The great problem with the Church today: a loss of trust in its leadership - people don't trust their bishops - bishops don't trust Christ. https://t.co/L1ENd7AXok November 10, 2017

have simply grown to not trust the bishops when it comes to promotion of the authentic Catholic faith.

the actual problem

They simply don't trust the priests who are allowed by the bishop to continue in their ministry.

the silence in the face of heresies, dissent, horrible catechesis, bowing to false ecumenism

the approval of all things gay and gay clergy, the anti-Catholic preaching that happens regularly at Catholic parishes, the promotion of a massively worldly agenda dressed up in spiritual rags — climate change, immigration, death penalty, community organizing, social justice warrior "collections,"

committed Catholics no longer trust the hierarchy.

never topics like the evil of contraception or the plan to make sure that men who are same-sex attracted are not being accepted into seminaries, nor is there any national push for authentic Catholic catechism — a protestantized Alpha program is promoted as the new savior of Catholic education.

this is treason on the part of many bishops and begins to raise questions about not just the actual question about trusting the bishops but seriously considering if they actually still believe everything the Church teaches.

Here's the video:





Yesterday's Vortex was particularly excellent I thought, one of those episodes which speak directly to so much that seems so obvious about being an active Catholic today. People are utterly dismayed with the lack of Catholic in the Catholic Church. This comment probably sums it all up:Do you want to be Catholic with Max? If so, good luck with that. It's not an easy thing to do in the Catholic Church today. In fact, it can get you into quite a bit of trouble!I have spent the last year or so trying to work in service to the Church, but despite a strikingly successful track record in business and management and a degree in Catholic theology (or perhaps BECAUSE of these things) I have found myself rejected at every stage (even being appointed to a senior position in Westminster Cathedral, only to be told Cardinal Nichols wanted the appointment withdrawn a day or so before I was to start). A number of clergy have forwarded and backed me for numerous positions within the Church, but they have never been the ones "pulling the strings" as it were.This is not a new experience for me. I was sacked as a school governor at the end of my four year term as part of a openly political attempt to move the school in a more secular direction. This was because I exposed corruption and told the truth about the lack of integrity in the system and the lack of catholicity in the school when what was wanted was someone who did what they were told and didn't make a fuss. I documented it, reported it, provided evidence of it, but despite assurances that action would be taken, nothing happened. No one wants to rock the boat you see. In the Church, we are only ever reactive, never proactive it seems.In my younger days, I found myself similarly stung and rejected by the human institution of the Church. You see, those who seek power and office in the modern Catholic Church only like a certain kind of Catholic, a Catholic who does what they are told, believes everything they say, who does not have a passion or an opinion or a desire to uphold the truth of the faith. If you don't fit the mould, you are simply rejected. It always seems that some are just too Catholic! Like Nick Donnelly , or a friend who was recently turned down after going forward for the diaconate because he was "too black and white".The role for many of these clergy is about their importance and rarely about service or improving the lot of the faithful. They tend to be mediocre and have chosen the Church as a way out of the cut and thrust of secular life: an easier route to dominate and be in charge. Gaining power in the Church (clearly there are notable exceptions) is about oozing and never being clear or direct. Of course we see this in politics on a grander scale and it seems to prove the old epithet 'Power corrupts', but it is still so upsetting to encounter in the Church.It is important to remember these jobs are not easy, but seriously guys, we can see who is sincere and who is a power hungry narcissist, it's not hard! A priest friend once told me it is very easy to be so busy as a priest that it may be the death of you, but it is equally easy to be very, very lazy.Most plainly, it manifests like this: if you are a priest who believes the faith and cares about saving souls, you approach someone who disagrees with you and you try to help them if they are sincere about their faith. You guide them in their decisions, if they are wrong about an issue, you help them, in love to find the truth. My experience of many is that they loath any kind of honest confrontation and are unable to defend their modernism and heresy in the light of actual Catholic teaching.I know many good, faithful priests and a few bishops, but the vast majority I have met are modernists in slow motion, incrementally changing what the Church teaches and capitulating the truth to modern secularism.After forty-odd years of this I have found my feet and know good clergy and support them. I abandon the ones who lie and mislead the faithful. They do far more harm than good. Some are ticking time bombs in the Church I fear, while no one has the courage to actually do anything about them.All this amounts to an episcopacy whose moral authority has been so eroded by lack of teaching and scandal that they are scared to speak on anything except safe, leftist platitudes, e.g.and in a self-fulfilling sort of way, this results in a loss of trust:All of this as well as my own experiences are summed up very well by Michael Voris in this Vortex . Voris puts it this way (with some underlining & comments from me):[And when a courageous bishop does stand up and do his job , a la Bishop O'Donoghue, former Bishop of Lancaster, his brother bishops throw him to the wolves [and here in England, Bishops push anti-catholic social-engineering programmes on our children , authored by anti-catholic, homosexualist lobby groups, and wonder why we are losing trust, and patience!][this is also happening here in the UK with the FSSP & ICKSP both building schools and Catholics from all over the country considering relocating and financially supporting the project][This is it - more and more Catholics are waking up, and simply walking away from bishops who do not teach or hold the faith.]