When Calvin Robinson and I crossed paths on X a few days ago, our exchange exemplified the frustration many Trump-questioners are having with the Trump cheerleaders. Try to explain your concern that Trump is bringing about a repackaged Great Reset and you receive the same kind of disbelief or even disrespect formerly reserved for those trying to question the mRNA injection.
Fr. Robinson (or is it Mr. Robinson?) posted about the ‘Catholics for Catholics’ event held at Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s luxury country club, which was ostensibly to gather prominent Catholics to offer prayers for America, including for the President’s conversion. The idea was objectively a good one, but the optics and the execution left much to be desired.
According to Robinson, this is an effective method of ‘evangelising and discipling’ Trump. Bear in mind that tickets for this black tie cost $1200-$1500 USD!
Regardless of what anyone thinks about the effectiveness or otherwise of such a strategy, there were a couple of highly unsavoury characters involved. Mike Flynn and Roger Stone, who are also part of the planning committee, gave addresses on the night yet their backgrounds make their involvement extremely problematic.
Mike Flynn
General Mike Flynn was National Security Advisor to Donald Trump during his first term. He is now a Senior Advisor for the group ‘Catholics for Catholics’. However, Flynn’s Catholic credentials are highly questionable, as shown by his behaviour in both the moral and spiritual realms.
Firstly, his moral failings are quite evident. Although there is much mis and disinformation surround Trump’s Russian collusion controversy, it is a matter of fact that Flynn twice pleaded guilty in US federal district courts to lying to the FBI. Not a great look for a Catholic no matter how you spin it.
Then, in late 2024, Flynn responded to a question about the possibility of executions of political rivals under the next Trump administration by laughing and saying that “The gates of hell — my hell — will be unleashed.” Whether meant literally or not, those are unsettling words.
But it gets worse.
In 2021, Mike Flynn prayed at a Kenneth Copeland prayer meeting – Copeland is a Protestant televangelist with a huge international following. Flynn’s prayer, although it contained elements of Catholic terminology, was not a Catholic prayer. It had more in common with the prayers of theosophists, particularly Alice Bailey’s Great Invocation, which according to a former occultist, is meant “to call the power of the Hierarchy of Mahatmas, Angels, and other cosmic forces into action to further the evolution of mankind as well as save it from self-destruction.”
One American cult that had it roots in theosophy was the I AM movement. I AM was part of the ‘name it – claim it’ groups that popularised the idea that Christians weren’t meant to suffer and could make good things happen simply by telling God what they wanted. This is not any different from the New Age ‘manifesting’ spells which have become so common these days.
I AM proponents “believed in an Ascended Master called The Great Divine Director”. The head of the cult was a woman known as Elizabeth Clare Prophet, who often recited her own version of the Great Invocation and it is this version that Flynn prayed, almost verbatim at the Copeland event.
Below is a video which compares Flynn’s prayer to that of Prophet.
In the video to the right, you can find a snippet from an interview where Flynn says he carries the occult prayer around in his pocket – yet, he makes it sound as though this is the Catholic prayer to St. Michael the Archangel – in his words, it’s a “rendition of that prayer.” (To learn about the false St. Michael of the occult, click here.)
This is patently untrue yet Flynn received more backlash from Protestants than from mainstream conservative Catholics.
The second video shows how concerned many Christians were about Flynn’s demonic prayer.
Is this really the kind of Catholic who should be invited to a ‘prayers for America’ event?
Roger Stone
Roger Stone is another speaker whose presence should be a source of embarrassment to the attendees of the Catholics for Catholics event. Stone has been an outspoken advocate for LGBTI rights for decades.
This 2017 article, written by a gay republican, explains how Stone was one of the first members of the Advisory Council of GOProud, an advocacy group for gay Republicans. The author, who was the founder of GOProud, also mentioned Trump’s longtime support for the gay community and claims that Stone was behind a push for former Presidential candidate, Gary Johnson, to support same-sex ‘marriage.’
The article also states that Stone told an LGBTI activist that he was “trysexual,” by which he meant that he had “tried everything.”
Back in 2010, Stone attended a Pride parade in New York, when campaigning for a candidate for governor who was a prostitutes’ ‘madam’, Kristin Davis. Davis, also known as “Manhattan Madam” had once supplied prostitutes to disgraced former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer.
Well, someone must have twigged that Stone’s past would not help the Catholic cause at Mar-a-Lago: pictures of Stone taken at the Pride parade have recently been scrubbed from the Internet. A few weeks ago, they were circulating on social media, shared by outraged former-Trumpers.
One was quite disgusting, with Stone being licked by the “Manhattan Madam” who, from memory, was dressed very scantily. When I tried to find the picture for this article, the image at left is all the best I could do. It has been removed from every news article related to the incident! Even the image I saved on X has disappeared along with the post.
No Presidency Without the Catholic Vote
After the ‘Catholics for Catholics’ event, Stone made a comment which confirmed just how crucial it was to get Catholics on board with Trump’s second presidential run. He explained in an interview with Newsmax why it is that there has been such an effort to endear Trump to Catholics.
He said, “It has actually been the fundamental basis of every Republican victory at the presidential level for the last 50 years. When we lose the Catholic vote, we lose the White House.”
The hubris of Trump receiving a scapular, Trump tweeting special messages on Catholic feast days, Melania photographed near a statue of Our Lady – it all makes sense given how necessary Catholics were to his success. All it took was a little marketing tailored specifically for conservative Catholics to make them forget that Trump removed protections for the unborn and for traditional marriage from the Republican platform and that he is, still proudly, the “Father of the Vaccine.”
And it is worth remembering the silence of most Catholic commentators on Trump’s more recent, very alarming acts: promoting arch-technocrat Larry Ellison and his mRNA cancer vaccines, threatening to annex Canada and Greenland, supporting Netanyahu’s genocide in Gaza, making American taxpayers fund IVF and much more.
One final point of note is that both Roger Stone and Mike Flynn have been suspected of being the identities behind the Q-Anon phenomenon. Both men certainly know a lot about Trump and a lot about marketing. Whether or not it is true, these men are far from conservative Catholics and should absolutely no involvement with anything marketed to Catholics.
Their presence was a disgrace and only adds to the unsavoury air surrounding everything Mar-a-Lago. Don’t forget, it’s only a few weeks since a fundraising auction at Mar-a-Lago included a hideous goat statue which was covered in fake $100 bills featuring Trump’s image and the blasphemous words, “In Trump We Trust”. Some may argue that this fundraiser was nothing to do with Trump himself, but given that he autographed the statue, that position is hard to justify.
So, pray for Trump, by all means. He and his administration certainly need it. His Catholic supporters just need to think twice about how and where that is done and to do some homework about the shady agendas of some of their so-called fellow ‘Catholics’.
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