Go out and be missionaries of... what exactly?

You can't strip Catholicism out of Catholicism and expect people to want it

Prior to this past Saturday, the Catholic media was all abuzz about the password-protected video that Charlotte bishop hireling Michael Martin OFM was going to unveil to the public during the weekend Masses. Being in the area this week, I myself was curious, and had plans to trek on over to the nearest parish church to see what was worthy of secrecy up until the last minute. Thankfully, the video was released online in the early afternoon so I did not have to endure sitting amidst casually-dressed, talkative boomers, who attend the Saturday Vigil Novus Ordo so they can sleep-in on Sunday - and yes, that’s why the majority of people who go to the Saturday Vigil go; I once encountered a bus-nun who told me she went to the Saturday Vigil so she could “keep Sunday open.”

Fulton J Sheen he is not.

Filmed in downtown Charlotte’s Jesuit Church (interesting because Martin is a Franciscan) the near ten minute video wasn’t the cluster bomb against the Faith that many of us were suspecting. There was an overall message that we love Jesus (true) and that we need to share Him with others. And it’s the later part of this two-part statement that’s concerning in the context of the re-defined church of Martin/Prevost/Bergoglio. I’ll get to that in a minute but keeping the focus on Martin’s video, he outlined three points to “his vision” for The Church without giving details about how to get there.

1. Form missionary disciples

2. Become a family of God

3. Go out to proclaim the Gospel

Form missionary disciples

Missionary disciples… the same catchy slogan is going on right now in my home archdiocese (Philadelphia). They’re also talking about it in Chicago, Detroit, Newark and the more I replace one diocese in my web search with another, the same result I see. A coordinated effort from the top? Um, yeah.

What’s up with this term? Didn’t Our Lord tell His Disciples to be just that before He ascended to Heaven? Isn’t that what the great saints did (i.e. Xavier, Jude, North American Martyrs)? And isn’t that what we’re supposed to do ourselves to our non-Catholic family, friends and enemies? The answer of course is yes. It is uncharitable to not be a missionary for the Faith. But, that does not mean doing nice things for others minus evangelizing the unfaithful. And, if we’re supposed to be following the directive of soon-to-be (fake) canonized Jorge Bergoglio, proselytizing is a grave, unforgivable sin - a direct contradiction of Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, Founder of the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church.

I guess we’ll find out in due course what exactly Martin, Perez, Cupich and company expect “missionary disciples” to do exactly but the whole thing reeks of a catchy slogan to justify their employment - at the expense of True Catholicism. Having the skills to be a Catholic missionary isn’t really all that difficult and requires no monetary investment: you just have to tell the Truth and not be concerned with the consequences. That can’t happen when you have a Church that is constantly changing the definition and content of Catholicism to please the world as we’ve been seeing since the Second Vatican Council.

Become a family of God

Really? By abusing your children? A bishop/archbishop is the father-figure of the faithful in his diocese/archdiocese. In the case of Charlotte, we have a father who has been sadistically abusive to his children who have the audacity to take the Traditional (aka. truthful and unchanging) Teachings of the Church seriously. Am I being harsh? I don’t think so. Just look at how he sadistically cancelled the Mass of Saints in the diocese and exiled those faithful to a place unworthy of the Holy Sacrifice. Just look at how he’s presented directive that attacks reverence to Our Lord in the reception of communion, in prayer and in overall reverence during the Novus Ordo Mass.

Go out to proclaim the Gospel

It’s one thing to go out and literally read from the Gospels to the public at large. But actions have to go hand-in-hand with our words.

Are we proclaiming the Gospel truth when we downplay the unbloodied Holy Sacrifice as a shared meal where we “come on down” like contestants on the Price is Right to receive Our Lord from lay people dressed like slobs who don’t necessarily believe that He’s physically present in that Host? What about telling newcomers to the Catholic Faith or those who are curious that kneeling - always a sign of respect in secular circumstances (i.e. greeting a monarch) - is not appropriate in a Catholic Church?

What about those soul-damning sins against the Sixth Commandment that our secular world celebrates? To my knowledge, Martin hasn’t invited the scandalous Rev. James Martin SJ into the diocese on his latest book tour, but a lot of his confreres in U.S. diocesan chanceries have. How can we proclaim the Gospel when one of the post Vatican II’s biggest celebrities is a Catholic priest who officially endorses sins that cry out to Heaven for vengeance?

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result

The sub-headline above’s original author is a mystery but whoever coined it had a moment of brilliance. When something new is tried and the results are a disaster, you change course immediately if you care to salvage what has suddenly been damaged. All across the United States in 2026, the conciliar Catholic Church bears no resemblance to the Church prior to 1969: Closed Churches. Demolished Churches. Empty convents and seminaries. Religious orders rapidly dead or dying out from a lack of vocations. And, last but not least, millions of “I was raised Catholic but am now non-practicing” lay people who are living lives of sin of which they are ignorant. Continual innovations within the Vatican II Church have done nothing but destroy.

That all started to change when Traditional Catholicism began to take hold and gain popularity. But, for reasons that can only be summed-up as demonic, the conciliar Church has decided to double-down on the worst of post Vatican II abusive innovations and suppress what has always worked… Traditional, unedited Catholicism.

Martin has made it clear that his vision for Catholicism is a throw-back to the 1970s and 80s where ugliness in architecture, art and most despicable, reverence abounded. Catholics back then didn’t want it, and neither did non-Catholics. Assuming that this new “missionary discipleship” and “sharing Jesus” is about sinning against Jorge Bergoglio and bringing in non-Catholics, it’s already a failed mission. Why???

The few mainline protestants left who actually go to worship (can’t say ‘go to church’ because there’s only one Church and its the Catholic Church) have their own “eucharist.” No, it’s not the Body and Blood of Christ but there’s been no emphasis of differentiation of the Catholic Eucharist from nu-Church over the years and no reason to believe Prevost and company have any interest in starting now. So why should elderly episcopalians, lutherans, methodists and presbyterians think twice about leaving their congregations for the local Novus Ordo Catholic Church if they’re going to be ignorant of the Real Presence and why the Catholic Church is the only Church? Exactly, they aren’t. They already have their social justice anyway and their music by comparison is embarrassingly better than Novus Ordo garbage like “Gather Us In.”

Evangelical and fundamentalist Christians have never liked the Catholic Church. All of The Church’s much-publicized boy sex scandals have done nothing to convince them otherwise and as long as there are James Martins speaking for The Church, they will continue to want nothing to do with the Catholic Church. The same argument can be applied to Orthodox Christians.

I posted earlier this week a very offensive social media post that Archbishop Perez of Philadelphia posted to the muslim community, wishing them a happy ramadan. He’s done the same thing for jews on their holidays. O.K… so if he and his confreres in diocesan chanceries are going to acknowledge and give respect to their false religions, why should they listen to a bunch of lay people missionaries tell them the truth about the Catholic Church?

Historically, prior to the Second Vatican Council, the Catholic Faith spread throughout the world, overcoming near-impossible obstacles. Thousands of saints were martyred in the most evil of places by simply telling the truth about Our Lord and His Holy Catholic Church. The Church did not spread by telling lies about the Faith or watering down the Faith so as not to offend violent pagans. If today’s conciliar shepherds of Faith are really serious about missionary work, they’re setting themselves up for failure with the current model.

Conclusion

I don’t want to end on a glum note. This is the eve of Lent and a time of serious reflection both personally and on the state of Holy Mother Church. Our Lord made it very clear to St. Peter when He established The Church that the gates of hell would not prevail and He meant it.

We ARE called to be missionary disciples but the catch is we have to mean it. Some of us have the talent to literally go out there and be like St. Francis Xavier was. Others however are called to be more subtle: perhaps wearing the Miraculous Medal so exposed that it draws attention and a sincere inquiry from a non-believer. Never underestimate what God can do, through YOU. Please just never not tell the Truth about Church Teachings - even if it means you are martyred for the Faith.

Wishing you all a Blessed Lent. Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us. Our Lady help of Christians, pray for us.