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A Father's story.​

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Last Thursday, we told you about that day, July 27th, being the 60th anniversary of my dad's converting to the Catholic faith. Church Militant is sometimes portrayed and spoken of as this rigid, unjoyful group who care about doctrine and not people. Well, the staff knocked off a little early last Thursday to go spend the afternoon with my dad, Russ Voris, and celebrate his conversion with him.

We gathered at my house and had a little barbecue and social. Nothing more than a group of roughly 30 Catholics celebrating the joy of the Faith with one particular shining example of it — himself.

Here's a little video of the party, shot and edited home movie style, and put together very nicely by Ryan Seybold.

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For the past week or so, I've had to split my usual duties here at the apostolate with taking care of my father, who has been hospitalized since more than a week ago with a pretty serious bout of pneumonia. Please keep him in your prayers. He's doing somewhat OK — all things considered — but is by no means in the clear. Spending so much time and rearranging my usual life around tending to him at the hospital has given me the opportunity to step out so to speak from the usual bubble of Church Militant. I've had to go to Mass and confession in places where I don't usually attend and wow! If I have ever had a doubt or wonder that what we do here is not sorely needed, I can dispel those doubts.

First, I went to Sunday Mass at a typical parish here in the incredibly shrinking, Alpha-loving archdiocese of Detroit — a parish much closer to the hospital where my dad is. Things are even worse than I remember. How about, for starters, the priest changing the words of the Creed? Yes, because, you know, the current one offends people, so let's just change it. Man, it's hard to sit through these stylized Masses "performed" by aging hippie-priests who are stuck in the 1970s.

The Church, you know, the one who owns the Creed, Her own Creed has the line "was incarnate of the Virgin Mary and became Man." Well, Fr. Hippie changed it to "was incarnate of the Virgin Mary and became one of us." I was so ticked off — as a committed Catholic should be — I very loudly yelled out "Man, became Man!" But the sensitivities of Fr. Hippie's aging parishioners are don't use terms or vocabulary that stress anything masculine so rob Jesus of His maleness.

There were about 100 people at the only Sunday morning Mass and sitting in the back row I could easily see the make-up of the congregation. In fact, the colliding of walkers and canes and oxygen tanks was a little startling because it shows just how aged and out of touch the Church of Nice is. It is dying and dying pretty quickly. Just as the various bishops all over the country who are trying to pry, however, many hundreds of millions of dollars from the near-dying hands of their parishioners because when they are dead, that's it. The young for the most part have already deserted the Church. So when this crop of bishops who have contributed to this spiritual madness die and stand before Our Lord, they will stand there with lots of cold hard cash in their hands but very few souls.

Want some more evidence of the rot? An Extraordinary Minister of Holy Communion, an elderly lady, came into my dad's room to give him Our Lord. While she was there with Jesus present in the Blessed Sacrament, I knelt down. Just as she was leaving, and I started to get back up and sit down again next to Dad’s bed, she poked her head back in and said, "You know, I've been doing this for 11 years, and you are the first person who has ever knelt down." In the course of 11 years, she has undoubtedly been in the rooms of hundreds of patients with thousands of Catholic family members and not one has ever knelt down when Our Lord came in. Great work, bishops. Great work, clergy. Great work, you crazy, social justice nuns.

Want another? I went downstairs to Mass at the hospital — it's a Catholic hospital — for the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception. I arrived pretty early on purpose because I wanted to go to confession. So, I asked the priest, and he said he didn't have enough time to hear my confession. But he did say "let me give you absolution" which he did without confession. He then went on for a number of minutes to explain to me what general absolution was, a considerably longer time than my short confession would have taken. So, why not just hear my confession and give me absolution, like normal?

So, what have I seen in one short week outside the bubble of faithful Catholicism that I live in? Mind you, this was every "encounter" I had with the Church of Nice this week — a priest changing the words of the Creed; another priest giving absolution without hearing my sins and first-hand testimony of a complete collapse of belief in the Real Presence. And my goodness, this was all within three square miles within the archdiocese of Detroit.

Perhaps, the archbishop here, Allen Vigneron, who is running a $130 million fundraising campaign and pushing Protestant Alpha like his eternal life depends on it, maybe he should start stepping out a little more often. Because what's going on in this archdiocese which is going on in many of them is no way to save the Church. In fact, it's a virtual guarantee of how you make it vanish.

What has to happen to make particular bishops realize they are killing the Church in the West?

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Merry Christmas! It's that time of year again. The war on Christmas has begun. Say it loudly and proudly: Merry Christmas! Do not give into that annoying, grinding Happy Holidays sentiment.

Ah! But if you listen to Jesuit priest Fr. Kevin O'Brien at Santa Clara University in California, you will hear that "Jesus doesn't care if you say Merry Christmas." In a manner only a liberal Jesuit — I know, redundant, in liberal California, again, redundant — could the underlying problem of the war on Christmas be so glossed over with such nutty, intellectual-sounding sophistry. By the way, parents who are concerned about your children's souls, don't send your kids to this college where a man like O'Brien is in charge of the School of Theology.

He offers two distortions, reasonable sounding without any deeper thought, as to why Christians should not say Merry Christmas. First, Jesus was not into self-promotion. Two, we live in a pluralistic and diverse society and can never offend. Yes, part of being Christian is always keeping very quiet about Jesus Christ's divinity and stepping aside for other religions or non-religions because we can never offend and must always "respect" man-made religions.

First, Our Blessed Lord, true, was not into "self-promotion" as it is commonly understood. But that isn't what Jesus was doing. The idea that saying Merry Christmas would make Jesus somehow blush and feel awkward because it draws attention to Himself — ludicrous!

"I am the Way, the Truth and the Life."

"Come to Me, all you who are burdened and heavy laden."

"No one comes to the Father except through Me."

"Go out and baptize all nations."

What is the great idiocy that Fr. O'Brien presents as the proper "internal" approach? Well, he sets up a false dichotomy between saying the words "Merry Christmas" and being Christian in our actions, presenting it as though you can't do both. It doesn't matter if we say Merry Christmas. What matters is that we just are quietly Christian in our thoughts and actions.

Well, of course, we have to be Christian in all things but that would include using our mouths, as well and saying Merry Christmas. What an embarrassment the Jesuits have become ever since they were tainted with liberation theology more than 50 years ago. Everything sounds so reasonable, but underlying it all is a great desertion of the Faith, and it's always packaged in such a way that makes it sound OK.

Jesus was humble. He would never have wanted to be the center of attention. Yes, sure enough, Father with all your academic concentration on social justice in the arena of refugees and immigration, perhaps you were sick for class the day you were supposed to study the Scripture passage: "When I am lifted up, I will draw all men to Myself."

Catholics, don't ever draw back from saying Merry Christmas because of fear of offending somehow. As for you specifically, Fr. O'Brien, "Merry Christmas," if that doesn't offend you.

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The destruction of the Faith, on so many levels and in so many ways, will truly go down as the hallmark of Church history of this past 50 years or so and continuing. For example, when we look at the outrageous notion that the much ballyhooed and promoted Alpha evangelization program is a good idea, we see massively contradictory statements and even some rare candor by the Church of Nice leaders.

For example, let's begin with their video of the former auxiliary bishop of Detroit, Michael Byrnes, a major cheerleader for Alpha. Listen carefully to how candidly this successor of the Apostles speaks about the miserable program.

Talk about condemned out of your own mouth — this idiotic notion that the Church needs to tone down the glory of who She is and that will make people be attracted to Her. Sure because that's always how a very attractive woman gets guys to look at her. She wears the dowdiest thing in her closet, puts on no make-up, no jewelry, has the most unflattering hairdo imaginable, goes out on a bad skin day with a slight body odor and says, "Hey guys, look at me." Wouldn't want to overwhelm them now, would we? Why would she deceive potential courtiers like that? And why would Church leaders go "all in" on deceiving people, allowing them to think the Church is something other than She is. It's almost like tricking them. Hey, the Church isn't really all that.

So for 10 weeks, you cover the Church's beauty and then you tell your audience She really is the most beautiful thing on earth. It's a deception, and it causes confusion because it's loaded with half-truths. And yet it is allowed, promoted and not spoken out against by very many leaders, with the notable exception of Cdl. Raymond Burke who has condemned it and refused to allow it anywhere near Catholics he is in charge of catechizing.

In many ways, it is much like the treatment of the alleged apparitions at Medjugorje. There is so much confusion and agenda-based "reporting" and information swirling around these apparitions because just like Alpha leaders, they are terrified of off-putting people with the naked truth of the Catholic faith. Many leaders are running scared about, out-and-out denouncing the apparitions because they have allowed this chicanery to persist for so long, maybe in hopes it would just go away that now for them to come out and condemn it would cause an earthquake among those who are nearly possessed over the phenomena. But consider, local bishops have condemned it, the nation's bishops' conference has denounced it. The Vatican on multiple occasions has forbidden pilgrimages there if they revolve around the alleged apparitions and so forth.

You'd be hard-pressed, in fact, to find anything remotely approaching confirmation of the apparitions from anyone in the Church in any kind of official capacity, yet the confusion still reigns and is brought on by various clerics and bishops and senior Churchmen who keep making vague statements that give the Medjugorje supporters reasons to explode with exuberance that the "Vatican has at last approved." Nothing of the sort has happened but because of the mealy-mouthed, wimpy refusal to just come out and say it like it is, they continue to dangle out a false hope that this is all real. And who can blame them for thinking that?

That this nearly 40-year daily event has been allowed to continue, this isn't the fault so much of the followers as the cowardly Churchmen who have dragged their feet for decades in putting a stop to it all. And the fires are constantly being fanned by media-hungry prelates who keep babbling on with their ill-informed statements. Just this past weekend, for example, the specially appointed Vatican envoy made the ridiculous mistake of not being precise when he said pilgrimages are now approved to Medjugorje.

First, general pilgrimages have always been allowed. Nothing new there as long as they are not giving the impression that the apparitions are true. Even in itself, that's stupid. Think about it. We are going to allow pilgrimages to a place where claims that the Virgin Mary has been appearing tens of thousands of times for nearly 40 years but please don't anyone get the impression that doing a pilgrimage there has a blessed thing to do with those apparitions. What is a reasonable person supposed to think? When the envoy ran off at the mouth about the pilgrimages, the so-called Med-head blog sites exploded with fake news that Medjugorje had finally been approved. Nothing could be further from the truth.

In fact, if you were a betting man, you would bet on just the opposite. Every possible investigation that can be done has been done, and the final clause, closed report is sitting with the pope now. Just this past summer, here is what he said publicly about his private opinion. It isn't done yet, but it sure sounds like it's going to be. But whatever the ruling, this atmosphere of confusion and failure to say something clearly and plainly is destroying the Faith. And the whole point of this Vortex is this, "Say it clearly and say it now."

Medjugorje, Alpha, Fr. James Martin and his uncondemned heresies, no contraception but never teach about it — the list of things left up in the air, allowed, but shouldn't be, charity with little-required clarity. It's mind-boggling. If something is allowed, even though it's wrong, what on earth do leaders think people are going to think, especially when it goes on for decades? It's deceptive because people have a right to the Truth.

It seems the prevailing attitude in the Church of Nice is to bury the Truth and concentrate on making people feel good. That's dishonest, deceptive and confusing.

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If there was ever a time for militancy in the Church, this is that time. But please note, militancy comes in a variety of forms. There is, of course, the militancy of faith — prayer, fasting, sacrifices etc. But there is also the militancy of action, of works. Faith, after all, without works, is dead.

There is an attitude among many faithful Catholics that bishops and priests simply can never be questioned and certainly not challenged. Many of the more progressive or careerist bishops and priests play this up to their advantage. Which is kind of funny because while insisting on a degree of obedience from the laity — a degree of obedience the laity do not owe to bad prudential decisions  — they themselves will be disobedient in matters of which they actually are supposed to be obedient.

For example, let's begin with proper instruction in the Faith — an area massively ignored for the past 50 years and still ignored or substituted for with protestantized, watered-down instruction. If you got to hear the radio interview with a local Scranton, Pennsylvania, radio show last week where I was a guest and talking about Fr. James Martin's scheduled address there, the host, a pleasant enough fellow, Frank Andrews, at one point said to me he was "uncomfortable" with challenging bishops. He had viewed an earlier Vortex where I said Bp. Joseph Bambera was flat out wrong for supporting homosexualist James Martin and had, as a consequence, made the label of homosexualist apply to himself as well. He is advancing, defending and promoting the homoheresy, as Polish priest Fr. Darius Oko calls it. So a cleric, any cleric, who supports the homoheresy is by definition a homosexualist. But notice the immediate reaction. The host was "uncomfortable" with criticizing a bishop or priest for that fact.

That whole approach is how the homosexual, priest-sex abuse crisis rose to the disastrous level it did with thousands of wounded souls — some of whom committed suicide — and $4 billion in damages and counting — right, Cdl. Timothy Dolan, who just shelled out another $40 million dollars. Remember that New York Catholics when Dolan comes around with his tin cup.

We laity do not owe obedience to a bishop or cleric's bad prudential decision that has the effect of destroying the Faith through scandal. Bishop's all over the country told naive laity back in the day not to mention anything about Fr. Chester the Molester. Then, they transferred him to parish after parish. They played the laity, capitalizing on their image of one commanding obedience in all things, which they do not.

Yet still, good Catholics have this wrong. They are still "uncomfortable" with saying things about a bishop or priest's decisions that are harmful to the Church. From allowing bad dissident priests to run parishes, to horrible heterodox faculty at seminaries, to backing homoheresy-promoting priests, to keeping their mouths shut very tightly about contraception etc, the list of abuses is mind-boggling. And of course, they paint the whole social justice garbage agenda — immigration, climate change, gun control, the death penalty - as though it's dogma, and they can never be challenged.

The task of helping advance the Faith and saving the Church has fallen directly to the laity as Venerable Abp. Fulton Sheen said 40 years ago. And since we are not just spiritual beings but also composed of matter, existing in the material world, our purely spiritual works must be joined to temporal works as well.

Consider for a moment what Our Blessed Lord desires from us. Think about the wedding at Cana when Our Blessed Mother launched Our Lord to His Sacred Passion by asking Him to reveal His Divinity by performing the miracle of producing wine where there formerly was none. Did Our Lord just wave His hands and voila, there was wine? No. He desired that human agency participates in His action. He bade the waiters to "fill the jars with water." Why? He could have just had the thought, and they would have been filled with water. In fact, He would have just skipped the whole water part and gone straight to the wine. Why the water? Because he wanted humanity to have a participation in His miraculous working, and it was quite the participation.

Back in the day, the amount of effort to fill those large jars with water would have been enormous — going back and forth to the well, drawing the water out, transporting it back to the location of the jars, filling them up. Only after humanity had supplied the material labor so to speak, did Our Blessed Lord step in and finish the job.

We cannot simply retreat into piety in these difficult and challenging days in the Church. We must fill the jars with water — do the backbreaking work that we are capable of doing — have some "skin in the game" so to speak and not just sit back and wait for a miracle and claim that we trust when the reality is that we are actually lazy or selfish. Say a few prayers, and I've done my part. Not good enough, if you or your state in life render you capable of doing more.

Make sure you are not tricking yourself by focusing so much on prayer that you never actually roll up your sleeves and do the work that faith demands.

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The culture has embraced contraception and sexual license, and what do we see — that the glorification of sex has resulted in the widespread acceptance of women being sexually abused, raped, harassed, treated as objects just as Bl. Pope Paul VI said it would. Not that these things didn't occur before the Sexual Revolution. Of course, they did. But the 1960s brought in an era where women increasingly went along with and accepted the objectification, selling their bodies to politicians and movie moguls and media giants and pornography distributors to advance their careers. They took off their clothes for movie cameras and engaged in sexual activity on the big screen and the small screen and helped fuel a climate of hyper-sexualization of the culture. They called this "liberation."

It permeated fashions, so-called art, entertainment and helped launch the world of pornography and sexual addiction. When you look at the sidelines of almost every NFL team, for example, you see scantily clad women who are essentially strippers, euphemistically called cheerleaders and directors happily cut to as many shots of their dancing around as the broadcast permits.

Women who have been abused, raped and harassed are victims, true. But many are not innocent victims. Some are. Others are not. To the extent that they have willingly ripped off their clothes with cameras rolling, dressed in the most provocative suggestive clothing specifically designed to draw attention to their sexual parts and cause sexual arousal, debased themselves to the level of lustful men and created a climate of sexual saturation, no one can be surprised by what is now being revealed. Do they deserve it — no. Can anyone actually be surprised? How could they?

Exactly what message do we think two or three generations of teenage boys are getting when Hollywood starlets act out explicit sex scenes in movies, oftentimes gratuitously? What do they walk out of the theater thinking about women, who in the movie plots, present themselves as sexual objects and use their sexual powers to advance themselves? And what about young women in the theaters watching these same scenes? Perhaps they are not aroused in the same manner as young men but what message are they getting? Take off your clothes, and the world is your oyster. That's the message.

This, of course, does not apply to all women, for some truly are victims, innocent victims. But just how much of a truly innocent victim is a woman who presents herself as a sexual object in her dress, speech, manner, interaction, profession and daily life and then — shocker — gets treated like a sexual object? Is the man wrong? Absolutely. Should he go to jail or pay a penalty in some other way? Almost assuredly.

But the elite feministas, please stop with the #MeToo when you went along with it and more than that actually encouraged it to advance your careers and standing in your professions. If you thrive in the hook-up culture, take birth control so you can engage in sex whenever you want, encouraging men to look on you as just a sex object, stop shrieking and feigning shock when you get treated like a sex object. You have contributed to the cause of the problem. Many of the #MeToo women have murdered their children in the womb, essentially fueling a climate where men can escape the responsibility of fatherhood and avoid any responsibility for their actions.

Sixty million and counting little Americans have been butchered alive — sacrificed on the altar on sexual license — just so many women could feel liberated and equal to men but equal only in the sense of sin and filth. Why would women in their noble desire to achieve social equality choose to be equal with regard to the dark side of masculinity?

Women may not share in the guilt of all this, as much as some men who cannot control themselves, but to pretend they are all innocent and spotless pure little lambs when they have stripped off for the covers of Playboy and the centerfolds of Penthouse, when they have been celebrated for their nudity by other women in the media and received Oscars and Golden Globes and accolades of every sort, again by other women, as well as men — come on ladies.

Is your view of "liberation" and "equality" a world where you can flaunt your sexual prowess and sport your sexuality in the most provocative manner imaginable and expect to not provoke? Is that what you want your daughters to learn being a woman is all about — flaunting your parts? Even Madonna's daughter was creeped out by her mother's sexual displays. Get yourselves and your daughters out of the skin-tight, practically painted-on jeans, the nearly non-existent swimsuits and near-transparent blouses, all designed specifically to get boys to look at them as sexual objects and then maybe your case of #MeToo would sound a little less shallow. But right now, even though it perhaps started as a good public awareness model, it has quickly deformed into a political weapon being used by the Democratic Party machinery to rev up the engines of the "War on Women" tactic in advance of the 2018 midterm elections.

When you stop wearing clothes and accepting roles specifically designed to accentuate how incredible it would be to have sex with you, then maybe people will stop viewing you as just someone to have sex with. And it can't go without saying, a woman who contracepts, regardless of the means, makes herself a sexual object for her partner. What else can she be for him once she chooses to contracept? When you consciously, intentionally eliminate the possibility of conception, it really is "just sex" and at least one makes him/herself a sexual object for the other!

So, no one should be surprised at the current rage of hypocrisies. "It's just sex" has become "normal" and has been for decades. No one should ever be treated like a sexual object but neither should anyone present themselves so obviously as exactly that and then be surprised at the response. Women who present like this are responsible for the sins men commit in response and will answer to God for the sins they inspired. Men will answer for those sins, too, but intentional and flagrant immodesty is not a "free pass" for women. They don't get to say "I have not one shred of responsibility for what men think and do in response to how I dress or appear nude in movies etc." when you are dressing or stripping precisely to make them think of you in sexual terms.

The emphasis of #MeToo needs to switch from "I was abused" to "I am going to own up to my share of the responsibility."

A little modesty goes a long way. It's why it's a virtue.

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The great Solemnity of Christmas is finally upon us and how splendid and glorious it is. Traditional hymns and Christmas songs contain great theological lessons within them — individual lines, even, carrying more weight and truth than a typical homily. "Veiled in Flesh Thy Godhead see, hail the Incarnate Deity" from "Hark the Herald Angels Sing." Or how about "Remember Christ Our Savior was born on Christmas day; to save us all from Satan's power when we were gone astray" from "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen."

What is Christmas other than the initiation of Heaven's great plan to bring about our redemption? Yet so overwhelming is that single thought, so impossible to get our minds around, that God Himself would actually come to save us that it has to be packaged up and presented in the most innocent and simple of presentations — a small little baby. Nothing Heaven does is ever short of stunning. This, however, for us cannot remain the sole disposition — to just stand at the creche and marvel, as marvelous and worthy of being marveled over as it is.

During the solemnity of Christmas, the octave or the eight days following, the particular feasts Holy Mother Church proposes for us to contemplate, don't at first seem to have anything to do with Christmas, yet, there they are, nestled right into the very octave itself. The day after Christmas Day is the feast of St. Stephen — the first man martyred for the Faith. Then, we have immediately following him the feast of the Holy Innocents — the male children under two years old butchered by Herod's lust for power. Then, there is two days later, the feast of St. Thomas Becket, murdered at the altar by yet another vicious monarch thirsty for power.

Why does Our Holy Mother Church insert such reminders into the very Octave of Christmas itself? Because total offering is what Christmas is all about. It's difficult to keep this in mind amidst all the hubbub of a secularized Christmas where the emphasis has been completely flipped from giving to getting. But this is precisely what Christmas is all about, giving ourselves to that small child who gave up everything, even the visible grandeur of His glory so that He might save us. "Mild He lays His glory by, born that men no more may die, born to raise the sons of earth, born to give them second birth" from "Hark the Herald angels sing," again.

So, while you are standing at the creche after Mass this Christmas season offer the most sincere prayer you can of gratitude: Thank you, my sweet Babe, for all You have done to save me. Then immediately follow up with a petition: Take my whole life as you gave yours and as this week's martyrs gave theirs in imitation of You so that I may be joined to You in the great work of Your salvation of saving souls.

Christmas is about nothing less than dying to ourselves. God love you — and from the entire staff here at St. Michael's Media and Church Militant, a very blessed, happy and Holy Christmas to all of you and your family and friends.

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There is only one path to salvation and that is through Jesus Christ and the Church He established to continue the work of His salvation throughout time. There is no access to Jesus Christ apart from the Catholic Church. This is why His Holy Spouse has always declared, outside this Church, there is no salvation.

The sole purpose of the Church, with Her divinely instituted sacraments, is to ensure that a soul departs from this life in a state of sanctifying grace, meaning that the Holy Trinity is firmly established and living in that soul. So, then it just becomes a natural-supernatural extension of this life — like things go to like things. A soul in which the Trinity is established simply goes to the Trinity at death as it passes from this valley of tears into the glorious Kingdom of Heaven. Nothing could be more natural than to be simply lifted into the supernatural because that is the state the soul was in at death.

So, too, however, is the opposite that the soul which is spiritually dead at the moment of earthly death also goes to where it is most fitting for it. The soul that dies in a state of mortal sin has no desire to unite to Him, is in fact repulsed by the light and love of God, and so it flees. And God permits it to flee from Him — just as He permitted the Jews at Capernaum to flee from Him who would not accept His command given in great love and desire for intimacy to eat His Flesh and drink His Blood as a condition of eternal life.

You hear so little talk in the Church these days of sin and Satan. Leaders are too caught up in the earthly notions and machinations of a humanist Church that there is practically no more room for the supernatural, so great is the emphasis on the natural. Listening to so many bishops and misguided clerics, you'd think if there was such a thing as sin — which to them it doesn't appear there is — that the greatest sin would be increasing your carbon footprint and not planting a tree in reparation.

The Church exists to help people, help souls escape Satan, to defeat Satan in their personal lives so that at the moment of death they win, and they are freed for eternity from him — never ever able to sin again or even desire to. Passing from earthly life, the victorious soul is ushered into the presence of the Living God, accompanied by St. Michael the Angel of Death and witnessed and testified to and prayed for by the Mother of God, who crushed the serpent's head, and all the saints and angels and prophets.

All of their deeds and actions and thoughts are brought into the Light. Judgment is pronounced based on those deeds, and the soul is saved — perhaps, even likely, a duration in the fires of Purgatory to pay whatever remains of their temporal punishment incurred for their sins so as to prepare them for an eternity of glory, but they are saved. They have become a saint. They have achieved faith's goal — their salvation. And look! Either all of this is true or it's complete lunacy. But it isn't partially true. It isn't half-true. The entire structure of the Church is built on this single most important reality.

This is why we are appealing to you to sign up today for a Premium membership because this truth and announcing it is what we are completely dedicated to, here, at Church Militant and St. Michael's Media. Nothing else matters if a soul does not die in a state of sanctifying grace. People must come to understand that the purpose of their life is to defeat Satan in their own personal circumstances. That is not possible outside the Church because no human is strong enough to even resist Satan, much less defeat him on their own. It's why Our Lord established the Catholic Church. It's why he had to announce that the gates of Hell would never prevail against this Church — His Church.

What a horrible set of affairs has descended on this Church where this message which is the ultimate reality is almost completely ignored. Well, we won't ignore it, just as my father who is going to his death has not ignored it and made it the central aspect of his life. He will go to Our Blessed Lord and Our Blessed Mother to whom he had such a great, great devotion with the blood of the serpent on his sword, having defeated the ancient enemy by the power given to him through the sacraments of the Catholic Church. His life, therefore, was a success.

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Catholic media is, overall, in a woeful state, most especially Catholic Establishment Media, meaning those who will not or cannot report everything going on in the Church because their bread is buttered by the bishops and their lackeys. It's astonishing really — the claim to be "journalists" and "reporters" and "sources of information" — not really, at least not everything and certainly not the most important things: the dreadful miserable horrible job the bishops and the establishment have done at passing on the Faith. And most Catholic media, with rare exception, who get paid by the Establishment directly or indirectly, report on next to none of this and certainly never place the blame where it needs to go because they would have their names stricken from every monument in Egypt like Pharaoh did to Moses in Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments.

There are even memes appearing now on social media. When non-journalists start posting memes or news about what Catholic so-called journalists will not report on, then the Establishment Catholic Media has lost all credibility. It's very similar to the networks simply refusing to report on the largest annual gathering in Washington each and every year, the March for Life. Half a million people show up and crickets.

Consider this story, collectively ignored by Catholic so-called journalists. We live in a country where there is mass abortion, sodomites are praised as ideal citizens, there is mass proliferation of pornography, more divorces than marriage, parents mutilating their children's genitals, universal cohabitation and fornication, where it is next to impossible to raise a family with just one parent working, and within the Church liturgical abuse is universal, where there is a massive contingent of sodomite clergy destroying the Church with bishops who covered for their sex crimes against altar boys, where heretical clergy deliberately confuse the faithful and are given platforms to speak from by bishops at conferences, with the Church on the brink of perhaps its greatest schism ever, where Catholic schools are in complete financial ruin and Catholic universities are almost guarantees of losing your faith, where heretical and sodomite clergy create a vocation crisis by booting out or not allowing in various orthodox young men, where these same heterodox clergy pound the drum for women's ordination, where a huge majority of women religious deny some or most of the teachings of the Church and where a huge massive number of poorly formed laity are converting to what essentially amounts to Low Church Protestantism.

All of that is going on and much, much more, and yet President Trump begins enforcing laws about deporting illegal immigrants, and the bishops go ballistic. How on God's green earth could any so-called journalist or reporter within the Catholic world think all of that is not worth reporting on? In private, many will tell you, of course, all of that is newsworthy and needs to be reported but will not say a peep in public because they are paid not to report on it.

The same is true of course of all the rest of the "Catholic glitterati" who make a living tramping from men's to women's conferences and write books and get on Catholic radio to push themselves as reliable Catholics. When they talk about the Faith, for the most part, no real problem. But it's not what they are saying but what they are not saying. They will not talk about the reason — the failure of the hierarchy — as the major contributing factor to the loss of faith of your family and loved ones. To talk about these things means they become unemployed.  

They should start speaking the full truth of the chaos in the Church or stop posing as reliable sources. They are every bit as bad as the CNN fake news empire, but in some ways even worse. They deprive you of the necessary knowledge to understand the full context of what is going on in the Church, even though they know it themselves. And for those of you "journalists" who have been forwarded this Vortex and are watching it, do you think that your selfishness will not be weighed in the scales against you at your judgments? Unlike millions of peasant Catholics, you have a bullhorn and know the Truth, but you will not announce it for fear of losing the respect and money afforded you by the shops and Establishment.

In fact, all that only stands to reason. The bishops will not announce the fullness of truth because they fear the loss of respect of men, and you all won't say what needs to be said about them for fear of loss of their respect and your paychecks. You know the truth and will not say it, and the failure to tell the truth and expose the wickedness in the Church costs souls. You hide behind self-motivated claims of saying the truth is "not charitable" when the reality is that you won't say it because you are afraid of the consequences. You are among the most egregious of hypocrites in the Church because you hide behind "charity" while being the least charitable of all because you place your own self-interest over those of souls. So keep soothing yourselves with thoughts of rushing off to speak at this or that Catholic conference and appearing on radio or TV shows. Have you noticed that your audiences are growing smaller and smaller as they age and die? You have contributed to this greatly by your silence. You should fear God much more than men.

From those to whom much is given, much will be demanded.