Fr. Hesse: The New Conciliar Religion (Part 1) (Remastered Audio)

This is Canon Hesse’s best overall summary of Vatican II. This is Part 1 of 2 of his talk. Near the beginning of the video, Fr. Hesse explains what is covered in this talk:

“[Vatican II] is also exceptional in another regard: it is the first council ever to pronounce heresy. Vatican II as a whole is unacceptable to a Catholic, and after the talk you will see why. Time does not permit to go through all the details of Vatican II so I will point out the most important errors and heresies.”

Other notable quotes from this talk:

“Vatican II is ambiguous from the first to the last line! Vatican II is contradictory from the first to the last line!”

“Now Vatican II should be the first book on the Index [of Forbidden Books] as far as this century is concerned.”

“The concept that the Muslims and the Jews pray to the same God we do […] this concept is heresy, it IMPLIES a lot of other heresies, and it is blasphemy. And anybody that tells me that we can interpret this in a Catholic way is to say the least a little bit nuts.”

“There's other things in Lumen Gentium that cry out to Heaven for being blasphemous, stupid, and heretical, but we have to go on.”

“And the liberty of religion is something in Vatican II that caused many bishops to stop signing documents!”

“Liberty of religion has been condemned by the Popes Gregory XVI, Pius IX, Leo XIII, Pius X, Pius XI, Pius XII. You are NOT free to choose your religion! You are BOUND in conscience to choose the Catholic Church and to belong to the Catholic Church. And if you don't, as the Church says it, objectively speaking you cannot be saved.”

“So anybody who thinks that he is free to choose their religion might go to hell for it. [...] If I had the freedom of religion, I'd be an Episcopalian for many years already, but I do not have it! I am bound in conscience to adore God in the way that God WANTS me to adore Him! And that means I have to be a Catholic even if it costs me my life! There is no such thing as liberty of religion! Forget it! Forget Vatican II! Let's print a bumper sticker: Forget Vatican II!”

“Vatican II is too intelligent to say – they were too clever – to say that the Church contains the Protestant churches and the Orthodox churches and all these other churches, but they said MAYBE those are churches contained in the Catholic Church because they said, ‘The Church of Christ subsists in the Catholic Church.’ For almost 2,000 years the Catholic Church insisted that the Church of Jesus Christ IS the Catholic Church. And it is defined dogma that the Church of Jesus Christ IS the Catholic Church! It's IDENTICAL with the Catholic Church. Nothing outside the Catholic Church is part of the Church of Christ. And nothing of the Church of Christ is outside the Catholic Church. [...] Christ founded the Catholic Church and no other Church.”

Fr. Gregory Hesse, S.T.D., J.C.D., S.T.L., J.C.L., Canon Lawyer, Doctor of Thomistic Theology, lifelong friend and personal secretary of Cardinal Stickler at the Vatican from 1986-1988 has provided us with many talks and conferences where he gives a no-nonsense, intelligent, learned, and witty exposition and explanation of relevant topics facing contemporary faithful Catholics. Fr. Hesse got to know approximately 45 cardinals while studying and working in Rome for 15 years and he has an uncanny and substantial knowledge of many things. You would be hard-pressed to find another theologian quite like him.

Canon Hesse was related to the Hapsburg royal bloodline. He was born in Vienna in 1952, ordained by Cardinal Marella in St. Peter's Basilica on November 21, 1981, and earned doctorates in Canon Law and Theology from the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum) in Rome. He worked as a personal secretary of Cardinal Stickler at the Vatican from 1986 to 1988. He passed away on January 25, 2006. You would be hard-pressed to find another theologian quite like him. A breath of fresh air in today’s widespread climate of many weak, ignorant, and naive clerics and theologians, he was affectionately called by several of his friends during his life “the bull in the china shop.” His example, testimony, and insights no doubt played and will play an important role in Catholic thought and development. Listen to find out why.

You can download the free MP3 of all of Fr. Hesse’s talks to listen to on your computer or portable audio devices at: https://archive.org/details/FatherHesse
That link includes 33 talks totaling 38 hours, 50 minutes of audio.
You can also download them here: https://mega.nz/folder/7h52AYBY#6bmPr3KwWvgvsB2yBV7fkg

This video and all the remastered audio files at the above link have been professionally touched up to remove as much background noise, pops, crackles, and other audio imperfections as possible. Because the original recordings were done on cassette tapes with less-than-ideal audio equipment, there are a certain amount of audio artifacts and tape hiss that were not possible to entirely remove. However, the remastered audio files are significantly better than the originals.