OReilly - Bishops fail to address Christmas

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O’Reilly is a fool. No one should take anything he has to say seriously. He is long on pomposity and short on intellect. How can anyone take this self-aggrandizing cur seriously?

The putative “war on Christmas” is a made-up issue to create controversy. The real issue—the banning of religious expression from the public square—is not grist for the O’Reilly hit-and-run tactic of ratings engineering.

He must think these things up between lewd calls to his female employees.
 
The bishops have no credibility left.What thinking person would listen to anything they say. There continued protecting of bishops that helped pedophile priests. Make them a disgrace and not worthy of any regard.
 
O’Reilly is a blabbermouth, true. I don’t watch him anymore.

Father Richard McBrien is a longstanding heterodox Catholic priest. Why this man is in charge of a Catholic university defies any logical explanation.

O’Reilly has had other Catholic priests on his show. He interviewd a Catholic priest from San Diego several years ago to discuss the homeless problem. This priest’s ministry was working with the poor and homeless.
 
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TPJCatholic:
BO does not care about Christmas. He cares about his ratings, nothing more and nothing less. He has never been about the people, he just talks a very good game and ropes millions into watching his money making machine. He has no ethics, to a point where he consitently bashes his own faith.
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I respectfully disagree with you on all points. Plus, there is nothing wrong with questioning your own faith, if you think its going down the wrong path.
 
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stellina:
How right you are. My very devout mother watches him all the time & I don’t know how she does it. He’s just another big-mouthed self-appointed expert on everything who’s out to sell his books. He’s downright uncharitable, no matter who his guests seem to be, because he’s too interested in his own opinion than listening to them. I don’t care if he’s Catholic: he’s just plain obnoxious.
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Sometimes rude and obnoxious? Yes. However, he happens to be right most of the time.
 
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fkpl:
O’Reilly is a fool. No one should take anything he has to say seriously. He is long on pomposity and short on intellect. How can anyone take this self-aggrandizing cur seriously?
And the proof of the depth of his intellect is---------? Just because you do not agree with him does not make you look any more intellegent than you claim O’Reilly to be. Is he pompous? Sure, but short on intellect, I think not.

The putative “war on Christmas” is a made-up issue to create controversy. The real issue—the banning of religious expression from the public square—is not grist for the O’Reilly hit-and-run tactic of ratings engineering.

I think they are one in the same. Perhaps you have not seen a war on Christmas, but I sure have.
He must think these things up between lewd calls to his female employees.
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You don’t know this to be true. It is conjecture. I don’t know whether he did or not, and neither do you. To infer this is very uncharitable. Again, just because you don’t agree with someone is no reason to defame them. Merry Christmas.
 
mary bobo:
You don’t know this to be true. It is conjecture. I don’t know whether he did or not, and neither do you. To infer this is very uncharitable. Again, just because you don’t agree with someone is no reason to defame them. Merry Christmas.
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mike,

BO no longer has faithful Catholics on his show who have a public ability to proclaim the truth (several years ago he was booking people like Father CJ McClosey, an Opus Dei Priest–but nowadays he goes for the Father McBrien types on a regular basis). He consistently books people who he knows will side with his vision of what the faith should be…I have watched his show enough to know this is true. I have little respect for anyone who will so very publicly bash his own faith without giving a balanced point of view. He seems to think that his “fame” should somehow sway the Bishops into doing things he demands…yet I have never seen him act as if he is called to obedience and fidelity to of the teachings of the faith. BO is another lay Catholic, yet he seems to forget that.

He says his show is the no spin zone, yet he constantly spins everything he talks about, he spins it his way, especially regarding the faith. He supports the gay lifestyle (he even states that he is for civil unions, but not ss marriage). He constantly bashed Pope John Paul II about a plethora of issues, he constantly bashes the American Bishops on a plethora of issues and now he bashes them about Christmas without even having a clue about what he is saying.

I am not trying to be uncharitable, it is just that BO walks a very thin line between being a friend and foe of the faith. I respect your right to disagree, yet I would ask you to pay closer attention how bill handles issues surrounding the faith. If you view him with unbiased eyes, you might seem a different person then you think.

Beyond all that, Bill is a fantastically charismatic guy who attracts a ton of people with his style. He has much talent, I just pray he turns that talent towards helping to build up Holy Mother Church, rather then tear it down. He has a huge audience, and many of his people do know the faith well, all Catholics are called to use their talents responsibly.

Anyway…Merry Christmas.
 
I don’t know, what is so charismatic about him? To me, O’Reilly is just one of those loud mouthed guys you find hanging out at O’Mally’s pub who gets louder and louder and louder with each shot of Irish whiskey. Or, as Socrates says, he is like the craftsmen who think they have knowledge of the true, the good, and the beautiful, simply because they have a degree of common skill and wisdom. In truth however, O Reilly is nothing but a highly paid sophist. When are true conservatives and traditionalists going to wake up and see that FOXnews is only marginally better than the other networks? FOXnews is interested in being hip and in corporate profits. That is something we should remember. Sorry to get it off subject.
 
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