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I'm Michael Voris, coming to you from our continuing tour of the southwestern United States, where the illegal immigration and border crisis problems are most acutely felt.
In addition to the Democrats losing Latinos over these issues, as well as quite a few others, so too are the U.S. bishops. A little history is in order to understand the scope of the problem.
In short, there is not only a problem of Latino illegals flowing into the country, there is a larger spiritual problem of Latinos flowing out of the Church. Yes, it is a "border crisis" that the bishops manufactured — more on that dynamic in a moment.
There is a larger spiritual problem of Latinos flowing out of the Church.
First, the terms "Latino" versus "Hispanic" — there is a meaningful difference. But in social surveys and polls, these two terms are often interchanged by pollsters. For this Vortex, we will merely repeat whatever term pollsters used, with your understanding that term-switching may have occurred.
Now the numbers: In 2019 it became a fact that most Hispanics or Latinos in the U.S. were no longer Catholic. It was a dramatic drop, falling from 57% in 2009 to 47% in 2019. A percentage decrease every year for a decade.
Even though large polling on this is incomplete for the past two or three years, it appears that trend is continuing. Where are they all going? Straight to Protestantism — or more precisely, conservative Evangelicalism.
That, more than any other single factor, is what is at play behind the shifting political landscape of the Latino vote being lost by the Democrats. Non-Catholic Latinos are, more and more, voting against Marxism.
Let's look at Catholic Latinos. They are firmly in line with the Democratic Party and continue to be the backbone of reliable support for the Party of Death within the Hispanic community. In this regard, they are only following the lead of the U.S. bishops, who have been among the most ardent supporters of the Democrats, historically.
True, there was a rift within ecclesial ranks once Roe v. Wade was handed down, but it was not enough to counter the Party of Death in any significant way.
Whites, as well as Latino Catholics, got the message loud and clear — the Democrats were fine, except for that irritating abortion question.
Bishop after bishop, especially here in the Southwest, continued to send that signal — almost total sanctioning of the Democratic agenda.
Whether it's posing for being on the side of the supposed oppressed, like Bp. Mark Seitz did, kneeling and holding a BLM sign, or going along with the COVID crackdowns, or the nonsense about climate change, there is very little daylight between the U.S. bishops and the Democratic Party.
The same is true when it comes to the more direct moral issues regarding the Faith.
Long before the crazy, disconnected trans–LGBTQ agenda of corrupting children's minds swept into public schools; chanceries, Catholic schools and parishes were already havens for homosexual and gay-friendly teachers and administrators.
It may not have been as blatant in those early days as it has now become in public schools, but Catholic schools were already on a collision course with history when it came to morality, specifically Catholic morality.
The Catholic faith has not been faithfully taught in Catholic schools for decades. As a result, what has poured out of Catholic schools since at least the 1970s are social justice warriors, perfectly at home in a morally corrupt culture pushed legislatively by Democrats.
At first, when the number of Hispanic or Latino Catholics was relatively low, much of the effect on them was not observable. But now, since their numbers have swelled, it's easier to measure the impact not only on the country but also on the Church.
What's that impact? A growing number are walking away from the Faith and into the arms of conservative Protestant congregations, which in turn is tilting the political scales away from the very agenda the bishops largely support.
You talk about the upside-down world or clown world. This, ladies and gentlemen, is brought to you courtesy of a U.S. hierarchy run amok.
We should add — the lack of machismo so critical in the Latino culture, and so severely lacking in the clergy, is another area to examine.
As homosexuality within the ranks of U.S. bishops and priests, as well as the embrace of it, continues unabated, the feminized-clergy problem will continue to serve as a deterrent for healthy Latino males.
For example, in 2020 the United States had about 3,000 Hispanic priests, or roughly 10% of all priests. But 2,000 of them are foreign-born, meaning there are only 1,000 U.S.-born priests who are Latino.
That's beyond startling when you consider that, across the nation, a whopping 40% of the Church comprises Latinos. In short, 40% of the Church is able to provide only 1% of its priests.
Bottom line — Hispanic males born and reared in the Church in the United States have no desire to become priests.
Hispanic males born and reared in the Church in the United States have no desire to become priests.
Why is that? Masculinity and fatherhood are highly valued in the Hispanic culture, as they used to be in European-descendant culture. But once homosexuality reared its head, it was "lights out" with Hispanics.
It also helps explain why so many young Latinos are flocking away from the Church and into Protestant congregations. The bishops have created a gay-friendly, social justice, liberal, anti-family, anti-masculine parody of a religion — and it just doesn't sit well in Latino communities.
It's especially a deserved slap in their face when you consider the bishops prattle on about illegal immigration issues. Hispanics still walk away, rejecting the pandering. If the bishops' plan was to fill the emptying pews by replacing them with Hispanics, it's not working.
It's true that the overall percentage of the Church in the United States is increasingly Hispanic. But at the same time, the overall raw number of Catholics is shrinking, even if more of those faces may be Brown as opposed to White.
What a sad commentary on U.S. Catholic leaders. Had they done the right thing and walked away from the Democrats, it could have been the Church leading the charge to preserve America, with many converts to boot. As it is, the "always on the wrong side of history" U.S. hierarchy just stayed on the course of self-destruction.
Depending on how the midterms and the 2024 presidential election work out, we could very well be looking at a race to the bottom between the country and the Church, with the bishops leading each team.
Church Militant will be here in the Southwest for the next few days, looking at this specific angle — the impact of Catholic and conservative Latino voters on the country's political landscape.
It's all part of our continuing commitment to you, to bring you what you won't hear practically any place else.
Please contribute whatever you might be able to our ongoing "Fighting for the Future" fundraising campaign. Yes, political coverage is a part of all of it. The link is right below.
What we do costs a lot of money, but we think you will agree that no one does it better than we do. Please support our continuing work here. Thank you in advance for your support. Please just click on the link.
Soon we will leave Texas and continue to Arizona, to check out the political goings-on over there from a Catholic perspective.
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Church Militant (a 501(c)4 corporation) is responsible for the content of this commentary.
I'm Michael Voris, coming to you from our continuing tour of the southwestern United States, where the illegal immigration and border crisis problems are most acutely felt.
In addition to the Democrats losing Latinos over these issues, as well as quite a few others, so too are the U.S. bishops. A little history is in order to understand the scope of the problem.
In short, there is not only a problem of Latino illegals flowing into the country, there is a larger spiritual problem of Latinos flowing out of the Church. Yes, it is a "border crisis" that the bishops manufactured — more on that dynamic in a moment.
There is a larger spiritual problem of Latinos flowing out of the Church.
First, the terms "Latino" versus "Hispanic" — there is a meaningful difference. But in social surveys and polls, these two terms are often interchanged by pollsters. For this Vortex, we will merely repeat whatever term pollsters used, with your understanding that term-switching may have occurred.
Now the numbers: In 2019 it became a fact that most Hispanics or Latinos in the U.S. were no longer Catholic. It was a dramatic drop, falling from 57% in 2009 to 47% in 2019. A percentage decrease every year for a decade.
Even though large polling on this is incomplete for the past two or three years, it appears that trend is continuing. Where are they all going? Straight to Protestantism — or more precisely, conservative Evangelicalism.
That, more than any other single factor, is what is at play behind the shifting political landscape of the Latino vote being lost by the Democrats. Non-Catholic Latinos are, more and more, voting against Marxism.
Let's look at Catholic Latinos. They are firmly in line with the Democratic Party and continue to be the backbone of reliable support for the Party of Death within the Hispanic community. In this regard, they are only following the lead of the U.S. bishops, who have been among the most ardent supporters of the Democrats, historically.
True, there was a rift within ecclesial ranks once Roe v. Wade was handed down, but it was not enough to counter the Party of Death in any significant way.
Whites, as well as Latino Catholics, got the message loud and clear — the Democrats were fine, except for that irritating abortion question.
Bishop after bishop, especially here in the Southwest, continued to send that signal — almost total sanctioning of the Democratic agenda.
Whether it's posing for being on the side of the supposed oppressed, like Bp. Mark Seitz did, kneeling and holding a BLM sign, or going along with the COVID crackdowns, or the nonsense about climate change, there is very little daylight between the U.S. bishops and the Democratic Party.
The same is true when it comes to the more direct moral issues regarding the Faith.
Long before the crazy, disconnected trans–LGBTQ agenda of corrupting children's minds swept into public schools; chanceries, Catholic schools and parishes were already havens for homosexual and gay-friendly teachers and administrators.
It may not have been as blatant in those early days as it has now become in public schools, but Catholic schools were already on a collision course with history when it came to morality, specifically Catholic morality.
The Catholic faith has not been faithfully taught in Catholic schools for decades. As a result, what has poured out of Catholic schools since at least the 1970s are social justice warriors, perfectly at home in a morally corrupt culture pushed legislatively by Democrats.
At first, when the number of Hispanic or Latino Catholics was relatively low, much of the effect on them was not observable. But now, since their numbers have swelled, it's easier to measure the impact not only on the country but also on the Church.
What's that impact? A growing number are walking away from the Faith and into the arms of conservative Protestant congregations, which in turn is tilting the political scales away from the very agenda the bishops largely support.
You talk about the upside-down world or clown world. This, ladies and gentlemen, is brought to you courtesy of a U.S. hierarchy run amok.
We should add — the lack of machismo so critical in the Latino culture, and so severely lacking in the clergy, is another area to examine.
As homosexuality within the ranks of U.S. bishops and priests, as well as the embrace of it, continues unabated, the feminized-clergy problem will continue to serve as a deterrent for healthy Latino males.
For example, in 2020 the United States had about 3,000 Hispanic priests, or roughly 10% of all priests. But 2,000 of them are foreign-born, meaning there are only 1,000 U.S.-born priests who are Latino.
That's beyond startling when you consider that, across the nation, a whopping 40% of the Church comprises Latinos. In short, 40% of the Church is able to provide only 1% of its priests.
Bottom line — Hispanic males born and reared in the Church in the United States have no desire to become priests.
Hispanic males born and reared in the Church in the United States have no desire to become priests.
Why is that? Masculinity and fatherhood are highly valued in the Hispanic culture, as they used to be in European-descendant culture. But once homosexuality reared its head, it was "lights out" with Hispanics.
It also helps explain why so many young Latinos are flocking away from the Church and into Protestant congregations. The bishops have created a gay-friendly, social justice, liberal, anti-family, anti-masculine parody of a religion — and it just doesn't sit well in Latino communities.
It's especially a deserved slap in their face when you consider the bishops prattle on about illegal immigration issues. Hispanics still walk away, rejecting the pandering. If the bishops' plan was to fill the emptying pews by replacing them with Hispanics, it's not working.
It's true that the overall percentage of the Church in the United States is increasingly Hispanic. But at the same time, the overall raw number of Catholics is shrinking, even if more of those faces may be Brown as opposed to White.
What a sad commentary on U.S. Catholic leaders. Had they done the right thing and walked away from the Democrats, it could have been the Church leading the charge to preserve America, with many converts to boot. As it is, the "always on the wrong side of history" U.S. hierarchy just stayed on the course of self-destruction.
Depending on how the midterms and the 2024 presidential election work out, we could very well be looking at a race to the bottom between the country and the Church, with the bishops leading each team.
Church Militant will be here in the Southwest for the next few days, looking at this specific angle — the impact of Catholic and conservative Latino voters on the country's political landscape.
It's all part of our continuing commitment to you, to bring you what you won't hear practically any place else.
Please contribute whatever you might be able to our ongoing "Fighting for the Future" fundraising campaign. Yes, political coverage is a part of all of it. The link is right below.
What we do costs a lot of money, but we think you will agree that no one does it better than we do. Please support our continuing work here. Thank you in advance for your support. Please just click on the link.
Soon we will leave Texas and continue to Arizona, to check out the political goings-on over there from a Catholic perspective.