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As the world and culture convulse around us, many men of goodwill are perplexed, not knowing exactly how we got where we are right now, not understanding what happened, who the players were, and are, that drove civilization to the precipice. 

The reason so few people understand so little of all this is an issue with a couple of different dynamics at play. 

First, when civilization was still, well, civilized, people naturally just went about their usual day-to-day lives, because the impact of those bent on destroying the world wasn't yet felt in its full fury. So it was understandable that if you don't see a threat, you don't respond to it. 

Second, the lack of seeing a threat doesn't mean there isn't one; it just means a person is not clued in enough to its reality. Life was good, moving along, so why go actively looking for bad stuff? 

Third, that second point bespeaks a lack of understanding of how the world works, especially the supernatural world. Saint Peter warns us to be on the lookout for the Devil, who prowls about like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour. Blissful ignorance leads to destruction. It's just that simple. 

The world is full of dangers — seen and unseen — and the cold reality is the unseen are the most dangerous because those are the ones you have your guard down for. A lack of vigilance, which goes back to a lack of knowledge, opens the gates for the invaders.

For more than 15 years, Church Militant has been constantly preaching this message (that knowledge is absolutely necessary), echoing again and again what the Lord God says in the Old Testament, "My people perish for lack of knowledge."

The devil-and-angel-on-the-shoulder concept is accurate because all of humanity is in a spiritual war (collectively as well as individually), and unless God permits some individual case of demonic influence, the normal route to destroy society is for the demonic to gain control over the intellects of those who open themselves up to that control.

The great evils we see visited on our families these days first began as an idea — a demonically inspired idea, certainly, but an idea nonetheless in some individual's mind. From there, it grew, attracted followers and adherents, was pushed wherever an appropriate incubator could be developed and eventually flourished into a movement (and then became overwhelming, to the point that the demonically inspired idea became the norm and to resist it was seen as "evil").

Here at Church Militant, we have traced the intellectual development of many of these actual evils and produced all kinds of programming about them to help you understand how all this current state of affairs got to where it is right now.

While it is always a spiritual war, it plays out in the material world — through people, places, events and so forth. Ideas like contraception, homosexuality, global warming, multinational organizations, social justice, freemasonry, political usurpation, philosophical rebellion: All of these were and are used to destroy souls. But they all began somewhere, someplace in our temporal human history where movements were born, and (understanding this is absolutely key) having the knowledge and information arms you in fighting back.

It was a perversion of knowledge that got the world to where it is today, and will be a proper understanding of how the world works, was created to work, that will begin to correct it.

We humans are spiritual beings in a material existence, and both aspects of our existence must be engaged. It's not enough to just pray (that leads to the heresy of quietism, i.e., sitting back and just letting God tend to affairs) as though we have no responsibility to our neighbor. The spiritual works of mercy demanded of us are, in fact, carried out in time and space — instruct the ignorant, admonish the sinner.

How can a person do these things which salvation depends on if they don't know and understand sufficiently to engage with their neighbors? Of course you pray for your neighbors, but if all you do is just pray when you are capable of doing more, then you cannot claim to actually love your neighbor.

Evil and wicked men throughout history have been "concerned" enough about their neighbors to make their lives' work the destruction of their neighbors. And yet, here we have hundreds of millions of supposed Catholics who walk away from that kind of commitment, and they do it every day.

We know it takes a massive commitment of time alone to go back and learn what we were never told — were too blissful to pay attention to. That's why Church Militant developed and produced the programming we have. On our homepage, if you simply go to the drop-down menus and click on "Video," then scroll down to "All Shows," click on that and you will see our complete library of almost everything we have ever produced.

The one we'd like to direct your attention to today is FBI — Faith-Based Investigations.

Click on that and multiple episodes will pop up. As we said, this is a catalog of all sorts of movements used by the demonic in spiritual warfare — spiritual warfare aimed at destroying your soul and souls of those you love.

It's all right there ("Global Warming Unmasked," for example). For this particular episode, Church Militant invested more than 700 man-hours (extensive research, interviews, etc). It's well worth the watch — it was "Pachamama" before Pachamama, and it helps you understand the how and why of the entire environmentalist movement.

Likewise the investigation into homosexuality, even down to the origin of the actual word "homosexuality" and its incredible propaganda value in leading unsuspecting people to believe that there is actually an alternative sexuality. There isn't. There is one sexuality and then multiple perversions of that single sexuality. But twisting intellects is the first action in spiritual warfare.

Ever wonder what Freemasonry is, precisely? — how it works specifically, its particular goals, its dangers to the Catholic Church? Our investigation into Freemasonry is another tour de force, developed specifically so you don't have to spend the hundreds of hours chasing all this down.

Likewise, the social justice movement within the Church was actually the hardcore beginnings of the Marxist infiltration into the laity. Our investigation into Saul Alinsky and the bishops lays it all out quite clearly, how it all began under the pretense of "helping the poor." Concocted, of course, by Saul Alinksy, it would have been impossible to advance without the help of already-corrupt clergy — but the clergy had a gullible audience. 

Over the decades, the so-called social justice movement has become a replacement for actual theology, passing itself off as love of neighbor, when, in reality, it is hatred of neighbor. And once it had established a massive foothold within the Church, it produced a counterfeit Catholicism, which Obama — America's first Marxist president — used to his advantage to lock down a majority of the Catholic vote in 2008. In our investigation "Obama's Counterfeit Catholics," Church Militant delves into the entire network of Catholic heretics and American traitors who combined their efforts to bring about what we are now seeing — the destruction of faith and country.

Other FBIs, you will find, cover topics of how the laity was completely duped by treacherous clergy who occupied key posts in the Church and used those positions to institute moral anarchy (like Theodore Hesburgh, president of Notre Dame for decades, who used the leading Catholic institution to warp Catholic education, even cooperating with Planned Parenthood).

"The Contraception Deception" FBI, paired with the "Rockefeller Foundation" investigation, brings home vividly how average Catholics have been and — this is key — continue to be betrayed by leaders.

We could go on and on about all these investigations, which really are 60,000-foot overviews that help you understand all the madness going on now in the Church and by extension the world.

Ideas have consequences — that's the entire point of an idea, to leave the mind and become alive in the world, for good or for bad. Given all this, we'd like to ask you to sign up and become a Premium member here at Church Militant so you can gain access to all of this. Just that small sampling of just our FBI programs represents literally thousands of hours of research for you, helping you understand and bring into focus the reality of the crisis, the depth of the philosophical swamp we are in.

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Amidst all the hubbub of last week's U.S. bishops' meeting, one thing that didn't get a lot of attention was this little gem: In order to promote Church teaching on the Eucharist, the bishops' three-year plan comes along with $28 million price tag.

True to its roots as a bureaucratic swamp, the very first response to the devastating news that more than three out of every four Catholics doesn't believe in the Real Presence was to form a committee.

That committee will then do some studies, and those studies will next be submitted to boards for review, and plans will be developed based on the review of the studies by the committee.

Of course, all of this requires the hiring of attorneys and, of course, insurance agents as well as marketers to produce pamphlets and flyers and posters — all aiming to produce a big, one-time event three years from now in Indianapolis. That eucharistic revival event is what has the pricey $28 million figure attached to it.

So the USCCB's answer to the profound loss of faith in the Real Presence of Our Blessed Lord in the Eucharist is to first fundraise and then spend $28 million on an event three years from now.

It's incredible that, given the bishops' response, that even 30% of Catholics still believe in the Real Presence. In fact, with leaders like this, it's actually astonishing anyone believes anything about the Faith.

As the news was announced that $28 million was going to need to be raised, murmuring began among the bishops. Loss of faith is one thing, but money? Please — no one said we'd need to chip in money.

One of them even had the courage to point out the optics of the whole thing.

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Scandal is a word — a fitting word — so on that matter, score one for the archbishop. This situation is beyond beyond. 

Ignored in all this is the very fair and pointed question: Just exactly how did the Church in the United States get to this point? Seventy percent of Catholics didn't just wake up last week and stop believing in the Real Presence. They've been conditioned by the clergy over decades to stop believing, and the only explanation for that can be because a huge portion of the clergy doesn't actually believe.

It's not complicated. People do and say what their leaders do and say. That's kind of the working definition of a leader — someone who is followed.

Church Militant recognized this issue more than a decade ago, almost from the instant of our founding back in 2006. It's the reason we began producing an enormous amount of theological programs right out of the gate 15 years ago. And those programs had a heavy concentration on the Eucharist. For example, we dedicated an entire season of our flagship show, The One True Faith, specifically to the Eucharist. The fourth season of The One True Faith devotes 13 one-hour episodes to the Source and Summit of the Faith — the Blessed Sacrament.

Likewise, in our Basic Training apologetics class, we have another two hours of catechesis and explanation of the most profound of the sacraments. Some comments from viewers of the material:

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As we begin to creep up on Christmas, let's not forget that the original Christmas (and therefore all future celebrations of it) was all about division.

Division is great because division focuses on truth. It is truth, in fact, that causes division. Division is a result of there being truth in the first place.

Yet the great lie in America, and most especially in the Church, is that division is a bad thing, that we should all be unified. No, we shouldn't. Where does that come from, anyway? Well, ultimately the Devil, of course, but more down on the granular level, who actually believes this and then lives by it?

No one. That's who.

There are two worldviews, and the two can never be reconciled. Never. One worldview admits of the divine. The other rejects it. Any pretended unity in these worldviews is just that — pretended.

And what's fantastic about living in this day and age, in the country and the Church, is this is all becoming blindingly clear. And then, once it's clear, people have to choose sides. And that's a good thing. It's a good thing because the current state of affairs is a net win for evil, for the godless. As long as the division is masked over by a pretended unity, evil gets to advance.

For example, in the political realm, this reality is precisely what is at the core of everything going on in the Republican Party right now. The rank and file are sick and tired (sick to death, in fact) of the lack of fight on the part of party leaders (the establishment) when it comes to confronting the Marxist Democrats. Reasonable people understand that the entire concept of one nation no longer applies. America, as we have understood it, no longer exists.

There is not one nation stretching from sea to shining sea. 

There hasn't really been for a while now, and the sooner this is accepted by GOP leaders, the sooner we can all get down to business.

What business, you ask? The political splitting of America based on the cultural divide (which already exists and is never going away). When boneheaded "I invented the internet" Al Gore flubbed and said, "Out of the one, many," it may have been the only thing he ever said correctly. One nation no longer exists. We are now two nations.

Why not admit it and get on with it? Pull out the map, and let's get to work!

At least 25 states exist under the old understanding of America: Alaska, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia.

Unsurprisingly (for example), this represents the lion's share of states that will end abortion the minute the Supreme Court kicks Roe v. Wade.

In the other country, 19 states distinguish themselves as having an entirely opposite view of the world and humanity: Hawaii, California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota, New Mexico, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware.

The first 25 states believe in something resembling America of old, and the 19 states have gone total Marxist.

Of course, the remaining six states are still trying to decide if they believe in freedom or Marxism, but as the country hurtles towards all this, they won't be able to fence it too much longer. Arizona, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Georgia are facing their own individual decision days.

Funny how that all lines up with every election outcome of the recent past. 

And those pesky, indecisive battleground states — most, if not all, Trump actually won but were stolen because the Marxists wield sufficient power in them, under the right conditions, to actually steal an election and get away with it.

The country is already forever split ideologically, and there is no way to recover the past. Once we simply accept that this division is present then we can all (hopefully peacefully) go about what will prove to be the undoubtedly messy business of splitting up.

But, what we do know is, the current state of affairs is unacceptable. 

COVID tyranny reigns supreme in Marxist America, where tens of millions of authentic Americans are trapped behind what essentially amounts to enemy lines. They are being fired, forced to violate their bodily autonomy, denied the ability to provide for their families, forced to endure critical race theory, kicked out of the military and so forth. Likewise, actual America is being forced to pay hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes to Marxist America to support all that madness, as well as abortion and a host of other evils.

We realize, of course, that what amounts to forming a new country out of what the Marxists have labeled "flyover country" won't be easy.

First, we'll have to consider the massive migration that will have to take place, and — for the record— that's already begun. There will be a huge uprooting that will need to happen: jobs, families, industries and so forth.

The weight of all this would not be distributed equally. For example, those already in actual America will have an easier go of it because they are already in place. It's the actual Americans currently trapped (for a host of reasons) in Marxist America that will have to struggle and endure the brunt of this. Those millions can take comfort in the reality that it won't be the first time in history this has happened and, even better, you are creating a hope-filled future.

There is adventure and excitement mixed in with the anxiety, of course, but again, the current state of affairs is not sustainable for actual Americans.

Two different countries already exist in every important way (except geopolitically). Marxists use the powers of the federal government ruthlessly as we see unfolding in the phony kangaroo court of the Jan. 6 hearings, run by liars, cheats and child murderers — all of whom are supported by taxpayers in actual America.

Texas, for example, has the seventh-largest economy in the world and is completely energy independent and could easily provide cheap and lasting energy to the entire new nation.

Which, by the way, unlike Marxist America, is completely unified geographically. You can drive (for example) from one end of the new America to the other — every single state — and never have to enter Marxist America. Not once.

The commies, however, won't have that luxury. Actual America splits Marxist America into two distinct landmasses. Isn't that too bad? Perhaps actual America should charge "airspace" fees for any of the Marxist airlines that want to fly over "flyover country."

Likewise, actual America could establish and maintain its own borders — again, something already beginning to happen — and let Marxist America be flooded with illegals (again, already happening).

And Marxist America can actually let them vote because it won't matter to actual America anymore.

While it isn't dominant, at least not yet, this talk of secession is gaining some traction in Texas. The Texas Nationalist Movement (nicknamed TEXIT), while still small, is spearheading this talk, and chatter about the future of America is picking up steam. Almost half a million Texans are already on board.

And for Catholics, there's a lesson here: What's happening in the country is also happening in the Church.

In fact, what's happening in the country — the split between those who accept God and those who reject Him — is the cause of what's happening in the country.

Division is not only good — it's great (when it happens in service of the truth).

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There is something seriously wrong and deeply troubling about the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops — and we don't mean just the usual stuff.

When the bishops get together as a conference, it's like some kind of demonic force, a demon, is at work, guiding everything going on there. The confusion, the absence of clarity, the muddled messages that pour forth like vomit — something is way off. 

During this past week, loads of Church Militant staff had multiple chance-meetings with numerous bishops, and, well, it was creepy. And it's not just the bishops, but loads of the "professional Catholic" crowd (as Pope Benedict referred to them). They, too, are under some kind of spell, all of them avoiding the reality of the Church's crisis and creating a substitute moral imperative to cover for their willful blindness. 

Since our various encounters with bishops were private (in a sense), we will skip over who the bishops were we talked with — and there were quite a few — and simply get to the what of what was conveyed.

After the vote (222–8) to pass the much-applauded, toothless Eucharist document, we met multiple bishops that afternoon and especially the next day as they were all leaving to return to their dioceses. So we asked quite a few the direct question, "As a bishop, would you give Holy Communion to Joe Biden if he came to you?"

The answer: stone-faced silence. Peering over the tops of their masks, all you got was empty eyes staring back at you, with a little anger mixed in. It's the same eyes I saw when I confronted Notre Dame president Fr. John Jenkins a few years back about the destruction of the Faith at the school.

It isn't a stretch to say that there is something demonic at work with the hierarchy and leadership of the Church at large here in the United States. The refusal to say the truth is a deep indication. The men who are guardians of the truth will not announce the truth. 

They produce facsimiles of the truth: half-truths, deflective truths, substitute truths. But as regards the truth they fall woefully short. Some spiritual beast has control of their tongues — because some demon has control of their souls.

After they were all done applauding their document's passage and were coming out to lunch, various bishops were saying things like "This is the strongest document ever produced on the matter."

Well, they clearly haven't read the Baltimore Catechism (because it was produced prior to 1965) question 255, which reads in part: "He who receives Communion in mortal sin receives the Body and Blood of Christ but does not receive His grace, and he commits a great sacrilege." Likewise, canon law 915 states, "Those who have been excommunicated or interdicted after the imposition or declaration of the penalty and others obstinately persevering in manifest grave sin are not to be admitted to Holy Communion."

Likewise, the 2004 letter from then-cardinal Ratzinger says quite plainly that when "the person in question, with obstinate persistence, still presents himself to receive the Holy Eucharist, 'the minister of Holy Communion must refuse to distribute it.' ... [Such refusal] is reacting to the person's public unworthiness to receive Holy Communion due to an objective situation of sin."

So, taken individually or collectively, those three very simple declarations say it all — the Sacrament must be denied to wicked public sinners. So what do the bishops do in the face of such absolutely clear language?

They create their own sidestep document to completely dodge the pressing issue. And this Sunday, Joe Biden will waltz up the aisle and continue his sacrilege, and the bishops will collectively descend yet another step into the hellfire that awaits them.

Since they have chosen to align themselves so closely to his position, they will join him for eternity in his punishment. Some things are just very clear, black and white, such as Church teaching and the consequences for not adhering to it. But there are some of the more clever ones — those controlled by a demon of obfuscation.

I asked one bishop, "How do you all just continue to ignore canon law on this matter?" Instead of peering over his mask in stony rage and silence — he engaged (in a manner). He responded to me, "Because it's up to an individual bishop to determine whether he will enforce canon law in his own diocese."

"First, that's not true," I said back. "Canon law is the universal law of the Church — an individual bishop doesn't get to pick and choose what universal laws apply in his jurisdiction. As a comparison, that would be like a governor saying, 'I'm not recognizing any of the odd-numbered amendments to the U.S. Constitution.'" That's crazy, just like this bishop's idiotic answer, or rather the demon's answer.

Yet another bishop chose a different path of obscuring the truth. He admitted that's what canon law said, but his obfuscation was to say that the law is not clear — it could be interpreted different ways.

Just how many ways can one interpret "others obstinately persevering in manifest grave sin are not to be admitted to Holy Communion"? Those 15 words are as clear as crystal, and only a demonically controlled intellect could spin things any other way.

Out of perhaps, say, a dozen bishops the crew spoke to, most said nothing in response to that question, while a couple others lied and distorted the truth.

Silence in the face of evil — the great evil of sacrilege or lies or deflections — none of that is holy in origin. Nor, at this point in the game, can any man in a miter claim some kind of ignorance regarding all of this. It has all been well–hashed out ad nauseam. 

It's interesting, sitting in the hotel lobby with a couple dozen of the remaining crew (others had hit the road earlier) to hear their conversations and comments and observations about what they saw and heard with their own eyes.

Many of them are younger, and I said to them, "This is why I like you being on the road from time to time. You need to see with your own eyes and hear with your own ears the horrid state of affairs in the Church, right at the top."

You all see and hear the Vortex every day, and perhaps it can get to be "oh, that's just Voris and his thing." But now you have your very own experience of the evil that has taken over the hierarchy — lies, sidesteps, deflections, silence, refusal to say the truth. Any doubts they may have entertained were blown up those few days in Baltimore.

There is a demon in control of that conference, who prevents the truth from being proclaimed. It operates differently on each bishop, depending on that bishop's failings, proclivities, personality or whatever. But taking all that into account, the demon achieves its desired end — the smothering of the truth.

Everyday normal Catholics who actually do love and embrace the fullness of truth need to realize that this is the reality and become involved in whatever way the circumstances of their own lives permit — and proclaim the truth themselves.

Be careful that the demon of the USCCB does not extend its reach into your mind and soul.  

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Shall we take a quick tour around society and measure the current state of affairs in the Church?

Jussie Smollett, a race-baiter if there ever was one (almost as much as Wilton Gregory), has now been found guilty — and yet his lawyers are insisting the truth will all come out on appeal. But don't forget, when Smollett tried to stoke the fires of racism and homophobia, he was celebrated and declared to be telling the truth by some pretty big notables.

Here was Biden's announcement before he was not actually elected. 

Joe Biden: "Homophobia and racism have no place on our streets or in our hearts. We are with you, Jussie."

And his running mate before she, too, didn't actually win.

Kamala Harris: "This was an attempted modern-day lynching."

And what race-baiting event would be considered authentic without the presence of Al Sharpton?

Al Sharpton, Baptist minister: "The reported hate attack on my friend and brother actor Jussie Smollett is despicable and outrageous. The guilty must face the maximum."

Don't hold your breath for reversals from the hate-baiting crowd. Why do Catholics care about this? Because the bishops' conference is one of the leading peddlers of all this nonsense about America being systemically racist.

The biggest cheerleader of all that idiocy is Wilton Gregory, who gets to deflect from his own lack of faith in matters spiritual by virtue signaling over racism. He is, of course, joined by various bishops like El Paso's Mark Seitz, who rushed to barricades of the supposed race wars last summer, kneeling down with his sign showing support for the phony issue — not to mention a group of anti-Catholic commies.

But hey, never let a good crisis go to waste, right?

Shifting from racism to "science" (as in "follow the science"), here, too, the bishops have scored major "PR" points with the Left, while leaving faithful Catholics in the dust. Masks, mandatory vaccines, all of it: Not one single implementation of the reign of scientific terror has the body of U.S. bishops missed a beat on when it comes to installing it.

In Baltimore a couple of weeks ago, the lobby of the hotel looked like a Democratic Party gathering, with almost every bishop walking around all masked up to their eyeballs. Got to keep up the campaign of false fear, after all.

And now, as we get into the season of fourth, fifth and sixth shots, quadruple masking, booster shots, weekly pills, "vaxports," being fired for not complying, even microchips being implanted in people to keep track of their COVID status — where are the bishops? Well, they are, of course, "following the science," to one degree or another. They, too, like their Marxist overlords, are firing employees, segregating people at Mass and looking at mandatory jabs for little children in their schools.

Even Notre Dame, which used to be a bastion of masculinity, is now succumbing again, mandating the boosters for every student — no exceptions. The entire Catholic leadership has gone bananas over the COVID scam — but that can hardly be surprising when you abandon God and the truth.

Almost every court has ruled against Biden's mandate. A slew of governors and states have ruled against the mandates. Even multiple Democrats have now come out against the mandates.

But over in lockstep Catholic bishop land, it's a different story. Since we have abandoned spiritual goods, we must put up a false front of earthly goods. They're failing.

In fact, Church Militant has come to learn that one of the topics of discussion in Monday's closed-door meeting, while they were all encamped in Baltimore, was their lack of any credibility among faithful Catholics. A number of them expressed concern that the Catholics who count simply do not listen to them anymore. 

And frankly, why should they be listened to? What on earth could you learn about getting to Heaven from that tired old lot? What are they going to say that will inspire you, stir your soul, bring you back to the sacraments, encourage an increase in sanctity, or a host of other things that bishops are supposed to do?

Pretty sure we know the answer.

A bishop's job description is to lead people to Heaven. If he isn't doing that, then he's useless. You don't go to McDonald's to buy a car — and you don't listen to a Marxist in robes to get to Heaven.

The bishops, collectively, are totally down with pushing the narrative of systemic racism. Go to the search engine on the USCCB site and type in "racism," and you get 546 results — from responding to racism and combating racism to parish resources to address it, and so forth.

Now go to the same search engine and type in "salvation" and look what pops up. Sure, there are more than 1,700 hits, but take a closer look and what do you see? Ten and even twenty-year-old entries, not on actually being saved, but things like: "Salvation Is Theme of Southern Baptist-Catholic Conversation" and "Relationship Between Salvation, Justice, Topic of Council of Churches Faith and Order Commission."

But wait — there's more: "Church as Koinonia of Salvation Is Theme of Lutheran-Catholic Dialogue." And everyone's favorite: "U.S. Bishops Join With Other Christian Leaders to Call for 'Circle Of Protection' Around Programs for Poor People."

And in perhaps the most telling display of what the bishops actually think about eternal salvation, there is the entry entitled "Fall/Winter Newsletter 2021 Pastoral Care of Migrants, Refugees, & Travelers."

In fact, with the exception of daily readings and anniversaries of saint feast days, you'd be hard-pressed to find anything not social-justice-warrior inspired or race-baiting as you trawl through the bishops' page looking for "salvation."

Not so, however, with the extremely important topic of immigration, where a large number of the more than 1,400 entries that turn up are pretty darn recent — certainly much more so than the false flag search for the term "salvation." And just for giggles, type in the term "illegal immigration," and a paltry 83 entries come back. But funny enough, not a single one that actually uses the word "illegal" in the title.

This is one reason (but just one) that Church Militant has now incorporated into its daily prayers in the morning and evening, which you can join us in each workday at 8 a.m. and 4:45 p.m. ET, the concluding prayer "for the purification or eradication of the U.S. bishops' conference."

The bishops are better at leading souls into the Democratic Party than they are Heaven.

Curiously, when Church Militant was covering the Dobbs v. Jackson case on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court the week before last, not one single bishop was anywhere to be found. In what is the most important abortion case to come before SCOTUS in decades, there were loads of evangelicals and faithful Catholic laity — many of whom had hopped a plane or driven far distances to be there — and yet not one single successor of the Apostles to be found.

Any bishop who would have appeared on the steps would have had his chance to be on national media (who were there, out in force) and proclaim the rights of the preborn to actually be born, to weigh in on one the most pressing civil rights issues in the history of humanity, yet — nope.

Couldn't Cdl. Wilton Gregory have made the couple-mile trip from his residence to the steps of the court just to show some moral support for those who have traveled thousands of miles? Probably too busy writing his next screed against systemic racism — conveniently ignoring that it is black babies being killed at a massively disproportionate rate than others.

But at least he has his mask up.

Perhaps he and the other bishops were all too tired, since they'd been in Baltimore just a few days before trying to figure out how to make it look like they're all against sacrilegious Holy Communion while still permitting it to carry on unabated.

If you want the truth of what's going on in the Church — not just on the headline-grabbing "Pope Francis this or that," but down on the ground in the dioceses, in the parishes where the plan to destroy the Church actually unfolds daily — then Church Militant is your source.

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Probably the most famous voice to ever grace American airwaves was that of Paul Harvey, a radio icon who could be heard for nearly half a century by tens of millions of Americans.

In addition to the multiple taglines he created and used with great frequency was one that stood out as his most popular. That line, "the rest of the story," eventually became his most popular radio program, as well as a book, and eventually became the capstone to a career ending with him receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in 2005, from George Bush.

What Harvey's approach did — his "rest of the story" — was give people the backstory on something going on. Today, we might call it "background" or "connecting the dots" or "context."

But whatever you call it, it was the presentation that highlighted how things were away from the public eye. Regardless of what he was reporting on, this segment contextualized what people knew just as the headlines.

In many ways, that's exactly what we do here at Church Militant. And while Harvey's Rest of the Story presentations were oftentimes more lighthearted than ours, the same principle applies. That principle is that you need to know the rest of the story.

Church Militant is absolutely dedicated to bringing you the rest of the story, meaning especially what you won't hear from other places because those other places don't want you hearing the rest of the story.

As we approach the end of 2021, we'd like to ask you to please consider making an end-of-year donation to support our work here.

Only Church Militant brings you the kind of coverage that many in positions of power in the Church have come to fear and loathe. Why? Because they don't like the rest of the story being told because it unmasks their corruption.

This year, for example, we introduced our successful Church Militant Evening News program and tackled issues on there that many would just as soon not be exposed. It doesn't matter if it's political, cultural or theological corruption — we take it on. 

Just one tiny example — and a result of it — there is much more evidence that Joe Biden did not win the election than there is that he did. As a result, we always refer to him as "the unelected Biden." And as polls continue to show a majority of Americans have serious doubts as to his legitimacy as having won, we're happy to have adopted that editorial stance.

As a result of that stance, however, YouTube will not allow us to post Evening News.

But that's just one reason. We also talk about the phony so-called vaccine push by the globalist empire, but not just for its own sake (although there is much to talk about in that regard).

But since Church Militant's primary goal is serving Catholics, we talk about the phony vaccine stuff in the context of the U.S. hierarchy. How the bishops en masse have behaved in the health nightmare is beyond disgraceful, and since we take the position that all of it is essentially a power grab, YouTube, again, will not let us publish our Evening News.

But we don't want you going to YouTube or any other social media or tech platforms. We are extremely proud of the fact that, working with our great partner Petros, Church Militant's website is hands down the most robust website in the entire Catholic world. And on this website we have a mountain of news and information for you, available at just a click, informing you on what's really going on in the Church and the World — the rest of the story, not just the ecclesiastical and Marxist media propaganda.

For example, on those two stories alone (the election theft and the COVID scare), Church Militant has produced two outstanding informational Special Assignments covering each in depth — in just 30 minutes.

Our election theft Special Assignment was a daunting task — a tour through the myriad ways the cheating occurred. It was exceptionally well-received.

Our Special Assignment on the pandemic, and the resulting power grab, was likewise a tour de force through what has been perhaps one of the most powerful advances of Marxism and decimation of individual liberties in world history.

And in each of these cases the U.S. bishops, as a body, have been cooperators with this evil. That is the rest of the story, a story that Catholics need to know.

What Church Militant does is bring the necessary perspective to world (as well as various local) events so you can then inform yourselves as well as others. It is precisely the takeover and corruption of the media by Marxist forces that has propelled the world to where it now is and is continuing to hurtle toward.

Information is king. We say that a lot around here. And within the information world, video is king, which is why we are dedicated to bringing you all this information in well-produced video and television formats.

It has not been primarily through books or radio or print that the general population has been brainwashed and propagandized. It's been through the visual media because the visual media is the one that is most effective at planting images in your mind, invading your literal imagination.

The demonic Marxist leaders completely understand this point, and they are absolute masters at exploiting it. That's why no expense is spared by them to flood your screens with image after image of propaganda pushing their narrative.

No one in the Catholic media world understands this psychology better than Church Militant, which is why we are completely dedicated to pursuing this and leading the charge.

Television production costs a lot of money, which is another reason the Marxists have been so good at it for so long — because they have and spend a lot of money.

So as we approach the end of this year, with what portends to be yet another tumultuous year in front of all of us, we are appealing to you to please consider donating whatever you can to keep us doing what we do, which is, in short, bringing you the rest of the story.

Please just click on the provided link to make whatever donation you are able, and thank you in advance for whatever you donate.

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I'm Michael Voris, coming to you from the United States Supreme Court, where arguments are being heard today in what is shaping up to be the supreme moment of truth in the U.S. abortion wars.

Front and center is Mississippi's new pro-life law, which is the most direct threat to Roe v. Wade ever — including the landmark 1992 Planned Parenthood v. Casey ruling, which locked down Roe v. Wade for the past (almost) 30 years.

Abortion has been, and remains, the single issue the entire society revolves around: judicial picks, elections, budgets, policy, social wars — you name it — especially the war over the Blessed Sacrament and the Real Presence, between faithful Catholics and their bishops.

When you think about everything that has gone on for decades to get to this point — all the politicking, the thousands of campaigns, the lying and slanted coverage from the Marxist media, the treason and sellout by so many RINO Republicans, the election cheating, the Trump mega-presence, the Brett Kavanaugh hearings, the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the numerous lower court rulings on dozens of cases, the near-total capitulation by the successors of the Apostles, every last Rosary prayed in front of an abortion chamber, the death threats from the pro-aborts, the slaughter of tens of millions of innocent human beings, the lies by the elites, the sexual revolution — all of it, every last bit, has come down to this.

It's hard to imagine that the Supreme Court would ever undo Roe if it doesn't do it now, in this case. Arguments are today, but the final ruling is expected at the end of the term, the last couple days of June.

The reason abortion (and this greatest threat to its continued legal existence) is so front and center is not just the question of 65 million innocent lives and counting, but, spiritually, because the actual heart of the issue is truth. This kind of evil, like all evils, could not have reached such heights without truth being obliterated in so many minds.

Think of the number of politicians, for example, modern-day Herods, who have clawed their way across the videos of tens of millions of dead babies just to hold onto their temporary power. Think of the destruction of truth in so many minds of Catholics who have been conditioned to believe that abortion is important, but not that important.

And when you consider that the people conditioning minds to come to that conclusion are priests and bishops, it's hard to imagine a Hell hotter for any other being, even the devils, than the Hell that awaits those destroyers of both bodies and souls.

Yet, here we are: a nation, a Church, a people at the precipice, either plunging headlong into the lie or the beginning of a turnaround where truth is embraced (even if the road back will be fraught with much pain and danger). Rushing toward the truth always has a price attached to it, and a post-Roe America would be no different.

Abortion is the sacrifice to the satanic, and a rolling back of it, even the initial stages of a rollback, will unleash a fury from the powers of Hell. But none of that matters.

What does matter is standing for truth, committing to its triumph; for once truth is sacrificed, a nation dies and souls are damned. Curious in this case is that the makeup of the High Court is six Catholics, two Jews and one Protestant. But the Catholic makeup is where the rubber will hit the road.

The six Catholics are Chief Justice John Roberts, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett and Sonia Sotomayor. Breaking them down further, Sotomayor is a dyed-in-the-wool liberal. An Obama appointee who will defend child sacrifice with her last breath.

That leaves five potential votes for truth, but given that nice-sounding reality, there is cause for concern: The only two who have an unquestionable record of voting to abort abortion are Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas.

And while three more votes would be needed, there is a cause for concern here among supporters of life and lovers of truth. Time and time again, so-called conservative justices have been nominated with an eye to Roe finally going down, only to have the conservatives see some "danger" in rolling back child slaughter.

They've contorted themselves to beyond recognition, all to maintain the killing industry. They've changed standards — from the artificial mathematical trimester divisions present under Roe to the so-called "Undue Burden Standard" fabricated in Casey, almost 20 years later.

In the Casey decision, in particular, it was Ronald Reagan appointee Sandra Day O'Connor who kept abortion alive and kicking, providing the single vote margin of 5–4.

Since that time, almost 30 million more American children in utero have been destroyed. And while it was Sandra Day O'Connor, a non-Catholic, who got all the eyeballs (since she hadn't ruled on abortion before), it was Catholic Anthony Kennedy who provided the single vote margin.

In a most convoluted, decidedly uncatholic view of truth, Kennedy infamously declared, "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." Given that prism, it should come as no surprise that Kennedy, also nominated by Reagan, went on to become the single vote margin in the Obergefell case in 2015, which legalized homosexual marriage.

To date, Amy and Brett have expressed views of jurisprudence that could leave in place the killing machine of abortion, despite all the wailing and lamentations howling forth from the world of the demonic. Nothing — they say — is done until it is done.

It is entirely possible when the final ruling is handed down that the Catholic vote will have been sufficiently fractured, that the lone Protestant, Neil Gorsuch (also nominated by Trump), may deliver the winning margin to dismantle Roe. While that will be a horrifically sad note on the condition of the Church in the United States, it will be an accurate one.

While abortion is not at its heart a religious issue, it is nonetheless embraced by religion as corresponding with natural law. What a post-Roe world would look like is anyone's guess at this point, but it does raise a series of questions — all of which would play out as they play out.

America abandoning slavery took a Civil War to end, and even then, the post–Civil War world did not change overnight. But slavery's affront to the truth of God-given human dignity is now universally recognized by all men of goodwill. We can only hope and pray that the same happens here, in this Court, over the next few months, if not sooner.

But what a blight it would be on the state of the Catholic Church in America if, when history was written, Catholic justices needed a Protestant to get the truth across the finish line. How the Catholic bishops think they will be able to stand upright at their judgments is a mystery to even the most charitable minds.

We've come all this way, and, even now, the fate of tens of millions of innocent lives remains in the balance — and no one knows how Catholic judges will decide. Think about that: The last opportunity to abort abortion and give way to the truth, and it may be Catholic judges who keep up the lie that people have a constitutional right to kill innocent babies.

Coming to you from the steps of the United States Supreme Court on this momentous day, this is Michael Voris.

Go Premium to watch the full episode of Mic'd Up — where Michael Voris interviews Charles Fraune, author of Slaying Dragons: What Exorcists See & What We Should Know.

Michael Voris interviews Catherine Glenn Foster in front of the United States Supreme Court. Catherine is the president and CEO of Americans United for Life. 

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Based on what we have come to learn about the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) over our time in Baltimore, the Conference needs to be brought to an end.

It is nothing more than a vehicle for obscuring the Faith, on the one hand, and advancing phony social justice warrior claims on the other. It is, in short, a den of thieves — stealing souls and money. 

The Conference operates on a roughly $200 million annual budget, and while it's true that a substantial portion of that budget is funded by all Americans' tax dollars, the rest of it is funded specifically by Catholics' donations into the weekly collection basket. The bishops agree to have each diocese chip in some percentage of its own budget and forward that on to USCCB headquarters in D.C. to pay for:

In sum, you are paying for this Conference through a system of ecclesiastical and civil taxes. And for what? Absolutely nothing. Well, check that; if only nothing was being accomplished, that would be bad enough, but something far worse than just nothing is being accomplished here. The demolition of the Faith is going on.

But this is nothing new. When you consider that the Conference (and its attendant evils over the years) was begun by Detroit's own über-liberal Cdl. John Dearden back in 1966 — immediately following Vatican II — none of this can surprise anyone.

But then again, virtually no U.S. Catholics know anything about the history of their own Conference. So yeah, it likely is a surprise what goes on within those decidedly not sacred walls.

Lest the phony charge emerge from within certain quarters of the U.S. hierarchy that Church Militant doesn't know what we're talking about, when Dearden died in 1988, it was the NY Times which trumpeted the headline that he was the "leading liberal voice in the Church." See, Church Militant doesn't create division, we merely report on what's already there, your excellencies.

It was Dearden who gave the U.S. Church the wicked Cdl. Joseph Bernardin, elevating him to the number No. 2 position at the Conference after he was recommended by the relatively obscure (but longtime associate of Dearden) Atlanta archbishop Paul Hallinan.

Quick aside — Church Militant is always hammering that you need to understand the relationships and know the history in order to grasp the depth of the corruption. The roll call of past presidents, vice presidents or general secretaries reads like the scribble on the bathroom wall in a gay bathhouse. And remember the latest case of general secretary Msgr. Jeffrey Burrill — caught red-handed on the gay-hookup phone app, Grindr. 

My, how the beat does go on at USCCB headquarters — all funded by you. 

Being on the ground in Baltimore last week afforded one the opportunity to hear things — stray comments made in elevators among bishops (not to mention Conference staffers) chatting a little too loudly at nearby tables and even hanging around the bar (which is immediately next to the lobby) with open-air access.

My, how voices do travel in such open spaces — various members of the Conference, clergy and laity openly mocking Church teachings or liturgies or devotions or you name it. As a Catholic, it would have been more spiritually edifying, in some cases, to have been at the Southern Baptist convention than the U.S. bishops' conference.

One aspect of the Conference (among many) the average pew-sitter knows nothing about is the so-called news arm — Catholic News Service (CNS).

For a hearty laugh, just go to the CNS homepage and check out CNS' self-portrayal: "CNS provides the most comprehensive coverage of the Church today."

Ha — that's the same type of self-description that the Soviet Pravda made. Speaking as both a practicing Catholic and longtime newsman, the Catholic News Service is not Catholic, hardly constitutes news and certainly isn't of any service.

CNS, disguising itself as a news service, is little else than the corporate relations arm of the bishops' conference. It issues statements pretending to be news stories in furtherance of nothing more than the Conference's liberal agenda — in fact, the offices for CNS are inside bishop headquarters. Staff members are paid by the bishops and report on what the bishops want reported on and likewise don't report on what the bishops don't want reported on.

So much for the most "comprehensive coverage" you can get. Church Militant is the outlet, for the record, that provides you the most "comprehensive coverage," which is why the bishops don't really like us — but continue to take your collection basket money and pay propaganda hacks to pose as reporters.

In every other organization on the face of the earth, having your "media office" inside corporate headquarters is called the propaganda department. Heck, even Joseph Goebbels and the Nazis were upfront about that.

During the course of last week, the highly dishonest, bishop-funded CNS took aim at Church Militant in an "article" written by one of the many social justice warriors your collection basket money goes to pay.

Rhina Guidos published her thinly veiled attack under the headline: "Sex abuse survivors urge bishops to denounce Church Militant's agenda." Yeah, whatever. While Guidos' sputum was published on the heretical site National Catholic Reporter, it was written as part of her work for the bishops.

The upshot of her piece? Victims are desperately concerned that Church Militant's reporting on the bishops' own numbers, that more than four out of every five sex abuse victims are teenage boys, will form the entirely "incorrect" impression: that more than four out of every five sex abuse victims are teenage boys.

Sorry, Rhina — you should check with your bosses before attacking us for using their own numbers on the homosexual predation so prevalent in the clergy.

Poor Rhina then goes on to try and ignore that pink elephant in the sacristy, quoting sex abuse groups saying Church Militant is trying to link homosexuality to pedophilia. Actually, Church Militant doesn't have to really even lift a finger to do that. The homosexual culture has done a fine job making that link all by itself.

And for the record "reporter" Rhina, it isn't pedophilia, it's ephebophilia. That's when homosexual men prey on physically mature teenage boys — which you somehow neglected to say is four out of every five victims of clergy sex abuse.

In the old days, they called it pederasty.

The Episcopal Propaganda Department (er, excuse me, I mean CNS) does seem to be somewhat lacking in its reporting skills — as it uses your money to provide the "most comprehensive coverage of the Church today."

Everywhere and anywhere you travel around the Conference, it seems the goal is to make sure that never a word is mentioned about the whole gay thing. The unstated mission, as it were, is to always deflect from sodomy while also promoting social justice.

The evil that exudes from this Conference has prompted Church Militant to add to our daily chapel prayers: "for the purification or eradication of the U.S. bishops' conference."

Please join us in that prayer.

The theme goes back to the theologically sound notion that when you are confronted with an unrepentant committer of foul deeds, whose spiritual destruction just keeps enlarging and claiming even more victims, then it is entirely appropriate to offer the prayer, "Lord, open his eyes or close them forever."

The evil with this group — as a group — seems to have no end. So, Lord, we pray for the purification or eradication of the U.S. bishops' conference. 

If you join us during the week for either morning prayer or evening prayer, you will begin to hear that moving forward as our closing prayer.