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The Vortex — War to the Death (youtu.be)

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No soldier goes into battle unprepared and untrained.

If you haven't noticed yet, then you need to soon — there is a war going on, and it is a war to the death. Two giant armies are marshaling their forces. When all of this is done, only one side will be left standing.

In short, it is evil versus God. Period. Even the Marxist media have picked up the theme, with their nonstop propaganda about Christian nationalism. While it is sad that it has come to this, it has to be accepted and embraced. Whether this is the beginning of the final battle on earth or just the final battle of this age we do not know. Frankly, it does not matter. What matters is that you join the war.

Every spiritual good, every divine utterance and every moral virtue is under assault by the purveyors of evil. Every institution has been perverted or nearly perverted: law, medicine, education, the arts, the media, government, the military and, yes, even — most importantly — religion. Make no mistake that the supreme target is the complete refashioning of the Catholic Church. To the extent that leaders in the Church fail to recognize this and act accordingly, they will have to answer to Almighty God when they die, or perhaps even before they die.

The Marxists will not stop until, through whatever means they can — violence, law, politics, social engineering, all of them — they force the Catholic Church to either embrace or surrender to their agenda of evil. But this will never happen. The sun will never rise on the day that the Church accepts child murder, euthanasia, sodomite marriage and the whole list of these wicked ends.

Primary Video source and transcript continues here: https://www.churchmilitant.com/video/episode/vort-war-to-the-death

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The Vortex — The Business of Evangelization (youtu.be)

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Working to save souls.

Today's Vortex is the keynote speech Michael Voris gave at Church Militant's 2022 Call to Action convention.

Primary Video source and transcript continues here: https://www.churchmilitant.com/video/episode/vortex-the-business-of-evangelization

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The Vortex — Weak Sauce (youtu.be)

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It has no power to save.

Perhaps the biggest danger these days, both in politics and in the Church, is the "weak sauce" flowing from the leaders. It is an emasculated attempt to answer the attacks of the diabolical which falls woefully short of providing anything commensurate to the level of the threat.

In politics, we saw it in spades from Republican leadership in response to the 2020 election. But in the Church, the "weak sauce" now predominates and poisons virtually every aspect of Catholic life. From seminaries to weekly homilies to bishops' ramblings, feminized emotionalism has completely replaced any vestiges of masculine, muscular faith.

This weak-sauce Catholicism is nothing more than warmed-over Protestantism — a heresy, remember — thinly veiled as Catholic. In truth, there is nothing authentically Catholic about it. For example, it possesses no intellectual firepower. It trades away the deep, rich life of the greatest minds of the Church for a superficial and sickening claim that "the Holy Spirit told me" this or that.

Let's get real. Shut up with your private revelation that the Holy Spirit told you this or that. That's just a Catholicized version of the old Protestant idiocy that "The Lord placed on my heart." How do you know that? None of these claims are ever questioned, scrutinized or approached with intellectual rigor. In fact, intended or not, they have the impact of shutting down all objections to whatever is being attributed to the Third Person, because to even question them puts you in the position of "challenging the Holy Spirit." The political equivalent is being accused of racism simply because you objected to some policy of Obama.

For the most part, Catholicism today has been reduced to a soft, feminized whimper. The Church's message now is "never give offense" and "Jesus ate with tax collectors." This is a marketing scheme of misplaced compassion. Those who market it think that it has some sort of appeal to others besides soft men. The reason is because the leaders are soft. Any organization takes on the "personality" of its leadership. Weak men beget a weak organization, weak followers and weak workers.

Can any serious-minded Catholic look at any cultural institutions aligned against the Church and conclude they are run by "weak" leaders? For all their error and evil, the forces aligned against the truth are mentally as tough as nails. They are dedicated, passionate, rigorous and vigilant. They never miss a chance to press their case, even though their case is diabolical.

Primary Video source and transcript continues here: https://www.churchmilitant.com/video/episode/vortex-weak-sauce

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The Vortex — In My Opinion (youtu.be)

submitted by carnold03 to Catholicism 2.6 years ago (+1/-2)

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Words matter.

Happy Birthday to Our Blessed Mother this Thursday, Sept. 8, the day Holy Mother Church sets aside to mark her birthday. Happy Birthday, Mommy.

There is a common attitude among many notable Catholic clergy members — the ones on YouTube and other social media platforms — that they must "soft-pedal" Catholic teaching, as though Catholic teaching was just one belief among many. The problem is that when you present your case in terms of it being your belief, it means absolutely nothing. Everyone has his own belief or opinion. So if I disagree with your opinion, who cares?

This attitude has been adopted by Catholic priests, especially those on social media, who seem to believe the best way to announce the truth is to be as absolutely inoffensive as possible and never confront anyone.

If no one told the celebrity clergy members who are treading lightly that this approach doesn't work, then someone around them should. For example, a major secular publication recently did a Q&A with a very popular celebrity priest. We won't identify the priest for two reasons. First, people get all bent out of shape and ask, "How can you be so mean to Father? He's wonderful." So, naming a popular priest causes the entire message to be drowned in a sea of distraction. Second, it doesn't really matter who the priest is, because they all take this approach. It's a wrong approach and destined to fail. In the end, Church teaching is reduced to mere opinion.

For example, in this recent Q&A interview, the priest used the phrase "we (Catholics) believe in Original Sin." Umm, no. *We don't believe in Original Sin. It's a reality whether we believe in it or not. Saying Original Sin is worthy of belief is like saying gravity is worthy of belief. It's not untrue* that we believe in it — it's just that this wording makes it seem like a "take it or leave it" proposition.

Primary Video source and transcript continues here: https://www.churchmilitant.com/video/episode/vortex-in-my-opinion

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The Vortex — Disobedience (youtu.be)

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Just how far does a bishop's authority extend?

Church Militant has learned of a very troubling controversy emanating from the archdiocese of Washington and Cdl. Wilton Gregory. It involves a question of obedience versus sacrilege.

If you are a seminarian anywhere in the United States, you need to think deeply about this question, because the way things are going in the Church, you may be faced with this situation.

Here is the information privately revealed to Church Militant. In some unofficial-yet-clearly-understood message from Cdl. Gregory, his priests were instructed not to deny Holy Communion to President Biden. When Biden attends Mass locally in Washington, D.C., the apparent protocol is for the Secret Service and White House staff to contact a local parish and give them a heads-up that POTUS will be there for Mass.

However, Church Militant has learned that some priests will not go along with this. They have said that if they get an advance call from the White House or Secret Service, they will notify the archdiocese they refuse to distribute sacrilegious Holy Communion. If the cardinal wants this to happen, he must send a priest who will go along with it, because they refuse.

Primary Video source and transcript continues here: https://www.churchmilitant.com/video/episode/vortex-disobedience

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The Vortex — Abortion/Inflation (youtu.be)

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What's more important to voters?

By a 5–2 vote late last week, the Michigan Supreme Court ordered that a state referendum on abortion be placed on the November ballot. This will end any hopes of a "red wave" here and likely ensure Democratic tyranny for generations to come.

Even in the face of massive inflation, a tyrannical COVID governor, a ruined economy and thousands of nursing-home deaths, Michiganders will look past all of that so they can vote to have orgasms whenever they want and take no responsibility at all.

Given the choice of abortion versus a good economy, Michigan and probably every other state will choose their orgasms over concern about inflation, just like they did in Kansas. In fact, we predict that within five years, every state in the country will follow the lead of Michigan and Kansas.

To emphasize the point that people care more about killing their children than the economy, a recent Wall Street Journal poll noted, "More than half of voters say the Supreme Court's elimination of the federal constitutional right to an abortion has made them more likely to vote." Voters cited the abortion ruling as "the single issue most likely to make them vote this November."

The child killers just need some time to organize their efforts across all the supposedly pro-life states. Once it gets momentum, evil always advances quickly. For instance, just look at sex education in public schools being taught by perverts.

After a summer flurry of legal maneuverings to end Michigan's 1931 law protecting children from being murdered via abortion, the pro-aborts have won their push to get this question before voters.

Using typical Democratic "judge-shopping" en route to the Michigan Supreme Court victory, the first openly homosexual judge in Oakland County and a judge who is a Planned Parenthood donor aided the pro-abortion cause. Besides being a financial backer of Planned Parenthood, Judge Elizabeth Gleicher also represented the nation's largest child-killing chain in the 1990s as an attorney for the ACLU.

Of course, the Court of Claims clerk issued a statement that, despite Gleicher's decades-long support for the murder of children in the womb, she would remain impartial. Yeah, sure.

However, that little ditty is just a sideshow in the state. The real catastrophe was the Michigan Supreme Court ordering the measure placed on the ballot. For the record, it will be a vote to enshrine child murder — at any stage, even after birth — into the state Constitution. That means no law can ever be passed in Michigan protecting children unless another amendment is brought forward overturning this one.

This referendum, officially known as "Ballot Proposal 3," will coast to victory. Child killing is the stopgap for fully living the sexual revolution of the 1960s. Once divorce and then contraception gained acceptance by a majority of Americans, abortion necessarily followed.

Primary Video source and transcript continues here: https://www.churchmilitant.com/video/episode/vortex-abortion-inflation

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The Vortex — Totally Inverted (youtu.be)

submitted by carnold03 to Catholicism 2.6 years ago (+2/-3)

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Complete clown world.

One of the things we really try to impress on younger folks here in the studio, as well as those in the audience, is just how much things have changed since we were their ages. There is really no way anyone older than about 50 could say this is the same country anymore. It's not.

For example, Church Militant had to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars simply to exercise our First Amendment rights to free speech and assembly in a blatantly obvious case of those rights being trampled by the city of Baltimore.

Likewise, it has now become apparent that Obama, Biden and Hillary remade the intelligence agencies by appointing Marxist-friendly leaders. They turned around and used the DOJ and FBI to spy on Trump and destroy his 2016 bid for president. Everything that has happened since is because that plan failed.

With the obvious exception of what the Holy Spirit protects and guarantees, this isn't the same Church anymore, humanly speaking. Men who do not believe the Catholic faith are in charge of administering the Catholic faith. The world in which many of us grew up no longer exists. It's gone.

Primary Video source and transcript continues here: https://www.churchmilitant.com/video/episode/vort-totally-inverted

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The Vortex — Gimme a Break (youtu.be)

submitted by carnold03 to Catholicism 2.6 years ago (+2/-3)

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Because my Bible tells me so — not really!

The U.S. Supreme Court's Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade has had the expected tsunami effect across the American landscape. The demonically possessed child-killers are mobilized, literally mad as hell and on the move politically. They are pulling out every single stop to lock down child killing as a permanent fixture from sea to shining sea.

But with a page right out of errant Catholic theologians' favorite playbook, they are now outdoing themselves.

Horrible theologians, inspired by errant Protestant theology, are fond of saying, "Jesus never said that." That is so stupid it's beyond belief that anyone would even say it. However, because Americans are so conditioned to inane Protestant theology that the Bible is the end-all, be-all; an appeal can easily be made to the malformed masses that if it's not in the Bible, it's not true.

In a rush to advance that craziness, even MSNBC pushes that line of thought, as though it's the case that if Joe Scarborough says it, it must be right. Joe "Theologian" Scarborough. Give me a break. That's as bad as being lectured about morality by active homosexual Anderson Cooper on CNN.

For the record, you can find the appropriate Catholic response to that ridiculous claim by utilizing any one of a number of resources Church Militant has — our Basic Training Apologetics set, for example, loaded with proper Catholic teaching. Likewise, our very popular Where Did the Bible Come From? collection comes complete with a timeline chart tracing the development of the Scriptures. Knowing the place of Scripture and its role in spiritual life is of paramount importance, or else you end up with idiotic statements like, "Abortion is OK because Jesus never said anything about it."

Hey Joe, the Son of God also never said anything about climate change, racism, slavery, a nation's borders, pedophilia or immigration. So what? But He did say, "Love your neighbor as yourself," which a normal, non-virtue-signaling brain would take to include not hacking a tiny infant to pieces and sucking him out of the womb through a vacuum cleaner, among other things.

Primary Video source and transcript continues here: https://www.churchmilitant.com/video/episode/vortex-gimme-a-break

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The Vortex — From Sacrifice to Meal (youtu.be)

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Changing emphasis changes purpose.

The so-called "Liturgy wars" are raging in the Church these days. Frankly, most Catholics don't have the slightest idea that they are even happening, or for that matter, what the Liturgy wars even are.

For the record, a decent way of understanding the concept is that the Liturgy — the Mass and other formal prayers of the Church — not only gives worship to God, but at the same time sums up and expresses what the Church believes. Therefore, the words, gestures and postures have a dual purpose. If you change or alter one, you necessarily change or alter the other. If, for example, you dumb down the words used to give glory to God, you will necessarily dumb down people's awareness of God's majesty, sovereignty and so forth.

Dumb-downed Liturgies, in short, dumb down people's faith because their intellects become dulled.

Now, why is there a war in the Church going on over this (perhaps best summed up generally as the raging battle between the Latin Mass adherents, a decided minority, and the supporters of the Novus Ordo Mass, translated as the New Order of the Mass)? In short, those who support and likely attend the Latin Mass, generally speaking, are aware that the New Mass has certain deficiencies in how it speaks to and about God. Those deficiencies do not cancel the efficacy of the Mass. They don't make the consecration not happen. They don't invalidate the Mass. But that's not the point, whether the Mass is valid or not.

With the exception of breakaway schismatic groups like the SSPX, which actually labels the New Mass "evil," no reasonable minds in the Catholic world spout that idiocy. However, that does not mean that just because it's valid, everything is OK and there are no problems with it. This is where things start to get somewhat into the weeds, because huge numbers of Catholics have a poor understanding of liturgy, both in its purpose and effect. However, for those who do grasp this extremely important point about the importance of liturgy, there is a massive battle raging.

In short, there are those on the spiritually bereft side who actively seek to water down the Faith and replace its objective meaning with a more emotion-based understanding. They don't like or support, and in some obvious cases don't believe, Catholic teaching. They want the Church to be something other than She has always been, and so, in an effort to water things down, they water down the Liturgy. It's a pretty ingenious way, in fact, to accomplish their means.

Since Catholics who supposedly believe the Faith attend Mass, if they can present a dumbed-down Mass then they can create a dumbed-down laity. They have been largely successful. In clear terms, why would a Catholic attending watered-down Masses for most or all of his life develop any authentic sense of the Eucharist, the need for confession, and so forth?

Primary Video source and transcript continues here: https://www.churchmilitant.com/video/episode/vortex-from-sacrifice-to-meal

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The Vortex — Biden's Gestapo (www.youtube.com)

submitted by carnold03 to Catholicism 2.6 years ago (+2/-3)

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The regime.

Perhaps the Marxists who run the federal government were right all along about "defunding the police."

Given the way Biden and his Department of Justice attack and assault his political opponents, or anyone who goes against the regime, it's not really a good idea for these folks to have weapons. For the record, this is why the Founding Fathers understood the need for the Second Amendment.

Remember, the Constitution was written to restrain the government, not restrain citizens.

As news broke last Friday and over the weekend that a large contingent of about two dozen Department of Justice SWAT agents kicked down the door and swarmed a pro-lifer's Pennsylvania house, the scene proved to be yet another in the weaponization of federal powers against Biden's opponents.

Joe Biden hates America. Even more importantly, Joe Biden hates Catholicism. He pretends to be loyal to both, but it's clear his only emotion is hatred. It comes out not only on his face more and more frequently, like his Independence Hall Hitlerian speech a couple of weeks back, but in the launching of raids by his DOJ Gestapo.

Regardless of whether the Republicans take back the U.S. House of Representatives, or for that matter, the U.S. Senate as well, as long as a Marxist sits in the Oval Office, this evil will persist. A Marxist-led Congress simply puts its seal of approval on his actions, but a president does not need congressional approval to conduct affairs at the Department of Justice, a launching pad of the SWAT raids — or to terrify small children.

Primary Video source and transcript continues here: https://www.churchmilitant.com/video/episode/vortex-bidens-gestapo

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The Vortex — 'Survey Says' (youtu.be)

submitted by carnold03 to Catholicism 2.6 years ago (+1/-2)

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You have no faith.

When companies are doing internal reviews and want to know what their customers think of them, their products and their services, it's typical that they conduct market surveys.

The surveys come in all kinds, shapes and forms — from focus groups to incentive emails to online surveys, and so forth.

Recently, a company sent out a survey and asked the following questions of its patrons:

- Where do you live?
- What have been your experiences doing business with us?
- What are your hopes for our company in the future?
- What are three to five words you would use to describe what you like most about the company?
- What are three to five words you would use to describe the difficulties you have had with the company?
- Which of the following (sense of community, feeling of acceptance, being listened to and valued, among other things) do you consider the strengths of the company and the reasons you patronize us?

As companies "dig down" into their customers' likes and dislikes (and then, broader opinions and thoughts), they often ask these types of questions. And then, whatever they are able to implement from these surveys, they do.

After all, you've got to keep the customer happy, because a happy customer is a repeat customer. Now, a little confession: The "company" that sent out the survey was a diocese asking Catholics those questions and a few others.

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For all the bluster about "all voices being valued," go ask your local chancery if Church Militant's voice can be valued at the next diocesan men's conference.

Primary Video source and transcript continues here: https://www.churchmilitant.com/video/episode/vortex-survey-says

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The Vortex — Christian Nationalism? Yes, Please! (youtu.be)

submitted by carnold03 to Catholicism 2.6 years ago (+2/-3)

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David Knight interviews the Vortex.

David Knight interviews Michael Voris Oct. 4 about why being a Christian nationalist is a good thing.

Primary Video source and transcript continues here: https://www.churchmilitant.com/video/episode/vortex-christian-nationalism-yes-please

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The Vortex — A Mad, Rad, Trad Problem (www.youtube.com)

submitted by carnold03 to Catholicism 2.6 years ago (+1/-2)

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In short — they lie, defame and smear.

The Church is in a disastrous state.

Many bishops don't believe the Faith. They certainly don't care about souls. They have destroyed countless souls. Anyone with a brain can see this. It is undeniable.

The question isn't, Is this all true? It has been asked and answered multiple times. The question is, What do we do?

This is where a great divergence has occurred. It is a deep wound in the Body of Christ.

Among those who are most distressed over the current crisis — and yes, it is a giant crisis — there is too often a tendency to throw the baby out with the bathwater. They turn uncritically and unthinkingly to anything that proposes itself to be a remedy to the crisis.

As a result, the sense of "tradition" gets bandied about as some kind of silver bullet cure-all for everything ailing the Church.

However, "tradition" means different things to different people — who, again, have to properly understand the nature of the crisis. For example, there is a naive belief that if it happened before Vatican II and if it was accepted before Vatican II, then it must be rushed into headlong.

While that instinct is certainly understandable, it's wrong — dead wrong.

We aren't talking about Church teaching, we're talking about the approach to the Church. For faithful Catholics who cling to tradition, properly understood, they also cling to wrongheaded traditions that come along for the ride.

For example, there is the approach to the priesthood. Faithful Catholics treasure the priesthood. It is the priesthood that brings us Our Blessed Lord in the Eucharist, bestows absolution for our sins and so forth. All that is a tradition.

But coming along with that is an approach to individual priests that is completely wrongheaded. Just because a priest wears a cassock all the time and offers the Latin Mass does not make him holy.

McCarrick started out wearing a cassock, was ordained in the Old Rite — and was raping seminarians left and right. Cardinal Spellman of New York, who raised McCarrick from the dust and set his feet on the path of careerism, wore a cassock, loved the lace, was solidly orthodox in his preachings, offered the Latin Mass — and was reportedly massively homosexual.

We move to Joseph Bernardin, who was not only homosexual but also involved in Satanism. Bernardin wore his cassock, was ordained in the Latin rite, offered the Latin Mass and was notorious.

So it goes. In fact, every single bishop at Vatican II pre-existed the Council, quite obviously. Each was made bishop by totally solid popes.

So, how did things go so sideways?

To delude yourself that all was good before Vatican II, and therefore everything in the Church before that needs to be emulated today, is simply just that: delusional. In fact, the argument can easily be made that the seminaries prior to Vatican II were the breeding grounds for the homosexuality that eventually burst onto the scene with Catholic clergy starting in the 1960s.

If everything was so hunky dory before 1965, how was it that so many religious — male and female — simply abandoned their vows and religious communities so quickly? Why was Mass attendance in France already in a freefall, with fewer than half of Catholics in the Eldest Daughter of the Church actually going to Mass?

The fact that there are massive problems today — seemingly almost insurmountable — does not discount that there were very serious problems back then as well.

So to want to "turn back the clock" to before 1965 is a wrongheaded approach.

Regarding the laity, within three years of the council ending, Catholics all over the West ignored the teaching on contraception and embraced the Culture of Death. That speaks directly to a huge lack of catechesis. There is just no way a well-prepared and instructed laity would walk away from the Church, in such huge numbers and in such a short period of time, if they had been properly instructed. It's not possible.

Primary Video source and transcript continues here: https://www.churchmilitant.com/video/episode/vort-a-mad-rad-trad-problem

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The Vortex — Flippin' the Tables (www.youtube.com)

submitted by carnold03 to Catholicism 2.6 years ago (+1/-2)

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Group after group is walking away.

With the midterms now under the one-month mark (27 days to be precise), there are two different narratives developing.

On the one hand, the Marxist media is pushing the theme that the Democrats are roaring back. The red wave may still happen, but nowhere near as drastically as once believed. It'll be reduced to a red puddle.

This is being brought to you by the same crowd that has peddled every wrong narrative in the past six years, from there's no recession to COVID to the "big lie" to parents are domestic terrorists to the FBI leadership is awesome to Afghanistan was just a little messy to Hunter's laptop was OK to Hillary's emails were about Chelsea's wedding, and on and on.

On the other side, you have the logical people, the Patriots and polling firms that actually poll and don't predetermine the outcomes — places like Trafalgar.

Trafalgar has through multiple election cycles now been not only the closest, but most accurate in successfully predicting the outcome of almost everything they've polled. And yes, that includes calling Trump in 2016, the disappearing "blue wave" of 2018 and the strangeness around 2020.

This time around, they and others are detecting something the mainstream doesn't want to understand or perhaps acknowledge — actually two things.

One is the narrative about the vanishing red wave: While perhaps having receded a bit, isn't really grounded in much real-world reality.

And the second largely unreported thing is the Latino vote is one of the major drivers. And for Catholics, remember, about half that Latino vote is made up of what's proving to be socially conservative Catholics.

Primary Video source and transcript continues here: https://www.churchmilitant.com/video/episode/vort-flippin-the-tables

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The Vortex — Schism — Hands Down (www.youtube.com)

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And based on a lie complete with heresy.

The current disaster in the Church is chasing some unsuspecting souls right into the arms of breakaway schismatic groups.

The SSPX, for example — shorthand for the Society of St. Pius X — is one such group. It's not the only one, but the one that seems to get the most "love" from so-called traditionalists.

For the record, jumping ship into a schismatic group is never the answer, no matter how "Catholic" that group may look or sound. All schismatic groups look Catholic. That's how they fool and attract people to leave the Church.

Primary Video source and transcript continues here: https://www.churchmilitant.com/video/episode/vortex-schism-hands-down

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The Vortex — 'Fr. Socially Awkward' (www.youtube.com)

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No one likes weirdos.

The latest numbers have been compiled regarding U.S. Catholics. If you thought they were bad 10 years ago, then just wait.

For comparison, let's look first at those 2012 numbers. For the record, these are the official numbers of the U.S. bishops. In 2012, there were about 97 million Americans who said they had been Catholic at some point in their lives. Of those 97 million 10 years ago, 74 million continued identifying as Catholic.

That translates into nearly 25% who no longer claimed to be Catholic. About 18 million of those 74 million went to Mass each week, with about one-quarter of those still identifying as Catholic and about 19% of those who had at some time been Catholic.

OK, fast-forward to today — 2022, 10 years later. Same categories.

First, there are 87 million Americans claiming to have been Catholic at some time in their lives. This is 10 million fewer than in 2012, a drop of a cool million every year. Of these 87 million, 73 million still identify as Catholic. This is almost unchanged from 10 years ago.

That translates into 17% of the much smaller overall pool who no longer claim their Catholic identity. And of those 73 million still self-identifying, 17 million go to Mass each week — again, like 10 years ago, a little less than a quarter.

However — and there is always a however — this is a self-reverential analysis by the bishops. What they do not factor in is the growing U.S. population and the number of Catholics relative to the population.

In 2012, the total U.S. population was 308 million. People who had been Catholic at some time in their lives was 97 million — about 31%. In 2022, the total U.S. population stands at about 331 million, and people who had been Catholic at some time in their lives about 87 million — a drop to 26%.

The U.S. population growth, while absolutely slowing, is still outstripping Catholics.

In short, whatever "evangelization" efforts the bishops think are working are cratering. In fact, it has gotten so bad that popular culture is making fun of the whole sorry scene.

A stupid, slightly vulgar yet popular animated series from a few years back called "Beavis and Butthead" tells the tale of the ineptitude of the tone-deaf efforts on the part of the clergy to bring in new sheep.

Unlike in former centuries, too much of the clergy is almost completely out of touch with everyday people.

Primary Video source and transcript continues here: https://www.churchmilitant.com/video/episode/vortex-fr-socially-awkward

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The Vortex — Not Willing to Die (www.youtube.com)

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Because they don't truly love.

Before we begin, if I may ask you to say a prayer for my father and his eternal rest. Russ Voris would have been 93 today. God bless you, Dad.

And speaking of fathers, many spiritual fathers we have are an absolute disgrace and need to be called out left, right and center. The Irish have a term for such men — wastrels — one who expends resources foolishly and self-indulgently.

No one on the planet fits that definition more so than the U.S. bishops. Why? Because of the tremendous spiritual resources they have at their disposal, owing to their office. Yet time and time again, they squander those resources, refuse to tackle evil head-on and do nothing to protect the innocent.

But just as disturbing is the crowd of enablers who rush to the defense of these men because they, the bishops, are considered "orthodox." That word — orthodox — is treated as though it covers a multitude of sins. It does not. Not even close. Being privately orthodox is meaningless for a bishop if he does next to nothing to defend and advance the Faith.

It is of little consequence if he sits in his room and prays his Rosary and his daily Office, but goes out and withers in the face of evil. But it seems he can always count on the professional Catholics around him to make up excuses for him and say his life is tough and the decisions are tough and on and on.

First, there is no such thing as a tough decision when it comes to doing the right thing. What's "tough" is working up the courage to deal with the consequences. Admittedly, that may be tough. But the decision is not tough. Not even close. The decision is never tough.

Likewise, it might take a minute to collect all the data and information. But once that's done, the decision is always guided by the simple question, What's the right thing to do?

But today's weak, cowardly, revolting bishops — and for clarity, we mean the ones being defended by those around them for being orthodox — these bishops don't know how to even spell courage.

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Yet, in a number that says it all, the vast majority of bishops have a much higher opinion of themselves. Go figure. Brain-dead, out-of-touch, tone-deaf egomaniacs. Completely self-centered, self-absorbed.

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The Vortex — COVID Truth (www.youtube.com)

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Fauci wrecked by a leading China expert.

It's been almost three years, but in that time, the full realization of the COVID conspiracy is coming more and more to light. The truth is never able to be fully covered up, and proof of that maxim is coming forward as we learn more about what really happened, how it was manipulated, by whom and why.

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Steven Mosher is president of the Population Research Institute and one of the world's leading authorities on China. Of course, most importantly, he's also a solid, faithful Catholic. In addition to authoring various books on China, he's been on Tucker, Laura Ingraham, "Good Morning America", "60 Minutes", and written for the New York Post and Wall Street Journal.

In short, he's no slouch. He knows his stuff down cold. He's written what is the authoritative book on the entire COVID scam called "The Politically Incorrect Guide to Pandemics". With almost 100 pages of supporting footnotes, the fun really begins about halfway through. After a brief world history lesson of plagues and pandemics stretching back thousands of years, Mosher then spends about a hundred pages breaking down in easy-to-understand detail all the relevant information on the China virus.

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In a weekend op-ed in the New York Post, Mosher lays out his case against Anthony Fauci with his opening paragraph: "I must admit that I, like most Americans, am deathly tired of having to listen to — or in my case, write about — Dr. Anthony Fauci. It has been clear for some time that his prescriptions for dealing with the pandemic were not only wrong, but made things worse, much worse."

Primary Video source and transcript continues here: https://www.churchmilitant.com/video/episode/vortex-covid-truth

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The Vortex — Buffalo Bomb (www.youtube.com)

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Run, bishop, run!

We Catholics don't believe in karma, certainly as a religious, spiritual thing. That said, karma, as a thing, is related to justice, and justice is certainly something we do believe in. Well, call it what you will, but the "karma bus" has pulled into the diocese of Buffalo.

The diocese has finally settled a yearslong case with the state of New York over sex abuse allegations, involving the clergy there, stretching back decades. But more to the point, and especially important for Church Militant, we were in on the ground floor of this story when it broke back in 2018 in the wake of the Theodore McCarrick revelations.

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The Vortex — What Might Have Been (www.youtube.com)

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This close to Catholic.

The corpses of former Catholics piled up on the political landscape are appalling.

Church Militant has already interviewed Marjorie Taylor Greene, who was born and baptized Catholic, baptized her children Catholic and was poorly catechized; resulting in her leaving the Church when she saw the bishops being essentially limp-wristed communists.

But when you look closely around the battlefield and dig a little, you will see a large number of former Catholics carrying the banner of political conservatism. There is a hint of Catholicism in these candidates' positions and policies, sometimes much more than just a hint.

For example, Kari Lake, the upstart feisty candidate for Arizona governorship — raised Catholic, she now no longer has anything to do with the Church, although it's clear she still embraces some of her Catholicism when it comes to the natural world. Likewise, U.S. Senate candidate (also from Arizona) Blake Masters — he, too, was raised Catholic and has since left the Faith.

It's jarring to the sensibilities of faithful, well-catechized Catholics that so many of the people we are cheering on politically comprise some of the collateral damage of the Church imploding. How much better off would America have been, and be in the future, if these souls could have remained in the Church and been properly catechized, instructed and formed in the One True Faith?

Yet, as we see time and time again, they have been left to fend for themselves by a reckless and uncaring hierarchy. The bishops were more content with allowing the Joe Bidens, Pelosis, Kennedys, Caseys, Durbins, Leahys, Cuomos et al. to define the Faith for an entire country and party.

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The Vortex — Seriously? (www.youtube.com)

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Yup, seriously.

You may not have heard, but the U.S. bishops are all hot to trot on their so-called Eucharistic Revival.

See, faith in the Real Presence is at pathetic lows among unfaithful Catholics here in America, and all the uproar among faithful Catholics at the bishops disobeying canon law spurred them to action. Well, sort of spurred them to action. What faithful Catholics were demanding was an end to political murderers like Joe Biden (and company) being allowed to receive Holy Communion.

So the most unmasculine response possible from the charitable, homosexual crowd in miters was what else? Launch a three-year, $28 million public relations campaign to proclaim the Church's teaching around the country in the dwindling number of parishes but — and this is the really important part, the key ingredient — actually do nothing to demonstrate the belief it is promoting.

In fact, let's keep those faith numbers low, as low as we can, by not actually doing anything to promote the teaching — you know, as in showing people we mean business. Kind of like, oh, I don't know, forbidding reception by big-name child-killing Catholics. That might be a good place to start, but, oh no. That would be a bridge too far for the all-are-welcome, let's-be-gay-together crowd at USCCB headquarters (might as well be a hippie drum circle)!

And if you think that's a little harsh, consider the following: In West Virginia, the town of Bridgeport, actually, and All Saints Parish, specifically, we have an up-close look at the bishops' Eucharistic Revival. The parish is combining the Eucharistic Revival events with its 75th-anniversary festivities.

So in celebration of both, the pastor, Fr. Jagela, invited Bp. John Stowe of Lexington, Kentucky, along with his diocesan coordinator (of all things gay) to talk about welcoming everyone. Seriously though, who else would you invite to talk about the need for belief in and worthy reception of the Body and Blood of Our Lord, other than a bishop who promotes sex between men? I mean, come on, man!

And remember, Stowe is a bishop — one of those who are promoting the Eucharistic Revival like, supposedly, all his brother bishops. Let's get real about this, shall we? The bishops as a body do not believe in the Real Presence. There is simply too much of a disconnect between their actions and their words. You could in no way believe the Host is actually Jesus but then refuse to defend His Real Presence from sacrilege. No way, José — not possible.

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The Vortex — Jews in the News (www.youtube.com)

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It goes back much farther than you may think.

The last couple of weeks, a rather loud and somewhat ongoing controversy has exploded onto the headlines again, involving claims that Jewish control of media is unfair or hurtful or too lopsided and so forth.

Kanye West was called out for anti-Semitism for saying the Jews control Hollywood and the media. Elon Musk, liberator of Twitter, even seemed to side with Kanye. He even posted a tweet asking "Who do you think owns the press?" back in May of 2018. It was quickly taken down. Even Donald Trump got in on the action, saying American Jews didn't appreciate his repeated efforts to support Israel.

Be that as it may, however true or not the accusations may be, there does appear to be collectivizing among a large percentage of the American Jewish population when it comes to politics.

After the conquering and subsequent destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70 by Titus and his Roman X legion, the nature of Judaism as a religion shifted. For centuries, the religion of the people of Israel centered around Temple sacrifice for the sins of the people as they awaited the coming of the Messiah.

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The Vortex — Moore Is Less (www.youtube.com)

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How badly will the Democrats lose?

As the red Category 3 (at least!) hurricane threatens to come crashing ashore in Democratic land, one place that is deep blue is promising to hold out against the Republican swamping. That's Maryland, where the governor's race is between solid political conservative Dan Cox, a current Maryland state legislator, and wildly liberal Marxist Wes Moore.

And as far as fundamental rights and belief in God and the need for morality in the culture go, Moore is definitely less. In short, Moore is a stone-cold liar. But then again, pointing out someone's embrace of Marxism and being a liar is redundant. He's a cheat, a liar and a straight-up communist.

For example, media reports recently revealed he hasn't paid his water bill totaling $21,000 for his mansion. Like all good Marxists, he loves the idea of the global reset. He spent four years as chief executive officer of the Robin Hood Foundation, euphemistically referred to as "Robbin' the Hood Foundation" because of its devastating effects on minority communities.

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The Vortex — Climate Change (www.youtube.com)

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It is much needed.

And finally it has arrived, at long last — what should be the day of reckoning for the communists who have seized so much control of the country and wreaked so much havoc on America.

If there is insufficient cheating (because they always cheat, but if it is insufficient), today should mark the beginning of the "great pushback."

If it goes as expected and the communist Democrats are halted and even forced to retreat (if only for a while), note that by no means is this final victory. It's not even close. But you have to secure your first major win somewhere and today may as well be that day.

Now for Catholics, especially those who do not see the importance of politics from a spiritual and theological point of view, here's what you need to wrap your minds around — and pretty quickly.

There is an all-out war going on between the forces of darkness who have complete control of one political party and partial control over the other.

Long ago, the war was lost on the philosophical ground when giant agenda items like "what is truth?" were simply ceded — surrendered to the notion that everyone's opinion is equally valid. No, all opinions are not equal and they should not be treated as though they are.

Then we lost the war over morality, so evident today in even the GOP that just warmly embraces sodomy as marriage.

Now we are in a pitched battle in the political arena — the last remaining line before all-out civil war. If you love peace and don't want to see violence, then you better get involved on the political front.

Primary Video source and transcript continues here: https://www.churchmilitant.com/video/episode/vort-climate-change

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The Vortex — The Moment (www.youtube.com)

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Sometimes, one moment reveals everything.

Some of you may have heard me relate the following before, but given the times, it bears repeating, and for the record, which will become clear, I was an eyewitness to this.

I attended freshman year of high school, the second semester anyway, in San Francisco's Sacred Heart school. The year was 1976, so the country's bicentennial happened while we were living in the City by the Bay.

We had an apartment directly across the street from St. Mary's Cathedral, the temple to modernism that looks like a washing machine agitator — horribly ugly, surpassed only by the ugliness of Cdl. Mahony's Los Angeles monstrosity.

Anyway, the celebration of the country's 200th birthday was occasioned by a noon Mass at the cathedral, where Abp. Fulton Sheen was the guest homilist. I was one of the lead altar boys at the cathedral and served at the Mass. I got to hear Sheen preach about faith and patriotism.

I heard him with my own ears, sitting barely 10 feet behind him. His words were so powerful, so moving, so touching that I used them a few years later in a story I did on July 4 when I was a reporter in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

But it would not be those words that would make the lasting mark in my memory — what I think of as "the Sheen moment." In fact, most in attendance that day at the bicentennial Mass did not hear what I heard. A few did; including my father, who stood in the doorway to the sacristy.

Primary Video source and transcript continues here: https://www.churchmilitant.com/video/episode/vortex-the-moment

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