Author name: amdg

The Diocese of Charlotte’s widely circulated pastoral video, delivered by Bishop Michael Martin on February 14, 2026, presents a “vision” of evangelization centered on the slogan “everyone so loves Jesus, we share him with others.” Drawing heavily from Pope Francis’s *Evangelii Gaudium*, the message reduces the Catholic mission to three “action steps”: forming “missionary disciples,” “becoming the family of God,” and “going out to proclaim the Gospel.” The presentation is devoid of references to sin, damnation, the Real Presence, the Sacrifice of the Mass, or the absolute necessity of the Catholic Church for salvation. It substitutes sentimental, horizontal community-building for the supernatural mandate of converting nations to the one true faith. This is not Catholic pastoral guidance; it is the precise operational language of the conciliar sect’s program of apostasy, cloaking the abandonment of dogma in the vacuous rhetoric of “love” and “family.”