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In many ways, it's hard to believe, but 2021 marks the 15th year of St. Michael's Media/Church Militant. During this time, we've watched the world — and especially the Church — turn to a much darker path.

Lies, cowardice, theft, corruption: It's all enough to make one lose heart if you only concentrate on that. But at Church Militant, we don't concentrate on the evil. We expose it, and then counter it with Catholic truth.

We didn't start out this way. Back in the day, we were pretty naive about the filth in the Church. Like many, we didn't have the slightest idea that the ills that had befallen the Church were not just accidents.

They were actually engineered over the course of a century — especially the last half-century — to deliberately smother Catholic truth. Many people fell for it, especially Catholics who, having received no truthful, authentic Catholic teaching, left. About half went to other religions, and the other half just stopped practicing or professing any belief.

The wicked bishops who brought this all about, many of them dead now, will face or have faced their judgment before Almighty God. Those who were damned will have deserved every bit of their punishment for stealing from the flock, stealing the truth. But, in our first days, all we recognized was that many Catholics (as well as others) just didn't know the Faith. It would only be later that we came to understand why.

So when we launched this work, our flagship show was The One True Faith, hosted by yours truly. The response was remarkable. People contacted us constantly, saying things like, "I've never heard any of this before. Why was I deprived of this? I went to Catholic school for years."

On and on the stories flowed, each one revealing the depth of ignorance on the part of so many, an ignorance that wasn't their fault. They had been deliberately denied the truth and had chosen to live their lives accordingly. And, in many ways, that's understandable. In fact, many people who work here every day at Church Militant were once in that same boat — all of us realizing something was wrong, but not exactly sure what and certainly not sure how to find out.

Many drifted into Protestant congregations, some of whom were at least preaching some truth from Scriptures (as opposed to many Catholic priests who were preaching evil by actually twisting Scriptures to support immorality). What no one was saying was that Scriptures belong to the Catholic Church. It was the Church that complied the canon of Scripture, translated it and preached it to the world (until wicked clerics came along and began to undo all that).

We produced more than 100 episodes of The One True Faith, 8 seasons of 13 episodes each, touching on absolutely every topic you can think of regarding Catholic truth. Of course, as the show gained in popularity and drew more eyes, the wicked clergy — especially here in Detroit — started to get all hot and bothered and come after us.

They didn't like our "tone," they said. It was too confrontational, too muscular, not gentle enough. When we were struggling through all this (and not understanding their assaults), a good priest reminded me of one very real truth: "When you are being persecuted for doing what is good, you should be happy. Rejoice and be glad, for yours is the Kingdom of Heaven."

This is just a small sample of the wisdom of the Church you will find here on Church Militant as a Premium member. The world is in its current condition because of the lack of conviction of Catholics and the ignorance of men of goodwill (who have never encountered the fullness of Christ in His Catholic Church).

Please sign up today and become a Premium member here at Church Militant. Channel the justified anger you have at the current political and cultural scene in shoring up your spirituality and theological knowledge. Church Militant Premium is only $10 a month, and it not only goes to the Premium work we do but also helps defray the cost of every other program you get for free, like this Vortex episode, for example.

Vortex and other things here at Church Militant are free to you, but they aren't free to produce. All this week, we'll be spotlighting just a small sampling of Premium programs we have — thousands of episodes — in the hopes that you will sign up and watch them. And if you are a Premium member, then take this as a gentle reminder to view them anew.

There is a great cultural war raging, and at its heart is a spiritual conflict — the war for souls launched in Eden and existing in every single man's heart. No man can win that war without being grounded in truth as a first priority. So, please, sign up today. Help us help you while you help us to evangelize the world. 

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One of the many travesties and tragedies exposed in the past decades involving corruption in the Church is the distribution and reception of Holy Communion in the hand. Marxist-minded clerics in the Church decades ago decided that, in order to weaken faith in the Church, they needed to weaken and eventually destroy faith in the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist.

Well, they've been successful.

Today, only 30% — less than one out of every three Catholics — believe in the Real Presence of Our Blessed Lord in the Eucharist. So from a Marxist point of view, mission accomplished. But as we said, this is the end result of a long-term strategy by Judas clergy who wanted the Church and her teachings leveled to clear the way for a one-world government and a one-world religion.

Reception of Holy Communion in the hand, seen in this light, is a direct affront to Almighty God. How this came to be was revealed in a series of Church Militant programs a number of years ago, but given the urgency of the need to get all things back in their proper order, we want to highlight some of our Premium programming that explains all this.

One of the programs is Case Files, where Simon Rafe gets deep into all of this. The background on all this dates back to a wicked cardinal, Joseph Bernardin of Chicago, who, in addition to pushing Communion in the hand, was also responsible for flooding the American hierarchy with practicing homosexuals and others sympathetic to it.

He was elevated to his high role in the U.S. Church by his mentor, Cdl. John Dearden of Detroit, a sinister figure who laid the groundwork for the collapse of the Church when he came back from Vatican II in the mid-1960s.

After pulling the altars off the back walls, having the priest face the people and turn his back to Christ in the tabernacle and tearing out the Communion rails, he left it to Bernardin to deliver the final blow to destroy faith in the Real Presence — reception in the hand.

It's unsurprising that Bernardin would actually rig the vote and then lie about it to his fellow bishops to achieve his wicked ends. This, after all, is the same bishop who pushed the phony social justice narrative in the Church, termed the "seamless garment," where the slaughter of millions of preborn innocents would be counted as equal to losing your job.

That Marxist narrative has been spun by liars and killers like Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi for years now, with many saying, "I'm personally opposed to abortion, but." Communion in the hand was never approved by Vatican II, but its proponents are constantly using Vatican II as the excuse. They are either ignorant or liars.

This is just a small sample of the material you will find here on Church Militant as a Premium member. The world is in its current condition because of the lack of conviction of Catholics in addition to the ignorance of men of goodwill who have never encountered the fullness of Christ in His Catholic Church.

Please sign up today and become a Premium member here at Church Militant. Channel the justified anger you have at the current political and cultural scene in shoring up your spirituality and theological knowledge.

Church Militant Premium is only $10 a month, and it not only goes to the Premium work we do but also helps defray the cost of every other program you get for free, like this Vortex episode, for example. Vortex and other things here at Church Militant are free to you, but they aren't free to produce.

All this week, we'll be spotlighting just a small sampling of Premium programs we have — thousands of episodes — in the hopes that you will sign up and watch them. And if you are a Premium member, then take this as a gentle reminder to view them anew. There is a great cultural war raging, and at its heart is a spiritual conflict — the war for souls launched in Eden and existing in every single man's heart.

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Church Militant's stated, public, official mission is to be used to save souls. This is, in the end, all that matters. To that end, no matter what we cover and however we cover it, that single mission remains in the forefront.

Whether it's corruption in the Church, wherever it exists, which prevents people from seeing the glory of the Faith, or the arena of culture and politics, which has the same effect (trapping people in sin), Church Militant does everything we can to strip and rip all this away so that truth will prevail.

In our travels over the many years we have been doing this, we have been blessed to make many wonderful friendships with like-minded, kindred souls. One of those was a giant of a man, Fr. Pablo Straub. God rest his soul. We miss him very much. He used to tell us, "Michael, you must bring Christ to the internet." That was almost 15 years ago. Man, does time fly.

So that is precisely what we set out to do. Fr. Pablo dedicated his life to preaching and converting souls through his deep, deep love of Our Blessed Lord in scriptural truths taught by the Catholic Church. One of those truths revealed in Scripture is what the final end, draped in justice, will be like.

What has so many followers of Christ upset and outraged is the lack of justice that seemingly permeates the entire culture and Church today. But the counsel from Fr. Pablo is, "Remain faithful." God will do what He has promised. When you weigh the evil in the world (which always seems overwhelming), the holy priest likewise says, "Do not worry about justice."

God, after all, is outside of time, and when time ends for each man, justice will await. God is not mocked forever. This is just a small sample of the wisdom of the Church you will find here on Church Militant as a premium member. The world is in its current condition because of the lack of conviction of Catholics as well as because of the ignorance of men of goodwill who have never encountered the fullness of Christ in His Catholic Church.

Please sign up today and become a premium member here at Church Militant. Channel the justified anger you have at the current political and cultural scene in shoring up your spirituality and theological knowledge. Church Militant premium is only $10 a month, and it not only goes to the premium work we do but also helps defray the cost of every other program you get for free, like this Vortex episode, for example.

Vortex and other things here at Church Militant are free to you, but they aren't free to produce. All this week, we'll be spotlighting just a small sampling of premium programs we have, thousands of episodes, in the hopes that you will sign up and watch them. And if you are a premium member, then take this as a gentle reminder to view them anew.

There is a great cultural war raging, and at its heart is a spiritual conflict, the war for souls launched in Eden and existing in every single man's heart. No man can win that war without being grounded in truth as a first priority. So please, sign up today: Help us help you while you help us to evangelize the world. 

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When we speak of man being made in the Divine Image, the Imago Dei, one dynamic present there is our intellect, the ability to arrive at truth and then embrace it. You see this very thing playing out very early in even a child's life, a desire to know, to grasp truth, to grasp reality. 

Only when a small child grows to adulthood does the starkness and reality of truth become something that he may want to avoid and flee from. But even then, there is at least a tacit recognition of truth, because if there weren't, what exactly would he be fleeing from? 

Truth, by its nature, is inescapable because of this one simple but all-encompassing point, it is the nature of truth to be known. But beyond being known, truth must be conformed to. Truth is the hard reality that, if you live in opposition to it, your life will be miserable, and you will end in misery. 

Conforming to truth requires that sound reasoning for truth must be first be discovered and understood. Recognizing this simple truth about truth, 10 years ago, Church Militant set out on course, producing a program we called Right Reason. It was hosted by a brilliant and humble man, Dr. Charles Rice, who loved us and what we do here. 

And as a little footnote, if you think what we say about the failures of the U.S. hierarchy and their staff is pretty bad, you should have heard Dr. Rice's take. Let's just say that a man who dedicated his life to the truth was pretty blunt in expressing the truth about that miserable lot.

It was also very gratifying to me to see my dad and Dr. Rice instantly hit it off like they were long lost brothers, without ever having met prior to Dr. Rice coming to Detroit to record the shows. Good men are drawn to each other and share in the light of truth.

The show Right Reason is one of our premium shows here at Church Militant (there are 26 episodes of Right Reason — during which I had the blessing to share the stage with Dr. Rice as he explained the great gift of reason and its power). A few days ago we spoke of the alternate reality in a culture that accepts the lies and misinformation of elites who seek to destroy truth.

An elitist crowd that desires to so obscure the lines between good and evil, right and wrong, truth and falsity so as to create a culture where anything goes, any act is permissible, except saying the truth and witnessing to it.

All the gods of Rome as well as the gods of the enslaved peoples were acceptable to caesar, except the One True God. God created man with the inborn knowledge of right and wrong and, in his conscience, reveals to him his own guilt. It is the proverbial law of God, written on our hearts.

This is just a small sample of the wisdom of the Church you will find here on Church Militant as a premium member. The world is in its current condition because of the lack of conviction of Catholics as well as because of the ignorance of men of goodwill, who have never encountered the fullness of Christ in His Catholic Church.

Please sign up today and become a premium member here at Church Militant.

Channel the justified anger you have at the current political and cultural scene in shoring up your spirituality and theological knowledge.

Church Militant premium is only $10 a month, and it not only goes to the premium work we do, but also helps defray the cost of every other program you get for free, like this Vortex episode for example.

Vortex and other things here at Church Militant are free to you, but they aren't free to produce. All this week, we'll be spotlighting various premium programs we have — thousands of episodes — in the hopes that you will sign up and watch them. And if you are a premium member, then take this as a gentle reminder to view them anew.

There is a great cultural war raging, and at its heart is a spiritual conflict — the war for souls launched in Eden and existing in every single man's heart. No man can win that war without being grounded in truth as a first priority. So please, sign up today — help us help you while you help us to evangelize the world. 

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As 2021 gets into gear, what we have learned from the carnage of 2020 is that there are two major worldviews, and they have nothing to do with each other.

But what had managed to remain hidden for the most part prior to 2020 is that they both use the same labels and vocabulary; they each claim to be American or Catholic, but, in reality, they are deeply opposed to each other. 

Marxist Democrats do not profess American values. Nor do dissident clergy and laity profess the Catholic faith. Leaving aside the parallel between nation and Church, and focusing exclusively on the Church, what this has caused is a crisis in the Church.

In practice, there are two churches operating under the same banner, just as there are two Americas operating in one nation. In the religious realm, one of the churches denies scriptural truths, perverts morality and distorts doctrine. This "church" talks about social justice but denies the justice of God, and, we should add, they are very good at all of that.

This Sunday, on our weekly Mic'd Up program, returning from the carnage of the campaign and election coverage, we'll be looking at this issue of a Church in crisis from a man most would perhaps not suspect would be sounding the alarm. Dr. Ralph Martin is on the faculty of the archdiocese of Detroit's Sacred Heart Major Seminary and has seen much of the crisis unfold, up close and personal.

That problem is that the division within the Church, which has now erupted into full view, is not only within the ranks of the bishops but has descended down to the level of parishes and even the pews. In most Catholic parishes across the nation (and likely the world) chances are if you are a Catholic who believes and holds all that the Church teaches, neither person sitting beside you does.

Most do not believe in the Real Presence. Most do not accept even a smidgeon of the Church's teaching with regard to sexual morality. The devotional life has become essentially meaningless to almost all Catholics (including the bishops), demonstrated time and time again by the permission they grant for abuses in liturgy and the immorality among their staffs and chancery workers.

Martin opines that the greatest threat to the Faith comes not from any of those issues per se, but from the acceptance of universalism — the idea that everyone is saved or that so few are actually damned or even in danger of being damned that the entire teaching is rendered pointless. 

Bishop Robert Barron may be the torchbearer for that thinking with his anti-Catholic position that we have a reasonable hope that all men are saved. But by their failure to correct him and restate perennial Church teaching, his fellow bishops allow that wicked thought to grow. While Martin is certainly not the first in the Church to become more vocal about the crisis — Church Militant was sounding the same alarm more than a dozen years ago — Martin does have a word of caution for the shepherds in the Church.

Mic'd Up, normally a premium program, will be free this week and available anytime on the site from 10 a.m. ET on Sunday. Much has happened in the world since the last Mic'd Up episode we aired; we've sunk into the beginnings of a communist tyranny let loose on the world. The only effective weapon against this evil, indeed, all evil, is the Catholic Church, imbued with Divine power to defeat that evil and present the path to Heaven.

But a Church in crisis — divided — becomes neutered against the evil, paralyzed and unable to fight. Until the crisis in the episcopacy is ended, the crisis in the Church, with its heavy toll on humanity, will continue.

Tune in this Sunday at 10 a.m. ET (and anytime following) to really begin to understand the nature of the crisis and what can be done moving forward.

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The great migration has begun in earnest. Millions of Americans are thankfully abandoning the Marxist media and leftist communication outfits that have contributed so heavily to the collapse of the republic.

Some of that is showing up on their bottom line. Probably not enough to make them change their evil ways, but hitting them in the pants anyway. Twitter and Facebook have lost a combined $50 billion since their lies and censoring were fully revealed during the campaign. 

Fox News is in the toilet, finishing absolutely dead last in every single demographic category. It's so bad for Fox that they actually hired a public relations crisis firm and completely switched around their lineup. A handful of prime time commentators are conservative, but the rest of that Fox News world is every bit as liberal as CNN.  

For those of us actually in this world every day, we've seen this coming for a while. It's why we keep telling you now to stop watching us on those Marxist controlled platforms (like YouTube, Twitter and Facebook), and come directly to the ChurchMilitant.com.

We have the most sophisticated site in the entire Catholic world — robust, home to literally thousands of videos, the best contributors to Catholic thought you will find anywhere. Investigative reporting, news programs, discussion shows and, of course, most importantly, a storehouse of Catholic theological treasures.

People are coming here in droves, contacting us non-stop saying, "Thank you for everything you do." You're welcome. Blessed be God. The same phenomenon is happening in other arenas on the internet as well.

Most notable is the Twitter alternative — and eventual conqueror of Twitter — Gab.

Gab got its start back in the 2015–2016 time range when its founder, Andrew Torba, was seeing the same things we here at Church Militant were seeing. So, like us, he decided to do something about it.

Church Militant spoke with Torba earlier this week and found a kindred soul, a man of goodwill who seeks to defend the innocent from the tyranny of Marxism and its attempt to crush Christianity. Gab was created by Torba specifically to provide a haven for the refugees of the cancel culture.

It was Pope St. John Paul's clarion call, echoing Christ Himself, instructing His followers looking into an abyss of evil, "Be not afraid." And again, "In the world you will have tribulations, but fear not, I have overcome the world."

At the very heart of Christianity is communication — the Holy Trinity. The Catholic Church has for 2,000 years declared the eternal truth that the God of the universe that the baptized worship is a unity of community and a community of unity: Father eternally giving Himself fully to the Son, Son eternally reciprocating, their infinite self-giving to the other resulting in the Third Person.

Communication, which is the expression of a community, is an absolute necessity. Without it, those of like mind have no ability to come together. That is what is at the heart of the Marxist censorship we see right now going on. While there are many and important differences among those who profess Christ, differences which will have to be corrected for the sake of actual unity, it is the demonic that is trying to prevent this.

The theological differences may have been too big to bridge, so the arena of politics and culture has become the temporary holding pen where men of goodwill could come together and begin to seek unity. That is something the diabolical could not allow, so it has manipulated evil men to try and prevent the construction of authentic unity (capstoned by truth).

This is why sites like Church Militant and Gab are so critical at this point in time. Truth itself is under attack, and all truth is related. As Our Blessed Lord Himself said, "Anyone who hears the truth, hears My voice."

There is much work to do to bring about unity — authentic unity — which is built on eternal truth. This is a spiritual war, with eternal consequences for every single man and woman on the planet. It's not just about patriotism and the Constitution, although that is the flashpoint. But that is not enough, not by a long shot. The real war is about good and evil, and, in reality, it's always been about that. Since the fall in Eden, this defining trait of humanity has been what frames all of world history.

This is the moment of history — our time in history — when we must respond. Either you believe in eternal truths, or you do not. The answer to that question will define your eternal destiny. So let's Gab about all this, shall we? And yes, we have a Gab account, just in case you're wondering.

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The intentions of good Catholics and patriots to give the benefit of the doubt to so-called conservative leaders in the Church and the government have got to be reexamined. It's time to stop pretending that these leaders are in their office and positions of power legitimately. They are not. They lied, stole and killed to get there.

There are the actual successors of the Apostles because they were properly installed. Biden and his administration are the legitimate office holders because they, too, were properly installed, but let's cut the pretense. They got there (to the White House and the episcopate) through massively deceptive means.

There is a presumption — no longer the case, even though it once was — that when a man is raised to the episcopate or takes high office as a public servant, he is in line with the mission and vision of that office. That has proven to be woefully untrue as we now see. In fact, most politicians and bishops don't give a rip about the good of those they are supposed to serve. They care about themselves and nothing else.

Church Militant has been pounding this drum for years now as you know, and, just as we were vindicated when the news broke about McCarrick and his homosexual network in the Church, we are right about this as well. Most of the hierarchy and probably all of the Biden administration arrived at their exalted positions through direct cooperation with monstrous evil, and that is a fact.

They have assumed their positions of power over the corpses of tens of millions of preborn children, destroyed families, the destruction of fatherhood, the promotion of depravity, and they have done it all for personal gain. With no repentance, they will burn in Hell for eternity, and they will deserve it, just as Judas is and does.

None of that can be controlled by those who see the evil. What matters in this Vortex is the willfully naive who refuse to see this because they don't want to deal with what all of this means. For example, the "Catholic" paper Our Sunday Visitor (that used to be reliable) published an article last week lauding Los Angeles archbishop Jose Gomez for his letter about Biden where he took exception with him about child slaughter.

Gomez is no hero. Joe Scheidler, who dedicated his life to saving those innocent small people, he is a hero. He died last week. Eternal Rest grant unto him, O Lord. Gomez and his colleagues at the national bishops' conference are wimps, cowards, liars and deceivers. The fact that they said something after the election is not praiseworthy. In fact, it's proof that they are derelict in their duties and are public disgraces.

Gomez allows homosexual activist James Martin free reign in his archdiocese. Each year at his abominable Religious Education Congress, he welcomes Bryan Massingale, a homosexual priest — who is at least open about it (pay attention, Fr. Martin) — to take the stage. Gomez allows these heretics to preach their distortions of the Faith and condemn those who believe, support and teach the authentic Faith.

A question arises about Gomez's timing. He's in the middle of a half-billion (yes, billion) dollar fundraising campaign, and the question certainly arises, "Is this his smokescreen to appear — to pretend — that he actually cares about preborn children?" If he does, he doesn't anywhere near enough. He's a fraud. He's legitimate, yes. He is a successor of the Apostles. Yes. He is the rightful archbishop of Los Angeles, but he is a complete fraud.

For the love of God and the lives of the preborn, don't give that man (or virtually any other bishop in the United States) a red cent. They have their offices illegitimately. In his letter about Biden, listen to these lines: "In a time of growing and aggressive secularism in American culture, when religious believers face many challenges, it will be refreshing to engage with a president who clearly understands, in a deep and personal way, the importance of religious faith and institutions."

With that statement, Gomez proves himself to be the fraud we all know he is. Biden doesn't give a rip about faith, religion or the Church. Here's more from the "heroic" archbishop: "Mr. Biden's piety and personal story, his moving witness to how his faith has brought him solace in times of darkness and tragedy, his longstanding commitment to the gospel's priority for the poor — all of this I find hopeful and inspiring."

What you should find it, Archbishop, is a great facade, a deceitful use of religion by Biden to make himself appear to be authentically Catholic. He is neither authentic nor Catholic.

And then, of course, the stupid, repetitive, useless appeal to dialogue (the favorite word of rotten churchmen): "My hope is that we can begin a dialogue to address the complicated cultural and economic factors that are driving abortion and discouraging families."

Complicated? the vast majority of women kill their children because they don't want them. Period. It will louse up their careers, as we've heard many come out recently and just admit. Others use abortion as the remedy for failed contraception — just a more expensive birth control. There's nothing to dialogue about. But there is much in need of condemnation.

How any Catholic layperson can listen to this pretense and move along as though all is normal is frightening. Communism has come to America, and it has been brought here by thieves, killers and liars who go along with the "all is normal" pretense so as not to rock the yachts they all live on.

Joe Biden cares nothing for the poor. Gomez cares nothing for the poor. The U.S. hierarchy cares nothing for the poor. Like the communists, the bishops see in the poor an opportunity to extract money from the sheep. Allow us to ask this simple question: If we grant, because it's true, that there is no one in the culture more "poor" than an innocent, defenseless child, why then in nearly 50 years of the slaughter have the bishops not taken up even one, single national collection for the pro-life cause?

The answer: because they are not really committed to it. They are content to do the "dialogue dance" with the Democrats and Rinos who keep handing them money. And they keep handing them money for "social justice" to further the pretense that they too care for the poor.

The Democrats and most politicians care nothing for the poor. And when it comes to the bishops, you can add to that they care nothing for your souls either. The reason the willfully blind Catholics and patriots do not want to consider the reality of all this — that wicked and weak men legitimately holding their offices through illegitimate means — is because that single admission would mean that the entire system is corrupt.

That single realization would require an entire commitment of the rest of your lives to work to fix it all or die trying. But down deep they know that already. And that's what makes people who refuse, by choice, to confront the evil truly despicable. Injustice rules the world because such men will not confront it.

As a note, Church Militant is going to be and remain relentless in calling out this fraud — the fraudulent election, the fraudulent episcopacy, the fraudulent pretense that COVID is the modern-day Black Death, the fraudulent exercise of power by these monsters of men who crush the true poor underfoot.

These leaders long ago adopted a plan to put both Church and America last. Now they have the power they wanted. And it's full steam ahead. Understand this final point: The opposite of charity is not hatred. It is indifference.

These power brokers in the Church and government are indifferent to even their own eternal lives. Why would anyone think for a moment that they have a care about your earthly life?

They don't.

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If you watch any of the mainstream media, meaning the Marxists, you'll notice the astonishing amount — and it truly is an astonishing amount — of misinformation.

For example, just in politics, the Marxists are more than happy to just push on pretending the 2020 election was perfectly legitimate — as though 80 million Americans went out to vote for Biden in the face of boatloads of evidence to the contrary.

Joe Biden did not win the election, period.

But thanks to the massive amount of misinformation, he and others get to pretend he did. He didn't. And no amount of playacting changes that. Talk about the emperor having no clothes. The Biden administration is that fairy tale come to real life.

But in this Vortex, it is the larger topic of misinformation itself, as its own thing, we'd like to touch on.

Since Campaign 2020 really heated up last fall and then, getting really intense in the aftermath, Church Militant has been contacted by countless non-Catholics who recognize the truth of what we talk about politically.

They are men of goodwill — people who recognize truth, if even somewhat dimly — because they are committed to wanting to know the truth, wherever it takes them. Goodwill, in fact, is precisely what the process of conversion begins with.

Here's a little side story if you will permit me.

My father, Russ Voris, grew up as a Nazarene in southwestern Ohio. He converted to Catholicism a few years after marrying my mother. God rest both their souls.

I asked him once in my youth about being at one time Protestant and what he thought of people of goodwill who are Protestant today. I was struck by his answer — one of those "never forget" comments. He said, "Even though my Mother, Michael, was Protestant, it was from her that I first learned about Jesus and the Bible. Without her, I might never have eventually found the One True Faith."

His answer was so beautiful, it cemented in my mind.

He went on to tell me about when he was in the process of converting and he took his mom, my grandmother, into the local Catholic Church where he was taking instruction. He walked her around, pointing out and trying to explain the Stations of the Cross and candles lit before statues and all that sort of thing. He told me her response was, "Oh, Russell, it's all so pagan — praying to statues and so forth, worshiping bread."

And then my dad added to me, "She just didn't know. Everything or most of what she knew about the Church was just wrong. She was misinformed."

And this story is what I'd like to ask you to ponder for a moment or two — misinformation. The point of misinformation is to create a pretend world, a fake universe, an alternate reality. That's why CNN and the rest of them are so proficient at it.

80 million people didn't vote for Biden. Votes were added to his totals in key battleground states. Likewise, a heck of a lot more than 75 million voted for Trump. Votes were subtracted from his total in those same states.

So an alternate world now exists. The man who is president should not be. And the man who should be is not.

In this alternate world, many horrible things will happen. And though it may seem simple, we must ask ourselves the question: In an alternate world, what precisely is alternated from? Simple questions come with a simple answer — truth.

Misinformation begets an antipathy for truth. Over time, that antipathy grows so deep and intense that the truth is nearly impossible to discern. The misinformation gets repeated so often with such regularity that the alternate world begins to appear as the real world.

Hold on to that thought now for a moment and let's move into the realm of the theological.

Misinformation about Our Blessed Lord, repeated often enough with enough regularity, can create an actual antipathy toward the truth about Him.

This is what my father was saying to his mother, God rest her soul. I pray for her eternal rest every day without ever having met her. She died before I was born.

There is an ocean of misinformation out there about Christ, simply accepted by not only Protestants but also many Catholics — Catholics who were poorly instructed over the past 60 years — for which yes, many bishops will be burning in Hell.

In this Vortex, Church Militant would like to extend an invitation for Protestants and poorly instructed Catholics — all of whom are living in an alternate universe regarding Our Lord — to embark with us on a friendly mission of discovering the fullness of Christ.

Every honest believer in Christ must know at the bottom of his heart that all this division among the baptized is a deception of the Devil. For all men of goodwill, we ask you ponder this. Really ponder it.

Communism has come to America for the simple reason that Christ's followers are divided. This is what division brings. It brings Antichrist. The nation can never be won back until Christianity is once again united. Too many evils have been allowed to proliferate by both Protestants and poorly trained Catholics.

While it is necessary to formulate and execute political plans, a truly honest man will admit — if only to himself — that if all involved do not have an authentic understanding of Christ, that plan will fail. It is a spiritual war that is raging. Politics is only the arena where the war is playing out, but it is a spiritual war, at the close of the day.

The challenge in coming to break free of the misinformation is that things internally will have to change. Certain admissions of being wrong will have to be made — not wrongs born of malice, but born of ignorance coming from misinformation. It's difficult to admit fault. It's even more difficult to admit you've been fooled.

This Vortex is for all men of goodwill, whether you're a poorly trained Catholic (of which the vast majority are), or an Evangelical, or non-denominational or Baptist or whatever. There is no division in God, and therefore there cannot be within His body on earth. The cracks, the spits, the divisions are where the serpent has slithered in. These cracks must be located, addressed and sealed shut.

It's going to be a tough job, but we are inviting any men of goodwill to look at the world around us and ask: Could all of this come about because I was sold a bill of goods? If your answer is yes, then the only Christlike response is to go on a hunt for the truth. There can be no other authentic response.

Many thousands of you have signed up to be Premium members of Church Militant, especially in the wake of the devastation now facing the nation and the world.

We have too many productions to even keep track of — thousands of hours. So we are going to recommend certain programs for you to watch and think about as you embark on this truth-seeking mission.

The first is a documentary we produced called God's Lamb: Tracing the Theological History of the Eucharist — the central point of Catholicism. Please — if you are Premium, watch it. The link is below.

If you are not, please sign up and watch it.

Those who want to see justice reign in the land cannot be divided by competing understandings of Jesus Christ.

We are all in this work together, so let's get together and profess the same Faith in its fullness.

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Just so everyone is clear, the Biden administration is no more American than Joe Biden is Catholic. The phony Catholic who rose to the highest office in the land did so through a completely phony process. There was as much legitimacy to that election as there was Pachamama being paraded around the Vatican. 

And we make the comparison between the phoniness of a Biden White House and a brain dead hierarchy because it needs to be made. Whoever argued for a separation of Church and State failed to see just how intertwined they would be in the early 21st century. 

When the U.S. bishops, under the conference leadership of Los Angeles archbishop Jose Gomez, released a letter on Inauguration Day denouncing Biden's multiple anti-Catholic, immoral policies, he got shut down by the Vatican.

Of course, behind that move was the sinister cardinal from Chicago, Blase Cupich, and his fellow homosexualist prince of the Church, Newark's Joseph Tobin. Here's what Cupich tweeted out about the letter: "Today, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops issued an ill-considered statement on the day of President Biden's inauguration."

As an aside, the only thing "ill considered" in all this is that Cupich and Tobin are allowed to still pass themselves off as actually believing the Catholic faith. Those frauds are no more Catholic than Pelosi and Biden. See how Church and State are so intimately intertwined? 

Anyway, many speculate that Gomez really only wrote the letter because of the intense heat he took from faithful Catholics after congratulating Biden on his supposed victory when the question was still very much in doubt.  

He and his fellow bishops piled on with effusive praise, barely mentioning Biden's evils then — even saying that Biden "professes the Catholic faith." For clarity for the bishops, Biden does not profess the Catholic faith. He doesn't profess it because he doesn't believe it.

But neither, apparently, do many of the bishops (not believe the Faith, that is). They allow heresy to run rampant, dissent to dominate and sacrilege to take center stage, even giving the White House the opportunity to keep alive the phony narrative that Biden is a good Catholic.

Another notable point revealing the bishops' phoniness is the timing of the letter — after Biden had been inaugurated after stealing the election. The words of the letter weren't actually that bad: They did rip into his evil-as-Hell policies over abortion and transgenderism.

However, they only managed to work up the nerve to actually point all this stuff out after he had taken the oath. Talk about closing the barn door after the horse has run out. The obvious question that arises is, "Why didn't they say all that during the election?" Another question is, "Why didn't they say it when he was crowned (by the media) the 'winner?'"

Instead, they praised him. Even Dolan went on the attack after the phony victory. Again, a day late and a dollar short. So the necessary conclusion is — it has to be — they too are as phony as he is. And they each pretend they profess the Catholic faith.

If the bishops actually had professed the Catholic faith for the past half century, that phony Catholic president wouldn't be president. Talk about birds of a feather. It won't take very long under the totalitarian reign of Beijing Biden for the bishops to, at last, feel the consequences of their actions.

And when that hammer falls, there will be nothing phony about it. It will be very real.

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Since we're always talking here at Church Militant about life being lived at the intersection of politics and religion (specifically Catholicism), let's go to a straight-up easy case. From any objectively moral perspective, theft is theft; and it matters nothing how long a thief possesses the stolen goods.

They do not gradually become his over time until a sufficient amount of time has passed. They remain just as stolen 50 years later as the very day they were ripped off. Likewise, no matter how many people treat the stolen goods as belonging to the thief, they remain stolen. Period.

Not a blessed thing on earth undoes that truth. It always remains true. This is the whole rationale, 75 years after the Nazi theft of Europe's treasures and art, for them to be returned to their rightful owners — meaning they have the rights to them, not the Nazis, not the thieves.

As we explore the culture these days, we see enormous examples of theft. For example, abortion is theft — the most egregious theft there can be. It is the stealing of innocent life. It's noteworthy that today is the 48th anniversary of the greatest evil ever perpetrated on mankind: Roe v. Wade — the slaughter in the United States of going on 70 million children, the theft of their lives.

And even more, we've seen the theft of truth. For in order to bring about such monstrous evil, truth itself must be denied and attacked. The moral flashpoint of abortion, the clash between good and evil, is not missed on those who are evil. Earlier this week, the "Wicked Witch of the West" herself, Nancy Pelosi, was on a podcast with her counterpart from the east, Hillary Clinton, and she made this stunning comment when talking about religious voters and abortion: "They were willing to sell the whole democracy down the river for that one issue."

Then Hillary Clinton chimed in with her demonic rage accusing politicians who oppose abortion of using Catholicism to "obtain and use power." And yes, you hear all that correctly. These two women combined have been the virtual leaders of a movement that has stolen the lives of tens of millions of children.

And one of them is allowed to present herself as "Catholic," allowed by the complicit U.S. hierarchy — who one day will be called to the throne of Jesus Christ to give an account of the blood on their hands (and, no, they will not be able to hide behind their social justice garbage, not as Almighty God stares right into their souls).

There will be no place to hide from His justice. The Eternal Word descended into time and space to be the Son of Justice. At the end of His mission of mercy to mankind, there must be justice. Justice is directly related to truth, and it's all wrapped up in charity. That's why the rather idiotic statement by Toronto cardinal Thomas Collins about Church Militant — that we have a little too much clarity and not enough charity — sounds like it came from a nincompoop.

What follower of Christ, much less a successor of the Apostles, would seek to create a division between truth and charity. Shout out to His Eminence: Yo, Cardinal, truth and charity are the same thing! Just ask St. John the Baptist, or we don't know, any other saint in the entire history of the Church.

So here's a mouthful of truth: This election was stolen, flat out stolen. Biden is the president because he took the oath, and that's what makes you president, nothing else.

However, the full truth of the matter is that the means by which he stood there and took the oath were completely fraudulent. He stole the election, or it was stolen for him by the powers behind. But in either case, it was stolen. People were deprived of their votes being counted truthfully.

No amount of Fox News or RINO senators simply ignoring that and treating this entire thing as legitimate does not and cannot alter that single truth. As Bp. Sheen used to say, "Truth is truth no matter how many people refuse to believe it, and a lie is a lie no matter how many people embrace it."

Morality exists outside of circumstances. Truth is its own reality, like mathematics. Mankind did not invent the principles of mathematics. We simply discovered them. They exist outside of us. We abide by the physical laws of the universe and are the happier for it. The pyramids were not built on their points; they were constructed logically, following the laws of the universe.

To have done anything else would have been foolhardy. The universe operates according to certain laws. Go against those laws and you pay. But the same God who established those laws also established moral laws and, likewise, go against them and you pay.

One of them is the prohibition against taking what is not yours, theft. The theft of the 2020 election by Team Biden is an outrage against morality, against truth, and it was done to usher in communism, one of the bedrocks being the anti-God government's advance of abortion. You should be angry about this, all of this. Not physically violent per se, but absolutely angry, with righteous anger.

You have had your vote, your country stolen from you. The slaughter of children will not only increase within our own borders, but now will become one of our largest exports, just as it was under Obama. Marxism hates God, liberty, truth, virtue and charity because Satan is the father of Marxism.

If you aren't angry about all this and don't recognize the need to stay angry and channel that anger correctly, then something is spiritually wrong with you. Your blood should boil at injustice, and, the greater the injustice, the higher your temperature should be.

Likewise, you should be outraged at the complicity of the U.S. hierarchy in all of this, over the decades, and even now. Those cowards helped bring all this about. They created the environment where evil could flourish because they refused to announce the eternal truths when they should have.

They have much in common with Biden, who entered his legitimate office illegitimately. Neither he nor they have any respect for their offices. They use them for their own selfish ends. He is the president, and they are the bishops, and that's about where it ends. Since both participate in evil, one overtly, the other covertly, they will each face justice in the person of Christ Himself.

Pray for all of them, yes. Church Militant desires that no one goes to Hell. That said, a person's eternal destiny is completely of his own making.

Judas went to Hell because he was pre-conditioned to end there by his thievery. Saint John, in his Apocalypse (chapter 21), announces who the damned will be: "But as for cowards, the unfaithful, the depraved, murderers, the unchaste, sorcerers, idol-worshipers, and deceivers of every sort, their lot is in the burning pool of fire and sulfur, which is the second death."

Thieves are deceivers. They pretend something they stole belongs to them. Others around them pretend the same thing and participate in the deception. This is true of Biden and the election. It is just as true with the bishops allowing a watered-down Faith to be presented as truth.

Make no mistake, my fellow patriots and Catholics, you have been robbed by a band of thieves — thieves in suits and thieves in robes. Join Church Militant in standing for God, Church and country.