The Matt family has been crying Wolf continuously for about 55 years, so yeah, they will be right sometimes. This is less helpful than Fr Mitch Pacwa, who cries cry Wolf rarely, but also communicates other things as needed.
That is a good point. I have heard others say that also, converts and reverts can be your strongest Catholics. Many of the apologists on EWTN are reverts and converts.
Michael Matt had an awesome interview with Bishop Athanasius Schneider last week.
This is perseverance during a difficult stretch in time.
Are you in the “nothing to see here” camp, then?
That interview was actually the first time I heard/viewed Bishop Athanasius Schneider at length.
Yes, EWTN would be nothing without zealous converts. Zeal is awesome. When it slides into “celebrating Halloween is celebrating Satan,” something has really gone off the rails. That’s puritanism, not Catholicism.
Yes, he did!gracepoole:
Michael Matt had an awesome interview with Bishop Athanasius Schneider last week.
I think I missed the Halloween part somewhere. I know many traditional Catholics that celebrate Halloween and I know some non Traditional Catholics that don’t celebrate Halloween. I know protestants that celebrate Halloween and some that don’t.
I have just started reading his book Christus Vincit and am on his biography. That is awesome too. He knows the names and stories of all of his family and the struggles they went through during the Russian revolution and how they would secretly celebrate Mass, hide priests, celebrate the sacraments in their home and just pass the faith on in tumultuous times.
True, could maybe be because secularism has taken over another holy day and Halloween is rarely seen as All Hallows Eve anymore but just a day to celebrate scarey things.
I understand what you are saying. Perhaps their new found faith does cause them to have more zeal and gives them that desire to study and learn the faith more than someone who has been in the Church their whole life and has come to take it for granted.(not that all do). Perhaps it is like the parable of the woman and the lost coin, who wants everyone to rejoice with her when she finds it.
Imo, one should celebrate All Saints Day instead of Halloween. That’s why it’s All Hallow’s Eve, i.e. it’s the Vigil of All Saints Day.
absolutely awesome interview. God bless Bishop Schneider
commenter:
Listening to this episode now wondering how many Catholic books on my shelf are junk. :crying_cat_face
ouble sad because I recall seeing Trojan horse City of God Catholic Crisis Explained on my parents book shelves. Why didn’t I save every one of their books? 
