"The Vortex" begins the new year with an updated website, and some
technical enhancements, which Michael Voris describes in the first part of the
video below. I haven’t included that part of the script, but you can see what
he’s talking about if you go to the website
to watch the video.
In the script below, I jumped to the meat of the presentation; and that “meat”
is the fact that there is a crisis in the Church, and we need to know our
faith! Voris describes the crisis, the
evidence that it is real, and the sad fact that some – even Church leaders –
want to pretend all is well. He points
out that we – the laity – need to jump in and do our part. “In fact,” says
Voris, “Catholics who know [their faith] have a moral obligation – a duty – to
inform and instruct anyone who will give them a hearing about the truth of Our
Blessed Lord.”
He also describes the programming that is available to Premium
subscribers to ChurchMilitant.TV. At $10 per month, it is an unsurpassed value,
and I urge you to subscribe. Watch the
video and consider what Michael Voris has to say.
The script is below, with my emphases.
There is absolutely no doubt
that the Church is in dire straits. Many
people who have a vested interest in painting a rosy picture of current affairs
either flat out deny the crisis or talk around it, as if it’s not real; or that
by somehow ignoring it, it will not BE real.
That is an absolutely UN-CATHOLIC response because it is grounded in fear
and denial; and the Catholic Church is about boldness and truth because that is
what Her Divine Founder Our Blessed Lord is.
The same-sex marriage movement, for example, turned a corner this last
election by winning all FOUR ballot initiatives where the issue was up for a
vote. AND that movement had huge support
from Catholics in the respective states.
Abortion is here to stay with the re-election of Obama, since he has the
trump card of Supreme Court nominees, and will be naming probably three and
quite possibly four in the next four years.
That means by the time he is scheduled to leave office he will have named
– more than likely – six of the nine justices; and you may rest assured they
will all be of like mind as him in their support for the intrinsic evils of
same-sex marriage, abortion, contraception and so forth.
Obama’s healthcare law has now assumed its full potency, and that is
threatening many Catholics with having to choose between their faith or massive
fines.
But even within the Catholic Church there is widespread acceptance of these evils on a personal day-to-day basis
by many – in fact, an overwhelming majority of the faithful. Most contracept, over half divorce, a
majority support same-sex marriage (in principle if not in practice).
A huge number – more than three quarters – no longer have any meaningful
relationship with the Church whatsoever, in that they don’t attend Mass each week.
Even many who do, use contraception, fornicate, are divorced and
re-married, and pick and choose whatever they want from the Church’s dogmatic
and infallible teachings.
They LIKE the Pope, but don’t look to him as any kind of real authority –
certainly not when it comes to deciding between choosing good and evil. Most
often, they choose evil, and in so doing place their immortal souls in jeopardy
of eternal damnation.
This state of affairs is precisely why we began our efforts at St.
Michael’s Media, which also has given rise to ChurchMilitant.TV. The loss and falling away of so many of our
fellow Catholics – even some sitting in the pews – is a constant source of pain
and hurt for us.
So much of the “establishment” Church was and is doing nothing…saying
nothing…just papering over the problem – if they even acknowledged it at all –
that we, as well as many others in THEIR own way, decided someone needs to do
something.
So we produced this website with hundreds
of hours of programs talking about the faith – aiming to help re-invigorate
and lift up the dropping spirits of faithful Catholics, and inform lukewarm
Catholics about the glories of the Church established personally by the Son of
GOD for the salvation of men.
The website is essentially divided into two major areas – what we call
the free page AND the premium page. The
free page largely consists of the more notable and controversial programs like
The Vortex, CIA (Catholic Investigative Agency), and The Daily News show.
In these programs we talk a lot of about the crisis and its causes and consequences – such as
massive and widespread liturgical abuse, the hammering that religious vocations
have taken, and yes, the frequent and oftentimes pitiful response on the parts
of Church leaders – including a not small number of bishops who let the crisis continue to fester
and spread by their inaction, based in fear or ignorance or even, in some cases,
complicity.
If Catholics can’t
have open and honest discussion about the crisis, then we as a Church in the West
are done for before we even get out of the gate.
And it’s a pity that many in the Church don’t want that discussion
happening, because such talk would necessitate a change – an upheaval really –
in the established order, and that would mean their cozy, comfy jobs and
positions of influence would be lost.
So there are many, many people INSIDE the Church who do not want the Church’s teaching – for example, on contraception
being taught, or the evil of homosexual acts – being brought up in
homilies.
Many priests and chancery officials in large numbers of dioceses are
lukewarm at best to the pro-life cause, and are hugely resistant to the Holy
Father’s calls for reform of the liturgy, which has simply gone off the rails
in parish after parish everywhere in the Church in the west.
Because these
truths will not be spoken about and treated honestly and openly by leaders,
then lay Catholics must take up the yoke and do so. In the process of keeping the machinery of
the Establishment churning along, the teachings of the Church – Her treasure,
Her glory – are being ground under the wheels of that machinery.
The truths of the faith are ignored…mocked…or cleverly re-phrased so as
to drain them almost absolutely of their meaning and richness.
This is ONE reason so many Catholics simply have nothing to do with the
faith anymore: because they’ve never really heard even the most basic and
rudimentary teachings – and certainly not in any real in-depth manner that
would give them pause to stop and re-evaluate their lives and the moral choices
they make.
Even for faithful Catholics – except for the MOST intrepid – years,
decades of pabulum from the pulpit; liturgical abuse after liturgical abuse at
Mass; horrible and rotten catechesis from liberal Catholics and angry ex-nuns
who want to be priests and reject all the Church’s teachings on sexual morality;
all this can wear down even the most guarded of souls.
While we aren’t the only ones who are angered by this state of affairs –
and rightfully so – we decided to try and do our part as faithful Catholics to
help other Catholics understand and become aware of what they were never told.
In fact, Catholics
who know have a moral obligation – a duty – to inform and instruct anyone who
will give them a hearing about the truth of Our Blessed Lord. That’s why we produced hundreds of hours of
programming over the past going-on-seven years now: for this very purpose.
We have shows like our flagship program, “The One True Faith” – 115 hours
of many of the basics of the faith, laid out in simple, easy-to-grasp
ways.
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Is it controversial? You bet. But
in a world that denies God or at least HIS importance – as Pope Benedict said
at Christmas – of course pointing to GOD and his Absolute truth is going to be
controversial.
We have a very popular program called “Shadow Priest” – short vignettes
about a truth of the faith and how it impacts our daily life choices – offered
by a priest who wants to remain anonymous so the MESSAGE can be the focus, not
him.
A brand new show coming this season is one we simply call “Popes”, with
Joe Gallagher, a bright 15-year-old who takes a fun tour through the history of
the Papacy, focusing on various popes down through the 2000 years who are
notable for one reason or another. While
it’s aimed at a teen audience, it’s actually a fun and interesting presentation
for anyone.
There is a spectacular program called “Right Reason” with Professor
Charles Rice, Emeritus Professor from Notre Dame’s Law School, who discusses
in-depth Natural Law and how ignoring it causes the end of civilizations.
These four shows are just a small sampling of the close to 20 different
ones we have to offer. And it’s all available for just $10 a month.
That’s it.
For less than the price of just one cup of coffee a week, you have at
your fingertips a storehouse of programs that cover almost every imaginable
topic in the church you can think of: spirituality, devotion, history, apologetics,
scripture, and more.
There’s one thing that’s certain – and it’s an old, old maxim – you can’t
love what you do not know. The crisis in the Church today is owing to
Catholics not knowing their faith.
There are many reasons for this, and we explore them frequently on the
free site – in the Vortex for example – but the heart of ChurchMilitant.TV is
not the free site; it’s the premium page, where we unpackage and share with you
the manifest beauties of the faith – that which MAKES us Catholic.
So in this year of faith, we’re asking you to sign up and become a
premium member, and don’t forget: your $10 a month not only goes to help us
keep producing premium content, but also helps allay the cost of the free programming
– which is free to you, but not free for US to produce.
We have an excellent research team of some fine dedicated young guys who
lay the groundwork for all of our long form investigative pieces and special
reports. Even though there is no direct
cost to viewers for watching CIA or Special Report, it still costs US money to produce those shows.
And wait until you see what we will be releasing in a couple of weeks.
Your $10 a month helps keep them churning out material so that Catholics
can better understand and get a grasp on the reality of the Church today.
So we’re asking you to please sign up and help us not only keep you
abreast of the challenges facing the Church from largely INSIDE Her walls – which
we do on our free page – but also, more importantly, help us help as many
Catholics as we can understand or better understand the majesty of and glory of
the Faith found in 2000 years of the Magisterium.
We’re talking about
souls and their salvation. That’s it, at
the end of the day. That’s the bottom
line. Our Blessed Lord said, in order to
obtain Heaven we must love him and keep His commandments. How next to
impossible is that, if so many don’t even know or understand?
So please, sign up today and if you are already one of the thousands of
premium subscribers we have, USE the
site. Go to it everyday. Watch shows with your college mates or your
family…friends…parents…children. Begin talking about the faith and the truths
of it. Make the faith your life, your
reason for being.
And don’t forget to shoot us an email and let us know what you think of
the updated site. GOD Bless and thanks
in advance for your support.
GOD Love you,
I’m Michael Voris
