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Have you ever wondered why the Left is always able to advance its cause while so-called conservatism always struggles and generally loses? The reality is the Left always wins — it's just a matter of speed. And the Right always loses — it's just a matter of speed.

Sometimes it seems like the good guys are holding true, maybe even getting a little bit ahead, but that's almost always because the Left is just catching its breath between victories.

The reasons for this are straight-up simple. The Right has never gotten its act together when it comes to God, religion and morality. There are way too many variations on the theme, too many competing opinions. 

And since morality is upstream from culture, and politics flows from culture; if you don't have unanimity on morality and God, good luck preserving a culture. On the other hand, the Left is unanimous in its antipathy toward God, religion and morality.

So, bottom line, they are united and conservatives are not. And most especially, the question of unity (or lack of it) all boils down to the supernatural. Conservatives, in order to try and sidestep the obvious disunity, simply ignore anything and everything specific about God.

They talk about "the Bible," "God," "Jesus," "faith" and an assortment of other sacred-sounding themes. But they fall woefully short of what any of that actually means, and, when you think about it, it makes perfect sense.

The Left gets to rip everything religious, and, generally, religious people are really hamstrung responding. So conservatives box themselves into a corner and have to talk about trying to re-establish what amounts to a patriotic utopia based on just earthly, temporal virtues, natural virtues, with no real touchstone to God and supernatural good.

For example, in a recent article in American Greatness, the esteemed Victor Davis Hanson, a good guy with a good mind, just never finishes the thought.

In his article entitled "The Remaking of America: Every Aspect of American Life and Culture Is Under Assault," Hanson correctly identifies a list of woes regarding the decay of America, of various institutions under assault:

He is spot on in his analysis of each. 

But he never suggests to anyone that the reason why the Left has scored just lethal blows in all these areas is precisely because of the competing versions of Christianity (contradictory versions of Christianity), which have left the entire cause vulnerable to the assaults.

Down in the trenches, where the war is being fought hand to hand, the Left wins because so-called Christians actually accept some of the Left's premises and then argue among themselves over to what degree they should be accepted.

So contraception, the mother of all sexual evils in the culture, is never called out by the right because too many on the right actually accept it. It violates natural moral law and therefore can never be accepted by followers of Christ.

Divorce and remarriage, another anti-Christian source of societal destruction, is also widely embraced by so-called conservatives.

The carnage wrought by those two alone has brought us to the point where we stand right now, which is in a cultural freefall. Man's nature is fallen (meaning fallen from grace) and, left to its own devices, will self-destruct, and no amount of a reconstruction of a culture without grace will ever succeed. However well-intentioned, it will always blow up, as we see.

A culture cannot be built or constructed that has any real chance of long-term success, which simply has the question of God and morality wrong. Freedom of religion enshrined in the First Amendment can only carry a society so far.

Yes, government should not be allowed to interfere in religion. That said, contradictory religions will ultimately do much more damage to the culture than government interference and regulation could ever do. The notion that "you can believe what you want and I can believe what I want" will doom a culture because it denies that there is such a thing as objective truth.

When a culture denies truth, then all you have left is a propaganda war — war for which morality is the most well-liked, most popular, the easiest to follow.

That won't ever end well.

Constitutional values can only carry you so far before the tank starts to run out of gas. America is now barely chugging along on the fumes of Western civilization. Either the tank is gonna be filled with the super fuel of Catholicism or the culture is done. No nation survives on half-truths.

Michael gives a speech to Catholic men at Sweetest Heart of Mary Catholic Church in Detroit, urging them to submit to the Church when it's exercising its God-given authority.

Michael Voris gives his second talk about "staying on board the ship" at the 2023 Church Militant Strength and Honor Conference.

Michael Voris speaks at the 2023 Strength and Honor Men's Retreat & Conference.

Michael Voris interviews Mark Houck, the newly announced candidate for Pennsylvania's 1st Congressional District.

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If you needed any proof that the money-racket machine the U.S. bishops are running is decidedly Marxist and they have no intentions of reforming, just look at what happened recently at Catholic Charities.

For the record, Catholic Charities is the bishop-run group that collects enormous sums of taxpayer money to destabilize the southern border of the United States by spiriting in illegal aliens by the millions, and then shipping them all over the country with your tax dollars.

In fact, the anti-American leftist organization is so corrupt in its anti-American activities that it's become the target of a congressional investigation by Republicans in the U.S. House — that's bad.

We write to express our deep concerns with the growing role non-governmental organizations (NGOs) play in fueling the drastic increase in illegal aliens crossing the southern border. While Americans suffer the consequences of the unprecedented chaos at the border, NGOs continue to profit off of exploiting our immigration laws. ...

Next Congress, we will continue to investigate your organization's role in facilitating the border crisis, your potential violations of federal law, and your misuse of taxpayer funds. We are notifying you that Catholic Charities is required to preserve all information related to any expenditures submitted for reimbursement from the federal government related to migrants encountered at the southern border.  

This was not the first letter they had sent to Catholic Charities.

Taking their cue from how the U.S. bishops sit back like they are accountable to no one (even God), they simply ignored that first letter. That prompted the House members to lower the boom in another letter, saying, "Catholic Charities failed to respond to a letter you received previously from my office on February 9, 2022. As a reminder, your organization could be subject to prosecution for violating Title 8, U.S.C. § 1324(a), which defines several distinct offenses related to aliens."

At the end of the month, the Marxist nun who ran Catholic Charities for the bishops, Sr. Donna Markham will step down and be replaced by another equally minded, considerably younger Marxist woman by the name of Kerry Alys Robinson.

The entire establishment of the Catholic Inc., is run by these types of individuals who are all tied up in the elitist crowd of the Church — and in Washington, D.C., that almost always revolves around Georgetown.

True to form, the nun was deeply associated with Georgetown and used that platform as a means to insulate her radical agenda under the guise of it being "Catholic," because, after all, you know, she's a nun and, well, Georgetown.

In D.C., that's all part of the swamp, regardless of the label of "Catholic." Ain't nothin' Catholic about it.

Of course, Robinson is a cog in the wheel of Catholic Inc., as well, being a Georgetown grad as well as Yale Divinity School, which, by the way, ain't Catholic, but is liberal as hell. Of course it is. She will be picking up where the old nun left off, directing an organization to petition for hundreds of millions of dollars each year in tax money, that the lobby at the USCCB will have helped to make available by pushing congressmen to support passage of certain bills.

It's a giant machine, where even if you change the people, the drama keeps being played out. It's living proof of the old maxim "the more things change, the more they stay the same." Catholic Inc., long ago abandoned the Faith. They have held onto the institutions and offices and labels because they are helpful, but make no mistake, this has zero to do with saving souls and everything to do with keeping the machinery well-oiled.

So Church Militant cheers the efforts of various congressmen to choke off this money and hold Catholic Charities' feet to the fire.

It's time to defund the U.S. bishops.

Today's Vortex features Michael's full interview on One America News' Weekly Briefing with John Hines — breaking down the financial corruption of the U.S. bishops' conference and the necessity of removing its tax-exempt status.

Today's Vortex features Michael's talk at "The Importance of the Family" event in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on July 29, 2023, where he discusses the destruction of the domestic church in the West.

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As we continue to highlight the bishops' malfeasance toward those in their charge, even in the realm — perhaps especially in the realm — of politics, we should ask, why does it really matter?

Here's why: People live their day-to-day lives in a culture, a society, like fish live in water. It's impossible to swim through the water and not be impacted by it. If it's dirty or the temperature changes, the fish are impacted.

By analogy, we can say the same thing about humans swimming through the culture. And for the moment, we are confining the analogy to simply the natural world, not the supernatural role of grace and so on.

No human society is even close to perfect, but some are better than others in creating an environment where man's better angles can be encouraged — a love of arts, philosophy, friendships and so forth. The stuff of a culture, the cult.

There is an entire psychological reality that springs forth from a healthy culture. When the culture gets sick (think of the water getting polluted), that psychology starts to be invaded, weakened, and becomes susceptible to being taken over.

I don't want to make this a Democrat versus Republican thing, because it's really not. But at the end of the day, one of those two parties promulgates a psychologically sick society. The other doesn't push back, or at least not enough.

The Democrats' philosophy, their guiding star, is the idea that society is better off without God, without religion. And for the record, the cult of society, the culture, refers specifically to the cult of religion — it's where the word "culture" comes from.

So to undermine the foundation of a society by denying its grounding can never end well. And look around: It isn't ending well.

Lesbian couples raising boys — give me a break. Fatherless boys trying to achieve manhood, just as screwed up. Yet the Democrats revel in this kind of culture. They pass laws to protect it and pass other laws and propose policies to tear down what went before, which was a culture to protect the innocent, not victimize them.

Yet the U.S. bishops, to their great and likely everlasting shame, go along with all this. Not that you could expect anything less, given their decades-long track record of child (mostly male children) sex abuse.

Many don't give a damn about the innocent, especially children, in or out of the womb. There is simply no way men so conniving to achieve that level of power can also be that naive when it comes to supporting the Party of Death.

Yet there they sit on the sidelines encouraging the psychological as well as physical destruction of life, young life, the future. How exactly is that not the work of the diabolical?

A nation rises and falls on its culture, and its culture produces its politics. But what the godless Marxist forces figured out is that if you can seize the political machinery, you can, over time, send those waters back uphill and change the culture.

That's what they do.

At least change the culture enough that now a vicious cycle starts to set in. And that's where we are, circling the drain at an ever-increasing rate. It all ties together: the nation, the culture, the society, psychology — each one of those both feeds into the others and is again influenced by the other. They go hand in hand.

So to advance destruction and breakdown in the one is to cause it in the other. Intelligent people know this, and the diabolical, with its human agents, knows it as well.

This is why the bishops should be cut off from all funding, including your collection-plate money. But they get much more from your tax dollars. Many bishops are Democrats in robes. Nothing else.

They hate everything the Democratic Party hates — America, the Church, your families, your souls, all of it — because it's all tied together.

And a person doesn't have to actively hate. To simply not defend the innocent is a form of hatred. In fact, that level of indifference surpasses hate. There is really no coming back from it.

But at least they can try to advance their evil without your tax dollars.

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For the first time, perhaps ever, the U.S. bishops are finding themselves in a dogfight on Capitol Hill when it comes to them getting and using your tax dollars to destabilize the border.

The press conference in Washington, D.C., last week (which Church Militant covered at length) spoke about the need to end the unfettered, unaccountable access the bishops have to these funds and their use of them. That was, in fact, the entire point of the press conference.

It turns out that segues right into an effort by a conservative congressman to also cut off the flow of some of those dollars, and the bishops are none too happy about that.

The leader of the move is Texas congressman Lance Gooden, who serves on the House Judiciary Committee. He has written a letter to DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas saying Biden is "allowing non-governmental organizations ... the freedom to aid and abet illegal aliens." The letter was also signed by Congressman Jake Ellzey of Texas and Tom Tiffany of Wisconsin.

Then, in May, Gooden fired off another letter — this time to other members of Congress — charging non-governmental organizations (also known as NGOs) of abusing their tax-exempt status by "play[ing] a disturbing role in the inflow and spread of illegal immigration throughout the country."

Included on his list, you guessed it, Catholic Charities — which, of course, it should be, since it is the largest recipient of your tax dollars going to support the destruction of the U.S. southern border.

There is now a growing number of conservative "America first" congressmen taking action on this front.

Ohio's Jim Jordan has gotten in on the deal, as has Rep. Tom McClintock of California.

In a separate letter, they accuse Catholic Charities and other NGOs of manufacturing what they termed an "incentive" for illegal immigration. That letter was directed to DHS secretary Alexander Mayorkas.

Movement has begun in the nation's capital, that's the bottom line here, and the main culprit from an NGO viewpoint has been identified — and as Church Militant has been reporting for years, it's the U.S. bishops and their Marxist-minded outfit, Catholic Charities.

Now all of this detail only makes sense if it's couched in the larger picture of the penetration of the Church by Freemasonry and their shock troops, worldwide communism. The Church leaders are quick to portray their work at the border as "living out the gospel" or some other spiritual-sounding crap. Well, of course they have to paint it like that. They aren't going to go put up billboards that say "Give us your tax money so we can weaken the republic."

But if you fail to understand the connection between America, at least traditionally, being an enemy of worldwide communism, also known as "globalism," and the need for America to be toppled to advance this ideology, then you have failed to grasp the big picture, and all these little details won't make any sense.

In a war, there is the dominant aspect of the war. But the war itself is never directly fought as a "thing" in itself. It is fought in a thousand different battles, each of which has its own hundreds of little skirmishes. All of that feeds into the outcome of the war, but the war as it is in itself doesn't actually exist, just its outcome.

That's what's going on here and has been for more than a century. 

The undermining and eventual transformation of both the Church and the republic are each linked to this, and the Marxist leaders in the Church and the government each understand this completely.

Why does it matter if the republic survives intact? Because for all its many horrible evils and problems, America still has, on the books at least, the foundational principle that man is made in the image and likeness of God and therefore has an inherent dignity that governments may not trample.

Does the United States do this perfectly? Absolutely not, not even close. In fact, at this point of the cultural deterioration, those words seem to be more lip service than reality. That said, they do still exist and must be defended and advanced because they express in political terms a fundamental truth of the universe — that God is real and has created us in His divine image.

That is what communism/globalism agitates against and wants to overthrow, and even if America is something of a paper tiger, or even hypocritical in its application of that truth, it is still out there. If it didn't matter, global communism would not be fighting so hard to extinguish it. It does matter. And it matters because it's the truth.

Tax dollars going to the U.S. bishops who use that money to side with anti-American ideologies (not to mention anti-Catholic) must be opposed, and, therefore, this becomes one of those many battles in the larger war. Patriots and Catholics have lost way too many battles in the last few decades, and it's time to at least begin to turn the tide.

That's what the D.C. presser was all about last week.

The defense of the republic, even with all its evils and imperfections, matters because it provides a "nest" for the advancement of the Catholic faith.

It just so happens that we find ourselves in a two-front war, fighting Marxists in the Church and Marxists in the government. Once you get that, everything becomes very clear and you begin to recognize the importance of each individual battle.