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In a world where virtue seems like a lost commodity and vice rules the day, it's helpful to frame all of this from a Catholic lens. And when it comes to vice and virtue, it's a pretty simple lens.

For each of the vices, there is a corresponding virtue. The whole question of vices and virtues is pretty big today in the online world.

Let us show you this one, for example, tweeted by San Antonio Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller, a man who knows a little bit about the world of vices and needed virtues:

Some look for glory others for domination. Glory of merely human praise and anxious for good opinions. Those eager for domination act as beasts through cruelty or self indulgence. There are those who are virtuous worshiping the true God, finding God as the source of all good.

The next tweet is from a woman who calls herself an "epistemically violent housewife exposing communist psychospiritual dysfunction. Very happily married mom of 3. Anti-Narcissist":

People have been tricked into believing that narcissism is the same as honest self-reflection. So much monstrous behavior nowadays is framed as self-awareness, self-expression, or self-care. People have been taught that self-obsession is virtuous. They love it.

Whatever her religious persuasion, she has hit on something there in the world of vices and virtue.

But there isn't anything she's pointing to that doesn't already have much higher expression in the annals of the Catholic faith.

To this end, we are happy to reach into our video vault and re-present to many of you who have not seen it this episode of The Armor of God, dealing specifically with vice and virtue.

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Many of the world's religions will be gathering in the coming days to meet and discuss, more or less, the evils of the world and what can be done. Of course, which religion you belong to could certainly influence your view of what is evil and what is not.

But laying that aside for the moment, there is certainly nothing wrong with religions cooperating with each other to address hunger and disease and so forth — as long as nothing objectively immoral is employed in that work.

However, while compromise for a greater end is OK for natural issues, when it comes to the supernatural, there can be no compromise by Catholics.

For example, Catholic and Protestant Americans can certainly work together to fight abortion, but they cannot work together to make a watered-down version of Christianity more palatable. There is no such thing as "Christianity by committee."

In fact, strictly speaking, there is no such thing as Christianity outside of Catholicism. There is only One True Faith, and that Faith is the Catholic Faith.

There is only one Church. There is no such thing as a Protestant "church." The Son of God established a Church — not thousands. Men established all those breakaways. But God, Who is One, established one.

So when news comes out in the coming days about religions working together to fight evils in the world, do not confuse that with joining together to create a mutually acceptable "theology." There is no such thing.

To this end, we are happy to reach into our video vault and re-present to many of you who have not seen it this episode of Mic'd Up where we interview Dr. Ralph Martin about this very pressing topic.

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A vastly misunderstood teaching in Christianity regards sin — its severity, its means of being forgiven, what it actually is (mortal sin versus venial sin, for example).

When Church Militant was originally founded back in 2006, it was to help Catholics come to a greater love and appreciation of the Faith. That hasn't changed at all. Three years into that mission, we encountered massive evil and corruption in the hierarchy and quickly realized that evil (that lack of supernatural faith) was a detriment to people's embrace of the Faith.

So we added to our already considerable theological arsenal, news reporting and investigations to help people come to understand how the corruption of the hierarchy was impacting their own spiritual lives.

That said, we never want to waver from what I would call our "core programming," the direct theological content. That is always available through a Premium subscription — thousands of hours and hundreds of episodes touching on practically every topic imaginable in the Faith.

We highly encourage you to sign up. It's only $10 a month, and that gives you access to a vast storehouse not available anywhere else.

So in the spirit of our core mission, we are providing this episode on sin for free to help you understand more concretely what the Church teaches. Again, we highly encourage you to sign up today for direct access to all of our theological content.

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The huge amounts of attention focused recently on the world elite and child sex trafficking and Epstein Island and sexual exploitation of young actors in the entertainment industry is serving to pull back the curtain on this evil.

A number of years ago, on our Premium program Mic'd Up, we tackled this horrible filth in an episode we called The Devil in Hollywood. It was and remains very popular.

This type of reporting is all part of our mission here at Church Militant.

When Church Militant was originally founded back in 2006, it was to help Catholics come to a greater love and appreciation of the Faith. That hasn't changed — at all.

Three years into that mission, we encountered massive evil and corruption in the hierarchy and quickly realized that evil — that lack of supernatural faith — was a detriment to people's embrace of the Faith, which itself results in evil advancing in the culture.

So we added to our already considerable theological arsenal news reporting and investigations like Mic'd Up to help people come to understand how the corruption of the hierarchy was impacting their own spirituality and contributing to an overall degradation of the culture.

We have thousands of hours and hundreds of episodes touching on practically every topic imaginable in the Faith, and our weekly show Mic'd Up is part of that impressive arsenal.

We highly encourage you to sign up. It's only $10 a month, and that gives you access to a vast storehouse not available anywhere else.

So in the spirit of our core mission, we are providing this episode for free to help you understand more concretely what the Church teaches.

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How does anyone know the Bible is inspired? The actual working of the Holy Spirit?

Not one single book in the Bible claims that of itself. So why do a couple billion Christians believe that (at least ostensibly)? There's only one reason. Very few people have actually thought more than 10 seconds about it.

When Church Militant was originally founded back in 2006, it was to help Catholics come to a greater love and appreciation of the Faith. That hasn't changed at all.

Three years into that mission, we encountered massive evil and corruption in the hierarchy and quickly realized that evil, that lack of supernatural faith, was a detriment to people's embrace of the Faith.

So we added to our already considerable theological arsenal news, reporting and investigations to help people come to understand how the corruption of the hierarchy was impacting their own spiritual lives.

That said, we never want to waver from what I would call our "core programming," the direct theological content. That is always available through a Premium subscription, thousands of hours and hundreds of episodes touching on practically every topic imaginable in the Faith.

We highly encourage you to sign up — it's only $10 a month, and that gives you access to a vast storehouse not available anywhere else.

So, in the spirit of our core mission, we are providing this episode for free to help you understand concretely, so you can tell others, where the Bible came from, why we believe it's inspired.

Again, we highly encourage you to sign up today for direct access to all of our theological content.

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A major fallacy among those who call themselves "Christian" is the rather modern notion that once you're saved, you're always saved.

Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, it's not just not biblical; it's actually anti-biblical. Saint Paul says, among many things, "You have made a shipwreck of your faith," talking to Christians, Catholics actually, already baptized.

When Church Militant was originally founded back in 2006, it was to help Catholics come to a greater love and appreciation of the Faith. That hasn't changed at all.

Three years into that mission, we encountered massive evil and corruption in the hierarchy and quickly realized that evil, that lack of supernatural faith, was a detriment to people's embrace of the Faith.

So we added to our already considerable theological arsenal news reporting and investigations to help people come to understand how the corruption of the hierarchy was impacting their own spiritual lives.

That said, we never want to waver from what I would call our "core programming," the direct theological content. That is always available through a Premium subscription, thousands of hours and hundreds of episodes touching on practically every topic imaginable in the Faith.

We highly encourage you to sign up: It's only $10 per month, and that gives you access to a vast storehouse not available anywhere else.

So in the spirit of our core mission, we are providing this episode for free, but again, highly encourage you to sign up today for direct access to all of our theological content.

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When Church Militant was originally founded back in 2006, it was to help Catholics come to a greater love and appreciation of the Faith. That hasn't changed — at all.

Three years into that mission, we encountered massive evil and corruption in the hierarchy and quickly realized that evil, that lack of supernatural faith, was a detriment to people's embrace of the Faith.

So we added to our already considerable theological arsenal news reporting and investigations to help people come to understand how the corruption of the hierarchy was impacting their own spiritual lives.

That said, we never want to waver from what I would call our "core programming," the direct theological content. That is always available through a Premium subscription, thousands of hours and hundreds of episodes touching on practically every topic imaginable in the Faith.

We highly encourage you to sign up; it's only $10 a month, and that gives you access to a vast storehouse not available anywhere else.

One of the chief teachings many people simply do not get, or understand sufficiently, is that of Purgatory.

It's often the case that Catholics are just as ignorant of this as Protestants. So in the spirit of our core mission, we are providing this episode for free but, again, highly encourage you to sign up today for direct access to all of our theological content.

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Many of you know that Church Militant was originally founded back in 2006 to simply help Catholics (and anyone else) come to a greater love and appreciation of the Faith, to assist them in their spiritual journey.

Three years into that mission, we encountered massive evil and corruption in the hierarchy and quickly realized that evil, that lack of supernatural faith, was a detriment to people's embrace of the Faith. So we added to our already considerable theological arsenal, news reporting and investigations to help people come to understand how the corruption of the hierarchy was impacting their own spiritual lives.

That said, we never want to waver from what I would call our "core programming," the direct theological content. That is always available through a Premium subscription — thousands of hours and hundreds of episodes touching on practically every topic imaginable in the Faith.

We highly encourage you to sign up. It's only $10 per month and that gives you access to a vast storehouse not available anywhere else.

For example, today is the Solemnity of the Assumption of Our Lady. So we'd like to use this occasion to point to one of our multiple programs on the Blessed Mother. We are providing this episode for free, but again, highly encourage you to sign up today for direct access to all of our theological content.

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FBI Director Christopher Wray needs to be hauled before Congress and charged with lying. And the matter is most especially of note to Catholics because it was his agency's secret monitoring of Catholics that he's lying about.

You'll recall that back in February an internal FBI memo was leaked showing that the FBI was spying on and treating faithful Catholics as domestic terrorists — in complete and total violation of the U.S. Constitution. Church Militant was named specifically in that report on page four, along with some other groups the FBI reserved for the appendix.

In sworn testimony, Attorney General Merrick Garland pleaded stupid to any substantive knowledge of the report and his FBI director, Christopher Wray, assured Congress that the report was an isolated incident, specific to only the FBI field office in Richmond, Virginia. He provided a redacted document, which, at first, seemed to support that narrative.

However, since then, under hammering from Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan, some of those reactions were revealed — and now we know that it was not just the Richmond field office engaged in this, but offices in Los Angeles and Portland as well. And it could easily be others as well.

Christopher Wray went before Congress and lied and engaged in an attempt to conceal evidence from lawmakers. He needs to be removed and criminally charged, and the full measure of whatever criminal penalties can be leveled against him should be. The head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation lied to Congress. Let that sink in. 

House Republicans need to stop pussyfooting around with their usual nice crap and fry this man. And they need to move on from him to Merrick Garland as well, and the entire cabal of these Biden administration monsters weaponizing the justice system against faithful Catholics, as well as other Christians of goodwill.

These government leaders do not accept the Constitution; they actively fight against it and go after those patriotic Americans trying to uphold it. They need to be behind bars (at least) for treason. These are not innocent mistakes; they are a years-long pattern at this point.

They first label faithful Christians as terrorists and then use that label as an excuse to surveil them and build a legal case against them. If this sounds akin to what they are doing against Trump, you're right. It is.

The investigations are not investigations at all but are theater to enforce a predetermined outcome. And then, once they have "proven" their case, they bring legal action, based on their lies. This is exactly the type of government that the Founders warned about and gave citizens the ability to defend themselves against — legally and physically, if necessary.

The Second Amendment was not put in place so we could hunt deer. It is ensconced in the Constitution to prevent this type of tyranny. House Republicans need to stop talking and start impeaching. It's that simple.

No more excuses. No more slow walking. If nothing happens to these tyrants, they will be emboldened. They need to be removed from office, charged criminally and sent to prison, at a minimum.

And for the record, this isn't just a Catholic thing. It's a patriot thing as well.

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The currently sitting archbishop of New Orleans, Gregory Aymond, is a monster who should be publicly removed with great fanfare and paraded through the streets of New Orleans.

This is said in the spirit of the words of the Son of God, who acclaimed, "It is impossible that scandals should not come. But woe to him through whom they come! It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck and he cast into the sea, than that he should scandalize one of these little ones" (Luke 17:1–2).

So egregious is it to harm a child that this is the only instance in the Gospels where Our Blessed Lord actually attaches a specific penalty to a specific sin. And yet, new developments reveal that Aymond has done just that, being "him through whom the scandals come."

He certainly isn't alone in the crowded field of lying, cheating, children-of-Satan bishops who have made their careers over the devastated psyches and even corpses of sexually abused, molested and raped children.

But then again, Aymond has had the misfortune — from his point of view — of having his sins revealed in various documents from the New Orleans archdiocese bankruptcy filings.

In that mountain of paper a series of letters and texts have been unearthed by reporters at The Guardian newspaper, which were compiled in a nearly 50-page memorandum from attorneys representing abuse victims.

It outlines the cases of a half-dozen priests whom Aymond's own sex abuse board found credibly accused and made recommendations to remove or sideline from ministry and have their names added to the diocesan list of credibly accused molesters.

Yet Aymond simply disregarded his own board's recommendations and never said a word about these clerics.

One of the priests had a victim that, according to the accusation, the priest had raped multiple times since he was 10 and eventually killed himself. Yet not a peep from Aymond.

Another priest with another victim denied he had molested boys but admitted that he had fondled their genitals while smearing oil on them as part of a "blessing." According to The Guardian, Aymond appears to have gone to pains to not alert his half-million-member flock to all this, ponying up only what he had to when all other options were exhausted.

Of course, he rolled out the obligatory garbage of "you are in my prayers" while he knew the priests he protects from public scrutiny were in these boys' pants, ruining their lives.

Buried in those bankruptcy papers was a galling accusation in a text from Aymond talking about what is being revealed by reporters' investigative work.  He texted quite simply, in direct reference to his evil being revealed, "Satan lives."

Yes. Yes, he does, Archbishop. You are quite correct.

The 73-year-old archbishop is himself personally accused by a former New Orleans seminarian from Africa of sexual abuse — not just covering it up, but actually having been the perpetrator. That case also surfaced in the bankruptcy proceedings.

Aymond vehemently denies them, but, of note, they were dismissed out of hand by Church authorities without the seminarian or Aymond ever being interviewed in the process.

Whatever one may think of those accusations, the cover-up charges now being leveled against Aymond are serious enough to merit a full-fledged investigation by the Vatican and the subsequent removal of Aymond in disgrace. He should have the decency to simply admit his guilt in failing to reveal the names and warn his flock.

When his failures came to light, he went to great lengths to proclaim that he would be "transparent" (he pounded that theme) about all these types of cases. Now it appears that was a lie, according to these reports, so he should step down and allow the Church in New Orleans to collect itself.

But don't hold your breath. These old archbishops never think they are at fault and, as we see from his text, will even blame Satan when they are the ones at fault.

What's in The Guardian newspaper's report is beyond damning, again, coming from revelations from the bankruptcy filings. If this were some lowly priest somewhere falsely accused, he would be removed from public ministry and a thorough investigation would be launched. That would happen in corporate America as well if the CEO had such charges leveled against him.

But when it comes to these monsters, they sit back, hide behind their office, hurl down accusations against those spilling the beans and seek to destroy whoever they can, even saying their sins being revealed has Satan behind it all. At this point, it's not clear if such actions and mindsets point to such men as being possessed, delusional, crooked as hell, arrogant, or some combination of any of the above.

Aymond's past reveals that one of the co-consecrators at his elevation to bishop was the notorious archbishop of Miami, John Favalora. Favalora was forced to hand in his resignation to Pope Benedict when a laity-led, years-long investigation revealed that Favalora was leading an archdiocese drowning in actively homosexual clerics and did nothing about it.

The report, dubbed "Miami Vice," was somehow leaked to the media and gained enormous attention on the internet and was forwarded to Rome and Benedict. Shortly afterward, in a surprising and very unusual move, Favalora suddenly stepped down, handing in his resignation eight months before the mandatory retirement age of 75. Benedict accepted it immediately.

Co-consecrating bishops at a consecration-to-bishop ceremony are almost always personally selected by the man being raised to bishop, and are close personal friends. In fact, checking who the co-consecrators are of a given bishop can oftentimes reveal much about the man.

It shows who he "hangs" with, is friends with, has past associations with, was buddies with in seminary and so forth — lending a certain credibility to the old expression "Birds of a feather flock together." It's certainly not foolproof, but it's not nothing either.

So why would Aymond have Favalora — who elevated, protected, approved of and covered up a gigantic network of gay Miami priests — at his consecration to bishop? It's true, Favalora was a New Orleans native, but so what?

A man who apparently was personally removed by the pope for his involvement with a gay network of priests didn't just wake up one morning and begin that evil. It would simply be the latest in ongoing immorality.

Favalora was part of a network of bishops who, at the very least, approved of all this — an old queen's club that was part of the cover-up of teenage boys being raped by the thousands, and then secret settlements being paid to them with collection plate dollars as an absolute last resort once details became known.

We texted Abp. Aymond earlier this week and asked him some questions in that text, as follows:

Good morning Archbishop.

Do you not trust your sex abuse advisory board?

If not — will you publicly state so?

When you receive "evidence" which contradicts your board's findings, why don't you re-present that evidence to them and ask for a new review?

While in Austin, Texas, as bishop, Aymond led the Texas bishops' legislative efforts to stop the reform of the state's deadly 10-day law, which allowed for the removal of all lifesaving efforts against the patient's will.

His evil became national news in the case of baby Emilio Gonzalez — a brain-damaged child who Aymond would have been happy to have had all care withdrawn from and let die. These men really have some sick antipathy toward children, whether they are boys being raped or kids lying in a hospital bed fighting for their lives.

Imagine going before Almighty God having to give an account of why you exhausted so much effort harming children: better that a great millstone be hung around their necks.

Resign, Archbishop, while you still have time to repent. A young clerical-rape victim killed himself and you helped cover for the priest whose rape brought about that death.

Florida recently passed a new law allowing for the death penalty for those who sexually abuse children. They need to revise that and include those that create the environment where this is allowed to go on.

After all, that's what Jesus Himself said in the Gospel of Luke.