Church Militant The Vortex Feed

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So last week, when news reports revealed that the well-respected Fr. Thomas Weinandy, former chief of staff for the U.S. Bishops' Committee on Doctrine, had written to Pope Francis saying his pontificate is marked by "chronic confusion" and warning that teaching with a "seemingly intentional lack of clarity risks sinning against the Holy Spirit," it did not take "the Empire" much time to strike back. The U.S. bishops canned him before the ink was dry on the article.

Too bad they couldn't react with that lightning speed when they were shipping around altar-boy raping, fellow homosexual clergy for decades. Or as the brilliant Chris Manion over at The Wanderer tweeted in response to the embarrassing, yet telling, move of firing Fr. Weinandy — "and the jobs of all of the heterodox, dissident USCCB 'crats who sported Gore, Obama and Clinton bumper stickers in (your) parking lot are safe!" Whoever said the bishops' conference wasn't good at PR? But here's another somewhat overlooked point and the actual thrust of this Vortex episode. And it relates to more than just  Fr. Weinandy's letter.

It more than seems that evil everywhere is being exposed. It's all coming into the light — the evil in the Church that has been quietly at work for decades — the evil in Hollywood that has also been present for decades but hypocritically covered up and deflected — the evil in Washington D.C., which many of us have just come to accept as business as usual but never suspecting to the degree we are now witnessing — and the evil present as a matter of routine in the information media, the news giants, who have developed a fine art out of trying to manipulate public opinion for evil. Every bit of this is being exposed. 

And interestingly enough, it all seems to be circling around U.S. President Donald Trump, not as the cause of it but as the man who perhaps Providence has placed in the center of the storm to bring about all the revelations. Think about it — the insanity in Washington D.C. about Russia and Trump campaign collusion pushed ad nauseam by a media complicit for decades — in covering up the sexual scandals of Hollywood suddenly backfires on them as the truth is revealed that it was the Democrats and especially the Obama/Clinton world that was actually colluding, the same Obama and Clinton world extremely friendly with all the sexual predators in Hollywood who kept financing their campaigns.

You talk about incest. The world has never seen such incest as this. And who is standing right there in the middle being attacked from every one of those despicable and deplorable people — the President of the United States, Donald Trump who every one of them worked to destroy during the campaign and have increased their efforts to destroy him after the inauguration?

And so the question must be asked why? What is it about Trump that engenders near diabolic rage against him even from many within the Church who are of course on friendly terms with the Leftist's Axis of Evil — D.C., Hollywood and news media. Could it be that whether he is consciously aware of it or not, Trump sees the importance of morality and religion and actually seems to promote it? Again, this isn't something he needs to actually be actively pursuing or doing. He has become a rallying point for tens of millions of people who do see the need for a restoration of decency and morality — a decency and morality that the Left's Axis of Evil has spent decades destroying.

The Left's Axis of Evil has had many allies in the Catholic Church for the past 50 years, many of them gay men hiding in the clergy to completely undermine the Church's teachings on sexual morality, as well as other teachings. They are still there. Father Weinandy, of course, doesn't get into this particular aspect of things in his letter to the pope, but it is an open secret in Rome that many of the men around the pope are hugely supportive of the homosexualist agenda if not actually actively gay themselves and enjoy much largesse in the Eternal City these days. This is why they are for the moment bulletproof. They feel untouchable — feel untouchable.

They like promoting the idea that arch-heretic Martin Luther was a swell guy, that all are welcome, that we have a reasonable hope that all men are saved, that all religions are pretty cool, that gay sex is just another choice but no big deal, and it must be reverenced. We don't need to continue with the list as much as we could for hours. You know what's going on. These perversions of the Faith are all related with the Axis of Evil on the Left.

One promotes the other. They all converge in one giant cataclysm and that cataclysm is being exposed. Evil can never lay hidden for ever. All that is needed is some catalyst, some thing or person who purposefully or accidentally sets the truth in motion and then like St. Augustine says the truth, which is like a lion set free, needs no defense.

It appears right now like President Trump could be that catalyst. In fact, if you recall, that article this past summer from the Axis of Evil supporters in the Vatican that lambasted us, here, at Church Militant, the one by Antonio Spadaro, was actually in large part an attack on President Trump, thinly disguised as a commentary on cooperation between right-wing nutty dangerous religious extremists. The whole thing completely backfired on them.

If you look at this from the 30,000-foot view, here's what looks like is happening. The Axis of Evil was just about ready to complete its trifecta — Hillary was about to win — with her promise that religious views would have to change. The apoplectic response by the members of the Axis of Evil has brought into the open all their hidden evil, and everything is now being exposed everywhere, including, most importantly, in the Church.

As the Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy on D-Day on June 6th, 1944, Winston Churchill offered perhaps some of the most insightful comments in world history. He said "this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is perhaps, the end of the beginning." The battle is now engaged. All is being exposed. There is no excuse, no place to hide, no rationale for not jumping into the fray.

Almighty God has brought all this about. Heaven is waking us up, calling us to choose sides. The time for slumber is over. Praised be Our Blessed Lord for His allowing us to join in the fight.

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You've probably heard the horrible research showing that the vast majority of Catholics do not practice the Faith. Half have actually apostatized and left the Church. Another third, phone it in, showing up once or twice a year or when someone is married or buried. All told, roughly 80 percent of U.S. Catholics have little or no connection to the Church any longer. But what about the remaining roughly 20 percent — those who actually do go to Mass still — even though their adult children don't or their younger, still-at-home children won't in the future?

What about this Catholic minority within the Catholic minority? For the most part, you can call them the 50-minute Catholics, meaning, their connection to the Church is for Sunday Mass, and that's it — show up for less than hour, sit there bored or distracted or somewhat involved, go up to Holy Communion and leave. This isn't a lack of zeal. It's a lack of any interest whatsoever in what's going on or even what they, themselves, are doing. They are there because of habit or a sense of heritage or a hundred other reasons but not because of the glory of the Faith.

They are the very definition of lukewarm. They don't really care but just go through the motions. It's very much like a loveless marriage. Neither spouse wants to force any issue which might bring about the final disintegration because frankly, it's easier to stay where you are then live in the truth. It's like the old song says: "Breakin' up is hard to do." So the clergy don't challenge them on why they should really be there, and the lukewarm keep tossing a $10 or a $20 into the basket and everything's good. Except everything is not good — far from it.  

One pastor, I was talking to a few years back about this very issue popped off with the well-rehearsed line — they must teach it in seminary — "Well, at least they're coming." So what? Coming to what? A service where they are never spoken to about eternal life — be it salvation or damnation. Hardly ever preached to about confession, unless it's the once a year general absolution which is not allowed.

They aren't warned by the priest about receiving sacrilegious Holy Communion. No, the 50-minute Catholic walks in dressed in shopping mall attire, usually late or really close, scoots into a pew without genuflecting, sits there unengaged, hearing poor preaching, oftentimes about liberal political causes thinly disguised as Catholic teaching, pitch in their $10 bill, watches something going on at the altar as the priest smiles at them and overdramatized his role, say the Our Father holding hands — because that makes it meaningful — spends a few moments shooting the peace sign to anyone and everyone in the Church, goes up to get the bread and may or may not leave early. And of course, this is usually accompanied by some variation of Protestant music or horrible syrupy "Catholic" music, written by former priests who now live with their gay lovers somewhere. For a very large number of the few remaining Catholics who go to Mass, this is their entire exposure and connection to the Church. Fifty minutes a week, and that's quite enough, thank you very much. Wouldn't want to get branded a radical or anything.

Abuse-ridden liturgy, bad preaching — oftentimes riddled with dissent — and sacrilegious Holy Communion. Now, there's a winning blueprint for expanding the Faith. A noted Catholic author commented a couple weeks ago that Catholicism is broken. And the reason it's broken is because there is no longer a spirit of contradiction in the Church. Nothing wrong is ever confronted or contradicted because that would bring about the only mortal sin that the Church of Nice admits — giving offense. How did we arrive at this point? Because bishops allow it and sometimes encourage it.

Bishop school must have a motto over the gates which reads "Nolite Navem Agitare," Latin for "Don't Rock the Boat." Never challenge anyone and certainly never allow yourselves, the clergy, to be challenged even in the face of heresy, schism, violations of canon law, liturgical abuse, dissent — all of it.

This has transmitted down to the laity who now — having adopted the premise of don't rock the boat — sit there and don't rock the boat of their own spiritual lives. They do no inner reflection, no self-assessment, have no desire to learn anything about the Faith. And why should they? These same spineless leaders push the nonsense that everyone goes to Heaven, all religions are pretty much the same and the Church's moral teaching can be largely ignored.

Why do we have 50-minute Catholics? Because we have 50-minute clergy, more interested in the collection amount than the souls before them.

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We frequently report to you various underhanded tactics and sneaky tricks pulled by various bishops and clergy to stamp out any resistance of faithful Catholics to oppose their liberalization of the Church. Most of the time, we can't be very specific because if we were specific, various clergy or even laity would suffer repercussions for telling us details. However, we now have a case that we can be very specific about because the case was fumbled by Church officials, and Church Militant became aware of the details as part of the record. It involves dirty tricks by Bp. Kevin Vann and his cohorts in the diocese of Orange, California, involving bullying and intimidation tactics and hush money, and Church Militant has first-hand information about all this because well, we were the object of Bp. Vann's sneaky tactics.

Here are the details. Back in August, Church Militant supporters in the diocese of Orange in Southern California invited Church Militant to speak at a conference this coming weekend. They signed a contract with St. John Maron Church and parish — a Maronite parish in Orange. Since it is an Eastern Rite parish and not a Latin Rite parish, Bp. Vann has no authority over it — different rite.

Church Militant supporters advertised this weekend's talk for months far and wide through posters and flyers and social media. We've had it on our site for a number of weeks. This talk was no secret. This past Sunday, Super Bowl Sunday, the organizers suddenly get a call at 2 p.m. in the afternoon saying there's a problem, and an emergency meeting had to be held at the parish hall. In that meeting, the pastor of the parish tried to intimidate the sponsors, saying there had been a mistake in the negotiated price and a much more exorbitant price would have to be paid to hold the talk on the grounds. Understandably, the sponsors balked, and the pastor backed down.

A short while later, the pastor revealed that Bp. Vann was applying pressure to make sure that Church Militant was not allowed to talk on church property, even though this parish was one over which he has absolutely no authority. The pastor confessed to the sponsors that he was in "an impossible situation" and was prepared to not only return the deposit paid back in August but also pay out a $5,000 settlement agreement provided it was kept confidential and papers were signed saying that.

And here's where Church officials completely fumbled the ball. That original secret settlement agreement had mistakenly included Church Militant in it as a party renting the hall at the parish. That was a complete error. We had nothing to do with the hall rental or any contracts. However, since we were mistakenly mentioned in the contract, the pastor said we could see the contract. When we saw it, again with the permission of the pastor before anything had been signed or agreed to, we saw the terms for the secret settlement, and since we were granted permission to view the full contract, we are free to report on it.

To keep some semblance of peace, organizers agreed to find another location, which they have. The talk is now re-scheduled at the Business Expo Center, 1960 S. Anaheim Way, Anaheim, CA 92805. Check-in begins at 3 p.m. Doors to the auditorium will open for seating at 3:45 p.m. The program will begin at 4:15 p.m.

Now, here's an interesting twist, and one of the possible compelling reasons for Bp. Vann's underhandedness in trying to obstruct the Church Militant talk. Back in October, Fr. Greg Boyle, a modernist priest who outwardly opposes Church teaching on various points, gave a talk at Mater Dei High School in Orange. Faithful Catholics contacted Bp. Vann and protested that a priest who supports heresy would be allowed to talk on Church property.

Bishop Vann acknowledged the complaints but blew them off, saying the diocese acknowledged that Fr. Boyle held disturbing positions like women's ordination and same-sex marriage, but since he wasn't speaking directly on those specific points, it didn't matter— an extremely lame excuse. Reports are Bp. Vann was quite ticked off at the complaints about Fr. Boyle and was none too happy that faithful Catholics, as well as Church Militant supporters then responded to his blow-off by holding a Rosary rally outside Fr. Boyle's talk. So, when these same people were hosting their own talk where Church Militant was the invited speaker, Vann became vindictive.

Now, a couple of things stand out here. First, this talk was known about for months — advertised all over Orange. How is it that it was only with less than one week left that supporters were told it would have to be moved? Secondly, how is it that a bishop with zero authority over a parish from a different rite is able to exercise such abuse of power by demanding from them that they cancel the talk? Third, why was all this done in secret with a $5,000 hush money agreement — an agreement that Church officials again severely fumbled by mistakenly granting permission for Church Militant to review it?

Where did that $5,000 come from? The funds of the parish? If so, do the parishioners know that their money from the collection plate was taken to pay for a secret settlement because a bishop with no authority over them was scheming behind the scenes? Was there a promise made by Bp. Vann to reimburse these funds once everything was taken care of? If so, are the Latin Rite Catholics under his jurisdiction being told about this — that their collection plate money is being used in this fashion?

We expose all of this to point out to you that this is the way business is done routinely in the Church of Nice — bully tactics, intimidation, secret agreements, hush money — all along ideological lines because they do not want their dirty tricks exposed. Well, they messed up here badly. Church Militant was directly brought into this, mistakenly, by Church officials and, therefore, we are free to broadcast it everywhere.

So now, the upshot. In their zeal to squash any objections to what is being done to the Church by these modernists, along with possibly just plain old revenge, the bishop and his cohorts have now been exposed for their secret plotting and scheming. Again, as Church Militant continually reports but can't always fully disclose everything we know, this underhandedness goes on routinely in the Church of Nice, and it's disgusting.

Money is paid out to keep things secret, money collected from the laity, who have no idea their generosity is being abused in cases like this. For a hierarchy always going on about having dialog and moments of encounter, they don't think twice about resorting to skullduggery to impose their will. And further, why is it that open heretics acknowledged by a diocese as holding disturbing positions are given carte blanche to speak while faithful Catholics and their supporters are treated with contempt and are plotted against?

The answers to those questions are pretty evident. The Church Militant crew is just getting ready to fly out of Detroit in a couple of hours and will be landing in Southern California later today. Again, the talk has been moved, owing to Bp. Vann's plotting. Please make an effort to attend the conference.

The details of the new venue and times are on the page here. Please pass the word not only of the change in venue but also the larger story. We'll see you in Southern California in a few hours.

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One of the most wonderful things about being Catholic is that we are bound up in the Communion of Saints — that endless relationship between those of us here on earth in the Church Militant and those who died in the Faith and are now in either the Church Suffering in Purgatory or in the Church Triumphant beholding the Beatific Vision. The Letter to the Hebrews even references this beauty of the Faith when it says we are surrounded by a "great cloud of witnesses."

What this means for us is that death, as horrible as it is for those of us left behind, is able to be conquered, to be penetrated. For those bound up in God, loves conquers because God is Love. While we know this intellectually, sometimes, Our Blessed Lord and Our Blessed Lady grant the grace of us knowing this experientially in addition to just intellectually.

It's easy in the immediate aftermath of death to undergo the horrible and disturbing temptation that you will really never see your loved one again. That this life is it, and when someone you love dies,  that's it. This is one of the chief lies of the world. I was assailed by this temptation when my mother died almost 14 years ago. It kept troubling me and disturbing me for a few weeks and required a great deal of spiritual resistance.

As my father's death began to loom larger last month, one of the things I dreaded was the potential return of this horrible temptation. I kept shoving it out of my conscious mind as much as I could, but it was always looming in there, deep in the recesses. I didn't have to confront it head on as long as I could still hang with dad and chat with him and tickle his feet and tease him and tell him "Good night Dad," each night. But in those last few days, I could feel it beginning to make its presence known, again. I was afraid I would be especially vulnerable to it this time because of the feeling of being alone. With my father's death, I am the last surviving member of my immediate family. My brother died suddenly 15 years ago. Then, my mother 10 months after him. All that was left was my dad and me, so I was especially dreading his death.  

One day in his last couple of weeks, he said something to me very important. He said, "Michael after I'm gone, I'll be able to be with you much more than I ever was here on earth." It was the exact thing my mother had said to me a few days before she died. How I was secretly clinging to that truth — to know and feel that he would be with me more when he died in a way he could not be while bound to earth with its limits of time and space.

Shortly after he died, one of the staff here came up to me and told me the most remarkable jarring story. She told me that the night my father died, her little six-year-old daughter suddenly came up to her and said, "Mommy, we have to pray for Michael Voris' father." To which she replied, "What do you want to pray?" "An Eternal Rest" came the reply. Mom was surprised and asked, "Why an Eternal Rest?" And her little daughter answered, "Because he just died." Mom asked, "How do you know that?" And her daughter responded she didn't know. So, they prayed an "Eternal Rest" for my dad. Five minutes later, mom got the first word via email from Simon who was with us at the hospital that my dad had died 30 minutes earlier. When she told me about this, it hit so hard, I couldn't really respond. It was overwhelming in a paralyzing way — a good paralysis. It kept playing over in my mind.

After the funeral, some dear friends here accompanied me on the trip back to New York to bury my dad alongside my mom. Some Church Militant supporters were also on hand, being kind to come to the cemetery, some of whom I'd never met before. God bless you all. Thank you.

Once I returned, I was in my dad's room; he lived with me and I was beginning to go through some of the stuff on his desk. In a big pile of office supplies — not sure what this was all about, but he had enough pens and highlighters and paper clips and staple removers to open up an office supply store — in that big pile, I reached my hand in and pulled out a post-it note.

Here is a picture of it. Spelled out twice in his handwriting were the words, "I am with you. I am with you," precisely what he had told me weeks before he died. The combination of that post-it note, along with the little girl's knowledge and message to her mom of his death before anyone had been told, has left me almost speechless. In fact, I deliberately have not made this public beyond just folks at the studio and a few close friends until now because it seemed so intimate that to tell a bunch of people felt like it might dilute it somehow. Kind of a dumb way of looking at it, but you don't always think correctly in the immediate aftermath of death.

I share this now to help shore up your faith to help you know and believe that there is life after death,  that love does conquer the grave, that those who die in the embrace of Our Blessed Mother in a state of grace are never far from us, that they are in the glow of the glory of God and beseech our Heavenly Father in all earnestness to bring us safely home to be with them.

My father loved his Catholic faith, living in gratitude for the great gift of entering the Church in his 20's, 60 years earlier. Now, he has joined that great cloud of witnesses and is with me more than he ever was here on earth — just as my mom is. See, this is what we fight for here on earth, in the Church Militant. We fight for every soul we can reach to ensure that they, we, are all one day also in that great cloud of witnesses.

My dad evangelized everyone he met, every chance he got. And that has not stopped with his death. He is now able to do that work in ways he never could here on earth. Fight the good fight, all of us. Fight for the souls of your children, your parents, your siblings, your friends. Do not let the spiritual insanity that seems to be everywhere advance. Go on the attack against it. Give it no quarter, no rest. Do not let it deprive the souls of your loved ones these glorious truths, these awe-filled realities. Stay close the Church — deepen your faith or if you are not yet Catholic, convert.

These are the only things that matter. Fight the good fight, so one day we will each be able to pierce the veil of death, immersed in the great cloud of witnesses and comfort our loved ones still here on earth and strengthen them in whatever way Our Lord permits or commands to let them know, "I am with you."

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Father James Martin is an enemy of the Pope — publicly slamming Pope Benedict back in 2010 with rhetorical and nonsensical questions in response to Pope Benedict saying abortion and same-sex marriage were insidious threats to humanity. Here is specifically what Pope Benedict said at Fatima on May 13, 2010:

I express my deep appreciation for all those social and pastoral initiatives aimed at combating the socio-economic and cultural mechanisms which lead to abortion ... Initiatives aimed at protecting the essential and primary values of life, beginning at conception and of the family based on the indissoluble marriage between a man and a woman, help to respond to some of today's most insidious and dangerous threats to the common good.

That clear and non-confusing statement got stuck in Fr. Martin's throat, and he could not restrain himself responding in the Jesuit rag America Magazine, calling the Pope's words bizarre, against Catholic teaching and against the Gospel:

Pope Benedict XVI's comments last week in Fatima, Portugal, in which he stated that abortion and same-sex marriage, were 'some of today's most insidious and dangerous threats' to the common good seemed oddly discordant. The equation of abortion, something that clearly is about a threat to life, with same-sex marriage, which no matter how you look at it, does not mean that anyone is going to die, is bizarre.

"Why aren't 'abortion and war' the most 'insidious and dangerous' threats to the common good? The great danger is that this increasingly popular equation will seem to many as having less to do with moral equivalency and more to do with a simple dislike, or even a hatred, of gays and lesbians.

"And that goes against not simply Catholic teaching, but against the Gospel..."

This is a favorite tactic of heresy lovers. They slam the tradition of the Church and feel no qualms about publicly attacking the Vicar of Christ — his words are "discordant, bizarre, against Catholic teaching, against the Gospel," seriously? Likewise, Pope Francis has openly condemned same-sex marriage numerous times, calling it "demonic" and saying "we do not joke around with truth." The current Holy Father also offered his public support for demonstrations in Mexico against same-sex marriage back in late 2016.

So where does Fr. Martin, homosexualist Jesuit, come off denouncing the popes? In so doing, he has made himself an enemy of the pope. He tries frequently to turn people against the teachings of the Church, hiding behind theological hair-splitting. None of that hides the reality that he has established himself as an enemy of the pope — not just Francis, but also Benedict, as well as John Paul. That's a pretty solid alignment to attack, Fr. Martin, to call the Church's teaching as enunciated by the popes bizarre, against the Gospel? Seriously?

Yet, he is allowed to continue unchecked because there are many prelates in the Church — cardinals who are also enemies of the pope and by extension, enemies of the Church, and of course by the most important extension, enemies of Christ. These men, like Cdl. Marx who last week said the Church needs to bless sodomy between two committed men, are enemies of Jesus Christ, regardless of if they are cardinals or not.

Judas was an apostle until his treachery caused him to lose his apostleship as St. Peter tells us. Why should anyone be shocked by the Fr. Martins and the Cdl. Marxs of the world? Their line traces straight back to Judas himself. Yet such is the state of affairs in the Church these days — treachery, deceit, malfeasance on the part of a few influential types and near complete silence on the part of those who know better but will not speak for fear of messing up their ecclesiastical careers. They have more fear of men then they do of God.

One of the great puzzlements in this particular age in the Church is whether bishops and cardinals, who allow these evils to continue unchallenged, actually believe their own silly preachings. For example, do they really believe all religions are pretty good, and there's not that much of a difference between them, at least not enough to ever talk about why the Catholic Church is the only means of salvation? We could also ask the same questions of those who peddle the stupidity that we have a reasonable hope that all men are saved. Do they really believe that non-Catholic nonsense? Or are they just afraid of the consequences of telling the full truth, and so they hide behind this doublespeak and so forth? If they don't reverse course publicly, it won't matter if they actually believed it or not. They will join Judas.

Father Martin is an enemy of the pope — period. He must be called out for that by superiors and prelates or they run the risk of creating grave scandal among the faithful or better stated even more grave scandal. All of this matters not as some list of talking points or winning some debate points but because all of this influences the final destiny of souls. But see, it isn't clear at all if many of the clergy, most especially many members of the hierarchy actually believe that. They never speak in those terms. They only ever speak in terms related to earthly matters. In fact, it seems the only time Hell ever comes up is to say that we have a reasonable hope no human is in it.

The progressives and modernists and heretics and dissidents in the Church have been able to reset the terms by which the Truths of Jesus Christ are spoken of. They have drained them of their spiritual realities and replaced them with the concerns of mere man. They are leading souls to Hell by their silence and by their machinations. This is about eternal life; those are the stakes here, and these shepherds who allow heretics and enemies of the pope free access to the faithful will suffer their same fate if they don't turn back now.

Fr. Martin is an enemy of the pope. The modernists like Cdl. Wuerl of Washington D.C. and Blase Cupich of Chicago were very quick to throw that charge around when millions of the faithful were weirded out by what was going on at the 2014 and 2015 Synods on the Family in Rome. But, here, we have a priest, Fr. James Martin, openly criticizing and ridiculing the pope's words, and he gets a free pass, well, until he dies that is if he doesn't repent.

Father Martin is an enemy of the pope. Don't forget that and make sure you repeat it. Father Martin is an enemy of the pope. Pray for him, certainly, for all these wicked minded clerics, but keep uppermost in your mind, they are enemies of the pope.

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Has it appeared "odd" to anyone else that there are so many promoters of sodomy around Pope Francis? Hardly a week goes by where some outlandish gay thing after another fails to make an appearance in some manner, shape or form — from reports of the gay orgy in the apartment of Cdl. (Francesco) Coccopalmerio's assistant near the end of last year to Abp. (Vincenzo) Paglia's homoerotic painting to the gay-themed Nativity set in St. Peter's Square to gay cheerleaders Fr. James Martin and Fr. Thomas Rosica's special jobs in the Vatican bureaucracy to a very gay-friendly company running aspects of the Vatican's communications apparatus to the infamous line in the Synod on the Family's 2014 Midterm Relatio that homosexuals have certain gifts and qualities, an idea sneaked into the document by Abp. Bruno Forte, known to be extremely gay-friendly. It's so much, people are wondering when the Dome of St. Peter's is going to be painted pink. And believe us when we say those examples are just the tip of the iceberg.

The ascendancy of the homosexual clerical culture really took off in Rome and other quarters of the Church decades ago — slowly at first but then has picked up steam. Pope Benedict even admitted recently that he had encountered a group of four or five homosexual cardinals he had to deal with.

Pope Francis at the beginning of his pontificate created international headlines when he admitted privately there was a gay lobby inside the Vatican. Of course, many people became very concerned when the Holy Father appointed Msgr. Battista Ricca to head up the Vatican Bank. Ricca was reported to have carried on a gay relationship with a captain in the Swiss Army during his time in Uruguay  — so notorious in fact that clergy there appealed to the Vatican to have him removed. It was Battista, as a sidebar, that Pope Francis was talking about back in 2013 when he gave his well-documented comment, "Who am I to judge?"

It's also important to note that privately various orthodox types in the Vatican and Rome are expressing deep concern that homosexual practice in the Vatican "has never been worse," as recorded this past summer in multiple news reports. The Vatican has been overrun by a gay culture which promotes its own kind from within. The great danger, here, is of course that active gay clergy or those who support it cannot be transmitters of the authentic faith. They are living lives or supporting others who live these lives which run in complete contradiction to the tenets of Catholicism, yet they seem to have control over practically everything in the Church. And it has a supporting or trickle-down effect throughout the Church.

For example, in next months, virtually heretical Religious Education Congress — sponsored by Los Angeles Abp. Jose Gomez — one pro-homosexualist after another dot the lineup of invited speakers. Privately, here in the United States, priests will tell you that a gay mob runs practically every level of the Church which we have ample proof of in Cdl. Timothy Dolan's archdiocese of New York. Last month, a homosexual priest came out to his parish at Sunday Mass in the archdiocese of Milwaukee, and Abp. Jerome Listecki praised him and said Catholics should support him.

Father James Martin is allowed to openly lie about Church teaching in parish after parish and diocese after diocese, and practically no one in the hierarchy says a word. In fact just the opposite, they come out and support him and even one-up him in their assaults against the Faith, saying gay couples can receive Holy Communion as Cdl. Blase Cupich did in Chicago or that we can just ignore all that sin stuff and have a pilgrimage for gays like Cdl. Joseph Tobin did in Newark, New Jersey. And on the other side of the Atlantic, Cdl. Reinhard Marx has come out publicly and said the Church should begin blessing same-sex unions, something Abp. Johan Bonny of Antwerp, Belgium, had already called for a couple of years ago.

All over the Church in the West calls for the embracing of sodomy from the hierarchy are accelerating and increasing in volume. They style it as respect and compassion and human rights etc. But what is at the heart of this is sodomy, plain and simple? Nobody is saying that people struggling with their crosses, whatever type of cross they have, should be treated in any other way than with compassion and respect. Of course they should. It even says that in the catechism. But it is a bridge too far to call on Catholics to accept the sin, thinly veiling it as love when it is anything but love. Call it what it is, it's sodomy. And these bishops and cardinals cannot support what they claim to support without also supporting that.

These gay unions that they want to bless, uplift and support are unions centered around the belief that sodomy is a perfectly legitimate expression of their feelings of love for each other. At some point, reasonable minds have to pose the question: is the reason so many prelates and cardinals are pushing so hard for something that affects so few people because they are homosexuals themselves? Seriously, if Martians landed on earth tomorrow, they would think the Church was the gay rights lobby in robes. It's practically all they ever go on about.

These men are sowing confusion and error in the hearts and minds of the faithful, as well as promoting an evil agenda which the world embraces, and they are using or rather abusing their authority and influence to do so. They need to repent of their wickedness before they die or hellfire awaits them. And they need to publicly admit the horrible circumstances in to which they have placed many souls, pushing them to the precipice of Hell.

What the laity have to understand is this simple fact as hard as it is, maybe, and as unpleasant it is to think about it; these men hate the Church, even while they claim to love it. They hate the Truth because it convicts them and their consciences and exposes the evil that they harbor. And they hide all this evil and contempt and scorn for the Church under cries and appeals for compassion and kindness, something they are unwilling to extend to souls who actually need it.

They have found in Pope Francis, who cares about mercy, even to the point of allowing confusion to foster, a man whose strings they can easily tug, using that "mercy" argument to hide their real agenda which is an overthrow of the Church. A final warning to them since they have no supernatural faith — and you cannot have supernatural faith and behave like this — they are incapable of seeing the Church in a supernatural way. To them, it is a merely human institution that can be altered and refashioned according to the whims of mere humans. But the Church is not merely human. It is a joining, a mysterious union between God and man, and as such it belongs to God.

He will not allow this to continue much longer because the rabid gays in the Church are now touching sacred things, wanting to declare that which is evil, good, and that which is good, evil. When Our Blessed Lord sets about to offer correction, it's usually a fearsome prospect.

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Time to simply admit, members of the hierarchy, whatever Vatican II was meant to have intended, the results have been an epic fail. There is not one area of the Church or Her life that has not fared worse as a result of the grand experiment of the Council. And anyone who is honest with themselves or others will admit that — in fact, has to admit that. No one can point to any single area and say, "Look! This is better than it used to be." Whether by objective analysis, meaning measurable quantifiable realities, or by subjective analysis, everything has grown worse than in former days.

Of course, the dissidents in the Church will deny this, at least on a subjective perspective, but even those liars and distorters cannot deny the objective reality. No matter what calculator or even abacus you use, every single Catholic demographic has been and continues to be blown up: baptisms, adult conversions, marriages, religious vocations, Catholic school students, Mass attendance, Catholic schools, parishes, active parishioners, family size, first Holy Communions, annulments, not one single area is even close to where it was 50 years ago or beyond — not one.

Then into the area not as easily quantified but still measurable: art, architecture, music, liturgy, devotional life, confession, awareness of sin, Hell and damnation, overall holiness, prayer life of the clergy and religious, catechesis, ecueminsim of the false kind, lack of clarity and so forth.

In fact, it is precisely the problems in the area of the subjective issues that have produced the scientifically knowable numbers in the objective area. And yet, in the face of all this, you will hear dissident Churchmen say that while they agree the Church is collapsing, the answer is to do more of what they have been doing in the area of the subjective for the past 50 years. Some people never get it. And then others are malicious and wicked and sinister and want to double down on the collapse so far and bring even more ruin to Holy Mother Church.

This Vortex isn't about whether this or that Vatican II document was heretical or ambiguously worded. It's about measuring the results. And the results are in: big, fat F. The leadership of the Church for multiple reasons has simply refused to accept the grade that their new Church, their social justice Church of Nice, has received: F. Hear that bishops? A huge red letter F across your entire foolish attempt to re-present the Church to the world.

Some people at the Council — some — were well-intentioned. They saw what were legitimate problems in the pre-conciliar Church and were generally trying to address those concerns. For example, Mass attendance in France before the Council was already dipping to about 50 percent, not an especially good number no matter how you approach it. Education of priests was already on the downslope, which is why so many just ran out the door immediately following the Council. Catholics had not been as catechized in holiness as they should have been, which is why so many simply threw open their arms and embraced the evil of contraception at the dawning of the Sexual Revolution. The list of problems prior to the Council is long, but however problematic it was then (and honesty demands that we admit that), it looks like the golden age of the Church compared to today's disaster.

To be certain, there were numerous voices expressing concern about the changes they either had prior knowledge of or saw unfolding, from the runaway train that became changes in the Mass, so deviant that in some locales Mass become almost unrecognizable. So-called ecumenism, which like so many other areas, developed a life of its own, became a perverted version of itself. Ecumenism originally referred to a unification effort between Rome and Eastern Orthodoxy because only Catholic and Orthodox Churches have apostolic succession. Protestant congregations do not. They arose out of thin air from the 16th century onwards and are completely unable to form a historical connection to Christianity in its apostolic form. Ecumenism, therefore, in the correct understanding is not possible with Protestant sects, properly referred to as ecclesial communions.

Yet the push to adapt practically the whole Church to the whims of the Protestant heresy, no matter how well-meaning, have contributed significantly to the collapse of the Church. It has done nothing to improve the 40,000 different tribes of Protestantism, and the Church has suffered greatly in Her self-understanding. Protestantism is on the decline, at least for now among all of the old-guard denominations. And once gone, they will stay gone forever, for they were built by fallible men, and they will go the way of all flesh, like so many groups before them. They do not contain within themselves the seeds of re-creation because the Creator does not reside in them. But He does reside in His Catholic Church, His mystical Body, which right now is at great pains to shed the heresy of Modernism which was allowed in a century or more ago. It has shed many heresies in the past, again after great pains, and has arisen from the ashes.

This is where we are now, we Catholics. Protestantism — unable to give a complete answer to the evils of the world, partly because that heresy helped create and spawn these evils — is in its death throes. Of course, this is realized in varying degrees here and there, depending on where a person might be, but the end is approaching, however unevenly distributed it may be from place to place. Meanwhile, the 19th- and 20th-century heresy of Modernism, the child of the 16th- and 17th-century heresy of Protestantism, is undergoing its own death in the Catholic Church, being replaced by a freshly emerging traditional Catholicism that is achieving the exact opposite of the realities of the Church of Nice.

There are increases everywhere in the Church of tradition as opposed to catastrophic decreases everywhere in the Church of Nice. In fact, the numbers in many ways are almost completely opposite, held back from even further expansion in some cases by malevolent or ignorant bishops and their staffs, who simply cannot deal with the reality that they have backed the wrong horse for close to a century.

Christ is present in teachings of the Church because they are His teachings. He cannot strive with the so-called teachings, better called perversions, of the Church of Nice because those "teachings" lead souls to Hell and that violates His divine will. Did He not promise, "I will be with you all days, even unto the consummation of the world"? And even more specifically, "The gates of Hell shall not prevail against Her"? The Church will not have some futuristic "moment" of collapse.

Look around you: The collapse is in full swing, even in some ways reaching its zenith. The old Church of Nice, a creation of men who opposed the authentic Church of tradition, is evaporating into the mist. Those responsible for its creation as well as sustaining it for this past half-century or so will have to stand before — or indeed, many have already stood before — their Lord and Master and faced their judgments.

God is allowing this cleansing, this pruning of His Church, with all its associated sadness, to bring about the greater glory of a more pure Church, just as He allowed His human Body to be ravaged by men as a preparation for the Resurrection. In the meantime, the plan of God does not remove from us the duty, the obligation to declare boldly and clearly the truth of Christ for those who might still listen to that truth and give it a hearing. But know the master plan is what it is. God never fails — one Bread, one Faith, one Body, one Baptism. "That they all may be one, Father, as you and I are one."

All things are moving to toward that end, casualties along the way notwithstanding. Pray they may be very limited from this point forward.

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There are more Catholics in the United States over 65 than there are under 30. In fact, the percentage of faithful Catholics under 30 is very close to the lowest percentage of active participants of any religion in the United States. The number stands at 17 percent. The only lower of all religions measured by Pew Research were Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses — both at 16 percent.

Another developing demographic disaster is the combination of marriages and conversions. In years past, many conversions came from mixed marriages — a Catholic and non-Catholic getting married. Many of these marriages resulted in the non-Catholic converting. That was the case with my own Catholic mom and former Protestant father. But these days, Catholic marriages are off by close to two-thirds from their 1965 levels. And when you add to that the reality that oftentimes owing to horribly poor formation, it is the Catholic spouse today who often converts to the non-Catholic religion.

There are so many demographics working against the Church that the future of the Church is going to be radically different than any of us have been used to. When he was still a little monsignor back in 1969, Pope Benedict gave an extensive radio interview on the future of the Church. Here is a small part of what he predicted of the Church's future: "She will no longer be able to inhabit many of the edifices she built in prosperity. As the number of her adherents diminishes, so it will lose many of her social privileges. ... As a small society, it will make much bigger demands on the initiative of her individual members."

And this is something we'd like to focus on in this Vortex — the material wealth of the Church. In the current economic climate that has existed now for more than a decade — flat wage growth, middle-class stagnation, younger generations with massive debt — it is just a simple reality that most of the nation's middle-class wealth is concentrated in the hands of the elderly. Now when we take that reality and combine it with the demographics of what's going on in the Church, it becomes startlingly clear that the Church has about one generation of wealth left to tap and then it's lights out.

Time is running out for the Church to gain control over her finances. The young people have less to donate to the Church and have largely abandoned any belief in the Church. This is going to have an enormous financial impact on the material wealth of the Church in the near future. Add to this that the last generation with any real financial clout is nearing death, and you can begin to understand why the many dioceses are in a mad dash to get as much cash as they can. There soon won't be any left.

In diocese after diocese, there are massive cash gathering drives going on, laughingly disguised as ways to "spread the Gospel" and rebuild the Church. In New York, they want $200,000,000 and are strong-arming individual parishioners through local clergy. Here in Detroit, there is a $130,000,000 campaign going on. Other dioceses are seeking to top the $100,000,000 campaign goal. These are enormous amounts of money, and it's one last great rush to get hold of the cash before the cash is gone. Remember, there is a cash-starved youth that doesn't have any real interest in the Church anyway.

So, bishops have figured out they better get when the getting is good because time is running out. But when you think about the underlying truth of this, it's kind of ironic. For the past 50 years, the hierarchy has spent like drunken sailors. Just look at the horrifically ugly L.A. cathedral if you want a leading example on diminishing Catholic identity. They paid huge sums to smash apart traditional looking churches and sanctuaries in a movement called "Reckovation."

They took your money and sent 100s of priests to Rome to earn all sorts of degrees and then many of those clergy come back here and promote modernist ideas which undermine the Faith and use those same degrees as a battering ram to claim intellectual superiority. Untold hundreds of millions have been spent on watered-down catechesis or even non-Catholic catechesis in thousands of schools, religious education departments, parish programs, textbooks, staff and so forth. How many hundreds of millions over these decades have been spent on the salaries and living expenses of priests who simply betray the Faith practically every time they open their mouths?

The list of examples we can give could go on and on but on the ground, many Catholic know this is all true because it's been their lived experience. Their children went to Catholic schools and lost the Faith. Their priests drone on about every Leftist talking point but say nothing about salvation and Hell. The churches have emptied out. The dioceses have grown poorer in terms of cash flow anyway, and now after 50 years of demolishing the Faith by either direct unfaithfulness or indirect indifference, the bill has come due, and now they want the older faithful to foot the bill for their infidelity. It's quite the nerve — seriously.

In a week or so, the U.S. bishops will once again be passing out their annual collection envelopes for the CCHD, the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, pretending it's for fighting poverty. In reality, part of that money goes to organizing for the party of death under the pretense of helping the poor. Their twisted logic rooted in class warfare in the party of death is the one that cares about the poor, so get them elected and poverty will be relieved. The facade completely crumbled a few years back when it was revealed that the bishops had been funding the scandal-ridden ACORN for quite a few years beforehand.

Here is the big question. Why would faithful Catholics give a red cent to those who had used that money to destroy and undermine the Catholic faith? Over half of all American Catholics have apostatized. More than 35 million Catholics in America have left the Faith. Much of this can be laid at the feet of the hierarchy and their pet clergy who have spread their nonsense — meaning heresy — of indifferentism and universalism.

Many dioceses still have vast holdings in real estate. They need to sell off those holdings and pay for their own crimes. Why would they think they can run the Church into the ground for decades and then turn around and hand you — the faithful laity — the bill for their actions?

It's mind-boggling and insulting. They really are Democrats in robes.

A previous version of this Vortex contained erroneous information about the Catholic Music Association. This has been corrected. We regret and apologize for the error.

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If there is one thing the homosexual subculture is famous for, it's the drama. Everything, aside from sexual promiscuity, is all about the drama. The same is true within the homosexual subculture of the clergy as well. In fact, it seems to be especially true among the homo-heretic crowd, for example, the recent dust-up over the cancellation of a presentation by former Jesuit Dan Schutte from a Kansas City, Missouri, parish. Schutte is a former Jesuit who is now publicly identified as a gay man living with his partner in San Francisco. He was one of the founding members of the so-called "St. Louis Jesuits," who pumped horrible music into Catholic parishes for decades, changing the focus from God to man.

Schutte's music serves as a type of anthem for the gay movement within the Church, and he is seen as a kind of hero for providing them their songs, which now permeate the entire Church in America. So, when it was announced that Schutte was the headline speaker at a parish in Kansas City-St. Joseph, Missouri, faithful Catholics objected loudly, and in short order, the event was moved off church property. The cancellation of the presentation was, of course, a set of circumstances that homo-heresy Jesuit priest Fr. James Martin could not resist chiming in on. And once again, the pro-gay, heresy-spouting priest has placed Church Militant firmly in his sites.

He contacted the diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph and spoke with an official who said our story about the whole affair was wrong — and interestingly, this line quoted on Martin's Facebook page from the same diocesan official: "Per your most recent email, yes, the diocese does intend to contact the archdiocese of Detroit about the damage Church Militant has done by stirring up this story."

So, on his own Facebook page, Martin cuts and pastes a response from the diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph, revealing that he requested that diocese to contact the archdiocese of Detroit where Church Militant is located about Church Militant. And say what pray tell? That we are reporting a famous former Jesuit priest who is gay and lives with his partner in San Francisco had an appearance in a parish canceled because people were upset about the whole matter.

Then, the diocesan spokesman for Kansas City-St. Joseph tried to deflect and say it was all about improper and incomplete paperwork and not about public concern on the part of faithful Catholics. As part of the "improper paperwork" deflection, the diocesan spokesman identified Dan Schutte as a layman. Schutte is not a layman. He has been reduced to the lay state, but he is and will always be a priest.

Well, go ahead and make the call to Detroit. It will be yet another thing we can discuss with our archbishop who has no desire to talk to us because we would ask him point blank about all the homosexualists wielding great influence on his watch here in Detroit. Notice, this is how the drama queens in the clerical, homosexual world operate — lies, distortion, playing the victim. And of course, James Martin, S.J. can't help but jump into a good drama and make it even more dramatic so he can play the role of the great persecuted spokesman for the sodomite world. And don't forget, this is the homo-heretic who is always claiming to be completely at peace — the most peace-filled cleric God ever made.

Let's be very, very clear. Martin's ecclesiology is wrong. His Christology is wrong. His soteriology is wrong. His presentation of Scripture is wrong. And owing to all that, his moral theology is completely whacked out, publicly stating that gays aren't subject to the Church's teaching on chastity. And for the record, that's heresy. Martin and all his buddies who are accepting or at best indifferent to men having sex with men and calling it a blessing from God are in league with him on this. They look for opportunities to distort or damn church teaching by re-casting Our Blessed Lord as anything other than what He was and is — divine.

You could call this whole movement "Homo-Arianism," the notion that the divinity of Jesus must be downplayed so that the pro-sodomy agenda, especially among homosexual men hiding in the priesthood, can be advanced. Martin's theology isn't theology at all but a homosexual cultural narrative using theological vocabulary to sound spiritual and religious and theological.

That a diocesan spokesman is able to keep his job working for the Church, who joins this homo-heretic cleric in bashing faithful Catholics because they are rightly upset that another gay priest will be set loose and presented as perfectly acceptable to the faithful, says all you need to know about the Establishment Church these days. They attack the faithful and support perverts in public. And then they don't even have the integrity to be upfront about the machinations taking place behind the scenes. But then again, it's never been about integrity, theological or personal, it's just all about the drama.

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If you are even slightly attuned to political or cultural happenings, which you should be given the spiritual warfare occurring in these arenas, then you have probably heard the term "the deep state." It's the name given to the covert activity within the U.S. government by leftist holdovers from the Obama years to do everything they can to destabilize any attempt by President Trump to undo decades of their sneaky Saul Alinsky tactics to completely convert America into a socialist state. All you have to do to spot their activity is look at the results — a political version of "by their fruits, ye shall know them" — so, the constant leaking of private White House conversations; the constant pounding of the now-discredited Russia, Russia, Russia narrative; the ever-expanding but still going nowhere Mueller special prosecutor probe; the attempts within the FBI to cover for Hillary's illegal activity with both Uranium One and the 33,000 missing emails and illegal server; even the wiretapping of Trump campaign officials obtained under false pretenses by Obama intel officials.

As an aside on the Hillary stuff, which once it comes fully into the light will also implicate Obama, the gamble by the Party of Death was that Hillary would win and there would be no way any further questioning could happen about her because it would be a Democratic administration that could just let the whole thing quietly pass into history. Any intrepid snoopsters nosing around too much under Hillary's administration would no doubt wind up "missing," mysteriously dead in a weird car accident or drowning or shooting or one way or another never be heard from again.

But when Trump won, the whole plan to sweep everything under the rug got blown up. There was more than one reason for all those tears and thoughts of political suicide at Democratic Party HQ  on election night in 2016. Their whole plan was now able to be exposed. So the plotting and scheming had to begin in earnest, which meant other "secret allies" would have to now come out into the open and begin the assault against Trump, namely, the leftist media. Ah, but Trump, with perhaps the best political instincts this side of Ronald Reagan, hit back against the deep state plot by taking to Twitter and counter-attacking. And that's where everything now stands.

Most Americans are fed up with the Russia, Russia thing. They believe Hillary was guilty and should be gone after, a substantial percentage agree that the media has been weaponized by the Left against Trump and the whole thing has pretty much blown up in their faces. And the plans of the deep state, while still creating a swarm of gnats type irritation for the Trump White House, has been pretty much reduced to that - a big irritant.

Trump hasn't been able to be impeached, he has not been discredited in his claims that Obama and his ilk wiretapped him illegally, and there was no collusion with Russia — boom! So now, let's use this template of the deep state and pivot to the Church, shall we? And to keep things in their proper alignment, we shall call all this that we are about to address the deep Church. Just as there has been massive plotting, scheming and otherwise evil-minded intents in the political arena to transform the American nation, so too, to a much larger degree, a parallel action has been going on in the Church only for much longer, with much more sophistication and much more important consequences although the cultural/political consequences of the deep states are not insignificant.

In the Church, for more than the past century, there has been a largely successful attempt to undermine and unseat not a president, but rather, the teaching authority of the Church. While this can never be successful in its final goal, for the teachings of the Church and Her authority come from God, not man and therefore are not reachable, the perception of these can be perverted, and this is where the deep Church has scored its major hits over the decades. Similarly, as the deep state had to remain hidden so as to best accomplish its nefarious ends, so too the deep Church preferred to remain hidden as well, hence the term "deep" as in buried and out of sight. But the fruits of their actions are everywhere.

A near worldwide apostasy brought on by numerous factors like a complete inversion of the liturgy from God-centered to man-centered, a collapse of Catholic education on all levels from grade school to universities; a devastation of religious life impossible to have imagined in centuries earlier, a near complete rejection of teaching in the areas of sexual morality; a rampant infection of sodomy and sodomites in the priesthood and many other reasons. All of these have been used and worked hand in hand with each other to bring about the erosion of the Faith and a loss of Catholic identity. It has gone largely unnoticed on any large scale until the emergence of the internet where truth has a way of bubbling up from down below.

And here, there needs to be an acknowledgment of the stalwart Catholics who held the line against the deep Church for decades prior to the rise of the internet. These were faithful solid Catholics who stood alone and were mostly buried or mocked by the Church Establishment for their efforts to demand fidelity from the shepherds. Faithful Catholics of the online age will always owe these brave Catholics a debt of gratitude too great to ever pay down, for it was their eyewitness of the horrible evils that began coming to light 40 and 50 years ago that have provided the baseline for the work now carried on by outfits such as Church Militant and a number of others.

What they were the first witnesses to was a degree of malfeasance by the deep Church that Obama's deep state could only dream of ever achieving. The entire direction of the Church was changed by these wicked men and women religious. The "smoke of Satan" that Blessed Paul VI referred to was bought into the Church by these dissidents and heretics and schismatics and apostates who were still hiding in their robes, miters and collars. It was they who corrupted vast swaths of the priesthood with their admitting and promoting of active homosexuals who went on to stand in pulpits and pervert the minds of the sheep and destroy their devotional lives and lie to the sheep about their duties to God and Man. Even more heinously, they were protected by like-minded wicked prelates or simple-minded or naive or careerist bishops suffering from hyperactive egos or cowardly streaks or a quiet hatred of the Faith.

From his very first awareness of the priesthood, Satan has gone after it with all the hellfire strength he can muster. It was right there at the institution of the priesthood in the Upper Room on Holy Thursday night that he presented himself before the Divine presence of Our Blessed Lord and had the gall to demand that God hand over to his diabolical will the Apostles, who would be the ones from whom the priesthood would descend through time. It has been the priesthood and episcopate through which Satan has introduced every heresy and evil into the Church from schism to heresy to a denial of truth. From Arius to Nestorius to Luther to James Martin with scads in between, they have each and all been his instruments to invade the Bride of Christ and bring Her to ruin. And as fantastical as some blissful Catholics may find this, ask yourself this question, "Do you not think there is a devil who desires that all mankind perish?" If this be true then wouldn't it also be the case that he would most energetically spend himself in destroying the one and only single entity which triumphs over him — the Catholic Church. And if that be true, then the means by which the Church is best able to do battle against him is the power buried deep in the priesthood, given to the Church by Christ Himself, for it brings us sanctifying grace in the sacraments.

The deep state is populated by sinister men intent on destroying the natural law underpinnings of the American state to convert it to a socialist nation. The deep Church is populated by wicked men, some of whom are self-deceived — intent on bringing a new man-centered Church into being. The deep state is obedient to a philosophy and ideology of evil. The deep Church does the will of their father — the devil.