elaborate on what happened in Russia. Was it your grandparents that were alive when the Tsar was assassinated?

Yes, they were alive.

What happened, I guess, so what happened thereafter? What was that period of time like for your grandmother?

Yes, it was a period of anarchy, of simply violence on the side of the government, arbitrary violence. Completely, the people had no sense to be protected. And so especially the Stalin started a systematic genocide, I would even say, in '36, '37, these were the darkest years. And he called this cynically a perch, a cleansing of the Soviet society, of enemies or potential enemies. He declared they could be a potential enemy, simply innocent people. So the potential enemies of for Stalin were, and then his other Soviet dictator's, priests because it must be established an atheist Society, therefore priests are the first enemies. Then in the Intelligencia, intelligent people. For example, in the gulak, in Karlak, this was a famous Gulak in Kazakhstan, Afghanistan, where I am now living. And Solzhenitsyn wrote about Karlak also. Stalin deported there in the '30s, one of the best scientists from St. Peterbrooke in Moscow, imprisoned there. They were too intelligent for the Soviet system. Why? Because they were thinking independently. So when you are thinking independently, independently, you are a dangerous person for a dictator. And so it was. And the others, third category, were the people who had some wealth or some properties because it contradicts the Communist system.

And in these two years, Stalin killed more or less 20 million Own people, not foreign people. And from my grandfather was a victim in this so-called cleansing perch system, simply because he was a Catholic, a believer. He was a German, and he had some wealth, some lands. And he was killed when he was a young man, young married man and father of family, 27-year-old. And my grandmother, she remained a widow with 25, with two little children, my father and his brother. But when the system, Communist system started after the assassination of the Tsar family and Lenin, they claimed that now we will bring the paradise on Earth. Really, I remember these slogans in my school, Communism brought Paradise on Earth. And Lenin, he invented the system of so-called camps of concentration, or they were called gulaks later. And now I'm living in Astana, in the capital city of Kazakhstan. And close to the capital city, there was a special gulak, special gulak, only for women. A female gulak, which was called Camp of Concentration for the Wives of the traitors of the homeland. So simple fact that their husbands were declared enemies or conspiracy people, even if they were not enemies, not That conspiracy simply that they were declared.

For this fact, the wives were arrested and put in this gulak. Not only wives, the daughters of this man, the sisters of this man, of these so-called enemies of the homeland. And now there is a very impressive museum. People can look these horrors When you observe how these poor innocent women were tortured, were humiliated, I think several times I visit this museum, I must cry. It is so touching because these are mothers, innocent. They had children, and even some were pregnant, arrested, and they gave birth in the camp of concentration. They had nothing to give food for the children. And so in their eyes, the children were dying. And it was horrible. And therefore, I repeat, we must do all what we can with all the forces of good people of goodwill, Christians and others, to make a common alliance against the already existing dictatorship in the Western countries and the cruel methods of killing people, innocent people. First, our unborn citizens. Already, they are citizens, our who are yet not born, but they are living, alive. And they were killed in a horrible, systematic, cruel way in the Western society. And then also another element the destruction of family.

This started already. The communists, they took away the children from the parents to educate them in the new ideology to brainwash them. And so even Marx and Lenin, Marx, Engels, and Lenin, they wrote that this established Communist system in the Soviet Union, which will be established, they predicted it in some way, but the first step will be the atheism to spread and the Communist system, the economical, economy and political. Then they said, This will be not the end. And Engels and Marx wrote, Our aim will be, the last aim of communism will be to destroy completely family. And now we are seeing all is going on, the direct destruction of family, of marriage. Why the Communists, the last goal will be? Because when you destroy family, then you have a real society of slaves. The family is the last bulwark against dictatorship and slavery. When you have an independent, healthy family, this is for a dictator, a dictatorial system, a danger. And so destroying family, marriage, this is for the dictator's the best method to have an entire society of slaves. And we must do all what we can not to to be slaves. I mean, social and political slaves.

And then, of course, maybe we will speak also of the spiritual slaves. This is the slavery of sin, to be slaves of the devil and of the sin.

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I realized exactly what you're speaking about. I went, Oh, the left, because I was looking at this, didn't see the big picture, which really God versus Satan. But I would always say the left, if you really want to understand the chaos of everything that's going on, what connects it all, it actually isn't chaotic. It's methodical and it's an attack on the family. Looking at why they're trying to pull parents away from their children. You're looking at why they're pushing these themes of transgenderism and these kids going through these procedures which would render them unable to produce families into the future. Virtually everything, even climate change, which has become something of its own religion, they encourage these kids. They say, Well, the planet's not going to be here in 10 years, so it would be selfish for you to have a family. And these kids speak about how they're going to be responsible and not have kids when they get older. So I see all of those themes. And when you revisit it, you look at what happened in Russia. And I do believe that Alexander Solzhenitsyn asks this question, what happened to these administrators of this great evil?

Where did they go? They had a certain bloodlust for evil that is difficult to describe, and we don't learn about it in America. We have all of these motion pictures making us emotional about different points in history, but they skip over this glaring obvious, and I really do believe the Bolshevak Revolution, it was just a certain evil that was unmatched throughout history. I want to talk about the Christ element because this is very important because it was a war on Christians But before we do, can you just describe some of the things that happened for people that have never heard it? And there are many people who have never heard this. What happened in the gulag camps?

Yes. Well, the people were there tortured. They were humiliated. They were stripped of their dignity, of human dignity, of fundamental human dignity. They had to work real incredible hard work as slaves. Many died there simply out of... Because of these conditions, Especially in the gulaks, they were forbidden any religious meetings or acts to manifest your faith or with others. Now I tell a story of a German lady. Her name was Gertrude Detzel in Kazakhstan. She was a beautiful soul. During the persecution When there were no priests, priests were in prison. She went secretly to the families and was teaching the catechism to the children and youth. And this was forbidden. It was dangerous. And she She was so active that the police arrested her and asked her, You must stop to teach the catechism. Otherwise, we will put you in the gulak. She said, No, I cannot stop. I must proclaim. I must give to the children this teaching. And then she was arrested in a horrible gulak. But what she did in her, this was a female gulak and in the huge dormitory where they were sleeping the ladies, different confessions and even some were not believing.

She managed That the entire dormitory, they had every evening prayers, common prayers, and she did it. And then she was called during the to interrogate it by the secret service. During the day, she had to work very hard work like a man, exhausted. Then she prayed, then she catechised the people there. And then during the night, she was spiritually tortured all the night by the interrogatories. And what she did? She even wanted to catechize the torturers. And then one day, she was called in the night again for these interrogatories, very humiliating. And suddenly, she asked the chief officer, Oh, and he's the other man, Do you know what day is today? 25th of April. No. Today is the feast of the ascension of our Lord into heaven. What does mean this? I explained you. And she started to catechize them about Christ, his resurrection and ascension and all. And she had such a power of word that they were simply silent. They were in shock. And so she catechized them. And then when they are awakened, they said, Oh, this lady is too dangerous for us. And then they prefer to free her from the camp of concentration rather than that she will evangelize the others.

Such a beautiful example. We had also in the midst of the horrible situation, we had also God helped his servants, and even priests were able to celebrate Mass secretly and got protected.

It's hard to even comprehend this bravery. I always think it's quite strange when people think that it's bravery to speak out on a podcast because when you weigh it against the bravery of people who were quite literally putting their lives on the line to stand up for their faith. I just think these are stories that need to be told. Your grandmother was one of these people. You said your grandfather was killed at the age of 27, and your grandmother also took a stand for her faith, didn't she?

Yes. My grandmother, Perpetua Schneider, when My grandfather, Sebastian, was killed, 27-year-old. She had first the days to hide because the police could also arrest her and take away the children. But she remained in her house and she had a lot of holy pictures on the walls. Then came the police with guns to check the house because she was declared also as an enemy because she was the wife of an me, treasure of the homeland. And so this policeman came and he saw the holy pictures and icons and gave the order to her to take away these pictures. And she said, No, I will not to do this. He said, Yes, you must do. We are living in an ateist society. And then the policeman went to the wall and wanted to take off the picture himself. And in this moment, my My grandmother shouted on him and said, You did not put this picture on the wall, and you have not the right to take it off. And even so, she was a very timid person all her life. She never raised her voice. But in this moment, God gave her such a power. Even confronting these policemen with the gun and the little children, she had no fear.

And so in this moment, I think that God intervened. This moment, this policeman was in a shock because at that time never there because it was the time of the terror cleansing All the police were going and shouting to the people. In this moment, he was, the policeman, quite of shock. He did not speak nothing and silently left the house. And so God protected the widows and orphans, but especially those who serve him and who have the courage to witness God.

She was willing to die for her faith, which I think is something that is just so incredible. And so it leads me to the question, when you examine this time period, what is it that made them focus on Christians right away? I mean, thousands of priests killed in incredibly graphic ways. They wanted to make sure the public knew that it was not okay to be a Christian. I mean, even if you're an evil dictator, logic would say, okay, if they want to keep their objects and they want to keep their cross, I don't care as long as they get into line. What is it specifically about the faith that was something that this government understood had to be eliminated?

Yes, because the religious science and the faith, the Communist dictators, they perceived as a A danger for them. An obstacle for the totalitarianism, ideological totalitarianism. So the Communists system was a bit totalitarian. It must be all the same way of thinking. But when there are other people who are not atheists, who are really opposing atheism with their style of life, with professing their faith to have religious signs, to wear a cross or to have in their houses holy pictures or to build and to celebrate worship and so on, it was perceived by the dictator as an obstacle for the achievement of a totalitarian, new, ateist, materialistic society.

Back to St. Augustine, the city of God versus the city of man. And there is a particular, if you're trying to enslave mankind, There is a freedom that comes with knowing the Lord, and they can't have people experiencing that freedom if you want to turn them all into robots. And so when I see what happened there and this focus on Christianity, and I recognize that we're learning this in the West barely, they've completely removed the Christian story from this. You almost are not allowed to talk about things that Christians have lived through in the past, particularly Catholic, I would say, lived through in the past. One of the tools in which they use, it's funny that you brought up the media and the books as this Soviet propaganda and the Soviet training. One of the tools that they do use as, I guess, a more modernized technique of torture is the media. The media still protects the state, protects the state initiatives, and doesn't really allow Christians to speak about this. There are going to be tons of Christians hearing this that really don't know much about what happened in the Soviet Union. But they are waking up to the fact, and I'm one of these people as well, the public school system is a problem.

When you trace the history, one of the first things that they did was they got the Bible out of the classroom. Under the guise of freedom of religion, somehow, the Bible was removed from the classroom. I want to speak more about what your days were like in school under this system, what you learned, what was the new state religion, almost, so to speak.

Yes, I remember very well. First, we had to wear a sign of the communism, such a red tie or a red scarf and a sign on our five, the sign of the communism. You could not enter the school without these exterior signs. And then we had to learn slogans. For example, I remember in my school, Lenin lived. Lenin is alive still. Lenin will live. It is a religious slogan. And then we had to sing a song, I did not see Lenin, but I love him. So they made this brainwashing with little children. And then we had even in the school and then also in universities, high colleges and universities, a subject to learn. It was called scientific atheism. So they said, Atheism is science, scientific. Religion, all what is linked with religion especially Catholic, it is anti-scientific. It's not science. It's not serious. It was a rhetorical trick How do you say? To...

Almost manipulate.

Yes, manipulate and to present Christianity as something which is against reason, against science, and so on. But interesting, during the Soviet time, for the Soviets, for the Communists, the greatest enemy for them was not so much the so-called Western world in the Cold War, so-called at that time, but basically the Catholic Church and especially the Vatican. Because at that time, until Vatican II, the popes all boldly resisted communism and even they publicly accused communism and showed the atrocities and all the lies which the Communist system did. And because the Communist system was built on a pillar which I have called simply lie. Never lie. This was systematic lie. Distortion of evidence. And so Why? Because they felt that the Vatican, the Holy See, the Pope, is the greatest moral authority in the world. And if he opposes the lies of communism and will not collaborate with them, he is the greatest enemy and the Catholic Church. And so, for example, I have known priests, my parents also, simple priests, they were not Doing nothing politics, simply priests, visiting secretly the people, giving the sacruments, confession and so on, wedding, baptisms in midst of the dangers.

And when they were caught and arrested, they were labeled and accused with this formulation, secret agent of the Vatican. He was not an agent. But he was accused. Or anti-Soviet activism, so a priest who celebrated Mass, who gave the sacruments secretly. He was accused to be an anti-Sovietic agent and a spy of the Vatican. Wow.

I am going to think for a very long time about what you just said, that they tried to say that atheism was scientific because that really sent a chill down my spine because I've been speaking a lot on my show about how I've recognized that modern science is fraudulent, and the media did not like this. They really called me stupid. I said, Well, you're now having people that just deem themselves experts, and all they have to do is say that it's a science and people get in line. I think now the public recognizes that post-COVID, which became of religion. I mean, they just would say 6 feet social distancing, and people would get in line. Don't see your grandparents. Trust it. Even the phrase trust the science. Trust the science. There was something about that that felt so demonic to me. You're just saying implicitly, almost as if the science has become this pagan God. I do believe this. I believe science has become this... It's a form of paganism where There's no logic anymore. It's just somebody deeming themselves an expert, but there's so much that they have been able to accomplish, evil, in my view, in Western society under the guise of science, because what they do is they then teach it to people in school, and people then view that as a token of their education.

Well, I learned that 6 feet social distancing is right, so it can't be wrong. Well, I learned that... I'm someone that speaks against the vaccine industry, really. Well, I learned in medical school that as soon as the child comes out, there's something wrong with it and they need all these injections. And so to hear that they even manipulated science and tried to say atheism is actually scientific is really something I've I've never heard of before. That is fascinating.

It was very famous. And you had to make exam to pass, for example, in university degree to graduate. You had to do the exam on scientific ethos. Otherwise, you will not obtain a grade.

Wow. I mean, they're doing this even in terms of history, and this becomes the threat of the education system because I do believe that what we're existing under is Soviet propaganda. When I examine, again, my own childhood and how I learned things, where everything they do, as long as they say that there's a statistic behind it, even if they can't explain it. Perfect example. Recently, a host got in trouble for... It was Tucker Carlson. He was speaking about the dropping of the atom bomb. I'm very Very against it. I agree with Tucker Carlson on this, especially because we dropped it in Nagasaki on praying Catholic. So maybe I have a Catholic bias there. But they teach in school, If we didn't do that, then the war wouldn't have ended. It's now become this scientific understanding, statistical understanding that more people, way more people would have died if we didn't do this. People commit to that idea, and it becomes a token of their education. Then they remove themselves from just this basic moral You're dropping a bomb on innocent praying Catholic's 300 feet in Nagasaki, and they just go, But I learned this in school.

So there becomes this danger in really transforming the schools into the church. It's almost like a church of sorts. It becomes the church of education.

Yes, exactly. And this is a system, I repeat, of lie, as the Communist system was. And therefore, we must again, proclaim our right to think independently So independent thinking is quite now forbidden. There is only one way of thinking. And therefore, we must again free our children, our society from this system of lie, from this denial of evidence, and to establish, again, a society where you can think freely and seriously present the truth of history and of our social life. Yeah.

I mean, this gets into really the humanist agenda where I examine things through a lens now and I go, okay, what they've done is they've taken the Bible and they've said, let's remove God and elect ourselves the God and re implement things, really, we're going to turn the Bible on its head. It's just going to be marriage is bad. Marriage is not between a man and woman. It can be between a man and a monkey. It can be anything that you want. It can be a homosexual. Everything that is in the Bible, they have perverted inverted or converted into something else. Rather than going to Mass, we're going to have kids mass every day. They're going to go to school every single day. We're going to teach them things like pornography is good and really give in to their pleasures. There's going to be no discipline. There's going to be no concept of discipline. We're going to raise them to believe that they are their own authority. Authority is a very important word when it comes to Western society society, because when I got interested in the Catholic faith, so to speak, I did realize that Americans have been conditioned to protest, protestants, so to speak, to protest the very concept of authority.

This is what's wrong and what's backwards about the Catholic faith. We do learn this in school. The Catholic are an implicit enemy in our textbooks. Everything, this was the old world, the dark ages, and now we have science and it's modern and we don't need God because we have reason and everything's scientific. First off, do you know that there is this resistance to the Catholic Church, I would say, in the West, particularly in America, but also in the UK and other places. And to what do you attribute that?

Well, the first who denied authority was the devil. We read in the beginning of the Holy Scripture in the Book of Genesis, he questioned, he said to Adam and Eve, It is true that God commanded you, so he challenged the authority of God. And since then, the devil is influencing people with this poison, this first poison, to challenge and to deny reality. And then the devil said, You will be like God. This is the most dangerous temptation for all human beings in societies. And this is the battle which is going on since then. But we had And historical, you mentioned that now they are turning to the contrary. What the Bible says that matrimonium is good and so on, that they say matrimonium is bad. The two sexes are bad. We have to have other possibilities. So we had a historical phenomenon which was called Gnosticism, the Gnosis. 2000 years ago, it was intellectual movement or fashion. It was not Christian. More or the less 2,000 years ago, in the time of our Lord Jesus Christ. Then they infiltrated the church in the second century, the agnostics, and therefore there was also a Christian genesis, but the other was pagan, but the principles were the same.

It's To say that one of the principles of the Gnosis, which is now again revived, they said all what is written in the Bible, the Bible is a product of the evil God. They established two principles, the evil God and the good God. They are equal from all eternity. This is the so-called metaphysical dualism. And so they said, Oh, the Bible is a product of the evil God. And all what is in the Bible written which is good is de facto not good, it's evil. So the The Ten Commandments who gave us, they say, the agnostics, the evil God. Therefore, not to kill is wrong. To kill is good. Today, we are killing all our Almost the planetarian genocide of the unborn. It's good, they say. It's agnostic. And then they say, God created man, male and female. And God saw it was good. And the agnostics said, This is bad that there are two sexes. They said already 2,000 years ago this. It is evil that there are two sexes. This is an invention of the evil God. Now we must overcome the distinction of the sexes. And this was a program of the historical Gnosis.

And one of these principles of the Gnosis went very much were taken from the free Masonic ideology. They took almost a great part of the principles of the historical Gnosis. And they recognize it. And then the Gnosis, one other principle was that we will achieve, let us say, happiness or salvation, you can call as you want, simply through thinking. This means Gnosis in Greek is thinking or knowledge. Independently of our moral behavior, of our moral acts. The exterior acts are not important. You can kill, you can live in adultery and so on. It does not matter. It is sufficient your thinking and your knowledge, and a secret elitarian knowledge, where basically then man will establish, and they establish what is good and what is evil. So we see this is a perversion which was instilled by the devil, of course, since the beginning of the temptation of Adam and Eve, but manifested historically in the historical Gnosis government, 2000 years, then revived again in a great to a great extent in the free Masonic ideology, which we are now witnessing also.

Yes. And that was another element of American history that I was really startled by when I was speaking to a priest in the UK, and he said to me, You Americans just know nothing about history, know nothing about the battle of the free masons for America. And I began there and started really understanding these free Mason groups and what they were about. Yes, and one element that came from Freemasonry was psychology, modern psychology, which is, to me, a tremendous evil today that we're seeing. They use psychology, again, turning it into a science. Turn this into a science. This is how you get so many kids who believe that they have authority over their own bodies, and they're constantly, put your child into therapy, where it used to be the role when you had burdens to go to a priest. They now say, oh, actually, the person you need to go to is a psychologist. But when you really examine the history of everything that's gone very wrong in our society, there is always a psychologist behind it, teaching kids that pornography is good. This was something that was given to us by psychologists, this concept that it's actually good for people to explore their sexuality.

So much that has, again, another attack on the family unit, something that so many men are struggling with. This is one of the things that brought me back to another Catholic teaching when I developed a really strong understanding that pornography is an evil. Yet I learned in school, can you believe this, in school in America, you learn when you are in high school that watching pornography is healthy. This is science. It's healthy to watch a little bit of pornography. And I look back on that and I just go, what a tremendous evil to teach that to children while at the same time using the media Again, another tool to promote pornography, even in its minor forms. Everything is now soft core pornography. In the advertisements, it's soft core pornography. When you're reading the news, I mean, just the way people dress, everything has become pornographic, and it's intentional, and it's evil, and it's demonic, and it is an attack on the institution of the family.

Exactly. Especially, pornography is one of the most dangerous spiritual poison So they are giving poison to our children. This is criminal. We have to state this. The authorities, we must protest against this. We must free our children from the poison because pornography, it is proven. It is one of the most enslaving factors and consequences. Really, it is addiction and enslaving you. You become a slave. And there is no love because only with love, you can heal. This true love. We are created by God for love. For him, to love him, the absolute good and love is God. And we are created to love him, to know him, and to be with him all eternity. And now here on Earth, we must learn to love truly the supreme good and love which is God, and who demonstrated his love for us, giving his own life and blood for us, dying on the cross and elevating us to the dignity of children of God, of this nobility. And so these pornography methods are really turning our children and youth to animals, even birds. Even the famous Italian poet, Dante, he made this expression We are not created to be beast with these pleasures only.

We are created to have wisdom and virtue. And this gives us Again, our dignity and our happiness. And so we must educate our children to virtue. Because pornography is basically egoism, narcissism. And these people can never become happy and never make the other happy. We are created to laugh and to be loved. And to give love. Only then you are happy. I repeat again, the political social elites, they simply want to transform our society, our children and youth to slaves. When you are addicted to pornography or other addictions, drugs, and so you are a slave. Then you can be manipulated very, very easily. We We must start an action, a crusade, an action to free our children and youth and our citizens from the slavery, concretely of pornography and of this Satanic, agnostic thought of against marriage, against evidence, against nature. So we have to restore simply Common sense. This is so really a healthy breath. Common sense. And this we must restore. And then, of course, to bring the true wisdom, the true virtue, which is ultimately only possible with the help of God, who is the wisdom, who is the law, who is the truth.

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They convince people that that feeling should be ignored, and you should just do what everybody else is doing. Again, there's that slave economy. And don't ask any questions. That's why watching what happened during COVID was really a study in a mass psychology being implemented on the world, where your gut instinct should tell you, I shouldn't leave my parents to die alone. That Everything should be screaming that this is wrong. But again, then you're looking at everybody else and everyone's information. And so you just go ahead and you do that. And what's really funny is they always use the word freedom. They're always telling you that you have to do this for freedom. Even when they're locking you at home, they're telling you that you're doing this because you're a part of a team. And once everybody does this, then at the end of this, you're going to get your freedom. So you have to enslave your sofa a little, but that's the right thing to do for freedom. Pornography, well, what is that about? That's about freedom. This is about the First Amendment and the freedom, and why wouldn't you want to have pornography in your society or your decision to choose?

Even when you trace all of these movements that came over, which you can draw a straight line from Russia, we took in a bunch of Russian immigrants who brought over feminism, the concept of feminism. Well, this is about women's freedom. It's not about breaking down the family and making women hate men. This is about sticking up to the standing up to the patriarchy so that women can have their freedom out of the household. You're constantly seeing that conditioning of telling people that it's really about freedom as they inch us ever closer to our own enslavement. It brings into question, and it's a difficult question to ask this because I look at some people and I know they know better. I know they know that this is wrong, and yet they continue to do the slave activity. And I wonder if it's because freedom is actually quite scary. The concept of freedom for some people, it's easier to just get in line because then you can say, Well, I'm not in control of my own life, and I'd rather just do what I'm told to do. I grapple with that. If it's natural for people to want to be enslaved because they don't have the courage to be free.

Exactly. A great deal of People, they are prefer to live in some way as slaves rather than to witness something which is then for them unpleasant and have some consequences, negative consequences. But the dignity of the human person consists in really finding the truth and witnessing the the good, the love, and this we must promote because this is really and goes down in history We admire all people who in history resisted the common current, the common tie, the common ideology. We have several excellent figures in the history. Only to mention Thomas More, then Solzhenitsyn, and other. And this is really for us worthy of admiration. And for your own self-esteem, you must reject any form in slavery. You must be independent. But you only will be free when you find the truth and the virtue and the love. Then you are free. And then you have no fear. Then you are fearless. Then you fear only God.

And that is true freedom. I do want to ask you briefly about some of the, I guess, internal struggle, if you want to call it internal conflicts of the Catholic Church, which I think a lot of people are speaking about today. And you are known publicly. They will speak about certain bishops and pre-Vatican II, pardon, ideas. And when I think about America in the '60s, as I'm starting to relearn history, I definitely do think that the '60s, it's an important decade. There were a lot of significant changes that happened in my country, and of course, obviously, the Vatican II Council. What What does that mean for people that many people who watch the show who are not Catholic, when you are being described, maybe you don't agree with that description as someone who is pre-Vatican II? And what does that mean to you, that public description of you?

Well, this is not the exact term, pre-Vatican II. I'm simply trying to be faithful to Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is more important in our accounts of. Jesus Christ is more important than a Pope. The truth will set you free. And I'm simply trying to be faithful to my identity, Catholic. And Catholic means what all believed in all times in the same way, in all places, and And always. So this is Catholic. And I will not accept novelties which will undermine this treasure, which is not my invention, but which is a gift of our Lord Jesus Christ, of God himself, who gave us, so generously revealed us his divine truth. And this divine truth were entrusted to the apostels, and they handed it over and the church, until the second coming of Christ. In the same sense, in the same meaning. We can only deepening the faith, but not doing the undermining or ambiguous. The church's task is to present ever more clearly the beauty and the immutability of the divine truth, because the truth is beauty and it attracts you. And so the church's first task, most severe task, is to keep, transmit integrally, in inviolably this divine treasure of truth.

And therefore, I stick to not my opinion, not to the so-called pre-Vatican opinion, but to the divine truth which the Church, the saints, the innumerable saints, 2000 years believed, claimed in the same sense, the same meaning always, and for which in numerous, countless martyrs gave their life for the truth. And this is worthwhile to live for the truth. And so when someone will, therefore, label me as Pre-Vatican II, it has, for me, absolutely no meaning. I am happy to be labeled so as long I am with Christ and with the truth and with all the saints of the past.

It's true. The labeling doesn't actually mean anything at all when you find the truth. And it's funny because I find that a lot of times people can wrongly attribute having faith and really just having an understanding of the truth as a form of radicalism. This person has been radicalized. Actually, I agree. I think the truth is radical in times of tremendous deceit. Like the truth is radical. It's a radical when you're standing up in a system of lies. Exactly.

And the problem with Vatican II was that at that time, Paul John XX 23rd and Paul VI, with the Council, they wanted in some way to please the modern world, to ask sympathies from the world. But this is unworthy. Jesus Christ did not ask sympathy from the world. The apostels did not ask sympathy from the world. Jesus Christ said, You will be always persecuted by the world. These are the divine words of our Lord Jesus Christ. And the apostle said, If someone would like to be a a friend of the world, he becomes an enemy of God. It is written in the New Testament. And so I follow this. And Saint Atenasius, a great saint from the fourth century who, almost alone with few bishops, defended in the fourth century the truth of the divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ against the The spread heresy of the Arians who denied the divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ. This great saint, he said, If the entire world would be against the divinity of Jesus Christ, the entire church, the entire world, then I will believe in the divinity of Jesus Christ, and therefore I will be against the the entire world.

And so he also coined this expression, It is not fitting that we Christians and the more bishops are serving the time. We must serve the Lord.

That was actually one of the small things that added up for me, I think, that drew me to the Catholic faith was seeing that as a Protestant, when you go to church on a Sunday, everything's become quite modern. It seems like you're meeting the times. I don't say this with any ill will in my heart. I'm grateful for the time that I spent as a Protestant. I think it was another step, a guide, but I did wake up one day and just go, This is really modern. This feels like a modern pop concert. If we're updating ourselves to the times, are we teaching history? Are we just going to keep moving the goalpost? I think it was pretty obvious that things kept moving. Then I tried to really comprehend why it is and is evident that there is so much hatred and disdain for Cath. And I think the answer is because Cath have been the keepers of history.

Yes, exactly. And there is a beautiful text from the second century from a letter which is called Letter to Diognitus. It's It's an anonymous writer. And one of these chapters says, a second century, it was paganism. The Christians were a small, tiny community and persecuted and hated and disdained. And this author says, What the soul is for the body, these are the Christians for the entire And all hate the Christians. And when you ask them, Why you hate us? They cannot say the reason why they are hated. And so this is a very fitting expression, observation of an author, Christian author from the second century, and is quite timely for our time also. The Christians must be the soul. But the soul is animating, giving life for the body. So the Christians, the presence of the Christians must be this power of giving spiritual life, animating the society, but also be always aware that we are hated because Jesus Christ, the Son of God himself, was hated because of the truth. But on the other side, we must be convinced and sure of our faith and know that we are the winners. God Christ is the winner, and we are his followers, and we are already the two Christians presence.

Even so we are called the military church here on earth, we are already with the army of the winners.

You also just published another book. Can you tell us about it?

Yes, this is the book. It's the title Christus Vincit, a Latin title. It means Christ Wins. And this is a book interview with Diane Montaña, we did several years ago, where I also described my life during the Soviet regime and my Priestley ministry and Episcopal Ministry and answer to some current important issues and topics of our life in the world and in the church.

And this isn't the only book that you published. You also published Creed earlier than that.

Yes. This is another book which is the Latin title Credo. It means I believe. It is a compendium, a synthesis of the Catholic faith written in a style of question and answers, short answers, covering all the important themes of our Christian life. The first part is what we have to believe, The second part, how we have to live what we believe. So the morale, ethics. And the third part, how we must pray in a rightful manner. So it is all linked together. And all the book is in a question and answer style. We also incorporated current issues and themes like the gender ideology and other issues, communism, Marxism, and Flemishianry, and so on. And so I hope that it will be a help for people who seriously, honestly seek the truth. And then also I published this year, my most recent book is the title Flee from Heresy. Flee from Heresy. Heresy, it's a spiritual spiritual distortion, distortion of divine truth which God revealed us, or a denial, or distorted. And so it, heresy, it's a spiritual poison which is what was since the beginning in the church spread, and even in our day, so much spread in the life of the church.

So errors, ambiguities, distortions, denials, all We're proceeding from a subjectivistic, egoistic, narcissistic point of view from theologians, even bishops. And we have to address this simply to protect people from the spiritual poisons and deceits. Like a good physician and doctor, he will warn people of viruses, of dangerous epidemic sickness diseases, and so on, diseases. And the same, a bishop must protect people from the spiritual diseases and give him something in the hand, be attentive. And I enumerated all the historical heresies and errors which existed since the beginning of the church until our day, and presented some answers to current topics. And in the end of the book, Flee from Heresy, I presented Our Lady Mary, the Mother of God, who protects us. So these are my three books which I would you recommend.

Okay, we'll put the link in the description for this video. But for those that are listening to the audio, where is the best place for them to go if they want to purchase your books?

So they can purchase all these books in Amazon. Perfect. And at the publishing house, which published the Credo Book and the from Heresy, the Sofia Press Institute, which is a publishing house in New Hampshire in Manchester.

Well, I would very much recommend that you guys get these books and just begin your spiritual journey. What would you say? I have a large audience of people who are not Christians. I have tons of mothers who watch this show because I speak a lot about children and being a mom. I have a lot of men who watch this show because I speak about this war on masculinity and those men that are struggling with pornography and realizing that something's wrong, and they haven't yet been pulled into any church at all. So what would you say to those listeners who are watching right now who are sensing the conflict that we're in? They're sensing that this is a spiritual battle, that something grander and more evil is going on, and they don't really have the tools or really understand what to do. And they sometimes, by the way, feel quite depressed about that. That's a heavy realization. Of how dark and demonic things are and not really knowing what to do.

Yes, I would advise these, my brothers and sisters, to really honestly, seriously ask God, your creator, your redeemer, Oh my Lord, give me the light to know the truth, because only the truth will set me free. Only the truth will bring me happiness. And when you will pray such a small, serious prayer, honestly, God will guide you and you will find the fullness of truth and the protection of God and his grace. Because God created you for truth. God created you for love, for the fullness of happiness. As St. Augustine said, Oh God, you created us for you. And Our heart is as long, will not find its calm, its tranquility unless it finds you, the Lord. And And so I encourage you, simply pray every day that God may guide you, reveal you the fullness of truth.

So beautiful and so well said. And before we go, I think I would just ask you to pray in conclusion, because I think people need to hear that a prayer for them as well. Yes.

The most beautiful prayer we know is the Our Father, because this prayer came out from the divine mouth of our Lord Jesus Christ. And then this prayer is a synthesis of all what we must do and what we need. As we know, the first three petitions are to proclaim God, to glorify him. This is the main aim of our life, to glorify God when we serve him. He will give us so many graces and so many blessings. And the last petitions are for our needs here on Earth. So we will pray together this prayer. In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy spirit. Amen. Our Father, who art in heaven, hallow be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on Earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our traspasses, as we forgive those who traspass against us, and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son and to the Holy spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be world without end. Amen. In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy spirit.

Amen.

Amen. Ladies and gentlemen, so much that we could talk about. I can't wait to dive into your comments. I will end this by saying just to remember that you have a creator. You have one creator. It is not a doctor, it is not a scientist, it is not found in a school textbook, and I hope that this helps you to begin your journey one step at a time. I cannot thank you enough for being here, His Excellency, Bishop Snyder.

Thank you. It was a pleasure for me to speak with you.