You're listening to the SSPX podcast. And this week on the Crisis in the Church series,

we're taking a break from our normal interviews for Christmas, but we wanted to do an

episode recapping what we've talked about over the last three months. That way, if you've

missed an episode, or a few, you can get up to speed as we continue with our series next week.

We've condensed the past nine hours of episodes into about an hour,

highlighting a few of the important points from each interview.

So, we'll start with our first interview.

When we asked Father John McFarland, whether or not there's a crisis in the church.

Well, there obviously is, otherwise we wouldn't be doing this entire series. But we asked him first

what makes this crisis different than all the others that the church has gone through in her

history. I would say the universality that we are seeing a complete, almost complete disruption

of the church's practice and the understanding of the church's doctrine.

There's never been anything like that before.

And also, it's pervaded every level of the hierarchy.

We find it in the course among the laity, but the priests, the episcopacy in Rome and even with the popes themselves, this, uh,

contributions to the crisis, you can say. And, I mean, haven't the popes in the last 50 years

seen this? Hasn't the Vatican, I mean, you'd think they would respond in some way?

Yes, and they have, the recent popes have pointed out, they haven't done much about it.

At times they act as if there is no crisis, but you do have some very telling admissions

that they've given over the years and not just one pope but but most of them since since the council

so paul the sixth for example the church is in a disturbed period of self-criticism or what would

better be called self-demolition it's a pretty strong statement that the church is destroying itself.

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