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🔴 Do you enjoy our free weekly shows? If so, you will love our premium community. Join hundreds of Catholics around the world. Learn more: Coffin Nation 🔴 Twitter 🔴 Subscribe ************************************************************** The Catholic Church will be dealing with the fallout from the recent Apostolic Exhortation “Querida Amazonia” for many years to come. In this episode of the Patrick Coffin Show, I sit down with the editor of Catholic World Report and Ignatius Insight, author Carl Olsen to talk about the text of the document, and how Catholics are to view it in light of previous magisterial documents. The big question Catholics around the world are asking is, why was the Synod called in the first place?   🔴 Get the rest of the show notes at our website

Do you enjoy this podcast? Support our work and get the benefits of being a premium member of our community. Learn more here: www.coffinnation.com   **************************************************************   I saw Jean Vanier speak at two different conferences. The first was in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, in the mid-80s; the second on a farm retreat north of Toronto in the early 90s. It was at the latter where I met and spoke with him briefly. I had read a couple of his early books. If you are Canadian and Catholic, Jean Vanier is a household name to you. A dozen schools are named for him across the country, and he won dozens of accolades and honorary degrees—all manner of worldly admiration.   Under the inspiration of a Dominican priest named Father Thomas Philippe,  Jean Vanier as the founding myth goes, visited two mentally handicapped man and decided to have them come live with him and that was the beginning of L'Arche, now a worldwide Federation of group homes for the mentally handicapped When he walked into a room or strode casually up to a lectern before a large crowd, his beautiful face always seem to be beaming. His tall frame radiated a palpably peaceful aura, which has been compared to being in the presence of St. Mother Teresa of Calcutta, who was a friend of his. We now know that Jean Vanier was also a serial sexual predator.   After all the heartache and anger and disillusionment felt by millions of Catholics since the long Lent of 2002, now JEAN VANIER? You kidding me? The truth is, he seems to have learned is diabolical strategies for taking full advantage of women from none other than Father Thomas Philippe, his mentor in spiritual father, a despicable and manipulative fraud. In this video, Patrick asks the questions that have not been answered about this tragic, shocking fall of a man once hailed as a living saint. * The Holy Office punished Thomas Philippe in 1956 with severe restrictions and sanctions, which means his despicable behavior was known by the Vatican. Why was this not flagged decades earlier? * We know of 14 women who say they were abused by Philippe long *after* his formal punishment for doing the same thing in the early 50s. How many more lives were badly damaged because Vanier gave him cover—and access to a steady flow of vulnerable women? * Pope Francis publicly mentioned that he had talked to Vanier the week before he died in May 2019, and went out of his way to praise his life work. As of this moment, the Pope has not said a word, either about the victims nor the scandal itself. Why not? * Finally, how could a man who lived a very public life as a model of morality and goodness have so successfully segmented and hid this level of evil?   In addition to praying for his victims, and for his soul, I also pray for the community he started. The prophetic witness of L'Arche is even more urgently needed today than it was in 1964.

Do you enjoy our free weekly shows? If so, you will love our premium community. Join hundreds of Catholics around the world. Learn more: https://www.coffinnation.com 🔴 Support this show: https://www.patrickcoffin.media/donate.  🔴 Subscribe! ************************************************************** In mid-February, 2020, Father John Hollowell was diagnosed with a brain tumor. Probably one of the least desirable things to hear. The small-town Indiana pastor (of two busy parishes) has not only taken it in stride, as far as that’s possible, he says it was an answer to a prayer he made in 2018 during the maddening summer of shame with the news of McCarrick and related sins and crimes emerged—again.   🔴 Get the rest of the show notes and resources at www.coffinnation.com  

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Join our premium program: www.coffinnation.com Support our show, with a one-time or recurring donation, click here: Donate. Thank you ************************************************************** For a man who has won nine Grammy Awards, recorded over 60 albums, and performed with the very best of American artists, José Feliciano is as down to earth as they come. With his ready laugh, self-deprecating humor, and penchant for bad puns, the self-taught guitar prodigy wants to talk about his Catholic faith, from which he drifted a few years back.   Read the rest of the show notes on our website: www.patrickcoffin.media/show  

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Check out our community program: members' forum, weekly webinars, 3 weekly shows and much more. Join other Catholics around the world: www.coffinnation.com ************************************************************** China is often in the news—for finance, international business, cuisine, and more recently, the Wuhan coronavirus. But the 800-pound panda bear is the fact that China invented totalitarianism centuries before Christ, a collective reality of self-understanding that was tailor-made for the Communist revolution when it arrived. China expert Dr. Steven Mosher has both a historical and religious context. As a historian, he knows the pattern of oppression and bondage under Communism. As a Catholic convert, he knows how critical China is to the mission of the Church.   For the rest of show notes, watch this episode at www.patrickcoffin.media/show    

If you'd like to bring me to your conference or local church — at no expense to the parish— learn more here.   ************************************************************** One of the great providential blessings of living as a Catholic under the confused and confusing papacy of Pope Francis, is that there's a new hunger out there to learn the truth about the Catholic faith. Not the liberal agenda version, not the “Jesuit tradition” version, not the LA Religious Ed Congress version, not the Feeneyite or the extremist SSPX version, and not the clap-happy, self-help therapeutic moral deism version. I mean Catholicism, I mean the deposit of faith, what Jude 1:3 calls “the faith once delivered to the saints.” Could you summarize the teaching of Vatican I, or the Council of Trent in a few sentences? Do you know what was defined at the Council of Ephesus, or the First Council of Nicea? It's like the entire Catholic Church, at almost all levels, has a case of collective amnesia when it comes to grasping what went on between the resurrection and 1962. Then you need to dig into the deposit of faith. Are you a member of Coffin Nation? Check it out. Learn more about our community program here.

Do you enjoy our free weekly shows? If so, you will love our premium community. Join hundreds of Catholics around the world. Learn more: coffinnation.com 🔴 Support this show here. Thank you! 🔴 Twitter 🔴 Subscribe to this channel. Click "Notification Bell" and never miss a thing! ************************************************************** He speaks German, Russian, Portuguese, Spanish, English, French and Italian, and he reads Latin and Ancient Greek. His parents were exiled in Ural Mountains gulag under Stalin where they helped the underground Church. He is one of the Catholic Church’s most outspoken prelates, a supporter of the Viganò letters and critic of the Amoris Laetitia ambiguities, who speaks with refreshing frankness about Church corruption and the infiltration of evils in her ranks. He is Bishop Athanasius Schneider, author (with interviewer Diane Montagna) of Christus Vincit: Christ’s Triumph Over the Darkness of the Age. And His Excellency is this week’s guest.   Read the rest of the show notes on our website: patrickcoffin.media

The lame scream media are hell-bent on keeping us in a constant state of fear. In the 1960s. it was the overpopulation bomb sold by people like Paul Ehrlich. Then it was UFO scares. For the rest of the show notes: www.coffinnation.com/videos And if you're tired of watching the culture spiral down the drain join Coffin Nation, the largest culture restoring community in the world, now in 25 countries. Learn more here: www.coffinnation.com.  Love to see you there.