“Evil always takes advantage of ambiguity.” - G.K. Chesterton

As the Venerable Bishop Fulton Sheen put it, "If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live"

I am an Evangelical pastor. We have our own set of problems but I really appreciated your rebuttal of Fr. Martin's not-so-subtle false teaching. I will pray for you and the true Catholic Church to prevail in this struggle.

As a divorced Catholic I have been living a chaste single life for over twenty years. I 'm not complaining about my status, it's my choice to accept the loneliness and self discipline because it is the way that I acknowledge the eternal nature of the sacrament of matrimony. Maybe I'm missing something, but I have never personally seen any indication in any parish or diocese of emotional support or compassion or concern for Catholics in my position. Yes, God sees those of us who are still married in the eyes of the church but we don't get to stand proud at the diocesan silver anniversary celebrations, and it does get lonely. I have compassion for all people in and out of the church who suffer from this kind of isolation, and I would like to challenge the church to do a better job at being aware of and reaching out with loving social and physical interaction to those who for whatever reason are neither called to the religious or the married state.

Pray for the Jesuits. We could all use your prayers, albeit for different reasons.

Jesus told the woman at the well, who had a life full of sexual sin, go and sin no more. We never hear this from James Martin

How this man has not been excommunicated is beyond me. What's going on in the Catholic church that this would be allowed to play out for so long? My goodness. As Trent said, he's giving these poor kids false hope. He needs to be dealt with immediately, so that he can stop planting these destructive seeds in the hearts of those who may genuinely seek to follow Christ.

Thank you for this. I am dismayed that Fr. Martin is not corrected by his bishop. That tells me that there is a significant part of church hierarchy that want to change the moral theology given to us through scripture, natural law and the catechism of the Catholic church. Fr. Martin's message is leading many down the road to perdition. May the Sacred Heart of Jesus have mercy on us.

17:13 “Like Rey in Star Wars” Trent Horn, who has taken on some of the most daring and bold questions in the modern day, will now take on the next most vicious and controversial crowd: Star Wars fans.

I too was very upset when I found out it wasn’t okay to have sex before marriage, watch porn, masturbate and have desires to sleep with tons of women. I felt like I had to separate those things and leave my sexual deviant flag outside the church before I entered it. I felt so alienated from the church and so conflicted about who I was and who the church was asking me to be. The entitlement is beyond belief. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Here's the thing that some heretics do to be sneaky and hide their real intentions and dissent: Confuse and distort the Church teaching, instead of explicitly denying it

I would pay to see a father Martin vs father Mike schmit talk.

Aaaah heresy. Super shocked he hasn't been excommunicated or something. Letting him continue seems damaging.

“Shooting At A Swinger’s Club” - Thank you, I now have a title for my crime novel. 😂 Seriously, Father Martin makes our church look like Congress - we’re all different “parties” and eventually one will “win” out with its views.

This was great Trent. I always use the analogy of a health club under new management who tells the employees to advertise to basketball players to join, only the gym doesn't have courts and doesn't intend to. They just want to be welcoming to basketball players. It would be confusing and frustration for every party involved.

Honestly, as someone who raised as an Evangelical Protestant, I've found that Catholics are often more understanding of my struggle with Homosexuality.

I knew what Fr. (it pains me to call him that) Martin was undermining the Church with his twisted interpretation of Church doctrine and leading people very likely to hell. But seeing that poor young man who was so confused just broke my heart, he knows the truth and he was looking for someone to help him hold to the straight and narrow and learn to live with and overcome same sex attraction. Unfortunately, he found Fr. Martin, did he look or sound like he was better for having found him? I know it was a short clip, but I thought that he still looked miserable and the evil teachings of Fr. Martin fighting against what the young man knows to be true is only making it worse. This is the first time I have seen Fr. Martin handiwork in human form, generally, these confused people would be kept away from him, you always see him surrounded by happy LGBTQ people. I can only think he wants to say, "this is what the Church is doing to the LGBTQ community", but that is not how I saw it. I knew he was slimy, but these clips really reveal just how devious and manipulative he is, I am no Church scholar or theologian, but those don't seem like proper characteristics for a priest or anyone in the Church hierarchy. It is a shame that so many in the Church support this man and his diabolical work. It almost seems like there are some, even quite high up, that will not be happy until every traditional teaching and dogma of the Church is destroyed and replaced with whatever the current social justice or politically correct nonsense is at the moment. I am so thankful that the priests in parish are very traditionally minded and just stick to the Bible, the catechism, and the saints. It is a sad state of affairs when priests like mine are not the massively overwhelming majority. Take a trip through the internet and it makes me think that, at this point, they may not even be in the majority at all! Thanks for reviewing this documentary, I will be saving my $3.99. Thank you also for being fair to Michael Voris, I know he can be polarizing, but if I had to choose to add to the church 100 more Fr. Martin 's or 100 more Michael's, I think the Church would fare much better with the Michael's.

It’s really sad when people want to elevate themselves instead of letting Christ lead them. It’s not our Church. It’s Christ’s Church. He’s the head of the church. We are nothing without Christ.

Great review per usual, Trent. Insightful, clear, and charitable.

It's great that Voris was included as he's a living proof that this kind of immorality can be overcome. He undermines the documentary.

Thank you, Trent. Very much looking forward to reading your new book!

Trent, just want to say I really appreciate your videos. They are always very articulate and thoroughly thought out. You speak directly yet charitably in criticism of Fr. James Martin. Thank you for your channel and insightful videos!

In terms of ministry to the homosexual "community," I think it's worth pointing out that it was Michael Voris, not James Martin, who got Milo Yiannopolous to give up the gay lifestyle and return to the Church.

I have had to change so much of myself to bring myself in conformity with God - it took 40 years and much suffering to finally achieve it. Not completely. There are still faults in me. But I know I can acknowledge them to God, repent of them and receive the Lord in a state of grace.

Trent folding his arms like James on the bookcover. Excellent review

Thank you for pointing out the wolves, Trent. Although we already know, it never hurts to repeat it.

False mercy confirms a person in sin and allows a person to remain in darkness causing a deepening of their spiritual wounds and maladies. True mercy helps cure the soul and guides a person to true fulfillment and wholeness.

The young man at 25:06 moved me very much, in the way it seems God is trying to break through to him. And did anyone catch that at 26:40 he says, "There;s a little bit of doubt in my body"? He quickly corrects himself "in my mind," but I think "in my body" was very significant. It's not just a conflict of ideas in his head, but something happening much deeper.

This was really helpful. Thank you, Trent.

Father Martin will never put himself into a situation where he'll be put into a position to be interrogated on his beliefs but it doesn't matter. He's already exposed himself for what he is and it's not going to stop until he's stopped by the hierarchy. But that's not happening any time soon

Why isn't Fr Martin excommunicated already?

Thank you for your insight, Trent. I appreciate your commentary on these things.

Trent, you are amazing. Praying for you. I would really enjoy reading that book!

Great review , Trent. as always thank you

Martin Scorsese produced this? That's a bummer. And of course the parts with Voris were more interesting, he's an interesting guy! Love me some Church Militant

Fr martin’s welcome at the Holy See presents a terrible double standard. The Church teaches one thing but does another. Jesus repeatedly called out hypocrisy against the shepherds for his day, “do what they say but not what they do”.

I don’t like how he dances around the issue. That’s not from God. God speaks clearly, and he doesn’t mince words. He knows what he’s doing. My God! Also, Trent, any way you can do a review of Mass of the Ages? I’m interested in hearing what you have to say about that documentary’s claims.

You are the martyr for having watched it. Thank you for your sacrifice. I hope you can complete the book and expose people like him. By his own words...

Thank you so much for the work you do

Why is that priest still not excommunicated?

A lot of instances in this documentary are offering a very malformed definition of love as synonymous with “enabling.” Basically the old addicts cry of “loving and accepting me means celebrating my self destruction!” It’s not a new method. Go to any AA meeting down the street and you’ll hear a room full of people who admit how manipulative and self-deceived they used to be, and how they acted during interventions. And you’ll hear them say they’re so grateful their family and friends refused to tolerate their BS. We are not helping people by encouraging them to self harm. That will NEVER be the definition of love.

This is the reason why there needs to be proper screening for seminarians who want to be Catholic priest .

Thank you, Trent. Great review.

Right around 15:00 I have to agree with Trent. You can’t just throw the term heretic out there and expect that to be a positive attention grabber. Hollywood and indeed history unfortunately have both made that term sort of lack seriousness. In a world where up is down, people might be quick to back someone known as a heretic, so the term really doesn’t help. It’s also just better to explain yourself civilly and remain calm when conducting yourself.

Started to read Father Elijah. It feels that Fr Martin and the media around him fits right in to the theme of the book.

What would it take to be defrocked in this age?

Thank you Trent ! You did such a great job of explaining the doc…. Father James Martin is leading the young down a lonely a dark road…..

Thanks for speaking on this Trent. Good Job.

Something scary I noticed: At 30:46 you can see what I assume is James Martin's room. If you look at the wall, there is a Christ hanging, but with no cross. A Christ with no cross is a freemasonry symbol. Pray for Fr. James Martin. 🙏🙏

Thanks for this Trent

I had a theology teacher who knew Fr. Martin well enough to call him Jim. That was a fun class.

I recently had a conversation with a lifelong Catholic man. I mentioned the renewed interest in the Latin mass. He said you can keep your Latin mass.. "I'll take today's kinder, gentle and more compassionate church, a church where all are welcome". True, all are welcome, but as Catholics are we free to mold and reshape the church into what WE want it to be as Fr. Martin seems to be suggesting.

I went to a talk by Fr. James Martin at old Saint Joseph in Philadelphia in 2015. My assessment is: as Charles Curran was to contraception so is James Martin is to ' LGBT' ideology. He did not mention chastity at all. He complained about the Catechism calling homosexual acts as intrinsically disordered. He mentioned 3 'gay friendly' bishops; Tobin of Newark, Cupich, and Farell. All 3 are recommendations by Theodore Mc Carrick.

This. This is why when they wanted me to go to L.A. RE Congress where Rev. James Martin was an invited speaker I stayed home.

After a rosary protest out front of a church Fr. Martin was preaching at we went inside to listen. He had a Q&A session in note form at the end of his piece but his handlers sifted through the hand written notes to get softball questions. Slack. Orémus Y'all.

Thank you for this video...so helpful.

Wow, props to them for actually bringing up Voris’ sexuality and letting him talk about it in his own words. It would’ve been so easy for them to just paint him as an evil, bigoted hetero.

Great video Trent, calling people to conversion, repentance and taking up the cross and following Christ

Just wondering honestly, whose job is it to get Martin back in line and all the priests like him? Is it his Bishop? Is it Pope Francis? Is there an office that should be getting him back in line with Church teaching?

Thanks for this. It's a tragic thing, false hopes of a middle ground between holiness and mortal sins. We are called to love God. We cannot call sin love and love God as he has taught us to.

Oh my Lord, this man is making so much damage to these souls... He is putting them in real danger, I don't know what to think of him, it is impossible that he doesn't know, he is on a personal quest to change Catholics' hearts and minds on this teaching. Really, we need to pray much.

I learn so much from these podcasts; Trent reminds us of the very basics of our Catholic Faith and makes everything so crystal clear (to me). And, importantly, gives us the knowledge, understanding and language to be able to support our Catholic beliefs. I also believe sincerely that social media has indeed pummeled our young people with so many false beliefs that they are confused and questioning and heading down so many wrong roads.

In the first few minutes of Trent's review, I wanted to see this documentary but wanted to see how Trent handled it first. For me, this so-called *father* Martin brings back memories of the original New Ways Ministry of so-called *sister* Jeannine Gramick & so-called *father* Robert Nugent of the late 1970s & early 1980s. It's the same old, same old ambiguities and lies. The "Pass-on-this-one" moment came in the form of the clip showing Martin's homily where he said "our church" instead of the true "Jesus' Church." This is my 1st introduction to Martin and I'm wondering if he was ever in contact with New Ways Ministry or their publications in any way, shape, or form?

Hi Trent! I just wanted you to know how much I appreciate your content…I am a friend to your friends, David and Marie. You should come visit us in La Crosse sometime :)

At the end of the talk ,i asked some of the attendees if they had heard of the apostolate Courage. None of those I asked had done so. I explained that their mission was to help same sex attracted Catholics to live chastely. The typical response was "I think gay people should have sex."

Ayy didn't know TFP was in this. Between them and Voris it's like the league of supervillians for libcaths.

I didn’t realize Voris was openly Gay or used to be. I mean the signs were all there but you never want to assume. also can we excommunicate Jim now please 🙏🏼🕊🙏🏼 he along with others is just making a mockery of our faith.

You know Trent, even though I have disagreements with you about Catholicism, I do respect your solid stance on this. And this respect has gone up even more seeing that you are not fearful of calling out others in the Catholic church. That being said, I would really like to know your opinion on Pope Francis encouraging Fr. James Martin in his L.G.B.T. ministry

Jimmy does not deserve to be a priest

thanks for the explanation man.!

Totally agree with you Trent. We must uphold the Gospel. We are not perfect thank goodness for confession. Leaders in the Church and in "Catholic" schools must uphold the values and doctrines of the Church...the Truth of Christ...walk the walk and talk the talk. We all must love and obey Jesus instead of our own desires.

The clapping at Mass and waving flag 😳 that straight up disturbed me.

Can you have Michael Voris on this podcast? A dialogue between you two would be amazing!

Man. Can you please tour New Zealand? Come with your family and we will have beautiful Catholic families host you all across our nation and you can experience a beautiful holiday and do the Lord's work in our nation, feeding our Catholic believers.

They should watch the film in Fatima about hell

Anxiously awaiting the BOOK!

Please pray for someone I am close to who is acting on his homosexual desires. Pray that he finds God the Father’s love.

Our parish used to have a priest with the same name. However, this Fr James Martin was was nothing like this infamous priest. Our Fr JM was our priest from 1981 until 1991. He was well liked and uncontroversial and true to Church teaching. Sadly he died seven years later aged only 62 years.

I believe it is St. Bernardine of Siena who tells us that the worst pains in all of hell are reserved for the Sudomites, because Sudumy violates not only the Divine law and the Moral law, but also the very Natural law, itself.

I’m getting McCarrick vibes from people calling him Jim…

Great critique Trent. Fr JM isn't very subtle about his pro gay lifestyle

I'm 30 minutes into this and Trent hasn't mentioned Pope Francis' support for Fr. Martin. Wonder why.

@12:04. Unfortunately this problem already exists within our church with the number of sexually active gay priests

The film is probably boring because it features the king of self-promotion. And self-promotion is just plain boring. I agree that Fr Bochansky would make the perfect antagonist, but Fr Martin would never give COURAGE a foothold in his world.

Trent, I’ve actually seen Father Martin put himself in a position to be challenged. You might want to watch that on KZfaq. It’s interesting. He sat down with Ross Douthat. I’ll see if I can find the link or something.

The documentary should be call “The Little Ego of James Martin”

It's as simple as the nose on our faces, we all have crosses to bear. Father Martin doesn't want them to bear any cross.

Next up: 'I like adultery so the church should change its teaching to support my preference and accept me as is.'

Martin is THE prime example of the false teachers who have infiltrated oir Church. "The smoke of Satan has seeped into the Church through it's cracks". Pope St. Paul VI.

“The road to Hell is paved with the bones of priests and monks, and the skulls of bishops are the lamp posts that light the path.” St. John Chrysostom

I do not agree with many things you say.,,but I do appreciate the way you say things. Very respectful.

Great show Trent

Hey Trent, instead of screen capture software, try using OBS to record while you play the video, then you can clip the result for fair play commentary.

When we don't call sin sin, we remove the space for the people committing that sin to repent- that is a great evil.

trent, the black screen when you screen record is because of HDCP. it's copy protection. most streaming services have it. they will only stream 4K video to your TV or computer monitor if it's HDCP-enabled. which basically means they are streaming to your computer a scrambled video stream, which is transmitted over HDMI or displayport or PCIe to your monitor (as a scrambled video stream). and then, your monitor recognizes that it's scrambled and so it attempts to decrypt it in real-time. and since it comes with HDCP keys built-in, it is able to decrypt it. so at every point you have access to the stream, it's just a black screen, until it gets to your monitor. for that reason the only way to record some of these 4K streams is through devices that basically hack your monitor. however, some services only use HDCP for 4K streams. I'm pretty sure amazon's prime video service is like that. so it would be possible to set the resolution to one smaller than 4K and take a screen recording.

I pray for Fr. Martin for his conversion to love and make Jesus the center of his life.

An observation from my conservative evangelical raising, "when the world agrees with you you are probably wrong"

James Martin is a deceiver. It scares me to think of what he's hiding.

This is my first experience with your channel. My brother had some good things to say about you. I have been watching Pints with Aquinas (I hope I spelled that right). I'm very pleased with the way that you present things as they are. I did want to make one comment (not about you or your video, but something that you referenced). You mentioned that Father Martin was looking forward to the day when homosexuals could kiss during the greeting. I'm sure that married couples do this some times. I'm married, and I have never kissed my wife during mass, and I don't think I've ever seen anyone else do it either. It does strike me that homosexual couples tend to complain that they are looked down on when showing affection in public, but you don't really see heterosexual people making out in public. And, I'd rather not see that either. That is something, in my opinion, that should be reserved for privacy with your spouse.

This is fair. I've previously been critical of you, Trent, for being so hard on Fr. James. In my defense, however, I REFUSE to believe any negative comments about others until I've heard from those others myself. Prior to this video, I had only ever seen Fr. James' website about building bridges and his own video where he clearly doesn't refute Church teaching. But now, seeing him talk and the effect he has on others has led me to conclude that even though he is right about some things (particulary his criticism of ordinary catholics and their prejudicial focus on homosexuality while the MUCH worse problems of aldultery/common-law arrangements get a free pass), he is clearly wrong in his approach. It's a confusing message and, as such, is more harmful than helpful. Keep up the good work.