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The Vortex — Programming Your Kids (www.youtube.com)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vY9BIRSml4

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David Knight interviews the Vortex.

David Knight interviews Michael Voris Oct. 4 about the evil of government indoctrination centers, also known as public schools.

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

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The Vortex — Establishment Church and State (www.youtube.com)

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The man who fought both.

In today's Vortex, Michael Voris talks with former Georgia District 7 congressional candidate Y.G. Nyghtstorm about his experiences as a victim of clerical sex abuse and as a blacklisted pro-lifer shunned by faux conservatives in the Republican Party.

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

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

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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

The Vortex — Lock It Down (www.youtube.com)

submitted by carnold03 to RomanCatholicism 2.6 years ago (+1/-0)

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Preserve the republic.

Before we begin, happy Feast of St. Michael and the Angels. Rest assured, the staff here at St. Michael's Media will be having a celebratory cake. I can assure you they will descend on our communal food table like a biblical swarm of locusts.

No matter how you slice it and dice it, election integrity remains firmly planted in the minds of huge numbers of voters. A majority still believe that cheating was involved in 2020, a narrative the Marxists, Democrats and their media allies have tried desperately to crush — without success.

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

The Vortex — St. Michael at the Movies (www.youtube.com)

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Grab your popcorn. Let's go.

Tomorrow is the Feast of St. Michael and the Archangels. Bam!

As is pretty obvious, St. Michael's Media — known online as Church Militant — is named after the most powerful angel in the celestial realm.

A little background — back in the early, early days of the apostolate, a splendid, dedicated priest was visiting me in the old studio and asked me why I chose St. Michael. I said, "Because he defeated Lucifer outside of time and Our Lady defeated him in time."

His response was something I have always remembered. He said, "That's correct. Mary and Michael are his most despised enemies, and if you raise their two standards inside this camp, you will take incoming rounds like you can't imagine. But you will have the Mother of God and the Prince of the Heavenly Hosts with you, and he [the Devil] will lose again."

Primary Video source and transcript continues here: https://www.churchmilitant.com/video/episode/vortex-st-michael-at-the-movies

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

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

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5dJ8vh669U

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

The Vortex — A Total Train Wreck (youtu.be)

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Almost nearly destroyed.

Imagine, if you will, a long train of many cars or boxes that jumps the tracks — your classic train wreck.

An important point to keep in mind, as we think about the train wreck the Church has become, is that the entire train does not jump the tracks at the same moment. On a long train, in fact, it is entirely possible that the passengers near the rear may be unaware that the engine has derailed. It takes time for each of the cars to jump off the rails — a kind of domino effect.

Likewise, there is a certain inertial moment when so many of the engines or cars near the front have jumped the rails that the wreck will happen with increasing velocity for the cars farther back.

Welcome to the Catholic Church train wreck of the third millennium. That is where we are right now. Almost every single car is now off the tracks, and those that have managed to hold on are jumping off at a faster rate. In short order, there will be nothing left.

Of course, in this analogy, the entire train is destroyed and will never see the light of day again. We know that cannot happen in the Church because there is the divine protection aspect.

But that doesn't mean the train wreck isn't real. It means that the Church will be — not can be — will be resurrected and restored, and that it will be done because of Our Lord's promise. He can do a direct intervention, a spectacular miracle — or, as He has done much more frequently in the past, employ human agents to carry out His will.

His will that the Church lasts forever is never in question, off the rails or not — which it is, or very nearly is.

All that said, consider the reality — meaning the scope and level of disaster — of the carnage that is the Church these days. Just last week, the diocese of Madison, Wisconsin announced a plan to slash parishes from the current 102 all the way down to just 32. Closing 70 of 102 parishes, or nearly 70%, is a train wreck.

Primary Video source and transcript continues here: https://www.churchmilitant.com/video/episode/vortex-a-total-train-wreck

The Vortex — Suffering and Conversion (www.youtube.com)

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Cooperating with God's grace.

In today's Vortex, Katherine Bennett interviews Michael Voris. Bennett, who hosts the Catholic podcast Choose Agape, has a bachelor's degree in theology and a master's in philosophy. She has taught religious education in London for more than 20 years.

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

Behold the Lamb of God (RomanCatholicism)

submitted by AugustineOfHippo2 to RomanCatholicism 2.6 years ago (+2/-1)

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Exodus 12:
they shall take every man a lamb according to their fathers’ houses, a lamb for a household ... Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old ... [the people] shall kill their lambs in the evening. Then they shall take some of the blood, and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat them. They shall eat the flesh that night, roasted; with unleavened bread and bitter herbs they shall eat it. ... For I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will smite all the first-born in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the Lord. 13 The blood shall be a sign for you, upon the houses where you are; and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague shall fall upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt

John 1:
The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! This is he of whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who ranks before me, for he was before me.’ I myself did not know him; but for this I came baptizing with water, that he might be revealed.” And John bore witness, “I saw the Spirit descend as a dove from heaven, and it remained on him. I myself did not know him; but he who sent me to baptize with water said to me, ‘He on whom you see the Spirit descend and remain, this is he who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’ And I have seen and have borne witness that this is the Son of God.”

Luke 22:
He took bread, and when he had given thanks he broke it and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” And likewise the cup after supper, saying, “This cup which is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood.

John 6:
Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand. Lifting up his eyes, then, and seeing that a multitude was coming to him, Jesus said to Philip, “How are we to buy bread, so that these people may eat?” ... “There is a lad here who has five barley loaves and two fish; but what are they among so many?” ... Jesus then took the loaves, and when he had given thanks, he distributed them to those who were seated; so also the fish, as much as they wanted. ... they gathered them up and filled twelve baskets with fragments from the five barley loaves, left by those who had eaten.

Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to eternal life, which the Son of man will give to you ... Truly, truly, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven; my Father gives you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is that which comes down from heaven, and gives life to the world.

Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; he who comes to me shall not hunger, and he who believes in me shall never thirst.

I am the bread of life. Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. [I am] the bread which comes down from heaven, that a man may eat of it and not die. I am the living bread which came down from heaven; if any one eats of this bread, he will live for ever; and the bread which I shall give for the life of the world is my flesh.”

“How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you; he who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him.

The Vortex — Fired for Quoting a Saint (youtu.be)

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

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https://youtu.be/Kpf9xA305aA

Don't send your kid to a Catholic school.

Catholic schools versus public schools — which is better? Sadly, the answer is not a slam dunk for Catholic schools. In fact, in many ways, Catholic schools are actually worse. Not only are students being deprived of truth, but faithful teachers are being dumped.

In the archdiocese of Detroit, a prime example is De La Salle high school — totally faithless but typical. This is in an archdiocese where the archbishop, Allen Vigneron, never stops yammering on about how the Holy Spirit is transforming the archdiocese. Apparently, The Holy Spirit hasn't managed to find time to get around to the schools yet.

Former theology department chairman and religion teacher Kyle Kopy was canned from the phony Catholic school because he would not bow to the woke agenda and insisted on teaching the Catholic faith at a Catholic school.

Kopy explains, "They said I was being insensitive, and I asked them, 'What if I were to teach on homosexuality or transgenderism, and I were to present the Catholic teaching on that? Are you going to back me up on that?' And they could not give me a straight answer."

Primary Video source and transcript continues here: https://www.churchmilitant.com/video/episode/vortex-fired-for-quoting-a-saint

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

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

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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 — Obama's World (www.youtube.com)

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It needs to be overthrown – first, in the Church.

The world, the culture we are living in today, is essentially the making of Barack Obama. Aside from the obvious points that Biden was his vice president and Hillary was his pick to succeed him, there is much more at work in all of this.

But perhaps the most disturbing thing for Catholics about Obama's world is the high degree to which leading Catholics assisted him and still support his vision. The simple truth is that Obama won the 2008 Catholic vote with a whopping 54%. He didn't manage that on his own — far from it. This is one reason why it's so important for faithful Catholics to understand their role and the necessity for them to be involved at all levels.

Obama's progressivism was ushered in by phony Catholics who are essentially Marxists. They populated Catholic universities, political offices, think tanks and other influential positions, all while draping themselves in religious-sounding language and pushing the need for "taking care of the poor."

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

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The Vortex — GOP/GOD (youtu.be)

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Defeat — and then convert.

America is becoming less religious — no news there. It's the continuation of a decades-long decline, but it is now accelerating. But what few have recognized, at least in any formal sense, is that this trend is also present within politically conservative circles. This is a sea change from days gone by when Christians had a dominant influence.

Back in the days of Ronald Reagan, it was the Moral Majority of Jerry Falwell, a largely Protestant presence that drove the agenda on the political right. That was the reality for roughly 20 years, until the era of George Bush in 2000–2008. By the time Bush was done and Obama arrived, what was once a dominant force was already greatly diminished in GOP circles. In short, the conservative political project had lost its specifically Christian character.

It didn't seem that way during the campaign of Donald Trump in 2016, but it was already in full swing — just undetected because of the strong support of Christians for Trump. *What we are seeing unfold now is a social conservatism as opposed to a religious one.* Trump certainly did not cause this, but probably without consciously realizing it, he tapped right into the "religion indifferent" crowd now becoming dominant in conservative circles.

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

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The Vortex — Not Gonna Like This (youtu.be)

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Too bad.

Well, here's a little information that the Vatican is not going to like, not to mention the U.S. bishops.

When Pope St. John XXIII became pope, the very first encyclical he issued was called Ad Petri Cathedram, in 1959. It was written and published barely eight months after he became pope and addresses truth, unity and peace in the spirit of charity. The document consists of 150 paragraphs, and so it becomes an interesting point that one of the very first things the pope approaches as a major topic is the media.

For example, from paragraph 16 (again, near the very top of the encyclical): "Radio broadcasts, motion pictures and television shows which make error and vice attractive must be opposed by shows which defend truth and strive to preserve the integrity and safety of morals." From paragraph 15: "The weapons of truth, then, must be used in defense against these weapons of evil."

Primary Video source and transcript continues here: https://www.churchmilitant.com/video/episode/vortex-not-gonna-like-this

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The Vortex — Abortion and the Midterms (youtu.be)

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How will this all play out?

We are now down to 54 days until the midterm election. Over Labor Day weekend, the polling outfit YouGov conducted a pretty extensive poll of 1,500 Americans, inquiring about social concerns and voting plans. By any measure, it's pretty awful for Biden and Democrats.

For example, majorities or near majorities say the economy sucks, the economy is shrinking in addition to being in a current recession, prices are through the roof, prices will continue to increase, and Joe Biden is a weak leader and should not seek re-election. All in all, not exactly a rosy picture for the commies.

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

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The Vortex — Gimme a Break (youtu.be)

submitted by carnold03 to RomanCatholicism 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 — Totally Inverted (youtu.be)

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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 — 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 — 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

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 — In My Opinion (youtu.be)

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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.

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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.

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The Vortex — The Arrogant Left (youtu.be)

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Pride is their downfall.

If you haven't heard yet, Church Militant has now become the no. 1 Catholic target of the Marxists. The constant stream of charges that we are "haters" has actually morphed into how "dangerous" all this blending of religion and politics is, with Church Militant apparently leading the charge.

The liberal establishment, with its pomposity and superiority complex, has just deigned to decide the course of world events and map out its own plans for humanity. If you don't agree, then you're not college educated. If you object, then you're a hater — or, more recently, a domestic terrorist, Christian nationalist or, according to Biden, a semi-fascist.

Think of the arrogance of organizations compiling and publishing a list of so-called "hate groups," then having the allied media publish it for you and repeat it as though it is somehow authoritative. What complete and total arrogance. These organizations make false claims, issue press releases, call up their like-minded buddies in the media, and then the fake-news Marxist media quote them as though these organizations — like the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Simon Wiesenthal Center — are the determiners of all things acceptable.

To show you how lazy the Marxist fake-news outlets are, there was a period a few years back when practically every hit piece done on us included quotes from Mark Weitzman, then the director of government affairs for the Simon Wiesenthal Center. In the original hit piece by The New York Times years ago, the piece that got this whole ball rolling, Weitzman was actually quoted more than me, even though the article was about us and The New York Times interviewed me via Skype for nearly 90 minutes.

Marxist reporters just copy each other's information and themes, call the same people mentioned in the previous report because they're too intellectually lazy to do their own work, and then throw together the same storyline.

This whole hate-group idiocy was devised by the extremist leftist crowd to end all debate. It's just political correctness, which is another idiotic notion they dreamed up on college campuses more than 30 years ago. What a joy it would be to go back to the days of just political correctness. Now, the moment you are tarnished with the label "hater," "domestic terrorist" or "Christian nationalist," you are no longer allowed to speak because you are a threat to our democracy.

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

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.

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The Vortex — Pure and Simple (youtu.be)

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God is pure and simple.

One of the glories of the Catholic faith is its pure simplicity and its simple purity. And this is all that is required of us: purity of heart and a single-minded desire for Heaven. Purity and simplicity share in common with each other the notion of clarity. Everything we need to know in the Catholic Church is very clear.

Purity and simplicity are bound together with clarity. For example, the teaching on the Blessed Sacrament, the Real Presence, is just that. Jesus Christ is really, truly and substantially present — body, blood, soul and divinity — under the appearance of bread and wine.

Simple does not mean not deep. But it does mean clear. You can't get much more straightforward than that. And don't make the mistake of thinking that just because something is cloaked in mystery, it isn't clear. The "how" or "why" or even the "what" of something doesn't detract from its simplicity or purity.

The Host, which looks and tastes like bread, is Jesus Christ, pure and simple. So too is the Church's teaching that if a person is to be saved, then he must not die in a state of mortal sin. He must die in a state of grace, meaning, sanctifying grace, having the Holy Trinity living and abiding in him.

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