Nice Calm Internet Priests

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No one has mentioned Fr. Mark Goring. I find his almost-daily videos very inspiring. He does not rant and he’s a good teacher. I admire him and don’t think he’s one of the over-the-edge priests.
 
Yes!!! He’s amazing! He just recently hit 100k subscribers on YouTube like a week ago.
 
Limoncello4021 said:
No one has mentioned Fr. Mark Goring. I find his almost-daily videos very inspiring. He does not rant and he’s a good teacher. I admire him and don’t think he’s one of the over-the-edge priests.
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He’s one of the priests who to me overemphasizes the end times. I would really like his bishop to say something to him as I have seen a lot of people online who are made sad or frightened by his videos on that topic. He may speak on other topics too but his end times videos have been shared the most on social media so I have written him off.
 
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Fr Alar is the guy who just released a video offering beeswax candles (for a small donation) in case the Three Days of Darkness might hit. Pass.

I’ll go with Fr. Calloway when it comes to MIC. He mostly just sticks to promoting St. Joseph these days. I can get behind that 100%.
 
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I find his videos very well done and deeply reflective. They always seem to speak to me in some way. For October his book of the month is the little book on inner peace by Fr. Jacques Philippe, one of my favorites. He did Teresa of Avila’s Interior Castle recently.
 
When it came to calm priests, I always liked listening to Fr. Pablo Straub on EWTN (the old Redemptorist who was almost always holding a crucifix). He died some years ago, but it looks like some of his stuff has been uploaded on Youtube–unfortunatelty, most of it appears to be a series of talks he did before the 2008 election (calmly) encouraging everyone to vote pro-life. There’s no escaping the politics it seems.
 
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I don’t really follow Bishop Barron anymore. He just keeps getting in trouble with theological/moral stuff and isn’t the “best” representation of the faith out there, even though he is widely circulated. He has too much respect for dubious “theologians”.

To be honest, I think these “internet priests” are spiritually dangerous. Even if they are mostly sound/orthodox, they all seem to have a cult of personality that springs up around them. A textbook example would be the traditional priest-exorcist Father Ripperger (I hope I haven’t misspelled his name). He is treated by many as “the” authority on spiritual matters and will often take his word as law, even in rare circumstances where he is just flat out wrong or misleading. All these internet priests have a limited scope ecclesiastically speaking. A parish priest who runs a blog and does internet discourse is kind of going outside their lane a bit. They are specifically assigned to handle a specific parish. They aren’t really supposed to meddle outside of that community. But the age of the internet gives anyone a platform. So I would generally encourage everyone to stick with your parish priest and discourage giving too much attention to internet priests.
 
I recommend the Institute of Catholic Culture, particularly the Sunday Gospel Reflections.
https://instituteofcatholicculture.org/reflections/sunday-gospel

Fr. Hezekias Carnazzo reflects on the Sunday Gospel in the Latin Rite Lectionary.

You can also view his reflections on the Byzantine Lectionary, done with his brother, Fr. Sebastian Carnazzo.

The rest of the site has a variety of talks from various priests.
 
I personally get uncomfortable when Fr. Heilman decides to give advice on health matters, like promoting an extreme fast as a health benefit or advocating hydroxychloroquinine. It’s like dude, stay in your lane, if I want a doctor or a nutritionist I will call one.
 
Truth. There’s no harm in a priest sharing a personal opinion, as they have a right to their opinion the same as anyone. But if they don’t drop a disclaimer beforehand, “This is only my unprofessional personal opinion” then people will naturally assume he is speaking as a priest. And this is problematic when these men speaks as priests beyond their scope as a priest. Now some have a medical background and thus have a medical opinion based on their prior experience, but for the most part this isn’t the case.

Ultimately, I believe the parish priest should stick to the parish and administering the Sacraments/teaching the faith. That is what they are ordained to do. It’s the role of the laity to bring Christ to the streets, to the workplace, to public venues, etc.
 
I am really intrigued as to why some priests in the U.S think it’s appropriate to give their opinion on politics or even how people should vote. I’m in the UK and have never heard a priest discuss politics publicly. In fact during the last election our parish priests even put a note in the newsletter saying please do not ask them for advice on how to vote as they cannot give it.

I assumed at the time that was a Vatican directive but maybe not?
 
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I am really intrigued as to why some priests in the U.S think it’s appropriate to give their opinion on politics or even how people should vote.
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They see themselves as crusaders for some Catholic principle or other. They honestly feel they are helping people stay out of sin, combatting a corrupt Church that doesn’t want them to discuss whatever the political issue is, and basically standing up for truth, justice and the Catholic way against all the forces of evil besetting the Church and Catholic people in the form of folks who disagree with them.

Their views are usually confirmed by their followers who agree with them and treat them like St. George slaying the dragon, so they just get further and further caught up in it unless and until their bishop or the Vatican makes them stop.

Like I said, Coughlin, Feeney, we’ve been here before.
 
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Thank you, I am always happy to follow Eastern Orthodox clerics as long as they don’t get mad at me for being Catholic.

Years ago when I was away from the Church and doing Livejournal (about four social media platforms ago) I followed a priest named Fr. Seraphim who I now realize was Eastern Orthodox or Russian Orthodox. At the time I didn’t really understand what that was, I just saw a nice holy old priest with a page full of beautiful liturgies and Mary icons and stuff so I followed it. He got annoyed at me eventually, I didn’t understand why, but now I do.
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That would be Bishop Seraphim Sigrist. He is Russian Orthodox and was assigned to Japan for many years. He is well-known on social media for poetic photography to go with mystical commentary on all kinds of aspects of life.

Bishop Seraphim was still active on Facebook when last I checked, and has a huge following. He is truly calm and one of the first clerics I ever met who was legit on social media before it was a thing.
 
In the tradition of watching videos of the late Bishop Sheen, I would strongly recommend all the YouTube videos you can find (and there are hundreds of them) of the late great Fr. Benedict Groeschel.

If you want to listen to very sage advice from a very calming priest, Fr. Groeschel is the one.
 
Another priest I would recommend is the American Jesuit Fr. Mitch Pacwa. He gives excellent insightful talks and is really good at explaining the intricate theology of the Catholic Church in terms that lay people can understand.
 
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