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Is Obesity Really Beautiful? | The Vortex     (www.youtube.com)
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Dr. Mark Sherwood warns of woke ideology creeping into medicine.

Today's Vortex features an interview from Oct. 4, with naturopathic doctor Mark Sherwood — where he speaks about dangerous wokeness creeping into today's medical discourse.

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Catholics Have Failed to Understand Scripture | The Vortex     (www.youtube.com)
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St. Paul and Chris Plance offer the faithful a solution.

Just a reminder that Church Militant has the best, most insightful coverage of Pope Francis' synod underway in Rome this month.

Our Rome correspondent, Jules Gomes, breaks down the happenings each day in our popular program Rome Dispatch, hosted by Brad Eli. Click on the provided link below each day to keep up on everything.

Now, most Catholics have zero idea that St. Paul was a social warrior, clamoring for Catholics to not sit on their keisters and get busy with changing the world. It wasn't about just getting to Heaven individually for Paul; it was about initiating the kingdom of Heaven here on earth — right here, right now.

Catholics, as a whole, are among the most complacent, sit-back-and-let-the-world-happen types that you will ever meet. Maybe a hundred years or so ago, that could pass, but with the communist agenda seizing massive control around the globe, there needs to be a wildly new approach. And Paul lays it out in his letter to the Ephesians.

The problem is so few Catholics even crack open the Bible that they have no idea that Paul is sounding the alarm about getting in the fight in this world. Spiritual warfare happens in the temporal world. What makes it spiritual is the effects are everlasting. But the dirty work happens right here on earth, right now.

For this reason, Church Militant is offering our first-ever masterclass on the Bible — specifically, St. Paul's letters to the Ephesians where the great apostle is crystal clear about all this. It's available to you live, starting on Oct. 22 and running for the following six consecutive Sundays at 4 p.m. ET. Classes will be on Zoom, but will be downloadable for those of you who can't be present during live sessions. One ticket covers your whole household, so homeschooling families, bring your kids for a college-level biblical theology education.

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Illegal Alien Crisis Implicates Cdl. Timothy Dolan | The Vortex     (www.youtube.com)
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Episcopal failures stack up.

As the ecclesiastical train wreck that is Pope Francis' Synod on Synodality gets underway in Rome today, Church Militant will be bringing you every bit you need to know of the day's events from our Rome correspondent Jules Gomes on the ground in the Eternal City, in our much-loved broadcast rome dispatch, hosted here in Detroit by our own Brad Eli.

We will be providing a link here in Vortex every day for the month of October to their discussion and breakdown of the synod. Jules is a highly respected international journalist who has broken multiple stories for Church Militant over the past number of years and enjoys the confidence of numerous sources in and around the Vatican.

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. Just click on that provided link below after Vortex for the absolute latest from Rome.

Now for today — guess who is all of a sudden a champion of the southern border being regulated and the flow of millions and millions of illegals brought to an end? None other than New York City's bumbling cardinal-archbishop, Timothy Dolan, whose clock is ticking on the end of his scandal-plagued reign in the Big Apple.

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Surge in Secularism Creates Volatile Challenge for Catholics | The Vortex     (www.youtube.com)
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It's now becoming a question of survival.

I'm Michael Voris, coming to you from onboard our fall Retreat at Sea as we steam back toward New York.

The experience of Catholics in America, which has been the theme of this retreat, the history of the Church here, went from bad to good and then back to its present-day bad.

And, in truth, the present day (as we have said before) is nothing less than a total dumpster fire. For example, the bishop statistics group just last week published its findings that the number of Catholics who attend Mass each Sunday has plummeted even further, down now to just 17%.

There's not really a need to go through all the depressing (yet revealing) stats other than to say no conclusion can be drawn other than the Church in the United States is headed for extinction.

A number of sociological data points also point to impending shipwreck. For example, Gallup published its poll last week and it was immediately seized upon by atheists like the Freedom From Religion Foundation as proof of their success.

It revealed for the first time since Gallup has asked the question that a majority of Americans no longer identify as simply "religious" — 51%, in fact. And as you might already have surmised, the future outlook is even more bleak, as large numbers of young people skew the poll even further.

And as a population trends more and more atheist, or at the very least "religiously indifferent," the politics will be sure to follow. Politics is always downstream of culture. Leaders rarely actually lead. They follow what their constituents want so they can hold on to their own power.

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An Old Demonic Tactic to Strangle Human Political Orders | The Vortex     (www.youtube.com)
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#An Old Demonic Tactic to Strangle Human Political Orders | The Vortex

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When they take the reins, there's not much left.

I'm Michael Voris, coming to you from our autumn Retreat at Sea on this feast day of St. Michael.

Speaking of St. Michael, who, St. John informs us, drove Lucifer and his minions from the celestial realm, we need him in a dire way now. The same St. John informs us as well that Satan has come down to earth in great fury knowing his time is short.

Throughout all of human history, Satan has made use of government and politics to strike at the people of God. The political system, in fact, seems to be one of the "go-tos" in his arsenal. It's unsurprising really, when you think about it, because of the vast power a state exercises over its citizens.

Perhaps no other form of government has been as instrumental to the great dragon than communism, with its phony promise of "heaven" on earth. What communism really is, as well as its true cause, is best summed up by Ven. Abp. Fulton Sheen: "Communism is the scavenger of decaying civilizations. It makes its way into a country and into a culture only when that culture begins to rot from the inside."

As the old saying goes, truer words were never spoken. What Bp. Sheen may have omitted, however, because when he said that in the 1950s it might not as yet have been so apparent and manifest, is this: Communism not only arrives to finish off a dying civilization but, actually, heavily contributed to the death.

Communism was a major contributor to the decay of the American republic because of its plan of attack launched against the family. Communist architects of globalism understood that a nation rises and falls on the strength of the family.

Healthy families produce good citizens who uphold the Republic. Unhealthy families speed the deterioration. The best way to attack the family would be to attack the moral fiber that provided the environment for a healthy family. Poison the environment and you would weaken the family, which would set in motion the collapse of the culture and, in short order, the republic.

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Ground Zero for the Complete Collapse of the US Church | The Vortex     (www.youtube.com)
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Wiped out in a flash.

I'm Michael Voris, coming to you from our autumn Retreat at Sea, traveling up the coast of New England and stopping along significant places in the history of the Catholic Church.

Today we are in Boston, ground zero for the unearthing of the homosexual-clergy child sex abuse scandal that has and continues to devastate the Church in the country (and really throughout large portions of the Church).

More on that evil a little later.

The history of the Church in the United States has been one overall of extraordinary compromise by the U.S. hierarchy with the prevailing decay of morality. And nowhere might that be more evident than right here in Boston, going back to the 1960s, as the sexual revolution was getting a full head of steam.

The cardinal at the time, Richard Cushing, was extremely powerful, so much so that politicians feared him. One bad word from him and their careers would be over in the state.

In the 1940s, as the nascent birth control movement was still finding its footing, some state lawmakers introduced a bill here to legalize it. Cushing came out strongly against it, and it went down to a thunderous defeat as 57% of voters rejected the measure.

Fast forward 20 years and Massachusetts was the sole remaining state where birth control was still illegal. Again, the measure came up, and this time, Cushing folded like a cheap suit. Why? Because of the influence of a Jesuit priest who was in his ear — John Courtney Murray.

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Catholics Were Here First | The Vortex     (www.youtube.com)
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#Catholics Were Here First | The Vortex

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Catholics begin it; Protestants end it.

I'm coming to you from our Fall Retreat at Sea, where our theme is "Catholics were here first" — meaning the New World — specifically, the lands that eventually became the United States.

However, despite the arrival of both Spanish and French Catholic explorers at roughly the same time, it was the British Protestants that prevailed in overrunning the eastern seaboard and eventually the continent. Why?

Catholics were here almost 100 years earlier, so you'd think that with a gigantic head start like that the Protestants wouldn't have stood a chance. The answer lies in the history of the circumstances.

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The 'Bergoglio Is Not the Pope' Crowd's Really Bad Advice | The Vortex     (www.youtube.com)
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#The 'Bergoglio Is Not the Pope' Crowd's Really Bad Advice | The Vortex

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Do not follow rogue and disobedient clerics.

Is Jorge Bergoglio actually the pope? No, of course not, we're told. He's a "heretic." He's a "false prophet." He's even the "anti-Christ." Take your pick — but whatever of those he is, he is absolutely "not the pope."

Those are the mad ramblings of various Catholics, laity and clergy alike, who have succumbed to the temporary applause of Catholics looking for a quick answer to a centuries-old problem. And that's just the public dynamic.

There are quite a few other Catholic internet figures who run websites and "news" organizations who do believe all that — privately — and use their public influence to promote those ideas through their platforms, but don't have the courage to come right out and say it because they are afraid it will impact business. They make the bombs and let others throw them. Cowards.

Frankly, in some ways, they're even worse than the public big mouths, because they can do even more damage than the bomb throwers, which is the point of their sneakiness.

But for the moment, let's talk about the bomb throwers and their position that Jorge Bergoglio is not the pope. This "he is not the pope" argument is specious because of all the other much bigger problems that arise.

If he isn't, then who is? If there isn't a pope right now, then we are all sedevacantists, which opens up a whole other can of worms. Remember, there are "Catholic" nut jobs who say Benedict was not the pope, nor John Paul, nor Paul VI. So why not say that with Francis?

If he isn't now, was he ever? Or did he just stop being pope sometime after the conclave? Even the self-anointed defenders of the faith crowd can't agree on that.

If the conclave was invalid, why haven't any cardinals (Burke, Müller) who were in the conclave said it was invalid? Are they stupid and were duped, or weak, or cowards, or complicit — or are they actually cleverly disguised front men for Freemasonry posing as conservatives just to arrive at this point in time and help usher in the anti-church with its false prophet anti-pope?

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The Rosary Is the Surefire Way to Destroy Communism | The Vortex     (www.youtube.com)
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Celebrate Our Lady's birthday today.

We've been saying all week, in the lead-up to today's Vortex, that today is the day the Church sets aside to honor the birthday of Mary, the Mother of God.

So a happy feast day to all of you and happy birthday to you, Blessed Mommy. And no, you shouldn't ask her how old she is. Just say the truth: Whatever your age, you look beautiful!

Now the true believers and followers of Christ have many times and in many places endured persecution by, shall we just say, "the State." Even before Nero set Rome ablaze and blamed the Christians, the Jewish leadership, which served as "the State" over Israel's religion, had launched its own persecution against the believers.

Just ask any of those murdered by Saul of Tarsus (unleashed on the believers by the Sanhedrin). In fact, it's hard and takes some thinking to actually find a time in Church history when some state leader or governmental system wasn't going after authentic believers.

Of course, there were breaks and rest periods here and there, but eventually, some state officials took a fancy to wiping out Catholics in his or their dominion, and voilà — prison, death, etc.

However, what makes the current situation largely unique is that today, the State that was founded on mostly Catholic principles is what is now attacking Catholics. And in a pretty new twist, that State is run by, you guessed it, Catholics. Of course, phony Catholics but baptized Catholics nonetheless.

And in what is a largely 21st-century phenomenon (owing to technology), that "State" is now universal like the Church it seeks to destroy. It has really come down to a battle between the universal Church and the universal anti-church (the State). Talk about not enough room in this town for both of us.

While Hell had to content itself with multiple states and empires here or there, scattered across the globe hither and yon, being used to attack the faithful, there was never a truly universal action against the Church — until now.

Simply put, the technology was just not up to it. Now, however, it is. All the global forces that exercise control over states are now able to link up and act as one combined force. That force is worldwide communism. Of course, it doesn't call itself that, but that's what it is.

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Why 'Conservatives' Never Defeat the Evil Commies | The Vortex     (www.youtube.com)
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Don't compromise on the spiritual battle.

Patriots, conservatives, the Right — whatever the group and no matter how much they may overlap — have to come to terms with a reality that many have only sort of intuited: The current war with the forces of darkness (e.g., communism) does not have just a political solution. The communists have too much control of the political machinery to simply "trust the process" (the political process).

Church Militant is always pounding the drum that we humans are a composite of body and soul, that we live in two side-by-side realities, the material world and the spiritual world, the natural and, at the same time, the supernatural order. Evil also operates in these spheres, simultaneously. When the spiritual order is overrun, the material order will disintegrate.

Too late to the game in realizing this has the "conservative" side been. Politics cannot save us. Properly ordered and run political systems are what you have when the people are moral, meaning spiritually healthy. Politics is downstream from culture, and when culture goes off, politics follows.

In a republic, political leaders mount to heights of power based on the people's choices, their votes. Those votes are based on their worldviews, their philosophies of life. So what the communists set out to do a century ago was alter people's, the citizens', philosophies of life. That would require ultimately seizing control of institutions that helped people form their worldviews.

Education was the target, both formal and news media. Institutions had to be overrun so that young minds could begin to have their intellects corrupted. The communists played the long game, their strategy even being dubbed by them the "long march through the institutions."

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15 Years of Exposing Marxists Through 'The Vortex'     (www.youtube.com)
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The real Catholic media vs. Church and State communists.

This Labor Day weekend marks the 15th anniversary of the Vortex, which means almost 4,000 individual episodes have been produced and aired and viewed tens of millions of times.

The very first episode aired this weekend in 2008 and focused on Oprah Winfrey and her ridiculous little guest Eckhart Tolle, who collectively have misled millions spiritually.

Originally, Vortex was not supposed to air until Jan. 1, 2009, but, because of the Obama campaign, we decided to pull it ahead a few months in hopes of influencing at least some Catholics to not vote for him. It was a good effort but obviously didn't stop Obama from getting elected.

At one point, considering Obama's lack of any real experience (or qualifications) to be president, I actually threw my hat in the ring as well. Throughout roughly the first eight or nine months of Vortex, we dedicated it to covering Obama and his slightly hidden anti-religion, anti-God agenda.

But in May 2009, it came home like a thunderbolt as the child-killer-in-chief strode across the stage at Notre Dame's commencement, and practically every bishop in America said nothing. Fewer than 90 out of more than 300 were content to remain silent in one of the greatest displays of shame in U.S. Catholic history.

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It's Not Like Faith and Religion Are Different | The Vortex     (rumble.com)
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#It's Not Like Faith and Religion Are Different | The Vortex

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Never say you are 'spiritual' but not 'religious.'

There has been a horribly thought out — if you could even call it thinking — maxim floating around the culture for a couple of decades now. It's the pathetic statement, "I'm spiritual, not religious."

The viewpoint is so far beyond stupid it's hard to know where to even begin deconstructing those four words. The root of the problem is ignorance — some of it willful, some of the invincible kind. In the heavily estrogen-saturated culture in which we live, where everything is reduced to emotion, the term "spiritual" has had all its meaning drained from it.

It is so heavily colored by the feminine that it refers to nothing more than feelings. As in "how do you feel?" "follow your feelings," and so forth. What is the heart of the spiritual is completely unknown or ignored.

The spiritual is where the intellect and the will reside. Feelings have very little to do with intellect. Likewise, the will, while certainly influenced by emotions and feelings, is meant to be guided by the intellect.

The spiritual is incorrectly understood to apply to your feelings and nothing more. However, the duty of the spiritual is to participate in religion, the worship of God.

But in this day and age, since the understanding of the spiritual is corrupted, so too is the duty of religion.

The faith weaves into the culture! (Remember, the root word of culture is "cult" — how this all weaves together is one of the major themes we hammer on here at CM, the relevance of the Faith.)

Accordingly, we are happy to reach into our video vault and re-present to many of you who have not seen it this episode of Right Reason, where we treat this very issue.

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Now, sit back and enjoy and learn from this latest offering from Church Militant.

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Never Forget There Is Only One Truth | The Vortex     (rumble.com)
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#Never Forget There Is Only One Truth | The Vortex

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World religions converging in Chicago.

Many of the world's religions will be gathering in the coming days to meet and discuss, more or less, the evils of the world and what can be done. Of course, which religion you belong to could certainly influence your view of what is evil and what is not.

But laying that aside for the moment, there is certainly nothing wrong with religions cooperating with each other to address hunger and disease and so forth — as long as nothing objectively immoral is employed in that work.

However, while compromise for a greater end is OK for natural issues, when it comes to the supernatural, there can be no compromise by Catholics.

For example, Catholic and Protestant Americans can certainly work together to fight abortion, but they cannot work together to make a watered-down version of Christianity more palatable. There is no such thing as "Christianity by committee."

In fact, strictly speaking, there is no such thing as Christianity outside of Catholicism. There is only One True Faith, and that Faith is the Catholic Faith.

There is only one Church. There is no such thing as a Protestant "church." The Son of God established a Church — not thousands. Men established all those breakaways. But God, Who is One, established one.

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The Devil in Hollywood | The Vortex     (www.youtube.com)
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Actress speaks out against the demonic elements of entertainment.

The huge amounts of attention focused recently on the world elite and child sex trafficking and Epstein Island and sexual exploitation of young actors in the entertainment industry is serving to pull back the curtain on this evil.

A number of years ago, on our Premium program Mic'd Up, we tackled this horrible filth in an episode we called The Devil in Hollywood. It was and remains very popular.

This type of reporting is all part of our mission here at Church Militant.

When Church Militant was originally founded back in 2006, it was to help Catholics come to a greater love and appreciation of the Faith. That hasn't changed — at all.

Three years into that mission, we encountered massive evil and corruption in the hierarchy and quickly realized that evil — that lack of supernatural faith — was a detriment to people's embrace of the Faith, which itself results in evil advancing in the culture.

So we added to our already considerable theological arsenal news reporting and investigations like Mic'd Up to help people come to understand how the corruption of the hierarchy was impacting their own spirituality and contributing to an overall degradation of the culture.

We have thousands of hours and hundreds of episodes touching on practically every topic imaginable in the Faith, and our weekly show Mic'd Up is part of that impressive arsenal.

We highly encourage you to sign up. It's only $10 a month, and that gives you access to a vast storehouse not available anywhere else.

So in the spirit of our core mission, we are providing this episode for free to help you understand more concretely what the Church teaches.

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Pro-Life Debate: Prosecute Women Who Get Abortions?     (www.youtube.com)
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A pro-life debate.

David Gordon discusses the possibility with Kristen Day, executive director of Democrats for Life of America and oversees the Washington, D.C. office. She’s long been involved in politics and has even served as chief of staff for Congressman Jim Barcia. She’s admirably devoted herself to getting pro-life and pro-family legislation passed. She’s widely published, including in Washington Post, National Review, and LA Times.

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Is Man Truly Saved by Faith Alone? | The Vortex     (www.youtube.com)
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Protestants lie and mask the truth.

A major fallacy among those who call themselves "Christian" is the rather modern notion that once you're saved, you're always saved.

Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, it's not just not biblical; it's actually anti-biblical. Saint Paul says, among many things, "You have made a shipwreck of your faith," talking to Christians, Catholics actually, already baptized.

When Church Militant was originally founded back in 2006, it was to help Catholics come to a greater love and appreciation of the Faith. That hasn't changed at all.

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Shameless New Orleans Archbishop Exposed | The Vortex     (www.youtube.com)
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Predators deserve the millstone treatment.

The currently sitting archbishop of New Orleans, Gregory Aymond, is a monster who should be publicly removed with great fanfare and paraded through the streets of New Orleans.

This is said in the spirit of the words of the Son of God, who acclaimed, "It is impossible that scandals should not come. But woe to him through whom they come! It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck and he cast into the sea, than that he should scandalize one of these little ones" (Luke 17:1–2).

So egregious is it to harm a child that this is the only instance in the Gospels where Our Blessed Lord actually attaches a specific penalty to a specific sin. And yet, new developments reveal that Aymond has done just that, being "him through whom the scandals come."

He certainly isn't alone in the crowded field of lying, cheating, children-of-Satan bishops who have made their careers over the devastated psyches and even corpses of sexually abused, molested and raped children.

But then again, Aymond has had the misfortune — from his point of view — of having his sins revealed in various documents from the New Orleans archdiocese bankruptcy filings.

In that mountain of paper a series of letters and texts have been unearthed by reporters at The Guardian newspaper, which were compiled in a nearly 50-page memorandum from attorneys representing abuse victims.

It outlines the cases of a half-dozen priests whom Aymond's own sex abuse board found credibly accused and made recommendations to remove or sideline from ministry and have their names added to the diocesan list of credibly accused molesters.

Yet Aymond simply disregarded his own board's recommendations and never said a word about these clerics.

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Conservatives in a Hurry to Lose | The Vortex     (www.youtube.com)
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It's got to be Catholicism and nothing else!

Have you ever wondered why the Left is always able to advance its cause while so-called conservatism always struggles and generally loses? The reality is the Left always wins — it's just a matter of speed. And the Right always loses — it's just a matter of speed.

Sometimes it seems like the good guys are holding true, maybe even getting a little bit ahead, but that's almost always because the Left is just catching its breath between victories.

The reasons for this are straight-up simple. The Right has never gotten its act together when it comes to God, religion and morality. There are way too many variations on the theme, too many competing opinions.

And since morality is upstream from culture, and politics flows from culture; if you don't have unanimity on morality and God, good luck preserving a culture. On the other hand, the Left is unanimous in its antipathy toward God, religion and morality.

So, bottom line, they are united and conservatives are not. And most especially, the question of unity (or lack of it) all boils down to the supernatural. Conservatives, in order to try and sidestep the obvious disunity, simply ignore anything and everything specific about God.

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The Catholic Man and His Faith in the Church | The Vortex     (www.youtube.com)
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A fearless Catholic man submits to legitimate authority.

Michael gives a speech to Catholic men at Sweetest Heart of Mary Catholic Church in Detroit, urging them to submit to the Church when it's exercising its God-given authority.

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Catholic Charities' Years of Funding Illegal Immigration | The Vortex     (www.youtube.com)
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The more things change, the more they stay the same.

If you needed any proof that the money-racket machine the U.S. bishops are running is decidedly Marxist and they have no intentions of reforming, just look at what happened recently at Catholic Charities.

For the record, Catholic Charities is the bishop-run group that collects enormous sums of taxpayer money to destabilize the southern border of the United States by spiriting in illegal aliens by the millions, and then shipping them all over the country with your tax dollars.

In fact, the anti-American leftist organization is so corrupt in its anti-American activities that it's become the target of a congressional investigation by Republicans in the U.S. House — that's bad.

In a letter to Catholic Charities, the congressmen said,

We write to express our deep concerns with the growing role non-governmental organizations (NGOs) play in fueling the drastic increase in illegal aliens crossing the southern border. While Americans suffer the consequences of the unprecedented chaos at the border, NGOs continue to profit off of exploiting our immigration laws. ...

Next Congress, we will continue to investigate your organization's role in facilitating the border crisis, your potential violations of federal law, and your misuse of taxpayer funds. We are notifying you that Catholic Charities is required to preserve all information related to any expenditures submitted for reimbursement from the federal government related to migrants encountered at the southern border.

This was not the first letter they had sent to Catholic Charities.

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We Made a Strange and Toxic Society | The Vortex     (www.youtube.com)
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Americans must change it for the better.

As we continue to highlight the bishops' malfeasance toward those in their charge, even in the realm — perhaps especially in the realm — of politics, we should ask, why does it really matter?

Here's why: People live their day-to-day lives in a culture, a society, like fish live in water. It's impossible to swim through the water and not be impacted by it. If it's dirty or the temperature changes, the fish are impacted.

By analogy, we can say the same thing about humans swimming through the culture. And for the moment, we are confining the analogy to simply the natural world, not the supernatural role of grace and so on.

No human society is even close to perfect, but some are better than others in creating an environment where man's better angles can be encouraged — a love of arts, philosophy, friendships and so forth. The stuff of a culture, the cult.

There is an entire psychological reality that springs forth from a healthy culture. When the culture gets sick (think of the water getting polluted), that psychology starts to be invaded, weakened, and becomes susceptible to being taken over.

I don't want to make this a Democrat versus Republican thing, because it's really not. But at the end of the day, one of those two parties promulgates a psychologically sick society. The other doesn't push back, or at least not enough.

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Wicked Bishops Turned Catholics Toward Obama: Revisited | The Vortex     (www.youtube.com)
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Further evidence the US bishops were complicit.

For more than a dozen years, Church Militant has been talking about, and producing loads of material on, the relationship between the U.S. bishops and the forces of Marxism operative in multiple institutions throughout the nation.

Back in the day, it still had a feel of historical or academic curiosity to it. But with the collapse of the Church and culture reaching epidemic proportions, there is today a much greater urgency to understand all this.

One glaring example was the complete and total throwdown the Catholic establishment had when it came to making sure Obama became President. Their tactics worked: 54% of U.S. Catholics cast their vote for that Marxist, America-last, child-killing you-know-what.

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The Old Protestant Obsession With End-Times Myths | The Vortex     (www.youtube.com)
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The rapture is stupid and unbiblical.

With the civilization in its death throes, many people start scrambling around looking for what we guess you could call "the easy out."

As a point of reference, when the Roman Empire was breathing its last, and the barbarians were swarming over the walls and marauding down the streets, the citizenry thought it was the end of the world.

And remember, when all that was going on, most of the empire had already been either directly converted to Catholicism or at least understood it was the State religion (and had been at that point for over a century). So we aren't exactly talking about a bunch of pagans here worshiping false gods.

In fact, so horrified and end-of-the-world crazy were they that St. Augustine sat down and penned his tremendous work The City of God, still one of the giant classics of Western civilization and, dare we say, human history. In that opus, he drew the sharp distinction between the city of God and the city of man.

The faithful belong to the city of God and simply dwell temporarily in the city of man. We are citizens of the heavenly city, and what happens in the earthly city should not be considered paramount, his counsel went. Empires and civilizations come and go, but the city of God remains.

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Many Catholics Have Had Enough | The Vortex     (www.youtube.com)
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Pray for more moments like this.

Not to belabor the point about the noteworthy Catholic pushback against the Los Angeles Dodgers and their honoring of the blasphemous drag show nuns, but we need to still revel in all this for a moment or two.

Thousands of Catholics showed up at the prayer rally and procession to make our voices heard, as semi-official estimates put the number of Catholics at upwards of 5,000. What appears to have happened was that the Dodgers organization, which invited the group, disinvited them and then reinvited them, felt the heat and moved the honoring ceremony to almost one hour before the opening pitch.

As a result, the stadium was almost completely empty as the twisted sisters received their award — and some of the handful actually booed them. We heard from some of the speakers during Church Militant's livestream of the event, good Catholic men like Jesse Romero and John Yep (chief organizers), Jack Posobiec, and, of course, Bp. Strickland.

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Is It Only Wicked Men With No Willpower? | The Vortex     (www.youtube.com)
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Western culture is on the verge of collapse.

There is a gigantic clash of foundational philosophies going on in America right now, and the one that wins will dictate the course of history and the fate of the nation.

Everything that is being shoved in front of us daily in media and entertainment and sports and commerce is from the side promoting atheism — what we lovingly term "the Left" or "Marxists" but is really properly termed "the demonic." They do have the microphone, no doubt.

But there are quiet but nonetheless equally (if not more) determined efforts playing out to battle them in what has turned into really a kind of last stand — the legal system.

Brian Festa is a Catholic attorney who co-founded the organization We The Patriots precisely to battle against the forces of godlessness in the culture.

One victim of the New World Order establishment We The Patriots was able to help (among many) was Teryn Gregson, who was fired by the PGA as a sports reporter for refusing to go along with the mandates.

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It's all collapsing and it's because men have not done what they need to do; they have surrendered their God-given roles.

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