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Last summer, in the wake of the shocking Pennsylvania grand jury report, Church Militant predicted that a wave of state attorneys general investigations would begin and that it would reach a large enough scale that the U.S. Justice Department would be looking at RICO charges against the Church nationally, treating it as an organized crime syndicate.

We felt and still feel confident in all this for the simple reason that sources we have in Rome told us back then that the number one fear the Vatican had was the launching of a RICO investigation because that would inevitably lead back to the Vatican, which is proving more and more to be cover-up headquarters.

A number of things have transpired in just the last few days that are making this more and more of a reality.

First, it became apparent last week, with Pope Francis' document saying essentially that the laity will not be allowed to have anything to do with the clean-up of the Church and that the bishops would investigate themselves, that Rome is not serious about anything other than business as usual.

Second, in what is becoming commonplace these days, yet another raid by law enforcement was conducted as a search warrant is served, this one on the diocese of Dallas as officials said the diocese was not cooperating with turning over all necessary documents as part of a statewide investigation into the cover-up.

You can look for many more such raids around the country in the coming weeks because when bishops are not dealing satisfactorily to the minds of the courts, battering rams and search warrants are always an option.

Third, noted sex abuse attorney Jeff Anderson has filed suit in federal court against the Vatican asking the U.S. government to invoke the 1976 Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, which, in short, means that Washington would ask Rome to turn over boatloads of information that the Vatican has so far not provided about sex abuse cases and the resulting cover-up.

It's highly doubtful that even if Anderson were to prevail and then Washington would prevail upon Rome to hand over what would likely be tens of thousands of pages and files, that the Vatican would comply.

However, Rome's refusal would certainly put a strain on relations, and that would be one more piece in the puzzle demonstrating that the Church has no concern about this evil.

There was one point in Anderson's filings that Church Militant actually brought out last November at the bishops' annual meeting.

Recall that at the very start of the meeting — literally the very start, as the bishops were gathered to address this very topic — a letter arrived from Pope Francis ordering them to stop all discussion and any voting and wait until he convened the sex summit in Rome in February.

Church Militant said back then that that move would add to calls for a RICO investigation because it would demonstrate that the U.S. bishops as a body are taking orders from Rome in this whole cover-up mess.

That is the very definition of an organized crime syndicate, that the criminal activity crosses state and, in this case, international borders as well and is being orchestrated, organized from one central location — a syndicate.

As we said, we pointed that out last November, and lo and behold, that very point is highlighted in Anderson's filing asking Washington to intervene with the Vatican.

This whole house of cards, all brought about by homosexual men who were ordained as priests and consecrated as bishops for decades, is about to come tumbling down. The feds and the states continue to close in.

And still, to this very day, the dominant leaders in the Church in the United States continue to maintain it has nothing to do with homosexuality.

The case that Anderson filed involved five males who were sexually assaulted by homopredator clergy.

There are none so blind as those who will not see.

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The Left is coming for you, giving a modern day context to the quote misattributed to Marxist Leon Trotsky, "You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you."

Ah, yes, war is always interested in you — the war the Left has unleashed on Western civilization through the civilization's institutions.

And what exactly is the Left using the war to get of yours? Very simple: your soul. Only with the understanding of war — war for your soul, meaning spiritual warfare played out in the daily decisions of a society — does any of the current madness make sense.

Men pretending to themselves that they are women, competing in female sports and shattering records; corporations saying they will no longer accept the understanding of a so-called "binary world" where there are just two sexes; social media giants blowing up the accounts of virtually any person willing to challenge the lunacy of the Left — this is all being done to force a new world down everyone's throats. And don't think this isn’t coming, indeed, hasn't already started to come to a neighborhood near you.

Take, for example, the recent defeat of the Religious Freedom Law in Texas. That law would have protected business owners with publicly stated religious opinions from adverse government action.

The proposed law, House Bill 3172, got the nickname the "Chick-fil-A Bill" because when the fast food company wanted to open some more stores in San Antonio city airports, the city council refused to grant the necessary permits because of the business owners strongly held and stated opinions about homosexuality and same-sex marriage.

The bill was killed not on its merits, but by parliamentary lobbying tactics by the state's homosexual lobby group. There was a justified uproar about the case once it became wider known and Texas lawmakers said it was the perfect example of why the law was necessary so that governments could not penalize businesses because of their political or moral or religious views.

But that understanding of fairness only seems to apply to the Left — at least as far as the Left is concerned. Could you imagine the wailing and gnashing of teeth that would on the Left occur if the shoe was on the other foot?

And for the record, although you probably could already guess, the Texas Catholic Conference, the state's bishops, had nothing to say on the matter. Yep, the Catholic conference, in what seems like it should have been a "no-brainer" was completely dumb-struck on the issue of religious freedom.

The Left is relentless and shameless. And they will not stop until they have either converted you or eradicated you — and if not you, then your children.  

These are not just political policy-type considerations or prudential societal decisions, these are, at their very core, spiritual matters which determine a person's eternal destiny.

This is why all of this, no matter the arena, no matter the matter, must be fully vetted and placed under a microscope — a spiritual microscope.

In the end, it's all about spirituality, spiritual truth, meaning whether a soul is saved or damned. Yep, day by day, they are coming for you, and to date, your spiritual fathers have offered little by way of defense, and in frequent cases, they have sold you out, owing to their own perversions or willful neglect.

What Catholics need to come to terms with is that many of the bishops are actually supportive of the Democratic Party's worldview.

And since that worldview is diametrically opposed to Christ, well, now you see the disaster which has befallen the Church.

We need to all see and understand and tell our loved ones that the Left wants your children, and you, out of the picture. And given the current rate of success of the Left since this plan was rolled out, it would appear around just another five years or so until they have almost completely won.

Will everyday Catholics step up and save civilization?

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So Fr. James Martin, who is not much of a father in any meaningful sense of the word, continues to rape souls.

Last week, he celebrated and defended a blasphemous treatment by an artist of Poland's Black Madonna who had changed the halos of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the baby Jesus into the colors that modern sensibilities have come to associate with sodomy.

Martin said that Catholic art has supported all sorts of human conditions and why shouldn't the sin of sodomy be represented in Catholic art so sodomites can feel like they are accepted?

He posed his diabolically twisted thought in a question asking, "Are Mary and Jesus only for straight people?"

No, you perverted preacher, they are for all people who turn from their sin and change their lives, but you purveyor of filth and the demonic never mention that part — which is, of course, the most important.

If that is not accepted and conformed to, then the person — gay, straight or anything else — is damned, including lying, twisted, Jesuit clerics.

Then a couple days later, the twisted mind of Martin vomited praise on a young evangelical preacher, Brandan Robertson, who says that men having sex with not just another man, but multiple men is "holy."

Twisted perverted Martin called this strange heretic a "true disciple of Christ." Martin is a twisted pervert.

There isn't a doctrine or teaching of the Church he wouldn't twist and pervert to his sick mind so as to excuse his acceptance of homosexual lust. He is out of control, and the main reason he is, is simple: because he is allowed to be.

There doesn't appear to be a bishop in the United States who loves souls, even their own, enough to push back against the perversion of this man. Some openly embrace his perversion of the Faith like the Faith perverts they themselves are: Blase Cupich, Joseph Tobin, John Stowe and others.

But the majority of them say nothing, and by so doing they commit the deadly — yes, deadly as in mortal sin; are you listening, Shepherds? — mortal sin of deadly silence. You say nothing. You commit the sin of omission for which many souls are damned.

Yet many of them will not pass up the chance to condemn Church Militant — most in private, some in public.

They have published wanted posters for us; had priests read denunciation letters against us from the pulpit; issued multiple press releases full of lies and distortions, and even mocked us publicly at conference gatherings.

So refusing to denounce Martin publicly can't be a case of they are too afraid to speak up, because they certainly seem to have no fear of speaking up about Church Militant and other faithful Catholics in the public eye.

So why would practically none of them ever breath one word against the pervert priest, and yet feel no compunction at all to lie about us, calling us demonic, diabolical and divisive.

Do they not believe those are descriptors of Martin, but somehow easily apply them to Church Militant. Or is it the case that their minds are polluted by their own homosexuality?

The men who are shepherds of the Church today are by far and away hirelings and nothing more. They have no regard for their own souls — why do you think they would care for yours?

They do not care about you, as they cover up homopredator priests; lie about their cover-ups, sell off your property to be used as bars and nightclubs and pervert the minds and Catholic sensibilities of seminarians.

Not one of them has spoken out loudly and clearly about this twisted priest whose soul likewise they seem to care nothing about. But they breathe all manner of fire and fury about Church Militant — in private and public.

They are cowards unfit for their high office. But on the list of the many types who will be damned, St. John tells us it will be cowards first thrown into the fiery pit.

Nothing seems to be able to shake these homopredator protectors from their negligence, and as a result, they should expect to pay the full price for their treachery against the souls entrusted to them.

How terrible their sufferings will be, how extreme their tortures, if they do not turn back now. And especially considering that in much the same way, the great perverter of the Faith, James Martin, will be suffering the same fate, if he likewise remains obstinate in his lust.

To think, the man they refused to denounce in this life will have contributed to their own damnations, and there he will be with them, sharing the same eternal fate.

How great will their shame and suffering in the absence of accepting the truth while they still had time, how horrific to realize that Martin will curse and tear at them for not correcting him, and they will curse and tear at him and each other for the same reason.

And for that same reason, they are racing headlong to the same fate, which, if they receive it, they will richly deserve. Nothing moves the impenitent soul who has embraced his sin as truth and goodness. God has turned them over to a reprobate mind.

Pray that something will shake these men for their own salvation, for if they do not denounce him and his error as they are duty bound to do, they will die in their sin.

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So as many of you know, Church Militant was in Philadelphia last Friday to cover the pro-life response to the bullying of young girls and old women by Pennsylvania state lawmaker Brian Sims.

The event was a smashing success. Over a thousand enthusiastic, prayerful and determined pro-lifers showed up to say we aren't going to take it anymore. Before the event, we were wondering if this was going to be a watershed-type moment for the pro-life movement.

But not just the pro-life movement, the whole socially, politically and theologically conservative world in the U.S. culture.

Ever since the rise of Barack Obama, these people have been on their heels, being accused of being bigots and haters and racists — of being white supremacists and toxic males and Nazis and heirs of white privilege and every other imaginable distortion of reality you could come up with.

Obama himself coalesced all this, drew together all these various camps into a political force meant to completely overhaul and re-fashion America.

All you have to do is just recall some telling lines — dog whistles, as the Left likes to say — to his group of racist, bigoted, anti-Christian followers who are legion.

Remember, "We are the change we have been waiting for."

Again, "America is no longer a Christian nation."

And of course, "They cling to guns or religion."

Why the Left hates white males so much is because of what this particular demographic represents, and that is simply an America where Christian morality is the norm — no murdering of children in the name of women's rights, no sanctioning of sodomy in the name of LGBT rights, no absence of borders in the name of illegal immigrants' rights.

Those so-called rights do not exist either in natural law or moral law.

But they have been created out of thin air in legislative law which has been accomplished through lies and media propaganda and intimidation — yes, intimidation. It's this point that makes the Friday Philly rally so incredibly important.

It was put together very last minute simply through social media messaging from Lila Rose of Live Action; Abby Johnson, former Planned Parenthood director; and Matt Walsh, a leading Catholic voice in the world of social media.

For a thousand people to simply show up at the drop of a hat, and Church Militant to scramble resources on very little notice, says a lot about how all this was viewed in anticipation.

Quick aside: Shout out and thank you to the private donors who made Church Militant's trip on very short notice possible — high airfares, costly lodging and all that; thank you.

There was an air at the rally of this is it. This is an example of the type of bullying and being relegated to the back of the bus that we will not stand for anymore.

Planned Parenthood, the abortion industry giant, kills more children in America every year than any other child murdering outfit. And they have muscled their way into that position with lies — big, giant lies.

And they keep that position through lies and intimidation. For example, when we were shooting prior to the rally, getting footage of the setup, this Planned Parenthood death-scort tried to intimidate me.

I was inches away from their front gate and fence shooting and she told me I had to back away. I said, "Why? For what?" Then, of course, came the lie and intimidation.

She said, "You aren't allowed to be here." Straight up, I told her to shut up. I was on public property — the sidewalk — and could do whatever I pleased.

Then another pro-life woman piped up after hearing me and said yeah, "Exactly, they care about a gate more than a child."

Anyone who has ever stood in front of these abortuaries knows the harassment, intimidation, lies and so forth that these killers inflict on pro-lifers.

They intimidate and lie on the outside to protect and deflect from butchery that goes on in the inside and in politicians like Obama and his crowd — which is the Democratic Party — they have found their champion.

Immoral, savage, killers who worship consequence-free sex, who will do anything to destroy Christian morality in America, including demonize an entire population. This is the real reason they have become completely deranged by the appearance of Donald Trump on the political stage.

Donald Trump's version of America is one which rejects their new America, which isn't really America at all.

He flat-out calls them out on their lies and domination of the media, of the culture and the political machinery through which they have perverted the nation.

And they hate his guts for it. But he tells them to go essentially "drop dead." That America will be great again, meaning their view of America, as the killing fields of the abortion industry must be rejected.

That population which supports Trump's vision of America has been intimidated and cowered by the elites for too long. And something was sparked in that community watching the off-the-hook-homosexual Brian Sims verbally beat up pro-life teenage girls and an elderly woman.

Many pro-lifers have personalities that are passive and appear to be meek and gentle and so forth. That reality has been exploited by the Left for too long. They have viewed us as doormats who will accept their bullying as part of "turning the other cheek" or whatever they imagine.

Friday said no way, not anymore. We are drawing a line in the sand. We are at war, and it is a battle to the death.

Friday in Philly launched a new phase of the movement — not just to take back the lives of children being dismembered, but to take back a nation being ripped apart by the evil of the Left.

Pray and fight; faith and good works.

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So all the data is in, the reports all written, the arguments all made and the final document issued and proclaimed. Disgraced Cdl. Donald Wuerl — the lying, cheating former archbishop of Washington, D.C. — has won.

Last summer, as he sat for an interview with the lying, plagiarizing, homosexualist priest Fr. Thomas Rosica at the Knights of Columbus annual soiree/gala, he first downplayed the bombshell news of Theodore McCarrick's evil.

Then, in full lack of shamefacedness, he had the gall to propose that the solution to the evil that was becoming public lies with the bishops.

It was clear from that statement and interview that the old guard of homosexual men and their lies who seized control of the Church back in the 1970s would win the day.

Last Thursday, Pope Francis handed them the laurel wreath of victory and published a document that indeed says the bishops will investigate themselves. You can just hear the champagne corks popping in bishops' residences all over the country right now.

Rock on, back to normal — hey Bob, get back on Grindr and let the boys know party at the mansion tonight. But this cannot be too much of a surprise. The Pope had already indicated in the run-up to the dog and pony show sex summit in February that the laity would be kept far away from this crisis.

Nope, the bishops will fix everything, he said, seemingly forgetting — or ignoring — that it was the bishops who created the crisis — and more than one crisis at that.

By way of quick review, when the McCarrick news broke last June, the narrative and the practice of homosexuality and abuse cover-up by the bishops began to break down somewhat.

Then in August, Abp. Viganò released the first of a series of nuclear bombs, confirming what many, many already knew, that the highest reaches of the hierarchy were dominated by active homosexual men — and he named names.

These men, he charged, had created, and in some cases contributed to, the environment by which a man like McCarrick could advance. And he accused Pope Francis directly of being part of the problem, a problem he termed as a "homosexual current" in the Church.

A current that has allowed the establishment of homosexuality among the clergy as the norm is no longer a subculture, but actually the dominant culture.

And this was true at every level of the Church — seminaries, chanceries, everywhere. Faced with the one-two punch of McCarrick then Viganò, the U.S. bishops began fumbling about trying to come up with a response.

The suggestions were all over the map as no real consensus emerged. In the meantime, men like Wuerl were denying it was any kind of crisis.

Likewise, Chicago's Cdl. Cupich was trying to force the media's attention away from the story by giving on-camera interviews saying one assinine thing after another — notably, that we were not going to go down this "rabbit hole" because we had to talk about the environment instead, and of course, labeling concerned Catholics enemies of the Pope because they hated "Latinos," which of course, Francis is not. He's three-quarters Italian.

But after his initial stumbles coming out of the gate, Cupich and Wuerl took full control and brought their brother bishops to heel.

In the fall, Cdl. Daniel DiNardo, president of the U.S. bishops, went to Rome and met with the Pope with a few ideas to address the situation, namely that the laity play a pivotal role in investigations.

Francis politely told DiNardo and his small entourage to drop dead and showed them the door — no laity involvement, period.

Then in November, at the bishop's annual meeting, about 15 seconds into the proceedings, as the bishops had nestled into to discuss possible solutions, a letter came from the Pope saying, "Forget everything you are talking about. Stop. Shut up. I'll decide how to handle all this at a sex summit I'm calling for February."

You could hear the shock in the silence in the room. First, DiNardo, their president, was shot down. And now the entire body had been told to drop it.

So much for synods and "decentralization" of the Church, huh?

As an aside, the Feds need to pay attention to this little fact, this is an organized, centralized syndicate that takes its orders from a central command.

At that November bishops' meeting in Baltimore, as the gasps subsided, none other than Pope Francis waterboy Blase Cupich jumped up and seized the microphone.

Completely usurping parliamentary rules, and not to mention the authority of Cdl. DiNardo, he ordered — not too strong a word — he ordered the bishops that all this discussion was over and Rome would settle it.

He followed his orders from the homohive in the Vatican and got the can kicked down the road to the dog and pony show of last February, which resulted in this document we now have.

So what's the upshot of the document? Simple, nothing of substance has changed. When bishops are abusing their authority, covering up sexual assaults of seminarians, for example, that matter will be investigated by the metropolitan bishop of the cover-up bishop.

How would this have played out in the past?

Well, McCarrick was the metropolitan in his area. Heck, if some sexually abusive or cover-up bishop has been reported to him, he wouldn't have investigated him. He would have hopped in bed with him and then promoted him.

Joseph Bernardin was the metropolitan of Chicago. Anyone think that kingpin of the homosexual hive would have done anything about an accused bishop, besides set up a date with him?

This is disgusting, a complete betrayal of the faithful. This motu proprio isn't worth the paper it's printed on.

All over the Church, the gay bishops and their boyfriends, the homoclerics, the pastors with their live-in boyfriends in the rectories, the religious houses swarming with homosexual men, everywhere, they are partying it up tonight.

So a few thoughts have come up over the nearly past year since all of this became public.

Given how its all played out, anyone want to disagree with any of these statements?

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Many dioceses across the country are dreaming up new and inventive schemes each year to get money out of the rapidly aging few baby boomer Catholics before they die.

Baby boomers are the group of Americans born immediately after World War II and just before the raucous mid-1960s began — so from 1946 to 1964.

That makes the earliest-born boomers now into their early 70s, meaning the grave is quickly approaching, meaning soon they won't be alive to give their money to the collapsing Church of Nice, meaning the money grab is on full throttle in dioceses all over the country — $200 million campaign in Cdl. Dolan's New York, half a billion in Gomez's Los Angeles, which has paid out more than $750 million in lawsuits from Roger Mahony's day of homosexual men who were ordained as priests raping altar boys left and right.

Here in Detroit, the cash grab goal is $220 million, and that's on top of a recently wrapped up fleecing of the flock of $130 million just a couple years ago.

So when you add up Detroit's total cash grab, it's about a third of a billion. Man, these guys aim high.

Why so much, right now? Because as much as various bishops like to talk up how things are good and we should all be a joyful band of missionary disciples, blah blah, they all know and discuss amongst themselves that the end is quickly approaching.

While they don't seem to have much of a concern about the number of souls that might be damned on their watch, they do seem to have a big concern about how the annual collection numbers seem to keep going down.

Aging Catholics are really the only ones who go to Mass in any significant numbers, and even at that, only a minority of them go. It's just the largest minority who attend.

When you get down to young baptized who attend — meaning under 30 — the number is in the toilet. So as another PR/get-money-quick scheme, Detroit Abp. Allen Vigneron and his finance guy married together his so-called renewal effort with a cash register and have launched the latest fundraising campaign.

All this mind you when the loss of faith continues unabated and every other significant number is down. Again, what's happening here in Detroit is happening in virtually every other diocese, with a few exceptions.

We focus on Detroit a lot because that's where we are and lots of people with intimate knowledge of how thing work here talk to us quite freely. So to this silly Unleash the Gospel PR plan. What exactly does that mean?

Questions need to be asked and answered. For example, what exactly has the Gospel been leashed to that now requires it be unleashed?

How was it leashed up?

When was it leashed up?

Who did the leashing up?

Since we here at Church Militant have what you might term "journalistic minds," we think in that fashion and always want to know the big five areas of any journalistic endeavor.

Those big five are: who, what, where, when, why. If you get those areas answered, then you know the story.

So an archbishop coming around for second bigger bite at the apple is a story, especially for a $220 million bite of the apple. Before any money is handed over, those questions need answering.

Vigneron has proposed for the sheep that the Gospel needs unleashing, meaning that, up to this point, at least in Detroit, it has been leashed up. And he now wants a fifth of a billion dollars, on top of the $130 million he just got a couple of years ago, to unleash it.

So again, the questions.

Since the Gospel is leashed up:

Since the archbishop believes this is the case, then those are legitimate questions, lest the sheep are left with the suspicion that this is just some phony-baloney money grab dressed up in religious-sounding language.

Now, for the record, to the degree it applies, it is true that in Detroit and most of the Church in America, the Gospel has been "leashed up."

So let's go through and answer the journalist questions in a general sense, shall we?

First, who? Who leashed it up?

Easy answer: Men who wanted to make sure the "truth bombs" were avoided and the Faith not taught because it would be very unpopular, as it was for Our Blessed Lord, who was killed for dropping those "truth bombs."

Second, what? What was done in the leashing up of the Gospel? Again, easy answer.

A deliberate attempt to suppress the truths of the Faith was engaged in and as a result, tens of millions of Catholics in the United States walked away from the Church because they were not taught the Faith, and the bishops will have to give the most severe reckoning of that truth bomb, owing to their massive sins of omission.

Third, where? Where was the Gospel leashed up? Again, easy answer.

In general terms, in virtually every diocese in America — specifically, in seminaries that were gay hothouses, one of which was here in Detroit before and during Vigneron's time as rector.

In parishes, schools, universities, adult education classes, marriage prep classes, campus ministries — you name any location — and that's where it happened.

Fourth, when? When was the Gospel leashed up? Generally in the wake of Vatican II, which means approximately half a century ago. And that is why practically no one under 60 still goes to Mass — hence, get the money from the baby boomers because that’s all that are left.

And fifth, why? Why was this done? This is the answer that is the most involved because it gets to motive, and the motives vary depending on the individual bishop.

Some, like Detroit Cardinal John Dearden, the first public leasher-upper of the Gospel, was probably one of the Commie plants who gradually climbed the ladder of the Church and chained up the Gospel as soon as he got sufficient power and cover to do so.

While we may never know about the Commie angle for sure, the fact remains that the Commies would applaud what he did.

Then there are the homosexual men who definitely did not want Catholic teaching on sexual morality being proclaimed. They were among the first to leash up the Gospel so as to clear a path for a greater embrace of non-procreative sex within marriage at first, but then eventually extending to sex anywhere for anyone anytime.

Closet cases like James Martin are the beneficiaries of the Gospel being leashed up, because now he gets to tromp around the Church saying there's nothing wrong with homosexuality, it's a gift from God, people should embrace it and the Church should change the teaching. See how this works?

Those are just some of the motives, but they all fall under the category of placing man above God.

But interestingly and, most especially, tellingly, Vigneron never approaches any of these truth bombs in his manuscript, ghostwritten for him by Mary Healy on the seminary staff.

He is averse to truth bombs as he even says in the very pages of Unleash the Gospel. But these truth bombs need to be looked at square on. After all, he's asking for a fifth of a billion dollars.

Shouldn't people want to know that he understands this past — this past which has produced what he himself admits is the Gospel being leashed up?

Or does he not want to "go there" because it will lay bare just too much of the archdiocese's filthy, sordid recent past that there are too many ordained homosexual men in positions of influence here, which he has done nothing about; or that a sizable number of ordained men actually do not believe multiple Church teachings, which he has done nothing about?

Unfaithful men, many of them homosexual, with the accompanying psychological and personality issues that make them unfit for ordination, as well as many of them active, are the reason the Gospel is leashed up.

But Vigneron won't say that. He knows it's true, from his time in the seminary as a seminarian; from his time as rector; certainly from his time as bishop. But he won't say anything because he won't do anything about it?

He just wants your money and for you to ask no questions. That's not right. It's massively uncharitable to deceive the sheep like that.

Before we give any money to unleash what has been tied up, we need to know that he actually understands how this all came to be and that he is committed to fixing it.

That requires words, yes, but also clear, decisive action. Certain men need to be dismissed from their posts, permanently. A declaration of their treachery toward the Church and souls needs to be forthcoming.

A public confession of the real state of affairs in the Church of Detroit must be made, and then he must admit his own blame in allowing this to go on for 10 years under his leadership, and he must tender his own resignation to Rome.

The day of reckoning for errant clerics and negligent bishops has arrived.

Most are approaching the grave, and they had better settle accounts on this side of the grave before they stand in the presence of the Supreme Shepherd whose Gospel they were ones to leash up in the first place.

Pray Vigneron and others have the humility to do the right thing.

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So here’s a question almost no Catholic ever seem to think of — at least the few remaining Catholics who still go to Mass and have a connection to the Church — how come we all know so little about the finances of our diocese?

That's a legitimate question. In fact, it's a question which demands an answer.

There once was a time when the sheep trusted the shepherds not only with their souls, but also the material goods of the Church — namely, the donations given to them for the earthly maintenance of the Church.

Sorry, but those days are gone, long gone. The bishops can no longer be trusted at all. Sorry to say that, but it's true. Collectively, they have orchestrated the largest meltdown of the Faith in history, and that is saying a lot.

When you look over 2,000 years and realize that in the space of just 50 years, they have managed to accomplish what centuries of persecution could not — it's staggering.

There are so few believing Catholics walking around today that it leaves you speechless. One in roughly eight Americans, for example, is a former Catholic. They have lost the Faith because they were never taught it by the same men that ignorant Catholics continue to hand their money over to believing it will be managed justly.

So for the ignorant asleep sheep out there, here's the question: If these men you stupidly and naively hand over your money to abandon your souls and the souls of your children, why on earth do you think they would deal honestly with your money?

They have mistreated the immaterial; why would they be upright about the material aspects of the Faith?

For example, and Catholics need to start demanding this, full disclosure, full financial transparency from their bishops. It's not their money, and its high time they were held to account for what they do with it.

For example, Cdl. Dolan in New York has three times appealed court decisions saying he needs to turn over the body of Abp. Sheen to his family.

How much have those legal proceedings cost Catholics in New York, because they are the ones paying for it?

But that example isn't even the tip of the iceberg — loads, truckloads, boatloads, of questions need to be asked and answered by every bishop in America. Every dime that goes out as an expense needs to be fully disclosed. Most dioceses in the country don't even post their financials on their website.

Why not? Don't they think you have a right to know how your donations are spent?

But the crybaby apologists and head-in-the-sand Catholics will say the bishop has authority over the material goods of the diocese — true enough, but not good enough.

We want to know, for example, straight up:

How much of our money goes to pay legal fees? How much of our money goes to pay for priests you ship off to St. Luke's in Maryland? That nut house begun by an active homosexual who died of AIDS costs about $20,000 a month per priest. And the average stay there is about six months — do the math.

Is your bishop or diocese telling you about that cost?

When the cardinals fly all over the world, are they flying first class or business class — which is many thousands of dollars — or are they in the back of the plane getting the smell of the sheep on them?

How about the salaries of the chancery staff? Why isn't the pay of every single top official listed?

How much does the communications director for Detroit, Ned McGrath, make, for example? He has lied and deceived the media in his role for more than 20 years — how much does he get paid for that?

How much money goes into the pension plans of chancery officials who have been effective in destroying the Church with their insane liturgy offices, their social justice departments, their school offices, their adult education offices?

Where exactly does all that money go from the sale of Church property?

How much cash on hand, liquid assets, does the diocese have, meaning how much is in the bank?

Given the dreadful lies and distortions and deceptions the faithful have been treated to for the past half-century, we absolutely have the right to know this information.

In fact, what would be a good idea is for Catholics in every diocese to get together, form a coalition and begin demanding to know this information. Picket the chancery, print up fliers and put them on cars in church parking lots. Wake up the sleeping pewsitters.

Call the local media and get reporters to ask questions like: Why do bishops and their staff think they have no responsibility to be transparent with those who give them their funding? The financial malfeasance is so rotten that most people have no idea because they have just become used to it.

Another, for example, the cost to educate a young man in seminary, on his way to priestly ordination, when all is said and done, is about $250,000. Some cost considerably more if they are sent to Rome or further postgraduate studies.

And yet many of these men are massively unfaithful to the Gospel. They stay in the Church sponging off the donations of the laity. Others leave with hundreds of thousands of dollars of education in their pockets.

And yet the laity is given no accounting, either in terms of personnel or finances.

How many priests leave active ministry in the diocese each year and what is the associated cost of that individual priest? Such an analysis would bear out that the vocations director or the rector of the seminary or the vocations recruiter have not looked at the financial costs involved.

In fact, that aspect has not even hit their radar. And why? Because it's not their money so they don't care. It's your money, so they spend it willy-nilly with no regard for the people who gave it.

Loads of unfaithful men who have no regard for the Faith, Church or souls — loads and loads — have been ordained, which has not only cost irreparable damage on the supernatural plane, but also a fortune in terms of dollars.

Now we presume that when the various bishops who watch Vortex episodes — and we know there are a lot — watch this one, they will be spitting bullets, to which we say: tough.

You have abandoned your duties, way too many of you. You have betrayed your office of shepherd, teacher as well as chief steward of the material goods entrusted to you — not yours but entrusted to you.

Do you really think an accounting is not due? You have questions to answer.

Why are you not posting, all of you, your financials for the entire diocese to see and in formats easily understandable to the average Catholic? It's not your money. Too many of you have betrayed the Faith. On that score, you will give an accounting to Almighty God.

But when it comes to our money, you will give an accounting to us, the laity.

How dare you keep launching your fundraising campaigns for millions of dollars each year and feel not the slightest duty or obligation to tell us how the money is spent.

What are you not getting here? We don't trust you.

And the reason we don't is because you are not trustworthy. You have lost the trust of the faithful through your own actions. Want to earn it back, then start here. Lay out your expenses. Lay out what you approve money being spent on.

Tell us how much your senior chancery staff is pulling down. What kind of health care plan does the bishop enjoy? What's the annual premium for it? Does he have a driver? How much is that?

In years past, not a single Catholic would have given the slightest concern over these questions because we were of the opinion that the material needs of the clergy should be taken care of since they give up much of normal life for the care of our souls.

But you have betrayed the care of our souls, so those rules no longer apply.

Not a single one of you has stepped forward and denounced the evil of the institution that allowed a monstrous homopredator like McCarrick to not just get away with things but to actually flourish.

You owe the faithful, and that's what you don't get. You owe us explanations. You owe us transparency.

This has nothing to do with challenging your spiritual authority but it has everything to do with challenging your abuse of that authority.

Publish the financials so we can all see. Until then, no Catholic should give you one penny for anything.

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In the secular media article on the enormous decline of the Church in the archdiocese of Detroit that we highlighted the last couple of days, one priest is quoted as saying, "It's not about a membership drive or the number."

Oh, yes it is. It is precisely about numbers — just ask the bishops who meet regularly with the finance committee. Just ask Abp. Vigneron who this past couple of weeks ordered a video or audio recording of him to be played at all Masses in every parish to push this year's annual archdiocesan collection.

Ask Abp. Vigneron, and every other bishop, if it isn't about the numbers, then why are you trying to evangelize? They will say it's about "bringing hearts to Jesus."

Well, as in so many other areas, faithful Catholics have a hard time trusting their bishops these days, and this is just one more reason why.

For the past half-century, hardly any bishop in America had given a darn about "bringing hearts to Jesus." If they had, they wouldn't have lied and covered up the homosexuality in their own ranks.

They wouldn't have completely neglected teaching the Faith and avoided those pesky, inconvenient "truth bombs," to use Vigneron’s own terminology. They wouldn't have ordained and promoted enormous numbers of homosexual men into the priesthood.

But now, 50 years later, when the consequences of their folly, neglect, cowardice and malice has had the predictable result of a Church-wide apostasy, now all of a sudden they want to "bring hearts to Jesus."

This is more spiritual abuse, hiding behind spirituality, trying to mask over the reality.

The number of faithful Catholics have dropped off the cliff and is heading to a huge crash at the bottom of the gorge, and now, and only now, are the bishops starting to take notice and come up with goofy plans to "fix" the problem they created.

It is about numbers.

The very first evangelization effort of the Church on Pentecost, recorded in Acts, says Peter preached to assembled Jews in Jerusalem, and that day, about 3,000 were added to their number.

Of course it's about numbers. But for the bishops, the numbers they are concerned about are the dollars, not the conversions per se. Their only interest in converting hearts is that the more people who convert or revert, the more dollars will flow into the collection basket — presumably.

If they cared about hearts, they wouldn't have looked the other way as the bodies those hearts are in were being raped and sexually assaulted.

If they cared about hearts, they wouldn't have allowed the victims to be emotionally and psychologically destroyed. If they cared about hearts, they wouldn't have sat atop the greatest collapse of the Faith in history and done nothing about it, even promoting it in many cases.

These men are incapable of even addressing the actual problem, much less fixing it. They don't even know what it is. Think about it, if they admitted what the real problem was, they would have to resign on the spot.

So in some psychologically twisted effort to absolve themselves of their own guilt, they propose stupid solutions, like Protestantized catechesis, happy-clappy Masses and side-stepping the weighty issue of homosexuality among their own ranks.

They propose these solutions in a manner that makes it appear as though they had nothing to do with the problem in the first place.

The vast majority of them need to resign, for multiple reasons, after they publicly admit the massive, corrosive damage they have caused to the Church, to souls and bodies.

But they won't do that because they are weak men, emasculated men, chosen to "lead" precisely because they are more feminine than masculine, which is fine if you are a woman, but revolting if you are a man.

What man among them would be a source of inspiration to a young man looking to devote his life to the Church, seriously? What young, red-blooded American male would look at virtually any of these men and say to himself, "I want to be like him"?

"I want to be down with homosexuality — either practicing it, promoting it or defending it. I want to be a liar or a deceiver. I want to pretend I care about the Faith, when all I really care about is protecting an institution. I want to run enormous fund-raising drives and then be completely UN-transparent about how the money is spent."

It's not about the number — my foot. The problem is it has been about nothing but numbers for decades — just the wrong numbers.

The faithful are going to have to wait for about another roughly five years when all these doctrinally, morally or financially corrupt bishops have at last left the scene and then hope and pray intensely that the men who come after them will truly love the Church, which these men have decidedly not.

And then, we have to hold out some kind of hope that there will actually be something, anything left of the Church for the next generation of bishops to actually work with.

But anyone who thinks the Church will look anything like it does now, just 10 years from now, doesn't understand the depth of this crisis.

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Following up from yesterday's Vortex about a secular media report here in Michigan on the demographic disaster that has befallen the Church here in Detroit — indeed, in most places around the country — we quoted Detroit Abp. Allen Vigneron's plan to "[meet] people where they are at and avoiding 'truth bombs' that will only turn them away."

As a quick aside, if you'd like to read the entire article — which we highly recommend — just click on the provided link.

It's clear to anyone with a functioning cortex that Vigneron's plan — which he and his chancery named "Unleash the Gospel" — is a wrong diagnosis of the root problem, not to mention too little, too late.

The Church in Detroit is in a massive decline in this collapse is due directly to a half century of not teaching the Faith.

In the article, some Catholics are highlighted; one in particular who is 65 years old and says her one son is gay and has left the Faith, as well as her other son whose children he and his wife never bothered to baptize.

This woman says her elderly father is devoutly and steadfastly Catholic, and there you have it, in one neat package, the generational decline. Elderly grandfather is a staunch believer, child-of-the-60s daughter thinks the Church needs to be more friendly and get with the times, her adult children have walked away and their children will know nothing of the Faith — four generations, with the only faithful one among them close to death.

And so it goes for the Church in the United States — dismal, Detroit dismal, disaster in Detroit dismal — that is repeated in hundreds of dioceses all over the country.

Leaders in the Church back in the hippy years conditioned Catholics to stop focusing on Heaven and salvation and sin and damnation and getting holy and start focusing on being hip and cool and with it.

It was the age of Godspell, of Jesus Christ Superstar, of guitar-and-tambourine hootenannies for Sunday parish Mass.

Thousands of emasculated men were ordained, many homosexual, and many, many of them active, some of them even sexually abused teenage boys by the thousands.

And this is an interesting point to pause on here as we examine this futile effort by Detroit's archbishop to resurrect his dying archdiocese by appealing to people's emotions instead of their intellects.

Last summer — the "Summer of Shame" — when the news broke about not just McCarrick's homopredation but the massive involvement and cover-up and lies of so many Churchmen in enabling him, one of Vigneron's most-trusted advisors, Msgr. Michael Bugarin, went on a local radio program and flat out denied any of the problem was related to homosexuality in the clergy.

That's very telling because, in so doing, he was carrying the water for Vigneron — this directly contradicting Abp. Viganò's testimony that in fact it was and is a homosexual current in the hierarchy and the clergy, of which he named many names.

Additionally, Pope Benedict himself last month added to the correct narrative of gay clergy saying publicly in a bombshell letter, "In various seminaries, homosexual cliques were established, which acted more or less openly and significantly changed the climate in the seminaries."

Now perhaps Msgr. Bugarin and Abp. Vigneron want to deny this truth — too much of a "truth bomb" — because they know one of the seminaries Benedict was talking about was the one right here in the archdiocese of Detroit, which pumped out truckloads of homosexual priests, some of whom were ordained while Vigneron was rector of the seminary.

Curious what either of the two men would say now about the whole homosexual question, especially Abp. Vigneron who finds himself in the uncomfortable position of denying what a former papal ambassador has asserted as well as the charge made public by the very man who, as pope, appointed him archbishop here in Detroit.

Anyone in Detroit, a little suggestion, when you next see either Msgr. Bugarin and/or Abp. Vigneron, ask them if they think Viganò and Pope Benedict are wrong and they are right.

Vigneron's entire plan to bring old hippies back into the Church centers on making parishes nice and friendly, but as he said in his "Unleash the Gospel" marketing plan — which, by the way, he's now using to try and rake in more than $200 million — truth bombs must be avoided.

The news article quotes another priest close to the archbishop who says, "We need to help the next generation know why it's important to stay in the church."

And how, pray tell, does he intend to pull that off without exposing them to those pesky "truth bombs."

Why is it important to stay in the Church? Simple — so you are not damned. But the problem is that so much time has gone by where that has never been discussed that now it sounds like a fairy tale or medieval.

But that doesn't excuse from the duty to teach it. It must be taught.

Let's say some people come back because they like guitars, and elderly women "passing out the bread," and older guys in bright blazers shaking their hands at the door as they come in.

Let's just say the plan works and some find all that somehow appealing. What next? There immediately comes the problem that either that returnee needs to be told from the pulpit not to approach for Holy Communion or the priest participates in sacrilege.

Well, there's quite the option; offend the returning hippy and chase him away, again, or offend God.

Men like Vigneron, and many other bishops, can't be relied on to fix the problem because they caused the problem; perhaps innocently, perhaps on purpose, but the fact stands. They have no vision because it's clouded over by decades of poor formation, an ample amount of "bishoping" and their own insecurities.

The truth is the "honey pots" they want to hold out as an enticement for old hippies to come back, or young people to come in, in the end, are not Catholic.

They fail to understand the foundational issue, perhaps in part because they helped construct it, the vast majority of baptized Catholics are not Catholic in their minds, their intellects and certainly not in their wills.

They don't believe, oftentimes because they haven't been taught, and now, the only avenue most bishops have, they think, is to appeal to people's emotions with sappy music and "lively liturgies" and more watered-down teaching — in short, honey pots in place of truth bombs.

It is terribly sad to watch a generation of bishops in the United States passing off the scene, trying to solve the problem they helped to create by resorting to the very things that caused the disaster in the first place — no fool like an old fool.

They have lost three generations, most of whom are gone for good. The Church is much, much smaller than it appears to be — another Pope Benedict instruction.

That is the foundational reality that needs to be dealt with, and since their bishops will not tell them, younger priests need to take this lesson to heart. When you are preaching in your own parish, most in the pews have been conditioned by the bishop to reject what you are saying, your own sheep.

You must preach the truth bombs anyway. People of good will, as the angels sang over Bethlehem, will respond correctly to those truth bombs. The ones who walk away, leave to God.

People who come to Mass for the right reason come to Mass for the bread of life, not the donuts after.

TRANSCRIPT

Every now and then — likely unintentionally — the secular media actually gets something right.

Such is the case with a recent report which we've attached a link to in case you want to read the whole thing for yourself.

It's from a very established statewide Michigan news outfit, and it focuses on the severe drop-off among Catholics in Michigan and the archdiocese of Detroit in particular. And for the record, this is the story in virtually every diocese in the country.

First, as background, understand that the archdiocese of Detroit was ground zero for the implosion that happened to the U.S. Church immediately following Vatican II.

The then-archbishop, Cdl. John Dearden, was a liberal disaster who used Detroit as a petri dish for the destruction of the Faith with liturgical abuses, ordaining gay men and so forth.

Dearden also was instrumental in setting up and running the national bishops' conference, and from that position, he exported his liturgical and faith destruction across the entire U.S. Church from the mid-1960s and onward.

His work was carried on by homosexualist Joseph Bernardin who Dearden raised from obscurity to be his successor in destroying the Church after he had left the scene.

So with that background, now let's turn to the article.

It looks at the devastating drop in the practice of the Faith here in Detroit, focusing especially on the years from 2000–2018. What's noteworthy about those years is that the first nine — from 2000–2009 — are when Cdl. Adam Maida was archbishop here.

The second nine years — 2009–2018 — the archbishop has been Allen Vigneron.

Under Vigneron's watch, practically nothing has changed. The same Church of Nice garbage has continued to flow freely, and the numbers across the board have continued to plummet.

Finally, after reigning over and contributing to the collapse of the Faith here, a couple years ago, Vigneron produced what he classed as a work of the Holy Spirit called "Unleash the Gospel."

It wasn't really a work of the Holy Spirit — insiders tell Church Militant it was ghostwritten by seminary instructor Mary Healy — and is little else than the recycled same Church of Nice garbage which brought the Detroit archdiocese to its knees; in short, Cdl. Dearden would like this plan.

The article from MLive does a masterful job of drawing out that the entire plan centers around drawing people back to the Faith by avoiding "truth bombs," the hard teachings, usually about sexual morality.

Here's the relevant line, quoting directly from "Unleash the Gospel": "In addition, Vigneron has promised 'practical help' to ensure priests provide empathetic pastoral care and present homilies 'meeting people where they are at and avoiding "truth bombs" that will only turn them away.'"

And there you have it, ladies and gentlemen, in black and white, avoid the hard truths in order to get people back in Mass. How is this any different than what's been going on here for the past half-century?

If Vigneron thinks people have left the Church in this archdiocese because they have been hearing "truth bombs" from the pulpit, then he must be somehow partaking in Michigan's recently legalized pot stores.

This is one of the most gay-friendly dioceses you will find. It's home to the oldest gay Mass in the world.

A huge number of clergy are gay or gay-friendly. Bishop Thomas Gumbleton is from here, the man who backed the seminary in the 1980s showing homosexual porn to the seminarians under the guise of a human sexuality class.

Even the ghostwriter herself, Mary Healy, said Vigneron won't do anything about the gay stuff here because he's scared of what the gay priests will do in response.

So his plan — or her plan, depending on how you look at it — is more guitars, less truth and lots more hospitality as the aging hippie population is drawn back into the "never give offense" Church.

Perfect, what could possibly go wrong? What insight, what brilliance, what forward-thinking — let's just do more, much more, of what we've been doing since before the Vietnam War and it will all pay off.

We're going to continue to focus on this theme for a few more days, using the Detroit disaster as a backdrop because, one, we are located here and know an awful lot of the inner workings; and two, Detroit is emblematic of what has happened in the Church all over the country, which is fitting because it really all started here.

There's even been speculation that Dearden himself may have been one of the Communist plants back in the day who infiltrated the Church to destroy Her as Joseph Stalin ordered.

Having been born in 1907 and ordained in 1932, the timing certainly works out, but that will probably be impossible to determine really one way or the other.

What can safely be said is if he wasn't one of the Communist infiltrators, he sure could easily pass for one.

All of this rot has got to come out into the open and be exposed. Vigneron's ridiculous plan is little else than the warmed-over poor formation he received in seminary in the early 1970s when the madness had already seized control; much more throughout the week in our continuing effort to help Catholics understand what went wrong so that the mistakes will not be repeated.