Well, your eminence, it's really lovely to be with you in the Eternal City.

Yes, I'm so glad you came and I'm happy to visit with you again after many years.

Yes. Well, first question I have for you is about this novena that you started.

Maybe you can tell us a bit about it for those who aren't familiar and how many people joined it.

Well, I think every serious person today realizes that the world is in a very troubled situation.

For example, this ongoing war in the Ukraine and the prolonged crisis in the Holy Land, and then the prolonged crisis in the Holy Land,

and then the rebellion against God and the whole moral sphere,

the advance of the idea that we can choose our own sexual identity

and mutilate ourselves in order to to entertain our the insane idea.

Then, and also that the same turmoil is entered into the church.

There's so much confusion today about what the church really teaches.

And in a sense that more and more Catholics have that somehow the church has lost her moorings or read her

and that she's just drifting with the with the contemporary culture which

those who live have lived intensely the culture know that it's it's lethal and it's it's not for

our happiness either in this life or in the life which is to come.

So I, before this reality, it led me to think of the situation in Mexico in the time of the apparitions of our lady Guadalupe in the 16th century, precisely from December 9th to the 12th and

1531. And at that time, there was a terrible situation of human sacrifice among the Native

Americans, the Aztecs. It was a corruption of the Aztec religion, a diabolical corruption,

but it was costing thousands and thousands of lives. It was a corruption of the Aztec religion, a diabolical corruption, but it was costing thousands

and thousands of lives.

At the same time, there was a conflict developing between the Native Americans and the Spanish

explorers and settlers, which was sure to result in a bloody conflict with the destruction

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