EWTN since the death of Mother Angelica

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Correct me if I’m wrong, but if you look at my words carefully in that post, I believe that it says " why do I get the feeling." I, as in me. I am entitled to my opinion on here still…correct??? :roll_eyes:
 
Exactly, much of EWTN has become political, and not just Arroyo, other hosts and guests as well. In these cases the political leaning is far right and definitely pro-Trump. EWTN should keep politics and editorials out of their programming as EWTN is not representative of American Catholics. I do agree with, for example, promoting pro-life programming as I don’t think that it’s all political ( yes, of course, it’s a political issue in the USA) and expresses the pro-life belief of the Catholic Church itself. In addition, EWTN is broadcast worldwide, and needs to wake up and realize the Catholic Church is also catholic with a small ‘c’, and has to take into account that it, too, doesn’t represent most Catholics, certainly not in the political arena. If EWTN truly desires to be a Catholic network for Catholics worldwide, as it calls itself “The Global Catholic Network”, it must stick it that motto, it needs to cease being political, particularly blatantly pro-Trump. And Arroyo isn’t particularly fond of Pope Francis, as he’s expressed his biased against him even to the point hostility when he editorializes and the guests whom he brings onto World Over Live. I don’t want the Catholics of the world, the majority of whom are not American and not pro-Trump, and who love Pope Francis, to think that ETWN represents American Catholics when it expresses such biased reviews.
 
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I thought I read Saturday Night Live at first! Then I started imagining a Catholic version of the show, with Father Guido Sarducci being the regular host… 😁 🤣
 
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Sadly the production quality has not moved forward, the programming has become more of an echo chamber.

Catholic TV has better programming, it looks like it was done later than 1987.
 
Of course, particularly in the South, the Democratic Party may have been pro-life, & supported by the Catholic Church, but we had the issue of Jim Crow Laws, segregation, the KKK, Catholic political leaders who were segregationists. The Democratic Party ( in the South) was not only conservative, but reactionary, States’ Right’s, straight-up racist, Klan members, segregationists , etc. In New Orleans, for example, even Catholic schools were segregated. Segregationists Catholics were a powerful religious and political block in New Orleans. Archbishop Joseph F. Rummel, Archbishop of New Orleans, sought to desegregate Catholic schools, and powerful local Catholic politicians began an organized fight against Rummel’s policies that would eventually lead to divisions within the Catholic population of the area and to several excommunications.
For example, some segregationist Catholics formed an Association of Catholic Laymen of New Orleans which asked then Pope Pius XII to stop Rummel from taking further steps to integrate white and black Catholics and to decree that racial segregation is not ‘morally wrong and sinful’". The Vatican’s response was to remind all that “The Pope had condemned racism as a major evil, asserting that ‘those who enter the Church…have rights as children of the Lord’”.
Archbishop Rummel won the long and drawn out battle ( too long for me to detail here, but an internet search will show a plethora of info) and Catholic schools were desegregated in the fall of 1962, and were completely integrated by 1964, when he died.
My mother in-Law, who is Creole, & was light enough to pass for white, went to a Catholic school during the segregationists years, & one day school officials demanded that she produce her birth certificate, which had her race listed as ‘black’, & she was promptly kicked out of the school. Yes, that’s how terrible things were back then. She quit school and never went back, even after the catholic schools became integrated.
It took a brave Archbishop to desegregate Catholic schools that had been segregated for well over 100 years. Obviously all Archbishops prior to Rummel had either supported segregation or felt powerless to do anything about it, even in their own schools.
The Catholic Church in America wasn’t ever a uniform block, and neither were political parties, particularly in the South. The fact that Catholic schools were segregated for over 100 years & supported the Democratic party shows that the past wasn’t all rosy & that “The good ole day’s” didn’t apply to everyone, particularly blacks in the South.
You’re right, the Church did indeed learnt it’s lesson in that area of supporting politicians & the Democratic party. I think the Church learned it’s lesson a long time ago in the South. And imagine, it was liberals, Catholic & non-Catholic, who dared to desegregate not only all schools, but public and private places.
Not all Democrats support abortion. I’m a Democrat & pro-Life. I get attacked from all sides, conservatives & liberals.
 
I have never heard him on rhe radio and we don’t get Ave Maria radio where I live.
I have only watched his show a handful of times and never all the way through. I am sure he is passionate about what he does and is a good Catholic, I just don’t like the set up of his show and I really dislike the live audience.
 
I still watch it, naturally Mother Angelica had a charisma that not everybody has, however I focus more on the message and meaning, rather than the messenger.

God can use anybody to speak to us.
 
Those are both great programmes.

How can you go wrong with Dr. Ray? He is such a good fellow!

Does he not brighten your day with his deadpan humour? He certainly does for me.
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He often provides advice that borders on abuse. His “rolling blackout” technique is horrid and when he brags & giggles about what he says and does with his own children I shudder. I’m all for discipline. He often goes way beyond that level of parenting. I truly cannot understand how anyone likes him. 🤷‍♀️
 
I have never heard his parenting techniques and I don’t know what a rolling
blackout is. @gracepoole
 
I’ve never heard of a rolling blackout, either. Exactly what is that?
 
American Catholics by and large do not attend Mass or confession, are ambivalent on abortion, are pro-gay marriage, and don’t believe in the Real Presence.

I’d say us being represented by EWTN’s message is the least of our concerns.
 
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Thank you for that comment. It was a shock to me when I came back to the Church after decades. I am not getting involved in rest of comments as I could get banned writing about previous Presidents .
 
Eh, no, it’s not “slander.” If a teen says something snarky, he removes everything from the teen’s bedroom and goes so far as to allow the teen to accompany the family to a restaurant but then does not allow the teen to actually eat restaurant food. There’s no discussion about what’s going on for the teen (was she mocked at school, is she having her period, is she not getting enough sleep, etc.). Instead a rolling blackout is immediately enforced. That’s not discipline and it’s not love and it’s not parenting. It is, however, bordering on abuse. Everyone may have “different parenting styles” — none of them should include treating a child like a prison inmate.
 
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I like Dr. Ray. I think he and his wife must be good parents.
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I agree. All of his kids, 10 of them, are adopted, BTW, and so we dont know what their backgrounds are, and that includes the influence of DNA on temperament and character.
 
I recall that Dr. Phil sometimes recommends a similar technique when counseling parents of defiant kids. I don’t recall if he called it “blackout”, but it was along the same lines – to take away all the privileges and possessions and make the child gradually earn them back, one or two at a time, through improved behavior.

My folks never went to that extreme. Dad would take away one major privilege or access to a favorite possession, but he never blitzed our entire bedroom or denied ALL privileges. And he usually set a specific timeline. Two weeks, or something like that. It was never extreme.

There’s a thin gray line between legitimate discipline and being a bully – excessively traumatizing a child or even victimizing him or her. We must all be careful not to go over the deep end with discipline.

On the other hand, when nothing else works, sometimes extreme measures are needed – but I would think rarely.
 
It might be. More is known about child development and developmentally appropriate behavior. When the latter is punished it’s harmful to the child.

A lot of abuse or harsh treatment is the result of adults not understanding child development. I would expect Dr. Ray to know this but he’s also free to ignore it if takes too much time and thought. With 10 kids, some with special needs iirc, the energy required to considered what was going on and how to help the child would be higher than most. Kids need help navigating their feelings and behavior, that takes time and a whole lot of mental information energy. But th ed payoff is a young person with emotional intelligence, and self-awareness and can relate their emotions.

I’ve listened to him before. Hearing a caller tentatively share their problem and his bombastic response was so thoughtless. I have trouble imagining that he responded thoughtfully.

This was years ago and I also recall him confessing that his wife thought he should tone down something, his “humor” maybe, but apparently he still can’t see that he makes every question about him instead about the caller.
 
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