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Almost everywhere you go in the Church today, you see all the signs of total collapse.

For example, in Detroit, in what has become emblematic of the destruction of the Church in the United States, yet another empty church has met the wrecking ball (All Saints) in a once-thriving Catholic area of the city.

These images were captured by Church Militant less than a day before the mural of Our Blessed Mother, which had been in the sanctuary for decades, was smashed by the demolition crew. Within the next few days, all of this will be torn down — a living testament to the death of the archdiocese under its corrupt archbishop, Allen Vigneron.

This is all fitting, of course, since the demolition of the Church in America began right here in Detroit under the notorious Cdl. John Dearden, the same man who ordained Vigneron. In 1990, there were more than 400 parishes here. When Vigneron hands in his retirement letter in about 20 months, he will have overseen one of the most unimaginable contractions of the Church in the whole nation — down to what amounts to about 50 parishes, thanks to a clever and canonically illegal scheme he calls "families of parishes."

Yet another example of "managing the decline" is what corporate America calls "going out of business."

It's a deceptive way of making it seem like there are more parishes than there actually are — yet more trickery from a trickster and a deceptive-minded hierarchy that has raised its craft to an art form. So looking to the future, where do we go? What exactly are we looking at?

As part of the overall managing of the decline, one thing bishops have done is invest heavily in what could be called the "joy movement." Bishops have used the inexperience and naivete of the youth to infect that group, attempting to fool them into a mindset of an almost saccharine approach to the Faith.

It's heavily feminine in its emotion-laden philosophy. Its first directive is to be sure to not offend anyone — or make them feel uncomfortable.

The movement itself is low on thorough catechesis and high on smiling, being full of joy — at least, supposedly. But what it is most lacking is any real, substantive knowledge of the actual condition of the Church, the massive corruption which persists at every level.

Not only are many of these "joyful missionary disciples" (a favorite term of the bishops) lacking in knowledge of the corruption, they are even more bereft of knowledge of the causes. It's almost as if the few remaining youths who were not raped, abused or lied to about the Faith got shuffled into these Stepford-wife youth movements within the Church structure and given gallons of joy Kool-Aid.

It comes across quite frequently as either a phony joy or one based on extreme naivete. Will the joyful disciples challenge their bishops or adult team leaders on the actual pressing questions of the day in the Church? Will they ensure that after they have finished talking to a fellow collegian or high schooler, for example, that he or she doesn't go back to a parish lacking reverence or, for that fact, a heterosexual priest?

They may have good intentions (likely do), but they are ill-equipped to deal with the corruption and actual malice on the part of senior clergy who embrace homosexuality, refuse to tell the truth, pretend all religions are of the same worth and on and on and on. They are being emotionally abused by their elders, because they are being lied to every day.

It is not possible to authentically evangelize a person today and simply not know, to a sufficient degree, about the evil that resides in the hierarchy — as well as the lay leadership of these various youth outfits. You see it, on a local level, in thousands of parish youth groups, where faith is the last item on the agenda.

And you see it in the more far-flung national outfits, where adult leaders profit handsomely off the backs of kids who go out and earn money for them, all under the guise of bringing college-age kids or young adults to the Faith. The bishops and the adult organizers are banking on youthful optimism to keep them in the dark about their own dealings, wickedness and corruption.

By the time these youths have grown up and married and have toddlers of their own, the Church will have been wiped out, and they will have been unwitting instruments in its destruction.

The "joy" that the bishops and adult leaders have instilled in these bright young men and women is a superficial joy. Stay smiling, never give offense, always talk about the Holy Spirit and how He flutters around inside your heart. In fact, it's eerily similar to the presentation of religious belief exhibited by Protestant youth at their rock band, laser light show, praise and worship extravaganzas.

It's a naive understanding of Faith that, of course, is to be expected from most young people. They are naive about almost everything in the world. That's why the expression is "young and stupid" — because those two go together. At some point, a critical mass is reached as you age, and you realize life is not all strawberries and lollipops.

On the spiritual plane, what you come to realize is that there is a deadly war going on — brutal, vicious, demanding — a war with vast numbers of casualties and, most importantly, that the war effort has been hampered by the betrayal of many leaders.

Of course, it takes time to come to this truth. The problem is, by the time many come to it, they are already among the walking dead, having long since abandoned either the practice of the Faith or sufficient knowledge of it to grow in holiness.

No one is faulting young people for being where they are naturally as a result of being young. But regarding the adults, the lay leaders of the "joy movement" as well as the bishops who tirelessly promote it, they are a different story.

They capitalize on the ignorance and inexperience of youths and betray them. They use them as poster children (literally children) to conceal their own wickedness in having long-since abandoned the Faith.

Think back to the youth meeting, for example, where a young man challenged Cdl. Wilton Gregory in Washington, D.C., about the homosexual rector of the Basilica of the National Shrine, Msgr. Walter Rossi. Gregory, a key cog in the gay clerical network, feigned ignorance of the Rossi scandal, actually sitting on stage lying to an audience of young adults.

Rossi has been an active homosexual for decades (sharing luxury condominiums with a string of gay-lover priests) and has been protected by his homosexualist bishop, registered-Democrat Joseph Bambera of Scranton.

Likewise, he rose to influence under the oversight of the likes of disgraced homosexual-bishop Michael Bransfield, the lying and sexual abuse coverup of Cdl. Donald Wuerl and, of course, homopredator former-cardinal Theodore McCarrick.

And all of that is just one example of the wickedness of the hierarchy that (we're willing to bet) doesn't really come up very often at the "joy" coaching clinics young adults are tricked into believing. How are all these things related? Why does it matter, you may wonder?

Because the same wicked hierarchy and their corrupt counterparts in the world of lay leadership are the same ones "transmitting" the Faith to young adults. They are perfectly content to let them think the Faith is all rainbows and butterflies, with an accompanying encounter every now and then dealing with their peers.

They trick them into thinking they are changing the culture. Even if they do manage some success individually here or there, they aren't changing the culture. They are contributing to it, because of the feminized or sentimental approach young males learn in these youth movements. It's way too emotion-laden, too soft, too non-offensive.

If we need to see an example of changing the culture, look at the Apostles. They were all martyred or, in St. John's case, might as well have been, and it wasn't because they were non-offensive. It was, in fact, because they were offensive, unrelenting in telling the full truth. Their concern was not in smiling and being saccharine or presenting themselves as quasi-feminine.

They were brutally killed for the exact same reason Our Blessed Lord was — because they were unrelenting in openly opposing sin and wickedness in high places, places from which wicked men hurled down death, physical and spiritual.

The Apostles and first few centuries of Catholics understood, tacitly or not, the prevailing power structure had to be swept away, and, in order to be swept away, they would more than likely have to pay with their lives.

These youth movements, raised to their level of importance by the very men who need to be exposed for their evil, are not taught this — not by a large stretch. These "joyful missionary disciple" movements are a product of what is wrong in the Church, brought to you by the very men who helped bring this about.

Once again, the ancient philosophical axiom appears on the scene — you cannot give what you do not have. These "joyful missionary disciple" squads are constructed on the ignorance of their members and, therefore, have no ability to reform the Church because they have no understanding of what is corrupting the Church.

You can't make a project out of changing the culture if you don't first change the Church. You cannot give what you do not have and you cannot cure what you have not diagnosed. For anyone in one of these groups, consider this a type of wake-up call, an invitation to become aware and focus your good intentions on the real evil — the corruption of the hierarchy.

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I'm Michael Voris, coming to you from the Cleveland Right to Life–sponsored "Bringing America Back to Life" conference.

There is an optimism in the air here that, after a very, very long struggle for the pro-life movement, a critical juncture is about to be reached. That point will be the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Center case, expected to be handed down in just a little over three months.

Three months to go, and the countdown is on.

Pro-lifers have been disappointed many times in the past — too many to count, in fact — when they've placed their hopes on the high court. But this time, it does seem different.

It's always a little dangerous trying to predict a ruling based on the line of questions asked by the justices. But again, in the Dobbs case, it sure seems like at least something might be able to be gleaned.

The case revolves around a new law from Mississippi that lowers the period at which an abortion can be done down to 15 weeks.

Currently, the accepted standard is the point of viability (when the baby can survive on its own outside the womb), generally viewed as around 22–23 weeks. Of course, that is oftentimes ignored or simply bypassed with legal loopholes, effectively making the status quo abortion on demand right up to birth.

However, and here is the main issue, if the high court backs away from the point-of-viability standard and upholds Mississippi's new 15-week standard, the entire abortion debate will shift, and shift dramatically.

The point-of-viability argument has been a massive smokescreen for the child-killing crowd for decades, and for it to be erased just three months from now, after almost 50 years, would be beyond monumental. The child killers have set up camp under that argument, claiming time and again in court that it is a reasonable cut-off period for when abortion should be legal.

It's been, in essence, a line of defense for them saying any abortion before that moment should be legal and unchallenged and insisting that was the reasoning established by Roe v. Wade. But if this court ditches the point-of-viability position, which it would, in essence, do if it upholds the Mississippi law, then Roe is essentially DOA from this point forward.

And the logic here is pretty straightforward.

If we can roll back to 15 weeks, why can't we roll back to 10 weeks or 5 weeks or no weeks? Indeed, the Texas heartbeat law has rolled back abortion "rights" to a point that a good number of women are not even yet aware they are pregnant.

There is really no one on either side that believes the court will strike down the Mississippi law. The fact a majority of justices even decided to hear it at all, it immediately sent shockwaves through the child-killing crowd.

Within moments, the Luciferian media went into a state of mourning and lamentation, publishing zillions of articles and reports on the "death of Roe." Likewise, on the pro-life side, it was a virtual party atmosphere last December in front of the court at dawn the morning the arguments were being heard.

So, as to the question before the court as to the constitutionality of the Mississippi law, there is little doubt the justices will uphold it. The real question is, Will the court out-and-out overturn Roe, or will it simply neuter it (gut it but still leave it on the books)?

That decision will come down to Trump's appointees, specifically Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett — both Catholic.

It seems a foregone conclusion that Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito (also both Catholic), as well as Neil Gorsuch, are more than happy to simply strike down Roe entirely, to consign it to the proverbial ash heap of history.

So with those three, only two more justices would need to agree to get to a majority of five. Chief Justice John Roberts (also a Catholic) doesn't seem inclined to do so, which leaves, as we said, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett.

What Dobbs is turning into is a "Catholic moment" on the court. Even Gorsuch, while not professing the Faith, was Catholic in his childhood. So the fate of abortion being a constitutional right has now been placed in the hands of what amounts to six Catholic justices.

Will five, or even all six, finally deal the death blow to Roe, or will enough of them shrink from the moment and take the "safe" route? We'll know the answer to that in a little over three months. 

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I'm Michael Voris, coming to you from the "Bringing America Back to Life" conference just outside Cleveland, where pro-lifers are gathered in record numbers, determined to do something about the Marxist domination of the culture.

A common theme here is the favorability and high regard in which Donald Trump is held.

In 2016, Trump won a slight majority of the Catholic vote, helping propel him into the White House — as the Catholic vote almost always does. Likewise, in 2020, according to exit polls, Trump either tied or eked out a slight advantage among Catholic voters over Biden.

However, there is an odd twist in this case (with phony-Catholic Biden being in the White House). Trump, the non-Catholic, is more admired than the baptized Catholic, among Catholics.

In addition to being a polarizing force in the political world, Trump has pulled off the same feat in the Catholic world. The bishops generally detest (as does their entire retinue of liberal, loathsome lackeys) anything and everything Trumpian, including conservative Catholics.

Their overall despise for all things Trump is generally bound up with their overall despise for anything related to conservatism. The bishops are, almost to an individual, weak men — and weak men loathe strong men.

In fact, these weak men have a general overall distaste for muscular Catholicism. The fact that so many "muscular" Catholics are attracted to Trump's straight talk and direct manner is just another reason so many bishops detest Trump.

As much as the bishops say it's about his policies, underneath it all, it's really his style — the same style so many Catholics are drawn to.

What Trump has tapped into in the culture is precisely the same thing he has tapped into in the Church — an anger on the part of Catholics, men in particular, at being treated horribly by effeminate, weak men. Strong men normally just don't like weak men; they choose not to associate with them.

But weak men despise and loathe strong men. They become enraged in their presence because they see in them what is lacking in themselves. It's an interesting psychology at play, the same psychology at play when bishops sideline strong, masculine priests.

The crisis of manhood in the culture has its parallel in the Church, and it's what's behind everything. In fact, the bishops hate Church Militant and other similar Catholic outfits for exactly the same reason they hate Trump.

"Plainspeak" and direct language are the vocabulary of authentic manhood. But the flip side of that is also true. People like Trump as well as authentic expressions of the Faith precisely because they are both straightforward and unrelenting in calling out the garbage of weak-minded and weak-willed men.

Somewhere back in time, muscular Catholicism became viewed in a negative light, and the rise of the effeminate bishop began.

So now, Catholics, who no longer see any trace of masculinity in their religious leaders are looking outside the clergy and, in the political world, are focusing their attention on men like Trump.

Trump won the White House in 2016 because of the Catholic vote. In a certain sense, Trump is actually an unintended consequence of homosexuality and effeminacy in the U.S. hierarchy. It was, and is, their ongoing rejection of manhood that has caused Catholics to go scrambling outside of the official Church to recapture that reality.

And as long as they continue to cling to their pearls, real Catholics will continue to ignore them.

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For those of Irish heritage (which estimates place at roughly 25% of the U.S. population), today is a moment to stop and consider how the work of one man can change the world. 

Patrick converted Ireland, and, as the barbarian invasions of Europe began in earnest, it was Irish monks who preserved Western civilization by transcribing the classics and, of course, Scripture. 

They were among the first apostles of Patrick (after a manner of speaking), men whose families and earlier generations had converted to Catholicism and then committed themselves to the preservation of the Faith.

Eventually, Ireland became a mass producer of missionaries, carrying the Faith all over the world and, eventually, being one of the major sources of immigration to the United States thanks to the horrible conditions of life under British tyranny.

Today, however, the land of St. Patrick is barely recognizable as having any Catholic roots.

Hermann Kelly is the Founder of the Irish Freedom Party, a small political group looking to restore what has been wiped out in Ireland. He recognizes that much of the blame for what has happened in Ireland falls squarely on the shoulders of Church leaders.

With the collapse of moral and religious leadership, the entire nation has descended into darkness quickly. Ireland, perhaps the staunchest Catholic nation in the world at a time not too long ago, now accepts sodomy as marriage and child killing as a human right.

Ireland may, in fact, be the textbook example of what happens when a culture, thoroughly drenched and saturated in Catholicism, is betrayed by leaders and falls into complete secular darkness.

Michael Leahy is chairman of the Irish Freedom Party and recognizes that, in the absence of the Faith, the Irish nation began casting about for another direction — and walked away from the Church, opening themselves up for any storm that would come.

That storm would be a darkening of the mind and will when it came to controlling a population.

In many ways, Ireland has become emblematic of what has happened to the Church all over Western civilization. Religious leaders, unaccountable to anyone, eventually succumbed to the pleasures of earth.

They, in turn, perpetuated their own personal evil by recruiting, training and ordaining wicked men, disturbed men — many of them homosexual — who, in successive generations, warped the minds of the faithful, who gave them a free pass.

It would not be long after that (the corruption of the Faith) that the corruption of the culture would automatically follow, as automatic as night follows day.

That now places the onus squarely on the shoulders of the few remaining Catholics to dedicate themselves to the same work St. Patrick once did 1,600 years ago, converting pagans and barbarians to the One True Faith.

Saint Patrick was a man of intense prayer, but his love of souls was not confined to simply prayer. He was also a man of action — an ingredient in the work of the Church that many lay Catholics seem to happily overlook.

If you'd like to listen to that full interview with Hermann Kelly, please click on the provided link.

The best way to honor the Apostle of Ireland on this, his feast day, is to resolve within yourself that you are going to do something, to roll up your sleeves and get involved.

Catholics have always been willing to leave their comfort zone and get out into the world and fight.

In fact, if that had not been the case with the Roman Patrick, many of us would not have the Faith today.

Today's Vortex is Michael Voris' talk from the Cleveland Right to Life's Bringing America Back to Life Convention. 

The talk was recorded on March 11, 2022.

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That is the driving force behind our reporting on the corruption — to expose it and help end it. But given the nature of some of what we report (which is all-too-frequently gruesome), some people tell us things like, "I agree with what you're saying, it's just the tone."

Or another favorite (especially when we are exposing moral corruption, which largely centers around homosexuals in the clergy), "Its a little too, you know, direct."

This is not a truth issue. It's a sensitivity issue, and, frankly, the entire culture has been so emasculated that direct speak is frowned on because it offends people's politeness meter. Sometimes, often times, even, given what we're talking about, direct speak is not only preferred — but necessary.

Words, for example, like "gay" or "abortion" have become virtually emptied of their meaning because they are used so much. In the realm of homosexual predation by clergy, this topic also has become so frequently spoken of that it easy to forget that, behind each news report or story, there is a real victim — an innocent victim that is almost always a teenage boy.

But when we report on these evils, some people object and say our language isn't "nuanced" enough, that we should change up the vocabulary. Well, for those folks, we'd like to show you something and ask you how exactly you would speak of it — what words you would employ if you were trying to both expose the evil and defend the victim.

The report we are about to play for you is from three years ago and depicts the warped and twisted mind of a highly respected priest in the chancery in the diocese of Saginaw, Michigan, protected by his now-deceased bishop. The man is a pervert hiding behind his collar, seeking to sodomize a teenage boy he has been grooming for months, and, in this rare occurrence, there happen to be police audio recordings of the actual attempted anal rape — police recordings Church Militant obtained.

This is an up-close listen of what actually goes on, what the reality of all this evil is, not sanitized by soft, inoffensive language designed to cover up the truth. The Special Report is called "Inside the Mind of a Homopredator Priest."

As you view this, keep in your own mind that this is no isolated case. It is, in fact, normal for many bishops, their staffs and many priests. They promote and protect these sickos, these perverts, and knowingly set them loose on innocent young teenage boys.

The Church is rife with this filth, and the bishops who promote it by their silence and cover it up should be dealt with in the most severe manner possible. The clergy who do the deeds should never, ever be out in public again.

An update to this story before you view it — the homosexual pervert priest you'll hear in this report served only two years and is now out walking around.

When this is done, ask yourselves, does Church Militant really strike the wrong tone?

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War is always a frightening prospect, and back in the days of the Vietnam War, a multitude of songs were produced decrying war — in particular, Edwin Starr's notable hit, "War (What Is It Good For?)." The answer to the rhetorical question in the smash hit was "absolutely nothing."

That's not always the case, however, depending on what's being fought over. Sometimes, in a fallen world, war is necessary. But thinking of war in a different type of world, it's not only necessary but demanded. We're speaking here of spiritual war. Here, it is good; it's good for our salvation. In fact, without engaging in spiritual war, there is no salvation.

Here at Church Militant, spiritual war is what we are all about. And, seeing as how it's Lent, we'd like to focus on that for just a moment. We are all aware of the three pillars of Lent — prayer, fasting and almsgiving. Here at Church Militant (as a reminder), you can join us in either or both of our morning and evening Liturgy of the Hours.

Each morning, right here on the site, we livestream (beginning at 8 a.m. ET) the dayside shift praying the Rosary — followed immediately by morning prayer, the Liturgy of the Hours. As always, we invite you to add your prayers to ours. If you only have time for one or the other morning offerings, each takes about 20 minutes.

We begin with Rosary and move immediately into morning prayer. We also devote some of our chapel time in the morning to praying from our St. Michael's Chapel Prayer Book with prayers specific to this apostolate and the work we do.

Any of you who have been on any of our retreats with us are familiar with our little black book (available in our store as well).

Also, given that it's Lent, there is, of course, a pretty severe dialing back around here of the usual table of goodies that would normally be descended on as though by an Old Testament swarm of locusts. Alas for the crew, the pickings are pretty slim.

As in any truly Catholic crowd, Lent is taken pretty seriously around here, although let's just say we were grateful for the Solemnity of St. Joseph and are grateful for the upcoming Solemnity of the Annunciation this coming Friday.

As a brief programming note, Church Militant will be live on the air 30 minutes before Pope Francis begins the consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary in union with the bishops of the world. We'll have those details for you as Friday approaches.

The last pillar of Lent, of course, is almsgiving and, along these lines, we like to bring to mind that this is a work of the Church. It's your apostolate — we just run it on the day to day. If you love what we are doing, please become a monthly supporter — which you can do by clicking on the provided link and donating what you can.

Your contribution helps us produce all of the articles, videos, investigative reports — and even this Vortex. We make much of what we produce free to you. But, of course, it isn't free for us to produce. We have a sizable staff, and television is freakishly expensive to produce.

We've grown — and continue to grow so much that it's difficult for us to keep up with. Between Evening News, Church Militant Resistance, political coverage, travel, conferences and so forth, we are delighted at the explosive growth. But it takes vast resources to keep up with it all and keep providing it.

So as we find ourselves in the middle of Lent, with the call to do what we can to support good works financially, please consider making a monthly donation to support all this. Again, please click on the link — and thank you in advance.

Human war may oftentimes be good for absolutely nothing. But spiritual war is good for everything.

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Shifting over to the Republicans, the same dynamic is going on right now — competing camps fighting over the right to direct the ship, each laying claim to the label of "conservative."

Part of the problem on the so-called Right is the word "conservative." Like many things today, it's a very elastic term, meaning different things to different people. Some associate it with simply not having the government interfere with personal choices, a kind of personal-freedom platform.

Matt Schlapp is chairman of the American Conservative Union — the group that sponsors CPAC. His ACU and CPAC even incorporate the word "conservative" into their titles. He's a practicing Catholic and graduated from Notre Dame in 1990.

He's also a big deal in Republican establishment circles, having worked in the Bush White House as well as having deep ties to Donald Trump. For some, those connections make him conservative.

But is that all there is to conservatism — just the government-needs-to-leave-me-alone philosophy? Well, this is where, as the saying goes, the rubber hits the road.

Schlapp and his style or understanding of conservatism starts to get a little murky once we enter into the arena of yet another ubiquitous term — "family values." He's co-authored a new book, The Desecrators, and, in it, he speaks directly about how God-and-family-values conservatives are being canceled left and right by the culture.

He also speaks quite openly about Catholicism — and what he sees as its role and the direction it needs to provide. But, when we spoke with him, he seemed to not quite understand significant aspects of the Faith. The confusion among Catholics over the past 60 years (thanks to the largely homosexual episcopate) has trickled down into every area of life, including politics.

Schlapp is an embodiment of that. What Schlapp and many in the self-identifying crowd of politically conservative Catholics attempt to do is incorporate their Faith into politics but, since they have a weak — even paltry — understanding of the Faith, they fumble about once pressed about their policies.

When Schlapp responds to a question about the Church's teaching, he (and many others) immediately falls into a vocabulary of Church policy and positions. But the Church doesn't have policies when it comes to salvation and damnation. It has divine teachings, and those teachings must be adhered to and believed and lived — or a person is damned. Period.

There is what you might label a kind of Catholic instinct in some quarters of the so-called conservative establishment. But it's weak, poorly formed, intellectually bereft and philosophically unstable, making it easy pickings for the well-organized communists — who have no lack of clarity when it comes to their own philosophy.

For example, the Church has a very clear understanding of what a family is. But in establishment conservative circles, the Catholic understanding of that falls by the wayside. Church teaching is blindingly clear — a child has a right to a mother and a father. To deprive a child of that, to enshrine it in law, is an abomination.

It is not, by any stretch of the imagination, a family value to place a child into a home (and raise him in that home) where two men are engaged in anal sex and inculcate into the child's mind that that perversion is OK, even good. Presumably, Schlapp wouldn't want his own children exposed to that, and it's a really safe bet he teaches his five daughters that homosexuality is immoral.

Yet, for some reason, that Catholic sense escapes Schlapp when he takes off his father hat and puts on his politics hat — even as he waxes on about his book (which makes some very good points about God and family values and our Christian roots as a nation and fighting back and all that).

How on God's green earth can anyone make the claim, on the one hand, that we need to do all that and, on the other hand, say children should be exposed to evil and perversion from their earliest beginnings? Schlapp and the establishment conservative movement have embraced homosexuality, and, for Catholics specifically in that camp, it can't really be all that surprising — since the bishops and clergy already did so decades ago.

That's why when you go to his CPAC convention, drag queens parade up and down the hall — the notable one being a man who calls himself "Lady Maga." It's a twisted understanding of family values, if there ever was one, because of how it dresses up that whole world of sexual perversion as somehow "American," which, actually, in some circles, it kind of is.

In one sense, Schlapp and his camp are victims of that errant theological thinking by queer bishops — living examples of what happens when theological evil spills over into the world.

The "gay family" question arose specifically because of the recent announcement by another "conservative" — Dave Rubin — that he and the man he engages in anal sex with have purchased two babies, currently residing in rented wombs. Schlapp and his "conservatism" give this a pass and call it a "family."

But (demonstrating the lack of any substantive Catholic analysis) he just doesn't think that, in order for those two innocent babies to have come about (through IVF), dozens of others would have to have been destroyed in the petri dish — because that's how IVF works.

So in his book (again, The Desecrators), he waxes on quite well about the right to life and the rights of the preborn but, somehow, fails to make the connection, proving himself unable to draw the very straight line because his pro-life stance crumbles in the face of the homosexual juggernaut. Whether or not he wants to admit or even think about it, Schlapp conservatives are "pro-life" but are willing to look the other way on the destruction of some preborns — if it benefits sodomites.

Maybe he hasn't thought about it in those terms, but that is the logical conclusion of his declaring that gay couples "creating" children constitutes a family.

Likewise, what about the rights of the babies after they are born? Schlapp and other Catholic political conservatives appear to take the "personally opposed, but" position on many of these social evils — IVF, homosexuality and so forth. On the one hand, they decry all this for themselves. But then they bring dozens of supporters of all this on stage to preach about tax policy or immigration reform.

But, when it comes to matters of sexual morality, they refuse to say the right thing for fear of losing support — which they would. That's not Catholic, and it's not a value. In fact, it's cowardice. Even when they know they are wrong, they refuse to correct the record.

Take, for example, Schlapp's dustup over the recent controversy about the male swimmer William Thomas — who is pretending to be a woman and calling himself "Lia." Schlapp tweeted, "No matter what one thinks of Lia's ability to swim with women, her story deserves our compassion. It will be interesting to hear Lia's POV [point of view] in 30 years."

OK, fair enough. Schlapp goofed in his terminology but, when asked if he would take it down, correct the record, he balked and said he wouldn't. All of this comes down to a question of integrity. Establishment conservatives are oftentimes correct when it comes to matters of actual policy — taxes, inflation, immigration, yadda yadda. But, when it comes to the actual lifeblood of a nation — morality — they balk, sacrificing truth on the altar of political power and expediency.

It was Catholicism (and Catholicism alone) that brought about Western civilization, the same Western civilization that self-identifying political conservatives claim to be trying to uphold, defend, reinforce or whatever. That was possible because of the uniquely held beliefs that Jesus Christ is King of the universe and to Him alone is homage due and that He established a Church, the Catholic Church (because there is no other Church), to carry His work of salvation throughout time and space.

Central to that work are the teachings (not policies) that guarantee salvation in the supernatural, and a well-ordered society in the temporal. You cannot return to a well-ordered society, a society that sees each person as made in the image of God and all that flows from that (everything flows from that truth), and yet reject the philosophical underpinnings of that well-ordered society.

Yet that is what Schlapp and the rest of the so-called conservative establishment try (in vain) to do — make a culture that tips its hat to God but abandons Him at the drop of that hat. Driving down the price of gas means nothing if you help drive a nation — and souls — into Hell in the process.

In today's Vortex, Michael Voris interviews Benjamin Harnwell, international editor for Steve Bannon's War Room. 

The interview was recorded on March 22, 2022. 

TRANSCRIPT

It is the idea that Church must conform to me, that the Church is a good and noble thing, but must possess a certain malleability so that I can live or express the Faith the way that is best suited to me. That is a lie. And what's worse, it is what we could call a "root lie," meaning it is such a foundational lie that many errors will spring from it.

This lie is presented very smoothly — almost sophisticated. It has slogans surrounding it to dress it up, so to speak; slogans that are deliberately worded in such a way that they can be interpreted in different ways.

"It's my Church," for example. On the one hand, that's true if you mean to say, "This is the Church to which I belong, believe, accept and live according to." In that case, the phrase or slogan refers to association.

However, the same words, "it's my Church," can just as easily mean I own the Church — it belongs to me and, therefore, I can deal with the Church in a manner most befitting me. Here, we drift from an association with the Church to a possession of the Church.

And, of course, what is really being talked about isn't the Church per se, but the teachings of the Church, the teachings which express the actual Faith. And once a person claims possession or ownership of the Faith — a.k.a., the teachings — it's "lights out."

But, quite often, these slogans all sound somewhat innocent and, as we said, even "true" in a certain sense. But words matter, especially when the words conceal or mask over a lie.

Take, for example, the latest offering from the largest spreaders of heresy on the planet — the Jesuits. Their flagship publication, America, is embarking on a marketing blitz to increase readership, and they are calling the ad campaign "Own Your Faith."

The plot to corrupt people's minds further — because the Jesuits apparently feel they haven't destroyed people's faith enough — is covered over by the reasonable-sounding Madison Avenue phrase.

Yet, if you break down the slogan into its constituent parts, you quickly see the lie. So let's tackle each word.

Own: No one "owns" the Catholic faith. It is not something that can be owned. As is the case with most slogans and lies, it is almost always the case that the exact opposite is, in fact, true. But a clever-sounding arrangement of words masks over that truth.

"Holy Roman Empire," for example (as historians note): It certainly wasn't Holy. It definitely wasn't Roman. And it wasn't much of an empire. But hey, aside from that, let's go with it.

The entire point of the Faith is not to own it, but to become owned by it, to be absorbed into it completely, soul and body. For the vast majority of us, this takes a vast amount of time and effort and struggle and all of that. The entire point of the Faith is to surrender ourselves, not take control. Perhaps the Jesuits need to go find the line from St. Paul about putting off the old man and putting on the new.

The second word in the slogan "Own Your Faith" is an extension of the first. Once again, it ain't your Faith. It existed before you and will exist after you. We are merely custodians or stewards of the Faith given us temporarily as a gift, for us to conform to, not own.

So to use the word "your" is extremely duplicitous because it connotes possession of something (in this case, something which is in no way yours).

It's like a friend handing you something to hold for them for a moment or brief period. Yes, you are in possession of it, but only in the most narrow understanding of that word. It is not yours in the sense that it now belongs to you. It belongs, and always will, to the owner of it, which is by no means you.

Why is this word, especially in conjunction with the first word, "own," so spiritually dangerous? Because each word (and especially in combination), "own" and "your," leaves absolutely no room for God. It's all about you.

The direct object, the last word, "faith," is now completely in your control. So you can approach it however you like. In this sense, faith itself ceases to be faith. An intimate part of the Catholic life is the mystery of Our Lord's love for us — and how it unfolds and is revealed to us as we awaken to it.

This is not something we control; it is something granted to us. We merely cooperate with it if — big "if" here — we are properly disposed to. No one can be properly disposed to cooperating with God's gift if they approach the gift with the mindset that they are in control or can do with the gift whatever they so please.

It's true, of course, owing to free will, a person can misuse a gift; but in the misusing of the gift, they change the nature of the gift into something else. Let's say someone gives you a car and allows you to use it to improve the quality of your life. You can now drive to work and no longer be reliant on other transportation.

It's not your car. Someone has merely given you physical possession of it in the sense that you can use it, use it to be better off. But somehow you get in your mind that you own it and are free to do whatever you want with it, and one day decide to run over your enemy and kill him with it.

The nature of the car as dictated by the reason it was given to you has now completely changed. What was supposed to be a means of transportation to improve your life has now been converted into a weapon, and you transformed into a killer.

In the realm of the spiritual, this is precisely what a lie can accomplish — the destruction of good. That, after all, is the very purpose and nature of a lie; to corrupt truth, destroy the good. But most lies are not presented as such: They come dressed up to the party so to speak, presenting themselves as a truth.

In the case of America's latest marketing campaign, Own Your Faith, the delineation of it is spelled out by Fr. Matt Malone, S.J., president and editor-in-chief of America Media. The slogan is the catchphrase that supports the bald-faced lie that is the title of the article — "The Catholic Church Belongs to All of Us."

First, no it doesn't. It belongs to Our Blessed Lord. It is His Bride, for whom He laid down His life. Second, Malone doesn't really believe his own lie.

Does anyone really think that Malone, operating under this specious framework of ownership of the Church by each Catholic, would concede that Church Militant has some "ownership" of the Church — that the millions of people who view Church Militant each month have "ownership" of the Church?

Because, frankly, we don't think he does, or any of the other twisted Jesuits spreading heresy in the body of Christ (however cleverly and thinly they may disguise it). In the most telling part of the article introducing the errors, Malone says, "I believe that the Church — and the country — are better off when we are free to wrestle with the most pressing issues of the day, unbound by ideological traps or that nagging sense that we are not supposed to ask difficult or controversial questions in Church."

Yeah, whatever.

His phrasing is rife with philosophical errors, foundational errors. Who gets to decide what the most "pressing issues" are, Father? Who determines how one becomes "unbound"? What gets to identify what the "ideological traps" are?

This is little else than the same theo-babble bullcrap the laity has been subject to for decades to promote sexual sin, perversion and overthrow of doctrine. This lot is always "re-imagining" this or that or "approaching" the other; pretending they are simply searching for greater depth. Blah blah blah.

They have their agenda very clearly understood, and they proceed full steam ahead. They just want to make you think they are reasonable and "journeying" with you — searching, on a mission to become "church."

They despise the Church because they despise Her teachings, Her doctrines, Her devotions — ultimately, Her beauty. They disfigure and mar Her beauty.

It is true: They want to own Her so they can destroy Her.