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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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In its 13th year, this has become the nation's largest annual pro-life conference, and it's dedicated to battling against not just abortion, but, also, to the preservation of an entire panoply of issues touching directly on human dignity. One aspect of the culture war, which is (never forget), at its core, a spiritual war, is the cooperation between government and corporations in trying to destroy religious belief — Christianity, in general, and Catholicism, specifically, since it is the fullness of Christianity.

A few years back, corporate America was practically leading the charge in the destruction — canceling events, pulling events out of red states, adopting every perversion known to man and including them in employee handbooks and company policy. Remember the so-called bathroom bill in North Carolina back in 2016? 

Various companies halted plans to invest in the state, including PayPal, Adidas and Deutsche Bank. Bruce Springsteen, Pearl Jam and Ringo Starr canceled concerts. The NCAA reversed plans to host championship tournaments in the state. The NBA followed suit, pulling its all-star game from Charlotte. Around the country, almost 70 companies joined a lawsuit against the bill. 

The law was eventually rescinded in 2017 under all the intense pressure, and an action plan by the Left grew out of it. The same type of pressure from corporate America was brought to bear in similar ways in Georgia as well as Texas, when pro-family conservative bills were introduced there.

Industry was leading the homo-, child-killing charge against God-fearing everyday Americans.

However, that was when Trump was in the White House. The Marxist Left had to resort to businesses carrying their water because Trump would not. However, now, with the unelected stooge in the Oval Office, corporate America has relaxed somewhat and has let Washington take over.

In what amounts to a flurry of activity, Biden's justice department, under Merrick Garland, has filed lawsuits against election integrity laws in Texas and Georgia. Garland's DOJ has gone after the Texas abortion law and entered a suit against a Second Amendment Missouri law. It's jumped into a lawsuit in Arkansas against a law meant to dial back propaganda encouraging transgenderism in youth.

Likewise, in West Virginia, it is fighting a bill protecting girls' sports from being overtaken by biological males — as well as fighting against a Florida school district requiring a transgender student to use the bathroom of his birth sex.

In Texas, Biden joined a case arguing Catholic governor Greg Abbott's ban on school mask mandates violated the Americans With Disabilities Act. He did the same in a similar case in South Carolina. Likewise, Biden's injustice department is suing Texas to prevent state troopers from stopping vehicles transporting illegal immigrants around the state.

And, harkening back to the summer of 2020's BLM riots, Biden is suing Catholic Ron DeSantis' Florida over a new law making it easier to charge rioters, and (of course) fighting in the U.S. Supreme Court to kill the Mississippi 15-week abortion ban.

Notably, in every single one of those cases aimed at destroying human dignity, the U.S. bishops are as silent as the tomb. 

At an event like this, where there is a significant mix of Catholics and Protestants, it should come as no surprise that Catholics are fending off comments from Protestants about the corruption and silence of U.S. bishops. At a venue like this, where Catholics should be able to actually evangelize (since there is some common cause to preserve Christian values), not infrequently does the discussion arise that the "Church" is wrong. 

Biden is a loser Catholic, many of the bishops embrace homosexuality and, up and down the political spectrum, politicians are allowed to keep presenting themselves as Catholics while, at the same time, they work to advance a Marxist agenda — an anti-God agenda. 

Faithful Catholics are fed up with bishops' pandering and bull pucky, especially when they are the ones getting the pushback from Protestants — Protestants who rightly look at the bishops' silence (and even support for some of the Left's agenda) and walk away scratching their heads.

The main reason all this is so important is, despite valiant efforts on the part of many participants, what matters more than anything else, hands down, is the complete acceptance of the fullness of the truth.

And yet here we are, 50 years, a half-century, into the pro-life movement and, despite being a largely Catholic-led movement, the bishops are essentially AWOL. In retrospect, what that has caused is not only a lack of trust that the hierarchy has our back on these human dignity issues but, more importantly, a new understanding to arise that if things are ever going to change, it's going to be up to the man and woman in the pew.

So at this 13th annual conference (it is completely sold out, all talks, both days), people are being turned away — a first-ever.

I had the privilege of giving the kickoff talk on Friday morning, and I've never seen the room so packed — and it was like that for talk after talk. While we all know the Marxist Left is all geared up and organized and well funded and all that, it is encouraging to see the forces of reason and morality also doing the same at long last, even without the support of Catholic bishops.

A storm is gathering. Perhaps not a final battle, although we don't know that. It is a spiritual war playing out in the political arena — at least for now. But, make no mistake, a giant storm is brewing and it may, in fact, be all ready to break.

The forces of evil have run roughshod over good people for decades, and the toll has been heavy — massively heavy. But, now, those left standing are gathering themselves for a counteroffensive.

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I'm Michael Voris, coming to you from the floor of the Cleveland Right to Life–sponsored "Bringing America Back to Life" symposium, the most highly attended annual right-to-life conference in the country.

One of the most visible hallmarks of the right-to-life movement is that it's mostly populated by Catholic laity, laity who have been forced to grab the reins because of the woeful lack of Catholic leadership in the persons of the bishops. Even to this day, the presence of the episcopate in the fight for the lives of the preborn is almost nonexistent. 

But it's not just the pro-life movement that bishops have been "MIA" in; it's virtually every single moral teaching of the Church — most especially sexuality. And at the top of the list in this area has been clerical homosexuality.

The diocese of Lafayette has been a hotbed of homosexuality within the clergy for decades now. It also has the very dubious distinction of being the first diocese in the country where the issue of homosexual sex abuse reared its ugly head in the secular media, all the way back in the 1980s (a full 20 years before the Boston Globe unleashed its "Spotlight" exposé in 2002). 

So local Catholics and former seminarians have teamed up and decided to do something about it. They've founded the organization the Society of St. Peter Damian, named after the 11th-century Doctor of the Church who fought ferociously against homosexuality in the clergy in Rome. 

He was so impressive that Dante placed him in one of the highest places possible in Paradiso. Another SSPD member, Peter, says that it's time for the laity to take back the Church.

The spillover of all this gay garbage in the Church for the past half-century knows no bounds, corrupting morals everywhere and warping priestly formation.

Last fall, Church Militant Resistance leader Joe Gallagher and shooter Ryan Seybold went down to Lafayette on special assignment to meet up with serious Catholics and do a deep dive into the destruction of the local church that has happened there. 

There is a huge fight going on right now for the soul of the Church, a massive spiritual turf war between faithful laity and corrupt clerics. Church Militant has never produced a report quite like the one we're inviting you to watch now. 

We call it Turf War, and you can view it by clicking on the provided link. If you are aware of any situations in your diocese and would like Church Militant to show up and do a similar report, please contact us.

All of this is part of our exploding Church Militant Resistance effort, now numbering in the thousands — thousands of faithful Catholics determined to not let another generation of homosexual clergy and their allies maintain operational control of the Church and destroy vocations.

We highly encourage you to click on the provided link. Watch it, and then determine to become involved and fight for Holy Mother Church.

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It has deep roots in Catholicism — Satan getting "cheated," so to speak, out of a soul at the last minute, Our Blessed Lord's parable about the workers who show up and labor for only the last hour but still receive a full day's wage. Deathbed conversions speak to the continual mercy of God, straight up until a person's last breath and, even then, in Purgatory.

For those who appear to us as if a deathbed conversion is their only hope, we should be praying, absolutely. We have various examples of deathbed conversions to the Faith, beautiful stories of such last-minute, come-from-behind victories. There is Dismas, the good thief, as well as John Wayne.

And there is another one. Allow us to share it with you.

My father told me this many years ago, so a detail here or there might be off, but you get the idea.

There was once a brother and sister who were raised Catholic. The sister went off to be a nun and was sent to work with a very poor tribe in Africa. She had a hard life. The brother, whose name was John, fell away from the Faith and lived an extremely sinful life, actually coming to despise the Faith.

This caused no end of sorrow for his sister, who offered all her sufferings up for his reversion. Eventually, she received word that her brother had died, and then she inquired if he had received last rites. She was told he had spit at the priest, yelled at him to leave the room, rolled his head over toward the wall and died.

His sister was spiritually crippled by the news and mourned to Our Lord how such a thing could happen after her life of sacrifice for his salvation.

Owing to her great sorrow and especially spiritual distress, Our Lord appeared to her. He revealed to her what really happened that last moment of John's life. He showed her that, after he spit at the priest and turned toward the wall, a split second before John died, Our Lord appeared to him with His Sacred Heart and said, "John, will you spit on Me now?" John said to Our Lord, "Jesus, have mercy on me" — and died.

Our Blessed Lord revealed to the sister it was her sufferings and sacrifices that had merited John that final grace and that he had been saved. That is a Catholic story if there ever was one.

Another story, my father told me when I was a young fellow. This one involves the infamous Voltaire, the French Enlightenment writer who left this earth for eternity on May 30, 1778. Voltaire was the toast of the town, a prolific writer and the favorite of the Parisian elites in the run-up to the French Revolution. He also greatly ridiculed the Faith and made such ridicule something of a hallmark of his — despite being a baptized Catholic.

At one point, he fell desperately ill and was on what appeared to be his deathbed. A priest was summoned and Voltaire received the last rites. Unfortunately, he recovered and, once back to his parties, received insults and ridicule for submitting to the Church after a career of mocking it. He went back to his ridicule.

Sometime later, he was on his deathbed again but, this time, he would not recover. Once again, a priest was dispatched. But this time he was turned away, prevented from coming in by some of Voltaire's associates. The attending nurse reported that, in his last moments, he died screaming he saw the Devil coming for him and she said she would never attend the deathbed of an atheist ever again.

God, you see, is not mocked. Voltaire's death is instructive for those who think and hope in terms of deathbed conversions — as opposed to John's deathbed conversion owing to his sister's sacrifices.

If there is no actual contrition (or sufficient contrition), there is no forgiveness. The reason Dismas was forgiven by Our Lord on the Cross, the first deathbed conversion, was because he had an actual conversion, meaning that had he somehow been taken down from the Cross and lived a longer life, he would have lived that life differently, abandoning his thieving.

Admission to Heaven is based on that true conversion, the reality, the requirement, that if you were to spring up from your deathbed you would lead a changed life. It's not enough to merely receive the last rites, just as it's not enough to merely go to confession without a real desire and intent to change.

And for those who are thinking in terms of a deathbed conversion for someone, pray, certainly — but more is required of us than just prayer. Placing too much hope in a dramatic come-from-behind, last-second spiritual victory is not a good thing if it deters us from the path of saying and doing what needs to be done now.

When notorious child-killer Sen. Ted Kennedy was dying, secular media made much of the fact that some priest was at his deathbed. But, just three days before he died, he issued a letter from that deathbed urging senators to pass Obamacare with its provisions for abortion.

Chuck Schumer even appealed to Kennedy's deathbed letter as inspiration to his fellow senators to "honor" Kennedy, lauding him as the "liberal lion" of the Senate. Now, we don't know the final disposition of Kennedy, but no one has ever suggested that, before he died, he reversed course on his support for the pro-abortion legislation.

And here's the question — if Kennedy would have been able to get up off that deathbed and live another few years, would he have changed, led a changed life like Dismas? Or would he have pulled a Voltaire and gone right back to his sin?

There's nothing anyone knows of to suggest he would have been Dismas and not Voltaire. We can only hope that, through someone's prayers and sacrifices, Kennedy's story was that of John's in his last breath.

Eventually, a soul commits to one path or the other. We here on earth may not know the commitment — but God does. Likewise, we don't know if, or how, a soul can or will switch from the path of evil to the path of goodness. But God does. And, as we peer into eternity, this is one reason a final judgment is everlasting — because God knows, if a soul were to be given more time, if it would ever change and turn to the good.

If Hitler, everyone's favorite example, were to have been given an extra, say, 300 years of earthly life, would he have eventually, somehow, become good? Only God knows the answer to that. But what we do know is that of those who are damned, the answer is a resounding no.

The deathbed, either our own or of others, is not the place you want to be making your final wager. Live and fight for the Faith now, while you still can. Remember — across from Dismas, over on the other cross, was the thief who saw the exact same scene as his crime partner. Dismas had a deathbed conversion, but he did not.

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Nothing, of course, is definite, but it is certainly more than just a weak pulse. It is the emergence of the public Catholic. Men and women are responding to the crisis of our days — and not a few of them are Catholic. In fact, it's a little surprising the godless, Luciferian media hasn't picked up on this. But they probably will.

Take, for example, the old guard — the Kennedys, Pelosis, Kerrys, Bidens, Durbins, Leahys and so forth. They're either dead or the walking dead. The announcement by Nancy Pelosi that she would be running again, in her 80s, caused no end of laughter and ridicule. Even in the face of what everyone knows is going to be a wipeout of the Democrats, she still needs to hold onto some form of power.

But on the other end of the pipeline, those much younger are now moving in. There is the decided presence of a new breed of Catholic. And these types are popping up all over the political frontier. Some are already in office; others are campaigning for office. And what's interesting (and very different from the past) is these ones actually promote the things of the Faith — unlike the generation of hippie Catholic politicians who merely used the Faith as a stepping stone to office.

Church Militant is running into these folks more and more and finding a lot of common cause with them. One such fellow is Cory Mills, running for the 7th congressional seat in Florida.

He's former military who (get this now) risked his life to go into Afghanistan, behind enemy lines, and rescue Americans trapped there.

What's exciting about all this is pretty simple to analyze. Up to now (at least in the living memory of everyone), the former "Catholic" politician was a wicked, rotten-to-the-core individual: self-serving, self-absorbed, power-hungry narcissists.

They have been the bane of American politics for more than half a century and have been the driving force behind the destruction of the nation. Couple their evil with that of the U.S. bishops who "accompanied" them on their way to Hell for these many decades, and you have a near-complete wipeout of the culture.

But now, in their foul wake, it looks like a new breed is arising — the committed Catholic patriot. They aren't after power for themselves but, rather, to restore what has been destroyed.

Church Militant is tied in with a lot of these men and women and we see a clear difference in tone, dedication and commitment compared to the Nancy Pelosis and the Nancy bishops. When Mills decided to risk his life to save Americans, the Biden administration actually tried to prevent him. The State Department and Department of Defense both interfered with his flight landing — on multiple occasions — after first approving it.

Mills — let's just say — found a way, got in and, then, got them out. After Mills rescued them, the Biden administration (get this) actually took credit for saving them.

This crowd has no shame but, then again, they kill children for power — so no one can be surprised. Mills, a solid Catholic as well as a hero, is running to help restore a culture smashed by phony Catholics.

If you'd like to view the entire interview, please just click on the link provided below.

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Yet this is precisely what many bishops do with not only with their sheep, but their priests. Most people don't really consider this aspect of the corruption of the hierarchy, the self-doubts that begin to arise in the hearts and minds of priests when their bishop brutalizes them psychologically.

Every man has a different breaking point. For a variety of reasons, some reach that breaking point sooner than others. Consider — a young man goes into seminary and discerns he should become a priest. He's faithful and believes the Church's teaching. All well and good. But, as nearly everyone is, he is a product of his time. And, for a younger man, that generally means psychologically weak, or at least weaker than you would want in a priest.

It would be very difficult for a young male, even one considering priesthood and eventually getting ordained, to have escaped the drumming into his mind by the culture that "authentic manhood is bad." The cultural messaging, as well as inside the Church, is that the more a young male thinks like (and responds like) a woman, the better.

He's been conditioned by every institution since he was a child to be something other than he is naturally. He's been encouraged to be self-indulgent, non-sacrificing, lazy, self-absorbed. This is happening all over the cultural landscape. Areas traditionally viewed as ruggedly masculine — the military and athletics, certainly. And the priesthood is no exception.

So oftentimes, when a young man gets ordained these days, he may be "nice" and all that. But is he strong psychologically? Will he, for example, be able to withstand the withering attacks he will receive when he stands in his pulpit and tells the whole truth of the Faith? Will he even stand in the pulpit and do so — because, frankly, if he doesn't, what's the point of being ordained in the first place?

But let's take the more rare case of the priest who, first, knows the full truth of the Faith, has the courage to announce it and, then, suffers the recriminations of his flock for doing so. Church Militant, because of what we do, has the opportunity to talk to these types of priests more often than you might think.

They usually end up sidelined by their bishops because their bishops are the exact type of pansy-minded weaklings that the culture has produced and loves. So when one of these types of bishops has a priest who tells the truth, they ice him. And here's where the problems arise of the mental toughness of the priest.

Not a few begin to experience doubts, self-doubts. Perhaps not immediately — but certainly eventually. And those doubts begin to multiply because, frequently, these priests are pretty much alone.

Given the shortage of priests overall and dominant shortage of believing priests (and even more acute shortage of psychologically strong priests among them), being iced by your bishop, or even marginalized, can begin to raise all sorts of doubts and questions in the mind of such a man.

For example, given the combination of isolation and self-doubt, he can begin to question whether he was ever supposed to be ordained. In truth, it could be the case that he shouldn't have been. Not every man who receives Holy Orders should have, just as not every man consecrated a bishop should have been.

But other men, men who are products of their time and who run afoul of their bishop or superior, begin to crumble in their minds. As an analogy, this sometimes occurs in marriages. Sadly, some sets of circumstances arise where the marriage (at least for a spell) is unworkable and the couple needs to separate and live apart. They're still married, sacramentally, but they can't be under the same roof.

But, for the priest, something like that isn't really an option. He is a priest, and he can't just "live apart" from his identity. He is, in fact, a priest forever. Marriage ends at death. His priesthood does not.

He knows this, and that reality adds to the suffering and self-doubt. Has he done something against the will of God in getting ordained? He didn't deliberately violate the will of God, but that may be of little comfort now. If he did choose something that God had not willed for him, should he seek laicization? How does he know with any certainty now if he couldn't possess sufficient certainty then?

What if the opposite is true — that it was the will of God for him to be ordained and (now) he is just demonstrating spiritual weakness and would be violating God's will by leaving? These plaguing questions go through these men's minds and give them no rest, and we know because we talk to them.

How truly horrible have things gotten in the Church? Well, the very fact that psychologically tortured priests are calling laymen for help should tell you a lot. Some have even questioned the Faith itself — faced, as they are, with such horrible men in authority over them.

One priest I was speaking with recently whose early career was off to a good start (money, promotion, well-deserved admiration of his peers, all that) said to me he didn't give all that up to end up in his current situation — his current situation being good priest/bad bishop.

Some bishops try to break their good priests, shipping them off to St. Luke's funny farm or other comparable places. In those places are men who should not have been ordained because they were not up to the stuff of priesthood to begin with. They have sex addictions of various sorts and other emotional issues that were never detected — or ignored or even developed while they were in seminary.

Good priests are simply dumped into these places by their bishops to be broken down and "rewired," places meant for the mentally unstable — not good priests as some kind of punishment for telling the truth. Such is the plight of many priests these days, anonymous voices that are never heard.

Last year, in an effort to give voice to their plight, Church Militant began our New Catacombs initiative under our Resistance effort.

New Catacombs allows priests, now numbering in the hundreds, to remain completely anonymous (their identities even hidden by us from each other) and lend their support to statements about current conditions in the Church without fear of reprisal — because their bishop doesn't know they are in the New Catacombs.

The point of the endeavor is to give voice to the concerns of good priests over various evils and confusions the hierarchy is doing or allowing — sacrilegious Holy Communion, for example. A core group of a dozen produces periodic statements, and then those statements are passed around for a vote by the general membership of hundreds of other clerics.

In the past few months, here are the topics they've produced statements on:

If you are either a priest or a layman and know a priest who would benefit from this effort, please have him click on the provided link to learn more and join. His identity will be kept by us in complete confidence, and he will know he has the benefit of joining his voice to the voices of hundreds of other priests standing for truth, even if it is anonymously.

In the meantime, this Lent, offer some of your penances for the good priests for whom their bishops have caused serious doubts to arise in their minds. Evil men never have doubts because they are completely committed to their cause, and they have no conscience. Good men are able to be gotten at precisely because they have a conscience. It's why men of goodwill also need to be as tough as nails. Having good intentions is not enough — not in today's world.

You need steely resolve for fending off the attacks that will come — especially those from inside the Church.

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Whatever multilevel dynamics are at play behind the scenes of the actual military action, it is indisputable that those telling us about every bullet and bomb likely have some other agenda going on. The media giants haven't told their viewers or readers the truth in decades — and, most especially, in the last half-dozen years. So why should anyone believe what they say now?

Remember, "Russia, Russia, Russia" all turned out to be a lie.

Remember (speaking of Ukraine) the Trump and Zelensky phone call the Democrats used as an excuse for impeachment? It all turned out to be a lie.

Remember Hunter's laptop? Of course you don't — because they covered it up. Remember, "Biden wins!" turned out to be a lie. Remember, "flatten the curve" turned out to be a lie. Remember, "put your mask on because it prevents infection" turned out to be a lie. Remember, calling an experimental gene therapy a "vaccine" turned out to be a lie. Remember, hundreds of thousands dying from COVID (as distinguished from with COVID) turned out to be a lie.

And speaking of COVID, we haven't really heard a single mention of it since the Ukraine story flared up. Who would have thought the cure for COVID would be a war in central Europe?

And now, of course, just as COVID becomes a losing issue for them, Democrats everywhere are dropping all mandates and vaccine passports and running screaming in the opposite direction — just as the midterms begin.

Amazing how all that science works, isn't it? A virus that less than 1% of people die from is enough to shut down the country for two years and to steal an election. And now, two years later, a virus that less than 1% of people die from is nowhere near as important or concerning — so as not to lose an election.

Of course, all those lies were, and are, being jammed down our throats, while other stories that are not lies are being skipped or distorted.

The "big lie," for example — the media's term for denying the election was stolen — is itself a lie. But that's how the media works. In that case, they first distort the reality of the court cases brought against the election theft by painting it as if dozens of courts heard the evidence and threw it all out. No, that's a lie. The courts continually ruled that plaintiffs had no standing. The entire point is that they did not ever hear the evidence.

Of course, the lying media know that — but they lie.

Then they added to their lie about the courts, saying, therefore (based on that lie), that Trump and his supporters are the ones lying about the steal — and then go on to label all that "the big lie." In response to all that (the usual tactics of the media controlled by globalist elites, including social media), something of a peasant uprising is occurring, and the elites don't like that.

In fact, they have dispatched their media hordes to crush it. The slightest move against the globalist narrative is seen as a danger to the plan and must be crushed or, at the very least, either ignored or misreported. In fact, all the lies the media continue to report are all part of a larger plan to control you.

If it's not an actual plan, then the media giants are the unluckiest people in the history of the planet because everything they report turns out to be wrong.

So they are either total idiots or enormous liars — and we're pretty darn sure they aren't idiots.

Their lies spring from a worldview not unlike Islam and the Koran, where lying is acceptable (even encouraged) because the goal, the objective, is so important that lying to achieve it is seen as good. But, as part of the old saying goes, you can't fool all the people all of the time — and this is where what can be termed the "Great Pushback" is emerging, pushing back against the Great Reset.

True, the Great Pushback is nowhere near as organized, thought out, financed, marketed or sophisticated as the globalist agenda. The globalists have been hard at work on their plan for more than a century, while the peasants have simply been living their lives unaware, until recently, that total control over them (or rather, us) has been the goal of the globalists from the outset.

But, with every passing media narrative, the goal is more and more exposed. Trump said it best, in reference to all this, when he declared that they are after us — it's just that he is in the way. True enough. The media, in fact, used to love Trump back in the day. A big-mouthed New York billionaire living the high life, he was a daily fixture in the media.

But, looking around the world these days, there are trucker convoys, school board riots, plummeting ratings, alternate media, emerging economies, increasingly popular conferences, political realities — all of these coming to birth. You get the sense (and for Catholics as well, even within the Church) there is a fresh approach, a momentum developing, feeding a great pushback.

Will it be enough, at some point, to bring down the current oligarchy of lies ruling the race?

Hard to say, but this much is true, at the very least — the globalists themselves are worried about it. That's why they are trying so hard to smash it with their phony Jan. 6 committee and their anti-convoy "emergency measures" and so forth. They are noticing the pushback and are calibrating their moves accordingly.

Do they clamp down and risk further provoking the pushback — like what happened in the Virginia elections last year? Do they ignore it and allow it to gain more adherents?

It seems (for the moment), at least with the media, the plan is to report on the actual issues as little as possible — like millions of illegal immigrants being brought into the country, crippling inflation, the mental incompetence of Biden, the lack of preparedness of the country for virtually any crisis.

Instead of all that, let's just "report" on an overseas conflict that has nowhere near the importance in the day-to-day lives of hundreds of millions of Americans as serious domestic issues.

For example, in the last almost two weeks, Church Militant has seen CNN take exactly two breaks from their nonstop Ukraine coverage. One was to tell us that Florida governor Ron DeSantis is a big fat meanie for telling some college students being used for COVID theater at a speech he was giving that they could take off their masks. The other was to tell us that Trump could be charged with "conspiracy" for promoting the election theft story.

But, after those brief interruptions, it was straight back to Kiev.

Of course, what CNN didn't tell you is not a single candidate Trump endorsed in the Texas primary last week lost. The vast majority of the 33 won (some walking away), and three are in runoffs — but got the most votes.

Likewise, they didn't let you know that a huge number of Hispanics voted in the Republican primary, and it was Hispanics in counties right along the southern border — a frightening specter for Democrats.

The media lie with abandon. We all know that.

It doesn't even rise to the level of news.

What is becoming news more and more, however, is the pushback that the globalist narrative is receiving in almost every walk of life. Where it will all go or how it will all turn out, that's still up in the air. But one thing is certain, this is not the time in world history to sit on your laurels and be uninvolved. Both in the Church and in the world, this is the time to attack.

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Joe Biden (phony Catholic that he is), despite ashes on his forehead on Ash Wednesday, promised to sign the bill into law if Congress sent it to him. Blessed be God, he will not be given the opportunity, since the bill failed to garner sufficient support in the Senate to allow it to move forward. 

But here's the point: While the likes of Joe and Nancy get a lot of the press over issues related to their evil, there are loads of other phony Catholics who are still there on Capitol Hill working diligently to kill and destroy. And the U.S. bishops say nothing about them.

Here's a list of those "Catholic" senators who voted to kill children right up until the moment of birth:

So there are 13 child-killing Catholics sitting in the U.S. Senate whom bishops have barely ever uttered a word about (with the one exception of Durbin from Illinois — who Bp. Thomas Paprocki of Springfield told to stay away from Holy Communion). These senators should all be made a massive example of and excommunicated.

They aren't Catholic in any meaningful (or even remotely meaningful) way, and, yet, they are allowed to present themselves as Catholic.

And consider this — the bill they all supported allowed children as they were emerging from the birth canal to be killed.

It's true that the bishops' conference issued a statement about the bill itself (whoopty doo!) but, in a classic example of bringing a glass of water to a forest fire, did and said nothing about the phony Catholics supporting the bill. The U.S. bishops act like these proposed laws just fall from the sky, like they have some existential life of their own.

They come into existence because of phony Catholics like those 13 we just named. So the question the faithful have to consider is pretty simple: Do the bishops care enough?

It's not just whether they care. I think we can be pretty charitable in any assessment and say that if the bishops could simply push a button (that's it, nothing more) and abortion would be gone, it's a fairly safe bet that each bishop would.

But the world doesn't have a bunch of buttons where all you need to do is push them and evil is wiped out. It requires action, love, concern, a passion for justice — and all of that requires, first, that you care enough to do the hard work involved.

Wiping out evil, attacking it, crippling it, saving others from its destructive, corrosive effects requires hard work, tenacity, courage — all of that and more. But before any of that can kick in, you first have to care.

Care arises from charity — something detectable in a person by observing how much they care. There simply cannot be any care or concern if there is not first charity, and, likewise, a lack of care or sufficient care is proof of an absence of charity.

From that absence of charity, many other things likewise become apparent. The great destroyer of souls is (at the end of one's life) a lack of charity. And a lack of charity can simply be summed up by one single word — apathy.

We know from the saints, doctors, fathers, mystics and so forth that the vast majority of humanity will be damned. Most of humanity are not Hitlers or traffickers of child sex rings or drug cartel overlords or mafia assassins or bank robbers or serial killers — in fact, far from it.

They are just apathetic losers concerned for no one except themselves and their own interests, unwilling to become involved, fight and oppose evil — in short, to do the right thing.

And it will be that lacking that will be their damnation. No wonder the floor of Hell is paved with the skulls of bishops.

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We're going to make this short and sweet today. Our Blessed Lord gave a command as He ascended to Heaven: It was to make disciples of all nations.

Translation: "Save the world."

That's right — the job of Catholics is just that simple. Save the world. In fact, our personal salvation depends on that single issue. If you are not about saving the world, you'll be damned. It's that straightforward.

Now, granted, Catholics have not had their Catholicism, their mission, presented to them in those terms in quite a while, thanks to loads of gay bishops and their modernist filth and perversion. But despite the failings of the U.S. hierarchy over the past 60 years to instill this mission into the hearts, the minds and the souls of Catholics, it remains our life's work.

Put nicely by Ven. Abp. Fulton Sheen, "The quickest way to Heaven is to take someone else's hand and lead them there."

Father John Hardon was a little more direct: "He who is not about the business of evangelization might never entertain a serious hope of salvation."

Those are serious-sounding words for one reason — because it is serious. But the sad reality (thank you, bishops), is that most Catholics don't even care about their own souls, not even on their radar, much less someone else's soul.

Yet, every day, people die and are damned, regardless of what Church of Nice sycophants like Bp. Robert Barron falsely claim. Those weak men are perfectly content to let people be damned. 

They have no supernatural faith, they don't believe in the Deposit of Faith, and they don't care about souls. They lie to you. They are spiritual terrorists. 

Do not listen to their lies — and that is the least you can do. They leave you and your loved ones in the dark because they have no love for you.

They will not tell you that Catholics have the mission of saving the world. And they will not tell you that because they don't believe it themselves. Reject that message, and accept instead the message of Our Lord as He ascended to Heaven. Your eternal life depends on it.

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Jesse Lee Peterson is one of those men of goodwill (goodwill being, of course, the first step necessary for salvation). Peterson is a nationally recognized radio host who, because of his political conservatism, has, of course, been canceled, banned, mocked and all the above because he says the emperor has no clothes.

In fact, from a Catholic perspective, Peterson says more in one interview or one radio show than the entire United States Conference of Catholic Bishops does in an entire year.

The problem with the bishops (among billions) is they view themselves as some kind of business or corporation where the primary duty is to please the stockholders and make a profit so they can pay some enormous dividend at the end of the year.

The problem is, they have wiped out their own customer base with their immorality, lust for money and their politics.

Ah, yes, their politics. Those politics of destruction — destruction of the soul, destruction of a nation, destruction of a society, destruction of the family. The D in "Democrat" might as well stand for destruction. And the destruction from within the political order is just as bad — actually worse than the destruction that comes from without.

On the political level, they're known as "RINOs" — Republicans in Name Only.  Yep, the RINOs are no different than the Democrats, and neither are the bishops.

The destruction of the Church that began in earnest in the wake of Vatican II as various homosexuals and Marxists within the Church used the council for their own ends (and still do to this day), that destruction has been allowed to proliferate because of weak men. Weak men are never men of goodwill, and you can take that to the bank.

Men of goodwill seek the truth. They are predisposed to embrace the truth when they encounter it — no matter the cost. It's true, they may be ignorant of the truth at a given moment in their lives (many have been) but, when they encounter it, they recognize it and move toward it.

As many of us know, moving towards truth can often be difficult and costly. Yet a man of goodwill is still attracted to the truth. It resonates inside him, stirs his soul — sometimes to heroic feats. But it always changes him. 

It's why the angels in the night sky over Bethlehem sang aloud, "Peace on earth to men of goodwill." Because men of goodwill always move towards the truth. They find peace, heavenly peace, even amidst the storms of life. No matter how they might fall from time to time, no matter what life may throw at them, they keep truth as their North Star and either never veer off course or find their way back.

Yet, here, we have a terrible contrast — one that always strikes me whenever I encounter it (and I sadly encounter it way too often). Jesse Lee Peterson is more "Catholic" than most ordained Catholics we encounter or report on here at Church Militant.

And yet his ability to approach the fullness of Our Blessed Lord's truth is hampered by the bishops and their aversion to that same truth. How sad. How angering.

Jesse said he changed from Democrat to Republican many years ago because his Christianity compelled him to. That's a movement of goodwill.

Yet, how is it that so many bishops continue to embrace the evil of the Democrats? The bishops should have long ago denounced the Democratic Party — a party responsible for more deaths than the Nazi party in Germany. They should have laid bare the lie of these child-slaughtering sodomites — but they haven't, and it appears they never will.

Membership in the Democratic Party should be an automatic disqualifier regarding the sacraments, but because we, as a Church, have been cursed with weak men, that notion seems completely absurd to most hearing it. But why should it be?

Why should any person (not just the president or other notable politicians) who accepts sodomy as a legitimate form of love or chopping up a baby in the womb as "health care" ever be allowed to participate in the life of the Church? With the exception of confession (and even then requiring true contrition), no such man should ever be allowed to profess the Catholic faith.

They are, in fact, enemies of Christ. Their lives are oriented against Him — and we aren't speaking here of the sinner trapped in his sins, secretly desiring to be freed and unable, for the time being, to be so. We are talking about the man of evil who desires to draw others into his evil and pervert goodness.

How else can you describe a man who accepts and embraces and lives out his evil, who strives to get laws passed to uphold his evil to inflict it on others and force them to pay for it, accept it, embrace it?

What the Church needs is men like Jesse Lee Peterson, who, although confused on some points of Catholicism, nevertheless would be an outstanding Catholic because of his goodwill.

Pray that he may come to the fullness of the Faith one day and that those who call themselves Catholic will abandon their sin or abandon their pretense.

To watch the full interview with Jesse Lee Peterson, just click on the provided link.