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WarRoom Battleground EP 913: Signs Of Catholic Revival Amid Massive Widespread Post-Conciliar Implosion
18 Dec 2025
Chapter 1: What signs indicate a revival in the Catholic Church?
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Chapter 2: How does Pope Leo's appointment impact the Catholic Church in America?
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as informed as possible about what's going on so you can correctly exercise your agency big news then coming out in the last 40 hours and that is Pope Leo the man widely recognized but not universally as being Pope has made his most substantial Appointment has been announced, and that is he has picked Bishop Ronald Hicks of the Diocese of Joliet in Illinois to be the new Archbishop of New York.
In terms of population, second largest diocese in the States, and to succeed Cardinal Timothy Dolan, who is going to spend more time with his lunch table. Let's break this down as to what this might mean for the Catholic Church in America with Frank Walker.
And we've got Jenny Holland as well coming on later to pick up on various aspects of what's going on here in continental Europe with the fight for Christianity against one of its principal existential threats, and that is militant Islam. So Jenny, welcome obviously also to you as well. We'll be joining you in a moment.
But before we do that, I think we'll start off, Frank, with this story then about the New York appointment. Presumably... Pope Leo will stick with the tradition, largely abandoned somewhat by his unlamented predecessor, Pope Francis, and this will be a cardinalatial appointment. Presumably, New York is typically a cardinalatial appointment. Tell us, I want to give you an easy question to answer.
This is something that presumably Trad Inc.
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Chapter 3: What are the implications of Bishop Ronald Hicks becoming Archbishop of New York?
will be getting at the tinsel and saying, this is great, this shows what, how moderate... Leo is. I'm not so sure. You're not so sure. This guy is a spiritual son of Cardinal Bernardine, right? Ordained by him, I believe, back in the 90s.
Why don't we have a voice of clarity from you, Frank Walker, to explain precisely what this first significant American appointment by the first American Pope means for the church?
Well, it sounds like terrible news to me, really. But you're right. They're saying that he's a moderate. Some people are saying that he's a moderate. They're saying that he's open to different liturgical variations or something like that. And they have people on this. I see on this site, Tridentin Brewing, this trad site saying, oh, yeah, he was a part of our parish. But when I check...
Chapter 4: What challenges does Christianity face from militant Islam in Europe?
There's about, maybe there's several, maybe seven different counties in his diocese, which is right up against Chicago, Cardinal Cupich's diocese. And I can't find more than a couple Latin masses there. If you only have that many already, you can't really destroy it that much. That's the way it is where I live. There's only two that you can go to in my diocese.
It's the places that have several parishes devoted to them that are being crushed. So I don't think they're going to be too happy with that. I don't think that they're going to find that he's He's a conservative. In fact, there's a video out there of him speaking when Leo was just elected. And he's very, very connected to Leo. And he does not sound conservative. good.
He does not sound very good. He does not have a manly presentation.
Chapter 5: How does the Catholic Church's leadership affect its congregation?
That's what I would say. And you're right. He's in the line of Cardinal Bernadine. Cardinal Bernadine was the father of the modern church and the father of the seamless garment where you destroy the pro-life movement through Democrat programs. He's a reputed Satanist Cardinal Bernadine. And, you know, you can see his people like in the just just ended head of Washington, D.C., Wilton Gregory.
So he in this speech here where he talks about Pope Leo, you can see his effeminate groveling that he makes. He won't be able to make the same presentation on Fox News that Cardinal Dolan. Cardinal Dolan had sort of a normal everyman attitude. a friendly persona. This guy's not going to come off that way. He's going to have to be much quieter. And he gushes over Leo. And Leo and I are the same.
We come from the same neighborhoods.
Chapter 6: What recent polls reveal about the state of Catholicism in America?
We have the same pizza. We swam in the same pools. He likes the white socks. I like the cubs. I don't buy this stuff about these guys even liking sports, really. I believe a part about the pools, but that's his... This is a... I would call this an Obama Church takeover of New York City. That's what this is.
Okay. So a few things there to break down. And what you say, I think, about Cardinal Dolan is fair enough point. He was totally useless. But at least when he spoke... You didn't get the most common alarm bell ringing that you get with, say, I don't want to name names, but say Cardinal Whirl or someone like that. You have a whole list, right, a whole list of cardinals or bishops.
um of all of unhappy memory and you hear them speaking and you have that little bell ringing in the back of your your head saying pay attention um cardinal doan didn't set off that particular bell that is fair enough but he he was largely useless um in promoting
Chapter 7: Why is confession experiencing a revival in France?
the agenda that many thought he was going to provide leadership on. It's illustrative that under JP II and as his ecclesiastical career progressed, Cardinal Dolan was pretty effective at holding the pro-life position when he was president of the Catholic Bishops' Conference. Really what did it for him is when Benedict resigned and Francis came in and he just lost his mojo completely.
And Frank, it's illustrative of the fact that this is true in so many institutions, but more so even in the Catholic Church. Like a fish, it rots from the head down.
You get someone in who's bad at the top of the ecclesiastical apex, like Bergoglio, and then you even have under him bishops who had been reasonably good and reasonably effective just become immediately useless and ineffective overnight, right?
Right. They said that he was, it was rumored that he was instrumental in the Cardinal McCarrick takedown, which began really at the New York Times. And perhaps that was what finally did it for him with Francis. You know, there's a rivalry, a sort of rivalry. There were some good Cardinals in New York City, Cardinal Cook, Cardinal O'Connor. But Chicago is the source of everything bad.
You know, this new Hicks, he's promoting all of this Leos politics.
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Chapter 8: What does the future hold for Catholicism in a changing world?
He spent five years in Latin America, another bad sign. And he worked in an orphanage. And there's been stories of a pipeline of gay seminarians coming from Latin America into Chicago. There's been Chicago priests caught in cars in Miami. I don't like the sound of this liberation theology Latin American persona that he has here. So this is, I would say this is an Obama church takeover.
Obama and Bernardin went together. Bernardin paid for Obama to get his communism lessons when he was young. And Pope Leo and Cardinal Cupich and all that are part of that kind of church. That's not really what the New York church, not that the New York church is doing well. I mean, they have a huge settlement. They have to sell these half a billion dollar property now.
And they only have about 18 people trained to be priests for 300 parishes. I mean, it's entire collapse church wide. But, you know, this is not, this is the bad side of the church, which is where Leo is from. The Lavender Mafia, even though it's Lavender all around, the Lavender Mafia bad side of the church coming to New York.
Let's just wheel back a moment because you did say something interesting that too few people know about. Cardinal Bernardine did pay personally out of the diocese to ship a young Barack Obama over to LA, I think it was, for lessons in community organizing by, if I'm not mistaken, it was Saul Alinsky himself.
the author of Rules for Radicals, which was dedicated, the first edition of that, Rules for Radicals, was dedicated to Satan himself. That's right. Elinsky said, you know, the original rebel. So that, you know, that was Cardinal Bernardine and his spiritual strength. heirs and successors are firmly entrenched now right throughout Illinois, especially Chicago, obviously.
You mentioned that he spent five years in Latin America. I just want to pick up on that point. Sort of running some kind of charity, I think, organization down there for orphans and what have you. It is an interesting parallel that these two kids, Bishop Hicks and Robert Provost, now Pope, they grew up side by side, basically, in these neighbouring suburbs, right?
And they both spent a substantial period, obviously longer for Pope Leo, but they both spent substantial periods in Latin America as part of their formation, their psychological formation.
Right.
Latin America is the breeding ground for liberation theology, which was a communist corruption of Catholicism. It's very effective because you can say all sorts of things that sound faithful and Catholic, but you keep emphasizing the poor. You almost worship the poor, and you use that to kind of like a jumping point into pushing communism, is what it is.
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