The Vortex: Wake Up and Man Up

Michael Voris has agreed to take over again today in order to give me a little breathing room as I attempt to gather some thoughts on various issues. He's sounding the battle cry, and I think we all need to hear it. 
 

Here's the script:


Wake up Catholics.  Wake Up! Do you not see what is happening around the world?

Pay attention to these prophetic words ..

“The world in which we live is the battleground of the Church. I believe that we are now living at the end of Christendom. It is the end of Christendom, but not of Christianity. What is Christendom?

Christendom is the political, economic, moral, social, legal life of a nation as inspired by the gospel ethic. That is finished.

Abortion, the breakdown of the family life, dishonesty, even the natural virtues upon which the supernatural virtues were based, are being discredited. Christianity is not at the end. But we are at the end of Christendom.

And I believe the sooner we face up to this fact, the sooner we will be able to solve many of our problems.


Thirty or forty years ago, it was very easy to be a Christian. The very air we breathed was Christian. Bicycles could be left on the front lawns; doors could be left unlocked. Suddenly, all this has changed; now we have to affirm our faith. We live in a world that challenges us. And many fall away.

Dead bodies float downstream; it takes live bodies to resist the current. And this is our summons. We will have to begin a different church. We are for a moment on a trapeze. We are in between the death of an old civilization and culture and the swing to the beginning of the new.

These are the times in which we live. They are therefore wonderful days; marvelous; we should thank God that we live in times like this.”

Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen first uttered those words in 1974. And 38 years later they contain in them a greater urgency than even that giant among bishops may have ever thought possible.

The “new church” that Sheen speaks of that we need to begin is only “new” in the sense that the thoroughly protestantized Catholic Church that has been around for the past 50 years or so is the "old" Church.

What needs to be resurrected is a ferocity about the faith – an unapologetic Apologetics – a refusal and rejection of all that is not solidly Catholic in every corner of the Catholic world. 

This includes cowardly approaches to the Faith by those charged with transmitting and defending it.  If your parish is slowly sapping your faith and the faith of your children, leave it and get to one that actually nourishes you.

It is a spiritual felony for leaders to slowly starve their people of the full and authentic truths of Christ made present in the Magisterium of the Church.

And it therefore makes accomplices of all inside the Church who continue to peddle this soft, glad-handing, girly approach to the faith – being afraid to call out leaders who betray the faithful by word or deed, active or passive.

Too many in the Church – vast numbers – feed off a bureaucracy that is corrupt or morally complicit in the downfall of souls.  Those who know will not speak out for fear of their own loss of income or standing or prestige.

And as the moral and spiritual rot continues to creep along, they continue broadcasting or writing books or blogs supporting the very bureaucracy that's sucking the life out of the Church. 

They aim their barbs and criticisms at enemies of the faith outside the walls – which takes not the least bit of courage – but refuse to talk about what they KNOW going on inside the walls: the refusal, for example, to allow the Latin Mass to expand for example; the continued allowance of employment of heretics in universities; of pastors being allowed to stay pastors as they preach a false gospel of silence on the most pressing issues of the day.

All of this, and much more, they KNOW and refuse to breathe a word about any of it. They refuse to sound a call to arms, and hide behind lofty sounding terms like Prudence and Charity and Unity. 

To do so would cost them their speaking engagements, and the acclaim of ignorant sheep, and the ability to host radio shows, and author books.  They will not tell the whole truth, and therefore are accomplices in degradation of the Church.  They are not so much allies as they are parasites.

Archbishop Fulton Sheen again is instructive here:

"A Catholic who does not strive to spread his Faith is a parasite on the life of the Church." 

How can someone claim to be spreading the faith, particularly those with a platform to do so, when they refuse to confront the very forces INSIDE the Church preventing the spread of the Faith: weak and cowardly bishops, modernist staffers in chanceries and high level offices pushing perverse notions of the Church’s teaching in areas of social doctrine and sexual morality.

The Church of Nice crowd never wants to talk about these people – the wolves in sheep’s clothing, the ravenous wolves. Meanwhile, the wolves are allowed to roam free, the Church continues to be weak, and the world grows more evil as a consequence.

Indeed, the only avenue left for a corpse is to go along with the flow.  The authentic Church must become a Church of ferocious resistance and great saints…unafraid to say ALL that needs to be said.

How long do the parasites think the host will be alive to feed from?

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The Vortex: Catholic or Patriot?

I'll let Michael Voris take over today:

The script:

All over the world…at least the western world…there is a growing unease that soon – and very soon – Catholics may have to make a choice between their Catholic faith and their country, between their faith and their patriotism. 

As Providence plays out, it would appear that center stage of this tragedy is the United States of America. All the stars are aligning against the Church, and don’t let lawsuits filed by the bishops and Catholic colleges fool you.

The clouds are gathering quickly and darkening for the Church in the US.  The American civilization has launched a culture war against faithful Catholics – just as Otto von Bismarck did in the mid to late 19^th century in Germany, and the French government did in the 18^th century, and the English government did in the 16^th and 17^th centuries.

Martyrs were born of those oppressive and tyrannical governments.  And martyrs will be born of the American government’s tyranny as well.

When will Catholics wake up and realize that what is working behind the scenes is a battle between Heaven and Hell, between St. Michael and Lucifer?

Satan, being defeated in eternity, still retains his angelic powers to wage war against the Church...in time.

And until time comes to an end and human history has played itself out, Satan will continue to assail the Church personally established by Our Blessed Lord on St. Peter, whom he renamed...Rock.

Once again, the bastard destroyer has seized hold of the powers of the state and is bringing them to bear on the faithful.  There are still unresolved matters left to be worked out – details really - in Obama’s diabolical health care law.

But at the White House, Obama and Catholic traitors are in full scale advance, putting in place their view of the world in which the Catholic Church has no part…the authentic Catholic Church that is.

One day, and soon, Catholics in America, who have been lulled into a false notion that you can be both a good American and a good Catholic, are going to have to choose between their Church and their country.

We have reached this point for many reasons, but one that cannot be overlooked is how Church leadership rushed headlong – and continues to do so – into a vision that a government which promotes a vast array of evil can AT THE SAME TIME be reasoned with to reach consensus on other questions of morality.

When a man named Obama stood at center stage of the US Catholic world in May 2009 and declared to raucous cheers from Notre Dame graduates, parents, and faculty, that common ground needed to be reached on questions of abortion and freedom of conscience, he was lying through his teeth and he knew it.

He used the softened-up Catholic mind – the Church of Nice – to present a soft side of evil; a side designed to be swallowed hook, line, and sinker by spineless and delusional leaders who TO THIS DAY still actively promote some of his legislation – suffering under an ignorant and less than fully informed understanding of Catholic social doctrine.

These enemies of the faith – like Obama, but certainly not just Obama; Pelosi, Biden, Kennedy, and hundreds of others come to mind – these enemies of the faith have been allowed to carry out their assaults against the common good of the Church and the culture PRECISELY because so many Catholic bishops and lay staff around the country for decades now have refused to stare down evil and call it out for what it is.

They have refused to decry a law because it is intrinsically evil – meaning rotten to the core JUST BECAUSE of WHAT IT IS.  Even now, this ridiculous idea of challenging the health care contraception mandate because it infringes on religious freedom is patently absurd.

The law is evil…NOT JUST UNCONSTITUTIONAL.  Who cares if it’s unconstitutional?!?

It’s evil because it promotes an evil; namely contraception. That’s why the law is bad – not because it may (OR MAY NOT) violate some arcane clause in a 200+ year old document that only means what a majority of nine judges say it means.

Here’s the reality, whether most bishops say it clearly or not: American Catholics will soon be facing a decision whether to cooperate with the state or stand by their faith and pay the consequences. 

We have come to this because too many leaders have betrayed their high calling to preach unabashedly and untiringly the unalterable truths of Christ. And even now, they still refuse to make pubic profession of their full guilt and do something about it.

So it is now up to the laity – the few who may still have some touchstone to the faith – to stand before judges and courts and bureaucrats and pay the price for Christ. 

Catholics in America may soon have to discover another way to live in the land of the "free" and the "home of the brave" – something America has not been since it unleashed the slaughter of tens of millions of pre-born fellow citizens.

Make no mistake: the diabolical has control of the halls of government and is waiting for the opportunity to reveal itself fully.  At the rate things are progressing, we shouldn’t have to wait too long.

It’s time to prepare ourselves, my fellow Catholics.  Immerse yourself in the faith and the sacraments, mind and soul, so that when your time comes to choose, you will choose the way of martyrdom…however it comes to you and me.


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