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In today's Vortex, Michael Voris talks with former Georgia District 7 congressional candidate Y.G. Nyghtstorm about his experiences as a victim of clerical sex abuse and as a blacklisted pro-lifer shunned by faux conservatives in the Republican Party.

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Before we begin, happy Feast of St. Michael and the Angels. Rest assured, the staff here at St. Michael's Media will be having a celebratory cake. I can assure you they will descend on our communal food table like a biblical swarm of locusts. 

No matter how you slice it and dice it, election integrity remains firmly planted in the minds of huge numbers of voters. A majority still believe that cheating was involved in 2020, a narrative the Marxists, Democrats and their media allies have tried desperately to crush — without success.

The beliefs range from "the election was out-and-out stolen" to "there's no real way to know, but tampering was definitely involved."

The media continue to make the ridiculous claims that "there is no evidence" and "every court found no evidence and threw the case out." Both of those are out-and-out lies.

There was plenty of evidence — an overwhelming amount. It simply was never heard in a court because every single judge ruled the party bringing the claim had no standing. That's not throwing a case out because there was no evidence. It's throwing it out because the party is ruled to have no standing to present it.

So, what has come to be the case — in the absence of any evidence being allowed to be presented to a court — is a people's grassroots movement of gathering and presenting the evidence to the people at large.

Here in Michigan, one of the major battleground states in which people believe the election was stolen, a grassroots initiative called Election Integrity Fund & Force was formed to ferret out what happened.

Private citizens like executive director Sandy Keisel and data analyst Tim Vetter embarked on a massively detailed journey to get to the bottom of what happened, and is still happening, in Michigan.

"We're 22 months later, and we're still adding votes to the 2020 election, and we still have not reached the number of votes that were used to certify the election," Keisel said. 

What they have found is that the official numbers reported bear no resemblance whatsoever to the actual numbers of ballots.

Vetter, who does detailed and intricate numbers for a living and lives in the world of spreadsheets, had tracked and proven the case that something funky — what most people call cheating — is a provable fact here in Michigan.

"I have a column called delayed votes added," Vetter said. "There were 22,500 votes added in January, eight weeks after election. April — almost 50,000 votes were added. We've been tracking delayed votes far beyond the actual election." 

Just as troublesome, Michigan's primary this past August looked like nothing had changed.

"We've spent the past couple years learning," Keisel said. "Seven days after the primary, we sent volunteers to go in to request to see ballots, and we were told we couldn't see them for 30 days because the AG opinion that the public has to wait 30 days before they can see the ballots."

That attorney general for Michigan is Dana Nessel, an avowed lesbian who opened, and had to close, a criminal investigation against us here at Church Militant/St. Michael's Media.

That investigation arose from baseless charges by a homosexual liturgy and music director at a San Diego parish, who falsely claimed that Church Militant slashed his tires, so he called Nessel here in Michigan and reported us.

We sued Nessel. The San Diego police even rightfully concluded Church Militant had nothing to do with it and told the Michigan attorney general that. Case closed. But make no mistake — the Marxist crowd, which is largely in control, will do anything to nail its opponents and cheat like hell to keep its hands on the levers of power.

Here in Michigan, that means Secretary of State Joselyn Benson, who controls the state's elections and refused to allow any investigation into the votes of 2020. That includes willfully ignoring the obvious and literal cover-up of the vote tabulation in Detroit, as workers actually put up boards to cover up the windows and block the vision of poll watchers at the vote-counting center.

Citizens protested, collecting tens of thousands of signatures over the next few weeks and months. They took them to Lansing, where Benson and her uniparty comrades told the citizens to go to hell and refused to accept the petitions calling for an investigation.

That's why there's "no evidence" — because Marxists and judges simply refused to look at it.

Benson is being challenged by Kristina Karamo, who has made election integrity a priority.

It's now up to citizens to do everything they can to prevent election irregularities from happening again. That means foot soldiers, poll watchers descending in droves, by legions, on voting precincts during the midterms, as well as vote-tabulation centers.

It became clear to folks like EIF that trying to reverse and hold accountable those involved in the 2020 debacle would be next to impossible. So they set their sites on the midterms and 2024 to prevent any further shenanigans.

You don't have to be in Michigan to be dealing with this — there are multiple states where things just don't add up.

If you are in Michigan, contact EIF to volunteer this election cycle. If you are not in Michigan, the EIF folks can still help you figure out where to go in your state and who to contact to volunteer.

Election integrity is about truth. Since it's about truth, Catholics cannot remain indifferent to it. To watch the entire interview with Sandy and Tim, please click on the provided link. Well worth the watch.

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Tomorrow is the Feast of St. Michael and the Archangels. Bam!

As is pretty obvious, St. Michael's Media — known online as Church Militant — is named after the most powerful angel in the celestial realm. 

A little background — back in the early, early days of the apostolate, a splendid, dedicated priest was visiting me in the old studio and asked me why I chose St. Michael. I said, "Because he defeated Lucifer outside of time and Our Lady defeated him in time." 

His response was something I have always remembered. He said, "That's correct. Mary and Michael are his most despised enemies, and if you raise their two standards inside this camp, you will take incoming rounds like you can't imagine. But you will have the Mother of God and the Prince of the Heavenly Hosts with you, and he [the Devil] will lose again."

Little did I realize back then not only the full truth of that comment, but also the intensity of the battle that would be waged. Incoming rounds, indeed.

In fact, the very first video, out of thousands we have produced, was the original episode of The One True Faith—St. Michael and the Angels. That was before a packed house on the Feast of St. Michael of Gargano in our original studio, about a mile from this one. 

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In that spirit, it is with great excitement we are celebrating and promoting a new movie on St. Michael. Producer Oscar Delgado has been in the media industry for a long time and brings great experience and skill. Saint Michael's "story," so to speak, is really tremendous when you consider one important yet seldom thought-about aspect.

It was Michael, a lowly little archangel near the bottom of the angelic choir, who first forged the path and blazed the trail in directly confronting, opposing and defeating evil, when Lucifer rebelled.

There had been no example for him to follow because there had been no need, since there had as yet been no rebellion of any kind against God. But it was his great love, meaning adoration and sacrifice for God, which emboldened him and inspired him to challenge the much higher angelic being, Lucifer, with his cry of disdain for the seraph, "Who is like God?"

The buck sergeant rose up and crushed the general, and did it with no other fuel in his tank than his devotion to God and with nothing to model himself after.

Because tomorrow is his feast day, producers made arrangements with movie theaters around the country to give it a single-day showing on Thursday, Sept. 29. It is not available after then. If you want to watch it, the only way is to watch it on the 29th. If at all possible, go see this tomorrow.

If you have to change your plans, change them. Live a little.

To find out in which theaters it's playing nearest you, just go to the website: https://saintmichaelmovie.com/

It's pretty simple to remember — Saintmichaelmovie.com, all one word, all lowercase. Bring a group with you as well.

It's a bit premature, but Happy Feast Day, St. Michael!

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Perhaps the Marxists who run the federal government were right all along about "defunding the police."

Given the way Biden and his Department of Justice attack and assault his political opponents, or anyone who goes against the regime, it's not really a good idea for these folks to have weapons. For the record, this is why the Founding Fathers understood the need for the Second Amendment.

Remember, the Constitution was written to restrain the government, not restrain citizens.

As news broke last Friday and over the weekend that a large contingent of about two dozen Department of Justice SWAT agents kicked down the door and swarmed a pro-lifer's Pennsylvania house, the scene proved to be yet another in the weaponization of federal powers against Biden's opponents.

Joe Biden hates America. Even more importantly, Joe Biden hates Catholicism. He pretends to be loyal to both, but it's clear his only emotion is hatred. It comes out not only on his face more and more frequently, like his Independence Hall Hitlerian speech a couple of weeks back, but in the launching of raids by his DOJ Gestapo.

Regardless of whether the Republicans take back the U.S. House of Representatives, or for that matter, the U.S. Senate as well, as long as a Marxist sits in the Oval Office, this evil will persist. A Marxist-led Congress simply puts its seal of approval on his actions, but a president does not need congressional approval to conduct affairs at the Department of Justice, a launching pad of the SWAT raids — or to terrify small children.

In this recent case, pro-life activist, author, speaker and committed Catholic Mark Houck from the King's Men group, was hauled off by the SWAT team early last Friday to the Philadelphia federal building, not far from the site of Biden's Hitler speech, and processed for a "crime" that had already been declared as a big nothingburger earlier this summer in civil proceedings.

The supposed "crime" relates to a case where Houck tried to get an obscenity-screaming, pro-abortion, grown man away from his 12-year-old son at a prayer vigil in front of an abortion chamber this summer. The pro-abort made a habit for weeks of screaming, yelling and shouting obscenities at Houck's son. On the last occasion, he got so close to Houck's boy that Houck shoved him away, as any actual father would do. The child killer fell down.

That was it — nothing more. He then filed a civil suit, claiming he had to seek "medical attention," which could mean he skinned his knee. The suit was tossed out as meaningless. But it wasn't meaningless to Biden and Attorney General Merrick Garland, the U.S. equivalent of Heinrich Himmler, head of the Gestapo.

In fact, with every passing incident, America more and more resembles 1930s Germany.

The Hitler/Himmler duo used the defunct civil case as the pretext for issuing the warrant they used to support the early-morning raid.

Many questions arise from a case like this, but certainly one is, How did the DOJ become aware of a minor, defunct nothingburger of a civil case? If anything, the actual case should have been filed by Houck against the pro-abort for child endangerment, protecting his 12-year-old little boy from the obscene ravings of a child killer.

Somehow, this rises to the level of a federal crime under Biden's regime — violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act of 1994. 

Therefore, 15 SWAT vehicles and more than two dozen armed agents, all with weapons drawn and aimed at Houck and his family, is Biden's response to a pro-lifer shoving a screaming pro-abort — who fell down on his own — out of the personal space of his child. Importantly, this was months after the fact.

There wouldn't have to be some months-long investigation because there was nothing to investigate. It could have all been discovered by simply reading the complaint in the civil lawsuit. All the details were right there.

So why did it take months to determine some "crime" had happened? And how did this all get on the Gestapo's radar? There is obviously a lot more going on than just a raid. 

The SWAT raid is nothing more than the periscope you see above the water line. Underneath, just below that water line, is a giant submarine. You don't need a physics degree to figure all this out. It's intimidation, pure and simple.

That's why the tremendous and completely unwarranted show of force occurred — just as in multiple other instances of Biden's Gestapo flexing its muscles. 

It doesn't matter if you are a pro-lifer, politically conservative Christian, Trump supporter or even Trump himself, you can expect an armed-to-the-teeth SWAT team to descend on your house and family whenever Hitler or Himmler feel like it. It's a brute show of force to scare the rest of the regime's opponents into submission and make examples out of anyone who challenges the narrative.

Imagine if Trump had used these tactics. My gosh, they would have impeached him a third time. The Marxist media would have been doing nothing other than wall-to-wall coverage. The U.S. bishops' conference would have worked itself into a frothing frenzy, issuing press releases about "human dignity" and the need for "tolerance" and "justice." But no, not a peep from the hypocritical posse.

Isn't deploying 15 armored vehicles bad for the environment? Just exactly how big a carbon footprint is being created by all these raids?

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Imagine, if you will, a long train of many cars or boxes that jumps the tracks — your classic train wreck.

An important point to keep in mind, as we think about the train wreck the Church has become, is that the entire train does not jump the tracks at the same moment. On a long train, in fact, it is entirely possible that the passengers near the rear may be unaware that the engine has derailed. It takes time for each of the cars to jump off the rails — a kind of domino effect.

Likewise, there is a certain inertial moment when so many of the engines or cars near the front have jumped the rails that the wreck will happen with increasing velocity for the cars farther back.

Welcome to the Catholic Church train wreck of the third millennium. That is where we are right now. Almost every single car is now off the tracks, and those that have managed to hold on are jumping off at a faster rate. In short order, there will be nothing left.

Of course, in this analogy, the entire train is destroyed and will never see the light of day again. We know that cannot happen in the Church because there is the divine protection aspect.

But that doesn't mean the train wreck isn't real. It means that the Church will be — not can be — will be resurrected and restored, and that it will be done because of Our Lord's promise. He can do a direct intervention, a spectacular miracle — or, as He has done much more frequently in the past, employ human agents to carry out His will.

His will that the Church lasts forever is never in question, off the rails or not — which it is, or very nearly is.

All that said, consider the reality — meaning the scope and level of disaster — of the carnage that is the Church these days. Just last week, the diocese of Madison, Wisconsin announced a plan to slash parishes from the current 102 all the way down to just 32. Closing 70 of 102 parishes, or nearly 70%, is a train wreck.

When you do a deep dive into the announcements, bulletins, brochures, releases and all that, the carnage is evident. For example, Bp. Donald Hying — who blew up Fr. Richard Heilman for saying the truth about politics — admits the disaster of what cannot be denied.

He ordered an extensive study on the state of the Church in his diocese be done. Here's what he calls "Eight Takeaways," which are his reasons for cleaving not just meat, but actual bone:

Now, as we return to our train-wreck analogy, only one of these is attributable to anything other than Church leadership during the past decades — that would be the small giving rate by older people at No. 7. In a Biden economy, all charities are taking it on the chin a bit.

Also, note a point easy to blow past at No. 1. The overall citizen population is growing. Normally, that would suggest "the more people, the more Catholics," but the exact opposite is happening. The percentage of Catholics relative to the overall population is shrinking. That suggests something far worse than just a shrinking Church.

It points to the reality that there is a total free fall occurring, and not just in Madison, Wisconsin. 

As many of you know, I've been around the media world virtually my whole life. In my reporting days, I would routinely cover stories involving Catholics and politics. It was a given, a standard, a fixed number that the national percentage of Catholics relative to the entire population was always just about 25%.

During our coverage of campaign 2016, I noticed, for the first time in my career, the number had shrunk to roughly 22%. Catholics normally punch above their weight in terms of voting, so that 22% still accounted for about 25% of the vote, but the underlying number was undeniable.

The overall percentage of Catholics was dropping.

Then came 2020, and again, four years later, I detected another drop, down to about 21%.

So, in a pretty short amount of time, the percentage of U.S. Catholics had dropped from one in every four to about one in every five.

That is not going to stop. In fact, it's going to get worse, which is why Bp. Hying is dumping as many parishes as he can right now. Madison is not some outlier. In fact, with rare exception, it is the norm. All over the country, bishops are closing up shop and slashing parishes by the thousands.

According to the U.S. bishops' own numbers, there are now 3,000 fewer parishes nationwide than there were in 1990, when there was a record high of almost 20,000. For some perspective, while that was 30 years ago — of those 3,000, 2,300 have closed just since the time we began Church Militant/St. Michael's Media in 2005.

From 1990 to 2005, about 700 parishes closed. From 2005–2021, about 2,300 closed.

Behold, the train wreck.

Those numbers do not reflect all the major announcements that have been made in the past year of further closings — like Madison, for example. Those numbers aren't baked in yet. Once they are baked in, expect the rest of the train to be derailed.

Bishop Hying and various bishops around the country who have to make these announcements are always good at laying out the case for what has to be done. But not a single one of them ever says why. The occasional time they venture into the why there is always a smokescreen, which is likely why most of them don't expend the energy to do so.

From the 1960s to 1990, the Church was cursed with horrible men as leaders who were able to live off the gratis of previous generations of the Church. From the 1990s up until our present day, these bishops are now living off the fumes — and the fumes are running out.

However, in each of those groups of bishops, certain characteristics were evident, the largest one being that they were, almost to a man, weak men. There was and is nothing apostle-like about them.

Some or many are homosexual. Others are careerists. Some are nothing but old, tired middle managers who couldn't inspire anyone to anything. Others are fundraisers who cared little for the Faith other than to swindle rich and wealthy Catholics out of tens of millions of their money. Of course, some simply did not and do not believe the Faith.

But notice, no bishop ever takes responsibility for all this. They never talk about it. They never take ownership of it. They never resign and they never accuse their own, as they should — never hold them to accountability. They just plod along, selling off the patrimony, hoarding whatever cash they can from sales, transferring properties around, paying huge sums to lawyers, and all to simply manage the decline.

It is very clear that a new kind of bishop — no, a new kind of man to be made bishop — is needed. These men have no zeal, no passion, no love. They are placeholders, and not even good ones. They are merely keeping the seat warm for whoever comes after them, provided there are enough Catholics left to require that someone come after them. That's not even guaranteed.

The Church in the United States has become a small, unimportant voice, insignificant in the larger discussions of the culture. There will still be a few remaining years where there will be some nostalgia attached to the Faith among older people, who are aging and dying off. But as they move on — many of whom already have — those who follow will look at faithful Catholics more like they view the Amish.

From the era of Sheen in the 1950s to the era of the Amish in the 2020s, Hollywood producers would have rejected this script as too farcical and unbelievable. Because Church Militant has been talking about all this for roughly 15 years, those responsible for the train wreck hate our guts.

Back in 2013, we produced a Premium show covering much of this, called "Dispatches." It goes into detail about much of this and how we got here, which is, of course, important to understand, because these same things will have been purged in the future.

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In today's Vortex, Katherine Bennett interviews Michael Voris. Bennett, who hosts the Catholic podcast Choose Agape, has a bachelor's degree in theology and a master's in philosophy. She has taught religious education in London for more than 20 years.

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Back in 1994, during the pontificate of St. John Paul II, a question arose in the secular media that was circulating in Catholic circles. In sum, the question was this: Can a Catholic disagree with Church teaching and still be a "good" Catholic? John Paul rightly said, "Of course not!"

The media jumped all over this conflict and, of course, conducted a poll of Catholics who already believed the error because of their horrible catechesis. They announced that most American Catholics did believe they remained good Catholics even while rejecting Catholic teaching.

So grab a seat and look at these numbers we have gleaned from various polls and surveys from the past few years.

Such is the miserable condition of the Church today. One of those points we'd like to focus on is the horrible poll results about the Real Presence. Without the Eucharist, there is no Catholic Church. It's just that simple.

Church Militant has been churning out theological content for 16 years and has an extensive library of such programming on our Premium channel. The monthly cost of a Premium subscription is only $10, a figure we have never increased.

And there are hundreds of hours of solid Catholic teaching at your fingertips, on demand, wherever you want it. Specifically, regarding the Blessed Sacrament, we have 13 hours of programming available in the fourth season of our flagship show, The One True Faith.

We have another six hours of apologetics on the Eucharist in our Basic Training classes. We have a special one-off episode on the question of the Real Presence in a program we call It is or It Isn't, where we approach the question from simply a logical and philosophical standpoint.

And then, of course, we have our first full documentary, God's Lamb, where we stitch together the theological truth of the Real Presence by appealing to Scripture, stretching all the way back to the Garden of Eden.

All of that and much more on the Eucharist is available whenever you want to view it for just $10 a month for your Premium subscription. Last November, the U.S. bishops caused quite a stir at their annual Baltimore meeting by doing one thing and not doing another.

What they did not do was end sacrilegious Holy Communion by pro-abort Catholic politicians. In other words, they did not obey canon 915 — completely skipping over it and ignoring it as they have for decades. What they did do was almost equally as scandalous. 

In an effort to cover for their weakness and cowardice in ducking the question of sacrilege, they launched a three-year effort to teach about the Real Presence — you know, what they should have been doing for the past 60 years.

They allocated $28 million to the effort! There are lots of events planned and brochures and fliers and meetings and gatherings — the entire typical bureaucratic response to a problem of faith.

As Fr. Chad Ripperger succinctly said, "Why don't the bishops first just prevent sacrilegious reception before they set out on a three-year, $28 million effort to tell us how important the Eucharist is?" Fair point.

The bishops have identified the heart of the problem, even while revealing their sorry failures over the past 60 years to teach. But why wait for the bishops' dog-and-pony show to roll into town? Do you want knowledge and information on the Eucharist? Do you want it from a historical, philosophical, scriptural and theological point of view — or all the above?

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We are in a political war these days. It is a war being fought on the battlefield of politics because we have lost on the battlefields of culture — and theology before that and philosophy before that. So politics is the only remaining battlefield left before civil war.

But notice, the first skirmish to have been lost was on the battlefield of philosophy. In truth, once you lose that battle, it's impossible to win any future ones because philosophy sets the parameters of all remaining battles. It defines language, morals, laws — everything. In short, the object of philosophy is truth itself. 

A person's philosophy determines how he sees the world and then corresponds actions to that worldview.  As we see so frequently, and with increasing frequency these days, the very concept of truth in and of itself is almost completely gone.

So, we get ridiculous scenes like a Supreme Court nominee who is a woman being unable to provide a definition of "woman."  The determinants of sex, male and female, are simply jettisoned in favor of whatever a person wants them to be and then relabeled as gender. For the record, human beings don't have "genders." We have either the male sex or the female sex, but even that concept has fallen prey to the "there is no such thing as truth" crowd. 

Of course, the philosophical war against truth has been centuries in the making. Like all cancers, it started slowly at first, barely perceptible. But once a foothold is established — a base of operations, we might say — then things pick up and advance more and more rapidly.

The "anti-truthers" are also hypocritical in their declaration that there is no such thing as objective or absolute truth, even as they declare "their truth" in an absolute manner. They say you can't hold to an objective truth because there is no such thing, even as they push the opposite and declare it to be objectively true. That is a philosophical contradiction designed to arrive at a desired outcome, not the truth.

For centuries, the Catholic Church trained its future priests in philosophy and critical thinking, which they would need in order to help guide their flocks to Heaven where the final attainment of such is the apprehension of pure truth. But roughly a century ago, the importance of proper thinking ordered to truth began to be abandoned by the clergy until we have reached a stage where vast swaths of bishops and priests no longer accept various teachings of the Church because they do not accept the philosophical underpinnings, the foundations of those teachings.

Life can be very difficult at times and human beings are a combination of intellect and emotions, but we can never forget that those aspects were severely damaged in the fall from grace. So finding the truth, even understanding that there is a truth, can become a struggle. Reason must dominate and be placed at the service of truth. This is the core, the purpose of philosophy.

Recognizing the dearth of philosophical training and catechesis influencing most Catholics, Church Militant produced multiple programs with this specific goal in mind, to help form critical thinking skills and apply them to the truths of the Faith. This is why so many of our Premium programs focus on philosophy or its application. For example, we have 26 30-minute episodes (that's 13 hours) of Right Reason with Dr. Charles Rice (God rest his soul), one of the more brilliant Catholic minds of the past century. Likewise, another Premium show, Armor of God, also deals directly with how to think critically and ask the right questions. Just as with Right Reason, we have 26 30-minute episodes of this show, for another 13 hours of content.

Of course, at some point, all these sharpened critical-thinking skills based on correct philosophy have to be applied. That's why we produced another program, Houses Built on Sand, of 13 episodes dealing with the philosophical flaws evident in the theology of Protestantism. Yes, it does matter that you are a Catholic and not just a Christian. Along those same lines, and because of the prevailing-yet-poorly-reasoned conclusion among so many baptized that we get to decide what Scripture means, we produced our highly popular three-part program Where Did the Bible Come From? 

Ultimately, the goal of philosophy is not just to arrive at some academic point about truth, but to live that truth out in our daily lives so as to merit salvation. For this reason, in our apologetics classes, we focused the last two hours specifically on morality.

No Catholic apostolate has the resources Church Militant has available to you at the click of a button.  The reason for the disastrous state we find ourselves in today, culturally and in the Church, is that Catholic leaders simply stopped teaching the truth. Some, of course, went on to actually teach lies, but that's another topic for another day.

Church Militant is committed to presenting the teachings of the Church and teaching them in clear, decisive, irrefutable and, of course, easily understood fashion. The truths of the Holy Catholic faith must be intellectually accessible to everyone at all times. So, we'd like to ask you to become a Premium member today. It's just $10 a month, much less than you spend on a couple of cups of coffee in a week.

In the face of the colossal failure on the part of Church leaders, the laity must step up and own responsibility for their own spiritual welfare. All this week, the last week of the summer, we are going to be highlighting the treasure trove that is the Premium channel of Church Militant: 100% faithful to the Magisterium, easily understood and, most important, revealing aspects of Church teaching you've likely never heard before.

The spiritual war in which the world is involved right now demands that Catholics know their Faith. Becoming Premium is a fantastic way to begin.  Again, please just click on the link and sign up today for your monthly Premium subscription.