Best and Worst EWTN programs

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Favorites (in no particular order)
  • Journey Home
  • World Over Live
  • Web of Faith
  • Father Corapi (anything he offers)
  • Father Groeschel (spelling?) (anything he offers)
  • Living Your Life Abundantly
  • Priests for Life (Don’t recall the title at the moment (too sleepy to think)
Worst - Can’t think of any (except the Rosary with Mother Angelica - for reasons already mentioned on this thread.

On September 11, 2001, I was living apart from my family. They were here in Puerto Rico; I was by myself in Pennsylvania working on my dissertation. That day I bought a television. After one week of constantly watching the news, I turned on EWTN and left it there. It was turned on 24 hours a day, 7 days a week (even when I went out or was asleep.

I credit EWTN with saving my sanity. It brought me back into the Church in a way that I never thought possible before. (I was a practicing Catholic at the time - but became an Active Catholic because of EWTN. I cannot thank the station enough.)

John
 
EWTN has some really good shows as others have said.

What EWTN needs to do, perhaps the entire Church too, is to learn how to make the programs we watch actually entertaining or at least enjoyable to watch. All the programs have a great message that I’ve seen. The problem is that most of them put me to sleep. Not because the content is bad, its not, the presentation is often beyond boring!

OK, I admit it, I came from protestant churches. Every Sunday I went for a ‘stage show’ of motivation and energy. I was so caught up with the frenzy of the crowd that it took 27 years for me to realize the flawed theology! (I may be slow but I’m not hopeless at learning!) I actually heard someone on EWTN compare many protestant churches to stages and motivational seminars. I looked back on my experience and he was right. Next time you go to a church, see how they are set up in the protestant sects compared to Catholic churches.

Anyway, EWTN needs to learn the concept of “Presentation.” You could have the best show on earth but if people do not watch it because it was presented poorly…? Now on the other hand, never just make a stage show either. We must keep the same message but put it into a format that will get the point across and get people to watch it at the same time. Most importantly too, we must LEARN from it! I loved protestant churches, still do, I just don’t learn anything from them. I do learn from the Catholic Church, that’s great, I just wish learning was easier due to the presentation of the material.
 
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weunice:
I joke about this. It is actually one of the most endearing programs on EWTN. They had a vision and just went out and did it. I think that says a lot. Many folks try to wait until things are too perfect before they do what God is calling them to do. What we have here with Super Saints is a show you cannot help but loving and the message comes through loud and clear.
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I really respect them for doing that as well. I also think it was a great way for them to be able to travel to all the most interesting places in Catholicism.

Bob & Penny Lord have made almost 135 videos now. I give them credit for active evangelization. Their video list is: Bob and Penny Lord Video List.

I love all the shows on EWTN, to the point that I really don’t want to criticize what I see as a genuine work for the greater glory of God. The only show I really have a hard time warming up to is “The Spirit of Catholic Leadership.”. Fr. Spitzer from Gonzaga University comes across as such the fumbling, absent-minded professor type that in some ways he is quite endearing. But I have a hard time with his show.
 
I love:
Life on the Rock
Journey Home
anything Fr. Benedict Groeschel
the ‘folk’ Divine Mercies (brings me to tears every time)
World Over Live
Fr. Leo Clifford (sets me on the right path each morning)
Doug Keck book discussions
Scott Hahn’s over-my-head topics

I dislike:
-Religious Catalogue RIGHT DURING PRIME TIME! makes me change channels
-ditto for monotonous rosary recitations
-Bob and Penny Lord’s just plain bad videography
-men who stand still and lecture at the camera

I’m getting used to and starting to appreciate:
Fr. Mitch Pacwa
Mother Angelica
Johnette Benkovic

Thanks EWTN!!!
 
Best: Life is Worth Living
The Journey Home
I’m not sure of the names of the other programs but I watch whenever I see Fr.Groeschel, Fr. Pacwa, or Scott Hahn.
 
My favorites (In Order)):
1. Web of faith…Fr Trigillio cracks me up.
2. Life on the Rock
3. The World Over

Dislike…Music shows, Divine mercy, Rosary…I just don’t care for the televised devotions.
 
**Favorites: :clapping: **
Life On the Rock –
I have never met a religious in real life, and I think the friars are so interesting and they challenge my faith. The guests are also interesting, I think when the friars took over the show it improved greatly. Really enjoy this show.

Web of Faith -
Love those guys - and I learn a lot from this show.

Anything with Fr. Groeschel

Least Favorites: 😦
**Super Saints- **
Good information, not so good format.
 
I always seem to find scripture Maters with Scott Hahn impossible to turn off. I wish I could be in his classes.
Also, I have to catch The World Over every week.
 
All these poastings and only one person mentioned Fr.Leo Clifford “Reflections”, these are the best sermons I ever heard. I highly recommend them they are onlt 10 miutes long and on twice per day.
 
GK Chesterton is MY favorite show on the network, then probably Bishop Sheen (which I wish they would show more episodes of) and the Gospel of Mark- The way to follow Jesus. I just think they are really educational and fun at the same time. In fact Bishop Sheen pulled me out of the darkness on my way to the Catholic church.
I like the giggly guy who talks about church history with the preist. The Journey Home is good sometimes, but not one of my fav flavs.
I like Fr. Pacwa.
I really could never get into Mother Angelica or Life on the Rock for some reason. I don’t think i’ve ever watched the Mass very much, or the Rosary, or the Catalogue show. And I like the cartoons.
It is weird. WOAH!
 
Favorites: 1) The Journey Home, 2) Web of Faith, 3) The World Over

Least Favorite: Life on the Rock (but then I’m not a young person)

I do miss Mother Angelica.
 
Michael C:
All these poastings and only one person mentioned Fr.Leo Clifford “Reflections”, these are the best sermons I ever heard. I highly recommend them they are onlt 10 miutes long and on twice per day.
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Your right…I like Fr Clifford…you can also get his ‘Reflections’ on audo tapes…
 
Michael C:
All these poastings and only one person mentioned Fr.Leo Clifford “Reflections”, these are the best sermons I ever heard. I highly recommend them they are onlt 10 miutes long and on twice per day.
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**You’re right Michael C! I really enjoy “Reflections” with Fr. Leo. **
 
best: oh, so many…
Life is Worth Living,
Onward Pilgrims was nice,
Super Saints (i love to hear the stories of the saints and i think the devotion and sincerity of the hosts makes up for the lack of polish),
Web of Faith,
Mother Angelica,
Journey Home,
GK Chesterton,
Fr. Angelus,
Fr. Groeschel,
Daily Mass

worst:
the religious catalogue in prime time,
Sr. Joan Noreen and her Eucharistic Journeys put me to sleep,
Johnette Benkovic’s show (anyone else think she looks like that SNL actress?)
 
I want to see debates–preferably between one of the “talking heads” and a Protestant, Jew, Muslin, Jehovah’s Witness, etc. so we get an idea how to charitably argue with someone of a different faith on topics. We could even have an EWTN person vs a Catholics for Choice and others who dissent against major issues or against an SSPX/Feeneyist/Old Catholic/ or other non-ecclesia Dei kind of traditionalist.
 
I LOVE anything with Fr. Corapi.

I get goosebumps listening to him speak.
 
i loved reading the comments so many people like so many different programs isn’t the world a wonderful place like heaven will be room for everybody. i love ewtn i too keep it on all day (it goes off at night however)
especially i love the documentaries and special programs ,
being with the pope at special events i couldn’t go to,
films
the wotld over
fr. pavone
fr. corapi.
fr. groeschel and fr. andrew too
mother herself, her sense of humour gets me laughing out loud .
i love the rock divine mercy that sad man makes me feel so sorry for him i pray for him every time
the household of faith
the carpenter shop scott hahn of course i have learned so much from him
tim gray
maybe you in america don’t get pere bertrande marjeriebut we do and i think he is wonderful i don’t understand much because it is in french but he is so endearing . anyone who is teaching french should consider his series for your class he speaks so distinctly and so warmly your class would love him and learn from him.
life on the rock
is their anything i don’t like
yes the germans that say the bible isn’t historical and the germans that aren’t translated into english but i’m sure the german listeners are delighted for their programs.
i used to get radio and miss catholic answers and dr. wilkes life jewels
 
I love EWTN! My favorites are :

Mother Angelica ( I credit her with my conversion 10 years ago!)
The Daily Mass
Any show with Father Groeschel
The Journey Home
Web of Faith
Life on The Rock(whatever happened to Jeff Cavins, I liked him)
Catholic Compass has some good OLD movies sometimes.
I agree that it would be great to see some more Religious movies now and then. They used to show one my old fav’s around Christmas called A Time To Remember with Donald O’Connor but they haven’t shown it in a few years.
I noticed that alot of you put down anything by Father Groeschel(so did I), did you know that he is going to have a new series called “Sunday Night Live” ? It starts this Sunday, Oct. 24th at 7:00. I’m looking forward to it!!
God Bless EWTN and Mother Angelica for without her, we wouldn’t have these wonderful programs. I think EWTN reaches something like One Billion households (maybe more).
 
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Fast_ed75:
Best: The Journey Home

Worst: GK Chesterton, Divine Mercy
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Oh! I love the Divine Mercy Chaplet, but I prefer the old one better.
 
A great idea for a sitcom would be Karl Keating and, say, Chuck Smith end up rooming together. Or perhaps they are half owners of a bookstore or something like that.

Each week they get into wacky adventures like replacing the neighbor’s dog with a dog look-alike or figuring out a way of telling their old Irish housekeeper that her pickles taste terrible without hurting her feelings. They do all this while having light hearted debates on Catholic/Protestant doctrine.
 
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