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Today's Vortex is the second half of our Church Militant Spotlight investigation into Bp. Richard Stika of the diocese of Knoxville, Tennessee. 

Watch Part I here. 

Today's Vortex is the first half of our Church Militant Spotlight investigation into Bp. Richard Stika of the diocese of Knoxville, Tennessee. 

Watch Part II here. 

TRANSCRIPT

In the midst of the global craziness that has become the new norm, we must remember that "the Catholic lens" must always be at hand. Everything that happens in the world must be viewed through this lens — and not just in big-stage global affairs, but in our own individual lives. 

Most people don't make the necessary intellectual jump from "the world" to "their world" — as in your household, your children, your day-to-day life, your soul. But the globalists have made that connection. In fact, they created it, and they even trumpet it, as World Economic Forum leader Klaus Schwab bragged about at the recently concluded Davos meeting in Switzerland.

A combination of many forces has brought the world to the brink of all this — technology, media, education, economics, politics. All these forces, each in the hands of spiritual degenerates, have created a new order for the world. 

True, the plan has been around for centuries, and that plan has been the destruction of the Christian order of the world, but until certain pieces were put in place, it could not accelerate. Those pieces are now being put into place, and we have seen some of this play out already:

It never ends. The entire point is to wipe away any vestige of Christianity — specifically Catholicism — because until the Faith is crushed underfoot, they don't have total control, as founder of the Italian Communist Party Antonio Gramsci admitted back in the 1930s.

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The very first requirement in battle is to know your enemy. You must know who you are fighting and what his strengths are — that allows you to draw up a plan of attack.

Don't overestimate him, certainly, but do not underestimate him. Doing either of those hinders your planning and could easily spell defeat.

In the battle for the culture, any thought that politics alone will win things back is decidedly wrongheaded. Politics has become a necessary battlefield, absolutely; but that's only because battles farther back down the line have already been lost. In a manner of speaking, the political world is our last stand.

However, for faithful Catholics, there is a much larger battle that must be fought, and, we're sorry to report, most Catholics are completely delusional when it comes to understanding this battle.

First, being delusional is the understandable human response. Human nature, fallen human nature, never wants to really embrace the magnitude of any evil right in front of it. It does so in stages; it goes through a process and digests it slowly. And oftentimes, as the enormity of what stares us in the face comes into sharp focus, we recoil and look for easy answers.

Again, it's a totally understandable response because what we are seeing in the Church is frightening. When people sense their world actually collapsing around them, many retreat into whatever comfort they can find.

It's akin to the "comfort food syndrome" of eating foods we like when we are emotionally overwhelmed or stressed or whatnot. Some people can't deal with things, so they look for an emotional diversion.

When battling evil in the Church, given the eternal stakes at play, the fear is compounded, and so the desire to find an easy answer, a quick fix, naturally arises. This desire takes various forms, depending on the person and his personality.

Some just stick their heads in the sand and say things like, "Oh, the Church has been through bad times before — no big deal," or, "We know who wins in the end."

Both of these and similar thought patterns are born from cowardice, an unwillingness to face the full truth of what is happening. It's like Hitler in his bunker deploying imaginary army groups to wipe out the approaching Russians. The truth is, a failure to sufficiently comprehend a crisis actually increases the crisis.

On the other hand, there are people who do grasp the reality, but respond poorly, deluding themselves into thinking there is one overarching solution — the "silver bullet."

Unlike the other group that refuses to grasp the severity of what's playing out, this group "gets it," but is massively fanciful in their minds about what to do.

You find this approach among people, for example, who think that all they have to do is go to the Latin Mass and all will be fine. There was even a woefully naive slogan a few years back that said, "Save the Liturgy, save the world." But to place all your eggs in one basket is fool's gold.

First of all, the Church began to visibly fall apart when the Latin Mass was the dominant Liturgy, so how did that happen? Every bishop at Vatican II was schooled, formed and consecrated in the Old Rite. Again, how did that happen?

Even the tendency to just point at Vatican II and blame everything on that is misguided — but it is easy, which makes that approach attractive. Likewise, there is another group that is so distressed at affairs in the Church that they chase prophecies and visions and apparitions and secret unapproved messages "from Heaven."

Every bit of this smacks of Gnosticism — secret, privileged knowledge — and, ultimately, is rooted in pride. But what the new Gnosticism and the "silver bullet" crowd have in common is that they never get down to business. They do not want to look this filth in the Church squarely in the face and properly diagnose it. They won't spend time learning the history, for example, of how we got where we are. 

It's too easy to just sit on social media and read some report of an unapproved apparition somewhere that speaks to their own personality traits. Too many people want signs and wonders such as Our Lord splitting open the sky, hurling down lightning bolts and a host of other instant cures.

Of course, Our Lord can do that whenever He wants, if He wants, but "hope" is not a strategy.

On the point of learning, Church Militant has produced a series of reports and investigations on how we got to where we are. These span centuries, from the philosophical collapse originating with Martin Luther, to the societal trends and the failure of various Church leaders to confront these evils.

We go deeply into the role the Rockefeller family played in all this at the end of the 19th century and then the cooperation with all that by notable clerics like Notre Dame's president Theodore Hesburgh.

We take a deep look into the modern homosexual rights movement, which began in Germany in the 19th century, and we explore at great length the rise and advance of Freemasonry and the dominant role it has played in all of this.

We were the first Catholic outfit to produce any meaningful programming on the connection between Saul Alinsky and the U.S. bishops, which is the very thing that started them paying attention to us and eventually understanding the danger we posed to their wickedness. In short, they'd been discovered.

Likewise, we investigate the phony "man-made climate change" movement, which goes back much farther than almost anyone realizes.

Church Militant has spent literally thousands of hours researching and producing these investigations. They are all right here on the website under "All Shows" and then "FBI—Faith-Based Investigations."

We started producing them back in 2009 once we caught on to what was going on in the Church, and we set on a course to unearth the reason why things were so bad. What we discovered in all these investigations is that the problem is not some simple thing, nor is the solution a simple one. It is, in fact, much more serious and deeper than almost anyone realizes, and that means there will not be an easy, short solution to this. It will require a multi-generational attack; a relentless, constant war.

In truth, we should have been in this mindset all along, but as the servants in the gospels came to understand, they fell asleep, and the enemy planted the seed while they were sleeping.

It's pretty clear that for the foreseeable future, the hierarchy as a whole is a lost cause, especially with the recent appointment and promotions by Pope Francis. It is, in a term, a total disaster.

To date, the response from the laity at large has been woefully inadequate. In fact, it's been naive and cowardly. That will have to change — a mobilization of those who believe and love the truth must develop.

Church Militant has already begun this process with our Church Militant Resistance. Resistance is a Catholic grassroots operation founded and organized by Church Militant to help Catholics learn the riches of their Faith, increase in holiness, strive for strong virtue and combat the heresies and abuses that have infiltrated the Church. We don't trick your email out of you by pretending that if you sign this or that petition it will make some difference. It won't. What petition drives will do is ask you for a ton of requests for donations, but they won't accomplish anything substantive in the war. It will just make you think you've actually done something, but you haven't.

This will be a long and arduous war with no silver bullet, no simple anything.

This is the greatest crisis to ever face the Church, and it's been over a century in the making. It's time now for those who want to fight to step up and be completely dedicated to the cause.

Catholic saints must now arise and answer the call. 

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Wow, what a difference a holiday weekend makes — especially for bad men.

Let's start, shall we, in Rome, with the "shocking" not-shocking news that Pope Francis elevated one of the most homosexual-friendly bishops in the United States, Robert McElroy of San Diego, to the College of Cardinals.

Seriously, a known sodomy-supporting bishop has been put in the position of voting for the next pope. But of course, on that score, he's not the only one (Cupich in Chicago and Tobin in Newark, just to name a few).

Still, there is a certain stench around this particular appointment — and that's saying something when you consider those other two. McElroy, for example, had been informed about Theodore McCarrick before all the news about the ex-cardinal homopredator and, of course, deep-sixed it.

In a 2016 interview with the heterodox Jesuit magazine America, he said, "The destructive attitude of many Catholics to the gay and lesbian community is motivated by a failure to comprehend the totality of the Church's teaching on homosexuality." He says active, unrepentant homosexuals can have Catholic funerals.

At a series of 2018 "listening sessions" about the clerical sex abuse crisis, McElroy tossed out some young, devout Catholics who were asking questions he didn't like about homosexuality. He was the featured speaker at the 2018 Association of United States Catholic Priests' meeting — a pro-gay organization.

He's on record as saying the Catechism needs to change its language and not call homosexual acts intrinsically disordered. He asserts the insane claim that climate change kills more people each year around the world than abortion. That's 40 million victims, for the record.

He never stops going on about illegal immigration — as in the need for everyone to be let in. Yep, this guy's a real winner. And now, he's on track to have a say in who the next pope will be.

I bet he votes for himself.

And speaking of winners, also as the Memorial Day weekend approached, Dubuque archbishop Michael Jackels issued one of the most demeaning letters you could imagine to Catholics in his archdiocese in reaction to the recent Buffalo and Uvalde mass shootings.

He says, for example, "You've got to wonder about reasons for refusing reasonable limits on gun ownership," and adds, "we readily identify things like abortion and capital punishment as life issues, but protecting the earth, our common home, or making food, water, shelter, education and health care accessible, or defense against gun violence ... these are life issues too."

Ah, the voice of homopredator Cdl. Joseph Bernardin and his "seamless garment" garbage screams from his grave yet again.

In the minds of these prelates, everything is a life issue, but what they always fail to state is that there is a hierarchy of life issues. They are not all equal.

The only reason abortion exists is to deliberately kill an innocent human. That's it. But the crazy archbishop then goes on to attack Catholics fighting abortion, saying:

Some people want to repair the scandal of pro-choice Catholic politicians by refusing them the Eucharist. But that's a misguided response for at least two reasons: As Jesus said, it's the sick people who need a doctor, not the healthy, and He gave us the Eucharist as a healing remedy; don't deny the people who need the medicine.

That is so theologically twisted that it proves the reality of just how malformed these old men are. Notice how he conflates two unrelated aspects here.

True, Our Blessed Lord did say the sick need a doctor, but it was not in any manner in context with reception of Holy Communion. It was when the hypocritical Pharisees challenged Him for eating with tax collectors — nothing to do with the Eucharist.

So is Jackels just stupid about that, or is he deliberately misleading? 

As for the point about the Eucharist being medicine — again, more twisting of truth. A soul in a state of mortal sin (Catholic pro-abort politicians, for example) is dead.

Hence, the term "mortal sin" — a concept that seems lost on most of the U.S. hierarchy, perhaps because many of them are likely in that state themselves, given the condition of the Church and their preaching. You can't administer medicine to a corpse, Archbishop.

But then he brings it home: "Also, to be consistent, to repair the scandal of Catholics being indifferent or opposed to all those other life issues, they would have to be denied Holy Communion as well."

Umm, no they wouldn't. Not even close.

No Catholic is deliberately voting in support of gun rights so that mass shootings will happen, Archbishop. No Catholic is voting to deny food, water, shelter, education and health care to people.

This is the distinction that these liberal (or malformed) bishops never seem to make. And the Catholic mind makes distinctions because distinctions need to be made. A person's intent matters.

Abortion is done intending to kill an innocent life. Period. And not just an innocent life, but the most vulnerable life you can imagine, with zero capacity to defend itself. These other smokescreen issues are just that — smokescreen. They are a balancing of rights with other rights, and, in political terms, they result in policies that often are imperfect. But to suggest that those on either side are heartless killers and should be denied Holy Communion is absurd and insulting.

Nancy Pelosi and many other so-called Catholics are heartless killers, Archbishop. In no way can they be compared to Catholics who support the Second Amendment. You're theologically nuts, Archbishop. Completely crazy.

Where did you go to seminary, Our Lady of Climbing the Episcopal Ladder? You owe Catholics an apology for your muddled, confusing letter.

This is the sorry state of the episcopate these days — nutty statements fired off by old men in miters who feel (feel, not think) they speak with some authority that allows them to override Catholic teaching and just plain old common sense.

Jackels, in his letter, does not speak for the Church because he does not speak with a Catholic mind or heart or even a Catholic sense. But if he keeps stupidly yammering on like that, who knows, maybe he'll be the next U.S. cardinal.

He's only 68, which means if he became a cardinal, he could keep screwing up the Church for another dozen years, just like McElroy, who is also just 68.

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The rogues in Catholic leadership are really getting their knickers in a bunch these days, specifically over Church Militant.

Back in March, immediately after Pope Francis' consecration of Russia, a bunch of the rogues met at what was, in essence, a secret, invitation-only meeting in Chicago — home to sodomy-loving Cdl. Blase Cupich.

Among the attendees was Cupich (of course); vice-pope Cdl. Óscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga of Tegucigalpa, Honduras; Newark's Joseph Tobin (of "nighty night, baby" fame — as well as having an Italian homosexual underwear model live in his rectory, pretending he was taking English classes at Seton Hall University); Cdl. Seán O'Malley of Boston; Abp. Mitchell Rozanski of St. Louis (named in a current lawsuit for gay sex-abuse cover-up); and even Christophe Pierre, the papal nuncio to the United States.

Church Militant already reported on them all being together in Holy Name Cathedral, pretending to care about the Faith, on the Friday of the consecration. And then, a short while later, Religion News Service actually published an article on the gathering.

One of the organizers of the event was Michael Sean Winters of National Catholic Reporter infamy, who announced to the assembled rogues' gallery of the enemies of the Church (quoting the article now): 

Even so, the conference singled out voices who, though popular among some conservative Catholics, have come to represent opposition to Francis in the United States. Winters argued there is "no value in having a dialogue with Michael Voris, for instance, referring to the head of Church Militant, a conservative Catholic media outlet long condemned by critics."

That's funny — the "let's dialogue until we vomit in our own mouths" crowd all of a sudden start denouncing dialogue. Translation: We don't want to talk with anyone who disagrees with us or anyone who knows how truly wicked and subversive we are and can expose us.

National Catholic Reporter, nicknamed "The Distorter" for its deliberate mangling of Church teaching, was ordered more than 50 years ago to drop the word "Catholic" from its title, by its local bishop. They flipped him off and went on subverting the Church.

Almost 10 years ago, then-bishop Robert Finn of Kansas City, where NCR is located, published this about the renegade outfit:

My predecessor bishops have taken different approaches to the challenge. Bishop Charles Helmsing, in October of 1968, issued a condemnation of the National Catholic Reporter and asked the publishers to remove the name "Catholic" from their title — to no avail. From my perspective, NCR's positions against authentic Church teaching and leadership have not changed trajectory in the intervening decades.

Notice that specific language — "NCR's positions against authentic Church teaching." Nothing has changed with these dirtbags in half a century, and nothing ever will. They are open enemies of Christ and His Holy Church, and the same goes for the members of the hierarchy who support them.

And yet, many people decry what the article called Church Militant's "incendiary rhetoric." For the record, it won't be anywhere near as incendiary as the fires of Hell, which they will all find themselves in if they don't repent. They, including these bishops, all oppose Church teaching. They say the Church is "wrong," that its teachings need to be reversed and sodomy and contraception (and a host of other sexual immoralities) need to be embraced by the Church.

I hope you don't, but if you insist, then go to Hell, all of you — posthaste before you inflict even more evil on unsuspecting sheep. These men do not accept, they deny, the Deposit of Faith; and yet, somehow, are treated as legitimate Catholics.

Would Planned Parenthood allow a group of "dialogue-minded pro-lifers" within their ranks, to portray themselves as pro-choice? Would the Democratic Party permit the existence of a pro-Trump contingent or an anti-Obama faction?

They would be decried and ejected immediately — if it were even ever possible for such groups to emerge in the first place. And no secular media outfit would give them the time of day because they would not be legitimate. Yet, somehow, the enemies of Christ within the Church are allowed to be treated by media and others as having a "legitimate" voice.

These types are on the record as opposed to Church teaching. How are they ever able to be legitimate? That's like treating the United Negro College Fund as a bona fide wing of the Ku Klux Klan, or the National Socialist faction of the Anti-Defamation League as somehow authentic.

Men like Cupich and Tobin and Maradiaga and Rozanksi and McElroy (and so forth) do legitimately hold office, no question. But, then again, so did Judas. These twisted spiritual perverts and destroyers are connivers, combining with their fellow non-ordained connivers and perverts to destroy souls, to so disfigure the Church and get it to bless their evil so as to alleviate their own guilty consciences.

They certainly will not be the first in the 2,000 years of the Church, and likely will not be the last. But all that means is, to quote the psalms, "They shall go to be with their fathers, who never see the light anymore."

Today's Vortex is the opening segment of the May 3, 2022, episode of Evening News.

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They've never wanted to actually say that out loud over the past half century. In fact, they've declared the exact opposite, falsely claiming that the more contraception is available, the fewer abortions there will be. That seems logical on a superficial level but once you dig down one layer, the lie is exposed.

Widespread use of contraception creates a mindset that sex is solely for pleasure, and, when that mindset seizes hold, then the floodgates open. People come to view sex from a self-centered point of view. In short, it's all about my orgasm, consequences be damned. If and when the consequence is a baby, then the response from a selfish person is to just kill the child, and, frankly, for such a person, why wouldn't that be their conclusion? Makes perfect sense within the world of self-centeredness.

That world is created by the contraceptive mentality that says, "Sex is all about me, my orgasm, my pleasure." The late Fr. John Hardon once said: 

The reason we have such massive slaughter of innocents is because we have become a fornicating society, an adulterous society, a homosexual society and a contraceptive society. Unchaste people are selfish people. They will not stop at murder if an unborn child would be a burden to their indulgence and sexual pleasure.

The idea of having consequences and responsibilities attached to pleasure is anathema to the contraceptive crowd. But most so-called conservatives are part of the contraceptive crowd. Steven Crowder said that "there's an easier and cheaper way to not have kids instead of murdering babies — condoms." But he couldn't be more wrong.

This contraceptive mentality is why we see and have so much proliferation of sexual immorality — be it cohabitation, fornication, pornography, adultery and so forth. This is the whole evil logic underlying gay sex and the twisted legal logic for gay marriage — also brought to us courtesy of the U.S. Supreme Court, seven years ago.

All of this current crisis of sexual immorality and its devastating consequences can be traced back to the acceptance of contraception during the sexual revolution and its enshrinement by the high court in its 1965 Griswold v. Connecticut ruling.

In that case, in a 7–2 vote, the court struck down anti-contraception laws across the country and created the so-called "right to privacy," the same right which would then go on to be used in Roe eight years later. The sexual passions were thus unbridled and set loose, given legal protection and promotion. Like demons swarming out of Pandora's box, there would be no controlling them.

Interestingly, however, the Left admits this connection readily now. During the Amy Coney Barrett nomination hearings, she was pressed by Democrat senators on her view of Griswold. All over social media, in the wake of the leak of the draft from the Supreme Court, Marxists are up in arms, declaring, "If Roe falls, your constitutional right to birth control will also be in jeopardy."

But the Marxists aren't just worried about their contraception — they're worried also about their gay sex as well, legalized by Obergefell in 2015. Wishful thinking there, sadly. No, that won't happen, because social and political conservatives embrace the contraceptive mentality — they just don't like the one consequence of it, child killing.

But, as far as most of the self-identifying conservatives are concerned, all the rest of it is fair game. Pornography, masturbation, hookup culture, divorce and remarriage, gay marriage, cohabitation — everything is on the table. But if you get pregnant, just please don't kill the baby, but everything else is fine.

That is the heart of the contraception mentality, and it's the compromise with the Devil that the so-called Right has made. And here comes the zinger. The reason why so many social conservatives have hopped in bed with the Devil is because they want to have consequence-free sex themselves. In other words, they support contraception.

But when you support the underlying cause of abortion, you can't turn around and then condemn abortion itself. The culture has become thoroughly corrupted by this compromise with evil by the Right.

It was the so-called Right that first accepted and embraced contraception most, especially Protestants (beginning with the Anglicans in 1930 at their Lambeth Conference in London). Within 30 years or so here in America, Catholic bishops, now beginning to drown in homosexuality within their own ranks, simply shut up in the face of the contraceptive juggernaut. They have remained that way ever since, even down to today.

So what have we learned from the Supreme Court leak? We learned that the Left understands the connection between abortion and contraception and gay marriage and so forth. The Right, on the other hand, as usual, is fine with compromise.

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We here at Church Militant have been saying it for years and years — politics is downstream from culture. And, unless the culture starts producing men of virtue and nobility, the culture is dead — which means politics becomes a haunt for the diabolical, a means by which demons can do mop-up duty with the few remaining citizens who are good.

But there is a growing awareness of the reality of all this, especially among faithful Catholics who understand that, as a nation, we may be approaching the final battle for our existence and they need to step up. As you know, Church Militant has interviewed a good number of these folks from around the nation — as well as others who are not Catholic, but are men of goodwill who do understand the crisis we are in and just need some formation.

But there is little else more formidable than a solid Catholic who commits himself to the fight for souls, especially in the rough and tumble of politics. One such man in the fight is John Gibbs, a convert to Catholicism who enjoys the endorsement of President Trump in his campaign to become the U.S. representative for Michigan's 3rd congressional district, which encompasses the Grand Rapids area on the state's west side.

Gibbs is running against Peter Meijer, a RINO Republican who was one of the 10 House Republicans (like Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger) who voted to impeach Trump in January of 2021 — thus betraying the rank and file. Meijer got into office on Trump's coattails in 2020, even though the election was stolen from Trump himself.

All across the country — powered by the America first movement — Republicans swept into office. But some, like Meijer, quickly revealed their true colors and lack of fortitude, turning traitor and ignoring the peasantry. Meijer comes from the billionaire family that owns the Meijer supermarket chain in the Midwest, with more than 200 stores and $20 billion in sales.

He is the son of one of the co-CEOs, Hank, who, while he retired in 2017, is still on the board — along with his brother. Forbes Magazine has the brothers (Peter's dad and uncle) rated as the 95th most wealthy people in the world, with their accumulated wealth of $17 billion.

So Peter Meijer isn't exactly the poster boy for a "man of the people," which would explain why he is so out of touch with the rank and file of his own party. A little more mingling with the unwashed masses and a couple less hours at the country club might have served him well. What motivates Meijer is unknown, but it sure doesn't seem to be much other than staying in good with the anti-Trump establishment at GOP headquarters.

As of this Vortex, every Republican running for office who has received Trump's endorsement has won his or her primary. The old GOP is passing away — may, in fact, already be dead. This is Trump's party now, and the establishment is having apoplexy over that. They will, in fact, commit political suicide to prevent the rank and file from becoming the leaders.

Gibbs went to Stanford for his undergraduate degree and earned his post-graduate degree from Harvard. He worked in the Trump administration as assistant secretary to Ben Carson at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, where he earned high praise from Carson. And, most of all, he is the very type of man that the GOP establishment is terrified of.

Gibbs is motivated by his love of God, which animates his entire worldview. The GOP establishment is motivated by its love of itself. Gibbs converted to Catholicism last year and regularly attends Latin Mass at a diocesan parish in Grand Rapids. It's from his faith that his worldview, including politics, flows. 

While the GOP establishment has made much money and hay wrapping itself in the American flag and holding up a cross, it hasn't translated into very much in terms of action. Gibbs means to put an end to that and believes the silent majority of rank-and-file Republicans see things the same way. Gibbs, as we said earlier, is among a growing number of Republican candidates who are spelling the end of the way business used to be done in the Grand Old Party.

His narrative, his story, is not unlike many other stories of candidates arising from the ashes of a decaying culture, intent on resurrecting good and morality and virtue. So far, with his endorsements, Trump's record has been perfect, and many here in Michigan have their eyes fixed on this race — a sitting RINO vs. a Trump-endorsed new breed of Republican.

To watch the entire interview, which we highly recommend, please click on the provided link. Michigan's primary is Aug. 2nd.

Today's Vortex is the opening segment of the May 6, 2022 episode of Evening News, which celebrates our 16-year anniversary.