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As we showed you in yesterday's Vortex, Church Militant has come into possession of a secret email sent to all the U.S. bishops more than 20 years ago. It's from the Catholic Medical Association, and it outlines the serious, grave issue of homosexuality within the clergy and how it is the cause of the sex abuse crisis.

We are making the email available to you for your own viewing, downloading, printing and general distribution. Just click on the provided link. It details not only the homosexual nature of the sex abuse crisis but goes on to make a very serious case against ordaining men with same-sex attraction.

It goes into incredible detail, from a psychiatric perspective, of the dangers of these men in the clergy. At one point, a very telling line says, "Priests should be screened for homosexuality by their bishops or religious superiors prior to being considered for a position of responsibility in a diocese, religious community, or in the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops."

That conclusion raises the very serious question of just how Msgr. Jeffrey Burrill is now the pastor of a La Crosse, Wisconsin, parish. He was just made pastor by his bishop, William Callahan. Callahan is the same bishop who kicked out Fr. James Altman for saying Democrats can't be voted for because they kill children, and the pandemic was a scam.

Burrill, a priest who had been elevated to secretary of the bishops' national conference, was an active homosexual who got busted/outed more than a year ago for hundreds of contacts on the gay-hookup phone app Grindr, earning him the name "Msgr. Grindr."

Of course, the gay-friendly bishops, many of whom are more than just friendly about it, circled the wagons around him when the news broke and allowed him to slip out of Dodge, unscathed. Then, as is usual, they let him slip back into town — where Callahan quietly gave him a remote-post assignment for a couple of months, where, this past week, he raised him to the level of pastor.

Yup, nothing to see here, folks. All this gay clergy stuff, this was all decades and decades ago, not a thing to talk about. Move along. Move on.

Since when does Callahan, or any bishop, think he gets to skirt sound psychiatric advice?

After all, back when the scandal broke in 2002, they all pointed the finger at professionals who told them everything was OK, and the priests could go back into service. That was a lie then, and this is a lie now. Burrill spent vast sums of money — originating from faithful Catholics' donations — to have sex with other men, all on the dime of the USCCB.

The phone he used belonged to the U.S. bishops. The hotels he stayed in across the country were paid for by the U.S. bishops. The airfares were paid for by Catholics. Yet in the midst of all this, not a word from the bishops other than to promote him.

When that email was sent to bishops 20 years ago, the authors were unaware that many of the bishops themselves were gay. Of course they were and still are. Reliable estimates place the percentage of homosexual men in the priesthood at well over 50%.

Since that is the pool from which bishops are drawn, how could it not be the case that a large percentage of bishops are also gay? I even personally had it told to me, to my face, in a private conversation with a bishop (considered a good one) that he "knows a number of gay men who are bishops, and they're fine men." Really?

Let's talk about Callahan, for example. He has offered no serious explanation for why he thinks it's perfectly fine to install a known, practicing homosexual as pastor. For the crowd always going on about dialogue and prudence, wouldn't it be prudent to have an interview and explain himself here?

And yes, he does owe an explanation. Just because he is practically unaccountable does not mean he doesn't have to give an account. The faithful are sick to death of all this, and as a result, the number of the faithful keeps dwindling. Some are going into schism; others are embracing heresy by joining socially conservative Protestant groups.

In either case, the gay and gay-friendly bishops have created a gay and gay-friendly Church. They ignore the evil because they embrace the evil. Consider if Msgr. Grindr had not been outed; he'd still be climbing the ladder and might even be a bishop by now, or would be in the near future.

But if you think Msgr. Grindr is the only one like him, you're crazy. Just read the secret email for yourself. The bishops did, and then they lied to you.

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There is a massive lie within the gay community (among many) that within the Church, homosexual priests are not the problem when it comes to clerical sex abuse. That is an enormous lie, a Joseph Goebbels–sized lie.

Consider this one simple reality, a known fact: More than four out of every five sex abuse victims were postpubescent boys. That is the very definition of homosexual.

Those numbers, for the record, are from the U.S. bishops' own report they commissioned through the college of John Jay in 2004. But two years before that report, Wilton Gregory, who was president of the bishops' conference at the time, admitted that it was a homosexual problem.

Three months later — April 23, 2002 — then-Bp. Wilton Gregory stood in front of a crowded press office in the Vatican and publicly stated the following: "It is an ongoing struggle to make sure that the Catholic priesthood is not dominated by homosexual men." His comments came directly in reference to the sex abuse crisis.

Likewise, in that exact same context and international press conference, Pope John Paul's spokesman, Joaquín Navarro-Valls said, "People with these inclinations just can't be ordained."

As further proof, Church Militant has obtained a secret 12-page email sent to all the nation's bishops in June 2002. It's from the Catholic Medical Association and reveals the full scope of not only the tragedy, but that bishops were informed by their own professionals that this was indeed a homosexual crisis.

Some excerpts: 

Yet, with all that and much more, the bishops themselves completely dodged the issue and still do, to this very day. That detailed email was sent to them in 2002 and authored by some of the most knowledgeable, faithful Catholic men (in the field of psychiatry) from the Catholic Medical Association.

Yet just two years later, the bishops permitted the John Jay College study to publish its report detailing, on the one hand, that four out of five victims were adolescent males, and yet, on the other hand, explicitly denying the crisis had anything to do with homosexuality.

Of course, it had to do with homosexuality. The vast majority of abusers were adult homosexual males attacking and victimizing postpubescent males.

However, turning our attention back to the dominant lie within the Church, the organization "Outreach" (an LGBTQ "Catholic" resource and a favorite source for James Martin) lies through its official teeth, with online deceptions like this article: "Jesuit psychologist: Gay priests are not the cause of clergy sex abuse."

It is a clever deception which conflates findings of various studies, cross-tabulating unrelated data points to deliberately declare unsupported conclusions like, "LGBTQ people were not and are not the problem of the clergy sexual abuse. Numerous international studies actually determined there were more heterosexuals who offended in the Church."

Notice the deceptive arrangement of those statements. Take the first one: "LGBTQ people were not and are not the problem of the clergy sexual abuse." Well, of course LGBTQ people are not the cause or the problem. How many lesbian Catholic priests do you know? How about bisexual or transgender priests?

This is called creating a straw man; no one has made that claim. The claim and fact is, the homosexual priests are the problem, not lesbian or transgender priests, which, of course, don't exist.

Then, the even more irrelevant statement: "Numerous international studies actually determined there were more heterosexuals who offended in the church." This is another lie. 

First, of course, you would expect there to be more heterosexual abusers because there are more heterosexuals, period. The question isn't whether there are more cases among heterosexuals than homosexuals. The question is how to explain the preponderance of cases which relate back to homosexual priests.

Are there coaches and teachers and janitors who are heterosexual and abuse young girls? Of course, there are, but even given the much larger number of heterosexuals in the Church, a whopping 80% of adolescent abuse victims were boys and their abusers were homosexual men.

These radical homosexuals in the Church, including the bishops who shield them, are absolutely the cause of the sex abuse crisis — and let's go even a step further — the cause of the demise of the Church itself.

These men not only rape and pillage bodies; they also, even more so, rape and pillage souls. They cannot communicate the truth of the gospel because they do not live it or believe it, and no one can give what he does not have.

This is the reality of the Church in the 21st century. Until this evil is expunged — and men like James Martin are driven from its ranks, New Ways Ministry is completely condemned and Outreach is excommunicated — nothing will change because the skeleton, the bones are not there. 

The heart, the soul is, of course, because that belongs to Christ.  But as for the rest of the body, the corruption is so complete, so institutionalized, that nothing less than a radical intervention will save Her.

Whether that comes directly from God or from God through human agents is really the only question. But it will come because God is always faithful to His promise — and the gates of Hell shall not prevail.

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Advent has arrived once again, and with its arrival, the twisted theology of the "homoheretics" is in full bloom as well, never missing an opportunity to make the sinful acceptable.

On Sunday, Martin tweeted out the following: "Gospel: Something new is coming. That's the message for the First Sunday of Advent. The key is noticing.  'Stay awake,' as Jesus says today. "A Gospel meditation here."

Martin claims the message for Advent is noticing that "something new is coming." He calls that noticing key. That's stupid. That's not the message, nor is it what's key about the first Sunday of Advent or any of the Sundays of Advent. Advent is about the second coming of Christ, also known as the Day of Judgment.

The inane claim that we are all supposed to just stand around and notice the King-Judge of Heaven returning to bring history to a close and render our final judgment? Come on, Jimmy. I don't think anyone will have to try and notice Christ on the clouds of Heaven. It'll be pretty obvious.

Then he goes on and links his hundreds of thousands of deceived followers to a Facebook link, with a tidy little "meditation" to ponder. The drivel drives the reader into a false belief that Advent is really just all about desire.

No, Jimmy. Advent is about preparation for our deaths when we will each face our personal judgment and be pronounced saved or damned. That is a day-to-day theme for every person, but in Advent, in particular, it is set against the backdrop of the last day, the general judgment.

There is a little link at the end of the wildly misleading meditation which takes the reader to the group "Outreach," an LGBTQ "Catholic" resource. That group espouses all the usual pro-sodomy propaganda you would imagine, dressing it up as Catholic.

"Let us then throw off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light; let us conduct ourselves properly as in the day, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in promiscuity and lust. ... Make no provision for the desires of the flesh." Hmm, we wonder why that line didn't get the high-profile visibility. 

Nah. Actually, we don't wonder at all. We know why, and so do you, and so does James Martin. That line is as plain as the evil in Martin's writings, which is to say, as plain as the nose on your face.

It's fine and all to talk about the beauty of what salvation will be like and that we should all be desirous of it. For those who remained faithful to their last breath, of course, that's true. That's why the Church prays "May the souls of the faithful departed rest in peace."

She does not pray for the souls of all the departed, just the faithful departed.  And there's a reason for that. Prayers are of no avail to the damned. Their fates are sealed.

To simply distort that scriptural truth and pretend everyone will enjoy it is a flat-out lie; a lie, mind you, that the U.S. hierarchy still has yet to blow up.

Martin is allowed to ride through the ranks of poorly catechized Catholics and behead them by the millions while the shepherds join him by their silence.

Does anyone really think these men are "looking forward" to the Day of Wrath, the Last Day, the day of the general judgment? They use the Scriptures as a propaganda weapon to advance their spiritual depravity. Beware these spiritual killers dressed in robes. 

That's the only question you need to concern yourselves with. If a man in robes claiming to be speaking truth fails that test, then you know who his father is — robes and collars, or not. Advent is about prepping for our own judgments, nothing else.

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They routinely poo-poo the reality of the crisis — attacking the messengers, making up excuses; whatever works best for them. You can refer to this group as the "whistling-past-the-graveyard gang."

But there is another very common knee-jerk-reaction crowd as well. We can call this gang "the silver bullet contingent." They understand the evil and its depth facing them square in the face, but instead of admitting the long-haul battle needed to combat it, they scramble about for a silver bullet — the easy-way-out approach.

So they are more inclined to turn to prophecies and visions and inner locutions.  They follow after anyone who comes along with a quick cure for what ails the world.

Both types, the whistle-past-the-graveyard gang and the silver-bullet contingent, are off base. They may be motivated by good intentions of wanting things to be right, but as the old saying goes — one that exists for a reason — the road to Hell is paved with good intentions.

What needs to be embraced, in all its horror and consequent realities, is this: The world, including the Church, did not arrive at this point suddenly — and it will not pull back from it with denial or a quick cure. Where we are was arrived at over a long period of time: many players, many moving parts but one goal in mind — the destruction of Catholicism.

It's a spiritual war, every last bit of it, with many overlapping parts and players. Unfortunately, a significant portion of the bishops and hierarchy have had a major part in this still-unfolding drama.

Whether they were duped, were willing participants or were too cowardly to provide a strong pushback depends on which bishop you are talking about — but it is clear that almost none of them is up to the task of doing what needs to be done to combat all of this. In fact, it is also clear that many of these men don't actually believe the Faith.

Common sense dictates no other conclusion. Enemies of Christ cannot continue to hide behind the excuse of "prudence" in excusing themselves from the bold response that is now needed.

The faithful, like it or not, are now largely left to their own devices to learn the Faith. In fact, as many now reach that conclusion on their own and begin to explore some basics they were never taught or exposed to, they are shocked at some foundational truths the Church has always taught but they have never heard.

Huge numbers of Catholics have been duped by easy-to-hear fables and lies, like:

In short, owing to wicked and cowardly leaders, the vast majority of Catholics (who still believe in God, that is) are functioning as Protestants, and bad Protestants at that. The world goes the direction the Church goes, because only the Catholic Church — because of Who founded it — has the ability to defeat evil.

And only the most obtuse person would look around the world these days and say it is not awash in evil. So the question is, Why/how did all this happen?

Easy answer: Because the solution to it has been cast aside. Catholicism has been marginalized, and not so much by the world, although that is true, but by the leaders themselves who have made compromises with the world at every turn (especially in the past hundred years).

As we sit here today, there is not a single reason to think that these leaders have the desire or even the ability to turn things around. As Ven. Abp. Fulton Sheen said 50 years ago, it's up to the laity. The bishops cannot give what they do not have. No one can. It is a philosophical impossibility.

So as we look to the solution, ditch the silver-bullet nonsense and consider our Christmas gift offer a silver-bells approach.

Too much is at stake — meaning eternity, not patriotism and politics and so forth. Those will come into line when the spiritual order is set right and re-established, not before.

It doesn't mean a good person can't work on both at the same time, but it does mean a proper order must be created. At the top must be a solid working knowledge of the Catholic faith and a living out of it, springing from that knowledge and leading to a love of it.

Many of the Church's teachings have been twisted and distorted, wrapped up in such a manner as to empty them of their significance and import. It's high time, beyond time, for Catholics with goodwill (but not knowing what they don't know) to begin to embrace the reality that the world is off course because the Church has been betrayed from within.

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Michael Voris clarifies the role and calling of the Catholic Church as the only Church established by Our Lord, Jesus Christ.

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The realities of Hell and our inability or unwillingness to conceptualize it come to the forefront in this episode of The One True Faith. Using a fictional "average Joe" character to help illustrate the concepts, in this episode, host Michael Voris paints a vivid and horrific picture of the afterlife.

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I'm coming to you from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, where the famous battle was fought during this nation's Civil War. The fate of the nation, as a united nation, really hung on the outcome of this battle, as Pickett's forces marched across the field to attack the Union forces on Cemetery Ridge.

We're here because the fate of the nation once again is in the balance, some believing it may already be determined and lost. How did we get to the point where we are now? The ultimate answer is quite simple: There are foundational problems with America.

One of those problems resulted in the massacre and tremendous loss of life right here in Gettysburg. But the foundational problem now laid bare is of a different magnitude and kind.

America was founded on political principles that, when carried to their extreme, allow for the defiance of the natural law and for the political order to revolve around a rejection of the good and true, if enough citizens desire that.

Well, the question of cheating itself aside, it is now clear that too many Americans have, in fact, chosen to reject the good and the true.

This has been true all the way back to the Garden of Eden, but here's the rub: The U.S. government foundationally accepts that a citizenry is free to do this if a majority choose to.

So what happens to a nation, a society, a country when truth itself is rejected? And not just rejected but enshrined in law? That nation will be laid to rest. 

There is, for example, too much of an acceptance on the part of even good people that everyone should enjoy the right to free speech. Really? Seriously? Everyone — regardless of their opinion or declaration? Well, no, comes the response: You cannot yell "fire!" in a crowded movie theater. But you can stand up and advocate for the slaughter of tens of millions of children?

You can express an opinion that a child can be administered puberty-blocking drugs behind the backs of his parents on the way to being castrated and mutilated? There's no need to go through the exhaustive and exhausting list of natural moral evils.

Our founding documents speak of "nature's God" but offer no authentic philosophical touchstone to ground ourselves in as a nation when the tough decisions come. The country, like most of the Western world, lived a moral life based on the teachings of the Catholic Church, whether it practiced the Catholic faith or not.

This was true in America. Up until the mid-20th century, divorce was greatly frowned upon, premarital sex of any sort was not accepted and shattered families were so rare that the idea was never really considered. Killing your child was abhorrent. All of this and much more would never have been allowed to be lobbied — free speech or not.

Some things were considered simply beyond the pale, and censorship was highly and rightly employed. Yes, some ideas and philosophies are destructive and should be banned.

While sometimes an evil must be temporarily tolerated to avoid a greater evil, the door should never simply be opened and evil invited in. But that is exactly what the founding principles and documents permit. 

Societal disdain and scorn at evil behavior only work for a while if the evil is constitutionally protected. Sooner or later, human nature — fallen human nature — will kick in, and the descent will commence. Human nature unassisted by grace will end in ruin. 

That is the fundamental shift that needs to happen in America, or, like every other civilization, it will follow to its natural end. Human nature, by its nature, is destined for Hell in eternity but, along the way, will build its own hell here on earth.

This is why humanity is in need of a Savior: because it is incapable of saving itself. A person cannot give what he does not have, and that's most especially true of himself. Salvation must emanate from outside because it does not reside naturally inside.

The failure to understand this is what ends a nation. The founding documents have a hint of this truth that God is the ultimate, but, in the end, it is not fleshed out enough. Humanity is given too much credit and God is not given enough.

And to be clear, by God we don't mean just some tip of the hat to some "divine benefactor" or just "nature's God." We mean the Holy Trinity and the Second Person of that Trinity, the Eternal Logos, Jesus Christ. But even that is insufficient on its own. 

The Protestant revolt of the 16th century set the stage for the corruption of a true understanding of Christ as presented by the Catholic Church established by Him. The God-given rights of man exist only to allow for man to come to the fullness of truth, and that means Catholicism — not a plurality of contradictory religions and mistaken notions and errors that happen to enjoy legal protection.

Just because something is legal does not make it right. Freedom and liberty are not ends in themselves. They are directed toward a free-will choice to embrace truth, and this is the only reason for their existence. It is the eventual rejection of all this that has brought the nation to its knees and very likely to its end.

The men who died here in Gettysburg, those first few days of July 1863, died for a nation with the potential to realize these truths and move toward them. It was this nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal that could have been the one that would not perish from the earth.

However, it was not to be because when the push came to the shove, despite all the good intentions and references to divine authority, the fullness of truth was not pursued. Free speech was incorrectly understood as not having any necessary connection to ultimate reality, and free speech gets reduced to the godless using their freedom to bring yours to an end.

That is not what "those who here gave their lives that that nation might live" died for. Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous address here 159 years ago this coming weekend.

Given the current crisis, his last lines bear reflection: "We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

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According to a new Rasmussen poll, a majority of Americans, 57%, are willing to concede that the election outcomes may have been influenced by cheating. And, interestingly, it would appear that a majority believe mail-in balloting has become the vehicle for this.

It's the same states that seem to keep having problems counting in a timely fashion, and election officials there conventionally blame all their counting woes on the vast number of mail-ins. It's also those same states where the close elections always tip in favor of the Democrats as the counting goes on and batches of ballots keep appearing.

And, of course, the media is right there to explain that this is just how it works, and everyone has to just calm down. However, and this is where the rubber hits the road, there is an unwillingness to actually deal with the actual reality underlying any chicanery that has taken place.

If cheating has happened — now in two successive elections — it is proof that we have reached the point in America where it can happen. It should never have gotten to this point, but it has.

It's almost like the superior team complaining about a bad referee call that cost them the game against an inferior foe. While that may be true and maybe even very likely, if the team was so good, it should never have been in that position to begin with — where the entire game comes down to a bad call.

But that's where American politics has now descended to. A majority of Americans are, at least, suspicious and distrusting of the outcome, and so what? Are there mass protests in the streets like in Venezuela?

Are there demonstrations in front of governors' mansions in the affected states? Are there pickets outside the homes of the secretaries of state who were likely involved in all this (if indeed it did happen)?

For that matter, where were all the voters, years ago, when the Marxists were slowly taking control and putting themselves in a position to steal outcomes?

Here's the bottom line, the reality that needs to be squarely faced: America simply has not suffered enough yet. It will. Oh, it certainly will.

But too many Americans, for too many years, have been content to participate in the pleasures of the sexual revolution. Be it fornication or divorce or cohabitation — all of which lead to abortion and the continuing slide into Hell of a once great nation — too many Americans were simply content to go to the movies and be entertained and enjoy the good life rather than pay attention when the devils were swarming.

Now the work of the devils is becoming evident, but calling the fire department when most of the house has already burned down doesn't accomplish anything.

The family as an institution is no longer a stable institution, at least not sufficiently so — certainly not enough to head off the collapse of a civilization. Running on "family values" means nothing to most of the population because they either have no families, or the ones they have are completely screwed up and don't function in any meaningful way as a family.

It's taken a century of propaganda and brainwashing by subversive forces that are just now beginning to surface, like the Greeks getting into Troy inside the Trojan Horse. Once inside, they laid quiet until the moment arrived, and then the slaughter began.

To carry on with the analogy, most of America is still sleeping and paying no attention to the communists inside the Trojan horse — but the "Greeks" are now beginning to come out.

Americans are asleep because they have been self-consumed for decades with wealth, power, comfort and being entertained. As we hear about in the movie Gladiator, you divert the mob's attention with bread and circuses. Mission accomplished.

But we should never take our eyes off the supernatural reality that this is a spiritual war, and a population that embraces immorality is doomed. Collapse is guaranteed.

To that end, think just how much the U.S. hierarchy, over these many decades and continuing into today, bears an enormous amount of blame for all this. Even today, the same men who produced press releases against Trump's policies like the Federal Reserve prints money have said absolutely nothing about election integrity.

They wouldn't even be going out on a limb if they did. Most Americans have extreme doubts about Biden's presidency being legitimate and the midterm outcomes not being impacted by cheating.

Do the bishops have nothing to say about theft — about the Seventh Commandment: Thou shalt not steal? They are in Baltimore, at this very moment, at their annual do-nothing meeting. What a perfect moment to actually do something.

Could they not release a statement saying that it's worthwhile to dig down and investigate and restore voter trust in the system? Is that too much to ask? They don't even have to choose sides. All they have to do is support election integrity. Don't they care about that issue?

Talk about social justice — what could be more just than ensuring that an entire government hasn't been stolen and all the evil that would follow from that? But, as is always the case with a civilizational collapse, the "leaders" who most need to step up are always missing in action.

A self-absorbed citizenry that gives a pass to self-absorbed leaders can only end in one manner. This is the reality that everyone who cares (the few remaining ones) needs to face. Avoiding reality never works because reality has a way of showing up.

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Some of you may have heard me relate the following before, but given the times, it bears repeating, and for the record, which will become clear, I was an eyewitness to this.

I attended freshman year of high school, the second semester anyway, in San Francisco's Sacred Heart school. The year was 1976, so the country's bicentennial happened while we were living in the City by the Bay.

We had an apartment directly across the street from St. Mary's Cathedral, the temple to modernism that looks like a washing machine agitator — horribly ugly, surpassed only by the ugliness of Cdl. Mahony's Los Angeles monstrosity.

Anyway, the celebration of the country's 200th birthday was occasioned by a noon Mass at the cathedral, where Abp. Fulton Sheen was the guest homilist. I was one of the lead altar boys at the cathedral and served at the Mass. I got to hear Sheen preach about faith and patriotism.

I heard him with my own ears, sitting barely 10 feet behind him. His words were so powerful, so moving, so touching that I used them a few years later in a story I did on July 4 when I was a reporter in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

But it would not be those words that would make the lasting mark in my memory — what I think of as "the Sheen moment." In fact, most in attendance that day at the bicentennial Mass did not hear what I heard. A few did; including my father, who stood in the doorway to the sacristy.

A small group of admirers and well-wishers had come back to the sacristy after Mass, and of course, being one of the altar boys (mercifully, before there were "girl altar boys"), I was right there.

Sheen was teasing us about the incense, wanting to know which of us was the pyromaniac who had the giant cathedral filled with smoke. For the record, it was me.

It was in the middle of that playful back-and-forth that a man, I would guess in his mid to late 30s, with a ponytail and tweed jacket, came into the sacristy through the second door opposite where the small crowd had gathered.

He walked toward Bp. Sheen and said, "Bp. Sheen, I came back from the Far East and wrote a book combining Catholicism and those religions." He had the book in his hand, slightly up in the air.

Sheen had by this point turned around and was facing him, and before the man could utter another word, Sheen yelled at the top of his lungs, totally on fire, "Get out! Get out! The Catholic faith is a gift from Almighty God, and I will not have you polluting it. Get out!"

The hippie stopped dead in his tracks, lowered the book, turned around and slinked out. Sheen's voice thundered all over the massive cathedral. You could hear the echo even inside the sacristy.

I was an eyewitness to this. My father was, as well. It was jolting, even frightening. The passion, the fire, the love of truth so intense that it erupted from him, exploded from his soul. Everything stopped: Time, people, even the air seemed to leave the room.

And then the 80-year-old archbishop turned back around to us three altar boys, as though not a thing had happened, and simply said, "Now, who was using the incense?"

His eyes were like a loving grandfather's, as though the previous moment had not happened at all. I will admit, I was a little nervous, as that 15-year-old altar boy, to say it was me. But he was perfectly calm and loving.

Where is that passion today from the shepherds? Where is that intensity — that love of Almighty God and His order and truth and beauty?

We get a lot of grief from some quarters about saying things about the bishops and their evil silence. To those people, I would say, You had not the advantage, the blessing I did, of seeing how an actual shepherd responds when the sheep are threatened. You have been conditioned through the multiplicity of their sins of silence and weakness and cowardice to accept their namby-pamby, emasculated approach to letting the sheep be torn apart and steamrolled by the demonic Culture of Death.

I saw that moment with my own two eyes, heard it with my own ears. Seared into my memory, as if it happened moments ago. It was like the voice of God erupting in the Temple, chasing out the moneychangers with a whip fashioned by His own hands, tearing their flesh from them for their desecration of the holy: "My Father's House is a house of prayer, but you have turned it into a den of thieves."

This studio is named in honor of that giant of a bishop: the Fulton J. Sheen Studio.

Let no one say we have contempt for bishops. That is a lie. We have contempt for hireling bishops who betray Christ, His Church and the sheep, and will most certainly rationalize their way straight into the pits of Hell.

The U.S. bishops are gathered at their annual conclave in Baltimore this week to elect yet another hapless leader from among their hapless ranks.

So let's think for a moment, shall we, of these two worlds colliding, meeting in some special place somewhere out there in the universe where time has melted away: the bishops meeting this week in Baltimore and the sacristy of St. Mary's Cathedral in San Francisco immediately after Mass on the bicentennial.

What would these two "worlds" of bishops think of the other? The USCCB would vote to have Sheen shipped off to St. Luke's "crazy house for clergy" to undergo anger management for "lack of charity."

Sheen would declare them cowards — the first of those named twice in Sacred Scripture on the list of the damned — and demand they each resign their office so as to be preserved from eternal fire.

So Church Militant has made a choice when we behold the current state of the Church brought to you by homosexual and cowardly men abusing their office of bishop. Our choice is emblazoned on the wall of this studio, and as long as we are here, it will remain.

"The moment" happened in 1976, but its fiery, revealing brilliance is kept very much alive, every day right here in this studio.

Venerable Bp. Sheen, pray for us — and we'll keep the incense burning.