I can without a doubt say that without CM or similar outfits, I would not know about half the issues I do know about. Without them, I don’t even know if the negative side of the Amazonian synod would have been coveredphil19034:
I struggle with even this though. Is the Church Militant saying or exposing church corruption that other news outlets aren’t or won’t?
Sometimes the truth hurts. Sometimes speaking the truth results in persecution of that person. E.g. Paul.
Yes, we’ve had popes for 2000 years, and the Truth, being Truth, did not change…or if it did, why did it take so long to get it right?
sometimes they get it right & sometimes they get it wrong.
They are still baptized members of the Body of Christ.
Well…at least I will say that the Church Militant is not LifeSite. Many people can easily find mistakes and inconsistencies in LifeSite. That can’t be done with Church Militant news. I’ll at least give them that.
The reason is most Catholics are Catholic. Faith teaches us that the Church is the bride of Christ and the direction we are headed is to the wedding feast of the lamb. Most Catholics do not live in direct contact with those who make the news, or the pod casts. Michael Voris may be alert Catholics to danger, or he may be amplifying scandal, depending on who you are.
This is what bothers me about Michael Voris. Scandal is bad, but spreading it may or may not be a good thing. The Church teaches that calumny and gossips are sins for a reason. If someone’s business model is built around sensationalism and making people lose faith in the one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church, it may not be schismatic, but it doesn’t sound too healthy.
Faith doesn’t teach us this. Scripture and Church teaching does. What if in 100 years the Pope said you know what, the Church isn’t the Bride of Christ or that Jesus isn’t reallly God. Should we just sit around in good faith and accept that? No, we should stand up for the Church as the bride of Christ and correct the heresay. My whole point was that the Church has always faltered. God’s chosen people have always faltered. To think we are above that now as a Church is foolish and irresponibly prideful
My point on the liturgy is that what used to make us Catholic is being stripped away slowly. Very slowly. And that is the plan of the evil one. 30% of Catholics don’t believe in the real presence. attendence is down. Their is a priest shortage. There is a lack of reference. Catholicism today looks vastly different than it did 100 years ago and it is because, IMHO, the Church started to cave, i.e. give an inch, in small areas. It opened the doors to relativism.
That isn’t their business model.CatholicSooner:
This is what bothers me about Michael Voris. Scandal is bad, but spreading it may or may not be a good thing. The Church teaches that calumny and gossips are sins for a reason. If someone’s business model is built around sensationalism and making people lose faith in the one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church, it may not be schismatic, but it doesn’t sound too healthy.