An open letter to Michael Voris

Michael and the never ending battle

Dear Michael Voris,

I'm here to help you out in what seems to be a dilemma for you. I have the answer to Church Militant's problem. Whether or not you'll listen is up to you.

A) Recognize the problem

Church Militant's problem is that it's fighting a losing battle. You're constantly playing ecclesial Whac-A-Mole. No sooner does Church Militant whack down one priest, bishop or cardinal for sodomy, stealing or some other equally nefarious thing, than another worse problem jumps up and you then have to whack that problem down. It's never ending and will never be controlled. It's impossible because you're fighting against the Modernism that Vatican II placed within Christ's Church. It's everywhere in every crook and corner of every diocese in every parish in the entire world.

In The Orlando Truth I once wrote a spoof piece on the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest. (Remember "It was a dark and stormy night"?) The contest asks entrants to compose the worst possible opening sentence to a novel by using bad prose with long strings of adjectives. 

In my article I suggested a new category - "Religion" - and wrote my entry: Heresy hung over the diocese like a dank dark cloud of doom dripping its poison to form one giant river of Modernism that flowed unimpeded through the diocese with tributary streams to the parishes, trickling down to the soul of each and every man, woman, and child, therefore despite the flood of new diocesan programs and policies, the loss of faith soared.

You're battling against that, Michael. Lately you've looked around and thought of new ways to help the Church. Recently you must have cast your gaze over parishes and their aging parishioners and wondered where all the young people are. Where are they? Where are young families? Where are the MEN? Where are all the good solid priests?

In order to fix the problem and bring youth back into parishes in hopes that possibly a few of them will become priests, Church Militant will have and train, as you and Christine age, a staff of young people - Joe, Nadia, James and Hunter. You've made each of them a "Producer" on your staff. You think that they'll be examples for young people to see how cool or whatever it is to be Catholic then they'll want to come back to the Church or at least not leave in droves because of all the boring or silly Novus Ordo Masses emptied of meaning.

B) Someone solved this problem for the Church before you did

Once upon a time not too long ago there was a kindly archbishop whose backbone was solid steel. He had spent the early part of his priestly life far away from the madding crowd, traveling by canoe skimming along on the rivers of Africa, walking through jungles from post to post, parish to parish. He built churches and schools, hospitals and seminaries across French Africa. He was much loved by the African people.

After being elevated to Apostolic Delegate to French Africa (among many other honors) he was called back to Europe by the pope to participate in Vatican II. After a few decades in Africa, he was less than happy with the progressive thought roiling through the minds of worldly bishops and cardinals and foresaw the future results of Vatican II....the results that you, Michael, are now fighting against.

We all know the rest of the story and how the Society of St Pius X was born (they are not in schism). Thank God for Archbishop Lefebvre who will one day be declared a saint for preserving what was handed down in the Church from age to age - Tradition....where there are no priests "blessing" parishioners with a giant guitar held upside down and high up like a monstrance. That Novus Ordo priest "blessed" the 15 or so people who hadn't already fled the parish for the nearby big evangelical church filled with ex-Catholics. How horrible are the innovations of Vatican II. So vile. Disgusting. But as long as the diocesan bishop says nothing, anything goes.

Here's what you need to think about, Michael: the young people are all at the SSPX (the SSPX is not in schism). Young families are at the SSPX (they aren't in schism). Real MEN are at the SSPX (the SSPX is not in schism). SSPX seminaries (they're not in schism) are FULL to capacity with young men. Remember Michael Rose's book Goodbye, Good Men? While diocesan bishops continue to accept sodomites and intellectually weak dough boy type seminarians into their seminaries, the SSPX (not in schism) says, Hello, Good Men! because young men with true callings to the priesthood - true vocations - are entering SSPX seminaries in droves. Overflowing.

C) Michael, I have to say it - "Do as I did"

Although no one paid me to write anything or bought me a publishing company, I was just like you however on a far lesser level. For a decade I fought against the Diocese of Orlando, the chancery sodomites, priests saying that abortion and sodomy are Catholic teaching and all the rest of the vast array of demented heresies the latest new VII priest or nun bellowed out.. 

I caught the diocese red-handed in the hiring of a priest secretly moved from Albany to Orlando. No one here knew he was a priest, not even the Orlando priests. He was hired as the Diocesan Director of Youth and Young Adults. We then caught a pastor of a large parish with a school going to an out-of-state nude gay resort with his priest lover from Asheville. Nothing happened. He's still here. The diocese never listened. They cared for nothing but furthering the Modernist agenda. They cared nothing for the teaching of Christ. So I quit. I thought, "Fine. Let them all go seek Satan since that's what they want. I can at least tell God that I tried." 

Along the way people would suggest I go to the SSPX (not in schism) but I refused - just like you. I believed the lies told about Archbishop Lefebvre and the SSPX (they're not in schism), including the ones you and Church Militant told. I was a Novus Ordo girl and was going to remain that way, thinking - because I'm a convert and what did I know - that that was what God had wanted for the Church with the Council. (I converted 38 years ago and am a repentant sinner just like you.)

A year ago Mary Ann visited me here in Florida. She wanted to go to the SSPX - St Thomas More in Sanford - so I went with her. I stepped inside and was astonished. There, in all its beauty and glory, was what I had converted for all those years ago. In an instant I saw. In an instant I was free. I am so done with the Novus Ordo and will never go back. Now I have a lot of catching up to do.

It took 37 years looking and wondering what the hell had happened to the Catholic Church, trying to make it all good again. Make things right. Make people behave. It can't be done, Michael. So forget the Opus Dei money. Forget the VII Novus Ordo Church and let Our Lord sort it out. Let Him make His Church whole again. Meanwhile, the SSPX is the real deal - the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and two thousand years of Catholic teaching, Tradition, beauty and glory. The Church is still there, and will be until the end of time. Go there and be happy.