Pundit For Fox 2 St. Louis Goes Berserk

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On November 15, Fox 2 pundit J.C. Corcoran slammed St. Louis Archbishop Raymond Burke and subsequently contacted the police when someone complained about his screed. We called Fox 2 news director Kingsley Smith for his position and learned that he stood by Corcoran.
Corcoran opened his remarks by saying he was not a practicing Catholic, admitting that “many years ago I gave up on religion basically because I thought it was silly.” Here is an excerpt of his remarks about Archbishop Burke and the Catholic Church today.

“Burke is old school, but I’m not convinced old school works right now. Too many things have changed. What I see, again from the outside, is the Catholic Church pretty much at the end of its public relations rope. The sex scandals continue to mount, the flock is thinning, and young men and women aren’t exactly knocking down the doors of seminaries and convents trying to get in. And locally, instead of a respected spiritual leader in the community, you have a guy who’s been stomping around, alienating, threatening, intimidating, excommunicating and carrying on since the day he got off the plane from Wisconsin

**Corcoran does raise a legitimate point, and what he says about the Church in the United States is apparently true. The sex scandals DO continue and I think they are going to get a lot worse now since the focus is beginning to shift away from dioceses to religious orders. God only knows that has been going on in them.

He is wrong on a ‘thinning’ flock. In fact, Catholicism is one of the fastest growing denominations (it isn’t a denomination, actually) in the country, with already approximately 60 million members.

It is true that men and women aren’t knocking down the doors of seminaries these days, but it seems the more traditional ones are getting candidates.

Archbishop Burke does have some rough edges, but he straightened out the diocese in Wisconsin which was headed into chaotic oblivion. He will have his hands full in St. Louis. The arrogance of those who think of themselves on par or equal to the bishop and pope need to be taken down a notch in humility.

The problem I have with people like Corcoran is that people of his persuasion already have a channel to take cheap shots at the Church whereas the average everyday individual Catholic is doing his or her best in raising their children, working, attempting to bring Christ into the workplace, etc., something Corcoran seems bothered by. Then again, he’s losing his soul and we need to pray for him.**

 

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Corcoran does raise a legitimate point, and what he says about the Church in the United States is apparently true. The sex scandals DO continue and I think they are going to get a lot worse now since the focus is beginning to shift away from dioceses to religious orders. God only knows that has been going on in them.

He does it with a pro-abortion agenda.