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ah was his death, the kind of priest, a parish needs written if he didn't exist he'd have to be invented. he's a man of faith and a nice change for the church. it's brit. i'm a church rebel. the self proclaimed rebel has landed in edinburgh. his mission is unconventional. he's leading a group of whiskey enthusiasts through scotland. whiskey, he says, is holy water, spirituality and spirit in one. father volk gung, horta, has been organizing whiskey pilgrimages in his free time. for years and they're almost always full. this is his 1st trip since corona

bus driver, david williams is a familiar figure on the tours. id. hello. hello. can you hear me? great. we're ready to go. via didn't eyes or stop tonight. it's welcome to the promised land of scotland group, lung transplant. david williams drives whiskey tours regularly, but both gung halter taught him that they can also be seen as christian pilgrimages . didn't know who i was get and i looked at itinerary and i saw the name under, in a sure who fools gang come off the plane and what was counted dog color. and as far as like i say to him is, this will kill, you know, he going to be drinking whiskey and he said, will, you know, the angels drinker so, so i was quite argued on certain really health enhancer black front then, you know, so, yeah, yeah, but he's pretty cool guy. i definitely am indeed,

spirituality, kate, we don't want to neglect spirituality in the other sense. so let's start with some pres there. yes. under beginning the praise at the beginning of a journey credit, i guess i'll hand out the words of a him now kind of an immune make our d david happy again by filling his bus with singing mckesson. hi, lessons with in the, in the name of the father and of the son and of the holy spirit. singer. oh boy. oh, in. oh, i i. oh, i. before corona struck, scotlands rugged beauty attracted $15000000.00 tourists

a year. ah, whiskey distilleries are a vital component of scotlands economy and many welcome visitors with tours and of course, whisky tastings. ah, john hutton shows the group around glen goin, ah, this oliver sticks this on my most important aspect is mindfulness. and in iowa, we don't just go down the alcohol and we appreciated with unable last senses here. this isn't a wild engine involved. this is as

a kind. it's an exercise in wind fullness and, and, and exercising a moderation height. one foot like, oh and you bunk. there may sickle fatherhood does group bring scientific precision to the tasting the room looks more like a laboratory than a pub. this one report? yeah, yeah. go on the left to leave the number one to 5 and a half front of thought you, she has a taste chips should last years from each one of them. what if i with the right? and then you've got me go off just in front of out numbered when it defines both gone the whole to also see something divine in whiskey to forsake. you know, if you, me a look at the jaws of a taste here. yeah, i just missed him when you actually, you should say grace at such a richly prepared table, but this is already distilled into it. uh huh. no one is drinking just to drink. she short, short, just careful, sipping and tasting a refill hole. fit,

foolish one. the other shows her refill the bit. legend. well yeah, that one yet likely call waiting yet late because with up some don't taste the whiskey at all. lay just sniffed up isn't up. it's called nosing about that mother. when you look through this glass, you look straight into the heavens. ah, he still was causing historically that whiskey has an ecclesiastical context thinking. it's probably the only product that was invented behind monastery rolls. i'm on a foot board and we have a product in front of us that is really ecclesiastical us vehicle religious in origin. kick, making any use wash boxes to can more fuel both gung, horta is considered a whisky connoisseurs with the link to spirituality is his trademark. but whiskey makers don't entirely understand. well, you know not too much. i'm not sure what for vo you with a or too much of the history on the monks part of it. yeah, yeah. for me,

what time she has late scotch whiskey, any one your legs? whisky scotch is the best whiskey anywhere in the world. both come, walter has a special fondness for the british isles. he escaped there in his thoughts when he was in a bad place and 2004. he was then vice rector of a seminary involved in the formation of new priests. he had disagreements with his bishop after an argument hota had a dizzy spell he claims the bishop had him lie down on a couch and drunk him then hold to says the bishop molested him as if and when i got home that evening i drank a glass of wine to overcome my disgust and shame glass lying talking. i didn't know what the bishop gave me and his foster bishop mia. it was a psycho tropic drug and alcohol was a very bad combination with unemployed font,

from our corners and things. but fleshed e d, i don't remember what happened off to that and, and fin buddhists like later that night and i fell in an old, jumped from the balcony of my apartment. invite that and for love. these are not, i don't know like 11 of like, just don't remember if i and dish pullman bustle in life, isis nifty job, a kind of a non voter didn't tell anybody about the incident. the man he accuses of molesting him was his superior in the church. hierarchy, volta suffered for 4 years submitting to absurd tests and punishments. he says finally, he was reassigned to the diocese law. i taught tool, i can honestly say i was torture. fear in fits before horrible years that have lifted a mark on me to this day. haven't a deep gothic tom. but it also showed me the absurdities and brutality. the church is capable of cognitive and character fitness. as more and more victims of sexual abuse raised their voices, a hotel brought his case to the attention of the cardinal. but nobody in the church

believed his story. he was told the accusations were baseless and that he should keep quiet. thus with dickens, which i have since learned that there's a culture of silence in the church, i know could put his findings harish. things that should be discussed because that's the only way they can be clarified and dealt with properly. a swept under the carpet fountain, delighted that and couldn't thus montage. the church tries to keep them secret and uncovered among hi, mr. das mont. as for pushing master photo refuses to remain silent any longer. he wrote a book about his experience. the bishop, he accused of molesting him, has sued alta for defamation, and last 2 court cases. back on tour, the conditions are quite luxurious for a pilgrimage. the

pilgrims stay at hotels, not monastery guessed houses. and there is no strenuous walking bus driver, david williams of seas to that in lieu . today they're headed to lindisfarne, also called holy island, a popular destination for day trippers. it can only be reached at low tide. the island lies off the northumberland coast and was an important centre of celtic christianity starting in the 6th century. but it's not just the picturesque ruins of the medieval priory that draw father water and his pilgrims. fucked. is he a we know via was brewed here because in the ruins of the monastery behind us and

you can still see what's left of the brewer ring bow. hollister's in the mash match where the mash was prepared in the initial stage of the beer brewing process. but it's still intact the inch, dean con. perhaps the monks also distilled their beer which was common in many monasteries to obtain high proof alcohol and thing. alcohol, it was used in monastic infirmary to produce medicinal tinctures from idiots. ignition can tool and cabal tut. although it survived the vikings, it couldn't withstand the protestant reformation and the 16th century sculpt conscious. all this ism was outlawed as there were no monks. so priests and catholics went allowed to practice their faith in england and also a neighboring scotland for several centuries. i shut off a boating, but the reformation didn't make whisky distilling disappear. once the preserve of irish and scottish monasteries, whiskey survived the reformation, outside monastery walls.

ah, contemporary distillers are happy to share their knowledge. although a risk of explosion means we can't film at many distilleries, we are welcomed at borders distillery and are given a little safety briefing as we enter on top of that, there can be some sirens. you may see people running around if i've seen com, it's a normal working. if you see me running, you might want to keep up with the group listens patiently to the distillery worker . it's the 3rd distillery on this pilgrimage, and they're familiar with most of the facts all ready to start to all, all for a good scotch whisky. didn't eat just 3 ingredients, barley, yeast, and war. but it's like a ritual, or a progression star all is take are barley and put it away in this 20 percent hoss.

they still listen closely to the story of how barley is transformed into whiskey, check it out in the large mash vats. the crushed grain is mixed with hot water. the start and the barley turns into sugar. a strainer sits at the bottom of the bat and collect the sugar solution. the grain residue remains, yeast is then added which gets to work, producing alcohol and carbon dioxide. if you cross that, you're gonna get punched by smell farther back, it should be an eye, so feel free to come up one by one. have a nice old check of it. what i do for the when the east culture dies, something like beer emerges upon shut bearablewood. but we prefer something

a bit stronger around here. so we're going to take this 3rd to the still house and produce a spirit. copper stills are used for distillation, the temperature and these stills as close to 90 degrees celsius, just below boiling point. i and hope the a lot of others prefer any high. chris's free with action to lose around one percent alcohol. but one crucial step is still missing to turn this clear mold spirit into whiskey. in the holy root distillery we see oak barrels. the beverage may only be called whiskey if it has been aged in oak for at least 3 years. the barrels give whisky its color and much of its flavor. blue. it's the same ritual at the end of each distillery to her, a whisky tasting. but instead of whiskey, holly rude offers the pilgrim's new make whisky that's not quite mature yet.

because holly route has only been producing since 2019 ah, bus driver, david understandably, isn't partaking. although he drives lots of tourists. he's especially fond of the whisky pilgrims, for very civilized group. yeah. yeah. they're very easy to get along with very friendly. they don't seem to get very drunk, they seem to be interested in how the whiskey is me than with its common strong stuff like that. so it's not as if though, just knocking them back. so it's saying, so yeah, yeah, i mean this that there's no chance silvan on the boss, which i'm quite happy about, you know? hm. but yeah, yeah, a lovely group. that's also why it's not difficult to start early every day. both gung volta has planned the tour in detail today. they're focusing on the famous scottish novelist, sir walter scott its own good. 7

ah, wouldn't have offered it already to song oh, besides classic novels like rob roy scott also wrote some famous poems, including the lady of the lake. the scots have named one of the finest views in the scottish borders after him. scott's view, sir walter scott is said to have love standing here gazing at the 3 peaks of the island hills and the meandering river tweed below the fat rivers, and is really beautiful. no. oh, oh, next stop is abbotsford house, sir walter scott's home. the tour guide priest has something special in store who wants to say one of the crazed petition bit several of yeah, yeah. life,

i only have 2 more blocks to one and i'm going to enroll and see. you can start coming inside there, celebrating mass in sir walter scott's own chapel. the religious aspects of this trip are vital to both gong volta oh, behind hot gutting. i left the church, but he booked the pilgrimage. anyway, he wanted to give religion another shot, a whisky is just an added bonus. then, an either spoke bizarre. there's an old saying that whiskey is a liquid, sunshine, them on an if you taste of whiskey consciously. acosta can tell that god wants a human life to be good from deem the scot this good mit, on se mentioned mind, thus how he wants to enrich our lives and give us joy to shank meshed it. and this

trip continues to show us that whiskey tails even better and, and when you enjoy it together, soft denise that schmidt and not mazel caught cindy. it's very interesting what we're doing here. but on the one hand, it's about whiskey which is okay. but you can do that any time. i enjoy my food, but it's also interesting to know what i'm eating, drinking consciously, living consciously for a living, consciously in the present. it's a very interesting idea on and on me, neu, oh volk gong. horta succeeds and bringing people back to the church. like people like christine my mom she left more than 30 years ago, but still feels a strong connection to the catholic faith. monday. would like to skip these. eloisa enlightened ideologues and them a fundamental s. m. a. and fanatics them, it's that they may see the light of reason. good. catanzaro ha. i think a tourist at so i was raised catholic and still feel

a connection to catholicism. but a lot of what they teach us to narrow for me is i'm no longer a member to swing in. each method is occasion that wolfgang is defra hangs oh i again. oh oh, gone or does approach is successful? yeah, is mine. i mit stare, spit he 20. i started developing his spirituality whiskey asleep when i couldn't sleep one night on my knee. i had the idea of using my own passion for scotland, scottish culture and scottish whiskey of that to confront people with questions of veda, mit loudon, stamen in belonged to and it was successful and he performed sonya of, i'm

a common mention. people came to my events, i, who wouldn't otherwise think of setting a foot in a church with a shrill and kick his edson villain. both gone halter has found his own path and the catholic church and sets his own priorities. he's openly gay and gives his priestly blessing to queer couples. he also supports ordaining women. he's been a vocal critic of sexual abuse in the catholic church, but not everybody approves addresses i now found dish him up, he dug mocked harbor dust. mom, they view me as disloyal. i know because i focused on issues that present the church thing in a bad light. saw coupling a d kind go to sleep of decay often when some under an if i'm also perceived as a troublemaker among the, as somebody who never gives up as him. and as someone who's fixated on, what's important to me or even mavita. thus on she placed, was in the thickest, was i was going, is any thoughts, novels, gang in body, something that the church itself doesn't represent currently,

it tries to keep us in a place where we don't want to be out because of him. i'm not so concerned about leaving the church. no hint to get hurt. if in the us the growth art, he's the best priest we could half now, as the catholic church goes through these, trying times to each must have been cut. a smidge for senior involved caught his eye. what fascinates me about both counties, his unconventional manner kind am a conflict. he doesn't avoid controversial issues or, and he struck me as a man at the church some years ago. and whenever that could help him out, find pion. in addition to focusing on important issues, the pilgrims also have a lot of fun on this tour. it scotland is a land of castles, old fortresses, and beautiful scenery. negotiating

a traditional maze is on every tourists bucket list with after the relaxing tempo of the countryside. something quite different. awaits the pilgrims, edinburgh ah, ah, ah

. the pilgrims are hoping to surprise the priest before the tour is over. he voluntarily organizes the trips and the pilgrims don't pay for his travel. so they want to show their appreciation for his work. he knows what's coming and says he feels awkward when complimented or praised. he's visibly embarrassed. says play. yeah is well, good, double. it was wonderful food eyes, i really lovely tramping, highly close, and that's why we spared neither expense nor effort to engage some very famous singers to perform for you. i even brought along

a choir coordinate to get but i have proudly bruce and that, but he must be born in thing us, i don't good i oh good i by morgan is didn't on cause i did. oh, oh city. in his home parish vote gong volta is only an assistant, the pastor's deputy. it's a humble position for a man who holds to doctorates. oh, but he doesn't seem to mind as long as he can continue working as a priest. oh, thank you very much. god bless my throat. you let me applaud you 1st. ah,

all lovely. a thank you to share with god bless. i can promise you one thing already explained this and i'll stop planning next year's trip the day after tomorrow. at the latest i i it's been not into kill. i am still in the church. i even feel hotly because i want to make sure my opinions are being heard occasionally. shavonne and if i were to lead, i'd be helping the very people who were the reason for my leaving was the and i'm not going to do them that favor tuition. lulu ah vote gang holds a loves the catholic church in spite of everything. he loves catholic spirituality,

the churches, traditions, and rituals. ah, and who knows? perhaps the self proclaimed a church rebel is creating a new tradition with his whisky pilgrimages. ah, ah, ah, with

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