Is trosch.org authentic?

[TheSeraphim]

I stumbled upon this website upon searching “Catholic teaching on Harry Potter.”

trosch.org/chu/exorcism.htm

I was wondering if it was an authentic website for Catholics?

The webmaster talks bad about Bishops. That put up a redflag for me as that’s a sign that his Catechism is bad.

It also talks about many inappropriate topics (I did not open the links or anything). I decided from the looks, topics and his take on the Catholic church that its full of hatred.

Thoughts?

 

[catholicmamajoy]

I stumbled upon this website upon searching “Catholic teaching on Harry Potter.”

trosch.org/chu/exorcism.htm

I was wondering if it was an authentic website for Catholics?

The webmaster talks bad about Bishops. That put up a redflag for me as that’s a sign that his Catechism is bad.

It also talks about many inappropriate topics (I did not open the links or anything). I decided from the looks, topics and his take on the Catholic church that its full of hatred.

Thoughts?

NO!!!

The first thing I noticed when I clicked on it was the words; “Non-Vatican Interpretation of Fatime Third Secret”…that was enough for me to click away before I started reading this guy’s personal interpretations of Fatima or anything else!! Lord knows there are quite a few CAF members who love to quote what was supposedly said by the Blessed Mother at Fatima (and of course, those things are never found on official Vatican sites, they tend to show up only on sites trying to promote a certain agenda).

So, that being said, stay away from that site. The very fact he states that the Mass in Ordinary Form (Novus Ordo) is invalid is a huge give away that he’s likely not in good standing with Rome or subscribes to sedevacantist beliefs or worse. You might google his name to see what comes up…

If you want to find out about what was really said about Harry Potter (including then Cardinal Ratzinger’s vague letter to a woman about HP years ago- although he hadn’t read the books himself) and get a non-hysterical and balanced opinions of the book from deout Catholics, you can start with this: osv.com/BooksNav/OSVBookandProductsInformation/TheMysteryofHarryPotter/tabid/3880/Default.aspx

Or see what has recently come from the Vatican itself: catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/1102767.htm

 

[Dale_M]

I stumbled upon this website upon searching “Catholic teaching on Harry Potter.”

The site you mentioned belongs to Fr. David C. Trosch, whose priestly faculties have been suspended.

Fr. Trosch has publicly advocated for murdering the providers of abortion and has refused to recant this position. Needless to say, his views are often out of line with the Catholic Church.

 

[BluesPicker]

We need to avoid bad websites. And remember God wants us to be obedient to His Church. If allow ourselves we can easily be overwhelmed with grief so much that we may actually be going in the wrong direction. This is a bad situation.

BP