I like Voris’ work and I highly recommend his premium membership to anybody. His Votex segment is an opinionated political piece and while I think it’s a great commentary I have to admit that it really isn’t representative of the rest of the content on his network. Even his live talks are much more focused on making us into members of Church Militant and giving us the tools that we need to defend and promote the faith. The Vortex spends time commenting on the problems in the Church, the rest of his network spends time teaching us how we can actually fix these problems!
It’s so important for Catholics to know how to defend and promote our faith… Even if you cannot convert somebody, when this person is lying on his/her death-bed they might think back to the conversation that you had and everything you have said to them might start to make sense. If we can’t defend our faith, however, and explain why the Church teaches what it teaches, then we are doing a grave dis-service to those around us since Satan will continue to be able to use misconceptions that the Church is an oppressive and intolerant institution to keep people from thinking critically about Church teaching and that it’s their best chances for heaven. Spreading Christ to the world is the true “sprit of Vatican II” and, ironically, Michael Voris is doing much more to promote the intentions of this council then many of the so-called “spirit of Vatican II defenders” are even coming close to doing.