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Until faithful Catholics can clear a huge psychological hurdle in their minds, nothing in the Church is going to change. The hurdle is that the hierarchy is an international gay-crime syndicate of liars, thieves, homosexuals, sex-abuse cover-ups and theologically unsound destroyers of souls. And that's on one of their better days. 

Donald Wuerl, for example, gets $2 million a year in retirement from Wilton Gregory. Timothy Dolan accepted a palatial house in upstate New York that was given as a gift from a wealthy New Yorker for retired priests and claimed it for himself. The diocese of Newark under Joseph Tobin just sold a mansion for almost a million dollars that the deceased former archbishop John Myers had built for himself. Blase Cupich is closing down almost a hundred parishes in Chicago, and his hit list includes those with millions of dollars in endowments.

Here in Detroit, where the destruction of the Faith in America began under Cdl. John Dearden back in the late 1960s, Allen Vigneron is violating canon law by instituting a program called "Families of Parishes." Families of Parishes is the brainchild of Fr. John Riccardo of Church of Nice fame, which essentially lumps individual pastors and their parishes into one larger parish and then places a so-called administrator over them, undercutting the pastor's authority.

And yes, a group of pastors here in Detroit has already compiled their canon law case for Rome. Vigneron, you will recall, is not only party to different lawsuits involving sex-abuse cases, but he is also the same archbishop who coddled a practicing homosexual as his director of music liturgy for years — a man living with his homosexual partner for 15 years, which Vigneron knew all about.

Here's the underlying problem that connects all these things and many more: Many of these bishops see themselves as little monarchs. They see themselves as having absolute power to do whatever they want and to whomever they want. It's the perfect line of work because it offers unquestioned, unaccountable access to large sums of money and opulence.

For example, Wilton Gregory, who is now the cardinal archbishop of Washington, D.C., started to build himself a pad worth $2 million when he was archbishop of Atlanta until he got busted by local media. Once caught, he called a halt to the project and said that he didn't realize that it looked like a bad thing. This is from the same fellow who's happy to hand fellow homosexualist Cdl. Wuerl $2 million a year.

Wuerl is the one who proposed the insane notion at a funeral Mass for a certain priest that he had been a good servant and was certainly "in Heaven." The priest had been murdered by a gay prostitute in Havana after having set up a gay prostitution ring between Miami and Havana and after blackmailing Wuerl for a huge sum of money by threatening to go public with Wuerl's gay-clergy network in Pittsburgh.

As the pope tries to recover from surgery and a possible post-op infection, the man second in command — Camerlengo Kevin Farrell, former bishop of Texas and roommate for six years of Theodore McCarrick, got proved a liar in the McCarrick report issued by the Vatican a couple of months back.

When the news broke three years ago with revelations that McCarrick was a serial homopredator, Farrell said, "I was shocked." That was in 2018. But in the report, he admits he knew back in 2007 and 2008 that secret payments had been made to keep McCarrick's victims silent. So much for being shocked. And just for clarity, this is the man second in command in the Church; the man who runs the Church when the pope can't.

We could go on and on, but you get the idea that the hierarchy is an international gay-crime syndicate. These are not isolated incidents, but rather the rule. This is the current infrastructure. It's not just some window dressing, but the actual architecture of how the Church operates right now.

This woeful lot has made the sacraments, the Real Presence and the glories of the Faith merely window dressing. It's why they won't defend the Blessed Sacrament from sacrilege. It's why they either promote or have no comment on James Martin and his "Brokeback Mountain-theology" tour all over the country. It's why there is an active lawsuit filed by a seminarian against the ongoing homosexual harassment at the North American College in Rome, a breeding and training ground for U.S. bishops.

It's why homosexualist archbishop of San Antonio Gustavo García-Siller yanked the faculties of Fr. Clay Hunt. It's why La Crosse archbishop William Callahan, under the behind-the-scenes orders from homosexualist Blase Cupich, yanked the faculties of Fr. James Altman.

The international gay-crime syndicate strikes back when their activities are revealed from the inside. It's how they operate. And they have allies who protect them and keep the syndicate chugging along, such as Curtis Martin of FOCUS, who will never allow a single word of criticism against bishops from those with any ties to his organization (which, by the way, he makes quite the comfortable living off).

For example, as a fundraiser event for his group, he sent out special invitations to a select group of wealthy Catholics to join him at a luxury resort and mingle with Jay Leno and former president George W. Bush — both non-Catholics, by the way. The invitation was endorsed by Cdl. Timothy Dolan, who really likes mingling with rich people (remember the Met Gala a couple of years ago).

While Dolan and Curtis Martin and others are filling their coffers and helping the syndicate to keep chugging along, Dolan was lying to the New York media left, right and center about his embezzling, homosexual, gay-for-pay priest who was protected by his homosexual chancery. (And on that topic, Church Militant will be releasing a devastating exposé next week on that very issue entitled Cardinal Dolan Exposed: The Fr. Peter Miqueli Case.)

The syndicate has many tentacles that extend into every aspect of the Church's life. Just like the mob, some of the things they do are legitimate because they have to keep up appearances. So they build useless evangelization programs which may do some minor good here or there, but overall have done more harm than good because they present an immature picture of the Faith, with its watered-down catechesis.

They've been doing this for decades as a kind of smokescreen, but it has proven useless. The number of Catholics who reject the Faith grows larger every year because their souls are not the primary concern of the international gay mafia. Many of those who have walked away or killed themselves are the abuse victims of this crowd or the repeat victims who, once reporting the abuse, were victimized again by being smeared, lied to and so forth.

Again, not isolated things — but standard operating procedure. 

It's why Dolan, figuring out that the state of New York was about to lift the statute of limitations on sex abuse claims, quickly scurried off to the bank to take out a line of credit for $100 million on the property directly behind St. Patrick's Cathedral and then started cajoling victims to come and self-report and take a settlement, with the condition that they never sue the Church.

The victims didn't know he did that and didn't know that within a year or two they could have sued the Church for millions more than the paltry sums Dolan was handing out. That's how a crime syndicate operates. It all came to light when they tried to buy James Grein's silence with a meager payout for his life being destroyed by Theodore McCarrick. James told Dolan what he could do with the offer and filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit instead.

So this, ladies and gentlemen, is the state of the hierarchy as a body in the Church. Get it into your mind so you can recalibrate your activity and response. It is an international gay-crime syndicate that strikes back at those who expose it and is kept in operation by lay leaders who profit from it.

It's just that simple.

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Now that Bp. William Callahan of La Crosse has staked his claim against a good priest — stripping Fr. James Altman of his faculties — the gauntlet has been thrown down. This crooked hierarchy means to silence all opposition toward it, concealing its evil behind noble themes like "obedience" and "silence." These mitered monsters have hidden the most despicable crimes behind the noblest platitudes and have gone unchallenged for way too long.

This past Sunday at Fr. Altman's former parish, Callahan sent an older priest to read a statement from him, throwing Fr. Altman under the bus by implying Fr. Altman is disobedient. After reading Callahan's statement, the priest then added a few of his own thoughts: "What we need, dear friends, is silence. ... Silence is the language of God. ... It will not be heard if we fill our minds with lots of explanations."

He exhorted the Sunday Mass crowd to not speak about this anymore, not engage on social media with it and not listen to any voices that keep the division going. "Turn to Our Blessed Lord in the Eucharist. It is the sacrament of unity and speaks powerfully to all conflict and unity," he urged.

That is a total cop-out, no matter how well-intended by the older priest delivering the remarks. Silence and unity are precisely why the Church is in the horrid condition of being run by a corrupt hierarchy. And how remarkable that an appeal should be made to the Eucharist when all bishops in America last year actually denied their flocks the Eucharist, not to mention every other sacrament as well.

Even to this day, multiple bishops still have draconian measurements in place regarding masks or jabs before you can come in the Church or regarding where you can sit or if you can receive on the tongue or which line you non-vax lepers need to get into.

Here's the bottom-line issue that way too many normal Catholics are ignorant about (and which is massively exploited by crooked bishops): A bishop is not God. He is not a monarch. He is not an overlord. He can't randomly issue orders or demands based on the fact that he is a bishop and then command everyone to obey them.

A bishop has great limits on how far his authority goes. Likewise, his jurisdiction is entirely different regarding priests versus laity. A bishop cannot, for example, order a priest to sell the assets he had when he came into seminary and hand over the proceeds. He cannot order a priest to go seek mental health treatment (although they do it routinely). He cannot order a priest to stay away from his private associations with friends or family.

There are loads of things a bishop cannot order his priests to do as well as not do. And in the case of Fr. Altman, the fact that he was a pastor gives him a bevy of rights under canon law, rights designed to protect him against the capriciousness of a crazy bishop.

We just saw this exact thing play out in Rockford, Illinois with Fr. James Parker and Bp. David Malloy, who violated canon law by illicitly removing Fr. Parker from his pastorship. A thousand Catholics showed up to support Fr. Parker in a direct challenge to Malloy's overreach.

Meanwhile, the Vatican refused to pursue Abp. Allen Vigneron's phony case against Fr. Eduard Perrone in Detroit, meaning Fr. Perrone won. However, Vigneron has ignored the Vatican and refused to reinstate Fr. Perrone. And the same thing happened with Fr. Paul Kalchik of Chicago, who won his case in Rome against Cupich's injustice against him, though Cupich refuses to obey.

Bishops are not free to violate canon law, but they do it every single day, even in regard to allowing and promoting sacrilege of the Blessed Sacrament by defending the reception of Holy Communion by child-killing politicians.

Therefore, making an appeal to the laity to respect and obey is two-faced and hypocritical, a complete double standard. No wonder the hierarchy gets along so well with the Marxists in Congress. The phony appeal to pray and come to peace over the division so we can have unity is completely fallacious. There can be no unity with injustice at its center.

Father Altman has been unjustly removed from his pastorship, just as Fr. Perrone and Fr. Michael Suhy and Fr. Paul Kalchik have been. None of these men has experienced "justice" at the hands of the bishops. Then again, the bishops have allowed the Blessed Sacrament to be offended against, so why would we Catholics think they would be any different with their priests?

Silence is the absolute last thing we need at this point because it is an appeal to false piety and spirituality, something the bishops are masters at. Remember, that's what they did for decades as altar boys were being raped left, right and center. These men are sickening.

Well, we've had enough. This coming November, the U.S. bishops will be meeting in Baltimore, and Church Militant is once again spearheading the drive to call these hirelings to account. We are sponsoring a rally right next door to the Marriott where the bishops stay. We're calling our rally "Bishops: Enough Is Enough."

In the three years that have passed since we last did this, these men's evils are now well-known. Speaking at the rally will be Steve Bannon, Milo Yiannopoulos and Roman Catholic Faithful's Stephen Brady, to name a few. We will also be having a sizable panel of multiple priests and seminarians who will speak at length about the evils of injustice they have encountered. Father Altman will be one of those clerics.

Steve Bannon has some definite thoughts on this evil. Milo Yiannopoulos has some definite call-outs to share with you. Stephen Brady has been in the trenches with this filth for decades. And Church Militant may have a thought or two to share as well.

The seats in that pavilion are limited to a little less than three thousand, so please sign up right now and reserve your seat in the pavilion. Let's fill that pavilion and let this corrupt hierarchy know we are fed up — enough is enough. Come from every corner of the country to make your voice and presence heard.

To show just one example of how dirty these men are, when Church Militant did this back in the wake of McCarrick in 2018, the bishops had their water boy call the Baltimore Police and tell them we were going to storm the bishops' meeting and throw blood all over the walls. And we got that straight from the police captain's mouth.

These men are liars and enemies of justice, but they are always appealing to their phony religiosity to keep the laity in the dark. Enough is enough. Your filth and deceptions and appeals to prayer while you rob, steal and destroy good priests and cut off access to the sacraments is over.

Please sign up today for the sake of justice and true unity in the Church.

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This is going to be short and sweet: Get out of your homes and come to Baltimore, to Church Militant's Bishops: Enough Is Enough prayer rally.

The goal of this rally is actually multipurpose. Most importantly, it's to address the foul deeds of cover-up and corruption of many of these prelates. As Ven. Fulton Sheen implored the laity, it's up to us to remind the bishops to be bishops and the priests to be priests.

And we aren't going to split hairs here: Through a huge variety of ways, these men have contributed to the demolition of the Faith in the United States, and they need to be confronted with that reality so they can repent. They have supported sodomy, child murder, liturgical corruption, sacrilege of the Blessed Sacrament and a host of other grave sins and evils — including the poor formation of seminarians who then go into parishes and keep the rot in place. There are also plenty of Catholic-school personnel members who are ill-equipped to manage their own spiritual lives due to horrible catechesis.

Many of the bishops have their feet firmly planted on the broad path of eternal destruction, and they need to hear that loud and clear.

Having 3,000 Catholics praying for them right next door to their policy meetings will bring that point home. How they respond is on them. But that doesn't remove the responsibility from us to intervene for them. Faithful Catholics have a duty to pray for the souls of these shepherds.

As despicable as many of them have been with their sex abuse, cover-ups, promotion of sodomy, attacking of good priests, driving faithful men from the seminary, the destruction of belief in the Real Presence, their supplanting of theological truths with Marxist political policies — whatever outrageous sin against Heaven they can be rightly accused of — no one can desire their damnation. We cannot be indifferent to it. We cannot sit back and, at our own judgments, say we had little care for their souls.

Even in the case of shepherds whose actions have likely led many to Hell, we cannot simply surrender them to Satan. It doesn't matter what they think of us personally or whether they want to falsely accuse us of being divisive, they have to see with their own eyes that we desire their salvation and are earnestly praying for that because Our Lord commands we do such.

Another goal is to expose the rot and gather together in a large and boisterous manner so as to show that we know their game of evil and to let them know a new day has dawned. Also, we need to gather in one large body to provide visible support for the victims of these men, both physical and spiritual. Justice must be visibly sought and fought for. But we also have to stand visibly for all the world to see that faithful Catholics will speak up for the weak, the defenseless, those with no voice, the victims.

This rally is going to get widespread coverage because of its size and speakers, so imagine what a sign this will be for the victims — victims of sexual abuse, victims of doctrinal abuse and those who have been driven from the Church by indifferent or even wicked leaders.

We're going to have a panel of persecuted priests who are often the forgotten victims because of how bishops wipe them out. Seminarians will be there as well, many of whom became disillusioned with the Faith because of what they endured in seminary — physically, spiritually or doctrinally.

Church Militant and others are continually being accused by these rotten shepherds of being divisive, as though division is a bad thing per se. Your Excellencies and Eminences, have you not read Scripture? Division is precisely how all of human history will be brought to an end. "These will go off to their eternal reward and those will go down to their eternal destruction." It can't get much more divisive than that.

And one other reason to stage a massive event like this is to assure each other in person by gathering as a single body to support and reinforce one another. We hear all the time from new followers of Church Militant comments like, "I thought I was crazy"; "I thought I was alone"; "I didn't think anyone else saw these things."

This is not a wrongheaded attempt to subvert the authority of the bishops. It's a show of force to tell them that we've had it. Enough is Enough.

Among many of the bishops, there are some who are just weak and easily manipulated by more forceful personalities in the bishops' conference. We want to encourage those men to grow a backbone and stand up to the rot. They need to ask the question, "What's even the point of this conference?"

It's a good question because, in fact, it has no authority on its own. It is little else than a vehicle for pushing modernist goals. Enrollment isn't mandatory for any bishop, so why are any still a member of this body? Why not just leave? "Come out of her," as Scripture provides for.

It is true that the laity members have no authority. But we do have power in the form of prayer, influence, donations, holding fast to the authentic Faith, challenging error to clergy every time we encounter it and informing others of heresy, dissent and error.

All of this is a big change in how the laity must understand their role in the Church, just as Vatican II pointed to. The pray, pay and obey days are over. In their place are the days of organization, education, confrontation and clarification. We are Catholics because this is the one true Faith. If the bishops don't want to preach it, believe it or act like it is the true Faith, then the onus shifts to us.

So come to Baltimore with thousands of others, and commit the rest of your life to fighting for the truth of Holy Mother Church. We'll see you in person on Nov. 16, 2021.

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There's a pretty telling comment floating around the Catholic world that is very dangerous. It's the famous "we win in the end" line — the implication being, of course, that there is no need to get all worked up about this or that (including all the evil in the Church) because, in the end, we win.

Not so fast. Who's this "we" you're all talking about? Christ wins in the end, of course — absolutely, completely and totally. But it's more than just a little presumptive to think that Christ winning somehow automatically includes all of us winning.

None of us has any idea if we win in the end, and it is patently wrong, presumptive and idiotic to assume ourselves into the Church Triumphant. For a person to "win" in the end — to partake as an individual in the final victory of Christ made totally visible at the end of the world — a person must die in a state of sanctifying grace.

The only other state any person can die in is a state of mortal sin and, regardless of what the likes of Bp. Barron promote and the rest of his bishops never correct, we do not have a reasonable hope that all men are saved. The preposterousness of that statement is so insulting to the intellect that it's truly astounding.

The vast majority of people — in fact, the vast majority of Catholics — live in an objective state of serious sin. They do not go to Mass. They do not believe or even consider the Church's teachings on most things, especially sexual morality. Over a third fully reject the teaching on the Real Presence and actively deny it. Another third don't believe it because they say they've never heard that it's true. Even many who actually do go to Mass and do receive Holy Communion don't really believe it is Jesus Christ. And it certainly seems the case that various clergy, including bishops, especially bishops, are in the same boat.

The idea that the vast majority of people walking around — 98%, according to Barron — are in a state of sanctifying grace is so stupid that you hardly know where to begin in critiquing it (unless you hold to the even more stupid notion that it's nearly impossible to commit a mortal sin).

What is it to be in a state of sanctifying grace anyway? It is to have the life of the Blessed Trinity flowing through you, even if imperfectly. Your thoughts, actions, deeds and everything emanate from the lived life of the theological virtues of faith, hope and charity.

How could any Catholic look around the Church or the world today and conclude that 98% of people are living their lives in and through God? Heaven, like Hell, is a choice that is determined by our actions and our nonactions, the sins of commission and omission. And it is the sins of omission that are the most grievous pertaining to the hierarchy. A bishop can go to Hell without doing a single wrong thing by simply not doing the right thing.

At this very moment, a huge number of bishops are fashioning their own private damnations by their silence and refusal to do the right thing, and their continued sins of omission that damage souls are not offset by doing some good things. They don't cancel each other out like some crazy mathematical equation.

A sin is a sin — whether it's by commission or omission. So let's examine this idea of sinning by not doing what needs to be done. First, what is sin? The word derives from the Latin sine, which means "without" — referencing the willful lack of doing something which ought to be done. So being mean to someone, for example, or stealing money from them is to deprive someone of what ought to be.

Well let's ratchet this up, shall we? For a bishop to deny justice to one of his priests, either by stripping him of his faculties without sufficient cause or allowing him to retain his faculties when they should be stripped, is a gross act of omission, with justice, truth and charity being the virtues offended.

Let's go even further. For a bishop (even one who does a positive good or goods) to refuse to come to terms with his acts of omission from the past that caused public harm (by not acknowledging them), that will merit Hell.

Either through commission or omission, many of today's bishops have played a key role in the vast suffering the Church is now experiencing. Holy Mother Church is indeed undergoing Her passion at this moment, and like Our Blessed Lord's Passion was set in motion by an Apostle, so too is His Church's by the Apostles' successors.

Where is the collective outrage of the bishops that so many clergy are actively homosexual? Where is the voice for the victims of their malice and ladder-climbing ambitions? Where is the apology to so many parents who entrusted their children to their priests' and bishops' schools, only to have those children lose their faith in the Church? Fully three years on from the McCarrick revelations and there are still no resignations, no acceptance of guilt, no admission of the sins of omission. It's nothing but silence.

This silence is not the silence in which God can be found. Far from it. This silence generates a deafness in the soul where God cannot be heard. In fact, it is purposely clung to in order to drown out the silence in which God can be found and heard and is replaced with the silence of cover-up and omission. It is the failure to preach the truth of the Faith; the failure to acknowledge guilt; the failure to come to terms with reality.

It is a willful failure to speak what needs to be spoken. Sometimes it is motivated by fear, other times by shame, other times as a self-delusion. Could there be some bishop out there who knows of his role in the evil which has now descended on the Church? Unlike many of their brother bishops who acted out of malice toward the Church and Her teachings, perhaps there is a bishop who didn't especially like what he saw, tried to steer clear of it as much as he could, but still kept silent because he wanted to advance.

Then, as things grew far worse in the Church, he decided to try and offset his own sins of omission by doing some notably good things — a self-delusion of trying to clean up the effects of his own silent complicity by trying to "fix" the Church without any pubic acknowledgment of his own role in the filth. It's sort of like a spiritual "have your cake and eat it too" type of self-deception. 

Let's say such a man in his younger years (before being a bishop) was highly regarded and given a post of respect in a large archdiocesan chancery. Not much would be expected from him, certainly not to actively participate in anything untoward. All that would be expected of him would be to keep quiet and look the other way regarding "unreasonable mental reservations" in his head about his homosexual bishop and his evil deeds.

He may have even convinced himself of his bishop's goodness, dare we say, holiness, a conviction that would serve him well in his later years when he needed to absolve himself from his role in the current disaster in the Church.

Truth is, by its very nature, not partial. A good does not offset a bad unless the sin is fully acknowledged, confessed, firmly resolved against and absolved. And when possible, restitution is made, at least in some form. Yet here we are as Catholics in a Church where none of that has happened by members of the hierarchy. Their sins of omission are barely acknowledged by them and, even then, the faithful are left wondering if it is sincere or some short drama to mitigate lawsuits or look good on the evening news or offset financial damage from increasingly red-pilled donors.

What suffers in all this in the short-term is the truth being denied the right that the truth has, by its nature: to be declared. What suffers in the long-term is the bishop himself who descends to Hell for all eternity for not doing what should have been done.

I confess the things I have done and what I have failed to do. Those who sin by omission should be extremely careful about boasting we win in the end. No, you do not.

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As the ever-widening homosexual-clergy scandal engulfs the Church's hierarchy, it's only natural that it would spread back to Rome. In fact, it doesn't seem out of sorts at all to say it may have even begun in Rome. The city does have a history, after all, stretching back forever. 

In the early Church, Tertullian said, "All other frenzies of lusts which exceed the laws of nature ... we banish ... from all shelter of the Church."

"Exceed the laws of nature" means homosexual acts. All sorts of sexual sins, including homosexual behavior among clergy, seem to have been common in the Middle Ages, following the scandalous example of Pope Benedict IX. Saint Peter Damian authored the Book of Gomorrah in the 11th century to rail against homosexuality in the Roman clergy, saying it destroyed the dignity of the priesthood. In a question that echoes down to our own day, he asked of active sodomites in the priesthood, "What do you seek in a man, that you are unable to find in yourself?" Imagine if St. Peter Damian were alive today — he'd lose his mind.

This brings us to the Grindr scandal and its emergence in Rome. Yes, totally unsurprisingly, there are clerics who live in the Vatican who use the phone app to find anonymous homosexual partners — that's the point of the app. It's not news to anyone who has been paying attention that homosexual sex in the clergy is ignored and even blessed by some bishops, and that includes the Vatican. What may be surprising, however, is its prevalence in terms of how totally integrated it is in the clerical bloodstream, and Rome is a good place to start looking for that.

At this point, we need to turn our eyes away from the Vatican and cast them toward the North American College, where seminarians from the United States are sent primarily to be fast-tracked for the episcopate. It's true, of course, that not all seminarians here become bishops, but a hefty percentage do. In fact, all you have to do is go down the roll of U.S. bishops to see the extraordinarily high number of them who attended the NAC.

For decades now, the NAC has had the reputation for also being very accepting of homosexuality, sometimes involving leadership; other times, seminarians; oftentimes, both. So it stands to reason that if the central area where American seminarians are sent to be fast-tracked for bishops is, at the very least, nonchalant about the whole homosexual thing, that they would carry that spiritual poison with them to their new dioceses when they eventually do become bishops.

The NAC is currently being sued by former seminarian Anthony Gorgia, who brought forward some extremely disturbing charges against active homosexual leadership at the NAC and a cover-up by the more than 30 U.S. bishops who sit on the board and continually refuse to formally investigate his claims. Leading the charge to discredit Anthony was Cdl. Timothy Dolan, who essentially got Anthony kicked out (which is the usual thing that happens if you are a seminarian and blow the whistle).

Meanwhile, the U.S. hierarchy has tried desperately to sweep the scandal of Jeffrey Burrill under the rug. Burrill is the cleric who has come to be known as "Msgr. Grindr" for being busted for using the phone app hundreds of times. The U.S. bishops scrubbed its website of all mention of Msgr. Grindr or, we should say, tried to. They missed the entire history of his pedigree. 

For instance, he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Immaculate Heart of Mary Seminary in Minnesota in 1994. He was studying for the diocese of La Crosse, Wisconsin (the same diocese where the current bishop stripped Fr. James Altman of his faculties for being critical of pro-abortion Democrats and neglectful bishops). This same seminary is where various seminarians accused Cdl. Joseph Bernardin and other bishops of trying to engage in sex with various seminarians back in the 1980s and 90s. The Church eventually settled those claims in secret filings and payouts, which Bp. John Vlazny presented as some kind of act of charity to pay for their counseling.

Burrill then went to Rome after graduation to get his Bachelor of Sacred Theology from the Gregorian University in Rome in 1997. He stayed in Rome as he earned a licentiate in ecumenical theology from the Angelicum in 1999. During that time, he was ordained to the priesthood in 1998. 

Once he wrapped up his first stint in Rome, he returned to his home diocese of La Crosse and served as regional vicar and two terms on the diocesan presbyteral council. He was also a member of the seminary admissions board for his diocese. After climbing the ladder in La Crosse, he returned to Rome to the NAC. From 2009–2013, he was director of apostolic formation and was then promoted to be in charge of homiletics and was the formation advisor and director of media relations. 

It's a little unclear what happened after those four years, but he seems to have run afoul of someone and was shipped back to La Crosse. But three years later, we find him at the U.S. bishops' conference in 2016 where he came in as associate general secretary before being elevated to fill the post of general secretary.

As far back as the Grindr data goes (which is roughly 2018), it reveals Burrill was on the app constantly — everywhere, day and night, in his office, his residence, on the road, at home, everywhere. So a number of questions naturally occur here. 

One, did all his hundreds of reported homosexual liaisons begin in just 2018? What about before that time? If it did begin prior to 2018, then when did it begin? Was he sexually active as a seminarian, perhaps even going back to the Bernardin days at Winona? It obviously started at some point in time. When? Did any of his superiors along the way know anything? If not, why not? If they did, why wasn't it addressed and, more importantly, how was he continually being promoted?

That's quite the dereliction of duty on the part of his superiors at the NAC. And remember, this is under 10 years ago. Having been sent back to La Crosse post-NAC time, who brought him aboard at the bishops' conference? And then after a couple of years, who promoted him?

Why does Msrg. Grindr still have his faculties? What's being done to investigate his climb through the ranks? Was he having sex with the multiple seminarians he was in charge of during his career? Did he help promote them? Was he part of whatever the homosexual stuff that continues to flow out of the NAC?

All of this is where the U.S. bishops simply cannot be trusted. They lie constantly and say they are all about transparency and dialogue. Don't you believe it. The last thing they want is transparency because too many of them would be swept up in those purifying rays of sunlight. Even Pope Francis admitted in 2013 that there was a homosexual lobby in the Vatican.

And yet in the face of all this, the bishops will go on about the need to form joyful missionary disciples and institute brain-dead evangelization programs like Alpha. They'll brag about all the diversity in the Church and reaching out to the poor and fighting climate change and pushing for immigration reform and going out to accompany those on the margins and peripheries. There's no way Burrill was not on track to be made a bishop. He just got busted before the miter hit his head.

Is there any Catholic out there who really believes that no one in the hierarchy knew anything about this man for all these years? If the data is correct, and no one has put forward a case why it isn't, he hooked up for homosexual acts, or tried to, almost 1,000 times. But if you notice, the topic of homosexuality is deftly avoided more than they avoid the China virus. They never talk about it but always point the other way. They refuse to acknowledge it even exists within the clergy and certainly never in their own ranks. Why is that?

Why do the bishops never address this subject? Catholics who are footing the bill for all this and who are being taught watered-down catechesis because of all this and losing family members to all this have a right to demand that this topic be discussed openly and that any bishop who in any way has contributed to this step down immediately.

And yes, we may have just answered the question in the asking of it. The Enough Is Enough prayer and rally conference in Baltimore in November is already more than half capacity with over 1,600 seats taken. Please get yourself to Baltimore. Enough really is enough.

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There are so many crooked things going on in the Church these days, it's getting difficult to focus on just one in any given Vortex. But there are overarching themes. Take, for example, this whole business with the homosexual-hookup phone app Grindr and its snaring of Msgr. Jeffrey Burrill at the U.S. bishops' conference.

Over the weekend, the CEO of Grindr published an article saying it would be nearly impossible to use the data they sell and connect it to any given individual phone. He compared it to looking for one specific grain of sand on a miles-long beach. Given what Church Militant has researched on this, that appears to be correct. You just don't buy generic data and then deanonymize it and discover a specific individual. It's much more likely that you would begin with the person's phone number and then proceed backward from there.

In fact, unless you are some kind of government agency, it would be extremely difficult to do anything of the kind that the Pillar blog claims it did, which was to simply buy an ocean's worth of data and then start looking for a specific piece of data. That would suggest that the Pillar blog is being used and funded to go after specific individual clergy about which some gay activity is already known by at least some well-placed people.

That seems all good and well, but it was over a week ago that Burrill was outed. Where are the rest of the outings? Surely, Msgr. Burrill is not the only cleric that millions of dollars and years of hunting turned up? Last week, the anonymously funded blog released a really curious posting that said, without identifying any specific individual, a number of phones inside the Vatican also turned up on the Grindr data list.

Okay, so what? Unless those are tied to specific clergy, that's really not much more than a throwaway line at the bottom of the Burrill article. However, what we do know is that a few days back, the front men for the Pillar blog traveled to Rome, and within a short while, Fr. Adam Park resigned as vice rector of the North American College. Park and a number of others, including many U.S. bishops, are the targets of a lawsuit by former seminarian Anthony Gorgia that claims homosexuality and its cover-up is business as usual at the NAC.

Park is a priest from Washington, D.C. The announcement of his departure from the NAC came like a lightning bolt, seemingly out of nowhere. That is not how business is done usually. For instance, there was no comment from Park, and the sudden resignation of the target of a lawsuit without a single advanced word to any of the seminarians at the NAC is unusual.

It's also curious that when the new parish assignments for the archdiocese of Washington, D.C. came out a couple of weeks back, Park's name was not anywhere to be found. That further suggests this was massively abrupt. Did the Pillar blog guys reveal something else? If so, why are they being so very coy about it? Burrill got outed lickety-split. So why the kid gloves with Park, if that's true? If it's not true, why is there no clarity from the NAC as to why Park just disappeared?

Is someone trying to get some cleanup going and coordinating his efforts to try and slow-walk the purge? What we mean is that there are certainly various members of the hierarchy, active and retired, who do not like the homosexual current in the Church. In fact, it was one of the first items touched on by Viganò in his first testimony back in 2018, which, perhaps coincidentally, is when all the Grindr data was first being peddled for sale.

However, there is also this lack of desire to actually reveal just how deep the rot in the Church is. Still, some want it all cleaned up without actually letting the average Catholic know, which is a truly pigheaded and arrogant approach.

So the plan could very well be to get the homosexual clergy sidetracked, bring their career advancement plans to a halt, but not actually totally out them. They remain in the priesthood or the episcopate but are relegated to some little corner where they can't really do anything else. If that's the case, then the outing of Msgr. Jeffrey Burrill would have been the warning shot, so to speak, to alert the hierarchy that "we know who you are, and you're next unless you do what we say."

If the plan is to just get them out of high positions but then leave them in the clergy, that is totally wrong and actually immoral. Catholics have a right to know if their priests are living a life of striving for holiness. We aren't talking about publishing every sin and failure — we're talking about getting out of the priesthood those who embrace sin. 

We'll see what happens as all this continues to unfold, but let it be said to those involved in it that, if this is the plan, you cannot have your cake and eat it too. A partial cleanup is no cleanup at all. They need to be ejected from the priesthood, not just stuck in some dead-end post of a parish. Letting them loose on just a few unknowing Catholics is not acceptable. If Burrill is guilty, he needs to be stripped of his faculties and dumped from the clerical ranks. The same goes for Fr. Park.

And speaking of Fr. Adam Park, that lawsuit he's involved in keeps getting postponed. But it's the reason it keeps getting postponed that drives the theme of this Vortex, how everything is one giant jumbled, connected mess. Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York and the archdiocese are named specifically in the suit because the young seminarian bringing the suit is from New York and was recommended by Dolan for further study at the NAC.

So the seminarian, Anthony Gorgia, filed his suit in New York, which means that the attorneys for the archdiocese of New York and Dolan are the ones who would be responding. But they keep asking the court for delays in moving forward. And as we see from this latest filing, the attorneys admit they simply don't currently have time to get to this particular case of cover-up and homosexuality because they are so overwhelmed by all the other cases of cover-up and homosexual abuse that have flooded into the archdiocese since the state opened up the statute of limitations. If that doesn't tell you the state of affairs in the Church, then you are willfully blind.

But while Dolan and his gang don't have any time to get to the case of a reported massive cover-up at the NAC, they did find time to make sure no priest of the archdiocese signs any religious exemption notice for the faithful about the vax. Over the weekend, Dolan had his chancery rats issue a statement to all the clergy saying, "There is no basis for a priest to issue a religious exemption to the vaccine."

In the opening paragraph, however, a huge admission is made, even if indirectly. Speaking about the experimental gene therapy shot, Dolan's underlings say the concern about the jab is "particularly acute among people who are strongly pro-life and very loyal to the teaching of the Faith." 

Did you catch that? Right there in writing is the false distinction (and, therefore, an admission by Dolan) that there are Catholics who are strongly pro-life and loyal to the Faith. Your Eminence, isn't every Catholic supposed to be strongly pro-life and loyal to the Faith? Why would others not be, and why would you be catering to those who are not?

Dolan also lied to and covered up to the faithful the horror show of the homosexual gay-for-pay Fr. Peter Miqueli case. As papal nuncio, Abp. Viganò personally contacted Dolan in the aftermath of our reporting in 2015 about Miqueli and told him to clean out his chancery of the homosexual clergy. Dolan completely ignored those communications. He's now being sued personally for his role in covering up what is shaping up to be a huge case of cover-up and failure to investigate active homosexuality at the NAC, with a pretty shocking number of other bishops implicated.

His lawyers (paid for by the faithful) are so overwhelmed, they can't even get to that case. All these scandals in the Church these days have one giant common thread running through all of them: It's all the homosexual stuff. It has been for decades. By the way, late last week, Theodore McCarrick (who formed the Church in his homopredator communist image) was criminally charged with sexual assault in Massachusetts. 

It's gotten so bad, criminal charges against the formerly most powerful cleric in the Church don't even raise an eyebrow anymore. When Dolan was elected president of the USCCB back in 2009, a journalist popped a question at him at the press conference about what he was going to change in the Church in America.

His answer? "I'm not going to change anything. It's not like there's a crisis."

Well, thank God for that. Can you imagine if there were a crisis, just how horrible it would be?

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Senator Everett Dirksen, the Illinois Republican who was responsible for writing and passing the 1964 Civil Rights Act (while racist Democrats were busy filibustering it), has a famous quote attributed to him. He never actually said it, at least not directly, but a New York Times reporter apparently misquoted him, and Dirsken liked it so much, he never corrected the record.

The misquote is, "A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon you're talking about real money." This, naturally, brings us to the topic of the U.S. bishops and money. Yep, a billion here, a billion there. What many Catholics don't realize is just how large the stockpiles of wealth are that the bishops are sitting on. Moreover, the bishops like you being in the dark — it's why so few ever release their financials.

And those who do almost never release the full financials. As the bishop of a given diocese, a bishop sits atop all the financial holdings and interests and uses them however he sees fit, which is more than a little scary. When moral men and competent men are in charge, there's little to be concerned about. But when immoral men are thieves or have something to hide or are sociopaths or are just plain incompetent — and they have the checkbook — watch out.

So let's consider the bishops' bank accounts, shall we? First, there is the actual cash flow. They tax the parish collection basket. Depending on what diocese you are in, that tax ranges from 5–15%. That money is used to pay the expenses of salaries and so forth. But it is not the only source of revenue.

Each year or every other year, almost every bishop runs an annual campaign, which is a single separate income stream with a sizable number in the many millions, sometimes hundreds of millions, attached.

Then there is investment income. This normally comes from the diocesan endowment, and that figure is very closely guarded — so much, in fact, that the normal Catholic in the pew doesn't even know the endowment exists, much less how many hundreds of millions are squirreled away in it. Collectively, the older established archdioceses around the country have billions and billions stashed in these funds, and they never let on about them.

Los Angeles, for example, has three-quarters of a billion alone. Detroit has one-third of a billion. New York, which owns enormous amounts of land under the buildings in Manhattan, collects a sizable amount of rent from those tenants. As a side note, that is exactly how Cdl. Dolan financed his victims' compensation fund. He took out a $100 million line of credit on a Madison Avenue property behind St. Patrick's Cathedral. Church Militant has also been told that the New York archdiocese collects rent each year from its ownership of the land under Yankee Stadium.

Nothing big in New York is poor, including the Church, which was given all this land by generous Catholics for the propagation of the Faith.

The interest that is yielded from these endowment funds just pops up as a multimillion-dollar line item on the annual financials. But remember, the actual accounts themselves that are yielding that interest have hundreds of millions of dollars in them. Then, of course, comes the ever-increasing income from the sale of church property.

And in another area of some shady goings-on, as a bishop starts to compile his "hit list" of parishes to close and eventually sell, it isn't always about which ones have poor attendance and shrinking enrollments. Older parishes, like dioceses, often have their own endowments with now long-dead parishioners having donated various sums, again for the propagation of the Faith.

Over the decades, those accounts have also ballooned, often to their own sizable sums. They are attached to the parish, but when a bishop shuts down a parish, those endowments come under his control and go into his diocesan coffers in total violation of the intended wishes of those who left the funds to the parish.

So naturally, when a greedy bishop is surveying which parishes to shut down or merge and so forth, one of the layers of consideration is about which parishes have large endowments that he can grab. Also, the question of how much money he can get for the real estate is also a factor, as in the case of Dolan when he was shopping around Our Savior parish on Park Avenue. Dolan got dollar signs in his eyes when the figure of $70 million came back from an appraisal.

So he moved in a priest to try and ruin the popular parish to give him an excuse to say it was poorly attended and therefore he had no choice but to sell it. Although these large dioceses have eye-popping numbers attached to them, the same governing principle applies to nearly every diocese in the country. Some have enormous bank accounts, others gigantic endowments, others large real estate holdings. Sometimes, it's a combination of all three.

But what Catholics really need to be aware of and really consider is not so much the assets and income noted on the financial statements they never see, but the expense side of things — in particular, a line item the bishops never want you thinking about. It's not the payout for homosexual-clergy sex abuse to consider, it's the bishops' legal fees. In just these payouts ($4 billion to date), think about the vast sums that have ended up in attorneys' pockets.

First, there are notable attorneys like Jeff Anderson and Mitchell Garabedian, who have gotten rich off the crimes of homosexual molesters with collars and miters. Estimates from within the legal community put Mitchell Garabedian's haul from the Church at around $600 million, and Jeff Anderson is not far behind in that amount.

Just those two men together have pocketed more than an estimated $1 billion transferred to them from the Church's treasury. No one is saying they stole it or anything of the sort. What we are saying is that Catholics need to wake up to what is happening to the patrimony of the Church at the hands of crooked, immoral, incompetent men.

And those are outside attorneys. The in-house counsel is also charging huge sums that the bishops are paying as well. But here's the point: None of this is an individual bishop's personal money. It's just something that he controls, but it's not his. So why does he care if he has to pay a few million here and a few million there? It's not his. He doesn't go back to his rectory at night wondering how he's going to make the mortgage payment, pay for health insurance or buy groceries this week. Losing his job for mismanagement and horrible decisions never enters his mind. 

Give a sociopath a bottomless checkbook and it's not going to end well. When a bishop goes after a good priest and sidelines him, that costs money when the priest decides to defend himself in canon law court. The priest has to pay his own fare. But the bishop? He just reaches into the pile of cash he has sitting over there that came to him from the generosity of dead Catholics who intended it to be used to pass on the Faith.

So a man like Cupich, for example, can just keep spending left and right to financially ruin good priests, bankrupting them in a war he's likely to win every time. In fact, many good priests don't even pursue resolution when they see the price tag that justice in the Church often comes with, which is almost always in the six-figure range.

So about that pile of money? Bishops use it to cover their own legal expenses, which are often due to their own immoral actions. They also use it to go after good priests and beat them up. They steal it from the patrimonial desires of those who left it to the Church. And they transfer billions of dollars into the pockets of attorneys who are getting rich from it all (but, out of necessity, also trying to get something for the victims of the homosexual rape of countless altar boys, seminarians and even other clergy).

They lie to the sheep by not telling them what they have in the bank. And they spend it however they want because, well, they can. After all, it's not their money.

Yes, a billion here, a billion there. Pretty soon, you're talking about real money.

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Church Militant has posted an article that we suggest you read when you are able. It's about Theodore McCarrick's young years in high school, specifically in New York at Xavier High School, which was and still is a very prestigious school.

Church Militant has obtained multiple photos of McCarrick in his freshman and sophomore years, and what they show is a stellar student, involved in virtually everything and excelling in the debate club, the yearbook, the editorial staff, you name it. It's a very telling article, and we ask you to please take a couple of moments to read it — but not just for idle curiosity. The photos point to something sinister already at play way back then.

For starters, McCarrick did not graduate from Xavier. He just suddenly was no longer a student. Then, after many months that are unaccounted for, he suddenly remerged as a student at Fordham Prep, another highly prestigious school.

We are left with two questions: One, why did he suddenly depart Xavier? Two, how did he enroll in Fordham Prep? The first question is especially intriguing because someone is lying about the answer. In interviews a number of years ago, McCarrick claims he was expelled for being a bad student, an overall ne'er-do-well. In contacting Xavier, we are told he was not expelled.

Judging from the photos tracing his couple of years at Xavier, McCarrick appears to be the very opposite of a student heading for expulsion. In fact, he appears to be on his way to being voted most likely to succeed and student body president. Yet he claims he was expelled. The answer to that question appears as though it will remain a mystery, but it sure seems hard to believe he was expelled — at least for being a bad student. It could have been something else perhaps, but not that.

The second question regards how he got into Fordham Prep. Catholic schools, especially very prestigious ones, do not just enroll anyone, especially if the student had been expelled from a rival school of prestige. So how did McCarrick get into Fordham Prep? That's the second question. And it's not just curiosity because from what Church Militant has been able to piece together, it seems as though the young student (during those roughly six months he was not in either school) somehow entered into the circle of Cdl. Francis Spellman.

Whether directly or indirectly, various people we've spoken to have suggested McCarrick somehow fell under Spellman's influence during this time. The story also seems to have some merit because Spellman had a very friendly relationship with Fordham Prep, and a phone call from the cardinal or his staff would have immediately tossed aside any concerns about McCarrick's abrupt departure from Xavier.

Spellman is a figure who looms large on the landscape of the Church in America. For decades, multiple rumors have swirled around the question of him being homosexual and carrying on with young broadway entertainers, as just one example. Likewise, an article in Salon two years ago reported that a man, who at the time was a West Point cadet, says he was groped by Spellman in his office while conducting an interview for the academy paper.

A monsignor who was present at that interview kept intervening, but the young cadet, who was accompanied by another cadet, says, looking back, he now knows what was going on. And here's the interesting point of all this about Spellman: He was known for his, dare we say, rigid orthodoxy. And because of that, no one would be willing to even consider that a powerful, orthodox archbishop was a practicing homosexual. But that was 1967. Fifty years later, we are all very willing to believe it because we know such a thing can be true, the prime example being McCarrick himself, who Spellman ordained to the priesthood approximately 10 years after those missing months between Xavier and Fordham Prep.

But how could a strong, orthodox, high-ranking prelate also be a pervert? That's a point many Catholics don't get. Spellman, after all, was a ferocious defender of the Church and the Faith. Well, the answer is in an acronym: DOT (which stands for Daughters of Trent). It's an old expression for a cleric who loves the lace and pageantry and tradition and candles and incense and bells and drama of the liturgy but is also a homosexual. 

On the outside, he's all about the Church. But there is another side where he is also homosexual. Many lay Catholics make the mistake of oversimplifying the whole homosexual clergy issue. They are too quick to say that if such and such a bishop is orthodox, then he's not gay. Likewise, if a particular bishop is liberal, then he must be gay.

While in very large strokes there is likely some truth to that, it's a mistake to simply assume that everything is OK just because a priest or bishop is a fan of the Latin Mass and preaches orthodoxy. DOTs are deeply conflicted. They compartmentalize — a lot. Unlike their heterodox bishop brothers, they would never say anything to deliberately undermine the Faith. They would defend it to the death. But interiorly, there is an entirely different dynamic going on.

They are sympathetic to the whole homosexual issue going on in the Church, and they made friends in seminary days with other homosexual men. Of those who stayed, most remained just parish priests. Some left and "married" homosexual men. Others remain closeted and carrying on homosexual affairs, some of them on Grindr. Some raped altar boys. And some got promoted to bishop while also being homosexual and oftentimes active.

Some gave up being active but have remained sympathetic to their homosexual comrades in miters, telling themselves that as long as minors aren't involved, it's not that bad. The hierarchy is drowning in an acceptance of sodomy. Those who are sympathetic give a pass to homosexual men, cover for them, make excuses for them, promote them, protect them, socialize with them, purchase property with them.

And the deep interior conflict these men experience prevents them from defending the Faith entirely. When it comes to areas of sexual morality, they fall silent. They get what Cdl. Timothy Dolan described as "laryngitis" on those topics, something he himself suffers from.

McCarrick is the showpiece example of all this. But he certainly was not and is not the only case. His pedigree stretches back to Spellman, who, despite the outward orthodoxy, has many questions swirling around him. Spellman greatly favored McCarrick with various assignments, thereby putting his seal of approval on him. After graduation from Fordham Prep, McCarrick traveled to Switzerland with the well-to-do Edelmann family (which would later marry into the Grein family) with whom he had become friendly during his last two years of high school.

When the family returned to the States, McCarrick remained in the family's hometown in Switzerland, St. Gallen. How a poor kid from New York managed to provide for himself in a foreign country in the immediate aftermath of World War II is another mystery. In research following the aftermath of the "Summer of Shame," Church Militant discovered that St. Gallen was one of over 30 locations in Western Europe where the Soviets had set up communist indoctrination centers in their effort to undermine the West.

The young McCarrick stayed in St. Gallen without any visible means of support, but when he returned to New York, he enrolled in seminary under Cdl. Spellman and was ordained in 1958. McCarrick went on to be the most prolific (that we know of) homopredator in the Church, often sounding very orthodox yet undermining the Faith at every turn, possibly as a communist-trained agent, given the fact that he returned to St. Gallen yearly for many years.

Until there is a move, a very public move, to rid this particular evil from the Church, every bishop is suspect — orthodox or heterodox. They refuse to acknowledge homosexuality as the omnipresent influence it is in their own ranks. They lie about it being the root of the sex abuse scandal. They will not breathe a word about it under any circumstances. Some of them — even orthodox ones — will freely admit privately that they know other bishops who are homosexual, and they are fine with it.

Whichever demon it is that controls this wicked vice, that demon has a stranglehold on the U.S. hierarchy. And it doesn't matter if the bishop is a liberal or a DOT. They are all under that demon's influence.

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The country and the Church are approaching a tipping point. That tipping point is the official declaration: "Get the COVID jab, or else."

The "or else" category comprises a host of punishments we can simply lump together as "the COVID ghetto." Much of this is already forming, but it will take on an official capacity sometime in the next handful of weeks because that is when the FDA is expected to give its official blessing to the experimental gene therapies, transferring them from the category of "Emergency Use Authorization" to sanctioned as safe and reliable.

When that happens, as apostate Anthony Fauci declared recently, then government mandates can kick in, state as well as local. A mandate has the force of law even though it's not actually a law in the usual sense we understand it. But the punishments will be punishments nonetheless.

Right now, we have this uneven patchwork of rules and practices by both state governments as well as various companies — such as Home Depot, which just announced employees must go back to masks while customers, for the moment, do not.

A former Obama aide wrote a piece in The Atlantic a few days back arguing for the FAA to mandate the vaccine for anyone who wants to fly, creating what amounts to a no-fly list for the unvaccinated. No-fly lists were developed to keep terrorists off planes so they wouldn't blow them up — not to discriminate against people exercising their rights to refuse a jab. But these are the days we live in, where the unvaccinated are increasingly viewed as terrorists.

For Catholics, there are going to be some bumps in the road ahead — and don't look to the bishops to have your backs. They already slammed the doors of the churches shut last year, and that was before any actual law or mandate was officially in place.

When the FDA officially approves the vaccine, likely around Labor Day, then the floodgates will open in the blue states and even in what we can call "blue communities" (areas with a heavy concentration of Democratic voters) within red states. That battle is already unfolding in Florida, where Catholic governor Ron DeSantis has declared no communities are to mandate masks. Local school boards in areas with heavy concentrations of Democrats have told him to drop dead; they're instituting their own mask mandates when kids return to school in a couple of weeks.

So what will things look like for Catholics in a diocese or archdiocese in a blue state or heavily blue local area when city councils or county boards of commissioners — using the FDA pronouncement as its legal backup — mandate everyone must be vaccinated or they cannot go into any public gathering space (grocery stores and churches included)?

Very recent data points to one deep concern. Those who are most likely to reject the jab are Trump supporters and conservative Christians. And that correlation is overwhelming. If you deeply hold to your conservative religious beliefs and voted for Trump, you are in the group that overwhelmingly wants nothing to do with the jab. That one point has not been missed by the Marxists who now control virtually everything, including not a small portion of the Church Herself.

The Church appears no different from the culture at large in being split into what amounts to two large camps, with a lot of little subcamps within each. Even the final vote tally of Catholics from 2020 broke at just about even between Biden and Trump. Even to this very day, there are still dioceses around the country demanding the faithful wear masks, sanitize their hands (not so much their souls, though), receive Communion standing and in the hand, social distance, etc.

And in further evidence of how the COVID cult wants to marginalize the unvaccinated, all of the current hysteria is being blamed on the Delta variant, but actually more than just the variant. It's the fault, don't you know, of those "non-vaxxers." They refuse the jab, so COVID gets inside their disgusting unvaccinated bodies, transforms into the Delta variant, and then they walk around contaminating the vaccinated with the latest strain (which, by the way, is a flat-out admission of just how really ineffective the so-called vaccine has been and is now the latest point of attack as to why the country needs a new vaccine and never-ending boosters).

We certainly haven't really seen any stories in the Marxist press about just how incredibly wealthy Big Pharma is getting off all this — trillions of taxpayer dollars, for the record. Likewise, we haven't seen many stories on the deaths and side effects of the vaccine. And we haven't heard much in the Church from bishops about the perverted application of Church teaching on the morality of taking a vaccine created with the cell lines of aborted children.

And for clarity on that point, the Church allows (doesn't order, allows) Catholics to be administered such an inoculation if the threat of death is grave. But since COVID has a recovery rate approaching 99%, it's not quite clear how "grave threat" is being defined here.

But notice that while the media and even some in the Church are laying the blame for all this at the feet of those opposed to the jab, which is a clever roundabout way of saying political and religious conservatives, there is almost no attention on the true culprits behind all this: the communists in China and their U.S. Marxist allies who helped fund this nightmare to begin with.

As Church Militant and others reported months ago, the virus was created in the Wuhan lab in China. Period. The world did not come to a screeching halt because some kid ate some bat in a wet market. Now, in the past few weeks, it's come to light that U.S. tax dollars flowing through the hands of Anthony Fauci and his government institute were used to gin up the virus and make it even stronger: "gain of function," it's called.

Think about that term for a moment: gain of function. What's the "function" of a virus? To kill. If you "gain" the function, you make it more deadly. Turns out it's nowhere near as deadly as they were likely aiming to make it, but that's no thanks to them.

So here we have an apostate Catholic, yet another theological Frankenstein created by the homosexual bishops, clergy and universities in the past 60 years, who takes U.S. money and conspires with communists in China to create a "super killer" virus. Then somehow it gets out of the lab, either by accident or prematurely on purpose (that part is still being figured out). With all that, the finger of blame is getting pointed at those who want nothing to do with this jab. It's all their fault. Don't let them fly. Don't let them shop. If they play for the NFL, get those yellow armbands on them.

So what will the bishops do? Well, here's a clue: They won't even protect the Body and Blood of Our Blessed Lord from child killers. Don't think for a single moment they're going to protect you. They will, however, probably compose some wonderful blessing for those Catholics shoved into the COVID ghetto.

In the infamous 1992 Planned Parenthood v. Casey U.S. Supreme Court ruling (the case that really protected Roe v. Wade almost 20 years later), Justice Anthony Kennedy, another theological Frankenstein Catholic, included in the court's opinion one of the most destructive theological and philosophical applications to secular law you could envision. In defending child slaughter and Roe v. Wade, Kennedy wrote, "At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe and of the mystery of human life."

In other words, liberty permits persons to decide how the universe operates for them, so much so that they can kill children they don't want. But liberty stops short and fails when a person deciding how the universe operates for them concludes they don't want a needle being forcibly stuck in them and, therefore, can be denied travel and commerce. 

And yes, when it comes to the bishops, you can add the sacraments to that list as well. It seems the only people who get to define the meaning of existence are those whose definition excludes the Divine.

TRANSCRIPT

I'm Michael Voris, coming to you from Baltimore in our continuing effort to be a pain in the rear to the U.S. bishops — right outside the bishops' hotel, where, just a moment ago, they turned into full-out enemies of Christ, abandoning Him to the political winds.

This pro-gay, compromised, cover-up, weak, cowardly body voted overwhelmingly to allow sacrilegious Holy Communion to continue being given to child killers.

It was almost unanimous: 222–8. Three bishops abstained. For those keeping score at home, that's 95% that approved of doing nothing about the ongoing abomination. Another way of looking at it: 95% voted in favor of continuing to disobey canon law 915. Another way of looking at it: 95% agreed to continue supporting the blatant lie by McCarrick and Wilton Gregory back in 2004 (when they lied to all the other bishops about Rome saying you cannot give Holy Communion to child killers).

Within seconds of the vote being cast, the secular media couldn't wait to publish the blaring headlines. Every single outfit — New York Times, Associated Press, Washington Post, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, CNN, all of them with a collective reach of almost the entire nation — blew up tens of millions of phones with headlines like, "Conference of Catholic Bishops Approves Communion Document Without Singling Out Politicians Who Back Abortion Rights." The New York Times headline read: "Catholic Bishops Avoid Confrontation With Biden Over Communion."

What the bishops have failed to grasp, however, is that they will be unable to avoid a confrontation with Christ, whom they have betrayed once again, when they die. The U.S. bishops were never going to defend the Real Presence in the face of their phony Catholic overlords in the Democratic Party — who have enriched their coffers beyond their wildest dreams over the immigration and refugee issue.

Even brain-dead Biden called it back in June, knowing full well that this sniveling bunch of pansies would never have the necessary amount of testosterone to do the right thing. During final debate on the actual document, Bp. Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas, proposed stronger language in the final document regarding the scandal of child-killing politicians being given Holy Communion.

And now, watch for yourselves just how the homosexualist-modernist bureaucracy works when a matter of faith comes front and center.

Church Militant was monitoring the entire debate and vote, and, as soon as it was cast, those couple of hundred Judases broke for lunch. We then went downstairs at the same time, knowing we would bump into some of them. We didn't waste any time letting them know that they were traitors and had perpetrated a great scandal on the faithful.

The arrogance of these men is beyond belief. The "dialogue" crowd wanted no dialogue. I personally said to a group of three standing directly in front of us in the buffet line, "What you have just done in voting for this ongoing sacrilege is scandalous, wicked."

The three — hiding behind their masks — all turned around and said nothing, with the exception of one "thank you." I said to another bishop in the dining room (with a couple of others at a table) that voting as they did is reprehensible and they will have to answer to Christ for this.

He said back, "What did we vote for?" I said, "Continuing to allow sacrilegious Holy Communion." He responded, "That's not what we did." I said, "Well, it sure is how the media is reporting." He said that they didn't read the document.

I said, "Really? Are you saying Joe Biden is now going to be refused?" He said, "That's up to his bishop." And I responded, "So sacrilege is OK in this diocese but not in that diocese?" He grew angry and ended the conversation.

Remember, this is the dialogue crowd, always wanting to hear from the faithful — unless you disagree with them. Standing behind another group, I said, "Hey, Your Excellencies, why don't you talk with us? Get the smell of the sheep on you. Here we are. The sheep — baa, baa, baa."

Of course, no response. These men serve the world, are raging hypocrites and thieves, just like their episcopal role model, Judas, who also handed Jesus over for money. And remember, Catholics, they all came here on your dime, spending over a million dollars of your donation money.

Heck, they could have voted in favor of continued sacrilege for free, just staying home. But they would have missed the expensive meals and feeling of being important. While the Church burns, the shepherds continue devouring the flock and rejecting the central teaching of the Church.

The words of Our Lord are going to ring for eternity in their ears: "Go away. I tell you, I do not know you."