> As a reminder, please join us in our [daily morning Rosary Novena](https://2020nationalnovena.com/optin1598968688164). > Please consider [Church Militant Evening News](https://www.churchmilitant.com/video/archive/evening-news) for daily hard-hitting news and analysis through an authentic Catholic lens, covering the latest developments in the Church, across the nation and around the world. > *[Church Militant](https://www.churchmilitantaction.org/) (a 501(c)4 corporation) is responsible for the content of this commentary.* If you also seek the truth, then please consider joining Church Militant today by supporting our work. Sign up for a [Church Militant Premium account](https://www.churchmilitant.com/gopremium) or simply [make a donation](https://www.churchmilitant.com/donate). And now, let's begin with today's Vortex... >> **Long past the time for this.** >> The transformation to both the world and the Church in just the last year has been astonishing. We hear the stupid "woke" term non-stop in the secular world, which means that you're enlightened; you've awakened to all the rot in the world owing to conservatives and whites. >> This "enlightenment" then transforms into an excuse to burn down and destroy everything that supposedly contributed to the past society, the bastion of white-privileged racism. All of it, however, is nothing more than an excuse to get at [fundamental Christian truths.](https://www.churchmilitant.com/catholicism) >> Since it was Catholicism that built Western civilization — and since Western civilization is so bad (and you realize this once you get woke) — then Catholicism itself is bad, and it must be destroyed. This is the reality behind all "wokeness." Primary Video source and transcript continues here: https://www.churchmilitant.com/video/episode/vortex-catholic-and-woke