(LifeSiteNews) — The Rome Life Forum in Exile may be in Missouri this year, but it will feature a British Catholic perspective, too.

George Farmer, English president of Candace Owen’s podcast (“Candace”) and executive director of the U.K.’s alternative conservative news channel GB News, will be speaking at the Rome Life Forum at the InterContinental Kansas City at the Plaza in mid-October.  

The theme of this year’s Rome Life Forum is “Recovering from Modernism,” and LifeSiteNews asked the Catholic activist, who now lives in the Diocese of Nashville, why he thinks the fight against Modernism is so important.

“Modernism, that is the philosophy based around a celebration of modernity imbued with an inherent distrust of traditional norms or practices, is totally antithetical to the teachings of the Church,” Farmer responded over email.

“As Catholics, as followers of Christ, we must only seek to be guided by the eternal truths that have been handed down to us through the word of God and through tradition,” he continued.

“Modernism seeks to abolish tradition, or ‘update’ it, to make the Church ‘relevant’ in 2024, to import the ideas and beliefs of modernity into the timeless elegance and beauty of Christ’s bride. This is absurd.”

Farmer believes that there “can be no updating of tradition” and that “there can be no changing of timeless truths” and that “there is no ‘better’ version of Christ’s message waiting to be unlocked by the secret key of the 21st century.”

He is adamant that our age must conform to Christ and His Church, not His Church to the age.

“Modernity, modernism, the modernist movement, must all be subjected to the truth of God and shaped by his Church,” Farmer declared.

“In this way, modernism, like all philosophies, sits below tradition, sits below Holy Scripture, and it must be made to conform to the will of the Church, and not the other way around.”

Farmer, who is married to Candace Owens, with whom he has three children, values the Rome Life Forum as an opportunity to “form alliances” and take solace in our struggles to restore the Church, through “friendship and brotherhood” with other likeminded Catholics.

“The Rome Life Forum presents an opportunity for faithful, orthodox Catholics who recognize this truth to come together and form alliances,” he wrote.

“Faithful Catholics who understand that God’s truth is not subject to change or evolution, can take succor from the friendship and brotherhood of those who are driven by the same mission: a restoration of the Church expressing the true beauty of God’s holy tradition that has been handed down to us in the deposit of faith.”

He added, “We must pray for courage in the face of those who would seek to do so much damage, and not be afraid to be cast out as we seek to preserve the deposit of faith in its timeless beauty.”

Farmer is no stranger to ideological battles, having run as a candidate for UKIP, the British independence party which successfully fought to free Britain from the European Union. He is also a former CEO of the Parler free speech social media platform, which was shut down after allegations that it had played a role in the events of January 6, 2021. As CEO, Farmer re-instated Parler and established it as a leading free speech platform. Now as the president of the Candace podcast, he has helped make it one of the top 3 podcasts on both Spotify and Apple, alongside Tucker Carlson and Joe Rogan.

Before his impressive career in media technology and management, Farmer worked in London’s financial markets. He had graduated with a first-class degree from Oxford University, where he majored in Theology.

Other speakers at this year’s Rome Life Forum in Exile will include Bishop Joseph Strickland; LifeSiteNews Editor-in-Chief John-Henry Westen; professor emeritus Janet E. Smith; author and Mariologist Xavier Reyes-Ayral; and Father Michael Rodriguez, an El Paso priest who celebrates the Traditional Latin Mass.

Attendees are expected to take part fully in the discussions, particularly in the question-and-answer sessions, as colleagues. The Rome Life Forum attracts Catholics from all over the world, and everyone has a unique perspective to share. Doing what can humanly be done to steer back on course is not the work of only a few but of as many of the faithful as are called to do it.

The Rome Life Forum will take place over October 17 and 18 this year. To buy tickets, and for more information about the Rome Life Forum, please visit our Rome Life Forum page here.