Over at
Church Militant today, Michael Voris put out a Vortex show entitled “HUNDRED
YEARS’ WAR: Things get worse before they
get better. Really?” speaking to the need for Catholics to “fight” against the fall of the world
and not being “Pollyanna's”.
Voris makes the assumption that Catholics aren’t truly fighting against
the corruption in our Church and our nation/government because so many believe
that “things will get a lot worse before
they get better”.
He says, “No one could
have thought, even one generation ago, that any of the current conditions
would be so prevalent, yet here we are. All of this, of course, suggests that
things will get worse. On that score, we often hear the expression "Things
will get a lot worse before they get better." The first part of that is
certainly true, but the back half, "before they get
better," has in there an assumption not rooted in anything realistic.
Who says things will
"get better" or that there is some magical trajectory that
things always improve? Most of humanity is damned. It certainly doesn't apply
in the spiritual war, so why would anyone think it applies in the natural
order of events? It's a Pollyanna reading of historical events. Left to their
own natural arrangement, things get worse, not better.”
I take offense at his statement, “not
rooted in anything realistic”, as if Catholics aren’t doing anything at
all. We are just dead things floating along with the current. We aren’t dead
and very many of us are certainly not going with the current.
Mr. Voris continues by saying, “Middle school students can learn about
masturbation to pornography, get their biological sex characteristics cut
off and even kill their children, all without their parents'
knowledge, much less, consent. It took a century to get here and now, with
all the momentum, it is only going to get worse.
Where is
the organized counterattack? Where is the Catholic military response to this
aggression? Your country, your land, has not been infiltrated. It's been invaded and
is now occupied, and too many think clicking a petition or reposting some
clever satire on Twitter is sufficient.
They
want you to think that. It makes you feel secure, lulls you into a
false sense of security, makes you feel like you are in the fight
— but you're not (not in any meaningful way, that is). It's like
voting Republican; sure, why not? But don't expect anything on that score,
except a minor win here or there.”
I’ve got two thoughts on this, first Freemason’s founded the United
States of America and perhaps it is doomed to fail because of that. Should the
Freemason’s American experiment fail, what might rise up in its place?
Something I occasionally contemplate.
Now no offense intended to Mr. Voris, but here’s something the single, never married,
never a parent didn’t address.
My second thought, Catholic parenting. That is the ONLY “counter attack”
that will create the army needed on this earth to fight this war.
Catholic parents, most of us I would think, know what our Lady said at
Fatima, “The final battle between the Lord and the kingdom of Satan will be about
Marriage and the Family. Don't be afraid…because whoever works for the sanctity
of Marriage and the Family will always be fought against and opposed in every
way, because this is the decisive issue.”
We are here now. We are in the “final battle” our Lady warned us of. What
the world needs are Catholic families raising decent, well taught and informed
Catholic children. Homeschooling them or sending them to proven good Catholic
schools and raising them in the Faith is how we fight against everything wrong
in the world.
We convert nations beginning with raising devout Catholic children who
will grow up to be priests, religious, and/or devout Catholic parents
themselves raising the next generation after us. The first commandment God gave to Adam and Eve (besides not touching the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge) was to procreate! We are called to raise children! The battle has always been about the family.
Voris continues, “You need a fighting force before you can deploy it.
Right now, the "force" resembles little else than a ragtag,
confused gathering of a few people aimlessly wandering about, dazed and
confused and clicking on things at their keyboards.
An army, a
military, a militia — rooted in Catholic truth, trained and equipped
for battle — needs to be built up. Part of all that includes knowledge of
the past. How did we get here, who were the players, what did
they espouse and so forth? This is a major reason we are asking for your
support here at the end of the year, to keep Church Militant as the tip of
the spear in this effort.”
He doesn’t see-or simply fails to mention, that it’s the Catholic fathers
and mothers raising children that create the “fighting force”. Too many
Catholics in my opinion are looking OUTSIDE of their family. As if the fix is
simply donating to this or that organization. Sure support good organizations
that you trust are making a difference, but focus first on your family. Your
children are the next generation-how are you preparing them to live, thrive and
survive what’s coming next?
We must all raise our children to the best of our abilities. I’m not naïve
in thinking all our children will
remain in the Faith. Sadly, we know this isn’t the case in society today- we’ve
seen it in our own families. Yet this is our fight. Catholic parents must
battle to keep our families intact and never give up on a wayward adult child
(or any family member) that wonders away from the Faith. Pray and have faith
like Saint Monica.
Mr. Voris ends by asking for a donation so Church Militant can continue
their fight.
“Please
contribute whatever you can to our continuing efforts here at this
apostolate, to lay the groundwork for the counterattack. It must come
— or give up any hope of things "getting better" after
they get worse. Without a fight, they only get worse after they get worse.”
Maybe I have tunnel vision, but all I’m hearing in my head & heart
right now are the words of Our Lady of Fatima: “The
final battle between the Lord and the kingdom of Satan will be about Marriage
and the Family. Don't be afraid…because whoever works for the sanctity of
Marriage and the Family will always be fought against and opposed in every way,
because this is the decisive issue.”
There’s another huge problem in the United States with parenting children
that needs to be addressed. I’d like to see more Catholic outlets (including
Church Militant) talk about this. Parentless children.
If you don’t have children have you considered adopting or fostering a
child? Think of a parentless child in our nation today…they often know nothing
of God. They’ve been abandoned, or orphaned and have no one to love them, guide them, prepare them or raise them up in the Faith that will save them and our
society from falling further.
According to the United States Census Bureau, homosexuals are adopting and
fostering more children than heterosexual people. My heart breaks for these children.
From the
ACLA Williams Institute (2013):
Adopted children
Same-sex couples raising children are four times more likely than
their different-sex counterparts to be raising an adopted child. Among
couples with children under age 18 in the home, 13% of same-sex couples have an
adopted child compared to just 3% of different-sex couples. More than 16,000
same-sex couples are raising an estimated 22,000 adopted children in the US
(see Figure 4).
Among all children under age 18
being raised by same-sex couples, approximately one in ten (10%) are adopted,
compared to just 2% of children being raised by different-sex couples. In
total, 1.4% of all adopted children under age 18 living in households with
same-sex or different-sex couples live in a same-sex couple household.
Parenting of foster and other children
Same-sex couples are six times more likely than their different-sex
counterparts to be raising foster children. Among couples with children
under age 18, 2% of same-sex couples are raising a foster child compared to
just 0.3% of different-sex couples. Approximately 2,600 same-sex couples are
raising an estimated 3,400 foster children in the US. In total, 1.7% of foster
children living with same-sex or different-sex couples are being raised by
same-sex couples.”
[Source: https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications/lgbt-parenting-us/#:~:text=More%20than%2016%2C000%20same%2Dsex,raised%20by%20different%2Dsex%20couples
]
From the
United States Census Bureau 2020:
Who Is More Likely to
Adopt?
Overall,
same-sex couples were more likely (3.1%) than opposite-sex couples (1.1%) to
adopt a child. In fact, 20.9% of same-sex couples with children had
adopted children; the same was true for 2.9% of opposite-sex couples with
children.
Same-sex
couples were also more likely (0.5%) than opposite-sex couples (0.2%) to foster
children.
[Source: https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2020/09/fifteen-percent-of-same-sex-couples-have-children-in-their-household.html
]
Have we Catholics forgotten about these children in need? I hope not.
What would our nation...our world look like if Catholics worked harder to adopt and foster ALL the abandoned children we could?
Something to think about…
In Christ,
Julie
Church
Militant Vortex link: https://www.churchmilitant.com/video/episode/vort-hundred-years-war