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In short, it is evil versus God. Period. Even the Marxist media have picked up the theme, with their nonstop propaganda about Christian nationalism. While it is sad that it has come to this, it has to be accepted and embraced. Whether this is the beginning of the final battle on earth or just the final battle of this age we do not know. Frankly, it does not matter. What matters is that you join the war.

Every spiritual good, every divine utterance and every moral virtue is under assault by the purveyors of evil. Every institution has been perverted or nearly perverted: law, medicine, education, the arts, the media, government, the military and, yes, even — most importantly — religion. Make no mistake that the supreme target is the complete refashioning of the Catholic Church. To the extent that leaders in the Church fail to recognize this and act accordingly, they will have to answer to Almighty God when they die, or perhaps even before they die.

The Marxists will not stop until, through whatever means they can — violence, law, politics, social engineering, all of them — they force the Catholic Church to either embrace or surrender to their agenda of evil. But this will never happen. The sun will never rise on the day that the Church accepts child murder, euthanasia, sodomite marriage and the whole list of these wicked ends.

Hear it loud and clear, enemies of Christ and His Catholic Church. Ain't. Gonna. Happen.

We have been through this many times before, with evil empires and lovers of wickedness trying to crush the truth. But the Church always buries Her enemies. You will never succeed because our Father is God and your father is the Devil. No matter what you do, say or plot, or even whatever temporary successes you may have, you will never achieve final victory. We pray that you see the light, come to the side of goodness and repent, just as many of us did. 

A very large number of us used to be on the side you're on now.  We had walked away from the truth, however much it may have torn us up inside. We embraced and loved our sin more than the truth. But through the power of divine love and supernatural grace, all that changed. We looked at ourselves in the mirror, realized our awful conditions, came to our senses and repented. Now we are here. We deserted the Devil, rejected him, and found peace and calm.

We don't claim to be morally superior as individuals, but we do claim — because it's true  — that what we support is a morality given to mankind by a loving heavenly Father.  If it comes to it, we are willing to die for it. We don't want you to die in your sin, but we will never allow you to impose those sins on us as a cost of living.

So continue on with your fake news attacks and distortions, your rage-filled rallies in favor of child murder and sodomy, pretending it's all about the environment and social justice and illegal immigration and animal rights and whatever other cover you can dream up and use to pretend to seize the moral high ground. You are all liars, which is why your father is the Devil. He has no truth in him, and as long as you remain on his side and embrace sin, you are children of darkness and offspring of the Serpent. You need to reject his patrimony and walk away while there is still time to save your souls. You will lose this war even as you win some battles.

The Catholic Church will never accept your evil. Never. You will either repent, as huge numbers of us did, or you will be damned. In the end, your rage-venting and the hatred you hold in your hearts against all that is good will have amounted to nothing. All your wicked plans will be gone in an instant. As the psalms say, "Great men are only an illusion; take their breath and they return to nothing."

What will be left standing — no matter how betrayed from within, or how battered, smashed and tattered — will be the Holy Catholic Church. The war will end, and all your machinations will have come to nothing. Repent. Switch sides and repent. Despite all efforts, truth, like water, always finds a way.

For those of us who believe and know the truth, we are commanded to announce it. That means we must know it ourselves. After all, you can't give what you don't have. The truths of the holy Catholic faith must be intellectually accessible to everyone, at all times.

So, we ask you to become a Premium member today.  It is just $10 a month, less than almost everyone spends on coffee in a week. The laity must step up and fill in the gap where the clergy have so spectacularly failed these many decades. This is why we produced 25 episodes of our program Wisdom of the Fathers, hosted by my dad a number of years ago. In Wisdom of the Fathers, my dad goes into detail about the lives of various Church Fathers, the Patristics, whose writings and lives helped transform the world from paganism.

Likewise, Simon Rafe and I co-hosted a fun little program back in the day called Moral Compass, providing a clear look at the Church's moral teaching on a wide variety of topics. We also produced 13 episodes of a program called Baptize All Nations, on the subject of evangelization. Those shows alone amount to more than 24 hours on faith and evangelization.

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One of the glories of the Catholic faith is its pure simplicity and its simple purity. And this is all that is required of us: purity of heart and a single-minded desire for Heaven. Purity and simplicity share in common with each other the notion of clarity. Everything we need to know in the Catholic Church is very clear.

Purity and simplicity are bound together with clarity. For example, the teaching on the Blessed Sacrament, the Real Presence, is just that. Jesus Christ is really, truly and substantially present — body, blood, soul and divinity — under the appearance of bread and wine.

Simple does not mean not deep. But it does mean clear. You can't get much more straightforward than that. And don't make the mistake of thinking that just because something is cloaked in mystery, it isn't clear. The "how" or "why" or even the "what" of something doesn't detract from its simplicity or purity.

The Host, which looks and tastes like bread, is Jesus Christ, pure and simple. So too is the Church's teaching that if a person is to be saved, then he must not die in a state of mortal sin. He must die in a state of grace, meaning, sanctifying grace, having the Holy Trinity living and abiding in him.

This, too, is a pure and simple teaching. Depart from this life without the indwelling of the Holy Trinity, and a person remains in that state forever, without end — this is Hell. At death, the soul experiences an illumination of reality, of the truth that what really mattered was its condition before God.

God does not know a soul without Himself present in that soul at the moment of death. He Himself attests to this in the gospels when He says, quite clearly, to those knocking on the door to get in, "Go away, I tell you. I do not know you."

God is life. A person that dies in mortal sin has a soul without life, the requisite spirituality of the Holy Trinity. If one dies in that state, then his soul is forever sealed in that state. It's like a team losing a game because it has fewer points than its opponent when the final gun sounds.

That loss is forever sealed, locked and unchangeable. The competition is unrepeatable. The loss stands forever as a sign of failure to achieve the goal of victory. So many people struggle with the concept of eternal damnation, but salvation and damnation are pure and simple concepts.

It's a very simple and pure concept, and it's extremely straightforward. Reject God and His loving commandments in this life and a person is forever sealed in that condition of rejection of God. Likewise, if one lives a life of desire to cling to God in this life by following the commandments of love, then that choice is ratified for eternity.

The Son of God commanded that a person be baptized and eat His Body and drink His Blood. He then underscored that if you don't do this, then you have no life within you. So how could a soul that departs this life without the life of God suddenly attain the life of God after death? The time for choosing is this side of death, not the next. It's pure and simple.

A soul must depart this life in a state of grace, with the life of God within. And the surest means to do that is as a baptized receiver of Holy Communion, who has no conscious knowledge of mortal sin on his soul. Everything else for a rational, non-invincibly ignorant person is a gamble in the extreme and, more than likely, a losing proposition.

The line from the psalms is most instructive here: "Deep is calling on deep." When we stand before Almighty God, what He will search us for is the image of Himself. To the degree that we image Him, then deep calls on deep, and deep responds and goes to deep — like things to like things.

But when God calls out to the soul before Him at the judgment and that soul is spiritually dead — in a state of deadly sin — then there is nothing deep within that soul to respond. Here, we have two things that are not alike, and, as such, the soul with death flees from the God of life and prefers the torments of eternal loss to the even greater torments of being in a state of constant death surrounded by life.

This is why the Church's members and leaders must never retreat from the truth — from its purity, simplicity and clarity. The Faith is simple because it flows from and back to God, Who is simple in Himself. The Faith is pure because God is one. The Faith is blinding in its clarity because so is God.

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Likewise, we produced 26 episodes of a show everyone loved, The Majesty of the Faith. They were produced specifically to be short, single-minded episodes, easily understood.

And, in this same vein, we produced a really good show with Fr. Louis Guardiola of the Fathers of Mercy, Losing My Religion, on the necessity of Catholicism for salvation.

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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.

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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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I'm Michael Voris, reporting to you from the annual Napa Institute conference hosted each year by Catholic multimillionaire Tim Busch at his family-owned, luxurious Meritage Resort and Spa in Napa wine country. As usual, when Church Militant is on the ground, we discover much more than when we're just sitting at the studio in Detroit — one vital reason we like to thank our supporters for making these trips possible.

What we have discovered through people here in Napa is this rather disturbing piece of information: Tim Busch's Meritage Resort and Spa (where this Catholic conference happens each year) also hosts homosexual weddings. The Napa Institute Conference only happens one week a year here. Any of the other 51 weeks a year, after faithful Catholics have all gone back home, the resort becomes very un-Catholic and plays host to gay weddings and receptions.

Here are just two examples from recent years. From the magazine Love Inc., Nick and Conor had a lovely wedding ceremony right here on these grounds. Not only do all the wedding photographer pictures obviously show poses all over the grounds here at Meritage, but the resort also gets a little publicity mention — if you scroll down to near the bottom, right down here, listed at the top of "under vendors."

If that wasn't enough to raise your eyebrows, here's another, just a few months before COVID struck. This is Daniel and Jason's wedding, again, obviously right here at the resort. One picture in particular is very bothersome because where Daniel and Jason are posing is just a few feet away from where the Blessed Sacrament is kept during the Napa Institute annual convention — as well as where Eucharistic processions take place. 

In the production of this episode, I called the Meritage wedding planning office and spoke directly to a young lady named Ashlin. I told her I was marrying my gay partner, and another gay friend had recommended the Meritage. In California, it's illegal to record a call without consent. However, I put her on speakerphone (with our crew of Adrian and Jake listening) and asked her point blank, again, posing as a gay man wanting a wedding at the Meritage next year, if there was anyone special I needed to speak with about a gay wedding. She said jubilantly, "You're speaking with her!" 

We asked, specifically, if we could have the reception in the famous "cave" hewn out under the vineyards. She told us it could accommodate our crowd of 140. She said "yep." We asked specifically because it is in that same cave where the opening Mass is held.

For emphasis, once a year about 800 Catholics come here for a long weekend hosted by Tim Busch for a formation retreat. They're somehow being formed to fight the evil in the culture, as executive director and Busch's right-hand man, John Meyer, says in his video — a point also emphasized by Busch himself in their opening video for this year's conference.

But once this conference is over and all those Catholics "formed" to fight the evil in the culture hop on their planes and go home, Meritage itself resorts to cooperating with the evil — hosting gay weddings. Of course, you won't find any of this on the Meritage website. That would be too gauche and revealing and, well, a little too close to home. Where you do find it is on the websites of gay wedding planners here in Northern California, who post all the photos and information themselves, hyping up the beauty and elegance of this very splendid setting. 

You just have to dig around those businesses' web pages, like the gay wedding photography company Lily Rose, which proudly displays the announcement of its work: "gay weddings at the Meritage Resort and Spa." They even post a marketing picture of their reception set up in the famous cave here at Meritage in their photo run. Of course, only a handful of wedding planning companies do exclusively homosexual weddings, but that's not the point. It's where the ceremonies take place. And here in Napa Valley, the Meritage is definitely one of the destinations.

The Meritage Resort and Spa is operated by Busch's company, Pacific Hospitality Group, as we see here in a press release from this past May, announcing a further multimillion-dollar investment in the gorgeous property.

In the release, Busch says: 

We are proud to be a member of this incredible community going on almost 20 years. It has been a rewarding experience to transform the resort from what was once a small Napa Valley hotel into a world class destination. I am humbled by what we have built together with the support of the local community, and I am excited for the future.

Apparently, part of what Busch calls "support of the local community" includes hosting gay weddings.

And as we reported yesterday, it also includes hosting abortion-tainted COVID vaccination distribution centers, where 10,000 jabs were administered last April. Funny enough, we reported in a Vortex a couple of months back that Tim Busch had suddenly up and canceled Church Militant from privately attending this year's conference, with no explanation from his staff other than we were "controversial." Our reporting didn't go over so well here at Napa.

In fact, in his opening remarks to the 800 innocent and unaware faithful Catholics attending this year's event, he said, closely paraphrasing from their live stream, "We recently had some bad press from some Catholic media outfits, and we got the bad press because we were actually faithful to the Magisterium."

Um, if that was a reference to Church Militant (likely), then our report had nothing to do with a question of Tim and Napa being faithful or not to the Magisterium. It was solely about the dirty tricks and cooperation with bishops to cancel Church Militant from attending this year, after we had already been signed up. But after all these claims about fidelity to the Church, this Vortex is precisely about that.

How can this resort, owned by the Busch family through their PHG corporation, which sponsors 800 faithful Catholics once a year — with Masses virtually every hour and Eucharistic processions throughout the grounds — turn around and host gay weddings after the faithful Catholics have gone home? Perhaps there is some explanation that Tim Busch would like to provide, if not to Church Militant, at least to the assembled Catholics who collectively have enriched his resort this weekend by around $3,500,000.

The question is pretty straightforward. It's not, Do you host gay weddings here? That's already answered and proven. The question is, How can you do that and still preach to people about how to fight the evil in the culture? We think the assembled attendees need to ask him that. In fact, Church Militant is out here on the public sidewalk and would be happy to be brought inside and have a throwdown about all this. One final question: Before everyone arrives here this week, most especially Jesus Christ in the Blessed Sacrament, is an exorcism of the property performed?

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I'm Michael Voris, coming to you from Tim Busch's Napa Institute gathering at his luxury resort and spa in Napa wine country. In case you missed earlier reports from Napa, various attendees have come up to us privately during our time here on the sidewalk because Busch canceled us and Fr. Altman from even attending. They told us they were troubled by what we keep reporting.

People are also seeing these reports and contacting the studio with their own experiences and saying they too are troubled by the soft approach that is continually presented here — the country-club, polite-society approach. For example, when we reported news that this resort hosts gay weddings, people who learned of this were ticked. 

Even comments under that Vortex from over the weekend were pretty explicit that Busch needs to take a stand and refuse that, apologize for ever allowing it and make a public declaration that, specifically owing to his Catholic faith, he will not allow that to ever happen on any of his properties. After all, are you a serious Catholic or not?

Is all this pabulum about fighting the evil in the culture and taking a stand real, or is that just a talking point to draw people to the annual event here to make a few million bucks and make yourself look good in the eyes of your bishop buddies? Speaking on behalf of Tim Busch, executive director John Meyer certainly talks a good game. Fighting the evil in the culture? Is that really what Napa is committed to?

You guys don't build community; you cancel those who love the Faith because it upsets the status quo. You would have kicked out John the Baptist. And as far as liturgies all over the place, do you tell the attendees that as soon as they leave, gay weddings and receptions will be happening right where all those liturgies happened the week before? Please. Said plainly, you're full of crap.

A question — very serious here and really the heart of the matter — do attendees here, and most especially Tim Busch and his bishop cohorts, realize that the evil in the culture is a direct result of the evil in the Church? Do any of the supposedly "good" bishops here put their heads on the very comfortable pillows here each night and not privately admit that to themselves?

The culture is in shambles for one reason and one reason only: It's because the Church is in shambles, owing to weak men running it and the weak men enabling them. Among the bishops are horrid rotten individuals who have sold their souls to Satan. When they die, they will go to their own place and spend eternity with the souls they dragged along to perdition.

But, and this is the very point, all of that could have been prevented if the weak, emasculated, wimpy bishops — who are the majority of them — would have stood up and opposed all this evil. For example, Abp. Cordileone is here. Why did it take him 10 years to oppose evil Nancy Pelosi? And no, he doesn't deserve praise for doing something he should have done a decade ago. It's good, overall, that he did it, but horrible that he took so long.

Bishop Donald Hying from Madison, Wisconsin, is here. He's another weak man who should never have been made a bishop. No weak man should ever be a bishop. He "disciplined" Fr. Richard Heilman the week before last for being "political," as if politics and the wickedness being perpetrated on citizens through it are somehow disconnected and cannot be spoken of from the pulpit. Hying should be standing up and saying what his priest is saying, not disciplining him for it. It is absolutely a priest's duty and obligation to stand up and call evil for what it is. That he was disciplined for it is absurd and an abuse of authority.

The same thing, as we know, happened with Fr. Altman, another "cancel" victim of Tim Busch and the Napa Institute, because of bishops scheming behind the scenes and Tim Busch enabling them.

Many of the attendees here are good people of simple faith who know there is garbage going on but have a hard time wrapping their minds around the depth of evil and corruption. Put simply, they just don't want to admit the degree of betrayal by the bishops and those who enable them. They know Church Militant is right; they've come up and told us so — many of them. It's just that all this is so devastating that they can't deal with it.

Look, we don't like that the "Church of Nice" network has banned us and relegated us to the sidewalk. But if we have to be the "bad boys," the impolite unwashed, not-sophisticated-enough-to-go-in (although we were last year, oddly) then, so be it. The faithful need to stand in the breach and fight this garbage, faithful like the founder of Operation Rescue, Randall Terry, who caught up with us at our sidewalk prison.

The Church of Nice's bishops, clergy and enabling laity fundamentally aren't honest men. They are self-centered, arranging the pieces, ultimately, for their own gain, whatever that might mean — praise of men, gay sex, money, whatever. Sure, sometimes there is a convergence of their personal interest with some teaching of the Church here or there, but when the push comes to the shove, they will not pay the high price.

Not for nothing did Our Blessed Lord make a public case out of the rich young man who initially was doing everything right. Kept the Commandments; gave money to the poor, blah blah. But then the Gospels record that Our Lord looked at him and judged him to be unworthy because of his selfishness, and he went away sad. How, precisely, is that any different from the Church of Nice? The overriding problem for the sheep in the Church of Nice is this. 

It provides a cover for thinking that something is being accomplished, when, in reality, not much is. Sure, some effort here or there is good in and of itself — a new school, a new program or apostolate of this or that. No one is saying those are not good in themselves. But what Church Militant is saying is they are insufficient for the current crisis. 

And the root of that crisis is these damn homosexual bishops and their protected gay clergy and weak men who destroy everything good they touch. Until that is eradicated from the Church, all these various other things will accomplish little. They'll do some good, but it will not stave off the drive over the cliff. An organization goes the way the leaders take it. Period.

The culture is rotten because the gay, weak, enabled hierarchy is rotten, and the entire problem with something like the Napa Institute is that this is never allowed to be brought up. The focus is deliberately on the culture without ever addressing the real underlying problem that caused the cultural disaster.

Tim Busch enables these weak men; he coddles them and lunches with them. He never calls them to task. He never confronts them because the neocon Church of Nice detests confrontation, just like neocon politicians and organizations. None of this is allowed to be brought up because, like the rich young man, no one is willing to sacrifice what needs to be sacrificed. No matter how good this or that may be in the short term, in the end, they will all go away sad.

Gay wedding receptions go on here. Has a single attendee gone up to Tim Busch and gotten in his face about that? If so, we haven't heard it. What we did hear, however, to end on a positive note, is that after Church Militant exposed the gay weddings that go on here and said an exorcism needs to be performed, word spread quickly among various priests. A healthy number of them performed exorcisms at the various places where the evil acts take place.

They prayed the exorcism in Latin in the cave, the ballroom, the rooftop bar and the vineyards, and that is the most significant thing that happened here this entire weekend. Not the talks, not the meetings, not the networking and not the deals to fund this or that project. For the Church of Nice, none of this is spiritual; it's all about politics and the culture and money and so forth.

For anyone who plans to attend next year, the first question they need to ask is this: Has the evil stopped, or have you allowed it to continue? If it has not stopped, then don't come. Tim Busch needs to make a public apology for the evil of gay weddings going on here, and he needs to make a very public statement that it will never happen ever again on any properties he owns. Then he needs to take any money he was paid for those evil events and give it away to some worthy cause. That's what a faithful Catholic would do. And that's what faithful Catholics should demand.

Reporting from the Napa Institute, out here at our leperous exile location, you know, on the "margins," not being accompanied by the Church of Nice, this is Michael Voris.

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What is substantially different between the Nazi Party or the Communist Party and the Democratic Party? The Democrats are contemporary communists — period. Calling them mere socialists is way too kind, not to mention a bit of an insult to socialists everywhere. And it tells you the state of the U.S. hierarchy, that not one of them is willing to stand up and condemn these killers. And yes, they are killers.

Whether it's from abortions or inoculations, they are killers. And now they have their sights set on religion, specifically. Vastly underreported, if at all, is this little nugget.

Within the Biden State Department is the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor. Last year, Biden's DRL launched a grant program aimed at "protecting and defending the religious freedom of atheists, humanists, nonpracticing and nonaffiliated." Since when does religious freedom incorporate those who reject religion? Or has the definition of that been changed as well, along with "recession" and "woman" and "pregnant" and "chest feeder" and so forth?

The point of the half-million dollar grants, referred to as "expected outcomes" for use in poor countries in Asia predominantly, is to help institute a globalist view of religion where atheism is protected. Particularly for atheists, the program seeks "increased capacity among members of atheist and heterodox individuals to form or join networks or organizations."

It's a pilot program designed to test the waters, so to speak, to see what works best in terms of asserting atheism as on par with religion — so on par, in fact, that it's actually counted as a religion. Religions universally believe in God (theism). Atheism universally rejects God. That's the definition and the difference — theism versus atheism. But then again, we know that definitions don't really mean what they used to, at least not in D.C. and in the communist Democratic Party.

Words mean whatever you want them to mean. That is the prevailing reality in the contemporary world. That, of course, is an offshoot of the philosophy of relativism: There is "no such thing as objective truth." You have your truth, and I have my truth. That's how it works. But, in truth, that's just an aphrodisiac for the mentally impaired, the rank and file of the communist Democrats.

The leadership of the communist Democrats fully accept the idea of objective truth and definitions. That's how they can label parents as "domestic terrorists," for example. If words truly had no definition, and therefore no meaning, how could they write laws to jack up inflation, raise your taxes, impose climate change nonsense, charge citizens with acts of insurrection and so forth?

Of course, the communists believe in definitions. They just profit from idiots willing to accept their propaganda that words don't really have any hard and fast meaning. Which brings us back to the hierarchy, the men who have adopted this philosophy in their decisions to act and, oftentimes, not act. For example, "dialogue" and "listening sessions" and "accompaniment" and "journeying" — just precisely what do those terms mean? What is their definition?

Exactly as is the case with their communist "allies" in the political order, they have constructed a fluid dictionary and imposed it on the sheep. All the while, they themselves completely reject it. It's a smokescreen to ensure they keep abusing their power and crafting the narrative.

Perhaps nothing drives this point home more than the anthem of the Church of Nice: "All are welcome."

No, all are not welcome, far from it. See, the fraud here is in the word "all" and its apparently fluid definition or meaning. It really means only those who accept our version of "Church." And here, even the definition of "Church" doesn't mean anything. You will note that Church Militant has made the correct observation for years now, that whatever we see advancing in the woke culture was first advanced in clerical circles.

Everything rotten in the culture we see currently playing out appeared first within the ranks of corrupt clergy, in some cases, decades before the general populace. Homosexuality, indifference to child murder, meaningless definitions — you name it. It started with a corrupt clergy. It's why we see no rush on the part of that clergy to label the Democrats precisely what they are: communists.

In fact, what we see is support of them and their nation-destroying policies that support being wrapped up in spiritual-sounding themes like "justice" and "love of neighbor" and "tolerance" and all the rest of that propaganda.

The U.S. hierarchy has aligned itself with the regime of oppression, and the current situation will go either one of two ways: 

In either case, the hierarchy could be on the wrong side of the outcome — cooperators in the regime or part of the defeated enemy of the people. Neither is a good look.

The U.S. bishops, collectively, have put their feet on a path that will lead to the immolation of the Church in the United States. Their collective refusal to announce the truth of the Deposit of Faith, exactly at a time when that announcement is most needed, has doomed them and, very likely, the entire nation.

They will continue to profit for a while, but, like so many fools before them, they too will learn that when you ally yourselves with anti-God forces, they will soon turn on you as well. Remember, "Catholic" Joe Biden, who they helped get into office, says that religion includes rejection of religion; that belief in God also means rejecting belief in God.

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800 years ago, in 1232, Pope Gregory IX established an ecclesiastical tribunal whose chief aim was the rooting out of heresy. Bring back the Inquisition but with one caveat: Most, virtually all, of the current hierarchy is not allowed to serve on it. Indeed, certain hierarchs would be the objects of the tribunal, not the inquisitors.

The point of the inquisitions (plural, because there were different ones, and the Protestants had their own after the revolt in the 16th century) was to not just bring a heretic back from his ways, but failing that, to prevent him spreading his errors to others. Seen in that light, the Inquisition was largely about justice. Innocent souls have a right to the truth and a right to be protected from falsehoods.

That was the driving force behind the Church's Inquisitions. That is why we need them back again, removed from any taint of the hierarchy, because it is precisely from certain hierarchs that the innocent need to be protected. Viewed again from the perspective of justice, we can't think of anything other than an Inquisition to mete it out properly. The complicit, cowardly bishops, as well as the crooked and corrupt ones, will not confront those who bring a scourge to the people of God.

What they permit, what they advance, what they will not confront destroys faith in the minds and hearts of those with weaker faith. It is insufficient for those who have stronger faith (or naive faith) to sit back idly and throw around high-sounding platitudes like, "The Church has been here before; we'll get through this as well." That is only true corporately speaking. It is an abomination to say that in disregard for the individual souls damaged and wrecked by all this scandal.

And please, do not say to such as these, "Don't leave Jesus for Judas." That is true, of course; but you should thank God on your hands and knees that you have been given the gift of faith to such a degree to understand that. Others have not. They need you to take up arms and defend them, not go all "academic" on them. And precisely to the point, if you really believe that, then why aren't you doing your part to confront Judas, to defend them in the open?

Many in the Church these days are little else than selfish enablers, barely registering above the low bar of "professional Catholic," as Pope Benedict declared. You have your faith, you say, and nothing shall disturb it. You have your faith, but where are your actions in defending the innocent?

You can promote your own private little endeavors in the friendly confines of your local Catholic bubble, but where the rubber hits the road, where a soul's mettle is tested, where you are tried by fire and forged in divine justice is your willingness to lose everything you have, everything you have built to announce the fullness of the truth in defense of those who have a weaker faith. But for most Catholics today who count themselves as faithful, that is a bridge too far.

It's impolite; it's rude; it's "unnecessary." Leave us, they say, in our comfortable Catholic existence, a world we have crafted with a modicum of sacrifice, but, of course, always on our terms. To criticize a bishop openly in harsh-but-truthful terms, that's too crass. Tut-tut. Speak in charity, they say, failing to see that defending those of weak faith and in pained distress over the scandals of the Church is charity — charity in action. It is the very definition of faith and good works.

Are we to think for a moment that God Himself does not want the evil confronted, called out, exposed for the sake of the souls being lost because of it? Have you not heard what the Holy Spirit Himself inspired the Apostle to command the Ephesians: "Try to learn what is pleasing to the Lord. Take no part in the fruitless works of darkness, rather, expose them"? How does the Devil seduce a believer, one with faith? He does not tempt him so much in the ways he tempts the worldly, through the flesh. It is, rather, through the mind; through pride. He doesn't wipe away his faith or even so much diminish it, per se. Rather, he distorts it, making it fruitless. 

With the hierarchy, many of whom do not accept the Faith, don't believe in the Deposit of Faith; he leads them to Hell by assuaging their consciences through substituting worship of the second commandment over the first. But for those who do believe, how best to destroy them in the fires of Gehenna? By having them bow down in all self-righteousness, bow down to the first commandment in neglect of the second. I have faith; those others should respond likewise. Thus, they condemn themselves out of their own mouths.

And when John the Baptist came to them preaching repentance and love of their neighbor, the well-heeled and self-righteous took offense. Both commandments were too much. No one attains eternal life by looking the other way in the face of evil to the neglect of souls. Those who do, Catholics who, in the secret of their hearts, count themselves as superior because they perform various works, need to go and learn the meaning of the words "How can you say you love God Whom you don't see, when you do not love your neighbor whom you do see?"

You cannot avoid the almost always uncomfortable conflict with evil and ever hope to see God's face. You must be a lover of truth, not a self-deceived lover of self.

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It doesn't take much to know about the big scandals in the Church, especially surrounding the whole gay thing in the clergy. Those scandals, because of the big names involved, break out of the Church bubble and into the mainstream press. Scandals like McCarrick and his career of sexual assault, the Pennsylvania grand jury report, Cdl. Dolan bestowing his blessing on the gay marriage advocates in the St. Patrick's Day Parade, for example. Those are big names, big events — and generate big headlines. However, those are not the business-as-usual cases we here at Church Militant are made aware of frequently.

While we obviously cover those big stories, there are quite a few that slip past the Marxist media, except for a brief mention locally. For example, right here in Detroit, the recently appointed auxiliary bishop, Paul Fitzpatrick Russell, has been named in a lawsuit with pretty damning allegations. Those allegations claim that when he was a priest in the archdiocese of Boston, he sexually assaulted a 12-year-old boy more than two dozen times while stationed at St. Mary of the Sacred Heart parish in Lynn, Massachusetts. But as Abp. Allen Vigneron and his corrupt chancery prove time and again, there is a massive double standard always at play.

When the allegations against Bp. Russell came out the other day, Vigneron rushed to his defense and permitted Russell to defend himself by issuing a denial through the proven-liar communications director, Ned McGrath. McGrath said, "Abp. Russell is shocked and saddened by the claims that have been made." He added, "He states that the allegations are totally without merit and that his conscience is perfectly clear."

Seems perfectly fine. Allow an accused to go on the record and defend or deny the charges. But contrast that with the way Vigneron trashed Fr. Eduard Perrone a couple of summers back when charges of sexual assault were leveled against him. The same archdiocese, under the same duplicitous archbishop and the same corrupt chancery staff, denied their own priest the opportunity to deny the charges or defend himself.

In fact, in a glaring display of malice, it was later proven that Vigneron's hit man, Msgr. Michael Bugarin had actually lied, manufactured and fabricated the entire case against Perrone. Bugarin demanded an alleged victim accuse Perrone of sodomy against him, a charge the alleged victim flat out denied repeatedly. Yet even knowing the charges were invented against him, Perrone was still denied the ability to respond publicly and deny the allegations.

A press release was issued with no denial from Perrone because it was not permitted. The assumption people made was that he was guilty because, after all, why wouldn't an innocent man deny the charges? What Vigneron did not allow to be told is that Perrone was never given the opportunity to deny them. In the end, Vigneron's malice was defeated in Rome, a rare victory for a priest over his bishop. On top of that, he even won a $125,000 settlement against the cop who cooperated with the archdiocese to defame him. But that humiliation infuriated the vindictive Vigneron, who refused to allow himself to be defeated.

He brought up local ecclesiastical charges of "disobedience" against Perrone, who was civilly suing Msgr. Bugarin for defamation. He had ordered Perrone to drop the suit, and, for a long while, Perrone refused, thus bringing on the phony charge of disobedience — as though a priest has no right to defend his good name in the face of known manufactured charges. Eventually, Perrone complied, worn down by Vigneron and his corrupt chancery, in exchange for being able to offer Mass publicly again, with permission, of course, each time.

So a priest, Fr. Paul Russell — raised to the level of bishop and brought to Detroit to presumably take over for Vigneron when he departs next year — gets to defend himself. But a good priest with no record of anything, fighting what the entire chancery knew were phony charges, gets no opportunity to defend himself. And who says there's no corruption in the Church?