When someone announces himself as a Catholic Church Militant claiming to embody the one True Church, you gotta think something - probably the person’s brains - are seriously scrambled.  Who could make such a claim for The Church led by the Pope?  

Michael Voris that’s who.   Purporting to represent the Real Church as opposed to the Phony Church overseen by Pope Francis, this Mr. Voris inhabits a strange crusading fantasy land.  

How bizarre are his views?   Lets start with that fact they are couched in trumped up church triumphant trappings I call “Faux Middleages”.  Ominous, ponderous, leaden, pretentious layered over untruthful, spindly, heretical and sulfurous.    He hasn’t missed 50 years of Church history.  More like 500.

Here’s what the dude embracing the cutting edge is in to:

Blasting the "Gay Mafia" running the Church, humping for his followers to "Talk Like a Man, Not a Sissy", excoriating "The New Pope & Homoheresy", denouncing "Homosexuals and the Conclave", condemning "Gays in the Clergy" and baiting "Father Gay".  Say what?  Got a problem, buddy?

When he’s done trashing gays he moves on to the “Alinskyites”.

In this and so much else he’s right there with Stephanie Block on a battlefield they've conjured out of thin air. 

Saul Alinsky has accomplished the most difficult of all challenges to organizers -   agitating from beyond the grave.  His success in this regard has been advanced in part by the sheer volume of stupid things said about him.  

Alinskynow.com has been monitoring this torrent of lathered blather for several months as it continues unabated.  The most extensive diatribe by far, a full four volumes by someone named Stephanie Block, represents twenty years of hands on research into the nefarious concepts, projects, pronouncements and networks that flow from Alinsky through the shape shifting, amoebic Alinskyites.    

Her work is an awful strain on the reader’s patience.  To describe it as boring is far too gentle.  Mind numbing is more like it.  

While paranoid world-views are generally entertaining in some fashion, Block proves the opposite is possible.  In fact it’s entirely plausible that the author of Alinsky Now is the book’s only reader through to the end.  If you want four volumes occupying over 800 pages that no one else has read, have a go at Block’s Change Agents, Alinskyian Organizing Among Religious Bodies.  (See Amazon review.)

Most of the rest of the material about Alinsky floating downstream is like Block’s stuff except more compact – much more compact.  The finale is always something like “…and he dedicated one of his books to Lucifer – The Devil.”  This last is always offered as breathless, novel revelation. 

Because most readers of messages from Blockville apparently don’t have a clue who Lucifer was the bloggers generally feel called upon to clarify his nature.  In Blockville nuance is not highly valued.  After all, no one likes The Devil although he at least is reported to have a sense of humor.