This is the Padre Peregrino podcast, and I am very honored to be joined today by Bishop Williamson from England.

Bishop Williamson, thank you for joining us today.

My pleasure.

I'd like to give a little bit of a bio on Bishop Williamson.

Quite a short one here. He was born in the UK during World War

II in 1940. He later converted from Anglicanism to Catholicism in 1971. Then later he was

ordained a priest in 1976 and consecrated a bishop in 1988, both of those by Archbishop Lefebvre.

The retired Naval Academy professor, Dr. David Allen White, wrote that Bishop Williamson is, quote,

the most outspoken, detested, persistent, outrageous, implacable, unyielding, forthright, kindly, and charitable Catholic bishop, end

quote. So quite a compliment there, even if there's a little bit of teasing.

Bishop, I'd like to ask you why you became Catholic as an adult before we get into your ordination,

before we get into the crisis in the church. Why did you become Catholic? Because God gave

me to see that the world is in a mess and the the mess is because the world has turned

its back on God so I needed a strong version of Catholicism to clean up a strong mess.

And it takes the real McCoy, it takes the real thing to answer to the real trouble that the world is in.

And that real answer was Catholicism. Because, uh, has left God behind.

Uh, he came down 2,000 years ago from heaven to earth, a little over 2,000 years ago from heaven to earth a little over 2,000 years now. And he died on the cross to

to save us from our sins. And that's what it needs to save the modern world. Nothing less will do.

It's a real mess. It needs a real answer.

You know, I believe the term relationship with Christ, relationship with Jesus Christ,

is something commandeered by the modernists.

And because it's been commandeered by the modernists, we traditionalists are sometimes afraid of that.

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