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Correction: an erroneous date was given for the publication of Humanae Vitae in the video. The correct date is July 25, 1968. 

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This summer is the 50th anniversary of one of the most controversial encyclicals ever produced in the Church's history, Humanae Vitae, Bl. Pope Paul VI's authoritative, binding restatement of the Church's never changing condemnation of birth control. On July 28, 1968, headlines around the world screamed out that the Church opposed the pill and a revolution began — a revolution inside the Church, a revolution still going on and whose effects have brought the Church to her knees.

The revolution was begun by dissident priests who worked actively behind the scenes for years prior to the pope's issuance of his encyclical, men like Fr. Theodore Hesburgh of Notre Dame, perhaps the single most important man in the Catholic Church to bring about the destruction of Catholic education. Then, there was Fr. Charles Curran who was the public face of the revolution, from high atop his perch at Catholic University of America from where he orchestrated a well-planned public relations attack against Pope Paul and Humanae Vitae. He wrote extensively over the next 20 years condemning Church teaching in the areas of premarital sex, masturbation, abortion, homosexual acts, divorce, euthanasia and in vitro fertilization. In 1986, the Church finally declared him unfit to teach theology at any Catholic university and so now he teaches at Southern Methodist.

Another leading figure was Fr. Gregory Baum who wrote and spoke frequently against the Church's teaching on contraception for many decades. He was present at Vatican II and worked in secret to gin up support for his anti-Catholic position. Before he died last year, he wrote a book where he confessed, proudly, that he was homosexual and had been involved in an active homosexual relationship for many years, including while he was barnstorming in favor of birth control and against the Church.

Another towering figure skulking about in the open was Dominican Fr. Henri de Riedmatten of the Vatican's Secretariat of State. Pope Paul had named him the secretary general of the papal commission on birth control, formally known as the Pontifical Commission on Population, Family and Birth-rate. Riedmatten did everything he could to tilt the commision in favor of rejecting the Church's teaching, from arranging the agenda of the various meetings to administratively blocking orthodox theologians from being allowed to be present and so forth.

There were many, many actively working to destroy the Church, but these four did more in this area than nearly everyone else. They corrupted the theology, stacked the commission, ginned up rebellion behind the scenes and had the commission reach a predetermined outcome. And what has their love and warm embrace brought the Church — spiritual and demographic ruination. They submarined all attempts at successful catechesis on the matter. They stacked the deck for future generations of Catholics to never hear the truth — any future generations that were actually born, that is.

Catholic families shrank from their more robust numbers to the more common two children per household, causing a knock-on effect in religious vocations, Catholic school populations and the overall number of Catholics — like contraception accepted in the culture helped the divorce rate to soar, so too in the Catholic community. And just as in the culture, a contraceptive mentality has ruled the day, resulting in acceptance of every sexual deviancy, so too, acceptance of these deviancies among Catholics is par for the course.

The spiritual, moral, theological damage inflicted on the Church and Catholic families from this rebellion — and what we can do about it — is the topic of Church Militant's Humanae Vitae conference we are sponsoring next month, June 9, here in the metro-Detroit area. We've provided a link on this page where you find out more and register for the day-long conference.

There are many things that can be pointed to in pinpointing what happened in the Church, but perhaps no one thing was more destructive of Catholic life than the rebellion against Humanae Vitae. Until this damage is undone — and a solution is found as to how to combat it — the Church will continue to dwindle away. Bishops remain virtually mute on the subject. Seminaries barely mention it. Most priests would rather undergo torture than to bring the topic up from the pulpits. Yet someone has to point the finger at this evil and call it out.

Please join us this coming June 9, here in Detroit for our Church Militant conference Marriage Under Attack: 50 Years After Humanae Vitae. Again, please click on the link for all the details.

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This Vortex comes to you from our Church Militant HQ here in the archdiocese of Detroit with news that the diocese of Dallas, Texas, and the bishop, Ed Burns, may have violated the federal RICO statute — a law on the books aimed at curtailing organized crime. It's all related to a recently implemented diocesan program where parishes provide picture IDs to illegal immigrants. The law — 18 United States Code section 1961 1-F — defines racketeering, in part as: "18 USC sec 1961 (1)(F) — Racketeering Activity means (F) any act which is indictable under the Immigration and Nationality Act, section 274 (relating to bringing in and harboring certain aliens)."

Here is the background on the story. The cards are free to any illegal immigrant, and the person does not have to be Catholic nor do they have to belong to the parish to obtain one. In implementing the plan, Bp. Edward Burns said, "It is necessary for them to know that Holy Mother Church will always be with the members of the immigrant community because Our Lord Jesus Christ was a member of the immigrant community, and so we are one family and we need to take care of each other." In that statement, Bp. Burns did not identify that the immigrants being spoken of are here illegally. Nor as teacher of the flock in his Dallas diocese does he mention exactly how Our Blessed Lord was an immigrant — a concept not applicable to the Roman Empire, nor if he was somehow an immigrant, whatever that means if He too was illegal.

There are some serious issues at play here which the diocese and bishop appear to have ignored and which experts say are going to put local cities in legal jeopardy of skirting the 2017 Texas law preventing the establishment of sanctuary cities in the Lone Star State. Depending on who you speak with, the police departments of Dallas, Carrollton and Farmers Branch either willingly went along with this or were pressured by the diocese. But in either case, they have agreed to accept the Church issued IDs in place of a state-issued driver's license during routine traffic stops. This means that a person who is here illegally, and at the same time, is driving without a driver's license, can simply be issued a traffic ticket and that's that. There will be no enforcement of existing federal or state laws to detain a known illegal immigrant.

The diocese has issued hundreds of such IDs since starting the program a few weeks ago under the umbrella of a group calling itself Dallas Area Interfaith. Dallas Area Interfaith is a cover agency for politically liberal groups and various liberal Protestant congregations and Catholic parishes who are networked with the original and still existing Saul Alinsky organization — IAF — Industrial Areas Foundation.

President Obama, well-schooled in Alinsky tactics, visited the group while he was president and praised them for their community organizing. The question of funds for all of this also arises because various dioceses in Texas receive federal government money, taxpayer money, and use it to hire lawyers to essentially help illegal immigrants avoid detection. But various sources tell Church Militant this is the most blatant, in your face example of such activity yet and, because federal money is in play and what is attempting to be achieved is a violation of federal law, the Church in Texas may be able to be prosecuted under existing RICO violations.

RICO stands for the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. It's a U.S. federal law meant to crack down on and end acts performed as part of an ongoing criminal organization as we said. And is most commonly used to prosecute organized crime, but legal consultants tell Church Militant that the actions of the bishop and diocese of Dallas may very well have triggered the law. For concerned Catholics both in Texas and throughout the U.S., the actions of Texas bishops to continually throw their lot and collection plate money in with the goals of the political Left, this latest development is extremely disturbing. And this on top of the condemning statement of the Texas Right to Life issued by Texas bishops just three months ago — all of this is painting a picture — ever more plainly that the bishops of Texas are simply in the tank for the Democratic Party.

One observer told Church Militant that it's interesting the bishops would be willing to risk jail time for breaking the law on behalf of illegal immigrants but have never lifted a finger to encourage this sort of civil disobedience when it comes to saving the pre-born, nearly 60,000 of which are murdered in the state every year, the state which gave rise to Roe v. Wade back in 1973. The bishops' priorities are completely out of balance, the observer offered, and it's being largely driven by financial motives because without illegal immigrants in the pews, many more parishes will have to close.

Stay tuned to Church Militant as this case begins to unfold and the federal and state ramifications become increasingly more clear.

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Look around the world, and you see a resurgence in political conservatism. Look around the Church, and you see a resurgence in theological orthodoxy, also known as Tradition. Just as the political/cultural Left has aligned itself with dissidents in the Church, so too, many tradition-minded Catholics have aligned themselves, to a degree, with the more politically conservative agenda. It wouldn't be surprising, for instance, to find that most attendees at a Traditional Latin Mass would have also voted for Trump. Likewise, it would be no surprise whatsoever to see that many Catholics trapped in the Church of Nice were Hillary supporters — certainly many more than at a Traditional Latin Mass.

So, there is a marriage of sorts being formed between orthodoxy and conservatism, just as there has been a long-standing marriage between political liberals and dissidents and heretics in the Church. It's not always a stark bright line, but there's enough of a reality there to speak of it and examine it. What are the uniting forces in both camps? What's the glue that holds each side together? Ultimately, the question of God. Pretty straightforward.

The Left hates God. They hate the divine, the authentic supernatural and anything that even approaches these realities. You'll find many, many more atheists on the political Left then you will on the political Right, for example. Same is true of agnostics and people who attend church at least once a week. None of this is especially surprising on one level — that level being political. But what is disturbing, if not surprising, is the vast numbers of dissidents within the Church who also happen to align themselves with the political and cultural Left. It's hard to imagine a MAGA bumper sticker on Cdl. Blase Cupich or Cdl. Joseph Tobin's limos, right? And see, each side has staked out issues near and dear to them.

The Left whines on and on about social justice, gun control, illegal immigration, animal rights, the death penalty, climate change, cigarette smoking, gay rights, womens' rights, soda pop drinking to make themselves feel good and appear morally superior. They even present evil things as good, dressing them up in flowery language which hides the truth of the matter — abortion is a woman's right, sodomy is "love wins," and so forth. All these efforts to replace absolute morality with subjective morality are their way to soothe their consciences, which are made for the Truth which they have denied.  

In rejecting God and the absolute morality which necessarily flows from living in accord with the Divine, they have created a whole new "morality" and so disturbed are their consciences that they must force everyone else to live by their new moral code. This has been escalating for decades now. Anyone under 35 years of age has no living memory of the world before the politically correct new morality crowd took over. They think abortion is just normal, as is pornography, violence, homosexuality and the whole pot of filth that destroys civilizations.

Sadly, very sadly, many of the people supportive of these evils are bad Catholics. You know many of them in politics and entertainment, but you don't know the vast, non-famous crowd of them. But they are all around you. It's why the country is in the condition that it is in. They shack-up, view pornography, engage in the hookup culture, contracept, divorce and abort at the same rate as the rest of the culture. And they are baptized Catholics who have received little to no instruction because many of their leaders have thrown their lots in with the political Left because — like their political allies — they too have no real faith, certainly not supernatural faith.

If the Trump victory in 2016 revealed anything, it is that political conservatives were finally fed up with political correctness. And many of those conservatives were also orthodox Catholics. And what they contributed to in the election, they are also contributing to in the Church. They want Tradition back in the Church, more than they wanted a restoration of sanity in the political order. Just consider that 10 years ago, there was almost no organized voice of opposition to the dissidents in the Church. They ran everything it seemed. In truth, they still pretty much do, but — and it's a big "but" — back then, there was very little vocal opposition to their schemes, largely because there was no way to communicate opposition on a large scale.

Enter the internet from stage right, please. Now, tradition-minded Catholics are finding each other through various websites, blogs, social media pages etc. A great groundswell has begun which, while not quite ready to restore sanity in the Church, is laying the groundwork for it. Just in the case of Church Militant alone, 10 years ago, we were essentially ignored. These days we are vilified and talked about non-stop by all the "right" people, both in the Church and outside the Church and often those groups are the same individuals.

So what's happened? Why is Trump in the White House and Latin back in so many Masses? Because truth has a very cool attribute of always finding a way. It's like water. Now, this does not mean that the fight is easier. In fact, in some ways, it has become more difficult, more intense, because the Left senses the sea change and is now acting like a wounded animal. How wounded the Left is — both in and out of the Church — is still an unknown, but they are definitely wounded, and you can tell that not just how they are responding but that they are responding.

The world created by the godless Left is crumbling apart, as everything without God always eventually does. And this is why the battle is intensifying. Those on the Left have given their entire lives to an idea — the idea being that man is supreme and can create a world ruled by him. That is manifestly untrue, but nonetheless, they have pored every bit of themselves into this notion from their earliest days. Think no further than Hillary or Obama.

Now, as this all begins to crumble, men in the Church and out of the Church who believe all this godless nonsense are scrambling. They are going on the attack, correctly sensing that all they have invested themselves in is vanishing. It will be some time before it's all gone, and they are shoring up every foundation they can, but in the end, God wins, not them.

This is never more important to realize than in the Church. For decades now, wicked or duped Churchmen have spewed Church of Nice nonsense, largely echoing the views of their political allies on the Left and their political correctness. The Mass has become a communal meal where we have equal rights in the sanctuary with women lectors and "girl" altar boys and Holy Communion in the hand and everyone holding hands during the Our Father — a complete break with Catholic Tradition across the board.

And now, at last, we have reached the point of Tradition rising as more and more people are attending Traditional Latin Masses or at least reverent properly-offered Novus Ordo Masses. All the noise is coming from the orthodox crowd and the dissidents and heretics are on defense, an almost perfect reflection of the political scene. Each year, one diocese after another closes down a bunch of Church of Nice parishes, schools, convents etc. And each year, another traditional parish or community or independent Catholic school opens up.

It's clear where all this is going and why Church leaders refuse to see it and respond to it warmly only speaks to their stubbornness of heart in the face of the chaos they have allowed to come about. However long and sad and destructive they are, fads pass. Tradition lasts because truth never goes out of style.

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Yes, you knew this Vortex was coming — the disgraceful presence of Cdl. Timothy Dolan at the Met Gala where Catholicism was the inspiration for this year's usual, boring, yet another "star-studded" event with all the glitterati. And by glitterati, we mean more than half-naked women, which is par for the course — #MeToo, anyone? — strutting about and a collection of temptresses par excellence. Only this year, they were adorned in various Catholic-themed outfits, of course with the overseeing of Cdl. Timothy Dolan who continues to raise Our Lord's warning about casting your pearls before swine to a whole new level.

Here is what he had to say, in part, in a tweet: "What's the Church doing here? What is the cardinal-archbishop of New York doing here?" Short answer —  selling out the Church. He continued, "Well, because the Church and 'the Catholic imagination,' are all about truth, goodness and beauty." None of which were on display at what's billed as fashion's biggest night.

The event was officially called "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination," the biggest exhibit the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum has ever held. It was the product of years of arduous, behind the scenes negotiating with the Vatican's Abp. Georg Ganswein, Pope Benedict's former aide and Cdl. Gianfranco Ravasi, president of the Vatican Pontifical Council for Culture, who met repeatedly with Anna Wintour, editor of Vogue Magazine.

Talk about desperate to appear relevant. And by the way, what happened with all those liberal cardinals' concern for the poor? The most noteworthy of the secular culture come knocking and the doors of the Vatican are thrown open to them and some of the most treasured vestments are made available. Gee, seems like you could have sold those and given the money to the poor. Isn't that what that lot is always babbling on about?

And of course, since it was in New York, Dolan had to be front and center with his cheap theatrics to sell off the Faith once again to the highest bidder, in exchange for a couple photo ops with today's celebrities. Present at the event, one of the main backers who, of course, got the shout out from Dolan in his tweet, was Steve Schwarzman, a multi-billionaire who Dolan turns to get money for his floundering archdiocese. And of course, the ever-present cloud of sodomy was on full display. In a way, considering that so many gay men are actually in vestments for real, maybe the gay stuff all over the place was fitting. And yes, Fr. James Martin was there as well. How could he, of all people, miss out on.

For the sake of His Eminence's soul, we'd like to remind him, Your Eminence, you have seven years left before your time is up. In seven years, you will be forgotten, replaced by whoever comes after you. And your legacy will have been to have debased the Faith for the sake of appearing "with it." Enjoy the little time you have left. You will be called to account, as we all will be.

Catholics all over the globe are outraged that the signs and symbols of our salvation were used as meaningless jewelry on women dressed little better than whores. The Catholic internet lit up, ablaze once these images started appearing in the secular press. But in their usual tone-deaf response, the hierarchical glitterati completely ignored the sell-out they orchestrated and the feelings and further damage done to the faithful.

Nothing on earth could convince faithful Catholics that these men have any supernatural faith. To these men, the Church is little else than a business that needs marketing and when the rich and famous come calling with a great opportunity, why not throw your support behind a little glitzy night out, even with an ample supply of leg and cleavage on full display, popping out from behind knock-off of sacred vestments?

Even Bill Donohue's Catholic League officially refused to comment because, after all, Dolan was there and Donahue would never admit that His Eminence is ever capable of doing anything wrong — ever — even when it involves introducing active homosexuals into the St. Patrick's Day Parade. Nope, nothing to see here folks, move along.

It's funny that Dolan should excuse this sacrilegious-looking event by pandering to the worldly and excuse-baiting that this was all about truth and goodness and beauty. Please, just come clean and say the truth Cdl. Dolan while you are going on about it. You love the limelight and, more importantly, pleasing man more than God, while abusing your position as leader of the archdiocese.

Bishop Sheen, whose body Dolan refuses to release and has gone to court to keep, is instructive here. Years ago, he said that when the Church threw out Her goods, the world picked them up. Although they didn't do anywhere near as well with them as the Church did. We got rid of incense, and incense shops opened all over the place. We got rid of candles and, presto, a whole industry of candles begins blossoming. Well, here, Churchmen dumped truth and beauty and goodness, and the world, true to form, picked them up and cheapened them.

My father used to say over and over again he couldn't understand how these aging prelates could continue to harm the Faith. Have they no fear of God or Hell, he would say a lot? Seven years, Your Eminence, seven years.

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If you haven't noticed, probably because you don't really care, good for you, Hillary is still barnstorming around the country blaming everyone except herself for losing the election. As a sidebar, it must have been quite the gobsmack on election night there in New York as she and her team sat in their plush quarters expecting a crushing defeat of "The Donald," only to watch one blue wall state after another turn red. Inside reports are she was out of her mind in that room that she hurled a $100,000 bottle of champagne into a $5 million giant monitor, a gift from a Saudi prince to watch the returns on. She was so plastered and enraged according to some former staffers that she couldn't even talk, so she sent bad Catholic John Podesta down to tell the crowd of liberals to go home and she'd talk in the morning, which she did after showing up about an hour late. All this is to point to the fact that she still can't believe she lost — she hasn't been able to process it — so we are collectively watching her going through the grieving process.

She's still in the denial stage apparently. In that light, the two-time Democratic loser's latest appearance to assign blame for her loss was at the Shared Value Leadership Summit in New York on last Wednesday. She's blaming another group but listen to the little truth that slips out just as she first starts talking. 

You know, every now and then the truth sneaks out. Truth always finds a way, but it's especially revealing when it falls from the lips of those who hate the truth. The truth that Hillary revealed was the enormous percentage of Democrats who are actually socialists. She was speaking in her response specifically about Iowa Democrats, but there's nothing in the farms of Iowa that would make Democrats there any more socialist than Democrats in, say, New York or California.

What's all this mean for Catholics? It's simple. Catholics need to realize who is on the other side. Socialism is condemned by the Church — period. Pope Leo XIII roundly condemned it in the late 19th century. It was, in fact, the reason for his groundbreaking encyclical Rerum Novarum in which he said that private property holding is necessary for a well-functioning society and a human right for the worker. But Socialism wants to take away individual reward and hand it to the state to dispense. This was, in fact, the campaign stump speech of Bernie Sanders who at one point in the election had a 52 percent favorability rating among Catholics, yes, Catholics! A man flying all over America, touting a governing system actually by name condemned by the Church, was highly thought of among Catholic voters.

Pope St. John Paul II also had something to say about it. And well he should, having been brought up under the oppressive socialist regime of Marxist Communism in his native Poland. In his encyclical Sollicitudo Rei Socialist, he said that "Experience shows us that the denial of this right [of economic initiative] or its limitation in the name of an alleged 'equality' of everyone in society diminishes or in practice, absolutely destroys the spirit of initiative."

So why did Bernie Sanders garner so much support, enough so that Hillary operatives at the DNC actually had to submarine his primary campaign to ensure she won the nomination? Because Leftists want to appear good without actually having to do good. It's called virtue signaling, throwing off the appearance of being all moral and concerned but supporting a system where someone else actually does the heavy lifting.

The Democratic Party is split today over the Hillary crowd and the Sanders crowd or at least those views of the world. Come 2020, it's very likely that a Democrat may get the nomination who supports a system that the Catholic Church actually condemns. It will be curious indeed to see how the American bishops, many of them secret Socialists themselves, publicly respond.

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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.

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The man who is the current pope is wrong in his very personal, very fallible opinion presented as a mere man, and not as Pope. God does not make people gay, and such a person is not born that way.

Jorge Bergoglio is wrong.

Now again, given the circumstances of a person repeating to the press what he said the pope said, we have to presume the victim of a long ago assault by a homosexual priest was not lying when he said the pope said God makes people gay and loves them that way. If Bergoglio the man — not Francis the Pope — did indeed say that, then the gay-controlled Vatican has a moral duty and obligation to come out and deny either that he said it or that was not what he meant.

In either case, crickets from the elitist gays in control in Rome because all of this press suits their plans very well. Just as they schemed and connived behind the scenes at the 2014 Extraordinary Synod on the Family to deliberately produce the headline: "Church Says Gay is Okay" — a plot, as you recall, Church Militant was more than happy to have a part in blowing up.

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The Vatican gays are now at it again, riding this latest rainbow wave across every major paper in the world. Perhaps the man who is pope is getting fed his bad info from closeted or homosexualists Vatican appointees like Fr. James Martin or Fr. Thomas Rosica, among the biggest gay cheerleaders you will find in Rome. We aren't certain that what is being ascribed to the pope is either what he said, if it was translated correctly, reported correctly or what he did mean if those were his words.

What we do know is this: The Vatican has not "clarified" the matter to any substantial degree, and the homoheresy gang in the Vatican is making hay out of the whole affair

So let's be clear here. The opinion of the man Jorge Bergoglio means absolutely nothing in this regard. He is not a psychologist. He is not gay — that anyone has ever said anyway. Whatever view he has of homosexuality is filtered heavily by a group of influential gay or homosexualist cardinals and clergy who never stir from his side.

For someone, regardless of who the man is, to even suggest that Almighty God actively creates, deliberately brings into existence a disordered sexuality is reprehensible. Then to suggest, or leave open to easy interpretation, that the Almighty likes it or loves the disorder is malicious.

Again, we don't know, for all the above mentioned variables, if that is what the man who is currently pope said or believes or not.

But we do know that there are many standing around him who do believe and say that and we might add it's not unreasonable to consider the possibility that they are using him to advance and normalize their own disordered sexualities. There is an ocean of difference between God permitting the evil effects of a fallen world to play themselves out and Him actually bringing about the evil and then loving it.

People are not born gay — and that message is for you, Fr. Martin. Stop your lying. Holy cow, the "gay" man who claims to have repeated the words of the man who is pope was raped by a homosexual priest when he was a youngster. Think that maybe had anything to do with it?

A predator homosexual priest, by the way kept hidden and tucked away so he could rape multiple other altar boys by the very same establishment now saying we should all embrace gay and build a bridge and listen to a gang of altar boy rapists, or those who support such predators. The only folks who seem to get a nod for mercy in this gay Vatican are other gays or those who embrace sacrilege, because really, it's all part of the same cloth: a denial of truth and right order.

About seven years ago, Church Militant was in Rome and reported on the scandal of gay clergy in the Vatican. We were attacked savagely by the Church of Nice establishment and their media — called sensational, lying, etc. Sadly, little by little, everything we reported has come to pass in spades. But see, what many Catholics don't understand in this whole "gays in the Church" thing is this: One dynamic is these perverts working feverishly behind the scenes to make it appear as though the Church has changed its teaching.

Then there is the complicit Church of Nice establishment who never wants this topic talked about in public because the truth of their own connivance would be completely exposed. Well, the silent treatment hasn't worked because now the homo clergy has not just come out of the closet, but they have come screaming and hooting and hollering out the closet. So the little dirty secret of the Church of Nice — think as just one of hundreds of examples, Cdl. Dolan's homo chancery in New York — has now come completely into the light with the headline: "Pope Say Gay is Okay."

What a filthy rotten disgusting diabolical lie. If God deliberately created gays as gay, and revels in it and thinks its so great and wonderful, then why did he give them the power to reproduce?

No one is born gay.

They are traumatized into it, raped into it, abused emotionally into it, deprived of an authentic masculine presence into it and even coached into it by predatory men — some of whom are priests. I'd like the man who is currently pope to look me in the eye and tell me God made me the way I used to live and therefore intends me to be that way and was happy with it and would have no problem with me returning to it, because after all, He made me that way.

You can imagine what my answer back would be. My answer to the very fallible man with a very errnant, very personal opinion who just happens to also be pope, for now.

Pray for him and the gang of perverted men around him.

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Remember to sign up for our daily newsletter so you don't have to rely on liberal social media giants to channel our info to you. They are being more aggressive each day in screening out truthful information as a way to fight back against the conservative awakening — which brings us to the point of today's episode of The Vortex.

Tens of millions of Americans rightly feel their country is being taken away from them by leftist globalists anti-Americans. Without getting into the detail, it's the reason Donald Trump is in the White House and Hillary can't stop talking about the 352,817 reasons she lost — none of them her fault.

Church Militant follows politics closely for one reason: Politics is reflective of the culture and the culture is the arena in which our faith life must be lived out, for the good or the bad. A culture disposed to overarching Catholic Christian themes will be a place where it will be easier to raise up children into moral adults. And the opposite is true of course. A more coarse, immoral culture presents huge challenges for parents to instill solid theological values. A society that forgets about God soon comes to persecute those who do.

All of this is summed up in the world of politics. That's why it gets so vicious and divisive. Because those who really have their heads in the game understand that – it's not an understatement to say – what's at stake is the future of the world.

That dynamic is at play in every single election. Sometimes it's very evident, other times a little less so, but that's the heart of all politics: clashing worldviews. In our times, there are essentially two big worldviews: The majority view that man is the center and sum of his own existence and what used to be the majority view that God is the center of existence.

A million different choices fall from each of these views on every conceivable question and, many times, the division is revealed quite obviously. For example: the question of whether so-called transgenders should be allowed in the military. While there are true military readiness issues in play, there is also underlying those, the larger issue of the morality of transgenderism itself and if institutions like the military should be used as incubators for bringing about social acceptance with regard to this.

People who see the erosion of a God-centered morality being replaced with a "morality" of "do whatever feels good" are deeply troubled by the onslaught of the anti-God forces and their stunning string of political and legal victories. We have a hyper-sexualized culture which is directly responsible for the the failure of tens of millions of marriages, mass murder of children, sodomy as marriage, the far-reaching destruction of the family and an overall diminishment of the value of human life.

And on a political front, no candidate stands up and runs on these issues that way. They change the vocabulary from mass murder of children to "women's rights," same-sex so-called marriage to "equality" and so forth. They have to lie and change the language because most would not consciously go into a voting booth and simply vote for killing a child or the promotion of man-on-man sex or leaving children fatherless.

But, however its dressed up, that's what it is. In the rough and tumble world of politics — which is always swirling about and changing — some elections come about that are simply more important than others.

World events, political retirements, geographical population shifts, dominant political personalities occupying center stage — all sorts of things — combine to make the landscape of the political order always dynamic, never static. A good mental picture is the ocean — always moving and swirling and changing. Sometimes all that is a little more calm, other times its much more violent, brought about by winds, air temperature, the shifting of the earth plates, etc.

The upcoming midterm elections this November here in the U.S. will be violent, to continue to the ocean analogy, perhaps more so than any midterm in living memory. The establishment suffered a major setback when Trump defeated Hillary coming up on two years ago now and they are bloodthirsty for revenge. They even went so far as to create a lie that Trump colluded with the Russians to steal the election from Hillary and have spent millions of federal tax dollars on the Mueller investigation to keep spinning that yarn, without the slightest shred of evidence to support it.

So hell-bent were they to defeat Trump that's what now becoming more clear is the Obama White House orchestrated an elaborate illegal plan to cover up Hillary's crimes and make up, out of thin air, a mess load of fictitious crimes about the Trump campaign. You can never forget that the big picture — the overarching determinant is a war on God and morality — even if that's not always clear, even to those directly involved in it. Two worldviews and there's not enough room in this town for both of them.

So these upcoming midterms are the first substantive opportunity the Empire has to Strike Back. They want to recapture the the U.S. House, make Nancy Pelosi speaker again and start impeachment proceedings against Trump to render him essentially a lame duck until the 2020 elections by keeping the Russia Russia Russia obstruction obstruction obstruction narrative going.

Over on the Senate side, they obviously want control there as well, even more so actually, because the Senate controls the courts and it was the weaponizing of the courts against morality that they were able to rain down such damage on the culture the past fifty years.

But in the ever swirling world of politics — think of the ocean analogy again — some things are not lining up well for the socialist Democrats, most especially the alignment of the stars in the battle for control of the Senate.

In short, there are many more Dems up for re-election than there are Republicans, and a healthy number of those Dems face the prospect of defeat because they are from states that Trump won back in 2016. So there are two tracks so to speak at play in these midterms. The first is expanding the GOP lead in the Senate and getting more and more good judges on the courts, especially the U.S. Supreme Court. The more Republican victories in the Senate races, the greater that likelihood.

But just expanding — which is likely as we sit here today — isn't good enough because two years later are the 2020 Presidential elections.

If Trump were to lose election — if he does indeed seek reelection — then a small Republican advantage in the Senate coming out of these midterms — could be wiped out and the very real prospect of a federal government completely controlled by the Democrats could become reality.

The Senate is the firewall against that prospect in this year's midterms. If the Republicans pick up just 2–4 senate seats, that might not be good enough. Five or more seat switching from Democratic to Republican control could well be a good enough insurance policy come 2020 to block complete control by the Party of Death over the U.S. government.

Some of this analysis of course necessarily depends on looking into a crystal ball, much like life requires some level of discernment about the future, like retirement investing for example, or what the value of a house might be in 10 years. But you can't stand still and just do nothing.

So the 2018 midterms are about two things: Keeping control of the Senate to ensure two more years of good judges getting seated on the courts. And keeping sufficient control as an insurance policy to block a complete Democratic takeover of Washington in 2020 — because that would be a disaster for people of faith.

And this is all about faith, faith in God by people who don't want to see their children grow up in world where bathrooms aren't safe, religion is mocked, they are made to feel inferior and have to deal with laws aimed at destroying their faith.

Politics really are important because the war of worldviews is important.

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If you have not heard about this then take a listen:

[Mark Zuckerberg — transcript unavailable]

There it is for you. He couldn’t be any more direct or clear. That of course was Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaking at the somewhat annual F8 conference. He’s talking about his plans to make sure that Facebook is weaponized against what he terms "fake news." Problem is, he's the one determining what’s fake and what's not.

He is instrumentalizing artificial intelligence — AI for short — to quarantine any potential fake news or hate speech posts and then a team of humans will manually go through those pooled posts and determine what is fake, or hate. Then the humans will either let it go through or kill it before it ever makes it your feed.

Immediately following the F8 conference, Zuckerberg met with a pretty large contingent of various media outfits to set some parameters for determining what is fake news.

The Problem? Well, for starters, here’s a list of the media outlets who were at the meeting being consulted, according to BuzzFeed:

BuzzFeed News, The Information, Quartz, The New York Times, CNN, The Wall Street Journal, NBC, Recode, Univision, Barron’s, The Daily Beast, The Economist, HuffPost, Insider, The Atlantic and the New York Post, among others.

To the best of any research Church Militant can unearth, there were no politically conservative media outlets at the meeting. They don't seem to have been invited. Yep, Facebook will be screening out news that liberal news organizations determine is fake. That should be the punchline to a joke, except the whole thing is no laughing matter. Zuckerberg specifically said that they are going to lose money on this project — they're hiring 20,000 people to screen the posts.

Wanna take a wild guess on the political leanings of the "screeners"? Additionally, he freely admits Facebook is doing this specifically in readiness for the upcoming midterm elections this November. We are not joking when we say these midterms are perhaps the most vital the nation has ever faced. More on that tomorrow.

The Left recognizes the monumental importance of these midterms and is pulling out all the stops, and of course that means seizing back control of social media that they sort of fell asleep at the switch at during the 2016 U.S. Presidential elections.

The liberal media giants are blocking, zapping, censoring, squashing any politically or theologically conservative voice they discover through their AI, software, algorithms or plain old-fashioned reporting from users. Google even blocked all posts and links of pro-lifers in Ireland about the upcoming abortion referendum later this week. Yep, they freely admitted it. And not just that, they also doubled down and said this was part of a larger worldwide effort to ensure, what they call, "election integrity."

You do see where all this is going, right? We have been saying for the past month, and now, given Zuckerberg’s comments and Google’s actions, we are going to say it again and keep saying it. Times have changed. The liberal media giants are determined not to let the peasants rise up again and seize the day. They know most people are lazy and sit back and wait for their news and information to come to them.

We cannot do that. It can't be that way if you want the truth. These people are hell-bent on making sure that the truth does not get to you. That's what all this talk and technology and agenda setting is all about.

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With the approach of Father's Day, we wanted to reach out on the subject of masculinity — manhood. The culture has denuded the concept of masculinity. It has robbed most young men of any living memory of what manhood is really all about, and for Catholic men in particular to have fallen prey to the notion of "toxic masculinity" is to bring about the end of civilization. There is a toxic masculinity and we see it evidenced in gangs and Hollywood role models of violent sexually-aggressive males and arrogant professional athletes who think the sun rises and sets in their physical prowess. 

But radical feminists have seen fit to lump anything and everything that is authentically masculine into the category of "Toxic Masculinity." Funny how they miss that they themselves are prime examples of toxic feminism, but that's another topic. Manhood — which is properly ordered to protection through sacrifice — requires all those qualities of authentic masculinity: discipline, strength, focus, drive, persistence, comradery, obedience, self-control. Manhood is all about protecting the weak, making those in our care safe. Men provide safety and security and they do this at the cost of themselves.

In short: real men are tough, first with themselves.

They aren't self-indulgent cry babies. They die to protect and defend the community. In the natural order, this has most often been evidenced historically in the fact that men go to war. They are more physically equipped for it than women. And that’s not discrimination. It’s just a fact, even if there might be a rare exception here and there. But you don’t build the defense of an entire nation around exceptions.

All of this twisted thinking about toxic masculinity being the same as manhood has infiltrated deeply into the thinking of Church leaders these days, and they are wrong. Catholic men — real men — are the pressing need for the Church right now, at this moment in history. In truth that is always the case, but some moments in our sacred history are more urgent that others and, behold, we are in one of those moments.

So what is a Catholic man?

Well, manhood, as we said, is about providing safety and security to those we love and care about. That is manhood on the natural level. And please note that even the most committed atheist can be a spectacular father on the mere natural level. He can hold down three jobs, deprive himself of sleep, work seven days a week, find time to teach his boys manners and civility and go to their sporting events. That is natural virtue — and recall, the 'vir' in virtue is Latin for man, as in male. But when we introduce the Catholic aspect of manhood into the manhood definition, things become greatly elevated.

My first concern, as a Catholic man, is that you get to Heaven because the Catholic man is both supernatural as well as natural. He exercises his virtue on two different planes at the same time. He protects your body, but he most importantly protects your soul. Both matter. One matters more — much more. In order to be an authentically Catholic man, the man must be above all a man of prayer. All authentic manhood is derived from God and the loving example of the Father — the first person of the Blessed Trinity — whose first, but not only, concern for us is our soul.

But remember His Divine Son, who, out of love and protection and safety for us, He did not spare, gave us a glimpse and revealed that His concern for us is so manifold that even every hair of your head is counted by Him. Prayer is relationship to God. It's all we will do in eternity, please God, be in perfect relationship with God, known completely by Him and knowing that we are completely known by Him.

This is the example of the Father to us. So authentic Catholic men are men of prayer because that is, when the final guns go off, being in closest relation to God, which is the perfect definition of Heaven. So men who do not pray — or pray a little — can never be authentically Catholic men. They might begin to approach that goal. They will never embrace it into themselves.

But now we encounter a problem. For too long, men have stayed somewhat out of touch with religion and prayer, at least on a regular basis. It's viewed, if even subconsciously, as women's work. Church and the parish, etc., being somehow relegated to the haunt of the feminine. Given the dismal state of most parishes these days, that's not a totally unjustified opinion, but it is still incorrect. The Eternal Logos, the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity, came to earth and assumed the flesh of, not just humanity, not just mankind, but of a male — a flesh and blood body of a man.

If that doesn’t instantly and completely blow up the the thought of "religion is for women," then you're brain dead. Men must be in communion with Heaven, and that is done specifically through prayer. In fact, the definition of prayer is being in communion with Heaven.

And allow us to suggest that a perfect prayer for men is: the Rosary. It takes discipline. It takes focus. It takes exercising will power. It needs sheer force to form the habit. It requires sacrifice, concentration and dedication — in short, all the qualities that make a man, a man; a Catholic man.

The Holy Rosary is anything but feminine. Most of the great saints and holy men of the past nearly thousand years prayed it incessantly — giant men, warriors of the faith. It is precisely why I wrote the book The Weapon — to dispel the notion quietly residing in many guys' minds that the Rosary is more of a girl thing.

Not sure why that thought is there, but there seems to be some reality to it. It's why Catholics always talk about the "little old ladies in the back of the Church" saying the Rosary. That is just wrong. The Rosary is a weapon, a deadly weapon to Satan.

Dads praying the Rosary are killer dads, deadly dads to the sworn enemy of their families: the serpent. It's a Gatling gun lighting up the diabolical with a ferocious incoming assault — the ammo clip being provided by our 12-star general, the Mother of God, who commands that this be prayed. To rattle men's cages and wake them up to the need to become warriors, soldiers, militants literally armed with their Rosary weapons, we are making a special offer for Father's Day.

From now until Father's Day, we are making The Weapon available for just $15 — two for $25 if you have more than one man in your life who needs to step it up. Inside these pages, you will find a different approach to the Rosary than you normally see. We call out the spiritual combat, the war present in every single mystery. And believe me, every mystery is strewn with spiritual combat.

In fact, that's the point of the Rosary: to awaken within us, especially men. Our high calling to turn and concentrate our male powers, elevated by grace, on the enemy of our loved ones.

How do we rightly defend their souls? By embracing the war and the sacrifice needed to fight it.

Please click on the link, order your copy or copies today and ask your dad, husband, son, brother, uncle, to embrace the battle for your sake.

Authentic manhood is ordered to holiness. There are very few more sure fire ways to holiness than the Holy Rosary.