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keep_left's JournalAutopsies are indeed performed on mass shooters...
...and sometimes their brains are studied in detail. Stephen Craig Paddock, the perpetrator of the 2017 Las Vegas massacre, is one such example.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/09/us/las-vegas-attack-paddock-brain-autopsy.html
Unfortunately, that particular autopsy didn't show much beyond the fact that Paddock's brain appeared to be aging abnormally rapidly in some places, likely the result of burning the candle at both ends for decades. He really wasn't taking care of himself (heavy drinking, untreated hypertension, and based on the autopsy results, he was likely a smoker as well).
I have no idea. What I do know is that Voris parades around with that ridiculous "S.T.B."...
...after his name like it's an MD or PhD. 
Please. That just means he went to a Catholic college and took a few theology courses above and beyond the expected. There's a saying in the Church that you shouldn't advertise your credentials unless you possess a doctorate. Anything else is too common to be mentioned.
What I also know is that it is really frowned on by the Church for a layman with no specialized training to be serving as a spiritual advisor to anyone. And for people with as much baggage as Voris and Yiannopoulos, it's even more so. If Voris really is acting as Yiannopoulos' spiritual advisor, that's scandalous.
I also have no idea about foreign influence, etc. but it wouldn't be that surprising that all this is some sort of minor tributary of the alt-right, just like MRA/PUAs and incels. The foreign "wrecker" psyop actors saw weakness in this country, and saw how we were all at each others' throats already. That weakness meant all it took was a little push by way of Bannon and Cambridge Analytica to get the party started. The radtrad thing is pretty much just the alt-right translated into Church language and idioms.
I wonder if that also goes for his moronic "spokeswoman" Liz Harrington.
After Trump was banned from Twitter, her account was used to tweet whatever he wanted.
Well, it looks like she quit Twitter back in May. I wonder if she'll be back just so Trump can exploit a loophole in his contract by having her retweet...er...re-Truth...his messages.
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-truth-twitter-account-suspended-liz-harrington-quits-site-1707642
And now it looks like she's back. The Newsweek article mentions a GBCW tweet back in May, but I did a little checking, and her account appears to be up once again,
You may want to check out a couple of the links in message #4.
There is a lot more about Voris and his ridiculous cult there, including how he managed to alienate some very conservative clergy in the Detroit archdiocese. Voris is a clown, but unfortunately he has a lot of sugar daddy funding (Marc Brammer). Voris spends all his time attacking his fellow Catholics, including the clergy, for not being traddy enough. And when he's not doing that, he's e-begging for donations on his dumb internet station that emulates the execrable EWTN cable network, including a really lame religious shopping show plagiarized directly from them. For a while, Milo Yiannopoulos was one of the hosts on the show. 
Yes, that's right. He apparently washed out of seminary sometime in the early '80s.
I haven't really followed up on Voris more than that because I really don't care. As in I don't care for him or his "apostolate" (i.e. scam), nor do I care about his personal life. However, I did notice that he is a very polarizing figure even with the radtrads; some of them just love him and his silly cult, while others--not so much. That's especially true for the terminally-online radtrads at places like Reddit.
Voris' admission of homosexuality, even if "reformed", basically makes him a persona non grata in many radtrad "communities", such as they are. As you may surmise, many aspects of the Church regarding homosexuality are pretty unhealthy, despite the fact that a large measure of their priesthood is gay. And Voris, and now Milo, have placed themselves right in the middle of this. They compound the institutional sickness by playing the "pick me" role, which further feeds their egos. I might feel sorry for them if I wasn't more certain that they're both just shameless grifters.
"Church Miltant" is really something else. You have to see it to believe it.
It's run by Michael Voris, and you can see many of his "Vortex" episodes on YouTube. They are so extreme that they verge on self-parody. That hasn't stopped several others from making actual parodies of them anyway. 
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/ChurchMilitant.tv
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/oakland/2017/02/18/church-militant-growing-influence/97735914/
https://www.ncronline.org/blogs/distinctly-catholic/church-militants-nonsense-not-authentically-catholic
https://www.ncronline.org/news/no-church-nice-church-militant
parody:
https://zenoferox.blogspot.com/2011/07/catholic-spin-cycle.html
Yiannopoulos is also associated with the extremist radtrad group "Church Militant"...
...and if you know what radtrads are about, well, "extremist radtrad" is really saying something. Yiannopoulos claims to be "ex-gay" and is grifting the CM followers to start a "treatment center" for homosexuality, aka "pray the gay away". No doubt he will embezzle the money as he has done before with his various failed endeavors. 
Yep. Author David Neiwert has written extensively on this; how many of the hate-radio...
...personalities "legitimize" really deviant and even violent political ideologies. These ideologies almost always start out on the margins and then move closer to the mainstream as they traverse the country, going from fringe internet sources to mainstream talk radio. You see it happen all the time: first, it's only people in white sheets saying these things, then it moves to fringe internet radio, then Real America's Voice (Steve Bannon) and Right Side Broadcasting, then LifeSiteNews and Church Militant, then OANN and NewsMax, and finally Fox News and the WSJ editorial page. 
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/alt-america-david-neiwert/1125397325
Talk about "dank memes"--Tom Tomorrow's are the dankest! One of my favorites is...
...his parody of the Sunday morning current affairs programs: "The Sunday Talking About Stuff Show". 
Art imitates life...that "Naziboifourteen88" is a real thing over at Reddit. There are (and have been) numerous subreddits filled with users with names like "Naziboifourteen88". One of the worst of them was "Frenworld".
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216627886#post38
LOL..."Midwestern Diner Man" is one of TT's favorite memes, along with...
...the "Sunday Talking About Stuff Show", as seen in this post: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216675208
We've all seen way too much coverage of the "I'm economically anxious--definitely NOT a bigot--Ohio diner voter" demographic.
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