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The Vortex — Lying to Themselves     (www.youtube.com)
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Or lying to you.

The archdiocese of Baltimore, the nation's first diocese, has seating at weekend Masses for 25,000 attendees. Only about 2,000 show up.

Ten years ago, under the leadership of the reported homosexual Cardinal Abp. Edwin O'Brien, the archdiocese set up one of those Madison Avenue marketing campaigns to make it look like they were taking the decline of the Faith back then seriously. They weren't.

Back then, the immediate issue was the plummeting enrollment and drastic falloff of Catholic schools. So, of course, a strategic plan was instituted and a blue-ribbon committee was established, complete with consultations and listening sessions. That's what they always do.

You'll notice there are never any strategic plans, blue-ribbon committees, consultations and listening sessions undertaken about how to teach the fullness of the Faith. These only happen when the bank accounts are hit.

In either case, that was 10 years ago. The result was even more losses.

Today, homosexualist Abp. William Lori has rolled out a new strategic plan. This one will not only deal with the drop in Catholic schools, but also Catholic parishes. The silly name given to the latest plan is "Seek the City to Come." They always have these stupid names.

Everyone really knows what's going on. It's nothing other than managing the decline. That's all it is.

The problem, as it is stated, is how to reorganize the current parish system to serve the needs of the people and the surrounding community. But Lori and the rest of the nation's bishops are lying to themselves.

You can't just keep rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. Eventually, it sinks.

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The Vortex — It's Great Being Catholic     (www.youtube.com)
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And it's time for a retreat.

There is one, and only one, goal in life — that is your own personal salvation. Nothing else matters.

Few faithful would argue with this, but it is common in our everyday lives that the truth of that can get swamped by the realities of day-to-day living. We need to be reminded of our end, even as we live in the current. Because of this, the Church has always encouraged not just daily devotion and prayer life but also "out of the box" experiences as well.

There is simply no way to get to Heaven if a person is not plugged into the spiritual realities — and plugged in every day.

Saint Padre Pio summed it up best: "Those who pray, have hope. Those who pray little, are in great danger. Those who do not pray, are lost."

According to polls from Pew Research, the percentage of Americans who say they pray "every day" is declining about half a percentage point every year. In what amounts to yet another sign of the failure of the church leaders to do their job, the following statistics are telling:

- Catholics — 59%
- Orthodox — 57%
- Protestants — 54%

Of those who say they pray every day, only 59% of Catholics said yes. That was followed closely by the Orthodox at 57% and mainline Protestants at 54%. And for some perspective, 71% of Muslims say they pray every day, and 62% of Hindus.

Also, it's no great shock that as we have seen religion become much more of an emotion-based experience — especially in Catholicism — women are much more embracing of it than men. Fully two-thirds of Catholic women say they pray every day, while slightly less than half of Catholic men do.

More than half of all Catholic men do not pray every day. That should be an earthquake across the Church — yet most just yawn their way through that news.

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Communists Are Conquering Poland | The Vortex      (www.youtube.com)
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#Communists Are Conquering Poland | The Vortex

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A political earthquake erupts in a Catholic stronghold.

Just our quick reminder, Church Militant is on the ground in Rome covering the synod, bringing you every bit of what you need to know each day. Our Rome correspondent, Jules Gomes, reviews the day's happenings on Church Militant's rome dispatch, hosted here in Detroit by our own Brad Eli every weekday. We're providing a link to rome dispatch here in the Vortex every day for the month of October.

Don't miss a single episode of rome dispatch, a one-stop shopping for you each day on all the news from the synod, concise and straightforward.

Now, little by little and, occasionally, like November three years ago, big by big, the Left advances relentlessly. And by "the Left," we mean specifically communism. It goes by those multiple names of "globalism," "socialism," "Marxism" — call it whatever you want, but, in the end, it's communism.

And the latest showpiece for them? Poland. Yep, Catholic Poland, quickly on its way to becoming formerly Catholic Poland.

When John Paul was elected in 1978, almost the entire nation identified as Catholic, over 95%. But that was then, almost half a century ago, while the nation was subjected to forced communism by the Kremlin and its puppet regime in Warsaw. Today, that number has dipped significantly, to just 70%.

And while that's obviously a majority, you've got to wonder, based on this past Sunday's election results for the Polish Parliament, if there's a case of nominal Catholicism there, like all other formerly Catholic populations in multiple countries.

The election results, which are still rolling in, indicate a measurable move away from conservative politics — a definitive shifting to the left. Remember, unlike here in the United States, the parliamentary system largely relies on more than just two parties forming coalitions to seize a majority-type control. So while one party, in this case the Conservative Law and Justice Party, did get a plurality of votes, the most cast for any single party, it did not get the majority.

When you add together all the nonconservative, meaning left-leaning, meaning pro-socialist, that coalition won the majority of seats. And that is a political earthquake in Poland. Yes, they will have policy differences among themselves, just like the Democrats here in the United States do, but make no mistake, they are in lockstep when in comes to their worldviews. What divides them is tactics, not ideology.

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The martyrs of the Roman persecutions were the exception, not the rule. In fact, whenever the people are faced with a choice, they almost always vote to save their own butts first, so they go along. Just look at Reformation England if you need a case example. Not only did the people fold under the persecution of Henry and, eventually, Elizabeth, his daughter; the entire exodus of apostasy was led by the bishops.

Sound familiar?

The communist movement has made itself as clear as any force in history that its goal is world domination through democratically elected governments' political processes. Once you vote them in, as the saying goes, the only way out is to shoot your way out.

It's as clear as crystal that the world is careening toward something huge, colossal. There are simply too many forces all converging for something foundation-altering not to happen. You can feel it in your bones.

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The Vortex — Disconnected Catholic Voters     (www.youtube.com)
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More disconnected from the Faith than politics.

One of the most interesting things about political seasons is all the polling. And quite frequently the questions are not just, Who are you going to vote for?

A recent poll surveyed Catholics in the battleground states of Florida, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Arizona and Nevada, and asked questions about the Faith (in addition to political questions) — four such questions, actually — that we'd like to highlight for you, state by state. Remember, this is just Catholics answering.

On the question of abortion, an option was given: "Abortion should never be permitted under any circumstances." In Florida, only 10% of Catholics agreed with that statement. In Georgia, it was 6%; Pennsylvania, 7%; Ohio, 7%; Arizona, 5%; and Nevada, 7%.

But here is the funny twist to those responses. Another question asked, "[Do I] accept all the Church's teachings and that is reflected in how I live my life?" Look at those who responded "yes" and notice the absolute disconnect from the abortion question: In Florida, it's 14%; Georgia, 12%; Pennsylvania, 12%; Ohio, 11%, Arizona, 13%; and Nevada, 15%.

So across those six battleground states, an average of 13% of Catholics say they accept all of the Church's teachings. Yet on average, across the same battleground states, only 7% say they believe abortion should never be permitted.

Only half the Catholics claiming they believe everything the Church teaches accept everything the Church teaches, certainly in the matter of abortion, which, of course, strongly suggests they may very well reject other Church teachings while claiming to accept all the teachings. Talk about a disconnect. Apparently, those who accept all the Church's teachings have never heard the one on abortion.

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The Vortex — Youth Assault     (www.youtube.com)
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Prepare for battle.

When we think of the Founding Fathers of the United States, we tend to think of middle-aged or even older men. That's understandable because the portraits we have are of them in their later years, so the "old dude" image is kind of frozen in our national psyche. But the reality is actually not that close.

Some of the most famous of the Founding Fathers actually qualify as more like "Founding Teenagers" or "Founding Twenty-somethings." Look at this list:

- James Monroe, 18
- Aaron Burr, 20
- Alexander Hamilton, 21
- James Madison, 25
- John Paul Jones, 28
- Thomas Jefferson, 33

And the old guys:

- John Adams, 40
- Paul Revere, 41
- George Washington, 44

And while drawing comparisons to our current crisis, we should also bear in mind that it was a very small minority of men who would prove to be patriots who rose up against their oppressors. The overwhelming majority of colonists, enormous numbers, did not fight in the War of Independence.

There were enormous odds for these young guys because the British did have every advantage, on paper at least. But they had heart, faith and grit. They had a lust for justice. That should serve as a hope and inspiration for today's Catholic youth.

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The Vortex — Battling Team Evil     (www.youtube.com)
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There is only one weapon.

It is just a real-world truism that team evil simply has more weapons at their disposal than the good guys. There's just no getting around that. They'll lie, cheat, steal, kill and resort to anything that works in their favor. Their mission is to demolish what is good and holy so as to build up the kingdom of their father, the Devil.

Not for nothing do we have the expression, "Good guys finish last." But beyond tactics, they also have a built-in advantage: the will and skill to actually use their weapons to their advantage. Referring to the dishonest steward in Luke's gospel, Our Blessed Lord touches on this very point, saying, "The children of this world are wiser in their generation than the children of light." (Luke 16:8)

Team evil and the children of light both recognize that they have a mission to build up and establish their respective kingdoms, each one for their respective father. Followers of Christ pray for this multiple times a day: "Thy kingdom come." But where it seems these two camps diverge is in the understanding and willingness to engage in the necessary step before construction — and that is demolition.

Neither Catholic Christians nor team evil are moving about in the world in a vacuum. Each side has built up something of its own kingdom — not completed, of course, but nonetheless in various stages of completion. Team evil long ago, however, understood that in the construction of the Kingdom of Hell, the Kingdom of Heaven would have to be demolished. That concept is almost completely lost on the children of light. Demolition is necessary. The path must be cleared for construction to begin.

The Early Church understood this and, over the first few centuries, demolished the Roman Empire. Once demolished, Catholic Western civilization could emerge, and construction began in great earnest. Among the greatest architectural feats in human history bear witness to this, as enormous cathedrals built to the glory of God and the establishment of the kingdom rose up all over the Catholic world, bearing testimony, in a material sense, to the underlying spiritual reality which gave birth to them.

A pagan kingdom had been demolished to make way for the construction of the Kingdom of Heaven. What seems to be lacking today — indeed, for the last (roughly) six to seven centuries in the Church (with rare exceptions) — is any real grasp of this dynamic: You must demolish in order to build.

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The Vortex — The Cultural Pit Stop      (www.youtube.com)
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But no one can remain idle indefinitely.

First, a blessed Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception to you and your loved ones. The role of Mary in salvation history cannot be overstated, and this, coincidentally, is related to today's Vortex topic.

Protestantism — the heresy — has a very difficult time with Mary. In varying ways, it either ignores her, diminishes her or even insults her. Although, oddly enough, as much as statues are reviled in Protestantism, statues of Mary do pop up every year at this time, even on Protestant properties in the manger scenes.

But heresy in general is denoted by its denial of truth; and for this reason, America (as well as large parts of the Church) is crippled. The connection between theology and society is significant. When we talk about "culture," the word itself derives from "cult," which ties directly to religion.

So if a culture is going to be preserved or proposed without any reference whatsoever to religion, then it has no hope of survival. But even more so, in our culture here in the United States and the West, where multiple versions of religion (in general) and Christianity (specifically) coexist, the truth of the matter is, they really don't coexist — they only appear to.

Sure, individual men may be polite and so forth with each other, even get along and be friendly. In the end, the ideas and beliefs will war with each other until one or another comes out on top — for such is the nature of truth when it is proposed to the intellect.


Here is the brutal truth: Catholicism is the fullness of the Faith, period. It is the Church established personally by Christ and promised to never be overcome by the gates of Hell, with Her teachings guaranteed by the Holy Spirit.

Protestantism is a heresy, and as such, it possesses some truth, but it can never possess the fullness of the truth. If it did, it would cease to exist and simply be Catholicism. Protestantism is a cultural pit stop on the road to either atheism or Catholicism.

At the end of the day, no other belief system can exist or lay claim to truth. Religion, by its very nature, is an all-or-nothing proposition. Who, for example, believes his religion to be the right religion but then disagrees with it in various ways? It's the teachings we're talking about. Why would any thinking man belong to a religion he disagrees with, much less claim it is the "right religion"? And if he doesn't believe it to be right, why belong?

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The Vortex — Bankruptcy     (www.youtube.com)
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You learn a lot when records become public.

As more and more dioceses around the country declare bankruptcy in the face of a flood of sex abuse lawsuits, bankruptcy is proving to be a double-edged sword for the bishops.

First, and very important to understand, their declaring bankruptcy has nothing to do with not having the money (or resources) — they do. It has everything to do with preventing victims from gaining access to it.

And even before bankruptcy, dioceses, like the one here in Detroit under the leadership of the duplicitous Abp. Allen Vigneron, take proactive steps to shield their assets. A couple of years ago, Vigneron and his complicit legal team from Bodman schemed up a crafty plan. 

They took all of the diocese's assets and shifted them into a brand new company called Mooney Real Estate Holdings, which officially has nothing to do with the archdiocese. The only member of the corporation is Abp. Allen Vigneron.

So, officially, all of the assets of the archdiocese no longer belong to the archdiocese, and, therefore, the archdiocese can't be sued for them. We'll see if that legal maneuver holds up in court when the lawsuits are revealed here in Michigan (expected later this year).

Remember that the state attorney general's office raided the Detroit chancery a while back and has been sifting through boxes of confiscated files since then. But the move in Detroit by Vigneron points to the larger issue that bishops are now having to face the music for their immoral, sinful and (perhaps) criminal actions of covering up sex abuse for decades, burying the cases in archives and hoping they just get forgotten about.

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The Vortex - A Can't-Miss Interview, 'The Angry Catholic.'     (www.youtube.com)
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'The Angry Catholic.'

A couple of weeks ago, we were in Pennsylvania and were interviewed by an increasingly important podcaster known as The Angry Catholic.

He's headquartered in the scandal-plagued diocese of Scranton, and every show he produces is completely no holds barred.

[Transcript unavailable]

The host is Paul Ciaccia, an extremely dedicated and faithful Catholic, who is sick to death of the corruption and cover-up and lack of accountability of the U.S. bishops.

[Transcript unavailable]

When Vatican II charged the laity with taking up the business of evangelization, the Council Fathers may have said more than they knew at the time.

It's clear now that way too many bishops simply do not believe the Faith, so the work of catechesis and evangelization has largely fallen to the faithful, and many of them, many of us, are demanding the truth be proclaimed — not politically correct, woke garbage.

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The Vortex — Mother and General     (www.youtube.com)
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Without her, you would not have known salvation clothed in flesh.

Wrapping up our assignment in Texas, we wanted to share some thoughts on the realities of Christmas. The event, of course, happened in Bethlehem 2,000 years ago, but its impact has never ended — can't, in fact, end. So it's worth looking at what God chose to do and how He went about it and what that means for this generation, a couple of millennia later.

There are all sorts of angles and levels of the divine mystery and glory worth plumbing, but let's go to perhaps one of the most basic. Since we are, after all, celebrating a birthday, let's zero in on the woman actually giving birth, making the birthday possible — Mary, both virgin and, never forget, a general, a 12-star general.

I grew up in the U.S. military, as many of you know, and Mary as general has always been easily relatable for me — more on that in a moment. Through the divine will, the divine will from all eternity, this woman brought forth, in time, the Author of grace. Does anybody really believe that the divine will, which accorded Mary the singular highest grace any human could ever receive, would suddenly pull back and reduce her role in salvation history?

She herself, bearing God within her immaculate womb, declared that all generations would call her blessed. That little nugget, recall, is brought to us courtesy of the Holy Spirit, who inspired St. Luke to record her prophecy — which makes sense since the Holy Trinity was speaking through the young Virgin from Nazareth.

Next to the Church's authentic teaching on the Real Presence of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist, the teachings about Our Blessed Mother are the most commonly rejected, completely misunderstood and blasted routinely by non-Catholic Christians. Some Protestants, for example, willingly accept the teachings of the Council of Nicaea in A.D. 325, declaring and reaffirming Jesus Christ's divinity. But the same Church that declares that teaching is immediately wrong (in their eyes) when it declares in another council that *she is Theotokos, God-Bearer, the Mother of God.*

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The Vortex — 2022 In Review     (www.youtube.com)
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The major stories of the year.

As the new year begins, the reality facing the Church is formidable in many ways — but we did not get here overnight. That said, it's important to know how we got here so we can better understand the challenges unfolding before us.

Many of you were extremely generous in our end-of-the-year donation request, and we'd like to show what your money helps produce. Late last week, we did a perspective piece: our 2022: Year in Review.

In many ways, it showcases what we do so well here at Church Militant: look at events and contextualize them in terms of the Faith.

Since we reviewed many stories from the entire year, the end result is necessarily comprehensive — but, again, it highlights what we do so well here at this apostolate.

The crew here busted hump to put all this together for you, and it is well worth the watch, despite its length. So please watch and enjoy the full-length Church Militant 2022: Year in Review.

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The Vortex — It Really Is Simple     (www.youtube.com)
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The world is binary.

For all those crazies out there preaching and thinking that everyone goes to heaven, they're sort of right — at least with the underlying assumption in their poor reasoning that it's a simple process. It is. It really is simple: If you die in a state of sanctifying grace, you're there. Likely Purgatory beforehand, but you're still saved. And that's not to discount the sufferings of Purgatory, but this Vortex is about salvation, not the purgations we'll likely experience. 

So if all that's required is to die in a state of sanctifying grace, then sign me up, right? Well, sure. But this is where the rubber hits the road. It's unfathomable that the vast majority of humanity actually does die in a state of grace. The logic then follows that the vast majority of humanity is damned, no matter what Bp. Barron says — or smokes.

A state of sanctifying grace means that you are in a condition of holiness to the degree that the Holy Trinity resides in you. The opposite of this is being in a condition of serious sin, mortal sin, where the Holy Trinity cannot abide in you because God cannot dwell where there is sin.

So the examination and analysis that has to be objectively engaged in is this: Am I in a state of grace or a state of mortal sin right now? In short, the logic continues, if I were to die at this instant, would I be damned or saved? That question is the answer to the much-ballyhooed question, "What is the meaning of life?" The meaning of life is to be saved — period.

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The Vortex — 'Get Rid of All These People!'     (www.youtube.com)
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The overpopulation ruse.

The diabolical hates humanity. We begin with that premise, that truth. There's a lot of theology in that statement, and if you'd like to delve more into that, we highly recommend watching the first episode of the very first program we ever produced here all the way back in 2006: The One True Faith: St. Michael and the Angels. It's available to premium members. Just click on the provided link to sign up.

Now, you need to understand the great spiritual battle playing in the background in order to understand the specific policies and legislation being pursued on the surface. The driving force behind the narrative is the claim that there are too many people on earth. We touched on this yesterday.

"Overpopulation" has been a major talking point of the Left for decades. It's also a driving force — although spoken of in more quiet terms — in the social justice corridors of the Church.

Its why they just sort of look the other way when it comes to "managing" U.S. government money — hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars — while partnering with pro-contraception, and, in some cases, pro-abortion NGOs in Third World nations, as well as here even at home.

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In a recent sit-down interview with his Marxist media allies, Ehrlich was allowed to just lie through his teeth, unchallenged on CBS News' 60 Minutes. But Ehrlich has been on his anti-humanity, too many people rant going back decades. Every major gloom-and-doom prediction he has made has proven untrue. Yet because he was among the first to promote the anti-people narrative, he has found exalted status.

Satan himself couldn't have said that any better: "Children suck. Enjoy your leisure. Don't reproduce. If you have to, keep it to one. Socially shame those who actually have children." You get the idea: "From even before conception, life is to be battled against. If you do, by chance, become pregnant, consider killing the child. If the child is born, get fixed so you don't conceive anymore. The planet can't handle it!" 

What's disturbing about all this is that the hierarchy has brought into all of it. They routinely speak in terms of man-made climate change being a real thing. There are multiple programs they support and push with your money to keep "climate change" in front of you. It's impossible for the people of God to be insufficiently scared and nerve-racked, don't you know?

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The Vortex — Diabolic Communism     (www.youtube.com)
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Brought to you by traitors.

The current crisis humanity finds itself in is so multifaceted that normal people can feel overwhelmed just trying to know all the necessary information — much less trying to process it. That's why the Church Militant team does so much of the hunting and gathering and processing for you.

We don't know everything, obviously, but we certainly know a lot more than most. And we are able to process it all because we screen all of this through the necessary filter of spiritual war.

There's a certain philosophy a person has to use when looking at the world. Either everything that happens over very long periods of time is purely happenstance or coincidence, or there is an intelligence behind it all directing various things and ensuring work begun in one generation carries over not just to the next — but to the next 10.

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The Vortex — Pro-Infanticide Bishops     (www.youtube.com)
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Judgment is coming.

When Democrats in the U.S. House banded together and voted to deny life-saving measures to babies who survived abortion, much was revealed. New York's Jerry Nadler said it would be an awful thing to transport such a baby to a hospital because he might die on the way — seriously. But something else was revealed as well: the total silence of multiple U.S. bishops in all this.

Biden and Pelosi, because of their high profiles, have gotten all the press, but 64 — count them, 64 — "Catholic" Democrats in the U.S. House voted in favor of killing babies who survived abortion. Church Militant did a little research here and looked into the overlap between those Democrats' congressional districts and their home dioceses — meaning, who are the bishops of these Democrats?

What we found was this: More than 40 U.S. bishops are the local bishops for those 64 Democrats. Some of the bishops (for example, José Gomez of Los Angeles) have multiple congressmen in their archdioceses, which is, of course, to be expected because the size of the archdiocese overlaps with various congressional districts. Nonetheless, by Church Militant's count, 46 U.S. bishops are the local ordinaries for these 64 supposedly Catholic congressmen, and we can nowhere locate a single one of these bishops calling out and condemning by name their local congressmen for their vote.

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The Vortex — Nonstop Attacks     (www.youtube.com)
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Vilified by the media.

Michael Voris and Bradley Eli discuss how both the secular and the Catholic media have vilified Church Militant since the 2016 presidential election.

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The Vortex — Christ With No Cross     (www.youtube.com)
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No cross, no glory.

Increasingly, men of goodwill are realizing and saying out loud that America's decline is owing to losing a deep spiritual war. But even as that reality is coming into focus for many, others are abandoning religion in general, Christianity in particular and Catholicism specifically.

It hasn't quite hit desperation mode yet, but it has reached a level of high alert as various generic Christian groups, as well as some Catholics, take to social media and various public relations campaigns to peddle Christ and the Good News. The problem, however, is — put simply — it is Christ without the Cross that is being peddled: "cool" Jesus, "relevant" Christianity.

What's being presented — and consequently rejected — is a more worldly Christ: easy to relate to, a comfortable Christ, the answer to all your little problems. The world is rejecting this cozy Christ as the elixir to worldly problems precisely because the world provides much more stimulating solutions to the problems it creates.

You name it:

- Sex
- Porn
- Drugs
- Ego
- Power
- Money
- Fame

Comfortable Christ can't hold a candle to any of that. I mean, who wants to listen to the personal opinion of some preacher about what a passage from Scripture means when they can be getting high and having sex with whoever wants to hook up with them? In the end, the world and all its intoxications are much more appealing than Christ without His Cross.

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The Vortex — Clown World     (www.youtube.com)
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With no end in sight.

There's a meme floating around the internet we'd like to share with you because of how correct its 60,000-foot view is: "We live in a society where homosexuals lecture us on morals, transvestites lecture us on human biology, baby killers lecture us on human rights and socialists lecture us on economics."

As Catholics, we could add to that: "We live in a Church where heretics lecture us on doctrine, schismatics lecture us on obedience to tradition, money-grubbing bishops lecture us on social justice and modernist theologians lecture us on our ignorance of theology." No matter where you turn — the world or the Church — it's an absolute clown world. Consider the insanity today emanating from both Rome and Washington, D.C., and, moreover, consider the further insanity that arises in response to all that in both spheres.

When the Kansas City Chiefs won the Super Bowl on the leg of kicker Harrison Butker, the Catholic trad world went wild online when his brown scapular was seen on the field. Great — all faithful Catholics adopt, wear and love the scapular. However, one wonders just how effusive the praise from the trad bigmouths online would have been if Butker did not attend the Latin Mass. The Latin Mass has become an idol to them, and anything goes in that world so long as it's related to the Latin Mass.

It could be just looking the other way on clerical sex abuse in that world because, you know — the Latin Mass. It could be defending schism in that world because, you know — the Latin Mass. It could mean an overweening spiritual arrogance and hubris because, you know — the Latin Mass. It's like they should post placards and burn down Novus Ordo parishes chanting, "TLM lives matter."

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The "silver-bullet" notion that all we need to solve the crisis in the Church is the Latin Mass is absurd on its face. Of course, it's true — and Church Militant is on record, for many years, talking about and attacking the daily abuses in many (if not most) usual parishes — that reverent liturgy is absolutely a key component of the much-needed restoration. But to isolate reverence to just one liturgical rite is nuts.

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The Vortex — Blowing up Justice     (www.youtube.com)
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It's not even close to justice.

If you didn't see the fireworks in the U.S. Senate hearings last Wednesday when Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley tore into Attorney General Merrick Garland, you missed one of the most epic scenes ever on Capitol Hill and — the heart of the matter — the anti-Catholicism of the U.S. Attorney General and his unjust Justice Department.

Garland sat there like a petulant little child who'd been busted (which he had) and then pretended to not really know about anything. Hawley was having none of it. The seven-minute mauling by the Missouri senator was over two specific issues. 

The first, the unjust prosecution of faithful Catholic Mark Houck, whom Garland's Department of Justice sent a couple dozen FBI SWAT troopers to arrest at his house — completely out of line. Houck had already volunteered to turn himself in to face the trumped-up charges, but anti-Catholic Garland staged the law enforcement assault anyway, in the early morning hours. For the record, so preposterous was the case that the jury came back with a "not guilty" verdict in just one hour.

But the other part of Hawley's questions (attack, really) centered on the now infamous FBI report where Church Militant was discussed on Page 4. The dossier associated faithful Catholics who attend the Latin Mass with domestic terror organizations and White nationalists and anything else you can imagine. The Catholic-hater Attorney General dodged and weaved and pretended to denounce the FBI dossier, but, of course, all of this was only after it was leaked to the press.

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No other apostolate, not a single one, is as well-positioned as Church Militant to lead the assault against the communists as we are. "Locked and loaded," as they say, and we will not be bullied and threatened and forced to the margins of our own nation by Catholic-hating interlopers.

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The Vortex — The Truth of the Matter     (www.youtube.com)
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It's all that matters.

The culture — in the Church and outside of it — is now engaged in truth wars, a literal battle over truth, meaning, its necessity. The best operating definition of truth is provided by St. Thomas Aquinas: Truth is that which conforms to reality.

And for centuries, the anti-Catholic crowd in every sphere and institution has tried to attack one side or the other of that equation, truth equals reality. Some so-called Enlightenment philosophers attacked the concept of reality: "We can't really know something, can we? How can we trust our senses?" — and on and on.

Others (more contemporary) went after the "truth" side of Aquinas' equation saying, in essence, since reality is different for everyone based on experience and circumstances, then you have your truth and I have my truth. No matter which side of that simple equation you attack successfully, the idea of truth is destroyed.

The crux of the matter is truth in itself. Let's take, for example, the theological debate within Christianity of Catholicism versus Protestantism. Catholics assert the Catholic Church, and She alone, possesses the fullness of truth because Christ Himself established Her and protects Her. Her origins are divine, even while Her administration is human (and often lacking).

Every Protestant calls "baloney" on that Catholic assertion and asserts the exact opposite: that the "church" is just the body of believers around the world who accept Christ in some manner. For the record, the war between and among Protestant sects is much more intense than the one between Catholicism and Protestantism.

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The Vortex — Getting the 'God Thing' Right     (www.youtube.com)
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Why the Right keeps losing and how to win.

Today's Vortex is a talk given by Michael at the "Bringing America Back to Life" convention on March 11, 2023.

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The Vortex — God in the Gap     (www.youtube.com)
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Godlessness is the number one problem.

I'm coming to you from the Bringing America Back to Life Convention here in Cleveland, where a thousand participants are wrapping things up after a very productive weekend. One of the great things about the convention is the speakers they are able to draw each year, and, this year, the slate included Human Events chief, Jack Posobiec — a dedicated, committed Catholic who has a thing or two to say about the demise of the American culture.

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Indeed, America, as the whole of Western civilization, could very well be facing its death knell, but the reason it has happened, according to Posobiec, is because of a lack of authentic Christianity. In that position, he echoes much of what Church Militant has been saying for years.

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Likewise, the unwillingness on the part of those in the establishment — including the Catholic establishment — who will not add their voices to the condemning of the injustice and corruption.

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And, as you know, there's a lot to talk about — loads. It's why we decided to give Church Militant supporters a chance to interact with various staff in a live format. Each Monday at 7 p.m. ET, we will be taking questions and comments from Premium members who join in.

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The Vortex — Faith with Fangs     (www.youtube.com)
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Needed more than ever.

The Catholic identity has been so watered down throughout the West that, with rare exceptions, virtually no Catholics have any sense of duty to the Church, to Christ. In fact, the very opposite is often encouraged by the clergy. And at the very least, there's no other message Catholics could reasonably conclude other than, there's no big deal about being Catholic.

This is best demonstrated by looking at what's called the walkaway ratio. The walkway ratio measures the number of people who leave a religion compared to the number of people who convert to it. To their everlasting shame, the U.S. bishops own the highest walkaway ratio of any religion in America. No one else is even close.

When this apostolate began in 2006, the walkaway ratio was 4-to-1, meaning for every convert to the Church, four were leaving. In 2018 — five years ago — the ratio jumped to 6.5-to-1. In raw numbers across the population,13% of the U.S. population are former Catholics; only 2% have come into the Church.

But those numbers, as we said, are five years old, and some early estimates for more recent years put the number even higher at eight walkaways for every convert. The percentage of Catholics relative to the overall population has fallen from its traditional level of 25% to barely over 20%. One out of four used to be Catholic; now it's one out of five — and falling. So, a little examination of conscience is necessary here.

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In fact, there is hardly ever a peep from Catholics of any sort in the world of the culture wars, certainly compared to Protestants of a more conservative stripe. Given that, it's hardly surprising that the half of Catholics who walk away, walk to socially conservative Protestant congregations. But regardless of what may be attractive socially and culturally, or even emotionally or psychologically, one thing is absolutely certain: Theologically, it's a shipwreck.

No one who understands Who the Catholic Church is could ever walk away from Her. In fact, to do so would be to ensure damnation, as plainly stated in the catechism:

"He himself explicitly asserted the necessity of faith and Baptism, and thereby affirmed at the same time the necessity of the Church which men enter through Baptism as through a door. Hence they could not be saved who, knowing that the Catholic Church was founded as necessary by God through Christ, would refuse either to enter it or to remain in it." (CCC ¶ 846)

No Church, no salvation — for those who know. But, there's more: For Catholics who "stay" in the Church, but not with the sincerity of charity, it's hellfire for them, as well. From the same document:

"All the Church's children should remember that their exalted status is to be attributed not to their own merits but to the special grace of Christ. If they fail moreover to respond to that grace in thought, word and deed, not only shall they not be saved but they will be the more severely judged."

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The Vortex — Fat Chickens Roosting     (www.youtube.com)
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Mentally ill, fat criminals. Wow!

Remember the old line about the "chickens coming home to roost"? Well, here's more proof of that when it comes to the once-great American nation. Decades of disaster regarding young Americans are finally taking their toll.

The Pentagon is announcing that not only is the U.S. military missing its recruiting targets by alarming numbers, but one giant leading cause is that kids are too fat. Other causes are that they are jacked up on drugs or mentally ill or have criminal records. However, perhaps the most frightening dimension of this is that the leading cause is a combination of all the above. 

Active U.S. military personnel total 1.3 million. Last year, the Pentagon set a goal of recruiting 60 thousand new members. They missed by 15 thousand (25 %). And that's just in one year alone. When it's all said and done, the Pentagon study concludes that almost 4 out of 5 kids cannot qualify for military service — that's 77 %! And remember, that's from the Pentagon's own findings.

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The Vortex — A Dangerous Road     (www.youtube.com)
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What will you do?

A couple of weeks ago, we told you about the upcoming trial of one Douglass Mackey, a patriotic meme maker who was arrested for publishing memes about Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign. Mackey put up goofy posts encouraging people to text "Hillary" to a number in order to vote for her and avoid lines.

Of course, the whole thing was a spoof and a goof, akin to the practice back in the old days of telling your opponent's supporters to be sure and vote on Wednesday, when, of course, the election was the day before, on Tuesday.

By way of update, last week, Mackey was found guilty of interfering with citizens' sacred right to vote and is now awaiting sentencing and could face 10 years behind bars.

Church Militant has been watching this case very closely. Here are about 75 pages of research on it because we know a lot of the behind-the-scenes story, a story that could end up setting a precedent for not only canceling free speech but actually imprisoning you for it.

Douglass posted his satire memes a week or so before the 2016 election, where Trump defeated Killary. Then when Biden "won" in 2020 and was sworn in on Jan. 20, 2021. An indictment against Mackey was handed down two days later, and he was arrested later that week.

The timeline says it all. The chair in the Oval Office was still warm from Trump when Biden's DOJ went and arrested Mackey for posting a joke meme. The back story is that the DOJ was itching all during the Trump years to arrest, charge and convict Mackey but held off, waiting in the wings.

No sooner had old braindead Brandon gotten in than they went racing after the young man. Later media reports revealed the Department of Justice, which is a joke if there ever was one, had been plotting for years to gin up a "test case" whereby they could actually throw someone in prison for his political postings.

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