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In the wake of the devastating result coming out of Kansas this past Tuesday — when voters in the Jayhawk State absolutely destroyed the pro-life strategy there — we dedicated a portion of this past Wednesday's Church Militant Evening News to this very troublesome turn of events.

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With the flood of news and information that happens every single day, we here at Church Militant consider it our duty and responsibility to sift through that information and present it all in the most authentically Catholic manner possible. That often means looking into dark places and telling stories that many folks don't like hearing. But the truth must always come out. We produce these programs and reports with a level of refinement and source vetting unparalleled in the world of Catholic media and, in many circumstances, the Luciferian media as well. 

For example, in a Special Assignment that we spent months working on — a report we called "Den of Thieves" — we began the Herculean task of trying to unravel the ongoing financial scandals at the Vatican bank and the relationship of Vatican secretary of state Cdl. Pietro Parolin to a money-laundering scheme stretching across the globe. 

In fact, Cdl. Parolin is one of the named defendants in a civil lawsuit filed in California involving the defrauding of a Jordanian businessman who refused to go along with the money-laundering scheme. We have a link to our exclusive Church Militant Special Assignment right below and highly encourage you to view it.

We know many people don't have the stomach for all this evil and corruption, but that approach doesn't make it go away. In fact, the silence and lack of exposure only encourage corruption. Likewise, it was Church Militant, just last week, that reported exclusively on the massive scandal of another of Pope Francis' cardinals, Oswald Gracias of India. Secret phone recordings were leaked exclusively to Church Militant — phone recordings of Gracias talking with a bishop about his being accused of sexual assault and impregnating his victim.

On the phone call, Gracias is conferring with the bishop on how to keep all this covered up by having a DNA paternity test done at a Catholic hospital, where he can exercise his influence and intimidate the hospital into not releasing the results. Again, no loyal son of the Church can remain indifferent to these monstrous evils and stick his head in the sand. They must be exposed and dealt with.

Our coverage of Gracias and the fallout has erupted internationally, yet, of course, here in the United States, the bishop-controlled Catholic media won't make a peep because they lack integrity. But in addition to our exclusive reports, we also have unique programming — troves of it, hundreds and hundreds of hours — which we add to routinely. For example, if you didn't already get the memo, Mic'd Up is back! In our weekly Mic'd Up show (now entering its 8th year) we discuss new topics every week and look at them through a purely Catholic lens. 

Our first episode (which went out last week) was with the author of 59 books, Dr. Paul Thigpen. Yesterday, our second Mic'd Up went out, and we had with us Franciscan University professor Dr. Deborah Savage. And next week, we have with us Fr. Mitch Pacwa!

Mic'd Up is just one example from the video vault of our Premium programming, loaded with catechetical, apologetic and Church history material by the truckloads. This is what we do here at Church Militant. We connect the dots to help Catholics understand the current state of affairs — the real state of affairs in the Church and the culture — so you can be the most well-formed and informed Catholic that you can be.

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When members of the hierarchy are flat-out busted lying, what they do afterward is even more shameful. By now, if you follow any of this, you know the cast of cardinals Pope Francis has assembled around him as his inner circle looks more like a rogues gallery from a blockbuster Bollywood movie than anything resembling apostolic leaders whose first concern is your eternal fate.

Take, for example, the international brouhaha that has erupted over the deceit emanating from India's Cdl. Oswald Gracias — one of Francis' closest advisers. The center of the scandal, or should we say the former center of the scandal, was one Bp. K.A. William of the Mysore diocese. According to locals, Bp. William has been on something of a tear in his diocese, fathering children left and right, and, as it turns out, is a nominee for the "deadbeat dad of the year" award.

It's so bad that priests are writing to Pope Francis and calling the Indian nuncio and Cdl. Gracias, saying William has to go. The clamor got so loud that even the laity began demanding DNA paternity tests, and that's where Gracias stepped in. Two years ago, he had a phone call with William where he counseled him to have the paternity tests, but — and this is a big "but" — he (the cardinal) would shepherd the entire operation and do massive damage control.

Gracias said he would have the tests done at a Catholic hospital, St. John's College. That way, full control could be exerted over how the case would be handled when the results came back. It is clear Gracias sought to control every aspect of this scandal. That, in fact, is the very purpose of the phone call between him and Bp. William. That phone call was two years ago, but, as fate would have it, a secret recording of it was leaked to Church Militant, and we released the damning evidence two weeks ago in a number of reports from our overseas correspondent Dr. Jules Gomes, headquartered in Rome.

The temperature got so hot under Gracias's seat, that, this past weekend, he actually had to release a video where he denied he had any bad intentions and, moreover, that Church Militant had maliciously edited the audio recording. Well, as the old saying goes, we think his eminence doth protest too much. It is perfectly normal for media operations to edit down the length of audio or video files because people don't have the time to watch the full recording — in this case, almost an hour.

But "editing down" does not mean "doctoring" — with the implication that we "mischievously" changed the content and arranged that content in such a way so as to distort the actual meaning. So, thanks to the cardinal's lies and smears, we are releasing the entire recording so you can judge for yourself. All you have to do is click on the provided link. What you will hear is exactly what we were given — not a second more, not a second less. As an editorial note, if you listen to all of it, you will understand why media operations edit things for length.

Sometimes, the audio is inaudible; other times, it's boring and off-topic and other unrelated topics arise that have nothing to do with the content at hand. But since the cardinal made a formal video about us accusing us of lying, we are happy to release his entire conversation with the accused Bp. William and let you decide for yourselves exactly who is lying, Church Militant or the cardinal.

And since this has escalated owing to the cardinal's lies — when it is established he has lied to the entire country of India — his only choice should be to resign immediately. He has to go. No questions, no hems and haws, no "oh, this or that." The cardinal lied and lied in a big way. Bye-bye, Your Eminence. You are the one who chose this route, and, as we say here in America, you made your bed; now, lie in it.

But Church Militant isn't the only one saying Gracias has to go. One of the most respected secular judges in the whole nation, Michael F. Saldanha told Church Militant he was 

saddened by the pathetic reaction to the indisputable recording published by Church Militant — one of the world's most responsible channels where all facts are independently and forensically checked. ... I was a criminal lawyer of unblemished competence for 32 years and a judge for 16 years when I was listed among the world's 10 best judges. My hallmark was that I always double-checked facts myself. I harbored zero bias and got forensic confirmation before confirmation. Facts are sacred.

Saldanha, a practicing Catholic, who retired from the Bombay and Karnataka high courts, elaborated: 

Cardinal Gracias' explanation is sham and hollow. He acknowledges the phone call itself is authentic and that the finding of the Vatican, the nuncio and the cardinal himself is that the paternity test was absolutely essential to refute the adverse presumption and circumstantial evidence that seals his guilt. ... Bishop William should have been suspended and dismissed. Why were they in collusion for two years, and even now? What does he mean by "mischievous editing"? In this country, we are used to denials and politicians lying through their teeth. But for a prince of the Church to do it is unpardonable.

So concerned about all the lies and deceptions flowing from Gracias, Saldanha even took the extraordinary measure of writing to India's apostolic nuncio, Abp. Leopoldo Girelli, last week, stating Bombay's cardinal archbishop, Oswald Gracias, is guilty of a "serious criminal offense, punishable with 10 years rigorous imprisonment." The judge refers to the cardinal's attempt to arrange the DNA test at the St. John's Medical College, noting India's Supreme Court permits only the National Forensic Institute, Hyderabad, to legally conduct paternity tests.

Gracias is in severe damage control at this point and has passed the point of no return. Insiders tell us he was furious when the phone recording was leaked to Church Militant, and, now, the uproar has forced him to take the extraordinary step of publishing his own video, attempting to refute our reports with his lies and deflections. It's worth noting here that at various times in the recording, Gracias is easily heard repeatedly asking, "Is the line safe?" — meaning, can anyone else hear this? Bishop William gives him the "all clear." Well, that was then. This is now.

Now the whole world is privy to the scandalous, plotting call. Too many men in the hierarchy are abominations, with their lies and deceptions and abuse of authority — all to protect their own butts. Give it up, Your Eminence. You got busted by Church Militant, and you have chosen the route of covering up the crime. Do you really think there are not many around you who are fed up with all this and are, even now, continuing to exhaust themselves to end your reign? After all, how do you think Church Militant got the recording in the first place?

As a close on your career, demonstrate at least one modicum of integrity: Get rid of William and then step down. Any more of this scandal is on your head. To all of the many sources around the cardinal, if he does not step down, feel free to keep sending us the rest of the files we've been discussing with you. You heard that right, Your Eminence.

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The absolute bane of Western civilization is weak men, losers who are so self-absorbed that they are content to watch an entire way of life crumble so they can get off on their wealth or porn or power trips or whatever. They wouldn't know the meaning of the word "sacrifice" — as in for others — if it bit them in the face.

And there is certainly no shortage of weak men in the Church. In fact, some of the most Catholic qualities associated with strength were tossed out of the Church by the emasculated gang. Things like discipline and willpower have come to be viewed almost with derision by the sissies in charge of large parts of the Church these days. And because leaders in the Church mock and despise and turn their backs on these qualities, so too does the culture.

Now, masculinity itself is viewed as toxic. Manhood is a bad thing. The madness has even permeated large parts of the male half of the race, even down to how many males speak — especially younger males — which stands to reason, since they are the ones who have been the most indoctrinated with the idea that all masculinity is toxic. They have adopted a feminine cadence, a "girl-sounding" voice, a grating, purposely non-masculine manner of speech, all in an effort to reject their masculinity, even down to how they pronounce their words.

It all has a distinctly homosexual sound to it, which, again, stands to reason because homosexuality is, at its core, the total repudiation of everything male, even what is done with their bodies. All the attributes of the masculine are now belittled, derided and condemned. It began in the Church but is now part of the culture at large.

If, for example, when you read the writings of the Church Fathers (the Patristics), you see a display of such authentic masculinity that it would cause today's hypersensitive bishops to hike up their skirts, kick off their pumps and run over a cliff — that is, if most of them could get their out-of-shape, gluttonous bodies to actually run.

A quick aside — how come no one ever talks about the deadly sin of gluttony in reference to this crowd? Isn't being horribly out of shape an offense against the teaching that the body is a temple of the Holy Spirit?

The Fathers (even the term is masculine) understood the concept of evil and spiritual war and fully embraced it, never pulling any punches. They loved truth and goodness so completely that they warred against the powers of Hell. But then along came the homosexual bishop and his effeminate clerics, hating all things masculine and throwing them out of the Church, the pulpits and the seminaries — eradicating masculinity from Catholic life.

Archbishop Fulton Sheen made an observation about all this back in the 1960s. He correctly observed that whatever goodness the Church threw out, the culture would soon pick up. For example, the Church got rid of candles and incense, and candle shops and incense boutiques sprung up everywhere. Likewise, when the Church got rid of the masculine virtues of self-discipline for a greater cause and power to overcome the bad, those very qualities transferred to the gym culture.

The serious gymgoers are all about the virtues — but for the sake of the virtues in themselves, personal pride or whatever, not for their intended purpose. And just like the candles and incense, when the Church disposes of masculine strengths, the culture picks them up without realizing the beauty behind them and diminishes their value. The culture, despite its profanity, is still able to perceive it is holding some treasure; it just doesn't know exactly its worth or what to do with it.

So it takes those qualities and sticks them into superhero movies, for example, without reference to the source or purpose of things like willpower, discipline and strength. The heroes use the qualities to fight for the "good," but there is never any venturing into why good is good.

There's just a presumption made because the fumes of a dying Western civilization are the only fuel the characters actually possess. They fight for "goodness" and "right" but have no actual idea what makes something good or right.

The Church Fathers knew precisely what good was and never had a doubt as to their actions or, most importantly, their motivations. The goodness, the treasure of these qualities, lies in their application for the good, the true and the beautiful and the protection of it.

But since the culture doesn't have a reference point for any of this — thank you, again, weak bishops for your malice and cowardice — it distorts the true value of these treasures and, in the process, cheapens them. Superman, for example, fights for truth, justice and the American way. Or, rather, used to fight for those; now it's for "a better tomorrow" (whatever that means), thanks to the woke crowd.

But all of that is completely dissociated from any moral grounding. Who decides what is "better"? Who decides what is truth — a question posed by Pilate and still echoing down the centuries, millennia later. Is it the State or the latest political poll? And what is justice (a term that used to mean a great deal in the Church, but, thanks to a corrupt hierarchy who cash in on that term for hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars, it is completely devoid of its original meaning)?

Now, it means forcing the phony man-made climate change narrative, as in "climate justice," or destroying a nation's borders by claiming "social justice." No matter how perverse a culture becomes, it always recognizes the good because goodness can never be completely defeated. It can be obscured and diminished for a while, but it can never be totally conquered.

The collapse of everything we see around us is owing to weak men, men who took these treasures, these pearls, and cast them before swine. And now, having trampled the pearls, the swine are turning on those weak men. They threw them before the swineherd out of self-interest and pride and ego and self-gratification, in pursuit of power, sex, human respect, whatever.

The bishops and their wealthy enabling class have a lot to answer for. They may, in this life, likely escape the consequences of their actions, but this life is short compared to eternity. It profits a man nothing to gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his immortal soul. In pursuit of earthly delights, these weak men have ensured the collapse of civilization for everyone else.

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Temperatures are rising in India, and we aren't talking about man-made climate change. For the corrupt Cdl. Oswald Gracias — extremely close to Pope Francis, in fact — they're beginning to boil. Earlier this week, following a series of reports by our Rome correspondent, Dr. Jules Gomes, where a secret phone recording was leaked to Church Militant showing His Eminence engaging in an attempt to control bad news about a bishop he's trying to cover for, one of the most respected judges on the planet, Michael Saldanha, issued a legal notice to the cardinal for libel.

The notice is in response to Gracias' video statement saying Church Militant "mischievously edited" the tape of the phone recording, which, of course, we did not. We cut it down for length, a standard media practice. In the judge's legal notice, he tells Gracias to step down — as in resign — before he brings irreparable harm to the Church.

The most salient part, which the Vatican will hone in on, is from paragraph six:

When the cardinal goes on record to use the word "mischievously" edited, he is inviting a libel action for damages, which could not be less than $100 million because he represents the Church, and the Church can easily afford to pay it, apart from a prosecution. As a person who knows the law and the facts, I need to caution the Church that this action has been invited and that it would be defenseless in any part of the world.

Now, for the record, this information has just come to us, and we are not experts at libel law in India, but we may very well become so. Various parts of India were already in an uproar over this case, and, now, the pressure is mounting daily. The focus of the two-year-old secret phone call was Bishop K.A. William and his purported string of children from at least five different mistresses. As calls mounted for him to take a paternity test, the Vatican had to step into the quagmire as well as Gracias, urging William to take the DNA test.

But here is the wider scandal: Gracias admits in the call that he will arrange for the test to happen at a Catholic hospital, which will give him total control over the fallout, media included. That is the part Gracias didn't want anyone to hear. Well, too late. So, of course, once Church Militant released the recording, Gracias was in a bind, having to go on record in a rare video appearance last weekend and accuse CM of "mischievously editing" the recording. That false claim is what escalated this to the point where Judge Saldanha issued his legal notice today.

In Indian law, Gracias must respond within a specified time frame, denying the allegations made against him, or it will be deemed that he has admitted guilt. So it will be interesting to see what he and his lawyers cook up. Just looking across the very broad landscape, we can say, with certainty, that Church Militant could certainly use $100 million — lots of expenses here.

As a result of all this, William is on self-imposed lockdown, not venturing outside of his compound, even canceling a Mass he was supposed to offer at a convent. In America, we call that "tick-tock" — meaning the walls are closing in and time is running out. It is the publicity from Church Militant that is bringing this to a head, and both clerics are now in batten-down-the-hatches mode.

If William doesn't resign (or is removed), then the scandal just keeps growing. If he does, then that will be an admission that he is guilty, regardless of how much wordsmithing the resignation letter would have. And if he resigns (again, because he's guilty), then all eyes turn to Gracias, who has covered for him for years now.

And to boil it down, remember what Gracias is actually covering up: out-of-wedlock children running around, whose father is a deadbeat dad. Who is paying the expenses for these children? Who is raising them and taking care of their spiritual needs? Are Church funds being used secretly to tend to their needs? If so, that's its own issue, especially after five mistresses. And, at this point, we can rightly ask, is it just five? If Church funds are not being used, then what is the disposition of the children?

This whole scandal has only served to increase scrutiny on how Gracias does business, but it is resurrecting other problem cases. Gracias not only covers up for heterosexual bishops, but he also covers up for, of course, homosexual priests who rape altar boys. All are welcome, after all, in the Church of tolerance and inclusion. And a side note here — this would be bad for any bishop, but this bishop is one of Pope Francis' closest confidants.

Last December, an Indian special court handed down a conviction against Fr. Lawrence Johnson, who had raped a 12-year-old altar boy at Christ the King, a parish in the suburbs of eastern Mumbai. Father Johnson's animalistic rape of the 12-year-old was so severe, that the boy had to receive medical treatment for profuse anal bleeding. Likewise, Johnson infected the boy with syphilis. When the family found out, they went straight to the priest, who, when confronted, fell to his knees and confessed everything, begging for forgiveness.

Nevertheless, armed with an admission of guilt and a direct meeting with the family, Gracias spent huge sums of money defending the child abuser and rapist. The legal fees were as high as 10 million Indian rupees (or $125,000) for one of Bombay's celebrity lawyers to defend the homopredator priest.

As it turns out, Johnson was raping other boys at previous parishes, right under the cardinal's nose. Those parishes include Our Lady of Lourdes, Orlem; St. Anthony's Church, Malwani; St. Anthony's Church, Mankhurd; Our Lady of the Rosary, Goregaon; and Sacred Heart Church, Vashi. Taking a page from the playbook of American bishops, Gracias just kept transferring him. 

Johnson used to be the driver for Bp. Allwyn D'Silva, one of Gracias' auxiliary bishops, and that is why he was protected, insiders say. It's all about who you know. Gracias let this nightmare legal process go on for six years. Huge legal bills, agony for the family — not the slightest bit of concern for the boy (or other boys), for that matter. So the renewed attention on his corruption and lack of empathy is more than warranted.

All of which makes his role as a close — very close — senior advisor to the pope extremely questionable, especially considering the starring role he had back during the sex abuse summit at the Vatican in 2019. Francis appointed him (along with pro-gay Blase Cupich) to head up the summit, called in the aftermath of the Theodore McCarrick revelations, as a kind of damage control, kabuki theater operation.

On top of libel and cruelty, you can add Gracias' outlandish hypocrisy, as he sat there in Rome, schooling the Church and the associated international press about how horrible sex abuse is. Damage control seems to be high up on the resumé of Cdl. Gracias, not just on the international stage but especially in India.

So the cardinal now has a couple of weeks or so to answer the legal notice. Meanwhile, we are just getting into the hottest part of the year. How's your air conditioner, Eminence?

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The refusal on the part of many Catholics to accept the proven reality that the clerical ranks are dominated by homosexuals plays perfectly into the hands of those same clerics. Likewise, aside from denial, there is also widespread indifference, which, given the acceptance by most Catholics of the sexual revolution in their personal lives, can't really be all that surprising. 

For those who don't really care that their priest is a sodomite, there's not really much that can be said to convince them of how this undermines the Church. But, hopefully, some inroads can be made with those who are still persuadable (or at least open to learning) about where we are as a Church right now and how we got here. And, for the record, we are in a state of total decline — spiraling further downward every day.

And Pollyanna dreams and statements like "Oh, but the young priests wear cassocks" or "The young priests are more orthodox" or "More people are going to the Latin Mass" just don't cut it. On the question of more faithful young priests, there is more required of a priest in these tumultuous times than just his own personal belief and faithfulness. Saint John Paul personally believed the Faith, clung to it, loved it, lived it, and yet, the Church imploded on his watch.

While it's true that the seeds of much of what went wrong when he was pope were planted decades before, it nonetheless remains the case that he almost entirely missed the boat when it came to dismantling the anti-church. In fact, many of the men whose names we report on regularly — gay bishops, homosexualist theologians and so forth — all rose to prominence under John Paul, with many of them actually being promoted by him personally.

For example, Donald Wuerl was made a bishop directly by Pope John Paul in St. Peter's in 1986. Blase Cupich was made bishop by Pope John Paul in 1998. This isn't to knock John Paul; it's to make the argument that good, solid personal orthodox faith is insufficient on its own if it doesn't translate into action on the part of leaders, something true even for a pope. So if it's true for a pope, how much more is it true for a little ol' priest in the middle of nowhere?

And, on the question of the current hierarchy, many of whom are straight-up gay and have set out on a course of destruction of the Faith by a reorganizing of the Church, understand that there is no way we could have gotten to this point without it being decades in the making. Too many Catholics who don't understand the depth of this are too willing to simply point at Vatican II or make ridiculous claims like "All we have to do is go back to the Latin Mass." When the Church was already falling apart, the Latin Mass was the only Mass there was. It didn't "lock down" the Faith — far from it. 

It can certainly be argued that the shelving of it a decade or so after the council helped speed us along to where we are now, but the decay had already been set up long before the council opened in 1962. In fact, decades before that, homosexuals were already flooding into the seminaries, and, for the record, they were all saying the Latin Mass. So please disabuse yourself of the nutty notion that a priest is holy just because he says the Latin Mass. He's not.

To demonstrate just how far back this all goes, and why these "young, holy, more orthodox" priests will require much more than simply saying their personal prayers in the rectory while the Church burns down around them, look at this. It's a grave marker from the Hawaiian Memorial Park Cemetery. There's nothing especially noteworthy at first glance. But as you pay closer attention, you see that there are two men buried in this grave: William Spain and Robert O'Donnell.

But then, look closer and notice — inscribed on the stone for each of them is not only their birth and death dates but also their ordination dates. These two men, these two priests, were gay lovers. They were each dumped in Hawaii after being transferred there by their respective dioceses in San Diego, California; and Helena, Montana; for, you guessed it, charges of homosexual sex abuse of altar boys. In fact, there are nine such graves, gay lover priests buried together in the same plot in this cemetery.

Spain was ordained before the council, which means he was raised, catechized and went through seminary in the Old Rite. He offered the Latin Mass, gave absolutions, presided over weddings and performed baptisms in the Old Rite, all the while being an active homosexual. And while his partner priest, Robert O'Donnell, was ordained the year after the council, it remains the case that he too would have been raised, at least, and gone through seminary as well in the Old Rite. We are waiting on pictures of the other eight grave markers, but it won't be surprising to find the same story repeated.

All of this is to make one simple point: This homosexual clergy crisis stretches back at least to the immediate aftermath of the World War II timeframe. Likewise, as the decades rolled along, it increased in intensity. In his retirement, Pope Benedict offered a revealing comment in 2019 on the topic of seminary culture in the 1960s and '70s. He said, "[In] various seminaries, homosexual cliques were established, which acted more or less openly and significantly changed the climate in the seminaries." 

And, in a statement worthy of nomination for the largest understatement in history award, he added that this created a "far-reaching breakdown" in the proper formation of priests. Here is the problem: A good number of those men have now moved on to become bishops, even cardinals, which means they have operational control of the Church. In short, the hands of gay men are on the levers of power in the Church. And this is true from Rome all the way down to the local parish.

And to underscore this, in a private conversation I had with a well-respected prelate a few years back, he told me he personally had knowledge of "a number" of gay men who were his brother bishops, and he had no problem with it. If I revealed who the bishop was who said this to me, you would be as shocked as I was. Even among so-called good bishops, there is an acceptance of the belief that homosexuals can be ordained and even consecrated, just so long as they are chaste. That is the fundamental error in their thinking, an error that presents a serious doubt regarding who is being ordained today.

After all, it was just in 1998 that Msgr. Jeffrey Burrill was ordained, the priest who came to be known as "Msgr. Grindr" for his prolific use of the homosexual hookup phone app. After the public scandal, and after a few months of being shelved, his bishop placed him right back into public ministry in his home diocese of La Crosse, Wisconsin. Ask yourself, what if he had not been busted? How much carnage might he have inflicted within the Church? And ask yourself further, how many other "Msgr. Grindrs" are out there who haven't been busted?

As the homosexual bishops and their homosexual clergy begin to move off the scene like O'Donnell and Spain, they have created an atmosphere within the Church of near total destruction. They were, and still are, personally invested in pushing and sustaining a broad-based acceptance of the sexual revolution among day-to-day Catholics, and they have been wildly successful.

So as lay Catholics look to the future and pin all their hopes on the "young, holy, cassock-wearing" priests, they better keep in mind that that's exactly what the scene looked like 60 years ago and earlier. Perhaps many of these young men today being ordained may not be homosexual, but do they have the masculine virtue of fortitude to face this all down while in seminary or even after they are ordained? It is a powerful demon inside the Church and simply wearing a cassock and personally believing the Faith won't be enough.

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So after two years of absolute lunacy over the COVID scam, the CDC just quietly drops a press release last week and says, "We're all good now, folks." In one line —stunning in its understatement — the last two years are just brushed aside: "This guidance acknowledges that the pandemic is not over but also helps us move to a point where COVID-19 no longer severely disrupts our daily lives."

First, the World Health Organization announced last year that the so-called pandemic was over — so there's that. But the second half of that sentence really bears scrutiny: "COVID-19 no longer severely disrupts our daily lives." Let's be very clear: It was not COVID-19 that severely disrupted our daily lives, but the government using COVID-19 to disrupt our daily lives. And that extends to the U.S. bishops, many of whom are in league (or at least ideological lockstep) with the Marxist globalists in government.

What did the government do? 

They shut down the economy, caused the bankruptcies of thousands of small businesses, manufactured a reason to ignore all voting laws en route to an election theft, instituted mask mandates, gave Big Pharma trillions of your dollars for a so-called vax that does not work (ask Joe Biden). And, in the process, they made those same pharmaceutical companies legally exempt from any lawsuits or claims, fired countless military and civil servants who refused it and ordered all businesses with more than 100 employees to jab them all (that, eventually, got tossed out by the courts).

Every one of these "rules" had a massive knock-on effect, and those do continue to disrupt our daily lives in thousands of ways. The government handouts to average Americans have forever transformed the economy and the labor pool, as people just sat home and were paid to not work. The "vax" question tore families and marriages apart as people chose up sides. 

The medical side effects are too numerous to count, including, most especially, the deaths. The "stay in your house" promotion opened the door for fraud through mail-in voting, which gave the nation the most unpopular and least competent president and administration in U.S. history. The current occupant of the White House — there because of the election shenanigans owing to COVID propaganda — has completely tanked the U.S. economy and brought about conditions most Americans alive today have no reference point for in their lived experience.

A supply-chain crisis has been overseen and advanced by a homosexual who took paternity leave with his perverted lover, as store shelves emptied. His response to the high price of gas was "Buy an electric car; it's good for the environment" — completely sidestepping the reality that the electric power grid they so despise (fueled by coal) is how you power your electric vehicle.

This is one giant ball of yarn so tangled up together that it's virtually impossible to disentangle. All we can ever really do is talk about aspects of it like gas prices, food shortages, supply-chain problems, the baby formula crisis, inflation, and life-altering medical side effects. But make no mistake, all of those (and many more) add up to one solitary thing: the complete transformation of the United States as we have known it.

And Joe Biden has not caused it; he is merely finishing it. His former boss, Obama, is the one who set it all into high gear, setting the stage for everything you see going on right now. He completely remade the nation's intelligence agencies through huge personnel changes, up and down the ranks. He set the table for Hillary to come in and finish it all off, but then Donald Trump happened. The man had to be stopped at all costs, shut down, with his "America first" rhetoric. He could upset the entire plan. 

In reality, what he did was highlight the uni-party swamp and delay the implementation of operation "America last." The awareness he brought to their plans galvanized patriots across the country and created a civil war within the GOP to oust the RINO establishment. That war is in full swing right now; we'll see how it turns out. But having won in '16, despite having his campaign spied on and a Democratic fabricated dossier (which was nothing but lies) used as a pretext to spy on him and his campaign, the Deep State swung into high gear and hampered him for four years, largely through the exploitation of the media.

The constant hammering, coupled with the COVID-fueled election, was enough to get him out of office, and, now, every possible weapon in their arsenal is being used to prevent him from getting back into office. COVID has now outlasted its usefulness — time to shelve it. Perhaps it might be helpful again, but, for now, it's time for a new crisis strategy. So in the midst of all this willful destruction of a nation, what did the bishops do? They completely and totally went along with it.

Those weak, emasculated pansies couldn't wait to jump on the COVID-scare bandwagon, closing every parish and refusing sacraments, even to the dying. They also still, to this very day, propagate this falsehood right in the very church building themselves. Hand sanitizer by the gallon has become part of the "ritual" of the Mass. Face masks, while not generally demanded, are still "encouraged" and very visible — got to keep that fear level just right. And away from center stage, chancery officials who didn't want to get the jab were fired, and seminarians were kicked out and not allowed to return to their pursuit of the priesthood.

That last one keeps the herd thinned with weak, complacent "go-along" type men, regardless of their own personal orthodoxy. "Oh, the bishop said I have to have an abortion-tainted jab shot into me if I'm going to get ordained, so I have to be obedient." Heck, even to this day, right here in the archdiocese of Detroit, Abp. Allen Vigneron refuses to permit a priest from outside his diocese to come in long-term and help relieve the heavy workload of current pastors unless he is jabbed. Part of the globalist plan in locking down control is the destruction of the Faith. In fact, from a diabolical standpoint, all the rest of everything going on is in service to that.

Satan doesn't give a rip about economies and political policies and so forth, not in themselves. He cares about all this only in so far as it all advances his goal of the destruction of souls — brought about most expeditiously by the flattening of the Catholic faith. What better way to bring that about than through weak males (many of whom are homosexual, who cooperate with a Marxist agenda either through willingness or cowardice or confusion or indifference)? 

Neither the government nor the bishops can just come out and say that they were wrong for the immense suffering they brought about temporally and, most especially, spiritually. Even those few in either arena who have come to realize the truth don't have the fortitude to actually say it and apologize. To apologize would be more than just saying "We're sorry." It would import something like, "We were wrong." It would expose the incompetence of some and the wickedness and deceit of others. Both would be bad, but the second one would be horrible. So don't hold your breath for an apology.

We'll say it until we are blue in the face: Weak men suck. They are destroyers of the good, and it doesn't matter whether they intended to or not. God will judge their intentions and punish them accordingly. But we live with the effects of their actions in the here and now. The entire civilization is on the brink. It may, in fact, have already fallen off the edge and would therefore be unsalvageable. But none of that matters. The only truly Catholic response is to fight. We fight. We leave it to God to handle the disposition of our fighting.

But whatever the outcome for the culture, the outcome for our souls is eternal life. It's why a saint once said, "The only way to win is to die fighting." Just don't expect to hear an apology along the way from those you are fighting.

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A brief personal story to kick things off, if we may. 

When Church Militant was in Baltimore last November, where backroom deals between the city and the bishops forced us to have to sue — and win — simply to exercise our First Amendment rights, we had the occasion to talk with a bishop I have known personally for a number of years. I asked him point blank, "Your Excellency, straight up, what exactly is the bishops' problem with Church Militant?" He said, "Honestly? No soft-selling?" I said, "Straight up." He said, "It's because you're divisive; you create division." 

Now, for the record, we hear that charge leveled against us all the time by bureaucratic bishops and their sycophants, so it's not like we were appalled. In fact, my only thought was, "Here we go again with the same old deflection." That led to us having a brief discussion on the question of being "divisive." I said, "Your Excellency, how can any of you call us divisive for simply shining a light on the division you all have created by coddling homosexuals within your own ranks, the destruction of the liturgy and so forth?" We don't create it; we just talk about it, while you guys sweep it under the rug.

He said — in a way that actually surprised me — "How do you know all the gay stuff you guys report on is true? Where's the proof?" That is actually a hysterical, uninformed question (or one meant to completely deflect from what he already knew), implying we have no idea of what we report on, don't check the facts (nor double check them) and all that kind of thing.

So I proposed to him that once we get back to Detroit, let me go through our archives — thousands of such stories about the sodomite culture in the clergy — and send him one. I then offered to meet with him and any other bishops at a private location without anyone else knowing, totally off the record, to have a frank discussion about all of this.

They could ask whatever they wanted, and I would be happy to answer because, frankly, we know a heck of a lot more than what we say publicly. The only reason we don't broadcast everything is that some of the info we have is so limited in regards to who actually knows it, that if we said it out loud, bishops could easily figure out the source and retaliate against them.

Strange business this is, exposing the vast corruption in the Church while having to protect good men in the Church from being exposed. I never really faced these problems in my secular news career, at least not like this. But then again, our sources were seldom from a man who was under obedience and could be completely screwed over for the rest of his natural life by a vindictive homosexual "queen" wearing a miter. So we returned to Detroit; I filled the staff in on the discussion and asked them, "Which story have we done that you would consider would give the bishop the proof he said he needed about gay clergy?"

Quick aside — I don't believe for one minute the bishops, any bishop, is unaware of this filth, but I told him I would provide it, so I did. Through a mutual acquaintance, we sent him our report on the Church's own internal investigation on the South American gay-seminarian pipeline, a story that Church Militant broke, and the entire Catholic establishment media was absolutely crickets on — not a peep.

Another quick aside — the Catholic establishment media, such as it is, is completely revolting and disgusting, and if they don’t think they will have to answer to Almighty God when they die for their complicity and cooperation in the spiritual victimization of souls they participate in by covering up for and enabling gay bishops and priests, then they have another thought coming.

So how did it all end? We sent the video file through a mutual friend, so we knew he received it. We have no idea if he actually watched it; we never heard a peep from the bishop. If we revealed who he was — recently celebrated for his "bravery" — you’d be shocked. That was back in November.

This is how this crowd operates; they are disingenuous as hell — great actors, schemers and plotters, always ready to condemn those who are on to their game. But to the rest of the sleeping Catholic laity, they get to present themselves as the bishop who must be followed and obeyed, never questioned. And when caught red-handed, he can offer some crying-in-his-soup apology and then go straight back to his ways.

This is precisely why nothing ever changes in the Church of modernism, the Church of Nice, because for a myriad of reasons and rationalizations, the will to change is nonexistent. As circumstances would have it, we bumped into this bishop somewhat recently and exchanged greetings, albeit very briefly. He saw me for an instant, acknowledged me when I said "hello," and then, like a bolt of lightning, tipped his head and scurried away faster than a chariot ride to Heaven. The lesson here — even the ones you think are good, often are not. Just because they are better than Cupich or Tobin or McElroy doesn't mean jack. That’s a pretty low bar.

They are cowards who will not deal with the carnage in the Church in a straightforward manner because they know the personal cost they will have to pay. And like other "leaders" who are morally bankrupt or corrupt, they deflect from their own willful failures and refuse to consider the evidence — more specifically proof — that they themselves have asked for.

It’s a game to these men, not faith. Some of them are truly evil and wicked. Others are cowards, but none of them care enough about souls to do anything serious about it. The "good" ones have a cohort about them, usually wealthy enablers or lay Catholics high up in the Church establishment, who praise them and ignore their misdeeds so as to keep the laity peacefully asleep.

So as a brief mental exercise, knowing all this, which you would not know if Church Militant hadn't revealed it to you, answer the question: Who are the real "dividers"? And in case you are curious about exactly what report we sent to him, we've attached a link down below to Special Report: Episcopal Sodomy. No wonder he either didn't watch it or refused to acknowledge it — coward. Weak men are the bane of the Church and Western civilization.

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No matter how hard they try, the Marxists simply cannot leave the Church alone — the Catholic Church. Speaking spiritually, it's easy to understand why. Satan runs the Marxist media with its support for all kinds of evil, propagating the horrors of the sexual revolution. And because Satan knows the Catholic Church is the only legitimate religion on the earth — in human history, in fact — he aims all his firepower at Christ's mystical body. It is not very hard to do the math there. 

But what is curious is the question of his children here on earth. There is something in their psychology that draws them to the Church. They're practically obsessed with it. Check that. They are obsessed with it. It's almost always Catholic churches, Catholic families and so forth, in TV shows, movies, novels, you name it. There is something about the Church — magnetic, psychologically magnetic — where they simply cannot ignore it. So no one can be surprised when these periodic eruptions occur in the secular media, and it seems to be the case that these eruptions are becoming more frequent.

For example, within a 72-hour period, the Church was once again the subject of nonstop editorializing at major outlets. A few days back, The New York Times published a guest essay by Julia Yost from First Things entitled "New York's Hottest Club is the Catholic Church." It was a quaint piece on the increasing acceptance of Catholicism among the younger generations, in reaction to the increasing chaos in the world. It had a tinge of nostalgia sprinkled in with a touch of admiration for the cultural trend. 

The piece focuses on a neighborhood in Manhattan called "Dimes Square," which has become something of a haven for those fed up with the zeitgeist, focusing on a blend between traditional Catholicism and Trumpism — a confident yet somewhat mellow approach to fighting back and resisting. It was certainly flattering and somewhat shocking on the pages of the New York Times, no doubt. But of course, anything even remotely favorable to Catholicism immediately brings out the boobirds. 

In this case, it was the radical leftists at Slate who castigated the Times for publishing anything non-condemnatory of the Church. The most revealing line in the Slate piece was regarding "traditionalists," a word the author has no clue as to its meaning. She says, "many [traditionalists] are campaigning, sometimes quite vehemently, for the stripping of rights from women and queer people." And there you have it. Slate correctly intuits that any faithful Catholicism must rebel against the sexual revolution. Too bad the bishops haven't figured that out yet.

And if this wasn't enough (the Times/Slate coverage), a day or so later, yet another tête-à-tête broke out between The Atlantic and Fox News, again regarding Catholicism. This skirmish began with a heavily insulting piece written by a paid online "hate researcher" (whatever that is) who is employed by a Toronto Holocaust museum. The name of his piece — or, rather, the original title — was this: "How the Rosary Became an Extremist Symbol." Not very flattering. 

The blowback was so severe that The Atlantic changed the name of the article so absurdly, that it didn't even reflect the content. It went from "How the Rosary Became an Extremist Symbol" to "How Extremist Gun Culture is trying to Co-Opt the Rosary." That is quite the difference. The young fellow who wrote it clearly has a next-to-zero understanding of Catholic theology as well as Catholic devotional and spiritual life. He conflates all kinds of things that are, in their essence, unrelated. 

He doesn't know his Catholic vocabulary, doesn't know Catholic spirituality and doesn't know much about history. But hey, why would you need to know Catholic theology, devotions and spirituality to write a piece on Catholic theology, devotions and spirituality? What's important is that he is an "online hate researcher" and was casting about for something, anything, in the Catholic world to portray as "hate." Hey, Dan, you went barking up the wrong tree.

In fact, in a game of low-hanging fruit, we actually challenged the clueless kid to a debate or at least an interview. I sent him multiple tweets, a large number of which were retweeted, saying let's hash it out. In one, I pointed out to him that if he accepts, then he might want to bone up because we wrote a book, The Weapon, all about the Rosary. If you would like, it's available in our bookstore, and, on a personal note, of the four I have authored, this is hands down my favorite. Just click on the store link on the site to order a copy. Thank you in advance.

Young Dan is like so many his age, full of the narrative, with no ability to think clearly and absorb anything deeper. They set out to find some evidence of a preconceived story they are convinced is true and then just grab whatever they can and jam it into the storyline — even if it barely fits, or even doesn't fit. It's kind of like a cop being so convinced that Bob committed the crime that he just plants the evidence on him, convinced that he is justified in doing so because, you know, he's right. 

The mainstream media refuses to admit they have a worldview. They are certainly allowed to have a worldview, even a wrong one, but they don't get to pretend they don't and then "investigate" things and "objectively" report on their findings. They aren't "findings." They're distortions, lies, fabrications and poorly reasoned positions, all at the service of the narrative, because the narrative is all that matters — kind of like having to break a few eggs to make an omelet. Unfortunate, certainly, but necessary.

What is it about Catholicism in these types of people's minds that must be "exposed"? Those sorts of questions — deeper questions are never even pondered in the minds of media critics — like the gang on Fox's noonday show, who did an admirable job of attacking The Atlantic for religious bigotry but completely whiffed on the larger point. 

As we proceed even deeper into these darker times, you can bet the mortgage that the unthinking mob sitting atop the ivory towers will continue to remain on the attack. For the sake of the innocent and persuadable, they must be resisted. And no, Dan, we don't mean stringing you up from a tree by our beads, although we can imagine that's how you would interpret it. 

You'd be wrong, just as your current article shows your ignorance. At least we think it's ignorance. Feel free, Dan, to reach out. We'd love to talk. And no, we aren't being cheeky or facetious. You need some schooling, as well as the humility to understand that. But humility isn't really the currency of the Left.

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If you even remotely follow Church Militant, you are aware of our devotion to Our Blessed Mother. While the name of the apostolate is St. Michael's Media, we have also consecrated ourselves and our work here to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. We make that consecration every day in our chapel, during morning prayer. And just so you know, the prayer book we have published is available for sale, if you would like. Just go onto the site, and click on the store. We recently updated it.

Now, as you know, our main stage here in the studio is dominated by an awesome statue of St. Michael, the patron of this apostolate. That statue is one of the earliest purchases we made, 16 years ago. And he sat on the stage of our original show, The One True Faith, for every taping. When we eventually moved him to his current home on this stage, we said, "We need Our Blessed Mother in the opposite corner!" 

So almost nine months ago, we placed our order. A few days ago, she arrived. We unveiled her on Church Militant Evening News a couple of nights ago. And in case you missed that broadcast, we'd like to show you us, unveiling Mommy.