UPDATE: Y.G. Nyghtstorm is no longer with Church Militant (Saint Michael’s Media), per his tweet on 5 Feb 2024:

YG Nyghtstorm (@ygnyghtstorm)
Good morning everyone. I’m no longer with Church Militant and St. Michael’s Media. I did all I could to help and I wish them well. I’m continuing my mission to evangelize in ALL communities and bringing people together. America is ready and we were built for this moment. LET’S GO

Original article follows

Church Militant offers this profile of their New Board Member YG Nyghtstorm. It includes some odd assertions by YG:

Nyghtstorm: “We’re living in a very, very special time — a glorious time,” he added. “We are actually living in the days of what Christ and the prophets have been talking about for thousands of years. God has already said this is going to happen, and we have been built for this moment.”
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“Because when it all comes down, just like God said, the people are going to be looking for those strong leaders of faith who never wavered. They are going to flock and run to you because you are providing Christ for them when all hell is breaking loose, so stand firm, no matter what.”

These claims do not sound like a Catholic Christian talking about the current age. What is this “very, very special time”? The answer might be found at Floodgate Church, a charismatic Protestant Church. Here is a video of YG Nyghtstorm speaking at Floodgate Church. Floodgate Church states the following beliefs on their website, on the “We Believe” page[1] and in the Download Statement[2] :

[1] “CHRIST’S RETURN In the literal, pre-millennial return of Christ to the earth to set up His Kingdom Revelation 20:2-7”
[2] The literal, pre-millennial return of Christ to the earth to set up His Kingdom (Revelation 20:2-7)

[1] “A FUTURE HOPE In the Rapture of the righteous, dead and living, and being found alive in Christ”
[2] The parousia (catching away) of the righteous dead and living, and being found alive in Christ (I Thessalonians 4:13-18)

Does Y.G. Nyghtstorm believe that Jesus will return to preside over a literal thousand year reign in person?

Does Y.G. Nyghtstorm believe in the idea of the Rapture of the righteous, who will be taken out of this world, prior to a time of great tribulation and suffering in the End Times?

These are not Catholic beliefs. Millenarianism (the pre-millennial return of Christ and His literal 1000 year reign on earth) is a condemned heresy in Catholicism. And the Rapture is a Protestant doctrine, incompatible with Catholic teaching on the End Times.

The quote above from the Church Militant profile of Y.G. Nyghtstorm sounds like he believes in these things. The quotes CM gives fits the ideas at Floodgate Church. Why was YG speaking there? Is he now or was he ever a member of that Church? This is the newest Board member of St. Michael’s Media, which runs the Church Militant website. Although he claims to be Catholic, he seems to have a fundamentalist Protestant point of view on religion.

Read what YG also says in the CM profile:

Nyghtstorm: “Because he [Satan] controls the airwaves; and he controls the social media; and he controls the regular media and he controls the curriculum, people are starving for the truth,” he observed. “People need the truth, and they flock to that.”

This claim that Satan controls the airwaves, social media, regular media, and “the curriculum” sounds like a fundamentalist and very distorted understanding of religion and society. This is not consistent with Catholic teaching. It sounds, again, like a fundamentalist Protestant belief, more like Floodgate Church and unlike the Catholic Christian Church.

I’m concerned that the new Church Militant Board member, YG Nyghtstorm, might move the organization away from Catholicism and toward an eclectic set of beliefs, some of which are drawn from Protestantism. This was one of the problems under Michael Voris. He taught his own eclectic and sometimes heretical ideas, and passed them off as Catholic “truth”.

For example, Voris claimed that only Christians can have supernatural faith, which is one of the three infused theological virtues given at Baptism. This claim is directly contrary to the teaching of Pope Saint John Paul II in Redemptoris Missio, as well as contrary to the perennial teaching of the Church on the implicit baptism of desire. Such a claim as Voris made necessarily excludes all non-Christians from even the possibility of salvation, unless they convert to Christianity; it is the heresy of Feeneyism — which Voris explicitly defended.

The Floodgate Church teaches the Protestant error of “Salvation by grace through saving faith plus nothing (Ephesians 2:8-9)”[2]. If YG Nyghtstorm believes in Millenarianism and the Rapture, both fundamentalist Protestant views, what does he believe on salvation? Does he follow Voris’ heretical claim that non-Christians cannot be saved unless they convert to Christianity?

Ronald L Conte Jr