The John-Henry Westen Show

John-Henry Westen interviews Msgr. Ricardo Coronado-Arrascue about Archbishop James Golka's decision to ask renowned exorcist Fr. Chad Ripperger to suspend public speaking engagements and interviews for one year. The Archdiocese of Denver describes the arrangement as voluntary. Msgr. Coronado questions that characterization, drawing on his own experience working under Golka in the Diocese of C...

Fr. David Mary Engo spent nearly 30 years in the priesthood before affiliating with the Society of St. Pius X. The moment that changed his direction was the Vatican's rejection of the appropriateness of calling Our Lady "Co-Redemptrix." Deeply troubled by what he considers the spread of modernism within the Church, Fr. Engo explains why he could no longer celebrate the Novus Ordo Mas...

Researcher and author Gary Giuffre joins John-Henry Westen to present the controversial "Siri Thesis", the claim that Cardinal Giuseppe Siri was legitimately elected pope during the 1958 conclave but was forced aside through threats and political interference, allowing Angelo Roncalli to emerge as Pope John XXIII. Giuffre describes decades of research, personal conversations with Vatican...

SSPX priest Fr. Lawrence Novak joins John-Henry Westen to share the life and recent death of his 93-year-old mother, a woman whose determination to preserve the traditional Catholic faith shaped a family of eight children that produced two priests and a religious sister. Fr. Novak was at his mother's side when she died after receiving the Last Rites and the Apostolic Blessing. He credits her f...

J.K. Rowling has publicly admitted she has a "God-shaped vacuum" inside her, and has struggled with religious faith since her teenage years. John-Henry Westen responds with an open letter, praising Rowling for standing by her convictions on sex differences and opposing assisted suicide. Her willingness to defend unpopular truths, he argues, reflects a deeper search for meaning. Rejecting...

Ahead of Pope Leo XIV's planned visit to Peru, Peruvian canon lawyer Msgr. Ricardo Coronado-Arrascue joins John-Henry Westen to discuss the controversy surrounding Pachamama and indigenous religious practices. Coronado describes Pachamama as rooted in pre-Christian Andean religion and argues that a modern "indigenous theology" has attempted to elevate indigenous culture alongside the...

John-Henry Westen examines Our Lady of Fatima’s promise that “in the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph” and explores what that triumph could look like in the world and in the Church. Drawing on the Fatima message and Sister Lucia’s memoirs, John-Henry explains the connection between the consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart, Russia’s conversion, and the promised period of peace. He ar...

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Traditional Franciscan priest Fr. Mary-Isaac Relyea joins John-Henry Westen to address what he describes as a crisis of silence within the Catholic hierarchy. Drawing on St. John Eudes and St. Gregory the Great, Relyea argues that priests and bishops have a grave obligation to defend Catholic doctrine and warn souls against sin. He sharply criticizes Pope Leo XIV and other prelates whom he believe...

Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen's beatification is approaching, and the story behind it is miraculous. John-Henry Westen speaks with Al Smith, a Canadian plumber who had never heard of Sheen and became one of his most dedicated promoters. Smith discovered Sheen through his writings, brought his talks to radio and seminaries, republished his works, and eventually served with the Sheen Foundation. He...

A first-of-its-kind debate on the John-Henry Westen Show: does accepting a universe billions of years old contradict a faithful Christian interpretation of Scripture? Ed Mazza and astronomer Dr. Hugh Ross defend the proposition that it does not. Mazza argues the Church distinguishes the essential doctrine of creation from questions about how and over what period it unfolded—citing St. Augustine, S...

Jason Jones traveled to southern Lebanon with his 18-year-old son on a humanitarian mission to assist vulnerable Christian communities caught between Israel and Hezbollah. They slept in villages while nearby bombing repeatedly shook their building. They traveled through dangerous territory and passed the aftermath of deadly attacks. Through the Vulnerable People Project, Jones's team visited isola...

Chéri Ballinger was a model and actress with everything ahead of her. Then, on the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, after praying several Rosaries, she fell seven feet from a trampoline onto concrete. The traumatic brain injury left her unable to walk or talk. Doctors were astonished she survived without breaking her neck, but they gave her little hope of returning to a normal life. Ballinger credits...

David Dionisi, Catholic missionary, author, and former intelligence officer, joins John-Henry Westen to discuss his decades of humanitarian work and the extraordinary experiences that shaped his worldview. He recounts establishing the Liberia Mission during the civil war, returning during the 2014 Ebola epidemic to establish a quarantine facility, and what he describes as miraculous protection ass...

Ted Flynn, Marian apparitions expert and author of Secrets of the Book of Revelation Revealed , joins John-Henry Westen to argue that the Book of Revelation is unfolding before our eyes. Drawing on decades of research into Marian prophecy, Scripture, mystics, and the end times, Flynn connects Fatima, Garabandal, the Marian Movement of Priests, and Fr. Stefano Gobbi's messages to the present crisis...

Software engineer Jeremy Williamson warns that digital ID, surveillance technology, and centralized control over everyday technology are laying the groundwork for a system that could exclude dissenters from economic and social life. Age verification, he argues, is a "Trojan horse" for universal digital ID—tying identity to banking, communications, transportation, and essential services. COVID-era...

Catholic evangelist, former L.A. County police officer, and world police boxing champion Jesse Romero joins John-Henry Westen to answer the question on every faithful Catholic's mind: how do we survive the great apostasy in the Church? Romero urges Catholics to become "joyful warriors"—to stop allowing anxiety over popes, bishops, and controversies to consume their spiritual lives, and instead kee...

Sister Loretta-Maria, a traditional Carmelite nun working to establish a new monastery in High Springs, Florida, joins John-Henry Westen to discuss the crisis facing the Church and the response of faithful Catholics who refuse to abandon tradition. She explains how the traditional Carmelite structure preserves the spirituality and practices handed down by St. Teresa of Avila, navigates present con...

Catholic author and podcaster Timothy Gordon joins John-Henry Westen for a wide-ranging conversation on feminism, traditional Catholic marriage, and the crisis of authority in the Church. Gordon draws from the Roman Catechism to argue that modern Catholics have become uncomfortable with traditional teachings on male headship and wifely obedience. He discusses his documentary What a Woman Is, the "...

Dr. Pat Castle is an Air Force colonel, a PhD chemist, and the founder of LIFE Runners. He is also a man on a mission: to wake up the Church and kick pro-life Christians into high gear. Castle joins John-Henry Westen to discuss true femininity, God-given identity, and the importance of obedience to God's plan. Modern confusion surrounding sex and gender, he argues, comes from rejecting the biologi...

f the SSPX had consecrated 30 to 50 bishops, Rome would have been forced to negotiate. That is the assessment of Professor William Thomas, a Vatican theologian and classmate of Pope Leo XIV, who argues that the Society's recent consecrations, while historic, did not go far enough to compel the Vatican to take the traditionalist movement seriously. Thomas praises the traditional liturgy and warns t...

The traditional Catholic world is divided. The SSPX. The FSSP. The sedevacantists. The interregnum proponents. Each group agrees on the essentials of the faith, but disagrees on a small but significant number of questions concerning papal authority and the Second Vatican Council. Father David Nix joins John-Henry Westen to explain each position fairly and urge traditional Catholics to resist the b...

Pope Leo XIV has been connected to communist affiliated organizations. Michael Hitchborn of the Lepanto Institute joins John-Henry Westen to examine the evidence and ask the question that faithful Catholics are demanding: how does this square with the Pope's duty to defend the faith? Hitchborn revisits his investigation into Pope Leo's past associations and discusses the Vatican's response to publ...

Pope Leo XIV met publicly with Anglican leader Sarah Mullally, accepting her blessing and addressing her according to episcopal protocol. Anthony Stine argues the gesture was not merely ecumenical. It has potentially serious legal and ecclesial consequences. Stine contends that by treating Mullally as a legitimate archbishop, the Vatican has unintentionally strengthened arguments from European act...

Mother Miriam, Bishop Schneider, and Cardinal Burke all maintain that Pope Leo XIV is the legitimate pope, despite criticizing aspects of his teaching. But church historian Ed Mazza argues that the more fundamental question is whether the current pope is truly a valid pope at all. Drawing on Church history, councils, theologians, and papal writings, Mazza contends that the Catholic Church has cons...