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The Vortex — Spotlight (youtu.be)

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Church Militant (a 501(c)4 corporation) is responsible for the content of this commentary. If you also seek the truth, then please consider joining Church Militant today by supporting our work. Sign up for a Church Militant Premium account or simply make a donation. Feel free to contact Church Militant with your questions, comments, or concerns, at anytime. And now, let's begin with today's Vortex...

Behind the scenes.

Out of the many crucial works we do here at Church Militant, some of the most important are our exclusive investigations. Our most noteworthy is what we call our Spotlight investigation, headed up by senior producer Christine Niles.

These reports are always groundbreaking and oftentimes very disturbing in what they uncover. Various viewers are always inquiring about what goes into the work behind our Spotlight reports, so we have put together the following special to show you. It's a lot more than what you might realize.

Primary Video source and transcript continues here: https://www.churchmilitant.com/video/episode/vortex-spotlight

Please consider Church Militant Evening News for daily hard-hitting news and analysis through an authentic Catholic lens, covering the latest developments in the Church, across the nation and around the world.

The Vortex — Existing Civil 'War' (youtu.be)

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And of course, the bishops are on the wrong side.

There's an old expression: People vote with their feet, and their money goes with them. If that's the case (and there is a lot of precedent for it) then it's important to understand what's happening in the contemporary "war" between the states. It's a cultural war. Well, at least for the moment, it's confined to cultural issues. Who knows what will happen down the road. But for the moment, it's all social issues like abortion, climate change, immigration, gun control and so forth.

And here's the rub: Back in the day, states used to battle each other for businesses to come to their state with tax incentives, labor-force availability, price breaks and so forth. But today, it's like clown world. First, every blue state in America is quickly dissolving into an economic wasteland. The citizen- and corporate-immigration rates are sky high, as people and businesses "bolt the blue."

For example, as Democrat governors in blue states went on their tyrannical COVID tears in 2020, IRS numbers show residents, businesses and wealth flowed out of those states and into red ones. Forty billion dollars poured out of California and New York combined, while thirty billion flowed into Texas and California. 2021 numbers are expected to show even greater economic devastation for blue states.

Moody's Investors Service recently released data showing the best-performing economies are dominated by Republican-led states, and 8 of the 10 worst are blue states. Likewise, what the Biden administration never tells you when bragging about unemployment data is this: It's the red states that have recovered all the jobs they lost during the pandemic and added 341,000 over and above the days of COVID. On the other hand, the blue states are still deep in the hole — 1.3 million jobs.

Primary Video source and transcript continues here: https://www.churchmilitant.com/video/episode/vortex-existing-civil-war

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The Vortex — The 'Republican' Bishops? (youtu.be)

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Not even close.

The phony-Catholic Jesuits over at America Magazine have all but come out and declared that they are pro-abortion.

Sure, they don't come right out and say it, but by implication, no reasonable person could conclude anything else. They are almost depressed over the overturning of Roe, using language like abortion "rights" and so forth. There is no such thing as a right, any right, to kill an innocent child for any reason. But for a religious community (that takes the sacred name of Jesus as its banner) to practically be suicidal over saving the lives of innocent children is nothing short of demonic.

We all know that the Jesuits long ago gave up the ghost and are essentially communists in robes. But the overthrowing of Roe has now given them permission to drop the masks and get down to business.

One of the names at the heresy-supporting social justice rag is Thomas Reese, a priest so bad and lefty that he actually resigned when Cdl. Ratzinger became Pope Benedict XVI back in 2005. Reese had been at odds with the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith over multiple moral and doctrinal teachings, and when Ratzinger, who was head of the CDF, became pope, Reese threw in the towel — realizing the jig was up. But it wasn't an inward conversion. It was merely political and career oriented — superficial. Reese realized he could do much more damage to the Church not tied to the Jesuit rag.

So for the past almost 20 years, he has fired off article after article criticizing anything and everything his little hands could attack from a keyboard. He's published in a handful of other lefty publications that spread his filth farther than just writing for America magazine could do. Recently, the traitor to the Faith wrote two articles published in the Religion News Service, one before Roe was overturned and the other after. Neither took a kind view of the terrific news.

But it was the first one, in particular, published when the original draft was leaked back in early May, that was the most revealing of the two. In that article, entitled "After Winning on Abortion, It's Time for Catholic Bishops to Switch Parties," Reese makes the rather asinine point that the bishops are mostly closet Republicans in lockstep with the GOP. Well, many of them certainly are closeted but not the way Reese means — who himself might know a thing or two about closeted things.

To even suggest that the bishops are united with the GOP platform shows the depths of Reese's ignorance or deceit — likely the latter. With the exception of abortion, the U.S. bishops check almost every single box on the Democratic Party dance card. You name it; they support it: illegal immigration, gun control, climate change, Obamacare, gay everything — the whole enchilada. In each of these areas, the U.S. bishops' conference not only supports but leads the way in pushing all of them.

The website of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops is littered with press releases and click-throughs to everything the Party of Death supports. The bishops get almost half their funding — hundreds of millions of dollars — from D.C. to promote all this communist garbage, money they aren't about to turn down for a little thing like the gospel.

Primary Video source and transcript continues here: https://www.churchmilitant.com/video/episode/vortex-the-republican-bishops

The Vortex — The Great Squandering (youtu.be)

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We have to do this.

I'm Michael Voris, coming to you from the Reawaken America Tour in Virginia Beach, Virginia, this past weekend where thousands of American patriots packed the rafters to listen to a dazzling array of subjects and speakers — all of them aimed at taking back America from the communist influence swamping it. In fact, its overall theme is writ large with the messaging of the Great Awakening vs. the Great Reset. It's a message that resonates perfectly in this crowd.

What's most interesting about events like this, again, routinely attended by thousands of patriots, is just how under the radar they are for the average American. The Marxist media has no desire whatsoever to cover these kinds of things — just the opposite, in fact.

As a result, a virtual, and we do mean virtual, cottage industry has grown up and provides wall-to-wall coverage on its own websites and livestreams. Almost two dozen niche politically conservative websites and citizen-journalist outfits were present, streaming and providing content and information to a combined audience of hundreds of thousands (touching a million or more by conservative estimates). Even more big-name conservative outfits like Epoch Times were present — also streaming the message and providing commentary and analysis and keeping the troops back home updated.

All of this is, of course, still somewhat in its infancy compared to the Marxist media, but every passing year, this combined effort is reaching more and more Americans — normal Joes fed up with the Marxist dominance of the culture. The smarter outfits like Church Militant have long since figured out that any of this could be canceled by Big Tech, and we've spent a fortune ensuring we have our own servers and platforms and are not as easily unplugged by Big Tech.

However, there is one aspect to all this that we at Church Militant and faithful Catholics have got to bring up. These events (and the ensuing coverage) are largely organized through Protestant congregations and their ministers, who are on board with the narrative. There is plenty of talk and billboards and flyers extolling God, Jesus and faith — but it's all Protestant.

With the exception of Church Militant, there is not a single official or even semiofficial Catholic presence there or, in fact, at any events like this anywhere around the country. Think of the incredible evangelism opportunity being missed here at events like this.

Aside from media, there is what's called "information alley," where vendors are hocking shirts, books, pamphlets and so forth. Not a single Catholic table anywhere. Do Catholics really have nothing to say about the direction of the country, about the most pressing issues of the day culturally and politically? Talk about going out to the margins and getting "the smell of the sheep" on you.

Primary Video source and transcript continues here: https://www.churchmilitant.com/video/episode/vortex-the-great-squandering

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The Vortex — It's Come Down to This (youtu.be)

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Fight or die.

I'm Michael Voris, coming to you from the final day of the Renewing America Tour in Virginia Beach this past weekend.

When you look at the crowd of thousands and the impressive list of speakers, it's easy to forget that all of this began just about a year and a half ago with an idea. That idea was to combat the garbage going on in the country.

Clay Clark was a successful businessman, not a political activist and organizer. He'd built up a tidy little wedding-planning empire around the country. But then, a few months after Biden assumed the powers of the presidency and began carting along his whole global reset agenda, Clark became concerned — deeply concerned. What began small (in idea) has now become a nationwide tour of 13 massive conventions, each one sold out, often weeks in advance. Dozens of speakers educate and inspire the audiences, not just in person but also through the multiple patriot media outfits that livestream it.

And there is nothing about the agenda of the globalists that does not get discussed here. From the COVID tyranny to the co-opting of the U.S. government by communists, you name it, it's on the main stage sooner or later. Interestingly, however, one topic continues to fly under the radar, and that's owing to the reality that this is largely a Protestant-attended event — even then, it's certainly not all Protestant congregations.

Just as the pro-life movement in America has largely been a half-century effort on the part of Catholics, including the Catholic justices who struck down Roe, the more broad-based patriotic movement is largely fueled by Protestant energy. As a result, they are not that aware of the important part the U.S. hierarchy as a whole has played in the collapse of the country. To their credit, more credit than is due to most everyday Catholics, they do recognize the spiritual component of all that is happening.

Without realizing it, Clark was moving on a Catholic principle when he decided to commit to all this. That principle is known as "subsidiarity," and it simply means "what individuals can accomplish by their own initiative and efforts should not be taken from them by a higher authority." In short, everything starts small and should be managed and solved locally by those most capable of addressing it and solving it.

Primary Video source and transcript continues here: https://www.churchmilitant.com/video/episode/vort-its-come-down-to-this

The Vortex — Madame President (youtu.be)

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Up next!

Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to present to you the Marxists' leading candidate for the next president of the United States: Michelle Obama.

That's the conclusion of this Vortex, so let's walk you through the steps to reach that conclusion. First, Joe — a complete flop, loser, washed up, done with. This National Review headline from Wednesday just about says it all: "Joe Biden's Latest Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Polling."

The article's clincher says it all: "57% say that the actions of the federal government over the past six months have hurt their family when it comes to their most important concern." The National Review continued, "When it's four months to Election Day and 57% of the voters say that your current and recent policies are making things personally worse for them on their most important issue, you are not in a good place."

There's absolutely no need to go into any of the details in this article because there isn't an American breathing who doesn't know that this man is done. At this point, it's unsurprising to learn that many Democrats feel the same way.

Among those not wanting Joe to run again are potential Democratic opponents. Hillary Clinton, of course, is beginning to do a light jig around Biden's grave, and she's not alone. Also stepping up, smelling blood in the water, is California's phony-Catholic governor Gavin Newsom as well as Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker.

While this trio is being a bit more audacious, there is one who is hanging back, being much more sneaky and quiet, and that is Michelle Obama. Yes, the rumor machine was in full swing in 2020 about Michelle jumping, which she never did.

Primary Video source and transcript continues here: https://www.churchmilitant.com/video/episode/vortex-madame-president

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The Vortex — Do Something (youtu.be)

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No more excuses.

Church Militant is now the most-talked-about Catholic website on the planet.

From atheists to leftist Marxists (including but not limited to members of the hierarchy) to politicians who pose as conservatives to faithful Catholics who are sick and tired of the constant downward spiral, Church Militant has risen to be a leader — perhaps the leader — in this area. Even the Vatican Secretariat of State monitors us every day, as well as multiple dioceses throughout the country, including our own here in Detroit.

First, we'd like to thank all of you who have propelled this apostolate to the heights it has reached. None of it would be possible without you. But there is something more basic I'd like to address and get a little personal about in the process, if I may.

What Church Militant has become today owes to one moment in the temporal order. Of course, without the spiritual order of my mom's prayers for my return to the Faith and the multitude of graces they afforded us, the temporal order would amount to nothing. That being said, the temporal order does matter, a lot.

When I returned to the Faith (the One True Faith), I had a deep yearning to do something for the Faith that would be a "thank you" to God as well as a "share the joy of the truth" to others.

From the time of my reversion in June 2004 until the first "inspiration" or idea in late 2005, I used to talk with my dad constantly about what I could do. I had zero ideas really — all kinds of stuff, but nothing taking solid form. I was doing very well financially in my career at the time, but just increasing donation amounts to various Catholic outfits didn't seem like enough.

At that time of my life, in fall 2005, my job was taking me around the world on various production shoots, and the book The Da Vinci Code was everywhere. Written by Dan Brown, it was another one of those "death by a thousand cuts" approaches to destroying people's faith.

The book, which calls itself a novel but is treated as history, is little else than a denial of Our Lord’s divinity. It also insisted He and Mary Magdalene were an "item" and had a child, and the Catholic Church was part of a 2,000-year-long conspiracy trying to hide this from the world.

The book (and subsequent movie starring Tom Hanks) was the sole impetus in the temporal order for the launching of this apostolate — nothing more.

I was infuriated by the proposals the book and movie put forward and said to myself, "I have to do something!" So I told my dad that I had finally figured out what to do and began producing a documentary debunking the ridiculous claims of Dan Brown.

I never got around to producing that documentary because several days later, after severe writer's block, I said, "Dad, The Da Vinci Code isn't the problem. The problem is that people believe all this crap because they don't know the Faith. What we need is some kind of regular media presentation of the truths of Catholicism." A few weeks later, I was renting building space, converting it into a studio and getting down to business.

That first effort was and remains our flagship show, The One True Faith, with more than 100 hour-long episodes. Premium members can still view those. The host looks a little younger, but the content is great because it's Catholic truth. The point is, I did something. When staff members joined me in those early days, none of us had the slightest idea that it would become all this. That was God's doing.

He did what He did because we did something. We had no guarantee of success. We didn't plan or even think of all this. We almost crashed and burned twice. But because we kept praying and fighting and doing, here we are.

I'm saying all this to encourage you to do something meaningful. Put some skin in the game — your skin. It must hurt to count. It must be a sacrifice to be meaningful. The world is going to hell and you must do something.

Primary Video source and transcript continues here: https://www.churchmilitant.com/video/episode/vortex-do-something

Catholic hope (files.catbox.moe)

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Divine Mercy Sunday is April 24, 2022 (Catholicism)

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Our Lady of Akita - the chastisement coming from God (Catholicism)

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OCTOBER 13, 1973
"As I told you, if men do not repent and better themselves, the Father will inflict a terrible punishment on all humanity. It will be a punishment greater than the deluge, such as one will never seen before. Fire will fall from the sky and will wipe out a great part of humanity, the good as well as the bad, sparing neither priests nor faithful. The survivors will find themselves so desolate that they will envy the dead. The only arms which will remain for you will be the Rosary and the Sign left by My Son. Each day recite the prayers of the Rosary. With the Rosary, pray for the Pope, the bishops and priests."

FBI — Catholi–Schism (youtu.be)

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In this special episode of the Vortex, Michael Voris details the rise and fall of the SSPX, their doctrinal errors and their current relationship with the Church.

Primary Video source can be found here: https://www.churchmilitant.com/video/episode/fbicatholi-schism

But jews say, “diversity is a strength” (twitter.com)

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Pope warns of anti-Semitism as he visits Hungary (www.bbc.com)

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Pope Francis has warned the threat of anti-Semitism is "still lurking" in Europe, during a brief trip to Hungary.

He was speaking after meeting Hungary's populist and anti-immigrant PM Viktor Orban, with whom he has stark differences on the issue of refugees. Mr Orban has also been accused of an anti-Semitic stance, but he has said this is "simply ridiculous".

In a Facebook post, the PM said he had "asked Pope Francis not to let Christian Hungary perish".

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