INTRODUCTION

Part I of this document (1) hinged on a four minute YouTube video (2) presentation from August 2010, in which Mr. Michael Voris spelled out his objectives (and the objectives of those who back him): the imposition of a Catholic Kingdom on Earth, to be led by a "Holy King” and a "Holy Pope."

In this Part II we will extensively cover two more facets of Mr. Voris' agenda (and the agenda of his "handlers"): His Apocalyptic Vision and his Position on Jews and Judaism

[Note: Footnotes (1) and (2) may be found at the end of the document.]


Mr. Michael Voris' Apocalyptic Vision

• “It’s not beyond reason that eventually, sooner or later, Catholics in the West are going to have to start dying for the Faith. The hellish downward spiral that the West is currently in is simply irretrievable. It might be slowed here or there; it cannot be halted – not by human agency. The point of no return was passed with the acceptance of the sexual revolution by Catholics in the pews back in the Sixties – who next, after abandoning the Faith, then abandoned the pews.” (3:14-3:40)

• “The skids are being greased, my fellow Catholics, for the final capitulation to evil in the West. ... So what do we do about it? First, wake up and realize midnight is fast approaching. There is little time left.” (4:04-4:15)

• “The clock is running out. A great awakening is needed. We’ve lost the battle for this culture. We cannot lose the war for our souls.” (4:48-4:56)

• “We have to stop pretending that we as a Church are in some Second Pentecost or an emerging springtime. We most decidedly are not – not yet. ” (5:20-5:28)

• “Shine, my brother and sister Catholics; shine brightly. Our moment is fast approaching.” (6:39-6:45)

In a June 14, 2011 video titled “The End of America,” Voris predicted the doom of the US (and Western civilization as it now stands), stated that the Catholic Church is the only body that stands for truth, and predicted that faithful Catholics would rebuild civilization after the present order collapses.[3] He said:

• “The real war is a war over truth – a clash of orthodoxies, wherein one is totally committed to the reality of objective truth, and the other is totally committed to its eradication. ... No civilization can survive when it is at war over the fundamental reason for its own existence – and make no mistake, that is the battle currently being waged. And again, make no mistake, this battle always ends the same way – the forces of evil prevail, unless the one single access that humanity has to the truth steps up and does its job. Today, as and always, no other body except the Catholic Church declares to the world that there is objective truth rooted in the realm of the Divine, and man is obliged to follow that truth or is doomed to extinction. ” (2:42-3:42)

• “Once the rot set in, there is no turning back. The only question now is what does the Church do ... as the lights go out all over Western civilization.” (4:47-5:00)

• “An empire that murders its own children, whose population is self-absorbed and lusts after little else other than being entertained, whose economy is rushing headlong into unsustainable debt – this empire is on the short course to self-extinction. The faithful Catholics remaining – however few – need to be prepared to emerge from the rubble and once again, rebuild. We did it after Rome; we will do it again. But as in the days of Rome, there will be martyrs. No empire goes quietly into the night.” (5:07-5:39)

In “Time to Get Serious,” a video posted on his YouTube channel on January 5, 2012,[4] Voris reiterated his expectation of social collapse followed by a Catholic-led reconstruction:

• “We can get our marching orders as Catholics right from the Holy Father himself. On New Year’s Day, he said the following, ‘It seems as if a shadow has fallen over our time.’ He couldn’t be more correct.” (0:24-0:37)

• “The old world is collapsing. Major changes, huge transformations, are in the offing, and coming very soon. Some of them are already beginning. ... It’s now widely believed, for example, that the Euro will no longer exist come the spring, if not sooner. The fall and the crash of the Euro will have far-reaching and near-calamitous effects throughout the entire global economy, but most especially in the West.” (2:18-2:43)

• “A new world, a new way of people being in relationship to each other as a society is forming behind the scenes. The exact nature of this new world is not yet known, at least from us here on earth, but from all the early indications, it’s almost a certainty that whoever emerges to take the lead, so to speak, will not be happily disposed toward the Catholic Church. All societal markers right now point to a new world, or at least a transitional world, that will continue to isolate the Catholic Church and marginalize her, certainly in the culture at large and most likely in the implementation of laws, as well. Last year, the Holy Father compared the collapse of the Roman Empire to the transformation going on in our own time, as we pass from the old world to the new. His words, which linked the collapse of Rome to today’s Western civilization are, ‘The sun was setting over an entire world.’ It’s beyond dispute that the lights are going out all over the world in our own day as well. ” (2:47-3:46)

• “What does this mean for the Church? We know that she will survive until the end of time; our Blessed Lord has promised that. What we don’t know is what form that will take.... What this means is that Catholics must now concern themselves with one thing, and one thing only: the preservation of the Faith in the rapidly descending New Dark Ages.” (3:49-4:30)

• “What can emerge as the world falls apart is a new and more vibrant Church that today seems only like a fantasy, but in the end will come forth from the carnage to once again shape human destiny. ... In this war, there is no détente. You are either on the winning side or the losing side.” (4:53-5:22)

The RealCatholicTV.com mission statement makes it seem that the enterprise is speaking for, and with, the Church. They say, “The mission of RealCatholicTV.com is to promote the faith given to humanity by Jesus Christ, the Son of God, God and the Messiah. This faith is the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church led by the heir of Saint Peter, Pope Benedict XVI. RealCatholicTV.com aims to provide everyone with means to increase their personal holiness through catechesis and evangelization about the truth of the Christian faith. We aim to convert non-Catholics to the faith founded personally by Jesus Christ.”[5]



Mr. Michael Voris Position on Jews and Judaism

• Voris denounced prejudice against those of the Jewish race as anti-Semitism (0:48-0:59).

• He then distinguished between Jewish race and Jewish religion (1:06-1:17).

• Voris said that with the fall of the Jerusalem Temple in 70AD, “the Jewish faith ceased being what it had been” up until that time (1:23-1:31). He claimed that the major hallmarks of the Jewish religion until 70 AD “had been that they had a Temple, and offered sacrifice. The entire religion was focused on this one singular point” (1:33-1:46). He adds, “they also had a king and land, which helped them form into a religious nation.” (1:46-1:51) As a result of the Roman destruction of the Temple, “the Jews as the religion of the Covenant no longer existed. Gone was the Temple, Temple sacrifice, and the Jewish priesthood. These were the hallmarks, the essential, non-debatable aspects of being a religious Jew.” (1:51-2:07)

• Voris added, “What replaced it in history is what has come down to us today: Rabbinical Judaism. This is not the Judaism of the Covenant. It is a man-made religion.” (2:13-2:23)

• Instead, Voris says that “the promise of the Covenant is fulfilled in the Catholic Church. We are the continuation of Israel. There is an unbroken line from Abraham to us.” (2:50-3:01).

• He adds, “only a few former members of the Covenant stayed faithful. The vast majority rejected the Covenant, as is highlighted when their leaders scream out, ‘We have no king but Caesar.’ The Covenant was continued in a few Jews who remained faithful to it by recognizing the Messiah.” (3:26-3:41) Furthermore, “the Covenant was never abandoned by God; it was abandoned by the overwhelming number of people called to it” (3:47-3:52) when they failed to accept Jesus as the Messiah.

• These Jews, according to Voris, “started a man-made religion” (4:14-4:16). Voris concludes that “Rabbinical Judaism – today’s Jewish religion – is to authentic Judaism what Protestantism is to Catholicism. It looks a lot like it sometimes, but at its core, it’s very different.” (4:17-4:28).

CONCLUSION

Once again we say: Maybe the Jewish leadership (3) and the non-Catholic neoconservatives in the US should pay attention to this. These people - the followers of Escriva - are (4a) (4b) (4c), as the saying goes, "playing for keeps." Anyone who may think that Opus Dei is their trustworthy ally had better think twice. (5)






Published on February 4, 2012

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