Where To Begin vort-2013-05-01

Hello everyone and welcome to The Vortex where lies and falsehoods are trapped and exposed. I’m Michael Voris.

If it seems to you these days like there is an almost never ending flow of events that impact the Church .. you’re right.

We’ve seen it here at ChurchMilitant.TV. One story or happening after another .. one coming so fast on the heels of the other that its nearly impossible to keep up with.

Like this for example ..

(Obama – GOD Bless PP – video)

If that isn’t the final stamp of the diabolical on and by this president – what else could be .. imagine calling down the blessing of Almighty God on the work of child dismemberment and ACTUALLY meaning it.

And leaders in the Church are shocked that faithful Catholics would be miffed and dismayed when this agent of Satan is invited to dinner .. not to convert but to socialize with!?

And then there is the secular uproar over the diocese of Columbus firing a lesbian faculty member from one of their schools after she went and got legally hitched to her lesbian gal pal.

If the state has the “right” to fund the butchering of babies on the altar of privacy, then certainly a Catholic school can appeal to the same right of privacy or conscience or whatever other nonsense is dreamed up by jurists to insure that their employees live by the code they teach.

BTW – if you haven’t sent in an email to the office of Columbus bishop Frederick Campbell thanking him for supporting the faith, you should. A half-million emails came poring in to support “gay rights” once the story went national.

So how about a little Catholic love for His ? We’ve attached the email to make it easy for you.

And then there is the battle over sodomy right here in the archdiocese of .. where the said in an interview that Catholics who support same sex marriage should stay away from Holy Communion. Something about lacking integrity.

The true to the history of Detroit .. the lavender mafia’s front man retired Thomas Gumbelton challenged the sitting bishop and said he wasn’t pastoral and sodomy loving Catholics should come forward and receive Holy Communion .. in the hand no doubt. 1 So in Detroit .. the archbishop speaks .. a lower ranking bishop with no more authority to speak of challenges and that’s that.

Archbishop Vigneron is made to look like a toothless tiger and Bishop Gumbelton looks like a lover of the downtrodden.

By the way .. in a few days word is Bishop Gumbleton is scheduled to celebrate a weekly gay Mass that the archdiocese has known about for close to 30 years and done virtually nothing to prevent.

At one point in fact .. a number of years back .. they even lied about its existence and tried to deny it was even being held. All of this and archdiocesan priests routinely cycle through and offer the Mass. So here, the beat goes on.

But across the pond .. a different beat .. as Cardinal Marc Oulette .. who heads up the office at the Vatican for new bishops recently challenged the manhood .. not to mention the faith of bishops in England and Wales when he said to them point blank ..

“Perhaps you can sense viscerally the pressure to obey men rather than God, to see yourself-as a mere manager or functionary rather than a disciple and an apostle.”

Bet you could hear a pin drop or fly zipping around when that criticism was offered.

Back over here in the US .. same American Patriotic Church nonsense as American Pope – so dubbed by the New York Times – Timothy Cardinal Dolan .. feeling the joy .. handed out an award to pro-abortion Girl Scout CEO Anna Maria Chavez .. according to reports .. at Mass no less.

BTW – the award was named after St. Elizabeth Anne Seaton. Wonder what SHE’s thinking about her trophy sitting on the shelf of a pro-abort handed to her by a Cardinal. Just sayin’.

And isn’t there something in the US bishops’ own rules about honoring or giving platforms to those opposed to Church teaching .. or allowing them to talk on Church property .. or is that for those who are SUPPORTIVE of Church teaching .. it’s all so confusing sometimes.

And then over on the Left Coast .. calls from Archbishop of Los Angeles Jose Gomez who has said that America’s soul is at risk over the question of illegal immigration. Yep. America’s soul!

He joined his voice to that of Cardinal Dolan and other American bishops in calling for passage of immigration reform .. while denigrating the idea that there would be such distinctions as legal or illegal.

But what has troubled many Catholics is the approach by American bishops that supporting such policy is somehow a measuring stick for your Catholicism. They have thrown their shrinking moral authority behind legislation and in so doing .. eroded their 2 capacity to speak on matter of doctrine.

They are now largely seen as shills for every democratic party social policy decision and have simply alienated vast swaths of Catholics who think they should stick to teaching the faith directly and repairing the carnage in the Church in matters spiritual – often brought about by their lack of proper shepherding – as Cardinal Dolan admitted last April to the Wall Street Journal.

In a kind of shocking eye-brow raising kind of statement .. His Excellency said ignoring a nation’s laws and allowing illegal immigrants to just switch to legal is as fundamental to the Bill of Rights as it is and the Torah or the Sermon on the Mount.

That’s quite the claim .. especially when there is pitifully little in Church doctrine to back it up. There is no Church “teaching” on how a nation should handle illegal immigrants .. but it sure seems that there is a Church teaching on the right of a nation to establish its borders under its own sovereignty.

And besides .. on the question of a nation losing its soul over this issue .. really?

Didn’t that already happen when so many bishops failed to teach decisively boldly and authoritatively on the issue of contraception – and it might be added – even now still sidestep the issue and bandy it about as a legal issue over freedom of religion instead of the deep seated evil that it really is.

And BTW – as for illegal immigration policy being the premier social issue of our time .. threatening to cause a nation to lose a soul that it lost long ago .. Cardinal Raymond Burke recently restored a little sanity to the discussion when HE recently said that abortion is the leading social justice issue of our time.

He said that the lack of enthusiasm for combating abortion on the part of high up Church leaders is something that – his words – needs to be addressed.

Illegal immigration policy .. something Catholics can disagree on as a matter of public policy. Abortion .. intrinsic evil that can never be compromised on or disagreed with.

Yet here in the American Patriotic Church .. the line between intrinsic evil and debatable public policy doesn’t really exist – immutable Church teaching is lowered to a level of where there is no definitive Church teaching.

Like we said .. so much going on .. its hard to keep up with.

GOD Love you.

I’m Michael Voris.

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