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More and more, we are getting phone calls and emails from Catholics around the country who are saying things like, "My priest told us from the pulpit to not watch anything on Church Militant."

One seminarian told us that while he was applying, the vocations director asked him, "So what do you think of Church Militant?"

Another faithful Catholic said he went into the sacristy after Mass and asked his priest about comments he made about "divisive" websites and wanted to know what he was referring to. "Church Militant" was his response.

We've been made aware for some time that most of the establishment hates what we reveal about them. Tough.

Stop denigrating the Faith and victimizing innocent souls and bodies, and we'll happily return to our first mission here, which was helping instruct people about the glories of the Church — the one true Faith — which is made nearly impossible because of the corrupt hierarchy, who think they are some kind of medieval monarchs.

For example, here in Detroit (home to the beginning of the corruption in the Church in the United States, thanks to Cdl. John Dearden, who ordained the current corrupt archbishop, Vigneron), His Excellency wrote a letter to the faithful a few weeks ago saying we need to speak the truth in social media and various Catholic news outlets and do so in charity.

This is from a man who has made a career protecting homosexual clergy and workers in his chancery, allowed false reports about solid faithful clergy to be disseminated to secular media and who keeps prolific homosexuals in his employ until they are outed by Church Militant.

It's beyond galling that he would even consider thinking that he is beyond reproach and should not be questioned and then turn around and condemn those among the faithful who want accountability from him for destroying faithful priests.

Practice what you preach, Abp. Vigneron. But then you'd have to resign. The only thing more frightening than the knowledge that you have two more years to go here is that Cupich will be pulling the strings when it comes to your replacement. Buckle in, faithful Catholics. Vigneron's scheming and wheeling and dealing will look like child's play in comparison with what's coming.

We say all this to say that the corrupt bishops are feeling the heat and have now launched a war to discredit Church Militant and our reporting. They have tons of resources to do so — from paid chancery personnel who have to toe the party line or get fired, to those who get paychecks and believe the bishop is a good man because he's so nice.

Nothing will ever convince some people of the truth of anything. Even Our Lord said that if someone were to come back from the dead, they would not believe.

So, yes, some people are beyond admitting the truth and dealing with it because there's something in them deeply disturbed. That will have to be left to God. However, there are plenty of other people who are not willfully ignorant, or at least not as much so, who, when presented with absolute proof, will admit they were wrong and join the cause.

It's why Church Militant does what we do by way of video, audio, document dumps, loads and loads of background vetting and so forth. Some people require an overabundance of proof to be swayed. Fair enough. Let's go.

For years now, Church Militant has been warning not only of the obvious dangers to the Faith and stability of the Church because of James Martin and the homosexual cabal of cardinals and archbishops, but also the other crowd, the subtle destroyers of the Faith whom most people pass over because this crowd is much more sneaky.

A case in point is Cdl. Timothy Dolan of New York, who is as corrupt and lying as they come. But his constant appearances on Fox News help him to self-promote as a voice of reason and moderation in the Church, all while undermining all sorts of things.

So in chasing him down — and considering the pass that many are willing to give him — we knew we would need the proof. Well, we have it. We have secret audiotapes where his own personnel come right out and admit the cover-up Dolan lied about regarding one of the most notorious cases of homosexuality in the priesthood.

On multiple occasions, the cardinal archbishop stood in front of New York media outlets and lied through his teeth about a cover-up he knew was going on, claiming there was no evidence and that no one had come forward. He also lied about the extent of his own privately ordered investigation and his promise to release the findings.

Church Militant has been working on this case for over five years, compiling everything possible to expose this corrupt, lying leader in the Church, and now we have it and are ready to release the proof, the smoking gun.

Immediately following tonight's Church Militant Evening News, which airs live at 6:30 p.m. ET, we will be releasing the biggest bombshell report on a member of the hierarchy ever produced: secret recordings from his own investigators who admit the cover-up and its scope.

They didn't know Church Militant has the recordings — but they do now. So we invite you to tune in tonight at 6:30 p.m. ET for our Evening News, followed immediately by our Church Militant Spotlight: Cdl. Dolan Exposed.

But please don't think Dolan is some lone outlier. He's just part of a much larger network of corrupt men in robes, some homosexual, others covering it all up and all of them in the network of liars and cheats. Judas had nothing on these men.

Church Militant is completely dedicated to exposing this rot (which has been a hundred years in the making — not just since Vatican II) and inspiring you to take action.

On the point of exposing, this is why we gathered various priests in the studio last month to have them tell you their stories about how this corrupt network has maligned them.

This week, we gathered a group of former seminarians who can tell you about the rampant homosexuality and doctrinal corruption they either experienced or saw firsthand while they were in formation. We'll be releasing that in the next day or so.

As far as taking action, this is why Church Militant is organizing the “Bishops: Enough Is Enough” rally on Nov. 16, 2021 (to coincide with the USCCB meeting in Baltimore), where the likes of Steve Bannon, Milo Yiannopoulos and Stephen Brady will let loose about this corruption and the need to expose it and bring it to an end.

We want 3,000 faithful Catholics from across the country to show up at this and make their voices heard. Please click here for details. 

The Church has undergone various moments in Her life where corrupt men have seized power and attacked the Church from within, but this time in Her 2,000-year history may be the worst of all. That means a larger response and action are required of actual believers, a total dedication to expose the filth and demand action.

Think of what has happened to Fr. James Altman, who will also be at the “Enough Is Enough” rally. All he did was call out the evil of voting for abortion while still pretending to be Catholic and then slam the hierarchy for its willingness to shut the churches and deny the sacraments. He gets ripped by his bishop, but the child molesters, thieves, active homosexuals and so forth in collars and miters get a free pass, reassigned, promoted even.

No one is more sorry that it has come to this than us at Church Militant. This was never the intent of this apostolate. But these men and their corruption actually deprive souls of truth, peace and justice. They must be stopped.

That's why you have to get involved, do whatever you can and keep doing it because the Church and souls are worth the fight, grueling as it may be.

This corruption is more than a century old, and it isn’t going to change in a short amount of time. Please click here and come to Baltimore, and tune into Church Militant Evening News every night — but especially tonight to hear the proof with your own ears. This is why the establishment doesn't want you listening to Church Militant.

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Just before we begin, I'd like to share a quick note. The one-day outage of our site earlier this week had nothing to do with being hacked or attacked or deplatformed or anything of the kind. In what is actually, in a way, some good news — it was your fault. Traffic on the site spiked so high that it actually crashed the host server. It couldn't handle the traffic. It took us a day, but we have addressed that and are putting in safeguards so that it doesn't happen again.

But that massive increase in traffic to Church Militant actually segues into the point of this Vortex quite nicely. You will notice that assorted members of the hierarchy and many of their minions are becoming more and more forceful and outspoken about Catholic media sites that sow, according to their false depiction, division.

Of course, at the top of these lists is Church Militant, the only Catholic media site that exposes corruption everywhere we find it — in the Church of Nice and in schismatic breakaway cults like the SSPX. Each camp is more than happy to have the other side exposed, but when it comes to their own filth, they go on the attack against us. Well, that's to be expected.

But lately, more and more voices from the corrupt circles in the authentic Church are being raised against investigations of their corruption. As we said earlier this week, the corruption is so bad and so outlandish that most Catholics have a difficult time actually wrapping their minds around it. They want and sometimes need absolute proof (just like we had with McCarrick three summers ago) to begin to get themselves over the psychological hurdle that the bishops, collectively, are corrupt.

So Church Militant has shifted gears. Now, instead of presenting a preponderance of circumstantial evidence, we search for the smoking gun, the irrefutable evidence. In the case of Cdl. Dolan in New York, a man proven time and again to be a schmoozing, lying scoundrel, we have the proof: a secret audio recording where his own chancery personnel talk about his lies and cover-up.

Recall that back in 2015, Church Militant was the only Catholic media outfit to report on the scandal of Fr. Peter Miqueli, who was stealing huge sums of money from New York parishes and using it on a drug-fueled life with a gay-for-pay prostitute. The scandal was so outlandish that parishioners were finally forced to sue Dolan and his archdiocese. Church Militant has been following this case for over five years now, and it's what we based our latest Spotlight on, which we aired last night after our Church Militant Evening News.

In a nutshell, the issue was that Dolan knew all about Miqueli's deeds but kept lying and dismissing parishioners' requests that he step in and fix it. Several times, he even went on local New York television outfits saying there was no evidence. But that was a lie, and Dolan knew it was a lie every time he said it. And not only did Dolan lie to parishioners and the public through widespread media coverage, he did nothing to protect his spiritual son, Fr. Miqueli.

Dolan continued to lie and disseminate false information, and he ordered an internal investigation, the findings of which, once the word got out, he promised to release. That was another lie because he never did release those findings. But what Dolan doesn't know is that Church Militant has obtained secret audio recordings of the lead investigator, and what he reveals about the entire case is shocking. That's the subject of our latest Spotlight: Cdl. Dolan Exposed — The Case of Fr. Peter Miqueli.

Please be sure to watch it, but as you are doing so, ask yourself, "Exactly who is being divisive in the Church these days? Who are the ones being dishonest — the corrupt hierarchy or the faithful lay Catholics exposing their corruption?" 

Please watch the report now.

Michael Voris is interviewed by Patrick Coffin, founder of Coffin Nation.

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I'm Michael Voris, coming to you from beautiful Napa Valley, not very far from where I attended middle school and high school. We're here to attend an annual conference by the Napa Institute, where, according to its website, "The most effective Catholic leaders in the country dive deeper into our Catholic faith and examine, with a spirit of charity, intellectual rigor and fidelity to the Magisterium, pressing issues facing Catholics today."

That's quite the claim. But notice it doesn't say the most effective Catholic leaders in the country will develop any solutions, but just that they will dive deeper into the pressing issues. While the conference is a splendid opportunity for wealthy and influential Catholics (including some notable bishops) to get together and chew the fat and, of course, is held in a beautiful, fantastic setting; it has developed the reputation of being long on talk and mixers and very short on solutions.

In its 10-year existence, it has collected some of the most educated and influential luminaries in the Church in the United States as well as some of the most well-heeled and sponsored — by nearly every account, a fantastic opportunity for knowledge and spiritual growth as well as formation. 

But it has also come under withering criticism for being what amounts to little else than a wealthy Catholic weekend getaway in the heart of wine country, with a chance to hobnob with cardinals (if you are rich enough) — in short, great if you're here attending, but with no measurable impact on the Church in America once you pack your bags.

What does not seem to happen, at least according to reports from various past attendees, is that claim to have a "deep dive" into the pressing issues. Past attendees say bishops are insulated from the really hard questions from wealthy Catholics growing increasingly infuriated at the scandals continually rocking the Church — or more specifically, the bishops.

Questions are asked by a moderator, screened so as not to offend a bishop in front of an audience or, just as likely, to put him on the spot. This year, it looks, however, that practice may be very difficult to maintain.

There was no in-person conference last year due to COVID, and, in the two years since the last one, much of the U.S. hierarchy has clothed itself in shame (from shutting down parishes and a rigid refusal to offer the sacraments to increasing revelations of the near-tyrannical governing styles of many of them, from the canceling of orthodox priests all over the country to the continued refusal to do anything about the likes of James Martin constantly pushing the homoheresy).

Three years after the McCarrick revelations rocked the Catholic world, the long-awaited McCarrick report has been written off by anyone who understands the inside reality as a pure whitewash. Twenty-six dioceses have now declared bankruptcy — not so much because they are out of cash, but so they can put up a legal roadblock to both discovery and any more homosexual sex abuse payouts.

The one single issue that never ever seems to generate the much-ballyhooed "deep dive" is homosexuality within the clergy. Since the summer, Church Militant has produced two summits where homosexuality was front and center as the topic among both canceled priests and canceled seminarians.

A lawsuit has been filed in New York accusing not just the rector and vice rector of the North American College in Rome of sex abuse, assault and sustaining an environment of homosexuality, but also accusing the 30 (30!) U.S. bishops who are on the board of covering it all up and refusing to investigate the multiple claims.

Well, wouldn't you know it, just a day before things kicked off here in Napa, another salacious scandal erupted among the U.S. bishops as the general secretary of the conference, Msgr. Jeffrey Burrill, had to resign as reports began circulating that he had been busted using a homosexual hook-up app known as "Grindr."

A data-mining technique had been employed and traced frequent homosexual liaisons and/or communications back to his phone. USCCB president José Gómez of Los Angeles tried to get out in front of the oncoming trainwreck by issuing a statement announcing Burrill's resignation, but once the reason became known, it was curtains, again, for the U.S. bishops and the question of homosexuality within the clergy and even their own ranks.

Actively gay and gay-sympathetic clergy are the elephant in the sacristy that is never allowed to be spoken about with the bishops in public. Handlers immediately jump in, escort them out, protect them from any confrontation over the issue.

The news about the bishops' general secretary having multiple one-night stands with gay men all over the country apparently, sparked a near-violent hissy fit with homosexualist Jesuit Fr. James Martin. He tweeted this: "Catholic journalism, 2021: spying on a priest (more accurately, using data from an unnamed source who spied on him) for breaking his promise of celibacy, then conflating homosexuality with pedophilia, under the guise of a journalistic 'investigation.'"

Martin's tweet raised all sorts of wonderings on social media if he himself or other priests were about to be busted for gay encounters as well. It's now become the only avenue in which to bring this filthy underbelly of the U.S. hierarchy to light — capturing it electronically and proving it.

That's what Church Militant was forced to do to show how Detroit archbishop Allen Vigneron had looked the other way for more than a decade in the case of his own music director, who he knew was living in a gay partnership and reportedly grooming young men with his partner.

Only when we showed the actual video of the music director admitting it did Vigneron have to get rid of him. There are countless stories like this, all over Catholic chanceries and seminaries and parishes: actively gay men running the show, being promoted, left in place unless and until absolute proof is published in the media, and only then is something done (and usually the least possible).

The Msgr. Burrill case will be an interesting one to watch. He is a priest from La Crosse Wisconsin, the same diocese where Bp. Callahan stripped Fr. James Altman of his faculties, forbidding him to say Mass publicly because he was critical of the hierarchy and pro-abortion Democrats.

Yet here is another of his priests — this one forced to resign and get out of Dodge, frequenting gay bars, using a phone app to have anonymous gay sex — and so far, anyway, he has not had his faculties stripped.

Here's the bottom line: There isn't a living breathing Catholic who understands the crisis in the Church who doesn't know the overriding issue is homosexuality within the clergy and even the bishops. Heck, 10 years ago, The New York Times correctly labeled the Catholic priesthood a gay profession.

More than four out of every five victims of clerical sex abuse are physically developed teenage males. But it's never allowed to be talked about and certainly not among polite society like here at the annual Napa Institute.

Church Militant is here this year to listen and see if a really bad habit is going to come to an end among the leaders in the Church who do deep dives into the "pressing issues facing the Church today."

Coming to you from the heart of wine country here in Napa Valley.

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We're here to attend an annual conference by the Napa Institute and take the temperature — and if need be, help raise the temperature — on the topic of corruption in the hierarchy. The crowd that attends the Napa Institute is well-off, many of them very well-off. They are politically conservative certainly and socially polite.

It's a Catholic country club crowd who love their Faith, as far as they have been schooled in it, depending on who they listen to. Of course, given the dominant dynamic at work, like all other human beings, they will listen to those who most appeal to their own psychologies and predispositions.

To be certain, the Blase Cupich contingent of prelates would not be welcome here, nor would they like to attend. The prelates who attend here instead have the reputation of being orthodox, mainly politically conservative, and are much easier to stomach because they too are socially polite and enjoy quiet interactions and so forth. 

But there is where things can — and in many ways have — gone off the rails. Conservative personalities are very cautious, they don't like rocking the boat, they are very slow to act and, when they do act, it is usually in a minimal way. This isn't out of any malice or anything; it's just their dispositions (like many of the wealthy attendees). Birds of a feather, as they say.

The problem in the Church these days, however — the complete crisis we are seeing unfold before our eyes in lightning speed — requires a different psychological approach. It requires a disposition to admit that past strategies and approaches have been too polite, too optimistic and have failed.

That's not something that wealthy, conservative people like to face. There is a certain level of positive self-image that accompanies material wealth and admitting an unpleasant reality doesn't fit too well with that mindset. But that mindset and its concurrent failing strategy need to be jettisoned pronto if there is any hope of saving the Church in the United States.

First, the wealthy backers and patrons of many orthodox bishops must come to realize that most of these men have, in their own way, actually contributed to the crisis in the Church. They have come very late to the game — they had to be dragged kicking and screaming into the light of complete revelation that many of their "brother" bishops are actually wicked and have been actively engaged in taking over the Church and repurposing it into a globalist tool.

Many of the good bishops have, perhaps unwittingly, even gone along with this by not confronting loudly and clearly the false narratives of systemic racism, manmade climate change and illegal immigration. These are all communist talking points that wicked bishops have baptized (so to speak) and made out to sound somehow, in an intellectually tortured kind of way, Catholic.

They are not even remotely Catholic. However, even more alarming is that what passes as justice for society, which it is not, is promoted by not just bishops who are political Marxists, but who are actually morally degenerate and doctrinally deficient.

The wealthy crowd here at Napa just doesn't want to hear that: It's too much "boat-rocking." Same with their allied orthodox bishops. It's too scandalous for their ears (not to mention too threatening to their careers) to go down this path. So evil men in the hierarchy get a pass, capitalizing on the psychological dispositions of a very conservative crowd who simply do not want to face the music on all this theological and moral depravity among a certain subset of the episcopate.

This is precisely where the "orthodox" bishops, trapped in their own psychological and career dynamic, have failed miserably. Not only have they failed to openly, loudly and publicly challenge this evil, they have also failed to alert their wealthy benefactors, many of whom are here in Napa. 

Money, by the millions, tens of millions, needs to be poured into efforts to root out these wicked prelates, expose them and take control of the narrative. When the news broke earlier this week that the most senior cleric in the United States who is not a bishop, USCCB general secretary Msgr. Jeffrey Burrill, is actually leading a double life of active homosexuality — in and out of gay bathhouses, homosexual hookups and all of it through a phone app he was on every day — people were shocked, and it blew up all over social media.

But why would people be shocked? Church Militant has been saying this same thing for over 10 years, earning the scorn of the gay clergy and the contempt of the polite-society crowd of Catholics, where such "distractions" aren't discussed among the elites.

"Sure, people sin, but we need to move on" is the response from the well-heeled crowd. That is beyond belief that such an attitude would dominate the response of people who might be actually able to do something about it. Bad clergy need to be exposed. That costs money. Private eyes are not cheap.

Data mining is also not cheap. Round-the-clock surveillance, flying people around who are in the know and need to deliver documents personally — every bit of this is costly.

Yes, it's distasteful, but nowhere near as much as looking into the wet eyes of an abuse victim molested by these gay men in miters and collars, nowhere near as much as listening to the families of young men who killed themselves. Talk to the good priests who have been ground up under the wheels of this lavender mafia choking the life out of the Church right now.

Sit down with the would-be seminarians who have been driven out because the gay formation team (from whom the bishops look the other way) has its say in who gets in and who doesn't. What about the countless families — mothers and grandmothers, dads — who mourn constantly that their children have left the Faith because they were never instructed properly after all those years of tuition at Catholic schools.

The Church is in what is perhaps Her worst crisis ever, a massive disbelief by both clergy and laity. And no amount of beautiful scenery and pleasant company, cigars and good food can erase that reality. So Church Militant has come to Napa to see if the events of the past three years as well as those which keep happening have red-pilled any of the crowd which is generally resistant to being red-pilled.

We're here, as we said, to take the temperature as well as raise it if need be. Wealth provides comfort, and comfort can prevent seeing plainly what is right in front of your eyes. The Church is not loved by hobnobbing with bishops. The Faith is not restored by a somber chat over a fine martini.

The Church is aided by rolling up your sleeves and getting in the fight, as nasty and dirty as it may be. The sodomite stranglehold on the Church must be broken. The corruption and quietism among the hierarchy must be banished. These are the driving forces why Church Militant is organizing the "Bishops: Enough Is Enough" prayer rally and protest in November in Baltimore.

Already, over a thousand people have signed up for the event in less than a week, with more coming in every day. Just click on the provided link to reserve your spot. We are all on a mission from God to stand up for the Church in this Her most desperate hour. God knew from all eternity this evil would arise at this point, and He created us for this moment.

The scandals in the Church don't end — and are actually increasing — because the men and women who have the power and influence to end them don't want to. They will not look evil in the eye and confront it, and, therefore, evil runs wild snatching souls and allowing the culture to be destroyed.

One day, perhaps soon, even a lot of money will not preserve otherwise faithful Catholics from the onslaught of Marxism in the Church. Time is quickly running out. The facade of "things are not that bad" is dissolving rapidly.

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I'm Michael Voris, coming to you from Northern California wine country in Napa, where we are attending the annual Napa Institute four-day-long conference and retreat for the financially fortunate. We said earlier that we wanted to take the temperature of a crowd that has the reputation of being orthodox but perhaps is not really wanting to face the realities of the evil in the Church — and, specifically, the corruption of the hierarchy.

That of course entails standing around at loads of events and just talking with all sorts of people. So first we have to say we have been blown away by the positive comments and handshakes and "attaboys" we have received since we started mixing around. At meals, events, just standing in line or walking around — the number of other attendees who have come up to us and lauded the work of Church Militant has been, well, off the charts.

We came out here to Napa not really sure what to expect or how we would be received, but that question is now answered. To all of you who have made our work possible and supported what we have been doing for 15 years, we say, "Thank you, and blessed be God." It has long been the case that the not-especially–well-off crowd among Catholics has been suspicious of the more–well-off crowd (the country club Catholic crowd, for lack of a better term), those who rub elbows with bishops, and so forth.

Because of their financial status, which affords them personal access, it's been the case in the past that often, because of personal relationships, they've been more reticent to openly criticize the hierarchy for all these scandals. We can tell you, from talking with many people here, that is changing now, and changing fast.

Perhaps "rich and red-pilled" might be going a little too far, but it's certainly getting there — and certainly with more than you would suspect — it is there. This, of course, cannot be welcome news to many bishops. As we saw in the McCarrick case, snowing rich people and getting their money is a staple of how the hierarchy works and a major source of the corruption being allowed to continue.

McCarrick may be the most notorious case, but he certainly is not the only bishop pilfering millions from the well-to-do Catholic set who enjoy access to bishops. But the bishops are beginning to feel the heat, especially in light of the news breaking last week that Msgr. Jeffrey Burrill, general secretary to the bishops' conference, was busted for an untold number of gay hookups using the phone app Grindr.

Church Militant has learned that information was obtained, with more to come, through a multi-year process of data-mining that stretches all over the country involving quite a few people, not all of them Catholic, who paid quite a lot of money to collect it all. If you think in terms of millions, you'd be in the ballpark, and the Catholic financial contribution to it was significant, but not singular.

The reaction on the ground here at the Napa Conference (with 800 attendees) has been, in summary, "It's unfortunate, but it's got to be done." To show the pending sea change, many folks told me personally, even five years ago, most people here would have disagreed with this tactic, thinking it too crass and so forth.

We spoke with dozens and dozens of people here where that information was the topic, and not one disagreed with the method. And some were champing at the bit, saying, "Nuke all of these bad guys in the hierarchy and establishment."

Stay tuned on that point, we have been assured. But one thing that still appears unsettled is the bishops themselves — what many people call the "good" bishops. The men who have a reputation for being orthodox — yet wimpy — in their approach to going full bore and just blowing up all this rot.

Both personally, from our own conversations, and what others have told us about their conversations with bishops, here's the deal. The "good guys" are massively reluctant to challenge the evil because they are afraid of what will happen as a result. Here's the line of reasoning we heard more than once:

I'm a good bishop. I've been working for a while to "fix" the lack of orthodoxy in my diocese. I've got this thing going and that thing going, and it's all moving along well. If I say something openly about the Communion wars or James Martin or whatever and draw attention to myself, Cupich and his crowd [described to me, personally, as extremely powerful] will have me removed as bishop and all my good work will get blown up by whomever they replace me with.

That's specifically the line of reasoning. Okay, let's go with that. First, yep, it's probably true. The ruling class in the Church right now is clearly down with homosexuality, sacrilegeous Holy Communion, and so forth. Cupich, Tobin and that crowd no more believe the Catholic faith than the man in the moon. I'm not sure they ever did, but they certainly do not now.

They have the pope's ear because they hit all his major talking points: Capitalism is evil; global warming is the most pressing issue; immigration is right behind that, and so forth. We all know the list. Trump and America are bad. Biden and globalism/Marxism are good. That's where their hearts and minds are, and, to whatever degree the Church can be coopted and repurposed to push that agenda, then they are going to do it.

That's the reality. Period. So any "good" bishop who does or says something counter to that narrative runs a big risk of being removed. All that is true. However, refusing to say the truth and do the right thing now to protect a future interest is a bit like playing chess with the Devil — trying to think a few moves ahead and outsmart him.

No human being is going to outsmart the devil. Ever. 

So sacrificing a short-term interest (the truth), remaining silent on all this, in the hopes that somehow, as the evil advances specifically because of the silence, your little orthodox camp you've fashioned is going be left alone down the road — sorry, bishops, but that's fool's gold.

It's also a convenient rationalization to let yourselves off the hook and avoid all confrontation, which is high on the list of most bishops. A longstanding joke in the Church refers to part of the rite of consecrating a bishop is the bringing in of a surgeon who removes the man's spine before the miter is placed on his head.

The general feeling around here in Napa about the "good" bishops is probably not an assessment they would much relish: nice men, faithful men personally, but cowards and inefficient. That's kind of the definition of damning with faint praise: He's really well-intentioned, sure seems to believe, but when the assault begins, you don't really want him in your foxhole.

Dear Lord, how far we have fallen with the episcopate when we think in comparison to St. John Fisher, as just one example. So while ultimately it has to be the bishops who fix all this — as frightening and unpromising as that prospect is — right now anyway, they are losing support on the ground as more and more Catholics, even among the wealthy, become red-pilled.

The "good" bishops are going to have to make a choice very soon, before they hear Satan say to them, "Checkmate!"

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I'm Michael Voris coming to you from Napa, California, wrapping up our time at the annual Napa Institute Conference held in this beautiful setting. All sorts of things get discussed in dozens of conferences given here over the four days.

But increasingly, with one scandal after another constantly unfolding within the leadership, not all, but certainly many of the actual attendees are asking, "Why isn't the elephant in the sacristy being talked about?" That elephant is the issue of homosexuality and the hierarchy and clergy.

Last week's news that the highest-ranking cleric in America who is not a bishop was reportedly having hundreds of gay hookups or attempted gay hookups through a phone app is a prime example of how the hierarchy in this country has been engulfed in this particular evil. 

First, it's the lies and deception. Take, for example, two documents that were produced — one public, the other private. The public document released by the president of the U.S. bishops, Los Angeles archbishop José Gómez, said Burrill was resigning because of sexual stuff but that it did not involve anything with minors.

The private document talking about all this was issued by La Crosse bishop William Callahan because La Crosse is where Burrill is from. Callahan's letter to just the priests of the diocese said essentially, "We don't know if the charges that his priest is actively homosexual are true or not" and that they would investigate.

So pump the brakes right there. Do you see the problem? There's a huge, giant problem.

Gómez says what Burrill did does not involve minors. Callahan says we don't know if he did anything or not. Well, which is it? Did something happen or not? Gómez says it did; Callahan says we don't know — can't have that both ways.

Moving on in the twisted logic and labyrinth treatment of all this, how does Abp. Gómez know there were no minors involved? Grindr, the gay hook-up app that Burrill is reported to have used must certainly have teenage homosexual boys using it. Additionally, many teenage boys who are gay are also prostitutes for older men, which Burrill is.

How would Gómez know — one way or the other — unless he specifically asked Msgr. Grindr, and Msgr. Grindr told him? Moving on, why would Callahan say, "We don't know" so we have to "investigate"? Gómez certainly seems to know and has such certainty that he assures the world, no minors. So how is it that Callahan doesn't know?

Didn't Callahan call his priest into his office and ask him, straight up, "Yes or no — is this true?" If he didn't ask, that is a huge dereliction of duty on his part — massive.

If he did ask, what was the answer — yes or no? You don't get to obtain an answer and then send a letter saying you don't know the answer. That's called "lying." This whole thing stinks to high Heaven.

One of these bishops is lying, and given all we know right now, it sure doesn't seem like it's Gómez. So then the question becomes "Why would Callahan lie or be evasive, pretending he doesn't know?"

Of course he asked the Grindr priest. And he knows, just like Gómez knows. But he won't say it publicly because, wait for it, Fr. James Altman is also his priest, and Fr. Altman he stripped of his faculties and sidelined because Fr. Altman was calling bishops and laity to greater holiness.

Callahan is now in a jam, with no way out. Faithful priests get stripped of their faculties for being faithful. Homosexually active priests get covered up for and their case gets swept under the rug? Hmmm, now why would that be? Hmmm, let's see.

Father Altman should be restored immediately to the full use of his faculties. Monsignor Grindr should be defrocked immediately and made to repay the tens of thousands — perhaps hundreds of thousands — of dollars he stole from the Church under the guise of being a "faithful" priest.

You wonder, you just wonder: If he's not being treated like that because working at the bishops' conference, he knows an awful lot, and the last thing the bishops can have is a loose cannon going around blathering everything he knows. So the homosexual hierarchy ices Msgr. Grindr then does a phony useless "investigation" because they already know the truth of it all.

They hope people forget and quietly release a "summary report" where they announce he is either returned to some small assignment after six months or so in St. Luke's. The other option is that they defrock him but hand him a huge payoff to keep his mouth shut. Ladies and gentlemen, this is the condition of your homosexual hierarchy. This is how it runs and operates.

They count on you being stupid and having a short memory. And one final thought: If you were a priest accused of such monstrous filth and you weren't guilty, wouldn't you issue a statement or go in front of a camera and deny it?

Where is that statement? The pink elephant in the sacristy must be dealt with or there will be no reform in the Church.

And don't go blaming or getting upset with Church Militant for reporting all this. You clean up this damn evil in the Church. Do your jobs.

I'm Michael Voris, wrapping up our trip to the Napa Institute Annual Conference here in wine country.

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It's time for concerned Catholics in America to accept the reality that the Church in the United States is made in the image of Theodore McCarrick, not Jesus Christ.

The rampant homosexuality with the clergy, the lies, the cover-up, the sacrilege, the financial malfeasance, the destruction of the Faith — all of it has more than McCarrick's fingerprints on it; it has his seal on it. He certainly was not alone, nor was he the first, but he has proven to be the one who has been the most impactful.

While there are many, the two major centers of the destruction were Detroit, under Cdl. John Dearden from 1958–1980, which produced Cdl. Joseph Bernardin; and New York, under Cdl. Francis Spellman from 1939–1967, which gave the Church McCarrick.

Together, Bernardin and McCarrick perverted the Church on every conceivable level, but McCarrick's influence has been the most pervasive and long-lasting. And when you consider the enormous damage inflicted on the Church by Bernardin with his vast number of appointments of homosexual men and his conniving to push reception of Holy Communion in the hand, that's really saying something.

McCarrick had a head start on Bernardin. He was decidedly more cunning and was communist-trained in St. Gallen, Switzerland in the years immediately following World War II, a location he returned to frequently on a near-annual basis for years. Although Bernardin was ordained six years before McCarrick, in many ways he was a backwater bishop until Bernardin plucked him out of Atlanta as an auxiliary bishop in the late 1960s to head up what would become the feckless National Conference of Catholic Bishops.

By that time, McCarrick was already on the fast track, having sprung from the loins of the extraordinarily powerful Spellman. Two years before anyone had ever heard of Bernardin, McCarrick had already ghostwritten the infamous Land O' Lakes document promoted by Notre Dame's Theodore Hesburgh, a document that sent the American Catholic university system into apostasy.

Such was McCarrick's already burgeoning influence. The major difference between these two men is that, while both were sexually active homosexuals, McCarrick was communist trained, as Church Militant has reported.

Bernardin's actions greatly contributed to the destruction of the Church in the United States, but McCarrick's actions were intended to destroy the Church, and, given the current state of affairs, the only fair assessment would have to be that he succeeded.

Take, for example, the issue of Holy Communion. Both men played central roles in destroying faith in the Blessed Sacrament. Bernardin rammed through a fraudulent vote in the late 1970s that he used to lie to Pope Paul VI about in order to get Rome to approve of it. But McCarrick, as usual, was already 10 steps further down the road by lying to the bishops' conference that Joseph Ratzinger had said it was permissible to give Holy Communion to child-killing Catholic politicians.

Ratzinger, who was then head of the Congregation for Doctrine of the Faith, had said no such thing. In fact, he had said just the opposite, but McCarrick and Gregory simply lied to the rest of the bishops, and here we are today with the bishops still fighting this issue.

McCarrick's evil is much more pervasive than Bernardin's, which is impressive given Bernardin's homosexual romp through the Church with his bishop appointments. It was, for example, McCarrick who took charge of the bishops' response to the homopredator clerical crisis, following the Boston Globe's revelations. His response was pure deflection and deception. Not a thing changed or was implemented that would lessen the actual cause of the crisis: homosexuality within the clergy.

But it made for great public relations as McCarrick made the rounds on national media to express his shock and dismay that such untoward evil could penetrate the heart of the Church. And this was all being said while he was sexually assaulting seminarians at his beach house on the Jersey Shore, bought and paid for by the Church.

McCarrick was instrumental in advancing sexual deviancy, but where he far outshined Bernardin was in his skill in fundraising, using money to subvert the Church. He conned millionaire after Catholic millionaire with his Irish charm, all the way up to the Papal Foundation, and he used millions in bribes to get his people in place and his actions covered up.

When Pope Benedict iced him, he just carried on, helping to get Francis elected, who then almost instantly dispatched him to communist China to sell out the Church there. He was instrumental in getting Blase Cupich installed in Chicago, where Bernardin had built his homosexual network that now extends far beyond Chicago, and Joseph Tobin installed in Newark, where McCarrick used his influence to do the same back in the East. 

While Bernardin was extremely destructive, he was only on the public scene for 25 years. McCarrick was on the scene for more than 50 years and possessed a much greater skill set. He was much more cunning and had much more time to implement his plans.

This brings us to the point of this Vortex. The current hierarchy, especially the so-called good bishops, now must come to terms with the reality that the Church in America (as it is now constituted) was fashioned by two very powerful homosexual men, both perverts, with one particularly determined to bring about the Church's destruction.

Through these men's power and influence and ability to blackmail, sideline and appoint (virtually at will) other men after their own design, the architecture was put in place to ensure there is no coming back from this unless, in the very near future, the few remaining bishops with a conscience step forward and take control of the narrative. These men need to understand that they entered into a system that was designed to produce weak men and weak leaders.

Whatever you may think of yourselves when you look in the mirror, Your Excellencies, know that you are in your office largely because you either slipped through the cracks or were viewed as not a real threat. Even if you are personally orthodox in your religious beliefs, you have been brought up in a system to discourage you from exercising any real pushback.

You have had your minds conditioned for decades by a system designed by two homosexual predators — one of them a communist — to not fight back, to strip you of your masculinity, to always think in terms of compromise and going along and avoiding confrontation at all costs, of never rocking the boat.

More than the perversion of the Faith itself in so many seminaries is the perversion of your masculinity — that is the real secret of McCarrick's success and control over the Church in America.

This is how such deviants have seized control across the entire spectrum because you who know of their evil have been neutralized, with Cupich's presence being the latest example of what strikes terror in all your hearts.

Every one of you bishops and archbishops watching this knows what I am saying is true. You may not like it. You probably don't like me. You cringe when someone says "Church Militant," but you know what we say here is true. Just look around the condition of the Church right now; it is mass apostasy because of the apostasy of the clergy.

Why do you think Church Militant has been able to encourage more than 1,300 people to travel to Baltimore in November and sit out in the cold for hours to pray for you?

(As a quick aside, those roughly 1,300 reservations represent almost half the total capacity of the pavilion right next door to where the bishops are meeting, and there are still four months to go. Click here to save your spot for what is shaping up to be a total watershed moment in the life of the Church in America.)

So here is what Church Militant would like to propose to you good bishops: First, we know you feel alone and isolated, never backed up, at least publicly, by your brother bishops, who are under constant threat from Cupich and his influence. We also know you are deeply concerned, rightfully so, that if you do anything public that Cupich perceives as threatening enough, he will end you and bring your good work to an end.

That said, the current state of affairs simply cannot be allowed to continue. We are quickly approaching the end of the institutional Church in America. So given that, we are aware that you all watch and pass around relevant Vortex episodes and have private, quiet discussions among yourselves about what we talk about here in the Vortex, as well as our articles and other shows and so forth. We know this because you communicate this to laymen whom you trust, who are every bit as concerned about this abomination we find ourselves in as a Church.

What we would like for you to do is to reach out to those laymen who are mutual friends and, through them, reach out to us and allow us to help strategize with you in standing up and pushing back against this evil. We are not interested in any way, manner or form of making this a story, revealing any details, writing about it, doing Vortex episodes about it or anything of the kind. It is strictly a private endeavor between Catholic laity and their shepherds to finally push back against this evil rot that has taken control.

In all forthrightness, some or all of you may lose your dioceses in the end, that is true. There is no getting around that, but there needs to be a coordinated effort, a grand plan. We have loads of information, and you do too. We also have a network we established in the spring of hundreds of priests around the nation we call "The New Catacombs." Many of these priests know an awful lot about an awful lot.

Our Church Militant Resistance has literally thousands of members across the country, many in chanceries who also know an awful lot about an awful lot. All of them stand willing to do whatever is necessary to come to the aid of Holy Mother Church.

Church Militant has been marshaling these forces, laity, faithful clergy and information for years now, and we want to meet with you to let you know what we know.

I know many of you don't like us, or are suspicious of us, leery and so forth. You don't like our "tone" and so forth. We are "out there," that is absolutely true, but it's out of a deep love for Our Blessed Lord and His Bride, no other reason. And the question of "tone" and being "out there" is purely a subjective one. 

No one else is saying what needs to be said, including you, most especially you. We want to help you, encourage you, do whatever is needed. As we said, we are mindful that you may very well get mowed down if you go on the offensive, to which we'd like to respond with two final thoughts. First, had the young men who first stormed ashore at Normandy or parachuted behind the lines not been willing to die — and many did — Europe would not have been freed from the Nazis. Death is not the greatest evil — not dying with honor in the service of the Church is the greatest evil.

Second, a joint effort to seize back the Church in a great act of charity for the faithful in the face of near-certain retribution would be an act that, even if you are mauled in the process, the Holy Spirit would use absolutely because it is an act perfectly in accord with the divine will.

Turning back the lies, the liturgical abuse, the wanton sacrilege, the destruction of the Faith and the financial rot — all of it — standing up to it out of love, how could that be anything other than pleasing to the Blessed Trinity?

Ask yourselves in consideration of what we are proposing, "Is this something Satan would oppose?"

So please, you know who our mutual friends are. Contact them, and have them be the go-betweens if you are afraid or nervous about Church Militant. I assure you, you have nothing to be afraid of concerning us.

Our entire 15 years have been "out there" for all the world to see that every action we do is born strictly from a love of Our Blessed Lord, His Holy Mother and the one true Faith. It's for no other reason than to be used to help save souls.

The forces of evil in the Church are well-organized. We need to be more so.

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The first three years of this apostolate were dedicated strictly to the announcement of the glories of the One True Faith. Our flagship program — with its more than 100 hours of episodes, all still on the Premium side of the website — was and is dedicated to that very cause.

But Obama's trip to Notre Dame in May 2009 woke us up to the fact that the Church needed to do more than just preach the truth because that truth was being corrupted and poisoned from within by a powerful, faithless and oftentimes homosexual cadre.

When we started reporting this, people went nuts in the establishment, hurling all kinds of accusations against us and accusing us of everything under the sun, except, of course, telling the truth.

A few years later, we found ourselves in Rome reporting on a major story in the Roman press that never really got picked up over here in the Catholic media because the bishops would not permit it. It was squashed. This was 2013. But Church Militant reported on it in great detail and received accusations of being the "Catholic National Enquirer" and all that type of idiocy.

This was five years before McCarrick came to light, waking up a good bunch of Catholics to the truth of what was and still is going on in the Church, specifically with the hierarchy. No one wanted to hear what we were reporting and commenting on. They smeared us — especially our own archbishop, Allen Vigneron, who set his chancery dogs on us at every turn in an effort to keep the decades of homosexual and other corruption here a secret.

Even four years prior to this 2013 story, Church Militant had already been reporting on this filth. So for a dozen years now, we've been all over this horror, and our reporting has been vindicated every single time.

The latest revelations of the homosexual-hookup phone app Grindr only underscores just how bad this really is, how pervasive and constant. Until it is challenged and exposed, it is never going to go away. Given the current uproar over the Grindr information and its relation to not just the United States but also Rome, we'd like to show you part of the report we did in Rome in the summer of 2013 that really caused the hierarchy to attack us with a fury. This was the report that caused them to really jump ugly against us behind the scenes.

We know what we know because it is told to us by victims, insiders, experts, lawyers and so forth. We aren't guessing at all this; we know that what we are reporting is correct. And despite their best efforts to smear us and make us appear to be lunatics, what various evil members of the hierarchy have tried to do against us has blown up in their faces.

But they are so far down the road at this point that they no longer care. That's why there is such public support for homosexualist James Martin, the same man who goes around publicly preaching heresy by saying the Bible is wrong.

They tried to publicly attack us through their surrogates in the so-called Catholic, so-called media, but with every new revelation, every new scandal, their attacks changed from challenging the substance of what we said to attacking "the tone," whatever that means.

How exactly do you politely say that many bishops are actively homosexual and/or are covering for others who are, and that they are victimizing young men, destroying the Church and causing the loss of millions of souls? Church Militant was right then, and we are right now. As the expression goes — who's crying now?

The time for defeating this evil is almost at an end. It must be attacked now.

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Picking up on the theme from yesterday on the relationship between government, media and corporate America — what we labeled as an "unholy trinity" — this is truly the "Devil's triangle" because the combination of those three incorporates virtually every aspect of the normal person's life.

If Hell exercises what amounts to operational control over those three entities, so much so that they actually all operate with the same demonic mind, then that trifecta becomes impossible to fight against. What laws are passed, what you are being told, where you are allowed to work, where corporate profits are being poured into and so forth, all of this is the same beast with three different heads.

People's political, informational and economic lives are almost totally controlled by what amounts to a few individuals who all share the same demonic agenda and, as we said, the same demonic mind. These may be three different theaters of operation, but they are all controlled by the same demon. Look at the bishops and ask yourselves if they are providing a counter or a challenge to the Devil's triangle. The answer should be obvious.

But for most Catholics, even though they may realize deep down that something is way off with the Church, they simply cannot or will not own up to the reality because it's just too disturbing to accept. It's why the bishops keep getting a pass from so many willfully ignorant Catholics.

Even Catholic so-called media types like Teresa Tomeo, the Relevant Radio gang, EWTN and so forth will not explore this topic, partly because it will upset the comfortable existence they make off being part of the Church establishment and partly because they cannot look at it and accept the degree of evil and corruption in the Church.

On that score, agreed. It is extremely difficult on most days to sit down in this business — the so-called Catholic media — and grapple with the notion that the leadership is complicit, directly or indirectly (depending on the particular bishop), with the Devil's triangle. That group would much rather talk about the evil out there than the root cause of it, which is the evil in here, the Church.

So they stick their heads in the sand and their hands in the collection basket and carry on as normal by running pilgrimages, selling books, giving useless speeches to conference attendees and so forth. Meanwhile, the rot expands and the evil grows, but their little garden-party lifestyles and their 401(k) plans remain untouched, for the moment.

The things we're being told are all untrue:

Yet all of these are funded by, promoted by and enforced by the Devil's triangle and then baptized by the U.S. bishops' conference.

Every one of those topics — and many more — are Marxist talking points, yet the supposedly Catholic bishops throw their weight behind them at every opportunity. This is from the same crowd that participated in and/or covered up the greatest predator sex abuse scandal in the world, lied repeatedly about it and then stole billions from the faithful to pay off the debt when they got busted.

Likewise, and even more damning, these Judases continue to engage in their activities of cover-up and coercion by persecuting priests who are finally speaking out and by canceling seminarians who show signs of waking up to the evil of their superiors. And yet, not a word from the Catholic cover-up press about any of it — unless it is to repeat the bishops' propaganda.

The U.S. bishops take the approach to politics that each party has some good and bad in it and therefore we can reasonably choose between one or the other. That may be kind of true, at least the first part. But then again, Hitler and the Nazis got Germany back to work during the Great Depression, improved the roads remarkably and even created Volkswagen, the "people's car."

So what's a little genocide and world war balanced against economic improvement and an emerging middle class? What's a little destruction of the Faith and sex abuse among friends, as we all skip along to being "joyful missionary disciples" while thousands of parishes are annihilated, sold off and turned into God knows what?

On that note, what's the big deal about a homosexual priesthood and episcopate distorting the Faith as long as we all keep recycling and protecting the planet? What's a little theft in the billions here or there and bankrupting of dioceses as long as we can post those BLM signs in front of churches? What's the widespread loss of faith in the Real Presence as long as we can keep up the image that powerful politicians are Catholic so the bishops can pretend that they are still somehow relevant?

The Devil's triangle exists for one reason: so that souls will be damned. That may or may not be the conscious thought of those humans who operate it and profit from it, but it is the conscious thought of the demonic mind who orchestrated it. For the bishops of this nation to cooperate in any way with it is to seal their own damnation. Likewise, for Catholics to not raise their voices against it when they know this is all going on is also to seal their fates.

This is exactly what St. James is talking about in the fourth chapter of his letter when he warns, "Whoever knows what is right to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin." Not wanting to do it is not the point. Whether it's too much evil for you to face or you have a profit motive for staying silent, if you refuse by an act of the will to fight this filth, then you are going to Hell because you cooperated with Hell in keeping the evil existent.

Where else do you think you will go when you die, you phony Catholic-media types? Where else do you think you will go when you die, you horrible, despicable monsters in miters? You worked to preserve the Devil's triangle while you were on earth; what other fate do you think awaits you in death?

You cooperated by your silence in the persecution of good men who gave their lives for the Church in their priesthood. You kept silent about the homosexual flood into the priesthood and the resulting distortion of dogma. Do not fool yourselves that because you sell some books and say nice things about the Faith and go to Mass that you will escape severe judgment on this account.

You chose the comfortable way of self-preservation and nonconfrontation when souls were being destroyed, when bodies were being abused, when lives were being shattered. You hide behind the skirts of the bishops (who are risking Hell themselves for their own willful participation) and imagine in some fantasy that you are advancing and promoting the Faith.

It is true that you are not heretics, but you supported them in their heresy, dissent and apostasy. You are fools or cowards, and as we also hear in words of Scripture inspired by the Third Person of the Blessed Trinity, you will be damned.

God bless all those truly faithful Catholics who do whatever they can in their own individual orbit to fight these evil bishops who continue to cooperate with the Devil's triangle. If you are a soul who is lukewarm to all of this, afraid of the evil, scared to peer into its enormous depths, then pray for strength and fortitude to do the right thing.

Remember what Our Blessed Lord Himself says about the lukewarm: "I will vomit them out of my mouth."