It is common at the death of a great man for smaller minds to weaponize great minds for their own personal wheelhouse of ideas. For example, in regards to the fallen Charlie Kirk, his friends on earth are currently engaged in bitter debates on if he was changing his once-favorable views towards the current state of Israel. (We will not be delving into that today.)
People are also debating if Charlie Kirk was on his way to Catholicism before his assassination. Of course, Catholics are insisting he was. Evangelical Protestants are saying he was not.
In previous articles, I wrote that I believed there was a good chance he was a catechumen in his heart, even if not on paper. While I can’t prove this, I still hold to that as a serious possibility. Erika Kirk recently had an interview with the New York Times about his death. The NYT described the interview with her: “Around her neck was the pendant of St. Michael that her husband was wearing when he was shot. The medics had ripped it from his body while attempting to stop the bleeding. A trace of blood remained in the crevice of the cross.”
Thus, he died wearing a medal of St. Michael. That’s pretty Catholic to me.
But Charlie never formally entered the Catholic Church. Why not? I believe it’s because of the anti-Christian theology and politics he constantly saw emanating from the Vatican under the current regime and former regime. Charlie was told by his Catholic friends that Francis and Leo were the “Vicars of Christ.” But Charlie was smart enough to know that the term “Vicar of Christ” meant literally a spokesperson. Simply put, Charlie Kirk could not believe that the very mouthpiece of Jesus Christ on earth was a Marxist.
And no, we’re not talking here about the bad morals of past frisky Popes of the Middle-Ages, but rather the faith being destroyed by current non-Christians in the Vatican.
Michael Knowles (a good Catholic) was on the Charlie Kirk Show discussing Catholicism and evangelical Protestantism before the latter was shot and killed. Admittedly, Charlie indicated several hurdles to becoming Catholic including transubstantiation and certain doctrines on Mary. But at time-stamp 4:42 in the video here, Charlie then adds: “But the biggest one is the papacy. I can’t get over the idea of this Marxist who calls himself the head of your Church being a representation of Christ Our Lord. I mean that as someone who loves the Catholic impact on the world, that says it openly. And by the fruit you will know it, and you have very Marxist fruit.”
A couple minutes later, Charlie reminds Michael that Francis promoted gay-blessings and climate-change. Then, at time-stamp 7:03 Charlie shockingly says something prophetic: “If my pastor starts saying crazy things I find a new pastor. So if your pope starts saying crazy things, maybe he’s not the Pope.” (Go listen to the video if you don’t believe it.)
How about Leo? In May of 2025, following the last Conclave, Charlie Kirk was on a show with two good Catholics I know in real life: Fr. Pavone and Mr. John Yep. In yet another prophetic (and evidence-based) statement, Charlie Kirk then said: “OK. I mean, look. Not — everyone was doing it in 2020. Well, not us, but, Mr. Prevost, the new pope, was retweeting George Floyd propaganda. But that is what it is. Whatever.”
First of all, it’s interesting he called “the new Pope” by the title “Mr. Prevost.” Secondly, Kirk was referring to real tweets I saw. On that fateful day of May 2025, I too went through his now-deleted X account and I found the same thing Charlie Kirk did: Leftist-ideology and open-borders policies from the North American cleric living in South America.
Earlier that day, Catholics online wanted to hear everything I had to say. But later that afternoon, something like a spell (and I don’t use that word lightly) was placed on the Catholic world, and no one wanted to hear the evidence of my findings anymore.
Charlie Kirk saw the same evidence that our conservative Cardinals in the Catholic Church have seen over the last decade, but Charlie had the courage to say it. The two differences remaining now are: 1) Charlie Kirk said it out-loud, namely, that these regimes in Rome aren’t even Christian, much less Catholic, and 2) The current conservative Cardinals had (and have) the power to do something, certainly more than a dead-man.
And yet he spoke prophetically, so they need to listen to him.
Just today, the day after the 300,000 person strong memorial service for Charlie Kirk in Arizona following his assassination, Cardinal Sarah said to Leo in Rome that Fiducia Supplicans “threatens the unity of the Church. It is a document to be forgotten.” It’s a good start, but “forgotten” is not possible with dogma already entered into the annals of official Vatican documents. Either Francis was Pope or he was not. If he was Pope, we priests must be obedient to his command for us to bless gay-couples. “Forgetting” in the age of the internet is impossible.
Yes, I realize I run the risk of being one of those “smaller minds” that might be weaponizing the death of a great man for my own little wheelhouse. But my “little wheelhouse” is the salvation of the whole world. Indeed, the salvation of the world depends on the conservative Cardinals calling out the last two Conclaves, as I wrote here and here. Charlie Kirk reveals what millions of Christians already suspected: True Christian unity depends on the Catholic Church, and specifically with the Pope.
But again, Charlie Kirk stated the obvious: “If my pastor starts saying crazy things I find a new pastor. So if your pope starts saying crazy things, maybe he’s not the Pope.” And then months before his death, Charlie said: “Mr. Prevost, the new pope, was retweeting George Floyd propaganda.” Again, go look at the above hyperlinks above if you doubt those two sentences.
The so-called “conservative Cardinals” who refrain from stopping the heretical madness in the Vatican probably do so for false-peace and false-unity, thinking their silence will “keep the family together.” Or perhaps, like Chris Jackson recently wrote, they were just looking for the “best terms of surrender” on the Latin Mass after this many years of destructive modernism ruling the Vatican.
But Charlie Kirk might be only the tip of the iceberg in how many serious non-Catholic Christians (both evangelical and Orthodox) refrain from entering the Catholic Church because of the silence of a few conservative Prelates of the Roman Catholic Church. It’s unimaginable how many souls the good-guys in Rome will have on their hands at the General Judgment for not removing the bad-guys who arrived there illegally.
Even Charlie Kirk recognized the latter couldn’t even be considered Christian.