The last free nation on earth is under siege. The battering ram isn’t just at the gates of Congress or the culture anymore. It’s inside the Church.
Look around. Zohran Mamdani’s socialist win in New York isn’t some isolated oddity—it’s a beachhead. The Socialist Party is gaining ground with young voters faster than most people want to admit. Gallup numbers from late 2025 into 2026 show a majority of young Americans now lean socialist. These aren’t just kids dressed up in berets. They’re the next wave of voters who will soon outnumber the Baby Boomers and Gen-Xers who still remember what the 20th century actually cost in blood and freedom. Even Bill Maher, no conservative, spent several minutes warning that the Democratic Party is drifting toward an ideology that has never delivered anything but shortages, surveillance, and body counts. When even the comedians are sounding the alarm, it’s time to pay attention.
And where is the Catholic Church—the rock that once stood as the strongest firewall against this exact ideology? Standing at the microphone, smiling, and saying, “I am here. I am with you.”
In October 2025, Pope Leo spoke those words to the World Meeting of Popular Movements. He called the activists “social poets” and “champions of humanity.” Michael Hichborn of the Lepanto Institute has spent years digging into these gatherings. What he found was far from a harmless charity event. It’s a deliberate assembly of Marxist organizations, open atheists, and—in at least one documented case—practitioners of candomble, a form of spirit possession that involves animal sacrifice and blood-soaked drums. These are the people the Pope of Rome publicly aligns himself with.
Hichborn’s work is not conspiracy theory. It’s primary-source research. Under Francis and now Leo, the World Meeting of Popular Movements has served as a conduit for revolutionary ideas. Its coordinator, Father Matea Ferrari, left the October 2025 meeting and immediately began a U.S. tour meeting with community-organizing groups like Faith in Action and PICO California—networks whose roots run through Saul Alinsky and into open socialist agitation. The timing, right before the midterms, was hard to miss. The Church’s moral authority and institutional reach are being used to soften the ground for the very ideology the Church once condemned.
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