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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.

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.

So we added to our already considerable theological arsenal news reporting and investigations to help people come to understand how the corruption of the hierarchy was impacting their own spiritual lives.

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Today's Vortex features an episode of the One True Faith discussing hypocrites and traitors that appear faithful but aren't. Michael calls on Catholics to demand accountability from treasonous teachers while challenging their erroneous actions and teachings.

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When it comes to the climate, it's proven to be a very useful tool for the promotion of the communist agenda, perhaps even more so than the illegal immigration issue has been. The reason why is that immigration is essentially a U.S.-only issue, while climate alarmism has been ginned up to be a worldwide issue.

It is two separate lines of attack ultimately aimed at destabilizing the republic, of course, but the climate cause has diverted trillions of U.S. tax dollars into the pockets of globalists and their agenda, with no end in sight. These people are enemies of the republic, both foreign and domestic.

And in their push to end America, they have employed a dizzying array of weapons, with one of the major ones being the two-sided coin of propaganda and censorship. The censorship of scientists who challenge the communist narrative is pretty well attested to — even so far as attacking and canceling a Nobel prize winner, Dr. John Clauser, who was a featured presenter at this week's Deposit of Faith Coalition press conference in Baltimore.

Of course, the Marxist media could not resist taking a pot shot at Clauser. In this, it was the Washington Post who attended the press conference and went on to publish this headline: "He won a Nobel Prize. Then he started denying climate change."

The threat to the republic was spelled out in pretty clear terms by award-winning international journalist Alex Newman of Liberty Sentinel, who has been following this topic up close and personal for many years. Of course, whenever there is a some kind of Marxist, communist, globalist push going on, you can count on key people in the hierarchy to be cheerleading the effort, all in the name of social justice and "loving your neighbor," of course.

That aspect or dynamic of all this has not escaped the careful watch of Mark Morano, who has done a terrific job of cataloging it for many years.

Before continuing, we'd like to thank the many many supporters who donated to make all of this come together. You are the people ultimately responsible for the success of such efforts because without your backing, they just don't happen. We can sit here in the studio day after day with all kinds of ideas and plans and schemes, but if you don't agree with them and back them and give them the necessary juice, they go nowhere.

So for everyone in the Deposit of Faith Coalition, of which Church Militant is, of course, a member, our deep gratitude. The average Joe still doesn't get the war that is going on, a war the Queen of Heaven came to earth to warn us of. In 2,000 years, she has never come to earth to warn about a specific form of government, until 1917 in Fatima, a mere couple of weeks before the Russian Revolution.

Talk about "let him who has ears, hear"!

Climate change, illegal immigration, wiping out the family, undermining the republic, wrecking the economy and a host of things are all different facets of the same ugly jewel. Like all wars, this one has many different battles and battlefields, and they are all part of the one single large effort.

They've been at this for over a century, and we are very far behind, perhaps too far behind. That remains to be seen, but in the meantime, that doesn't make the war, or all of these many individual battles, any less worth fighting. It actually makes them more worth it.

Today's Vortex features highlights from a talk given by the founder of Climate Depot, Marc Morano, at the Deposit of Faith Coalition's press conference in Baltimore, Maryland, on Nov. 14. Morano parses out the confusion and corruption regarding the climate issue both in and outside the Church.

Today's Vortex features 2022 Nobel laureate John Clauser at the Deposit of Faith Coalition press conference in Baltimore, Maryland, held on Tuesday, Dec. 14. He discusses the significant methodological errors in climate change data collected by the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and more.

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While a lot of attention has been focused on Pope Francis and his pro-globalist climate alarmism, it might be good to step back and look at the Vatican's history in this area.

Back in 2007, under Pope Benedict, not Pope Francis, the Vatican signed a deal to offset its carbon emissions output by planting a forest in Hungary. They went worldwide because the Vatican, which besides being the physical center of the Church, is also the world's smallest country and was signing up to be the world's first so-called carbon-neutral nation.

Much ballyhoo surrounded the photo op when the developer of the company to plant the forest presented the certificate of award to curial Cdl. Paul Poupard on July 5, 2007. The Vatican was about to make history and was advancing the nonsense of climate alarmism.

A couple of years later, when Benedict was still pope, the entire roof of the Vatican's Paul VI auditorium was covered in solar panels to offset carbon emissions for the world's tiniest country. The panels were donated by a German company, SolarWorld — which was fitting because Benedict was German — who said the offset would save 70 tons of carbon emissions.

The press release did not contain any information about how much carbon was pumped into the atmosphere in the harvesting of the raw materials to make the panels, nor the actual manufacturing of them, nor the transportation of them to Rome.  And in ten years, when the panels have reached the end of their useful lives and have to be torn off and thrown away, no word on which landfill the 2,800 panels would find their way to. Such much for caring for the environment.

All that mattered was that the Vatican had been willingly enlisted as a publicity partner with its solar energy commitment and its brand new shiny carbon-offsetting forest, which, by the way, turns out was never planted because the company that said it would; it just never did. Nice photo op but no trees.

The scientific tribalism surrounding the climate narrative has turned out to be a pretty big business, especially when you toss in billions and billions of dollars in government subsidies. But even with those tens of billions of dollars of your money to boost them up, corporations across the country and the world are throwing in the towel on the facade of a so-called green economy because it's losing massive amounts of money for them.

The market for electric vehicles has collapsed, as Mercedes-Benz, General Motors and Honda have now discovered. Dealers can't sell them because consumers don't want them. Ford had so many 2023 EVs sitting around because dealers refused shipment that they have simply rebranded the supply as 2024 models and will try to offload them on consumers that way.

Over in the windmill sector of the green economy, it's the same story, as company after company sees its profits crater, stocks fall and bank accounts drain. One Danish company has lost nearly $6 billion and multiple planned windmill farms are being canceled left and right.

And when it comes to the solar panel industry, remember the German company that installed them on the roof of the Vatican auditorium? It went belly up in 2017 because of what it said was "ongoing price distortions" that prevented a "positive forecast for the future."

Of course, warning signs were everywhere before the collapse. The year after the panels went into the Vatican "America last" mastermind Barack Obama had his administration direct a half billion dollars of your money to a solar panel company called Solyndra. Just two years later, in 2011, it went belly up. So much for your money and Obama's little pet project.

Obama's Solyndra scandal, as it came to be called, was only the first in a string of such bankruptcies, which became so bad for irresponsibly directing tens of billions of dollars into an ideologically driven industry that even CNN got in on the action, blasting Obama.

And so it goes all over the Green New Deal world of the socialists in D.C. who have diverted hundreds and hundreds of billions and billions in U.S. tax money into an industry that is collapsing, an industry not propped up because of science but ideology.

As reality begins to set in, the chairman of Toyota began to politely rub it in the faces of automotive competitors a short while ago. This was when he said publicly about their massive losses that "people are finally seeing reality," which is Japanese for "I told you so." The green economy is phony because the science behind it is phony.

The communists in D.C. and other countries around the world should probably understand how capitalism actually works before stealing tens of billions in tax money to blow it up.

And just for curiosity, in ten years, just what company is the Vatican going to call to remove those useless solar panels, and what are they going to replace them with? Still, though, reality does not seem to have set in with Pope Francis and the U.S. bishops, as they all continue cheerleading the ridiculousness that is climate alarmism. Governments feed the nuttiness with your taxes and clerics feed the nuttiness with your collection plate donations.

We suppose that as long as you live on and spend other people's money, you can duck reality as long as you want. All of this needs to be exposed and to do that, Church Militant is once again happy to organize our Deposit of Faith Coalition members in sponsoring another press conference for politically conservative media so they can understand the connection here.

Presenting to the media on Tuesday, Nov. 14, which will be at the Four Seasons Hotel in Baltimore during the bishops' annual meeting, will be a number of the most highly respected experts ever assembled. John Clauser, the 2022 Nobel Prize winner in physics, will debunk the phony science behind all this.

Marc Morano, producer, writer and former investigative reporter for Rush Limbaugh, who'll blow the lid off the plot to collapse America's energy, transportation and food supply.

And Alex Newman, an award-winning international journalist who has covered this topic and the misinformation from the Left about it for years. Think Greta Thunberg and the media canonization of her.

The press conference will be available for everyone at home to watch live beginning at 1 p.m. ET on Nov. 14. Please tell everyone you know. Spread the word. As the bishops meet and plot in the Marriott, directly across the street at the exact same time, we will be broadcasting their lies with a Nobel Prize winner and respected journalist experts in all this.

So we'd like to appeal to you to help pay for all of this. It costs a lot of money to plan and execute an event like this, but it's worth it. The last press conference we sponsored in July in D.C. about illegal immigration garnered more than 25 million media impressions, as outlet after outlet kept publishing info. 

The goal of course is to create such an overwhelming amount of information to encourage various members of Congress to cut off the bishops funding for all of this. Well, here we go again. Cut off all funding for them, all of it. Every last dime. Whatever policy of the communists they are pushing, immigration or climate.

So please click on the donate button just below us here and be the heroes, the impetus in launching another broadside against this corruption. Fight back!

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While a lot of attention has been focused on Pope Francis and his pro-globalist climate alarmism, it might be good to step back and look at the Vatican's history in this area.

Back in 2007, under Pope Benedict, not Pope Francis, the Vatican signed a deal to offset its carbon emissions output by planting a forest in Hungary. They went worldwide because the Vatican, which besides being the physical center of the Church, is also the world's smallest country and was signing up to be the world's first so-called carbon-neutral nation.

Much ballyhoo surrounded the photo op when the developer of the company to plant the forest presented the certificate of award to curial Cdl. Paul Poupard on July 5, 2007. The Vatican was about to make history and was advancing the nonsense of climate alarmism.

A couple of years later, when Benedict was still pope, the entire roof of the Vatican's Paul VI auditorium was covered in solar panels to offset carbon emissions for the world's tiniest country. The panels were donated by a German company, SolarWorld — which was fitting because Benedict was German — who said the offset would save 70 tons of carbon emissions.

The press release did not contain any information about how much carbon was pumped into the atmosphere in the harvesting of the raw materials to make the panels, nor the actual manufacturing of them, nor the transportation of them to Rome.  And in ten years, when the panels have reached the end of their useful lives and have to be torn off and thrown away, no word on which landfill the 2,800 panels would find their way to. Such much for caring for the environment.

All that mattered was that the Vatican had been willingly enlisted as a publicity partner with its solar energy commitment and its brand new shiny carbon-offsetting forest, which, by the way, turns out was never planted because the company that said it would; it just never did. Nice photo op but no trees.

The scientific tribalism surrounding the climate narrative has turned out to be a pretty big business, especially when you toss in billions and billions of dollars in government subsidies. But even with those tens of billions of dollars of your money to boost them up, corporations across the country and the world are throwing in the towel on the facade of a so-called green economy because it's losing massive amounts of money for them.

The market for electric vehicles has collapsed, as Mercedes-Benz, General Motors and Honda have now discovered. Dealers can't sell them because consumers don't want them. Ford had so many 2023 EVs sitting around because dealers refused shipment that they have simply rebranded the supply as 2024 models and will try to offload them on consumers that way.

Over in the windmill sector of the green economy, it's the same story, as company after company sees its profits crater, stocks fall and bank accounts drain. One Danish company has lost nearly $6 billion and multiple planned windmill farms are being canceled left and right.

And when it comes to the solar panel industry, remember the German company that installed them on the roof of the Vatican auditorium? It went belly up in 2017 because of what it said was "ongoing price distortions" that prevented a "positive forecast for the future."

Of course, warning signs were everywhere before the collapse. The year after the panels went into the Vatican "America last" mastermind Barack Obama had his administration direct a half billion dollars of your money to a solar panel company called Solyndra. Just two years later, in 2011, it went belly up. So much for your money and Obama's little pet project.

Obama's Solyndra scandal, as it came to be called, was only the first in a string of such bankruptcies, which became so bad for irresponsibly directing tens of billions of dollars into an ideologically driven industry that even CNN got in on the action, blasting Obama.

And so it goes all over the Green New Deal world of the socialists in D.C. who have diverted hundreds and hundreds of billions and billions in U.S. tax money into an industry that is collapsing, an industry not propped up because of science but ideology.

As reality begins to set in, the chairman of Toyota began to politely rub it in the faces of automotive competitors a short while ago. This was when he said publicly about their massive losses that "people are finally seeing reality," which is Japanese for "I told you so." The green economy is phony because the science behind it is phony.

The communists in D.C. and other countries around the world should probably understand how capitalism actually works before stealing tens of billions in tax money to blow it up.

And just for curiosity, in ten years, just what company is the Vatican going to call to remove those useless solar panels, and what are they going to replace them with? Still, though, reality does not seem to have set in with Pope Francis and the U.S. bishops, as they all continue cheerleading the ridiculousness that is climate alarmism. Governments feed the nuttiness with your taxes and clerics feed the nuttiness with your collection plate donations.

We suppose that as long as you live on and spend other people's money, you can duck reality as long as you want. All of this needs to be exposed and to do that, Church Militant is once again happy to organize our Deposit of Faith Coalition members in sponsoring another press conference for politically conservative media so they can understand the connection here.

Presenting to the media on Tuesday, Nov. 14, which will be at the Four Seasons Hotel in Baltimore during the bishops' annual meeting, will be a number of the most highly respected experts ever assembled. John Clauser, the 2022 Nobel Prize winner in physics, will debunk the phony science behind all this.

Marc Morano, producer, writer and former investigative reporter for Rush Limbaugh, who'll blow the lid off the plot to collapse America's energy, transportation and food supply.

And Alex Newman, an award-winning international journalist who has covered this topic and the misinformation from the Left about it for years. Think Greta Thunberg and the media canonization of her.

The press conference will be available for everyone at home to watch live beginning at 1 p.m. ET on Nov. 14. Please tell everyone you know. Spread the word. As the bishops meet and plot in the Marriott, directly across the street at the exact same time, we will be broadcasting their lies with a Nobel Prize winner and respected journalist experts in all this.

So we'd like to appeal to you to help pay for all of this. It costs a lot of money to plan and execute an event like this, but it's worth it. The last press conference we sponsored in July in D.C. about illegal immigration garnered more than 25 million media impressions, as outlet after outlet kept publishing info. 

The goal of course is to create such an overwhelming amount of information to encourage various members of Congress to cut off the bishops funding for all of this. Well, here we go again. Cut off all funding for them, all of it. Every last dime. Whatever policy of the communists they are pushing, immigration or climate.

So please click on the donate button just below us here and be the heroes, the impetus in launching another broadside against this corruption. Fight back!

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If you haven't seen this yet or heard about it, take a look.

Those are two climate freaks who just marched into the London National Gallery and took hammers to a 400-year-old famous painting "Rokeby Venus," valued at $90 million. The climate change lunatics are from the group Just Stop Oil and, on the same day, doused Birmingham University library in orange paint and went to London's West End and charged the stage, interrupting a performance of Les Mis. 

While physical violence and destruction may not be the first go to for commies, it is never far from consideration. It's just how they roll.

By the way, they were finally arrested and charged — we'll see how that goes though. The point — the Left will destroy anything in its supposed claim to want to save everything. 

One of the giant claims of the ecoterrorist crowd is that "the downtrodden" take the brunt of it when it comes to greedy Christian Westerners using oil and coal to destroy the environment via climate change. They're always so concerned about the poor and so forth, just like the U.S. bishops frequently reference the "preferential option for the poor."

How many climate victims does Cdl. Robert McElroy of San Diego allow to camp out in his house, giving them a preferential option? Why don't we open up the Vatican and give a preferential option to the homeless sleeping out on the stone ground in the colonnade each night?

The level of hypocrisy is off the charts. You can't, on the one hand, stand in front of microphones and issue statements all over the place that you "prefer the poor" and then just step over them on your way in to luxury digs. Yet this is par for the course.

For example, this coming week in Baltimore, nearly every U.S. bishop, more than 300, will fly in from around the country, hang out in the swanky Marriott by the Waterfront in the Inner Harbor, have nice meals in the hotel at breakfast and lunch, and then a fleet of luxury SUVs will pull up at the main entrance and drive them all over town in group of 26 where they will eat very expensive steaks and enjoy a splendid Bordeaux. A few desserts will likely be gobbled down as well.

This happens twice a year, every year, at the expense of the Church (meaning you), as they continue to close parishes and schools, bellyaching there isn't enough money. What they actually mean is there isn't enough money left over after they get done using a million dollars, twice a year at their semi-annual boondoggle, where relatively little happens related to the Faith (unless it's another giant vote to water it down or pretend the Deposit of Faith is optional).

One of the things that the USCCB does is produce baptismal documents for the Left's agenda — climate change, illegal immigration, canceling the Second Amendment, you name it.

To help expose these errors, Church Militant is once again happy to organize our Deposit of Faith Coalition members in sponsoring another press conference for politically conservative media so they can understand the connection here.

Presenting to the media on Tuesday, Nov. 14, which will be at the Four Seasons Hotel in Baltimore during the bishops' annual meeting, will be a number of the most highly respected experts ever assembled, including:

The press conference will be available for everyone at home to watch live, beginning at 1 p.m. ET on Nov. 14. Please tell everyone you know. Spread the word.

Church Militant is leading the charge, hands down, with our Deposit of Faith Coalition, in trying to roll back at least the funding the bishops get in all of this unethical activity, be it immigration or, in this case, environmental alarmism based on phony science.

As you know, we were in D.C. last week, on the Hill, interviewing congressmen who have had it with the "America last" agenda supported by liberal U.S. bishops, and now, once again, we are taking the fight right to the bishops' doorstep.

As the bishops meet in the Marriott, directly across the street, at the exact same time, we will be broadcasting with a Nobel prizewinner and respected journalist-experts in all this.

So we'd like to appeal to you to help pay for all of this. It's extremely costly to travel the crew, the equipment, set it all up, rent the facilities, bring in the speakers as well as the three weeks of background research and man hours we have already put into this — and the hard work hasn't even begun yet.

The last press conference we sponsored in July in D.C. garnered more than 25 million media impressions as outlet after outlet kept publishing info from the press event — even Steve Bannon and InfoWars picked it all up, like Stew Peters picked up our work last week on Capitol Hill.

Staffers in Congress told us that was extremely helpful for them in pitching their legislation to simply cut off funding for the bishops and Religious Left groups. Well, here we go again. Cut off all funding for them — all of it. Every last dime. Whatever policy of the communists they are pushing, immigration or climate.

So please click on the donate button just below us here and be the heroes, the impetus in launching another broadside against this corruption. Fight back!

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Well, well, well — what do you know? In a rather ironic twist to climate alarmism, new scientific findings are showing the more we clean up air pollution, the more global warming increases.

Talk about "can't win for losing." Quoting, from of all places, The New York Times last Friday, "This week, a team of scientists made public, data indicating that the planet is heating up even faster than expected. Among the factors cited by the researchers, who published their findings in the journal Nature Climate Change: lower levels of air pollution." Continuing with the Times story, "Reducing air pollution in the coming years would remove the cooling influence by a larger amount — good for lungs, bad for global warming."

Well, ain't that a kick in the pants.

Of course, the Times, like all the major media, is all in on the Marxist messaging that man causes the changes in the climate, so this story is getting played as a kind of one-off, bad, unintended consequence exception to an overall good story.

The Times would never consider the alternative (not to mention true) story that man doesn't cause the temps to rise (or fall, for that matter). Rather, nature does that all on its own, as it always has. History's lengthy record shows all sorts of massive changes in climate, which were inadvertently noted down in relation to other stuff.

For example, there were fruits grown in northern Europe that today we consider more tropical or warmer climate fruits — yet, there it is, in the ledgers of monasteries who were selling the fruit as a commercial venture to stay open. There is, of course, the great retreat of the Ice Age. How did that happen? Certainly not from fossil fuel plants 10,000 years ago, unless the cavemen were really much smarter than we give them credit for.

No, what's at work here is a giant spin-machine narrative based on a little factual data about the earth's temperature. Yes, the temps have increased, and even decreased. That's a fact. The lie part comes in when they say that man is causing that to happen with his oil and gas and coal industries. That part is not true.

In fact, as we hear in the New York Times story, the exact opposite is going on. The more air pollution, the more global warming is dialed back, because the particulates clog the air, so to speak, and shield the earth to a degree from harmful solar radiation, keeping the temperatures down.

So which is it, commies? Is the fossil fuel industry good because it reduces the temps or bad because it causes pollution? It's more like a "pick your poison" scenario, isn't it? The truth is always so compelling on its own that even The New York Times can't resist printing it every now and then (that is, mostly "then").

But humor aside, the corruption of the scientific narrative around the weather is noteworthy because of what it's used for, which is to advance the story line that fossil fuels are bad; that coal, oil, even natural gas and their continued use threatens man's very existence on the planet.

That's called an "existential threat" — meaning a threat to your very existence. And phony Catholic Joe Biden never grows tired of the expression. To him and his comrades, everything is an existential threat this or an existential threat that. Fear is what these commie bastards traffic in, and not just reasonable fear but always end-of-the-world fear, which allows them to sell the phony baloney line that everything must change now.

Of course, if there actually is a real threat and it is life-extinguishing, then that response is not altogether unwarranted. But none of this is true — none of it. It's completely made up so they can run around, scream about the end of the world and throw papers everywhere. If they really believe all that, then why aren't they row-boating their way across the oceans instead of jetting around on private planes that produce many times more carbon per person than the average commercial passenger?

And that includes the U.S. bishops, who will be in Baltimore next week and who campaign against climate change alongside the Marxist Left but completely ignore that many flew in on their fossil-fuel guzzling airlines and ride in giant SUVs to go to $100 a steak dinners.

To help expose these errors, Church Militant is once again happy to organize our Deposit of Faith Coalition members in sponsoring another press conference for politically conservative media so they can understand the connection here.

Presenting to the media on Tuesday, Nov. 14, which will be at the Four Seasons Hotel in Baltimore during the bishops' annual meeting, will be a number of the most highly respected experts ever assembled, including:

The press conference will be available for everyone at home to watch live, beginning at 1 p.m. ET on Nov. 14. Please tell everyone you know. Spread the word.

Church Militant is leading the charge, hands down, with our Deposit of Faith Coalition, in trying to roll back at least the funding the bishops get in all of this unethical activity, be it immigration or, in this case, environmental alarmism based on phony science.

As you know, we were in D.C. last week, on the Hill, interviewing congressmen who have had it with the "America last" agenda supported by liberal U.S. bishops, and now, once again, we are taking the fight right to the bishops' doorstep.

As the bishops meet in the Marriott, directly across the street, at the exact same time, we will be broadcasting with a Nobel Prize winner and respected journalist-experts in all this.

So we'd like to appeal to you to help pay for all of this. It's extremely costly to travel the crew, the equipment, set it all up, rent the facilities, bring in the speakers as well as the three weeks of background research and man hours we have already put into this — and the hard work hasn't even begun yet.

The last press conference we sponsored in July in D.C. garnered more than 25 million media impressions as outlet after outlet kept publishing info from the press event — even Steve Bannon and InfoWars picked it all up, like Stew Peters picked up our work last week on Capitol Hill.

Staffers in Congress told us that was extremely helpful for them in pitching their legislation to simply cut off funding for the bishops and Religious Left groups. Well, here we go again. Cut off all funding for them — all of it. Every last dime. Whatever policy of the communists they are pushing, immigration or climate.

So please click on the donate button just below us here and be the heroes, the impetus in launching another broadside against this corruption. Fight back!

TRANSCRIPT

As the Soviet Union communists penetrated major institutions in the United States, including the Church, some of their espionage activities started coming to the surface. Many people are already familiar with the notorious case of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg and their stealing of the atomic bomb secrets for the Soviets.

But that was specific government infiltration to get at military information to neutralize the United States' atomic advantage. What was not as widely known was the deep penetration into other aspects of American life — specifically religion.

In sworn testimony before the U.S. Congress in 1953, former communist (turned Catholic revert) Bella Dodd broadly outlined the Soviet plan for working with Catholics:

At different times in the history of the Communist Party, they emphasized the fact that it was possible for you to be religious and, at the same time, communist. But those were the periods in which they were trying to win over larger numbers of, let's say, Catholic trade-unionists, Catholic workers, and so forth and so on. Those were the periods which were called the periods of extending the hand of communism to the people in the religious groups. What you did was to say substantially this: 'These men have a blind spot. They believe in God, but we communists know that there is no God. But in order to get them to work with us, we will work with them on a minimum program.' As a matter of fact, even when you were in the Communist Party, the Communist Party from time to time established committees like the — there was a committee on Catholics for Human Rights, which consisted of communists who had been Catholics, whose purpose it was to work with mass organizations which had a large number of Catholics.

It would be incorrect to think of Soviet communist infiltration into the world of Catholicism as some cloak-and-dagger effort with thousands of secret agents wandering the halls of seminaries with decoder rings and midnight liaisons, for example. The much larger, by far and away, effort was made by simply targeting certain individuals as well as leaders of various groups who could be persuaded that, at least in many areas, Catholics and communists have common goals they could work on together (for the betterment of mankind, you know).

In short, they tricked them, finding a "soft spot" or "blind spot" they could capitalize on down the road. And they did. They hunted out what we could term "sympathizers." Dodd and other former communists all came forward in those early years of the 1950s and testified the same thing — that it was not really secret communists planted all over religious and other institutions, but associations made where the commies could convince their targets they could, and should, work together.

The strategy to enlist sympathizers paid off handsomely. Why take the chance of having spies uncovered in colleges and media and churches when "locals" could do your dirty work for you? As we see looking around now, in the Church specifically, it worked like a charm. There may be here or there, in key roles in the Church, truly committed communists, but that's nowhere near as effective as having hundreds if not thousands of brainwashed useful idiots spouting your "social justice" vocabulary for you.

The communists' agenda has a small (or maybe not so small) army of water boys who have been "persuaded" to think of the gospel in terms of saving the poor, the immigrant and the environment. And these water boys then construct an entire storyline about this, which floods into parishes, campus ministries, chanceries, seminaries and so forth, until it just all becomes accepted as fact. Again, yes, there may be, in fact, actual "card-carrying" commies in the episcopate, the priesthood and various lay groups, but that doesn't really matter.

What does matter is the message being spread — and frankly, you can get a lot more subversive activity accomplished without your own agents doing it. What needs looking at is the actual messaging and if it comports with a communist worldview. When it comes to man being the cause of climate change, it comports perfectly. There is zero scientific evidence to support that claim. Its real goal is to knock America down by so weakening the fossil fuel industry, that we lose our economic advantage over the rest of the world.

To help expose these errors, Church Militant is once again happy to organize our Deposit of Faith Coalition members in sponsoring another press conference for politically conservative media so they can understand the connection here.

Presenting to the media on Tuesday, Nov. 14, which will be at the Four Seasons Hotel in Baltimore during the bishops' annual meeting, will be a number of the most highly respected experts ever assembled, including:

The press conference will be available for everyone at home to watch live, beginning at 1 p.m. ET on Nov. 14. Please tell everyone you know. Spread the word.

Church Militant is leading the charge, hands down, with our Deposit of Faith Coalition, in trying to roll back at least the funding the bishops get in all of this unethical activity, be it immigration or, in this case, environmental alarmism based on phony science.

As you know, we were in D.C. last week, on the Hill, interviewing congressmen who have had it with the "America last" agenda supported by liberal U.S. bishops, and now, once again, we are taking the fight right to the bishops' doorstep.

As the bishops meet in the Marriott, directly across the street, at the exact same time, we will be broadcasting with a Nobel Prize winner and respected journalist-experts in all this.

So we'd like to appeal to you to help pay for all of this. It's extremely costly to travel the crew, the equipment, set it all up, rent the facilities, bring in the speakers as well as the three weeks of background research and man hours we have already put into this — and the hard work hasn't even begun yet.

The last press conference we sponsored in July in D.C. garnered more than 25 million media impressions as outlet after outlet kept publishing info from the press event — even Steve Bannon and InfoWars picked it all up, like Stew Peters picked up our work last week on Capitol Hill.

Staffers in Congress told us that was extremely helpful for them in pitching their legislation to simply cut off funding for the bishops and Religious Left groups. Well, here we go again. Cut off all funding for them — all of it. Every last dime. Whatever policy of the communists they are pushing, immigration or climate.

So please click on the donate button just below us here and be the heroes, the impetus in launching another broadside against this corruption. Fight back!