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\"\"A scene from\u00a0The Apocalypse Tapestry<\/em>\u00a0in Angers, France. It is the longest wall-hanging in Europe. It was once 140 meters long until it was vandalized
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When I was a news reporter in the 1990’s, the kind of blatant bias and editorializing that we see today from mainstream “news” reporters and anchors was taboo. It still is\u2014for newsrooms with integrity. Sadly, many media outlets have become nothing short of propaganda mouthpieces for a diabolical agenda set in motion decades, if not centuries ago. Even sadder is how gullible people have become. A quick perusal of social media reveals how easily millions of people buy into the lies and distortions that are presented to them as “news” and “facts.” Three Scriptures come to mind:
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The beast was given a mouth uttering proud boasts and blasphemies… (Revelation 13:5) <\/span><\/p>\n

For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine but, following their own desires and insatiable curiosity, will accumulate teachers and will stop listening to the truth and will be diverted to myths. (2 Timothy 4:3-4)<\/span><\/p>\n

Therefore God sends upon them a strong delusion, to make them believe what is false, so that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness. (2 Thessalonians 2:11-12)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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IF <\/strong>you stand close enough to a tapestry, all you will\u00a0see is a portion of the “story”, and you can lose the context. Stand back, and the whole picture comes into view. So it is\u00a0with\u00a0the events unfolding in America, the Vatican, and all over the world which, at first glance, may not appear connected. But they are. If you\u00a0press your face up against current events without understanding them in the larger context of, really, the past two thousand years, you\u00a0lose the “story.” Fortunately, St. John Paul II\u00a0reminded us to take a step back…<\/p>\n

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We are now standing in the face of the greatest historical confrontation humanity has gone through\u2026 We are now facing the final confrontation between the Church and the anti-Church, of the Gospel and the anti-Gospel, of Christ and the anti-christ. This confrontation lies within the plans of divine providence. It is a trial which the whole Church\u2026 must take up\u2026 a test of 2,000 years of culture and Christian civilization, with all of its consequences for human dignity, individual rights, human rights and the rights of nations. <\/span><\/strong>\u2014Cardinal Karol Wojtyla (JOHN PAUL II), from a 1976 speech to the American Bishops in Philadelphia<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

When he became Pope, he elaborated on what this “greatest historical confrontation” consists of:<\/p>\n

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With tragic consequences, a long historical process is reaching a turning-point. The process which once led to discovering the idea of \u201chuman rights\u201d\u2014rights inherent in every person and prior to any Constitution and State legislation\u2014is today marked by a surprising contradiction\u2026 the very right to life is being denied or trampled upon\u2026 This is the sinister result of a relativism which reigns unopposed: the \u201cright\u201d ceases to be such, because it is no longer firmly founded on the inviolable dignity of the person, but is made subject to the will of the stronger part. In this way democracy, contradicting its own principles, effectively moves towards a form of totalitarianism.<\/span><\/strong> \u2014POPE JOHN PAUL II, Evangelium Vitae<\/em>, \u201cThe Gospel of Life\u201d, n. 18, 20<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I have explained elsewhere how, with the birth of the so-called “Enlightenment” period, philosophers and intellects, deceived and deceivers, began to separate themselves from the “mythos” of faith, and\u00a0create an alternate world view that restricted itself to the material, to science, and reason alone. As we know\u00a0from the warnings of several popes, this was driven largely by the self-described “illuminated”\u2014those “secret societies” such as the Freemasons, whose goal has been to undermine and overthrow the entire order of things, particularly through the ideas behind Communism. [1]<\/sup><\/a>cf. Mystery Babylon<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/span>