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Before we begin, I'd like to remind you to please join us for our ongoing 54-day Rosary Novena (every weekday morning at 8 a.m. ET) right here on Church Militant.

And, at the end of this Vortex, we have a giveaway for you — meaning it's free — that will be really helpful regarding the election. As the clash of evil and good takes place against the backdrop of Campaign 2020, there is some good news.

Here in our studios, we are hearing a growing, loud chorus of Catholics who are done with the lies and corruption of the hierarchy — a hierarchy that allows and even promotes the anti-Catholicism of fake-Catholic politicians.

We're getting the emails, the phone calls and the letters more and more frequently, and the language is growing increasingly stronger. In the world of public relations, we call this a "great awakening." It's not only liberals who can get all "woke."

The treachery of so many men who are bishops — and the notorious clergy they continue to protect — has now become so public, so well known, that a kind of preliminary Judgment Day has arrived for them. And by notorious, we aren't talking about just the priests who sexually abused altar boys: We're talking about all the priests who are also spiritually abusing Catholics with their heresy and dissent.

Here's the bottom line, with the exception of those gay Marxists in the Church, the ones who want to pervert and distort the Bride of Christ, most other Catholics no longer have a dog in the fight. They've simply left. Or in some few remaining cases, are only showing up because of habits or nostalgia or some other psychological reason.

They either don't believe, aren't sure of what they believe, or don't care what they believe. This is all the fault of a largely homosexual or homosexual-friendly hierarchy, and if the goal was to obliterate the Church, good work, ladies.

What it has all been reduced to is a bare-knuckle fight between the heretics and the faithful. And, if you need evidence of that, just look at how the professional-Catholic crowd is now responding to outfits like Church Militant compared to how they simply used to ignore us (and others).

We have become an object of their obsession. So too are the few good priests who are daring to rip the mask off their evil completely. Priests like Fr. James Altman in La Crosse, Wisconsin — who has to deal with being screwed over by his bishop, William Callahan — another hierarchical patsy who would rather talk about Fr. Altman's "tone" than the reality of souls going to Hell because of their support for child murder.

Good thing St. John the Baptist wasn't one of his priests. It would have been a race between King Herod and Callahan to decapitate him. We often get blind copied on letters from outraged Catholics to these pansy turncoat bishops. One is right here.

With full permission of the author, we have produced a letter of Brendon Johnson to his bishop in Arlington, Virginia — Michael Burbidge — asking for the bishop to be very clear and allow reception of Holy Communion on the tongue, while kneeling.

Brendon, like countless faithful Catholics around the country, is simply fed up with the phony, overly dramatic response by bishops to the Wuhan virus scare. Brendon, by the way, is a member of the Church Militant Resistance program, which has grown and is growing by leaps and bounds as more and more become emboldened.

In the wake of the Fr. Altman scandal created by his bishop, another Resistance member sent a letter to his bishop saying the bishop needs to come right out and declare, in very clear terms, the moral obligation Catholics have regarding voting and voting correctly.

This vague, namby-pamby, James Martin "abortion is bad but so is climate change" approach has got to go. The evil in the world, the chaos in the country, is directly attributable to the failure of the bishops to do their jobs. Why? Because only the Church, because of its divine origin, is capable of fighting back evil.

No human on his own — not even the whole race — can successfully battle the demonic. Only the Catholic Church possesses that power. So if evil is advancing in the world, it is because the Church (and, specifically, Her shepherds) is failing miserably in its sacred duty.

This sad reality, then, demands a more vigorous, muscular response from the laity — hence, the Church Militant Resistance. It's the job of the laity, at this juncture, to step up and give everything to the fight. Since so many of the bishops are not telling you the full truth about voting, Church Militant has produced its own voter's guide.

It's available here on the website, but we also have this cool little thing as well: It's the size of a business card, and these cards make it easy to share the 2020 Catholic Voters Guide with family, friends and strangers. This is done in three easy steps.

First, just open your phone's camera. Once it's open just hover over the "QR code" on the card — that scrambly little code. A banner automatically appears at the top of your screen. Click on that banner, and enter an email. And presto, the voter's guide goes straight to your email.

We are giving these cards away for free to anyone who wants one or more, while supplies last. Just click on the link below to place your order. Use these cards with friends, family and whoever is willing to understand how Catholics should vote.

Again, if you would like your card today, simply click the link and fill out the form. We are just weeks away from the most important election in U.S. history; we need to pull out all of the stops.

Join the Church Militant's Resistance. Fight for the Church. Help save Western civilization. Not a bad day's work, right?

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As a reminder, please join us in our 54-day Rosary Novena in the run-up to the election. 

Given that this is the anniversary of the largest terror strike against the United States in its history, it's fitting to recall that the motivation for that attack against the Twin Towers was the destruction of America. It was not to merely injure the country or weaken it or soften it up and cut it down to size. It was to destroy it. Period.

And so now to pivot to the upcoming election: How are the Democrats any different in their stated aims. They want America destroyed. And they are pretty darn close to accomplishing it. Using a crafty combination of propaganda, phony science and appeals to emotion, the Marxist crowd in the United States has constructed a narrative that says, "America is bad and must be replaced with a new understanding of America."

By seizing on past injustices and sins, they have developed a plan to make the entire history of the country seem evil and inhuman (and, therefore, in need of overthrowing). For the moment, they must work within the boundaries of a supposedly free election.

Recognize, however, if they win, this may be the last presidential election in America — or the first in a series of purely manufactured elections with a predetermined outcome already baked in. That's the whole point of this mail-in balloting scheme — to completely throw into confusion the results of election night.

This is not just absentee voting. Absentee voting is just casting a vote ahead of time because you know you won't be able to be at the polls on Election Day for some reason. This is an organized campaign to get as many people as possible to not show up at the polls on Election Day so an air of uncertainty, of unknowingness, of no-conclusion hangs over election night, and the country is prepared for a long, drawn-out, ongoing supposed "vote count."

The problem is tracking these ballots. So far, any effort on the state level to do mail-in voting on a large scale has proven completely unworkable. Some public officials have been charged with vote fraud. Counties and states have had hundreds of thousands of ballots rejected owing to miscounting, mismanagement and overall chaos.

There's a reason the election happens on the same day in all 50 states — because it makes sense and it works. The Marxist Democrats are keeping up the Wuhan virus scare in an attempt to terrify enough voters into voting by mail and not showing up at the polls.

Then, after the polls have closed, the mayhem can begin. Dead people's votes can get rolled into the total. Ballots illegally filled out by Democrats in key counties and states can suddenly appear by the box-load. More ballots end up being cast in a given precinct than there were eligible voters to cast them in the first place.

As some old sayings go, "It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting." And a saying from a Third World dictator — Nicaragua's Anastasio Somoza — sums it up perfectly and fittingly: "Indeed, you won the election, but I won the count."

From a Catholic point of view, it would be difficult to imagine a greater sin — a greater fraud perpetrated against the people of a nation built on free elections — than a massive fraud negating their votes and canceling out the actual results.

It's theft, and accordingly, it's an offense against justice. It's an offense against truth, which makes all of it an offense against charity. But, then again, you're talking about people who murder babies. So, there's that.

What's the theft of a few hundred thousand votes here and there on the days following the election? As further evidence of the diabolical involvement in this great unfolding spiritual war, the Party of Death is deliberately setting the stage for post-election-night chaos.

Chaos is the stock and trade of the diabolical. Theft, lies, deception — all in the ultimate service of child-killing: Do you still need convincing this is a spiritual war?

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As a reminder, please join us in our 54-day Rosary Novena in the run-up to the election. And also, remember to get your 2020 Catholic Voter's Guide. It's getting really heated in the Catholic corner of the political world these days.

And that corner — for the record — may prove to be the most important corner, given how polarized voters are and the very narrow margin many of the polls are showing. Various clergy are striking out about the immorality of voting for Democrats.

Father James Altman got the ball rolling with the release of his video saying voting Democrat is a mortal sin. And for the record, yes — it is. But boy oh boy. That brought out all the soy-boy, gay-friendly, emasculated, effeminate clergy who can't stand anything threatening the little sissy empire they've fashioned for decades.

Of course, James Martin took the bait and has been palpitating on social media ever since (along with other sodomy-supporting priests who are all in for the Democrats despite their support of child murder). The gay clergy is really in quite the sticky wicket here.

In order to keep embracing their love of man-on-man sex (what they share in common with Democratic leaders and love more than anything else), they need to keep talking about other issues besides child-killing and pretend those issues are more important.

So climate change ascribed to man — which isn't even proven — has taken on an importance way beyond what it deserves. It's the same reason all the gay clergy in the Vatican never stop going on about the weather while saying painfully little about children sucked out of the womb after being hacked to shreds.

But how did we get here? Whose fault is it? We know you'll be shocked here, but it's the bishops' fault — and, what's more, on a number of levels.

Some are gay; some cover up gay sex abuse by their priests, most of them lie about it all and the overwhelming majority are all in on the evil. See, for decades they made sure only emasculated men either got in to seminary or moved on to get ordained.

Sissy clergy are all part of the sissy empire they've constructed — all in an effort to protect homosexuality within their ranks. Just like their Marxist counterparts did in the culture, brainwashing generations of college students year by year, the bishops did the same with young men applying for the priesthood.

The good men got bounced. The losers were accepted and ordained. Sure, a few slipped through — just like some smart kids get through the Marxist indoctrination at college, but most are mowed down. Little by little, the bad guys get the numbers on their side — tipping the scales each year with the latest group until, at last, the scales are completely tipped.

Then when a priest like Fr. Altman gets past the orthodoxy sensors and then comes out swinging, the ladies in the priesthood lose their minds. They hate truth. They hate the Faith. They hate even themselves, which is why they are so filled with hatred that spills over into every facet of their lives.

So much so, in fact, that they call anyone who opposes their evil a "hater." Pretty rich that, when you consider the great irony. What we are witnessing in the culture is the exact same thing we are witnessing in the Church — it's all part of the same masterplan.

The goal is obvious — the destruction of the world as we know it. The goal is the replacement of the established order with a chaos that allows for a select few to climb the heights of power. Well, that's what's been going on in the Church for decades as well.

A select few (mostly girly men clerics who are working out their own psychological disturbances) spiritually abuse anyone they need to to create the self-delusion that they are normal.

They bear absolutely zero resemblance to Christ. They are not fathers in any legitimate sense. They are destroyers, plain and simple. And now, true or not, they believe their moment has arrived against the backdrop of an election proving more and more every day to be a gigantic spiritual war.

That's why priests like Fr. Altman need to be attacked by the clerical queens; it's why organizations like "Catholics for Biden" have to pop up — as a great final push (at least they believe it's a final push) to finally kill off any authentic Catholicism in the public square.

Facing the music, we have to admit that they are this close to actually grabbing hold of the brass ring. This. Close. And yes, you have the bishops to thank for this entire drama. And frankly, who else would be responsible? All the power and authority in the Church reside in them. Who else would be to blame?

Many of them engineered this outcome. Others knowingly went along with it. Still others were and are too stupid to know what they are looking at. That won't get them off the hook at their judgments though. They hear what James Martin says and tweets and posts every day. The head gay cheerleader never stops.

So the very fact that he's allowed to go on means he has the "right" bishops in his corner. It took some cajoling behind the scenes from Church Militant with Bp. Stika of Knoxville — and it went on for a couple of years — but at least he finally went on the public record and denounced James Martin's evil.

And of course, Bp. Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas took the brave step this past week of publicly supporting Fr. Altman and his condemnation of voting for candidates who vote for child murder.

Is there anyone else out there who still thinks this isn't a giant spiritual war? And any reckoning of that war that ignores the reality that many of the clergy and bishops are on the wrong side, that is a fatal error.

It's their fault. And there is no escaping that reality.

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We knew it was going to come eventually — the phony Catholic crowd would "rev up" and start making it appear that it's completely Catholic to vote for a man who supports chopping up little babies in the womb and selling their parts for research. And, if that's not enough, if they somehow survive a late-term abortion, then execute the child on the table and dump his body in the trash (after harvesting it for any valuable organs and such).

This is the ghoul that these satanic pro-abort Catholics — who are actually communists — say it's perfectly okay to vote for. "Why?" you might ask. Well it's obvious, isn't it? Because Donald Trump is mean and tweets stuff and trolls the Left a lot and he's a big meanie. 

People take offense at him, so he can't be re-elected. Killer Joe, he's our man because he's a sweet old guy, and he's not going to bother anyone because he's a little soft in the head, and he's this or that or whatever.

As we've said before, because of the uneven distribution of Catholic voters around the country and the higher-than-average number of them in the most-important key battleground states, the Catholic vote could well determine this election, in a razor-thin decision.

On the face of it, it would seem that Catholics would take some pride in the fact that how they vote would essentially determine who the occupant of the White House is going to be. But all is not as it appears, and certainly is not as it should be.

The Catholic vote has been hijacked and essentially split almost down the middle, nullifying its collective weight and reducing it to a mad scramble to influence a small undecided middle in a few swing precincts and counties around the country.

How did it happen? Well, the supposedly loyal right-wing Catholic media who make their living off clickbait about Pope Francis (as well as refusing to call out the evil that has engulfed their precious SSPX) can't blame this on Pope Francis.

This is a homegrown, made-in-America problem that very few have really talked about. And it goes way back, back to long before Pope Francis was ever thought of. But, then again, constantly doing stories about Pope Francis' latest weirdness provides them with a handsome payoff from email petitions and Patreon supporters.

After all, getting into the weeds about this U.S. bishop or that one — locals who most people have never heard of — does not generate nearly the clicks that any Pope Francis story does. More than 10 years ago, before Francis, Church Militant was telling anyone who would listen that the problem in the Church in the United States was the bishops — too many were either actual Marxists or had been influenced by Marxism.

Almost no other outlet, particularly on the right, was talking about this made-in-the-USA problem. It wasn't "sexy" enough. But we were sounding every alarm we could — that these wicked men were in league with the Democrats and were selling out on abortion to advance their globalist agenda.

We produced not one, not two, but three FBIs (Faith-Based Investigations) demonstrating all this. Before almost anyone was nailing this down, Church Militant produced an FBI about Saul Alinsky and his influence over the U.S. hierarchy and its phony poverty-fighting program, the Catholic Campaign for Human Development.

We even called it "CCHD and Alinsky." That was in 2010 — 10 years ago. Then, in the same year, we released our second investigative report: "Obama's Counterfeit Catholics," focusing on how George Soros money was being funneled through Catholic agencies to ensure Obama was elected — by confusing poorly educated Catholics.

A few months later, we dropped the next investigation — "Global Warming Unmasked" — showing how the nation's bishops were throwing in on the phony claim that climate change is manmade so Obama and the rest of the Left could use the issue as a way to seize control.

After that, the next investigation revealed how the Church in America was sold out by Notre Dame's president Theodore Hesburgh and how loads of bishops stood by silently as the evil was going on. Shortly after that, we did another in-depth investigation on how the bishops had betrayed the Faith and set it on the road to destruction here in the United States by their failure to uphold the Church's moral teaching to stay comfortable with the Left.

You see, Church Militant has been in this business a long time now, the business of exposing the evil in the Church, the sellout of the bishops to the Left because many of them are themselves leftists (or, more accurately, Marxists).

And note, the more than almost 3,000 man-hours of research that went into those investigations happened long before anyone ever heard of Pope Francis. In fact, all that stuff was going on during the pontificates of Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict. And what have all those decades of evil created?

An environment where bishops and priests can stand up in the pulpit and say it's okay to vote for Biden, a child killer. You know, because of immigration and climate change and all that — these are mere smokescreen issues created by them so they could align themselves with the Marxist globalists and fool you into thinking that everything is okay and you should go along with all of it.

Who knows, at this point, if the selling of their souls will pay off for them come November, but what you do know is this: What these men (like Jimmy Martin and the members of the recently formed "Catholics for Biden") are peddling is absolutely not Catholic.

No way. No how. These lies and distortions — aimed at destroying the Church — have gone on long enough. Do not be fooled by them. In fact, challenge them. Right to their faces. You have no business sitting in Church on Sundays and listening to a Marxist priest spout off and then not going up and challenging him right to his face, in public, in front of God and everyone.

He's probably gay. Or at the very least, sympathetic to it. And he doesn't believe the Faith anyway. So call him out on it. And that includes any bishops who abuse their authority to issue vague statements making it appear okay to vote for a child killer because he also wants to do something about "climate change."

Go up and challenge the bishop, right to his face. His office doesn't give him the right to lie and distort and deceive and confuse the faithful. These wolves in shepherds' clothing have gotten away with enough for too long. They want to bring the Catholic vote — or enough of it — along with them to drag Joe and Marxism across the finish line.

Don't be a party to it. Resist.

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We gotta say this: If you are a practicing Catholic and you don't rise up in protest against your local chancery, then you are a fool because you are blindly following a bunch of crooks and liars.

This situation long ago became the norm here in the United States — ever since the modernist invasion, which corrupted the theology. But, like Judas, once the theology was corrupted, everything else started: the orgies in the seminaries, the porn on computers of seminary leaders, the ripping off of hundreds of millions of dollars, the covering up of gay clergy and their immoral lives — sometimes including minor boys or young, vulnerable males.

Do you really think the rapes of thousands of altar boys is just a single, standalone crime? Or is it better to see it as one issue that came to light, born from a cesspool of immorality among the hierarchy? Any environment that can produce that kind of evil is a wicked environment that has many other evils as well.

One of those evils is the absolute knee-jerk reaction to lie and cover-up anything and everything when it is discovered. These wicked, sinister bishops wouldn't know how to deal truthfully if their lives depended on it, which, in reality, they do — their eternal lives.

Case in point is the complete whitewash that occurred here in Detroit last week after Church Militant aired a secret video of the archdiocesan music director admitting that he is not only gay, but that he lives with his gay partner and has for 15 years. That man, Joe Balistreri, is close to Abp. Allen Vigneron, who, once some sordid details started coming out a couple months ago, sent his senior clergy to go and lie to people to cover it up.

Those people, Msgr. Michael Bugarin and Bp. Gerard Battersby — who lie about Church Militant's reporting at every turn — all of a sudden got caught in their lie, a lie sanctioned by Vigneron himself.

Once the Church Militant undercover video aired, then it was major damage-control time. Vigneron called in the attorneys, Balistreri, and human resources, and the lies and spin and whitewashing began in earnest. On Friday, the human resources department sent an email, not to the public, not to the media, but strictly to clergy, saying Balistreri's time at the archdiocese of Detroit was officially over, a move they were forced to make because of Church Militant reporting.

But take a close look at their statement — it's tricky, deceptive wording: "Joe Balistreri has separated from his positions as the archdiocesan director of music ministries and as director of music at the Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament. The separation was effective Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021."

So, where to begin with this? First, Wednesday is the day the Church Militant aired its video (which we posted beginning at midnight). We know for an absolute fact that various senior personnel at the archdiocese of Detroit were aware of it and already in meetings that morning.

That Vortex got viewed by personnel all over the archdiocese of Detroit multiple times, and, as you might imagine, became the sole talking point of the day. So if the "separation" was effective that day — Ash Wednesday — why did it take the archdiocese of Detroit human resources department 48 hours to relay the information to the priests of the archdiocese?

If there had been a separation on Wednesday, why was Balistreri sitting in meetings with archdiocese of Detroit officials for hours and hours on Thursday — which CM has confirmed — with at least one attorney?

Why did the archdiocese not issue a press release on the matter, since this became known in the media? And the big looming question remains: "Why did the archdiocese notification to its priests use the extremely ambiguous term 'separated from his positions?'" What in Hades does that mean?

Was he fired (or "terminated," in the vocabulary of corporate America), or did he resign? If he resigned, why not just flat-out say so and wish him luck in his future endeavors, as is completely customary when an employee in good standing moves on to greener pastures? But if he was fired, why not simply announce that?

After all, when the archdiocese of Detroit dumped the lesbian music minister at a local parish last summer, they flat-out told her she was "terminated" for violating the morals clause. Well, Balistreri was also in violation of the morals clause — so why didn't his announcement say he was "terminated," instead of the wildly ubiquitous phrase "separated from his positions"?

Conjoined twins get separated, not employees. But allow us to propose something to you: If the public announcement says "separated," that is typical corporate-speak for covering up a payoff. The disgraced employee is too great a liability to keep on board so senior management decides he has to go.

However, the employee knows something, usually dirt (and a lot of it), and the employer knows that. So they can't out-and-out fire him because he threatens to sue and go to the media.

Likewise, if he just resigns, well, that gives him no leverage. So a whitewash term is used — "separated" (which means nothing) — but does allow a non-disclosure agreement to be entered into. The non-disclosure agreement (NDA) is agreed to by both parties. The former employee gets paid off to keep his mouth shut and promises not to sue.

And the employer dodges public revelations of its dirty laundry. That's how the game is played. Now, let's bring that corporate template down to this case of the archdiocese's long-standing openly gay music director. The word "separated" is the linchpin here, not to mention the nearly day-long meeting with attorneys the day after he was "separated from his positions."

If someone is fired, they don't come back the next day with attorneys and meet with their former employer for the day. But see, Balistreri was not, in fact, fired. Every single sign points to the fact that, after outing himself on video, the archdiocese of Detroit then paid him hush money to not out numerous gay clergy in the archdiocese or not to sue in open court (in which case, all Vigneron's secrets would come pouring out on the public record).

So was there an NDA, Archbishop? How much of faithful Catholics' money did you have to pay him to keep his mouth shut? How much did you pay your attorneys — again with the money from the collection basket — to participate in the foul deeds?

Vigneron and his fellow crooks do nothing but play head games. They are allergic to the truth because if the truth came out, they'd be completely exposed. There are many more issues here than just the whitewash; however, the whitewash now opens the door to all of those other issues — issues like "why did Vigneron allow his senior staff to attack and lie about a good priest who became aware of the Balistreri business?"

Why did Bp. Battersby lie to the priest's parishioners about the reason why he was removed — defaming him in the process? What various priests were in danger of being revealed as actively gay by Balistreri if he had not been paid off to stay silent or not sue? The Detroit archdiocese is a moral wasteland, and Catholics who keep giving money to this crooked, gay, crime syndicate need to wake up.

It's time to have Vigneron and his cronies "separated from their positions."

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Church Militant has been reporting for years now that the archdiocese of Detroit is corrupt, and the top leadership lie, deceive and misrepresent the truth any time they need to. Well, here is another example — but this time, we have the video proof.

Near the end of last year, the pastor of a local parish was suddenly yanked from his post at Our Lady of Good Counsel Parish in the archdiocese. The official reason given was that it was determined by the archbishop, Allen Vigneron, that he was under too much stress (a charge that the priest flat-out denies, by the way).

The truth of the matter is this: Fr. Michael Suhy, the pastor who was removed from his post at Our Lady of Good Counsel, became aware that the director of music for the archdiocese of Detroit is gay, living with his gay partner and allegedly sexually harassing young men, propositioning them for sex, telling them his gay partner is cool with it.

In the gay world, that's known as an "open relationship." Of course, Vigneron and his gay-friendly chancery couldn't allow that Fr. Suhy, a priest in a position of authority as a pastor, knew that dirty little secret.

So Vigneron sent his hit-man Msgr. Michael Bugarin to go and tell Fr. Suhy he was under stress and needed to step down. Suhy denied he was under any stress but Bugarin of course wasn't there for that reason. It was all a pretext. The visit was to remove him because of what he knew.

The following weekend, Vigneron dispatched auxiliary bishop Gerard Battersby to make the lie about stress public. He spoke at each Mass and lied to the parishioners. When confronted by some people after Mass who knew the truth about the music director, he immediately ended the conversation and walked away.

The archdiocese called in the music director, Joe Balistreri, to cover itself in case of legal action. Sources say Balistreri denied the charge he was sexually harassing a young man, but did fess up that he was gay and lived with another gay man.

Church Militant has obtained the following undercover video where someone went to Balistreri and his gay partner's home and Balistreri is quite free with information that he and his partner live together and have for the past 15 years. It's a very gay-friendly neighborhood and essentially everyone in the neighborhood knows he and his partner are gay.

So here's the deal. Joe Balistreri is the organist at the cathedral every Sunday where Vigneron offers Mass. Vigneron knows Balistreri. He's not only his organist — he's also the archdiocesan director of music. Sexual harassment by a top archdiocesan employee is reported to the archbishop and Fr. Suhy. The archdiocese does an "investigation" only to have the employee deny it. However, what gets unearthed in the process is that the employee is gay and living with a partner. 

However, from a Catholic perspective, his openness about his orientation (at a minimum) certainly creates the sin of scandal. Loads of people know that he's gay and that he lives with another gay man, and he's quite free with the information, as we have shown you.

There's not even a hint of him trying to avoid the sin of scandal because, frankly, he's not. He blurted out his whole life to a perfect stranger, even underscoring how his neighbors know and adding that the homeowner association president is gay as well, and everyone gets along very well with each other.

Likewise, Church Militant has been in touch with an eyewitness who says Balistreri attends gay events, like in October 2018 at the Kiesling Bar in downtown Detroit, which had been rented out specifically for an openly gay event. The archdiocese, however, knows all this — and that includes Vigneron, who, once again, is involved in a horrible case attacking one of his own priests because the priest knows something about the sinister gay underworld of his chancery.

Balistreri is only one angle of this story. The other is that not only does Vigneron cover for his openly homosexual archdiocesan music director, but he also sends out his chancery goons to lie about it to parishioners and then remove the priest because he knows the truth and must be demonized (also based on a lie).

And, of course, there is the very interesting twist to all this, based on past history. And it touches on both goons.

When Battersby was on the seminary faculty, he created quite the stir when he called a house meeting and instructed seminarians not to walk to the showers in towels (as opposed to bathrobes) because they were an occasion of sin for gay seminarians. He, of course, went on an internal public relations email campaign trying to discredit our information, but the fact remains: We had from multiple sources that it happened.

In his email campaign, Battersby even said incorrectly that he knew who the informant was. He was wrong. And what the powers should know at the chancery is that there are many moles who keep their mouths shut but are quite freely sending Church Militant information — including their financial conniving. Stay tuned for more on that.

Now, as a bishop, Battersby goes to a parish and lies to the parishioners while also smearing a good priest who simply knew too much. The other goon, Msgr. Bugarin — his involvement in any of this is really weird.

His duties are to handle the sex abuse cases against clergy (or in the notorious case of Fr. Eduard Perrone, to simply fabricate charges he knows do not have a word of truth to them; yet he is still celebrated by well-known Catholics like Teresa Tomeo, who know all about his evil but feel compelled to defend him so they don't lose access to Catholic money).

There are zero allegations of sex abuse against clergy or anyone else in this case. So why is "Bugs" (as he is disparagingly known in the chancery) involved in this case? Simple answer: He is Vigneron's hitman — his clean-up man who travels around handling all the dirty cases.

In this instance, it's not a priest he has to clean up after or lie about, but a high-ranking diocesan official, a trusted employee of Vigneron that the archbishop wants protected. Once again, this time with video proof, Church Militant continues to show you the dark underside of the hierarchy.

Vigneron is the second in command at the national bishop's conference, in line to become president in 2022. And here he is, punishing a priest who knows the truth of what amounts to at least a cover-up, if not a case of out-and-out sexual harassment of a young vulnerable male by a trusted Vigneron official.

So since we appear to be in the era of impeachments and censures, why doesn't the leadership of the bishops at the very least censure Vigneron?

From a Church perspective, he is at least aiding and abetting scandal. He is being unjust in his treatment of one of his priests. He dispatched his auxiliary bishop out to a parish to deliberately deceive thousands of parishioners over a given weekend.

So we ask, "Seriously? Does this not deserve some public statement from the bishops of whom is the second in command at the conference?" Imagine if this had happened to a member of the board at General Motors. The dude would be gone before you could say #MeToo.

But not so in the Church, where skullduggery, quiet agendas and gay alliances rule the day. Of course, as usual, the bishops and their suck-ups will say, "Oh that's just Church Militant. Those scandalmongers. They suck. Don't listen to them. Their tone — you know."

Except, this time your excellencies, there's video proof. One day, one day you brood of vipers are going to have to answer to Almighty God for the evil you practice and for the lives you wreck and the souls you destroy. One day.

We can promise you, on that day, Church Militant will be your absolute last concern.

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We must say that the more and more Bp. Robert Barron opens his episcopal mouth, the more he sticks his foot in it. In fact, given the latest little video he released, his foot is so far in his mouth, his toes must be in his upper gastrointestinal tract by now.

A couple of weeks ago, we showed the hypocrisy of Los Angeles archbishop José Gómez issuing his letter — after the carnage of the election — saying Biden might be a danger to some Catholic teachings. Wow. What stupendous insight. We are so blessed to have such incredible leaders to tell us what we could have never figured out on our own.

Well, not to be outdone by his archbishop, Barron had to get in on the "abortion is bad" two-faced presentation as well. Unlike Gómez, however, Barron has something of a hole to dig himself out of. The last few months have not been kind to the modernist bishop.

Remember the Ben Shapiro fiasco, when Barron whiffed on the necessity of Christ for salvation? According to Barron, Jesus isn't necessary, he's only the privileged way to salvation, implying to the average theologically untrained listener that there must be other ways to be saved.

In another instance, while basking in the glow of his own reasonableness and intellect, he told Dave Rubin on his show that he doesn't think the Church or faithful should be fighting against gay marriage. Kind of strange that one because the Vatican itself has stated numerous times that yes, they should.

But hey, it's celebrity Bp. Barron, so what the heck, right? Then he scolded faithful Catholics for saying the bishops should be getting out physically and helping to protect the statues of saints being toppled by BLM and Antifa. He got quite the backlash for his insult to the faithful, saying that it's the laity's job, not the bishops'.

In fact, it was so intense that he had to release another video from the heights of his ivory tower of self-importance saying the vitriol needs to end, totally ignoring that he was the source of it with his politely worded, condescending insult. A few days later, with, of course, a self-promoting video crew in tow, he did go out and make a 10-minute appearance with the peasants to show his effort at protecting the statue.

What he didn't tell you — and that Church Militant later learned — is that one of his biggest donors essentially ordered him to backtrack and show his face or the money would dry up. So, of course, out he trotted — again with a camera crew highlighting his deigning to mix with the Catholic peasantry. But only briefly, you know. Very, very busy these auxiliary celebrity bishops. Lots to do. Many people to meet. Oh very busy.

But he was not too busy, apparently, to endorse pro-gay Fr. Jimmy Martin and his building-a-bridge garbage between Church teaching and mortal sin. So bearing all that background in mind, the evolving track record that puts things in context, consider his latest look-at-me stunt.

It's a short video explaining that the Democrats who control the U.S. Senate failed to allow protections to be extended to babies who survive abortion. The legislation is the "Born Alive Protection Act," and the communist Democrats have no desire to give one inch on abortion or, for that fact, what amounts to infanticide, because the baby is alive and outside the womb on a table before the doctors kill it.

Normal people call that homicide. 

Barron expresses his horror at such a stand by Democrats. "How could they?" he ponders. He just is left speechless he says, not knowing where to go with that. No way to process that. Wow.

The shock! The surprise! How could they — and after all that talk about uniting the country! After all their promises to reach across the aisle? Barron is appalled, clutching at his pectoral pearls. And then, in what has got to be one of the most two-faced, hypocritical comments ever captured on tape by a successor of the Apostles, he finishes up with this short flurry: "The Church must raise her voice in protest."

Oh please. Is there a polite way to tell a bishop to get lost and stop trying to act like he cares when he really doesn't — or at least not enough? No, Barron doesn't support abortion. But he hasn't lifted a finger in oppositon to the archtiecture that supports abortion. How dare this phony come out now and try to pretend that, in his opinion, the Church must raise her voice in protest.

Seriously? Where were you, Bishop, before Nov. 3? Where were you when the election was being stolen by commies who proudly declared their allegiance to child murder? But, a little closer to home, why haven't you and your "brother bishops" raised your voices in protest against all the Catholic politicians you have let slide for decades who vote this evil in place — who keep the machinery of this child holocaust well-oiled.

You let them commit sacrilege hand over fist in receiving Holy Communion. You all let them sow scandal among the faithful. You let them pretend to be some alternatively acceptable form of Catholic, sort of like your "Jesus is the 'privileged way'" idiocy. 

You and your other crocodile-tears-for-the-babies-in-the-womb comrades have never lifted a finger in any substantive way to fight for these innocents. You're too busy sucking at the teats of career advancement and wanting to be liked by all. So in Barron's case, you make a video and send it to your adoring masses, looking all serious and tough but totally lacking any real spiritual testosterone.

Barron, like Gómez (and virtually all the rest of them), would never want to run afoul of the globalist Vatican and its "social justice" talking points. The reason they don't is that they know their careers would come to a grinding halt. That, ladies and gentlemen, is cowardice. 

Barron is using his "look at me get tough" video as a way to repair his image. Now that he knows Biden is in power with the rest of the child-killing crowd, he can say whatever he wants. It'll fetch him some more eyeballs and get some people to think favorably of him again, perhaps, maybe.

But, in either case, when the chips were down and saying something could have actually mattered, he abandoned those children in the womb when they most needed him. Where was his motion on the floor of the USCCB meetings to denounce and declare "excommunicated" all these phony-Catholic child-killers?

Don't believe anything that comes out of this man's mouth. Like his fellow partners in spiritual terrorism, they don't say a word that isn't calculated to their own benefit first. They're double-dealing, lacking-in-supernatural-grace, phony, wimpy, charlatan hirelings. Period. Gómez is trying to bilk the faithful out of half a billion dollars in Los Angeles to "build up the Church."  Barron has a little media empire to support, and none of that can be threatened, don't you know?

What's appalling is them, not the Democrats supporting child-killing. Everyone on the planet knows the Democrats support child-killing. Or does Barron actually expect us to believe that he was truly appalled and shocked that they weren't interested in "building a bridge" to save some babies?

Barron is a danger to the lived experience of the Faith in this country and in the Church at large. He built a reputation on being some kind of intellect, but when the time comes for him to actually put his gifts at the service of the truth, when he knows it will cost him, he hikes up the bloomers and takes a seat. Then, when the coast is clear and no one is listening or cares anymore, then he says the Church must raise her voice in protest.

Barron, that train pulled out of the station a few months ago. But you already know that, don't you? Hopefully, your phony little video will get you some more donors, but don't expect Catholic faithful (who are wisening up to you) to be fooled every time.

If you really cared, you would have done what needed to be done months — actually years — ago. So here's a question everyone should ask the esteemed bishop: "If you were offering Mass and the Catholic governor of your state (California), Gavin Newsom, presented himself to you for Holy Communion, would you deliver Our Lord over to him, yes or no?"

I'm pretty sure we all know the answer. Wilton Gregory is cool with Child-Killer-in-Chief Biden receiving Our Lord sacramentally into his depraved soul; so is Cupich; so is McElroy. 

So, as you're rounding up the bishops to "raise the Church's voice in protest," let's start there, shall we? You're a coward. And so are your brother bishops. Yeah, the Democrats are evil. But you helped put them in place. Good luck with that one when you stand before Our Lord. Oh yeah, I forgot: Everyone goes to Heaven, so who cares?

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Within the Catholic world, a media war has erupted. And frankly, it's getting ugly.

There is the establishment media, which does nothing but apologize for inept bishops and their dalliances. They go out of their way (with increasing frequency) to attack outfits like Church Militant for not toeing the party line and kissing up.

In another camp is the Marxist "Katholyc" crowd — that's Catholic with a K. National Catholic Reporter and Fr. James Martin are prime examples, along with America Magazine and so forth. They likewise attack outfits like Church Militant because we report on their dissent and heresy in their attempts to destroy the Church and remake it after their own sinful wills.

We see much of this dynamic at work in the secular media world as well, although there it is a little more clearly defined: Marxist media and more politically conservative media.

There are a few more splinters in the Catholic world, frankly, because there are more competing agendas stemming from different views of the Church — the establishment media types and the dissent media types and the "rad-trad" media types — all with pretty dramatically different views about the Church.

One thing each of those competing camps has in common however is this: Depending on the story and how it impacts their agenda, they won't tell you the full truth. For instance:

Each media camp is simply tied to another agenda other than the truth. When it's convenient to report the truth, they do. Sometimes, in fact, they each even do a commendable job.

But each camp has certain areas and stories they will not cover. In fact, they cover them up because their own agenda is more important than you knowing the truth.

However, here at Church Militant, we have become the antidote to this "agenda reporting."

This week, we began production of our nightly newscast, Church Militant Evening News. It airs Monday through Friday at 6:30 p.m. ET, live, right here on ChurchMilitant.com and then is available for replay until the next day's version goes live.

Why is our journalism so different from what others report to be journalism? Simple. Our agenda is the full presentation of the truth of Church teaching at the service of the salvation of souls, period.

The establishment media's agenda is self-preservation, so they're never going to tick-off the bishops.

The dissident media's agenda is to wreck the Church and transform her into a globalist social justice outfit, so they disguise their heresy.

The rad-trad media's agenda is to convince you that the Church only exists now in breakaway groups because they idolize the Latin Mass and pretend that is the cure-all for the current woes, conveniently forgetting that the Latin Mass was the exclusive Liturgy when the Church fell apart in the mid-1960s.

Here at Church Militant, we don't dodge uncomfortable stories. We explore them, vet them, investigate them and report them. If something can damage the Church's mission, whether in the secular realm or the Church realm, then you need to know about it.

The point of news is to report what's going on so that the truth can be revealed. It's to provide context, history and so forth so you can have an increased understanding and what's wrong and what needs to be done. And let's face it, there's a lot wrong.

That's why we have a crack staff doing yeoman's work trying to get to the bottom of what's going on: when, where, how, involving whom and all those key points.

There is not an outfit like Church Militant in the Catholic world, and we'll even go a step further and say not in the secular media world. We all know that they have an agenda as well — advertising dollars. It may not be as purely ideologically driven as some Catholic outlets because secular outfits have to respond to corporate sponsors who, likewise, have their own ideology.

It all comes down to trustworthiness, to "whom can you believe?" To answer that question, you need to know a particular outfit's motive — why they do what they do as well as don't do.

Stories an outfit refuses to cover are just as important a consideration as what they do cover. In some ways, it's actually more important what they aren't telling you. Here at Church Militant, we have developed the deserved reputation of telling you like it is, period.

It doesn't matter if the sex abuse and cover-up is in the Church of Nice or a breakaway Latin Mass group. Victims are victims, period. And crooked cover-up clergy are crooked cover-up clergy whether they face the people or not. Likewise, it doesn't matter if a bishop refuses to do the right thing because he's a coward or because he's wicked. Both need to be dragged into the spotlight.

The time has come for Church Militant Evening News, a no-holds-barred, one-stop source for everything you need to know, regardless of who's ticked off by it. Faithful Catholics have a right to know what's going on in every corner of the Church.

The Church is in need of purification, of disinfecting, and as the saying goes, "Nothing disinfects like sunlight."

We've been building up to this point for years now as we think about it. Church Militant didn't start out like this or even think about it. But here we are, shining a light on corruption and cover-up wherever it happens and however it impedes the preaching of the authentic gospel.

The truth is what matters — nothing else. Not little personal agendas, not trying to beef up an email list with clickbait headlines or petitions, not trying to sing a new church into being.

There is much wrong with the Church — not her teachings, but in every other imaginable way — and there are those who exploit all this to advance their selfish causes. But there's a lot of ignorance out there as well, which allows the evils to be exploited.

For years, Church Militant has been the go-to source for millions when learning the whole story, the real story.

And now, our work here each day culminates in the all-new Church Militant Evening News, bringing you the day's news from the only perspective that matters — that of your eternal salvation.

Tune in and tell your friends.

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One of the very troubling aspects of the modernist Church and its leaders (aside from their own pending damnation) is the impact it has on innocent people. Quite a few have bought into the Marxist hype and modernist garbage, while others have resisted.

However, if we view the Church as the Barque of St. Peter, we must be aware that you can fall off either the port or the starboard side. Many have, indeed, fallen off the ship on its left side. But what often gets overlooked by the usual Catholic is that a not-insignificant number have also fallen off the right side as well.

As a response to the crisis, they have sought refuge in breakaway Catholic groups that have all the trappings of tradition, but underneath it, are just as spiritually dangerous as the modernist crowd (but obviously for different reasons).

One such group is the Society of St. Pius X, which has inculcated an attitude in its followers that its clergy are absolutely beyond question or reproach. This has created an atmosphere within the SSPX leadership that they can get away with anything, and they have.

For almost a year now, Church Militant has been exposing sexual abuse by multiple clergymen in the society, but, more importantly, the lies, deception and cover up by its leaders. For years, Bp. Fellay has demonstrated wanton disregard for dozens of known victims and their families and continued to create a space for even more harm to be done to innocent souls.

Since our exhaustive investigations began airing, SSPX fanatics have been attacking us saying our reports are wrong, incorrect, biased and so forth. Even a popular website called our reporting into question without revealing to its readers that they benefit financially from an outfit with close ties to the SSPX (which lists the religious community on its website).

Journalistically speaking, that's highly unethical. Likewise, some letters and articles went out from highly respected clergy suggesting that Church Militant was biased in its reporting. Those letters appeared on the same website, but it was clear from even one cursory reading that the bishop who wrote the letters had not been told of the abuse and cover-up by leaders in any real detail.

Here's the bottom line: If Church Militant's reports are wrong, then the close-to-dozen victims — adults abused as children, both male and female, who have appeared on camera over the last year and recounted their stories — are simply lying. Their explicit detailed accounts of what happened, both the abuse and then the re-victimization by leaders smearing them and promoting their abusers.

Every time Church Militant airs one of these investigations, more victims come forward (as you will see in this latest report), and perhaps most importantly, it's revealed that their treatment at the hands of leaders caused them to lose their faith.

That's quite a black mark on a society that presents itself as the "authentic Church" and drapes itself in self-anointing such as "Eternal Rome."

On last night's Church Militant Evening News, we aired a preview of our Spotlight Report and discussed it with senior producer Christine Niles.

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One thing that happens when you do the work we do is you travel frequently. That means that, many times, you get to the Mass that fits the flight schedule in any given diocese.

Recently, our travels took us to a couple of parishes where the reality of the future of the Church of Nice is staring you right in the face. The "where" doesn't really matter because, frankly, this is the case all over America. Since I refuse to wear a mask at a Mass, I usually sit far away from people and near the back in these circumstances.

That affords me the opportunity to see the entire congregation, and I have to tell you, it's extremely sad. First, the overwhelming majority of heads are gray and white — people well into retirement (in short, old). There's nothing wrong with old people going to Mass. In fact, an old person who doesn't go to Mass is a fool, as the need is more pressing as their time on earth lessens.

But when it's only old people in the Church, then something is wrong. There was the customary smattering of families, a small number, with dad and mom in their mid-40s with their 2.1 children in tow — normally a son obviously bored off his nut and a daughter texting like crazy.

You do see the occasional toddler, but he's usually with grandparents. Aside from that, you're really hard-pressed to see essentially anyone between 20 and 60. At two different Masses over two weekends, that was the scene. You could count on one hand — at two different weekend Masses — the number of young men and women by themselves.

This is not the mark of anything other than a dying portion of the Church. And notice we say "portion." It's the portion of Catholicism that, over 10 years ago, Church Militant dubbed the "Church of Nice"; the squishy, mealy-mouthed, God-is-love, everyone-goes-to-Heaven brand of Catholicism promoted by virtually every member of the American hierarchy for the past 60 years.

And if you want to see the effects, just pop into any usual parish in the country. Sure, there are exceptions, but they are the exceptions that prove the rule. The mass exodus of tens of millions of American Catholics that we have seen these past decades has resulted in one of two paths out of the Church.

About half go to some conservative Protestant congregation. The other half abandon religion almost entirely. That's quite the accomplishment on the part of the hierarchy — equal-opportunity apostasy. Well done, ladies. You've accomplished what no other group of bishops has been able to do in 2,000 years.

So this portion of the Church is dying, and dying quickly. What began here in Detroit in the mid-1960s under liberal cardinal John Dearden as a means of dismantling the Church has completely achieved its goal.

If it's true that former U.S. Communist Party member Bella Dodd was instrumental in getting hundreds of communist agents planted into U.S. seminaries back in the 1920s and 30s as Joseph Stalin had ordered, then Dearden would certainly have fit the bill and the timeline.

For decades, Dearden types have been downplaying the Eucharist while up-playing anything not Catholic. They peppered their seminaries with gay men, emotionally and psychologically castrated males who were not only spiritually immature, but also lacking in any kind of masculine virtue.

Even if a given individual man wasn't gay, it's a sure bet he was a socially awkward, wimpy dude who would inspire exactly nothing in a normal male — except for him to get up and leave the Church.

The Church of Nice is nearly dead. And while, for the time being, it is still the largest portion of the Church, the scales are showing signs of tipping fast toward tradition. It won't be very long now before the only real Catholics around will actually be real Catholics. In a couple of years, the shameful archbishop of Detroit, Allen Vigneron, will be just another sad footnote here in Detroit — he who filled Dearden's shoes quite ably.

He's given the appearance of supporting tradition, but, in reality, he's been an enemy of it. He has more kind words and deeds for other faiths, while closer to home, he persecutes good priests who pose a threat to exposing the homosexual underbelly of the Detroit chancery. He has less than three years to go, which means in a few months he essentially becomes a lame duck, and anyone who really cares in Detroit just keeps checking their watches, counting the days.

We focus on Vigneron, not only because he is the current head of the archdiocese where it all began, but because he is smack dab in the middle of a boatload of weak men his age who will soon also be disappearing from the episcopal landscape.

Their tombstones will collectively read, "Here lies an ineffective bishop who lied, cheated and drove the flock from the Church." Their replacements will be every bit as much a group of losers as they had been, but they will be presiding over the carnage of the Vignerons and Dolans and the whole lot of them.

They will become the successors but to a catastrophe of no sheep. They will have very sizable endowments numbering in the billions of dollars, but there won't be anyone left to spend it on — except themselves. But for the other game in town, over on the tradition side, things are looking very bright.

Over there, it's almost like a different religion. There are young people as well as old, children of all ages, male altar boys only, young men who strike you as something that the Church of Nice would want to perform an exorcism on to banish the demon of toxic masculinity. The reason it looks like a different religion is because, for virtually every reason, it is.

Tradition exists for a reason. It has vitality. It has purpose. It has meaning. It lasts because it is the nature of tradition to last. That's sort of why they call it tradition. Of course, the Church of Nice hates tradition because tradition lasts and fads disappear. Old lesbian nuns will soon be gone: Give them about another 10 years or less, and many of them are already dying off.

Likewise, the old queens in the chanceries will also be gone because they won't have any people to lord it over, their dioceses having imploded. Vigneron, for example, is implementing a plan here in Detroit that will have the result of reducing the effective number of parishes down to maybe six or seven dozen.

When his mentor Cdl. Dearden was ruling Detroit back in the '60s, there were hundreds and hundreds of parishes (more than 400 when he took over). When Vigneron packs up in a couple of years, there will be about 70 left. Cupich and his lot will be ruling over a graveyard, bishops of the dead. And they will be getting exactly what they will deserve.

What is going on in the Church right now is the death throes of the Church of Nice dying and the birth pains of tradition being reborn. It's going to be both sad as well as painful, but time marches on, as does the will of God.

He allowed Satan his time, and the Devil certainly made hay when the sun shined, but you can look around your local parish and hear the clock ticking. This is all quickly changing. So take heart. Good does win in the end. God is triumphant, and His will is always done.

It just seems like it might not be that way sometimes. But yes, it is — always.