John Zmirak on The Absolute Truth with Emerald Robinson

Senior Editor John Zmirak joins Emerald Robinson on The Absolute Truth to discuss the the passing of Pope Francis and the upcoming papal election.

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The thoughts and prayers of the entire White House remain with all of the Catholics around the world who are mourning the death of Pope Francis. Pope Francis touched millions of lives and dedicated his life to serving the Catholic Church. As a mark of respect for his memory, President Trump ordered flags be flown at half staff, and he will be traveling to attend his funeral in Rome.

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The president will depart from Washington on Friday morning and return to the United States on Saturday evening. Following the funeral service.

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Yeah. Okay, so Trump has headed to Rome to pay his respects to, Pope Francis. Now, the late Pope Francis, as Caroline Leavitt announced at the white House today. You know, I just wish we could all be honest here. Pope Francis was a literal Marxist, okay? He was a heretical Marxist with that. And I’m not Catholic. Okay, so I will preface this by saying that I’m not Catholic.

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So some might say I might not have the right to speak here, but do you have a lot of Catholic friends? I do have a lot of respect for, some of the Catholic priests that I know who do a lot of great work. I do think there should be some minimum requirements for the next pope, starting with a should be a heterosexual.

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He should not be a heretic. I should just be a given. Right? He should not make pacts with communist. He should not elevate pedophile priest like Cardinal Theodore McCarrick. Now late as well. I mean, is that too much to ask? Also, we had some really other good suggestions from viewers, like this one from, warrior mentor on xQc saying he should not worship pagan idols in the Vatican.

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Just the very least, you know. He also made another great suggestion, saying that he should reinstate Archbishop Carlo Vigano, who was excommunicated by Pope Francis, and that he should also remove all restrictions from the Latin Mass. I know a lot of my friends who were very much appreciate that, and this was a really, really good one too. From the George HQ, HQ, one of our favorite exiles, saying he needs to be vetted by Laura Loomer.

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I couldn’t agree more. I think that’s a great idea. One thing’s for certain, though, the gay atheist leaders of the Rainbow Jihad are in mourning for Pope Francis. So that’s really all you need to know about the Pope’s infernal friends and allies. But who will replace him? That’s the key question now. The most popular amongst the people is Cardinal Robert Sara.

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But that, alas, probably puts him dead last, most likely in the conclave. And joining us now to talk more about this is author of The Stream Dawg. Our friend John Smith, who often talks and writes about religion, the Constitution, the culture war, all those other things. A lot of people ignore. It’s good to see you, John. Thanks for joining us.

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Good to see you, Emerald. Yeah, this is quite a time for Catholics. I’ve got a piece. It’s stream. Talk about this. What do you say when your father dies? What about if he was a traitor and I talked about. Remember Robert Hanssen, the FBI agent who sold us nuclear secrets to the Soviets and got at least three Russians working for the Americans killed?

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He died two years ago in a prison. I wonder what his sons did when he died. You know, his sons were patriotic, Catholic Americans. When your father dies, you feel a natural grief. And to some degree, the Pope is our earthly father. But that doesn’t mean we’re obliged to lie about it. We should pray for his soul all the way.

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We should have prayed for Robert Hanssen soul, but do it in the same spirit. This is someone with a lot on his conscience. You you said kind of casually, Pope Francis is a heretic. Well, let’s be specific. Pope Francis has taught that the death penalty is always wrong. Everywhere. Wrong has always been wrong. Presuming logically, that means it was wrong when Noah passed along the covenant of Noah from God the Father in the Old Testament.

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It was wrong when Moses practiced the death penalty. It was wrong when the Christian Church endorsed the death penalty. For almost 2000 years, the Vatican had the death penalty on its legal books till 1968. Presumably it was wrong to execute the Nazi war criminals after the Nuremberg trials, even though Pope Pius the 12th said it was right and urged that they be executed quickly.

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Pope Francis has taught the death penalty is always wrong, with no exceptions. He’s also taught that deporting illegal immigrants is wrong. That it’s like practicing the slave trade. However, the Vatican, just two weeks ago allowed for sex change surgery. If people feel really sad and you’re afraid they might commit suicide, they can have a sex change operation. What that does is it takes away the legal protection of Catholic doctors, nurses and hospitals who might not want to perform such barbarous mutilating experiments.

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Now, the federal government could say, well, your own church says you’re allowed to do it, so you have to do it. Pope Francis did this before he supported the Covid vaccine, the experimental, untested Covid vaccine that was developed using aborted babies. But the kind of vaccine which Pope Benedict had condemned as intrinsically evil and said, you should only take such a thing if you are an imminent danger of death, you may take it.

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Pope Francis said every Catholic should take the vaccine and told bishops to deny conscience exemptions to Catholics who didn’t want to be forced by the state to take the vaccine. Pope Francis even minted a Vatican coin, a Vatican URL showing a little kid getting vaccinated for Covid. Pope Francis has allowed for same sex unions in Catholic churches. He made a deal with communist China, selling out the underground church and giving the communist, Vichy collaborationist church the right to appoint bishops.

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And the man he sent to do that, to make that Molotov-Ribbentrop pact with the Chinese Communist Party was Theodore McCarrick, a bishop, a cardinal who had molested a child and who was known for sexually harassing handsome male seminarians. Many of the leading cardinals in the church in America today, such as Sue Pinch of Chicago and Tobin of Newark and McElroy of Washington, D.C. they were all proteges of McCarrick back when he was sexually molesting and harassing handsome male seminarians.

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They must have known all about it. It was common knowledge in church circles. They still associated with him, they still honored him. And he never faced trial for molesting that young man, James Green, because he aged out. They said he was unable, unwell, unable to stand trial. The legacy of.

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Pope Francis competent.

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Right. The legacy of Pope Francis is the legacy of Diocletian. It’s a perfect tutor of the church. Pope Francis is persecute, has persecuted the church from within. I my private theory is, I think he joined the seminary long ago on the orders of his local Communist Party cell. We know from Béla Dodd, who testified before the US Congress that the Communist Party was infiltrating Catholic seminaries in the 50s, 60s and 70s.

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We know from a, a Romanian, secret service secret police defector that liberation theology was created by the KGB, who sent Marxist Jesuits to Latin America to try to turn the church into a communist front group. Pope Francis constantly echoed and reiterated and supported the themes of liberation theology. He even accepted a communist crucifix of Jesus on a on a hammer and sickle.

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He accepted that from a liberation theology theologian in South America, he venerated a pagan idol at the Vatican. He publicly embraced Emma Bonino, an unrepentant abortionist. On multiple occasions. He invited population control fanatics like Jeffrey Sachs to speak at the Vatican, and then invited Chelsea Clinton to speak at the Vatican. But condemn Donald Trump is not Christian for trying to control the US border, even though the Vatican has fewer than 200 citizens, none of whom can vote.

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If Pope Francis were to follow his own logic, he should let all the gypsies in Rome have Vatican citizenship and let them vote on how to dispose of the Vatican’s wealth. You’d see those paintings streaming out of the Vatican Museums within a day.

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That’s quite a long list.

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John. I’m not even finished. I’ve decided to hold back. You know.

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We could really take it. We could definitely easily take up a whole a whole show, pointing out a whole hour long, easily pointing out the heretical actions of this pope. But let’s move forward. What does this portend for the future of the church? I mean, people have told me, and look, we we have to cover the church because it is a political power player.

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It is also a driver of the culture, right? Whether they’re a as you noted, they just allowed for transgender surgeries, right. What is the I have been told that the he stacked the Cardinals in such a way that there will only be an equally progressive successor. Is that true? I mean, what what is it going to be?

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Marilyn.

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He tried to do he tried to do that. However, people have said he may not have succeeded because he he picked people from various third world countries who he thought would be progressive. They might not all be as progressive, but what I would like to see. You know, in the past, secular powers have influenced the election of popes, Pope the Otto the Great, the Holy Roman Emperor marched into Rome in, I think, the 10th century, the Vatican.

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At that point, the popes were being appointed by the local aristocrats who were basically like Mafia crime families and in fact, a prostitute. Her name was Mizoguchi was the person who picked the popes. And historians call this period of the Vatican of church history the pornography. Pornography, meaning the rule by prostitute Otto the Third marched in, deposed the corrupt pope, who the prostitutes chosen, and forced them to elect an honest pope.

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Pope. Secular rulers have had a positive influence on the church, sometimes correcting its errors. I would like to see the the Trump administration send some signals to the Cardinals. You should not elect another Marxist anti-American pope. If you do, there will be consequences. Those consequences could include the Department of Justice doing a Rico investigation of the US Catholic bishops for human trafficking, because they’ve been helping Catholic Charities and been helping cartels to smuggle immigrants across the border.

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They could investigate the the USCCB for covering up sex abuse. They’ve never been faced with charges for moving pedophiles around and not telling parents about it. They spent, I think, $5 billion in in settlements for sex abuse cases in 20 years. But they never faced any criminal charges. Also, the Vatican has been immune to lawsuits for sex abuse because of a legal loophole.

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The Trump administration could close that loophole so that victims of sex abuse could sue the Vatican for the policies the Vatican had in place that made the sex abuse crisis possible. I think that that ought to happen. Certainly, it’s a threat which the Trump administration ought to quietly convey to various cardinals. If you elect another pope who’s going to make alliances with communist China against the US, which is what Francis did.

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If you’re going to continue to to try to smuggle immigrants into our country and make money from it. The church collected $3 billion in 15 years from the US government, mostly for bringing immigrants into the country. If you’re going to do all those things well, you’re going to find that America, the American government is not very friendly to the Vatican, and I think most American Catholics would be fine with with the US government, with the Trump administration pushing back against a Marxist pope who is hostile to the United States.

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The way Pope Francis flies, I think I would love to see Cesar influence the papacy for the good.

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I do agree with you. All the American Catholics I know would certainly endorse that kind of action from the Trump administration. And, look, they’re taking on the Venezuelan cartel by announcing today that a Rico investigation into 27 trend arugula members, why not give the same threat to the Vatican cartel? I think that is a fantastic idea. And for our audience, if you want to keep up with John’s work, you could also at his book, we did this great, Live ex live, a few months ago on your book.

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No Second amendment. No. First, you can go out and get that or books are available now. John Merrick, it’s good to see you. Let’s follow this. No one can put it quite the way you can. And I love I love your suggestions. I hope they make their way to the Trump administration. I think they will. It’s good to see you on YouTube.

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Thanks.