EWTN: A Network Gone Wrong?

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Has anybody been to this website? It’s making some pretty outstanding claims against EWTN: accussing the leadership of censoring Mother Angelica’s talks since her departure; embracing modernism in its ecumenism, and laying aside Tradition in general… What to make of it? Sede- junk?
 
this has been brought up before, there are old threads on the topic, the posting is old news, my opinion is when somebody else wants to undertake the work of forming and building a Catholic TV network then they will have the right to criticize EWTN. If they are not they should shut up. YOu will probably find those past discussions under popular media or another appropriate forum.
 
puzzleannie said:
this has been brought up before, there are old threads on the topic, the posting is old news, my opinion is when somebody else wants to undertake the work of forming and building a Catholic TV network then they will have the right to criticize EWTN. If they are not they should shut up. YOu will probably find those past discussions under popular media or another appropriate forum.
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I agree. If you want to find bad press on ANYTHING, Google will get you there. Sounds like someone is pushing a book to me.
 
Zeldarocks said:
networkgonewrong.org/

Has anybody been to this website? It’s making some pretty outstanding claims against EWTN: accussing the leadership of censoring Mother Angelica’s talks since her departure; embracing modernism in its ecumenism, and laying aside Tradition in general… What to make of it? Sede- junk?
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Considering that poor Mother Angelica has been disabled due to a severe stroke for a number of years, I’m not sure she’s given any talks that could have been censored.
 
puzzleannie said:
my opinion is when somebody else wants to undertake the work of forming and building a Catholic TV network then they will have the right to criticize EWTN. If they are not they should shut up. .
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Although I admit that I only watch EWTN sporadically (simply because I don’t watch a lot of TV to begin with), I have never seen anything problematic with it. When I do watch it, I see the Mass, traditional devotions, the biographies of saints, footage of pilgrimages, the stories of converts, and so on. Exactly what is so “modernist” about any of this?

According to the linked website, the author claims that EWTN has become, “…in many respects utterly modernist by every objective historical standard of Roman Catholicism.” Wow! So I am to believe that EWTN is now utterly modernist by every objective historical standard of Roman Catholicism??? That’s certainly a bold statement! Well, I trust in my own personal standards in discerning such things, so if EWTN truly is as this person claims it to be, I will be able to detect it well enough on my own without the aid of his book. So while watching papal Masses, cloistered nuns reciting the rosary, and reruns of Archbishop Fulton Sheen’s lectures on Life is Worth Living, I’ll certainly be on the lookout for this supposed scourge of modernism (insert sarcastic tone).
 
I admit to currently owning a copy of EWTN: A Network Gone Wrong by Christopher A. Ferrara. Someone from RealCatholicTV.com basically praised the book while writing comments for this video. Mr. Ferrara brings up the book in this column he wrote about the John Corapi scandal. I wonder what Mr. Ferrara has to say about Michael Voris and St. Michael’s Media.
 
I found this thread while searching for something else and it caught my eye.

Something from the site.
networkgonewrong.com/chapter.htm
In Part II, I discuss in considerable detail EWTN’s role in contributing to this Modernist crisis since Mother Angelica’s coerced departure. The evidence will show:
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First, that EWTN promotes, defends and advances the “New Mass” and all the other “officially” approved “reforms” of the liturgy which have broken with Tradition in precisely the ways demanded by the Protestant rebels of the sixteenth century, and practically destroyed Catholic worship and Eucharistic faith over the past forty years, as even high-ranking Cardinals have admitted;
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Second, that EWTN has, under the guise of a “new understanding” of Catholic dogma since Vatican II, helped to undermine Catholic adherence to (a) the infallibly defined dogma that outside the Roman Catholic Church no one can be saved; (b) the closely related constant teaching of the Roman Pontiffs that the only means of achieving Christian unity is the return of the Protestant and schismatic dissidents to the Catholic Church; and (c) the abolition of the Old Covenant in favor of the New Covenant in Christ Jesus, and the consequent objective necessity of Jewish conversion for the salvation of the Jews;
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Third, that EWTN has promoted and encouraged a Judaizing tendency in the Church not unlike that which confronted the original Jewish Apostles in the first century;
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Fourth, that EWTN has excused, defended and promoted sacrilege in Catholic holy places in the name of “interreligious dialogue”;
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Fifth, that EWTN is contributing to a tendency to replace Roman Catholicism with a common-denominator natural religion that deemphasizes adherence to revealed truth as necessary for salvation;
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Sixth, that EWTN has advocated a senseless and un-Catholic quasi-idolatry of the Pope’s person that does a grave disservice to the Pope, his office and the Faith;
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Seventh, that EWTN is leading the destruction of the traditional Rosary;
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Eighth, that EWTN promotes a cult of sexual gnosticism and “Natural Family Planning” (NFP);
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Ninth, that EWTN has generally corrupted the Faith by trying to combine it with rock music and show business in a vain effort to make Catholicism “cool” (EWTN’s own word) and appealing to the base instincts of a mass audience;
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Tenth, that EWTN attacks and attempts to ostracize from the Church the defenders of Roman Catholic Tradition, and especially those, such as Father Nicholas Gruner, who defend the traditional Catholic understanding of the Message of Fatima and its prophetic relation to the crisis in the Church.
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They think the “new mass” (Novus Ordo) is evil and so is NFP? Wow. Just ridiculous.
 
Personally, I love EWTN and I see nothing wrong with it. To me, it is quite traditional. It doesn’t strike me as modernist in the slightest.
 
Maxirad said:
I admit to currently owning a copy of EWTN: A Network Gone Wrong by Christopher A. Ferrara. Someone from RealCatholicTV.com basically praised the book while writing comments for this video. Mr. Ferrara brings up the book in this column he wrote about the John Corapi scandal. I wonder what Mr. Ferrara has to say about Michael Voris and St. Michael’s Media.
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Every cloth has its fringe. But some cloths are all fringe, and no cloth.
 
The author has a problem with Vatican II in itself. He also promotes the TLM and is editor of Latin Mass Magazine.

In other words, the problem isn’t EWTN, but the author’s view of the Church and Vatican II, which EWTN supports.

Jim
 
To me EWTN is very Traditional and very faithful to the Magisterium of the Catholic Church.

I have so far failed to see any evidence of modernism in EWTN’s programming.
 
I too think that EWTN is catering to modernism. You can see it everywhere, like in the homilies and talk shows. EWTN is middle-ground, at best.
 
I find that the language on the website given reveals much of their intent. The author is a regular writer for The Remnant and The Fatima Crusader, according to the bio. I watch EWTN often and there is nothing modernist about it, nothing that contributes to any apostacy. The are a faithful lay apostolate to the Catholic Church. The same can not be said about this website. Reading the complaints in the Q and A they seem to be calling EWTN modernist for simply giving orthodox Christian teaching. I am willing to bet that there is some underlying resentment for this stance. I doubt that their extreme views would not be allowed to air on EWTN.
 
EWTN promotes a cult of sexual gnosticism and “Natural Family Planning” (NFP)
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Sexual Gnosticism?? I have no idea what that’s even supposed to mean, haha 🤷
 
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