> *[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). Feel free to [contact Church Militant](https://www.churchmilitant.com/contact) with your questions, comments, or concerns, at anytime. And now, let's begin with today's Vortex... > > **Ridiculous.** > > One of the biggest lies in the Catholic Church today is really a philosophical one. From this errant philosophy, all manner of evil springs up. > > It is the idea that Church must conform to *me*, that the Church is a good and noble thing, but must possess a certain malleability so that *I* can live or express the Faith the way that is best suited to *me*. That is a lie. And what's worse, it is what we could call a "root lie," meaning it is such a foundational lie that many errors will spring from it. > > This lie is presented very smoothly — almost sophisticated. It has slogans surrounding it to dress it up, so to speak; slogans that are deliberately worded in such a way that they can be interpreted in different ways. > > "It's my Church," for example. On the one hand, that's true if you mean to say, "This is the Church to which I belong, believe, accept and live according to." In that case, the phrase or slogan refers to association. > > However, the same words, "it's my Church," can just as easily mean I *own* the Church — it belongs to me and, therefore, I can deal with the Church in a manner most befitting me. Here, we drift from an association with the Church to a possession of the Church. > > And, of course, what is really being talked about isn't the Church *per se*, but the teachings of the Church, the teachings which express the actual Faith. And once a person claims possession or ownership of the Faith — a.k.a., the teachings — it's "lights out." Primary Video source and transcript continues here: https://www.churchmilitant.com/video/episode/vortex-own-your-faith > 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.