You're listening to the SSPX podcast, and today we're introducing a new multi-part series of episodes that we've been working on, the Crisis in the Church series.

I had the opportunity to sit down with Father Paul Isaac Franks of the SSPX, who is spearheading this project, about this series, what he hopes to achieve, and what will be included in this nearly 20-episode project.

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Now, here's our conversation with Father Franks. Well, welcome to an edition, an edition,

of the SSPX podcast, and we're talking with Father Franks.

Hello, Father, how are you?

Hey, Andrew. I'm doing well, thank you.

Very good.

Well, this is the first time you and I have talked, and like I mentioned at the top.

This is a little bit of an introductory podcast, introducing a series that we're going to be starting

on the crisis in the church, and it's going to be a multi-part series.

But before we dig in and kind of introduce what we're doing, this is the first time you and I have talked on one of these podcasts or one of these videos.

So could you let people know who you are?

So I'm Father Paul Franks. I'm originally from England.

I was born and raised in England, did my school and so on there. I grew up Catholic, but diocese and Catholic.

And discovered the traditional movement when I was in university and shortly afterwards entered the SSPX seminary in

Winona, Minnesota, where I studied for seven years, being ordained in the last year

of the seminary being there in Winona before it moved to Virginia.

And then I was assigned in St. Mary's where I teach in St. Mary's College, teach philosophy and theology, and I look after the mission in Wichita. And this is my fifth year now in St. Mary's. My first assignment as a priest. And I'm very happy here.

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