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Michael speaks to conservatives in Pittsburgh.

Today's Vortex features Michael's talk at "The Importance of the Family" event in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on July 29, 2023, where he discusses the destruction of the domestic church in the West.

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Americans must change it for the better.

As we continue to highlight the bishops' malfeasance toward those in their charge, even in the realm — perhaps especially in the realm — of politics, we should ask, why does it really matter?

Here's why: People live their day-to-day lives in a culture, a society, like fish live in water. It's impossible to swim through the water and not be impacted by it. If it's dirty or the temperature changes, the fish are impacted.

By analogy, we can say the same thing about humans swimming through the culture. And for the moment, we are confining the analogy to simply the natural world, not the supernatural role of grace and so on.

No human society is even close to perfect, but some are better than others in creating an environment where man's better angles can be encouraged — a love of arts, philosophy, friendships and so forth. The stuff of a culture, the cult.

There is an entire psychological reality that springs forth from a healthy culture. When the culture gets sick (think of the water getting polluted), that psychology starts to be invaded, weakened, and becomes susceptible to being taken over.

I don't want to make this a Democrat versus Republican thing, because it's really not. But at the end of the day, one of those two parties promulgates a psychologically sick society. The other doesn't push back, or at least not enough.

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A long road back.

For the first time, perhaps ever, the U.S. bishops are finding themselves in a dogfight on Capitol Hill when it comes to them getting and using your tax dollars to destabilize the border.

The press conference in Washington, D.C., last week (which Church Militant covered at length) spoke about the need to end the unfettered, unaccountable access the bishops have to these funds and their use of them. That was, in fact, the entire point of the press conference.

It turns out that segues right into an effort by a conservative congressman to also cut off the flow of some of those dollars, and the bishops are none too happy about that.

The leader of the move is Texas congressman Lance Gooden, who serves on the House Judiciary Committee. He has written a letter to DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas saying Biden is "allowing non-governmental organizations ... the freedom to aid and abet illegal aliens." The letter was also signed by Congressman Jake Ellzey of Texas and Tom Tiffany of Wisconsin.

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Movement has begun in the nation's capital, that's the bottom line here, and the main culprit from an NGO viewpoint has been identified — and as Church Militant has been reporting for years, it's the U.S. bishops and their Marxist-minded outfit, Catholic Charities.

Now all of this detail only makes sense if it's couched in the larger picture of the penetration of the Church by Freemasonry and their shock troops, worldwide communism. The Church leaders are quick to portray their work at the border as "living out the gospel" or some other spiritual-sounding crap. Well, of course they have to paint it like that. They aren't going to go put up billboards that say "Give us your tax money so we can weaken the republic."

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Michael gets interviewed by One America News.

As you learned at the Deposit of Faith Coalition press conference last week, the U.S. bishops are deeply in bed with the U.S. government and promote Democrat causes like gun control, illegal immigration, climate change and censorship of free speech.

Any long-time listeners of Church Militant will know this has been going on for decades. Sadly, everyday Americans largely remained in the dark on this until now.

The press conference, which only happened thanks to your generous support, did something never seen before in the age of social media: It alerted the secular conservative media and the American public (who aren't beholden to the bishops like most Catholic media is) that the USCCB is and has been marching in lockstep with the religious Left.

Tons of stories about our presser can be found all over the internet, on the radio and even on TV. Here are some highlights from just one of these interviews, wherein I had the privilege of speaking to John Hines of One America News.

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Holding them accountable.

Somewhere along the way, the U.S. bishops got this crazy notion in their heads that the billions of dollars they squirrel away belong to them — like it's their personal slush fund.

They have completely lost touch with the truth that they are simply custodians of all that worldly wealth — the administrators, the stewards, of it.

They don't get to spend it however they want, even though they do.

What we should say for clarity is they can and do spend it however they want, but not without incurring grave sin for which they will be held accountable at their personal judgments.

The money they have is given to them and accrues wealth for the world of the Church — the main mission, of course, being the salvation of souls. And yes, prudential judgments need to be made at various points on how best to utilize the great fortune they collectively control.

That said, what is never licit or moral is to use the money to cover up crimes, abuse victims, water down the Faith and so forth.

Yet this seems to be the focal point — the North Star, the guiding principle in determining how they spend money.

Likewise, while they are not required legally to do so, one would think they are under a moral obligation to give a usual-and-clear account to the people of God of how their money is being spent in service of the mission of the Church.

Don't hold your breath for that one.

For example, is there a normal, average, pew-sitting Catholic who has the slightest idea how many hundreds of millions of dollars have been paid to the bishops' attorneys and law firms trying to screw over sex abuse victims and keep them from receiving some measure of justice? No!

As the dollar figure bandied about approaches $5 billion in costs to the Church (let that sink in: $5 billion — that's with a B for billion dollars!) what percentage of that has gone to attorneys?

Does it strike anyone that there is something a little bit shady and a lot immoral about paying enormous sums to attorneys to help revictimize survivors and cover up the crimes of the clergy?

Why not take that $5 billion and simply admit the errors and evils and pay it to the victims instead of taking that same amount and giving a huge chunk of it to lawyers engaged in 'Operation Clerical Coverup'?

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The same is true when it comes to even larger sums of money they get from the State — federal, state, county and municipal governments — hundreds and hundreds of millions every year poring into the coffers of so-called Catholic Charities thanks to the political lobbying efforts of the USCCB and its multi-tentacled leviathan.

Once again, here too, the bishops feel no compulsion or moral obligation to give an account of how that money is spent.

So they take Catholics' money and use it to cover up their crimes. And they use Americans' money, and it destroys the republic by spending it on the agenda of the Marxist Democrats.

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Knowing the enemy is half the battle.

Today's Vortex features a July 10 talk Michael gave at a Lakes Area Tea Party event. It exposes the cunning and profoundly evil enemy of the State and the Church — Marxism.

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Further evidence the US bishops were complicit.

For more than a dozen years, Church Militant has been talking about, and producing loads of material on, the relationship between the U.S. bishops and the forces of Marxism operative in multiple institutions throughout the nation.

Back in the day, it still had a feel of historical or academic curiosity to it. But with the collapse of the Church and culture reaching epidemic proportions, there is today a much greater urgency to understand all this.

One glaring example was the complete and total throwdown the Catholic establishment had when it came to making sure Obama became President. Their tactics worked: 54% of U.S. Catholics cast their vote for that Marxist, America-last, child-killing you-know-what.

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They only pretend to represent the Church.

Michael Voris speaks outside the U.S. bishops' headquarters in Washington, D.C., about the USCCB and its facade of being a Catholic organization.

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Must be nice at the top.

A large — very large — percentage of Catholics have no idea the incredible wealth the nation's bishops have at their disposal, and we are talking billions of dollars.

If you were to look at the bishops collectively as a corporation, there's no doubt that would register in the Fortune 500. Inside the Church, they have amassed a multibillion-dollar slush fund, as Church Militant has reported on before, in a tidy little operation in Omaha, Nebraska, called "Catholic Mutual."

They require every diocese to pay regular premiums for almost anything they need in terms of insurance and so forth — auto insurance, health plans, everything. And as you might imagine, they are pretty skinflint about paying out. Estimates are that fund has billions upon billions in it because each diocese is not allowed to shop for cheaper rates, nor is any parish. They have a "captured market." Not bad if you can swing that.

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Why do they only support Democratic groups?

We've been highlighting the U.S. bishops' betrayal of foundational American values like the country's borders and freedom of speech, especially religious speech. There are two more we'd like to focus on and will be highlighting during next week's Deposit of Faith Coalition press conference in D.C. Those are the destruction of America's economic might as it relates to fossil fuels, and the second issue is the Second Amendment. Heck, if you gave the bishops enough time, they'd wipe out all ten amendments to the Bill of Rights.

In a democratic republic, people are "free" to work to undermine it. But in the case of the U.S. bishops and their fellow Marxist travelers, they are using tax dollars to do it. Billions of tax dollars over the past few years. Again, we've already highlighted the issue of borders and free speech.

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