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So the Catholic Church in America has a dirty little secret it doesn't really want to know. It's this— how many people who convert to Catholicism through RCIA actually remain practicing Catholics? In short, just how good is the RCIA thing in making people saints? Becoming a saint or at least striving for sainthood is the heart of the Church's mission. If that is not happening then the parish and diocese are failing in its mission.

Here's what needs to be looked at carefully and called into question: The devastation to the Faith that has occurred over the past 50 years is finally having to be dealt with honestly as bishops all over the country close down parishes and schools etc. They can no longer deny that their actions or inaction have wrought destruction on a scale never before seen. So a good number of bishops have implemented various programs to try and stem the flow out of the Church. By far and away, the vast majority of these efforts encompass some sort of watering down of the Faith to make it more palatable to non-Catholics or poorly educated Catholics in an effort to get them to return.

They call it "pre-evangelization," as in get em' in the Church before you can preach em' the Gospel. Problem is, often times, when they do have some marginal success in getting them in the Church, they often times never get around to really preaching. And here's where the dirty little secret comes in — loads of these new people end up leaving cuz' all they are getting is the meringue and no substance. Since no one keeps any official track of these numbers, it's anyone's guess, but informal discussions with various people in the Church who touch all this on a daily basis suggest that as many as 50 percent of RCIA converts leave after the first year and as high as 75 percent have left after five years. Again, there's no way to verify those numbers with scientific certainty, but they can't be that wrong given the reality of how much the Church is atrophying in the U.S.

One out of every eight Americans walking around is a former Catholic and 50 percent of all baptized Catholics in America have left the Faith. There is no way that RCIA is being successful in keeping new Catholics, Catholic, in the face of those known statistics. You can understand why no bishop or the national conference of bishops really want to dig down deep and discover the truth of RCIA success. It would just be further confirmation that their efforts have been and continue to be an epic fail and who wants to deal with that? But that is exactly what needs to be dealt with.

All this blather and cheerleading for "pre-evangelization" like Alpha and a dozen other programs, in the end, accomplishes very little and in some cases is actually hastening the decline because of the long-term, knock-on effect of the failure. Consider if, and this is a big if, if a local parish or diocese has some success in getting people into an RCIA program and then because of the watered down or even anti-Catholic stuff they hear there, eventually leave the Faith, now you have produced a corrupted Catholic — a person who can say, "I went through RCIA, I know what I'm talking about and the Catholicism isn't that different from anything else."

Statistics bear out, in fact, that 50 percent of Catholic who leave the Church go on to no religion and what a sad commentary that the last official exposure the "religion" which they no longer have an interest in was Catholicism. Getting people into a "listening session" or to a "come and see" night at the parish may as well not be done at all if the end result is going to be "come and see and reject."

Church leaders are setting themselves up for a massive failure down the road because they are cooking the books. Each year, every parish and diocese reports and records their numbers of baptisms and conversions to national headquarters and all that information is gathered together in what's called The Kennedy Directory, but it is full of inaccuracies. It records baptisms, but nowhere does it track those who leave the Church, so the number of total Catholics is essentially meaningless.

Right now, the latest numbers show roughly 70 million Catholics in the U.S. But that is nowhere near as reflective of the actual number who embrace and live the Faith. We know, we all know, that number is nowhere near 70 million. It's much closer to around 7 million. We know 35 million have left the Faith. So the number is absolutely inaccurate by at least half. We also know that of the remaining 50 percent, at least half of them do not go to Mass each week, so that's another slash of 25 percent, meaning the real number of total Catholics is no higher than about 17–18 million, not the vastly overstated number of 70 million. Various bishops and dioceses around the country may not have run the actual number on all this, but they know with certainty, this is true. They live in this world everyday. Fewer and fewer Catholics means, among other things, declining revenues. And whatever they may know, they do know that.

So how is this happening? How is it with all the "pre-evangelization" programs, which have enjoyed at least a limited success in getting some people's attention, that all that effort isn't contributing to any kind of turnaround? Allow us to posit that no turnaround is happening because RCIA, Alpha, "Come and See," "Gather us In," "Joyful Bands of Missionary Disciples" — that sounds so gay — and all that marketing hoopla is not faithful to authentic Catholicism. They still concentrate on the subjective experience and emotions and personal-based language that the rest of the world also traffics in. Catholicism has not set itself apart from the world but has rather tried to baptize the attitudes and approaches of the world and it has failed.

Catholicism presents nothing unique under its current presentation. There are a million reasons why, and those are all subjects of many other Vortex episodes, but suffice to say, it's true. Church leaders are embarrassed by the Faith. They have not tried to distinguish it from the world, and when it comes to effectively out-marketing the world with its billions and one distractions from the spiritual life, you ain't gonna' win that battle.

The music is better outside the Church. The preaching is better outside the Church. The "liturgies," such as they are, are better outside the Church. Heck, the message is better outside the Church. Catholic leaders have laid aside Catholicism and are trying to sell a knock-off brand, and no one is buying it. That's why hordes leave even after going through RCIA. RCIA is not effective on the balance because Catholicism is not being taught in those sessions. Friendly, non-offensive, personal feeling Catholicism is being offered and no one cares. They convert and then have buyer's remorse. Exactly how many leave is the dirty little secret. But that they are leaving — in stampedes — is no secret at all.

Unless and until the authentic faith is presented, taught and insisted on, there will be no rescuing of a failing Church, whose leaders appear to be completely tone-deaf or have no desire to do the heavy lifting required to turn this around. We must do our part — those of us who know the truth, the whole truth. We must do our part and do it now. We will answer to Our Blessed Lord for not loving souls enough if we don't get in the game.

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Of all the Left's criticism of President Trump, the one that is perhaps the most revealing is "He's not very presidential." They go on about his tweets and brash language and street-fighter demeanor and his calling them out and their media allies. But he's not polite or statesman-like or diplomatic or genteel enough for them. That's true. And the reason he isn't is because that sort of political posturing and style gets political conservatism nowhere.

The Left never abides by those rules of engagement but throws out the double standard that conservatives must always conduct themselves in such a manner. The Left employs a style of political and cultural combat that conservatives don't do with. They understand the battle and how to win it, much more than conservatives do — and then along came Trump.

The Left has largely conducted themselves according to the "Bible" prepared for them by Saul Alinsky, his blueprint book, Rules for Radicals, which he dedicated to Lucifer. Trump has essentially been taking a page from Alinsky's book and playing by those rules, but in this case, it's the Left that's getting smacked by them. Trump had the insight to understand that whatever philosophy controls the media controls the whole shooting match. Knowledge is king, and whoever controls knowledge and its dissemination wins the game. That's why the Nazis had a massive propaganda agency headed up by Joseph Goebbels, and the Bolsheviks immediately grabbed control of the newspapers.

Trump stepped onto the political and cultural stage just at the right moment in history, and frankly only he could have been the man to do so. The death grip the leftist mainstream media had on information was for a brief moment relaxed owing to the internet. They had become so accustomed to having control that they had grown lazy and did not sense the great cultural shift happening under their feet. Political and theological conservatives had seized the moment while the Left had fallen asleep, and they made the most of it.

Trump understood the moment as well. He knew it would be a narrow window of opportunity and he seized it. In copying Alinsky's methods, he did exactly what the Left had done to political conservatives and faithful Catholics for decades. He isolated the leftist media, demonized them which they deserved because, as Fr. John Hardon said, they are the Luciferian media. He gave them back exactly what they deserved, and after isolating them he went on to the next Alinsky tactic — he mocked them. He ridiculed them. Again, they are deserving of every bit of it. CNN is now seen, again rightly, as fake news. Trump's street style was exactly what the political conservative movement needed. He's not the guy you want as an enemy if you are up to anything untoward which, let's admit, the Left is always about — one of the ruling elite's own used their methods on them and has brought the Left to its knees. Only in America, right?

Now, through almost sheer force of will, Trump has given birth to an environment where religion is no longer able to be as easily mocked, unemployment is at historic lows, employment levels among blacks and Hispanics are the highest ever recorded, the economy is practically on fire, the federal government is collecting surplus levels in tax dollars because of the robust economy, over half of Americans say the country is on the right track, North Korea is coming to the negotiating table, illegal immigration is beginning to stall, the Supreme Court is beginning to look more and more safe for a pro-life majority to assume control, the Mueller-Russia probe is imploding because Americans don't care because there's nothing there, a case against the Democrats and Hillary is gaining steam, the highly predicted "blue wave" in the upcoming midterms appears to have serious problems developing as the commanding lead by Democrats on the generic congressional ballot question has essentially been wiped out and Trump's approval is 50 percent. And the president has accomplished all this in the face of the most intense ferocious campaign of hate against him ever unleashed by the Left. All this because the right man in the right time in the right place was able to challenge the Left's hegemony, using their own tactics against them, and they are incensed.

And the parallel case within the Church bears remarking on as well. All of this should hearten orthodox Catholics. We have suffered for almost 60 years under the hegemony of dissidents and heretics. And while the analogy fails when it comes to the laity electing a leader to challenge the ecclesiastical elites and Establishment who have destroyed the Church like the Left has destroyed the culture, there is one underlying principle that we can follow — that is to challenge the dissidents at every turn. Isolate them. Shine the light on them. Give them no rest. Do to them what they have done to Holy Mother Church and her faithful sons and daughters for generations.

Of course, we pray for them. Of course, we intercede for their salvation. But in the end, that can only be achieved if they cooperate with the graces we are praying would be shed on them. If they will not confess the error of their ways, repent and renounce the evil they have visited on the Church, then how can they be saved?

Our Blessed Lord will not override their free wills. He provides what they need for salvation, but they must cooperate with that or they will be damned. In the meantime, since they are so legion and so powerful within the Church, they must be opposed and resisted. They must be called out and isolated — their destructive plans exposed for what they are.

The Church of Nice Establishment has essentially controlled the flow of information in the Church for the past 60 years or so, much like the Left has controlled the flow of information in the culture. Times have changed. The evil in both realms is being dragged out into the light. Catholics are fed up with their children and grandchildren leaving the Faith, with their friends and family members walking away because so few have challenged the Establishment ruling elites whose last concern is the souls of your loved ones.

Change has come to America. How long it will last will depend on how effectively the "Empire Strikes Back." But change is coming to the Church as well and change in this arena will depend on how committed Catholics will be to challenging the status quo Church of Nice. Weird, huh, that Saul Alinsky would produce the blueprint for the great pendulum swing back in the Church and outside the Church? Challenge and expose evil everywhere.

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In the wake of the visible collapse of the Faith in Ireland, you'd think that such a mauling of the Church would give rise to some serious repentance on the part of Irish prelates. You know, the kind of hard smack across the gob that actually serves to wake people up. But no. Even the worst route in modern political history for the Church doesn't serve to wake this lot from their dreamland.

They should have had the decency to resign en masse in the wake of the Irish homosexual clergy sex abuse scandal a few years back, but they were too asleep in that crisis as well. And that crisis precipitated this crisis which is actually much more of a ruination than a crisis. The comments made by most of the prelates in the aftermath of the wipeout are quite revealing. They take no responsibility for this disaster, throw their lot in with the child-killers and deal out even more junk as a remedy for the problem.

And the spokesman for the idiocy is none other than the lead Irish prelate, the Primate of All Ireland: Archbishop Eamon Martin. You'll recall that after a majority of Irish Catholics voted in sodomy as a marriage in 2015, he raced to the secular press to say that he understands how sodomites would feel happy about the vote.

So, first, with regard to accepting no responsibility, listen to this quote:

"For some years we have been aware of a drift away from our congregations, a changed culture, those who had 'quite consciously' rejected the church and were hostile to its teaching." He added the referendum "has confirmed Ireland is conforming to western liberal democracy." That blarney is pure bishop speak. Not a word of his or his brother bishops failure with regard to any of that.

Had they resigned and a whole group of new bishops been appointed by Pope Benedict, maybe that new group could have salvaged something of the Faith, preventing all this. Many who voted in favor of abortion specifically mentioned the lack of moral authority of the Church and how their vote was as much to "give it to the Church" as it was in favor of abortion.

Second point — with regard to throwing their lot in with the pro-abortion crowd, Martin actually said — using Bill and Hillary Clinton vocabulary — that given the results, Catholics would now have to function within this framework to make abortion "safe, legal and rare." Safe, legal and rare are buzzwords from the Planned Parenthood gang meaning abortion for everyone, all the time, anywhere, completely protected by every law and the courts, unregulated and viewed as an untouchable, unassailable human right.

I'm sure the child killers will greatly enjoy your help, Archbishop, in making the murder of thousands upon thousands of little Irishmen, "safe, legal and rare." And then of course — perhaps an even more inane comment, if that's possible — the archbishop of Dublin, Diarmuid Martin, said the following:

"Many will see the results of Friday’s referendum as an indication that the Catholic Church in Ireland is regarded today by many with indifference and as having a marginal role in the formation of Irish culture."

Martin’s comments came in a Mass in Maynooth, seat of the Irish seminary which, for decades, tuned out dozens and dozens of homosexual priests right under these bishops' noses and more than likely with their approval. These priests went on to not only abuse boys but undermine the Faith, setting the stage for this great mauling.

He added, in true social justice blather: "Pro-life means radically rediscovering in all our lives a special love for the poor that is the mark of the followers of Jesus."

Too bad the unborn, those struggling with same-sex attraction, the altar boys who their priests raped and they covered up and the souls of their flock that didn't make the cut when it came to categorizing "the poor."

He's right in observing that the Church is not seen as compassionate. It's seen as a sex abuse cover-up machine whose predominant interest is in controlling Irish society so that it can continue in its predatory evil, not to advance the kingdom of God, and that view is not without good reason.

As we pointed out in yesterday's Vortex, anyone who thinks the bishops of Ireland are somehow special in this regard simply does not understand what has happened in the Church these past fifty years with the infiltration of Freemasons, Communists and homosexuals, or some combination of all the above.

Satan has made mincemeat of the ordained and brought about an unprecedented ruin of the Church, all at the hands of proud, unapologetic clerics who give absolutely no indication of remorse or repentance or even responsibility for this chaos.

And if you're wondering why I'm so hot and bothered by this whole Irish mess, it is also personal to me. Not only has the Faith, which I love dearly, been completely stomped on by the Irish leaders and clergy, it's also a question of the fact that my heritage is Irish. My mother's entire family was from Ireland — County Roscommon and County Galway — they're all from there. My grandparents, as little children, were beaten viciously and attacked by the British Black and Tans.

Those children and their families were Catholic, and they were defending the Faith and they would not give up the Faith. That's my grandparents. I knew both my grandparents, I love them tremendously. They were willing to die for the Faith as little children and these men with their miters on and their collars who have run, just rampages across the Church with all their homosexual crap and their garbage, they deserve to be kicked out.

They should not. They have destroyed the patronage, the patrimony, of thousands upon thousands, tens of thousands of good Irish Catholic souls who, for centuries, were willing to die for the Faith, and these men have completely converted Ireland into a pagan culture worse than when St. Patrick landed on those shores.

And that goes for bishops conferences throughout the West.

Ask yourself this question: Had all this predatory homosexual clergy evil never been exposed, would the bishops have taken steps on their own to root out the evil? They didn't do it before the exposure, and there's nothing to indicate they would admit it now and fix it. In the face of this landslide, they still refuse to accept responsibility.

They should all resign. At least show some integrity — whatever little they can still muster.

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So, with sufficient time to have passed to digest the evil of the abortion vote in Ireland, it's time to look at the reality of this beyond just the shores of Ireland. It's time to look at the truth of the condition of the Church throughout the West, not only in majority Catholic countries like Ireland but also Protestant-majority countries like the U.S.

Does anyone really think that if a referendum vote were conducted among just Catholics in America on the availability of abortion being legal or not that the vote would turn out much different than the Irish vote? We are all just more scandalized and flattened by the fact that this was Catholic Ireland.

Well, couple things there. First, Catholic Ireland hasn't been Catholic for at least 30 years. This diabolical outcome does nothing more than just bring into the light what has been the reality for a long time. Secondly, in country after country, whether Catholics are a majority or a minority, the Catholic response is still the same. Catholics support legalization of child murder, sodomy, contraception, divorce and civil remarriage and so forth. It just looks worse when it's a majority Catholic country but the underlying evil is still the same.

Catholics, by and large, have walked away from the Faith. How else would anyone explain this cartoon in Ireland's leading newspaper a couple days after the vote? It shows a doctor removing a Rosary from a woman patient representing Ireland and saying, "Mission Accomplished — Obstruction Removed."

Because that's what the Catholic faith in Ireland is seen to have become — an obstruction. And an obstruction that must be removed. And while there is a greater significance of course to a country whose population is majority Catholic holding such views — among a majority of Catholics in all countries — this is the commonly held view - the faith is something to be avoided, an impediment to happiness and personal liberty and so forth.

So, as you might imagine, the soul-searching has begun among at least some Irish prelates in the wake of the disaster. But even still, there is the hint of "they just don’t get it" in their comments. Eamon Martin, the archbishop of Armagh and primate of all Ireland, said Irish culture had changed and that people had drifted away from the Church. Diarmuid Martin, the archbishop of Dublin, said pretty much the same — that the results are a sign of the marginal role of Catholicism in the country today.

Well, if those two statements don't sum up the entire miserable state of the episcopate, not just in Ireland, but through nearly all of the West. It is stupefying just how completely clueless, tone deaf and out of touch these men who are bishops actually are.

What everyone else and their mother and brother have known for decades is news to these men. Archbishop Eamon Martin said that Ireland now had only a tiny minority of deeply committed Catholics representing what he called a "remnant." Well, at least he understands that much now. But it's been that way for decades. It just became really visible last week. Heck if it wasn't visible after Ireland got its first homosexual prime minister who is in a relationship with a younger doctor, and if it wasn't visible after a sweeping victory to legalize sodomy as marriage, what exactly would make these results shocking or even a surprise?

That prime minister, Leo Varadkar, said after the abortion referendum, "What we have seen today is the culmination of a quiet revolution taking place for the past 10 or 20 years." Aside from his timing, he's spot on. It's just been going on longer than he thinks. The rise of the homosexual predator priest and the covering-it-up bishop doomed the Church in Ireland the moment the first homosexual man was ordained.

And not just because of the obvious public relations fallout and resultant disaster in that area, but because these men have a completely different conception of the Faith. In short, they don't believe it. They see the Church as an institution to be used and manipulated to achieve some sort of personal agenda and feed their personal demons. Well, the gravy train just pulled into the station for all these homosexuals in the clergy who accomplished in a couple of generations what centuries of persecution by the British was never able to do.

And don't think for a moment that this is not the exact state of the Catholic Church in the U.S. as well. It just doesn't get as much attention because Catholics are not in the majority here. That's all. But every poll and study continues to show that among all Christian religions, Catholics lead the way in support for sexual immorality and killing of children in the womb. Through all of this, the U.S. bishops were silent. The Vatican was silent. The Irish bishops may as well have been silent.

But the problem runs deeper — much deeper than just an election or referendum vote. When evil rises to such a level that the general population actually votes on it, you've already lost the war. Homosexual bishops, homosexual priests lying, cheating, abusing, defrauding the faithful, depriving them of the truth and glory of the Divine is going to result in this kind of thing every time.

Hey Cdl. Dolan, still think there's no crisis in the Church? Hey Bp. Barron, still think we have a reasonable hope all men are saved? Here are two comments from enemies of the Church, two Irish women who voted for death to children. Their names are unimportant. What they say, says it all. They are the typical Irish woman.

"We are finally throwing off the shackles of the Catholic Church" and "We are a new country. The old Ireland is gone."

Good job gay sex-loving bishops and priests. Good job, doing the work of your father the Devil for all these decades. When you face your judgments, you will hear not only the voice of your Lord and Judge but also the voices of the millions of aborted children you were happy to sacrifice for your sodomy and personal gain. Your clocks are ticking and you don't care because you don't believe. But you will.

One day, for all eternity, you will.

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So we haven't mentioned this directly in a while, but the truth is a hard thing to keep suppressed. Bishop Robert Barron's spiritually destructive position that we have a reasonable hope that all men are saved must continually be examined in light of new information.

So, let's look at some new information, shall we? A record percentage of Americans now believe that gay and lesbian relations, pornography and polygamy are morally acceptable. This according to the Gallup Polling Agency in its annual "Values and Beliefs" survey released last week, which began in 2001 and surveys Americans' attitudes on a host of issues.

A record high 67 percent of American adults believe that gay and lesbian relations are morally acceptable, up from last year's high of 63 percent. Other record-setting attitudes were also revealed.

Seventy-six percent now hold divorce is morally acceptable. Up from 73 percent last year.

Forty-three percent say pornography is morally acceptable. Up from 36 percent last year.

Nineteen percent say polygamy is morally acceptable. Up from 17 percent last year.

On the pornography front specifically, 67 percent of men aged 18 to 49 this year say pornography is morally acceptable, a 14-point increase from last year. The abortion question remains essentially neutral and unchanged, as it has for decades. Forty-eight percent opposed. Forty-three percent supportive.

So, let's go back now to Bp. Barron's anti-Catholic, deeply held, promoted and constantly preached inanity that we have a reasonable hope that all men are saved. Really? All men? Seriously? So the two-thirds of men in the U.S. under 50 who routinely participate in pornography and masturbation — because that's the point of pornography — there is a reasonable hope that they are saved?

Based on what exactly, Bishop? Some stupid theological theory which relies on a third and fourth-century heresy and brought back to life again by a Protestant theologian? See, clerics and prelates like Bp. Barron — and there are many others like him who are happy to believe this idiocy and whistle past the graveyard — they like to make their preaching and presentations sound all "reasonable" and easy to digest and non-confrontational. In short, popular.

But they are lying to you when they use this approach. They don't care about you or the truth. They care about their own popularity. So they dress up the Faith as reasonable sounding because they don't want to offend anyone. And they promote themselves and their anti-tradition phony Catholicism, no matter how warm and friendly it might sound in other areas.

It only takes one drop of poison to kill, even if it is in a glass of nice warm milk. So let's get down to brass tacks here, shall we? Bishop Barron believes there is a reasonable hope all men are saved.

Apparently, that applies to the three-fourths of the U.S. population that believes cheating on your spouse, divorcing them and abandoning your vows — not to mention your children — just for the sake of sexual satisfaction with someone other than your spouse.

That's what the Gallup poll reveals. Three out of every four Americans is fine with divorce and remarriage. Reasonable hope? Seriously? Reasonable hope that those who leave their spouse and shack up with another are going to be admitted into the Beatific Vision?

How about the gay sex lovers? Two out of three are down with sodomy, so I guess no need to worry about them either, huh Bishop? After all, we have your reasonable hope. Your reasonable hope that in the end denies the justice of God and the free will of man. Heck, you might as well break your vows while the rest of the country is at it. They support you in it, and you'll go to Heaven anyway because we have a reasonable hope all men are saved.

For that matter, why even become Catholic or stay Catholic? Everyone goes to Heaven, so what the Hell, there is no real Hell with humans in it, right Bishop? Just some theoretical possibility.

To that point, Judas Iscariot is in Hell. Bishop Barron is fond of using the throwaway line that the Church has never declared anyone is in Hell. First, Our Blessed Lord did. He also said other human beings would be damned.

But in the case of Judas, it is wrong and deceptive to pretend the Church has never said he's not burning Hell. Here is what the Council of Trent Catechism says of Judas, in two separate instances:

"Such certainly was the condition of Judas, who, repenting, hanged himself, and thus lost soul and body."

And of bad and misleading priests and bishops, "but also end in this, that they derive no other fruit from their priesthood than was derived by Judas from the Apostleship, which only brought him everlasting destruction."

That doesn't sound like we have a reasonable hope that all men are saved. It also sounds like a good number of the ordained will end up damned for spreading error and false teaching and confusion. Hint, hint.

And in the Liturgy for Holy Thursday from the Old Rite, the prayer during Mass reads: "O God, from whom Judas receive the punishment of his guilt, and the thief received the reward of his confession, grant us the effect of your clemency."

So much for all men being saved. This idiocy about no one being damned is fuel for the homoheresy in the Church. And, while Bishop Barron has not — to our knowledge — come out and publicly supported it directly, by giving the impression in people's minds that everyone is saved and no one goes to Hell, he provides a powerful underpinning for the arguments of the homo-heretics.

In fact, why hasn't Bp. Barron come out and publicly condemned the false teachings and lies of Fr. Martin and his wicked cabal. Is he afraid he will lose some valuable personal capital?

Is he aware that the moment he would speak in condemning terms of the homoheresy dominating the Church right now, people would correctly throw back in his face his own spiritual poison that we have a reasonable hope that all men are saved, so why does it matter if these men are sodomizing each other, Bishop?

Yeah, got to keep current on all this.

Bishop Barron is wrong and deceiving millions with this reasonable hope garbage. And he's fueling the homoheresy — perhaps intentionally, perhaps not. But he's doing it nonetheless.

All you priests and bishops with zippers over your mouths, dwell on that line from the Council of Trent about how meaningless and fruitless your priesthoods will be when you are burning in the fires of Hell.

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One of the most successful tactics the cultural Left and theological modernists have employed is the corruption of language — the use of certain words which have one meaning, but then using those same words to introduce a whole new meaning into the conversation. Especially the conversation over sexual morality.

Think for example of the word "gay." For centuries, the word meant happy, fun, almost frivolous and care-free. Then the homosexualist crowd came along and stole the word, corrupted its original meaning and applied it to them. Evil is not original, all it has is the power to corrupt, never create.

The same is, of course, true of the rainbow, an Old Testament sign of the covenant between God and man that God would never again destroy the earth through flooding. As an aside, at this rate, He'll be destroying it through something else, just not flooding.

Now enter from stage left, the spokesman for all things gay in the Church, Fr. James Martin, S.J. who makes liberal use of the word "homophobia." He absolutely did not invent the word. It's been around since the late 1980s into the early 1990s, but he knows a useful tool when he sees one.

Let's break this down shall we, because there is no such thing as homophobia. Let's start with a phobia. What is it? How does something get to be designated a phobia? The definition of a phobia is a type of anxiety disorder defined by a persistent and excessive fear of an object or situation. The designation is made by observing a rapid onset of fear and is present for more than six months.

According to American Psychiatric Association's 2013 edition of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the affected person will go to great lengths to avoid the situation or object, to a degree greater than the actual danger posed.

So now, back to Fr. Martin's extremely dishonest application of the term phobia — a mental disorder — to people who have a moral objection to men having sex with men. Father Martin is either stupid or a liar. He is capitalizing on the socially misunderstood understanding of the term phobia and using that to demonize any Catholic who defends the Church's teaching by insinuating that if they are opposed to gay sex, to sodomy, then they suffer from a mental disorder, they have a phobia, a fear of gay people, a homophobia.

What a liar.

Does anyone know any person who has an inordinate fear, a crippling distress-causing fear where they have to run out of the room at breakneck speed if they know a homosexual has come into the room? Yet this is exactly the picture Martin wants to paint of anyone who objects to his "gayification" of the Church. He demonizes and sidelines any person who objects to the immorality and disorder of gay sex and says they do not have to be listened to because they suffer from a mental disorder.

A disorder, by the way, that even the American Psychiatric Association has not defined. People have phobias — fears. Fear of spiders, enclosed places, drowning, etc. And all these phobias are characterized by great distress of being physically threatened and unsafe.

There is no such thing as homophobia. Nobody walks around terrified about being in the presence of someone who is attracted to their same sex. And it's the height of being uncharitable to paint someone who has a moral issue with a sinful behavior as though he or she has an emotional disorder.

Yet the designation sticks because people like Martin hurl the accusation around like its an accepted fact. Are there some people who hate gay? Sure. And those people are wrong. You are not allowed to claim to be a follower of Our Blessed Lord and at the same time hate someone. But, you are allowed — no, actually required — to hate sin. We even say in the Act of Contrition to God — and I detest all my sins.

Martin is falling back on a tried and true method of the Left — be it political or theological Left. That tactic is to ignore logic and facts and go straight for the emotions and labeling people, the very thing he claims people do with gays, he himself is an expert at. Martin and his crowd are using this tactic to great effect, and it must be explored and dealt with in some depth to counter it.

That's why Church Militant is announcing a live-streaming webinar tomorrow night right here on our website that we are calling "Catholic and Gay?"

The modernists in the Church have been allowed for too long to get away with twisting language, being unclear and imprecise on purpose. They are deliberately capitalizing on people's ignorance so they can trick them by confusing them. And the perhaps even more troubling part is that virtually no members of the hierarchy are even attempting to clear all this up.

Yes, there are a few, here and there, but a few is nowhere near sufficient. The bishops are not doing their job and souls are being damned because of it. And yes, Bishop Barron, souls do go to Hell, regardless of what your modernist clap-trap good guy preaching style tries to portray.

Bishops are not doing their jobs, so the laity have to in regard to stating what Church teaching is. Sodomy is evil. Those who practice it are in an objective state of mortal sin and their eternal lives are in serious jeopardy.

Make sure you tell all your friends and family to tune in tomorrow night at 7 p.m. ET to Church Militant when we deconstruct, point by point, this phony baloney evil argument of Fr. Martin and the silence that too many bishops afford him as they prattle on and on about climate change.

Lots of Catholics have various family members and friends who have been well-schooled in the doublespeak and attack vocabulary of the homosexualist crowd and don't really know what to say in response. Come to Church Militant tomorrow night at 7 p.m. ET and find out why the homoheresy is wrong and what to say in response.

Tell everyone you know to tune in.

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Servant of God, Fr. John Hardon, a solid, faithful Jesuit priest, when that was still possible, once wrote of his time as a seminarian in Rome when he had been appointed to be director of the graduate library at the Gregorian Pontifical University in Rome.

His superior had instructed him to get the library in order and retrieve various heretical manuals that had been checked out by other seminarians.

"Before I had retrieved one half of the heretical books, I had become the agent of orthodoxy and therefore the sworn enemy of the Modernists, who were updating the Catholic faith to its Modernist theology. I had doors slammed in my face. I lost friends whom I had considered believers. ... [This experience] taught me that the faith I had so casually learned could be preserved only by the price of a living martyrdom. This faith, I was to find out, is a precious treasure that cannot be preserved except at a heavy price. The price is nothing less than to confess what so many others either openly or covertly denied."

This happened between 1949 and 1951. Notice the years. Ten years before the Second Vatican Council. And it is worth noting that Fr. Hardon spent much of his life under the authoritarian rule of the modernist establishment. He was a white martyr for the faith — constantly derided and abused by not only his fellow Jesuits, but also much of the Church establishment, which had and continues to buy into various aspects of the Modernist heresy.

For example, the archdiocese of Detroit, where Fr. Hardon spent much of his later years and where he died 18 years ago, is the headquarters of the ridiculous Protestant evangelization program known as Alpha. It is essentially run out of the seminary here and ancillary locations and presents a completely watered down version of the faith that often begs the question whether it is even Christian, much less Catholic.

The excuse Abp. Vigneron and his chancery/Alpha cronies offer to keep pushing this nonsense is, well, it's not intended to be catechesis, but an evangelization effort. That's not only stupid, it's insulting.

What on God's green earth are you actually evangelizing if not appropriate and honest catechesis? Church Militant has prepared a complete analysis of Alpha available on our website in the FAQ section. Just click on it and read it. All the salient points about the problems with Alpha are listed right there.

To be sure there are many others, but this is more than enough to let you know this should never come near a Catholic parish and be touted as even approaching the truth of the Faith. No less an intellect than Cdl. Raymond Burke has explicitly condemned Alpha as being not Catholic in any meaningful way.

Now, we mention this in conjunction with Fr. Hardon, because this Servant of God was so disturbed by the state of catechesis in the Church that he actually started his own program known as the Marian Catechist program. When he died, he left charge of the worldwide effort to the care of Cdl. Burke who, when analyzing Alpha, declared that none of that poison should ever be used by those involved in the Marian Catechist program.

And, worth noting, you search high and low for any mention of Mary — you know, the Mother of God — in the Alpha program.

Talking about things like the Assumption and the Perpetual Virginity and Immaculate Conception are just too much, a bridge too far, when attempting to sit down for tea and crumpets with the easily offended "seeker" crowd. Thank God the Apostles didn't use Alpha.

Allow us to ask you, when saintly holy men like Cdl. Burke and Servant of God Fr. John Hardon are warning of errant catechesis and evangelization and modernist heresy permeating every nook and cranny of the Church, what exactly does the clergy and archbishop of Detroit think that will look like?

Do they expect a parade of demons down Woodward Avenue on floats with big banners saying we are going to destroy your faith? Or would they be much more subtle about it and make it all appear "reasonable" and "necessary" to meet people where they're at? Alpha comes right out and says that Scripture is the authority in the Church. That's a lie.

But hey, Modernist bishops and archbishops don't care, really, about that. It's close enough for soup, you know, as long as we can reach people and they aren't offended and will consider coming into the Church.

Yep, consider coming into the Church based on half-truths and watered-down tenets.

Father John Hardon was an eyewitness to the Modernist treachery and heresy back before Vatican II. The major archbishop in the United States who sent the Church in America reeling immediately after Vatican II was the cardinal-archbishop of Detroit, John Dearden, who is still worshipped as a god by the older clergy in Detroit — heck, he ordained most of them.

If Fr. Hardon were alive today here in Detroit, he would see the soft-pedaling of the Modernist heresy, just under a different name.

Alpha. Is. Not. Catholic.

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Cardinal Dolan of New York just doesn't get it. In his great rush to be relevant, he is just selling off the Faith. His latest pandering? Giving a very duplicitous, deceptive, deflective opinion on Pope Francis’ grossly mistaken personal opinion that God makes gays "that way."

He came out and agreed — this from the prelate prancing along at the head of the St. Patrick's Day parade where he orchestrated the allowing of active sodomites into the parade and then lied about it, saying "the group [OUT@NBC Universal] does not support the gay agenda." Riiiiight!!!

And no, Your Holiness and Your Eminence, God does not make someone gay, any more than He makes ephebophiles and pedophiles "their way." Or alcoholics, or those with advanced, overdrive libidos, or the "criminal gene" — a proven scientific fact, unlike the "gay gene," or a host of other sinful desires acted on.

See, word in Rome is that Dolan has fallen out of favor with Pope Francis and many of the ruling elites in Rome — perhaps too much buffoonery doesn't fit their style. He's apparently not radical enough for them, which ought to tell you how really bad things are in the eternal city right now.

So a more cynical mind could look at this latest implosion of Dolan's and say he's trying to get back in the good favor of the guys in charge and agreeing with them when they say something out of place or damaging to the faith — for his own personal gain of course. Now, what's particularly disingenuous of Cdl. Dolan here is how he presented his case and how he left unaddressed the real problematic statement attributed to the Pope.

Dolan chose to focus his comments on just one thing the Pope is supposed to have said: that God loves gays. Well, big deal. God loves everyone, unconditionally. He died for everyone — that's redemption. He so loved the world that gave His only begotten Son. So it's hardly earth-shattering news that God loves gays, or murderers, or bank robbers, or drug addicts, or child rapists, or adulterers, nor fornicators — you name it — He loves them.

But he loves them because He is love, not because He approves of the sin. In fact, God hates sin.

And those who die in their sin are His enemies. In truth, those who live in their sin have made themselves His enemies, but He still loves them and desires their salvation, for God wills that all men be saved and come to a knowledge of the truth — the truth that sets you free — free to exercise your will to choose eternal life with Him.

But that God loves gays is not all that was reported to have been said by the Pope, nor of course denied by the sinister characters running parts of the Vatican.

However bad the Pharisees and scribes were — so much so that Our Blessed Lord called them serpents and a brood of vipers — they at least dd not have the grace of office of the priesthood.

This lot in charge today. Imagine what He will call them at their judgments if they die in this state. And as a sidebar, Our Blessed Lord called people animals so Fr. Martin and the liberal media going nuts needs to just step off. Pope Francis is purported to have said more than God loves gays. He said, according to reports, that God made them gay, actively willed this condition for them and loves them in this condition — the condition of sinning being the unmistakable conclusion.

But deceptive Dolan never addresses this aspect of what the Pope said. And in truth, that aspect is the entire crux of the matter, not that God loves sinners, but that he created them to sin and simply overlooks it or even applauds it. This is typical Church of Nice fare: lie, deceive, side-step, warp the meaning of something, deflect, skip over, ignore.

The time has come for faithful Catholics to become incensed and enraged over this Clintonian type double-speak. Heck, we should, at some point in the near future, wait for Cdl. Dolan to say something like, it depends on what the meaning of the word is, is.

He publicly stated there was nothing offensive to Catholic sensibilities at the horrific Met Gala a couple weeks ago — standing not too far from the sadomasochism head mask draped in rosaries as chains. Yep, good grief, who could be offended at that?

He lied about his involvement in the sordid, filthy Fr. Peter Miqueli scandal and still to this day has not come clean about his homo-laden chancery that enables that illness. He is the man behind the scenes who brought active sodomites into the parade celebrating the patron saint of Ireland and then marched in front of them, not to mention had us tossed out when we confronted him about his scandal.

And now, a deflection of the most insidious kind.  

Agree with the most innocuous part of a statement — that even Satan would agree with and say nothing about the real problematic part — thus leaving open for reasonable minds to conclude, you agree with that part as well. And for the record, the reverse question needs to be asked based on all his past scandals revolving around the gay issue, does Dolan actually agree that God actively wills, makes/creates someone to be gay and then is fine with it?

It could easily be the case that he does agree with that, but is a bit nervous about coming out with it publicly, so he "signals" it, dog whistles it, so to speak. This homoheresy has got to be brought to an end, and it doesn't matter who the person is that occupies a given office in the Church.

As long as they support it, in whatever way they support it, directly like Fr. Martin, or signaling their support by silence and deflection, they need to be called out. They can all go to Hell if they are so desirous of it, but they don't have a right to have others follow in their wake.

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Church Militant exists, as our motto says, to "Serve Catholics." What does that mean, precisely?

Well, precisely, it means two things, two sides of the same coin, because current conditions demand such an approach. We serve Catholics by helping them be better Catholics. And the Church of Nice hates it when we call ourselves Catholic because of this double dynamic we operate by. The work of evangelization today, unfortunately, demands a dual path approach. Why?

Because conditions in the Church are so bad that when you are trying to help someone convert or revert to the faith, you simply cannot ignore this reality. In many places, RCIA is barely a joke, if not downright non-Catholic. Many other evangelization and catechesis-like efforts, like Alpha, barely rise to the level of Christian, much less Catholic. A huge number of prelates and clergy have been poorly formed or even malformed in the Faith.

The rampant homoheresy dominating so much of the life of the Church is out of control. Nutty, anti-Catholic ideas like, for example, everyone, or almost everyone, goes to Heaven, have become ensconced in many Catholics' minds. We could go on and on. The overall point is that there is so a dearth of fidelity to authentic Catholicism these days, owing to either schism, heresy or dissent, that it cannot be ignored or sidestepped when truly serving Catholics.

Church Militant does talk about all this, exposing it for what it is, which is un-Catholic, and for this approach we are roundly despised by the ever-shrinking, ever-disappearing Church of Nice. And for the record, we are on record as saying that given current trends, the Catholic Church in America will essentially be extinct within roughly seven years.

And behind closed doors, meeting with their diocesan finance personnel, every bishop in America knows that's true. That's why there is this massive unprecedented money grab going on across the country, finance campaigns trying to collectively raise billions of dollars.

They know that older Catholics are the most faithful and they are dying off. So better get the money while they still have the chance. It's ironic that the very men who have presided over the destruction of the Church and deprived younger generations of the authentic faith are now turning to the aging grandparents of those they have deprived and asking for their money before they die.

That takes a lot of gall.

"Hey, old Catholics. I am part of the Establishment Church which didn't care enough — or at all because I don't believe it — about the salvation of your children and grandchildren's souls. Nevertheless, can you cough up as much money as possible before you croak, so we can keep pedaling our poison and promoting leftist ideology and pretending it's Catholic?"

Well, at least that would be honest.

This is what we do here every day. Expose the dissident, homoheretical, social justice, big money, traditional Catholicism-hating machine that dominates the Catholic landscape these days. It absolutely needs to be talked about for what it is.

But the other part of the dual aspect approach it is to preach the actual Faith in all its beauty and glory. Think of the dual approach as dealing with both the natural as well as the supernatural.

And right now, the prevailing conditions of the Church of the Church on a natural level are too often a roadblock to the presentation of her supernatural beauty.

So how does Church Militant go about serving Catholics? By talking about both — no holds barred. It's why we ask you to become a Premium member, because your $10 a month not only gives you access to hundreds of hours of solid Catholic video but also allows us to remain in the game of this great war we are in for the soul of the Church. Even though the Church of Nice is dying out, it still is formidable, a wounded dinosaur capable of tricking people out of billions of dollars because it presents what many have called Catholic-Lite — all fluff, no substance.

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We quietly provide support behind the scenes to many priests and religious who have been abused by the liberal Church of Nice. None of this would be possible without your Premium membership.  See - it doesn't just pay for the Premium programming, it keeps us able to do all these other things we would never be able to do otherwise.

We made the decision very early on to offer all this other stuff to you for free because we are convinced this is what a completely committed, comprehensive Catholic apostolate not only does, but has to do in this current environment. Your monthly subscription is not just for your benefit. It helps many other people as well by providing the means by which we can do all these other activities.

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Imagine, if an apostolate like this had been around 30 or more years ago where millions read or view our material. Maybe the current conditions wouldn't be so bad. Maybe some souls who abandoned the One True Faith might not have. Maybe even more souls would have converted when presented Catholic glory straight-up.

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Two priests I'd like to focus on for a moment: Fr. John Hardon and Fr. Pablo Straub. Father John Hardon, who has been a continual source of inspiration and information for us here at Church Militant, once said called the liberal mainstream media "The Luciferian Media" because of the evil they poured into people's minds. And it didn't matter if it was news media or the entertainment media. He correctly saw that it was all a very valuable tool of the diabolical in destabilizing the culture and the Church.

Father Pablo Straub — a saint of a man who was a dear friend of ours here at Church Militant — once said to me in house one evening while we were visiting, “Michael, we have to bring Christ to the internet.” He was channeling the same inspiration of Fr. Hardon, that the media must be utilized to bring as many souls to Christ as possible, no matter the ferocious uphill battle against the demonic we may face in that industry along the way.

And so here we are. And I'd like to get very personal with you if I can for a moment. This apostolate, as you've heard me say many times before, exists to be used for the salvation of souls. We have faced many many obstacles along the way, from opposition from multiple Church leaders who despise our presentation of authentic Catholicism and pretend it's about the tone, when it's really about no such thing.

We've had a small contingent of people who were at one time close to our work here join forces with those who would seek to destroy us and betray us. We've had blackmail, extortion attempts, necessitating my public confession two years ago of my past sins. We have been blasted by no less than a dozen times by the secular media over the past year and half and labeled every imaginable slur and insult.

We were also specifically singled out by faithless men in the Vatican itself who felt the great need to slam us in a widely publicized article last summer. And through all these times we have stayed true and dedicated to the one prayer we make multiple times a day: "Dear Lord, use us to save souls."

We have consecrated this work to the Immaculate Heart of Our Blessed Mother. We have dedicated our work here and placed it under the protection of St. Michael the Archangel. And they have never abandoned us. They have stood right beside us every step of the way — as difficult and emotionally draining as many of these times have been. They have stayed with us, supporting us, because we have remained faithful to Our Blessed Lord's Bride, the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church and, please God, always will.

Years ago, for a variety of reasons, the least of which was not that my entire career had been spent in the television news and production broadcasting business, the decision was made to launch an effort never before undertaken in the Catholic media.

We would, as Fr. Pablo instructed us, bring Christ to the internet, and we would do it through the daily presence of video. One or two at first, but then expanding.

Twelve years later, Church Militant is the most commented on Catholic internet site in the world, recognized as one of the premier news and information Catholic portals and gaining in influence and attention because of the ever-deepening crisis in the Church.

No one else in the Catholic media world does what we do everyday. We bring you the most direct authentic presentation of Catholic truth — no holds barred — in the most professionally produced manner of anyone else. A number of the secular media outlets that came to Church Militant last year to due their "exposé" reports on us were very free with their personal assessments that we were every bit as professional as anything they saw routinely as CNN or MSNBC. And here is what sets us apart from the rest of the Catholic media world: We understand that in this time and place in history and the culture, the visual image is king.

While I personally agree that reading is much more important, in founding and running this apostolate, I understand the reality of the visual image and its impact of viewers. I made my living for decades in this industry. It was my stock and trade and, frankly, I got sick of this wonderful medium being used as a tool of Satan.

So here we are now, constantly elevating our production standards — as many of you have said to us — always digging deeper in trying to get to the heart of the matter of whatever we are conveying to you. In truth, dollar for dollar, I would stack our content and its production value up against anything the Luciferian media has to offer.

We specialize in two major areas of video production: news, current events and theological. For the most part, our news and current events are offered for free, and our theological content resides in our Premium offering for $10 a month.

In short, we generally use the free content opportunity to alert people to the reality that the Church is on fire, and the theological content to provide a solution, which always comes down to increasing your knowledge so you can convert that to increasing your sanctity — the end goal of the Catholic life.

We have hundreds of hours of Premium content, as we said, for a mere $10 a month and your being a Premium subscriber affords us the opportunity to do much more than just produce Premium programming. Your monthly subscription, even if you often times may not have a lot of time to view the Premium offerings, fuels the entire infrastructure of what we do here.

Our annual budget is more than $2.2 million. Yes, TV costs a lot of money — not just paying the dedicated staff of more than 30 in-house employees, but the cost to keep up with ever-changing technology as well as the day to day equipment failures and maintenance required.

We have, hands down, the best productions available in the Catholic world because that is the standard we operate under. If the professionals in the Luciferian media can, and they do, spend themselves for a level of quality to pollute people's minds and souls, then the very least we as faithful Catholics can do is match their professionalism, and in reality, exceed it.

What we are asking you is please, right now, sign up for, or renew a lapsed Premium membership, so you can join us in this mission of fighting for souls amidst all the confusion in the Church and the world.

What we do here is the work of the Church, and that's all we do. We do it through this medium of the visual image, but we do it nonetheless and we put our hearts into it. Nearly everyone who began their time with Church Militant/St. Michael's Media had next to zero experience in this field — whether it was news or script writing, shooting, editing, website management, marketing and so forth.

Through your prayers and financial support we believe we have put together one of the most formidable challenges to the Luciferian media in the Catholic world today. Both of us, the Luciferian crowd and Church Militant, are battling it out for your soul. They lie to you. We give you Catholic truth in all its glory.

We have multiple people tell us, frequently, that they came back to the faith, or converted, because our site was used by Our Heavenly Father as the means to communicate timeless Catholic beauty to them. That is why we exist. That is ultimately the only reason we exist.  

Whether you have the opportunity to be a regular viewer of our Premium programming or life is a little crazed and you don't have as much time as you would like, please still become a Premium subscriber. Your subscription helps us continue the work in the trenches. The spiritual war raging all around us has many foxholes on this giant battlefield.

With your help, this is one foxhole — excellent daily video production to match the Luciferian media stride for stride — that we don't intend to surrender. Father Pablo told us to do this. Father Hardon said there was a need for it. Please sign up today and join us in this foxhole.