You know, many religions are oppressed and harassed around the world, but, and it's

not a contest to see who can get hurt the most, but I think it's really important to remember,

especially in a big Christian country like this one, that in many places Christianity is the

most, being a Christian is the most dangerous thing you can be. There's a new book out called

The Coming Christian Persecution by Thomas Williams. He's an American Theologian teaching at St.

John's University and he serves as Breitbart's Rome correspondent. Thomas, thank you so much for

coming on. I appreciate it. Andrew, it's great to be able to talk with you. It's a dire kind of a

sad and sober topic, but an important one. Yeah, it's a scary one. Before we get to the book,

The Coming Christian Persecution, there's just, I want to ask you one question about your own

personal story, because when I went to look you up, you were repeatedly referred to as a

disgraced priest. You had been a priest and you were no longer, and I, so I looked your story up,

and to be honest with you, I mean, we make mistakes, we all are sinners and we, and we fall,

but I thought you were in your situation with enormous courage and honesty, and I just would,

like to give you a chance to address it before we talk about that. Can you explain to the audience

what happened? Sure. I mean, I messed up in a big way. I, I broke my valve of, of celibacy. I

fell along for the woman. We had a child who has Down syndrome. So I left the priesthood. We got married,

and we're married and we're raising a child who's actually now 20 years old. He's, he's a young man.

And I, yeah, I just did what I thought at that moment was the responsible thing to do and

tried to man up, if you will, to, to what I had done. And, but it was a, it was a real mistake. I'm

not trying to whitewash that either, and I don't think because of that, you have to question all

celibacy will, you know, I don't use that as kind of a lever to try to, you know, blame institutions.

It was my own mistake, and I'm trying to make good with it. Yeah, listen, like I said,

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