Ave Maria,
Your link is simply a sign up page. Apparently the site is getting a lot of flack, understandably, and they no longer allow open viewing of their materials. In addition, they now charge a monthly fee to see the “premium programs.” Unreal! Most news reporting agencies in the Catholic world do not ascribe to practices such as this.
A caveat to unsuspecting readers here at CA:
Further Information in Support of Example:
“Extreme antipathy to the liturgy of the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite”
In a CIA (Catholic Investigative Agency) program entitled “Weapons of MASS Destruction”, Michael Voris portrays the origins and nature of the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite in such a way as to lead him to conclude that, while it is a valid Mass, it is such a violent rupture with past forms of worship that it is “not authentic Catholic worship”. The program is a rehash of the usual over-simplifications which elevate certain problems and internal struggles over liturgical renewal into a total indictment of the Novus Ordo, a case made primarily on the basis of preferring some traditional commentators over others, and pitting the judgment of favorite authors against the popes who superintended the changes to the liturgy. While a particularly noteworthy case of the problem with RealCatholicTV’s tendency toward extremism, it is exactly this tendency which negatively colors so much of their otherwise well-intentioned programming.
Further Information in Support of Example:
“Over-simplification of Church problems.”
RealCatholicTV programs sometimes over-simplify problems within the Church or paint the Church as a whole with too broad a brush. Many programs make blanket assertions about common failings as if they are completely universal, sometimes giving the impression that the vast majority of bishops and priests are woefully inadequate. An example of the over-simplification of an issue would be the Vortex for July 12, 2010 (“The Long Goodbye”) in which efforts to get fallen away Catholics to return to the practice of their faith are universally dismissed as needed only because of failures internal to the Church herself, and complex problems of secularism and theological modernism are consistently referred to as “Protestantism.” While RealCatholicTV definitely addresses real problems within the Church, in general its programming could be improved both by avoiding blanket claims and employing greater analytical care.
. In all seriousness. Both CAF and RCTV have things that are good and unique to each organization. The Discussion forum here at CAF is more user friendly to a larger amount of people of various religeous persuasions than RCTV. Therefore, the board is often in need of close monitoring. CAF and RCTV have different ways of evangelizing, but that does not mean that CAF is any less of an apostolate of the Catholic Faith.
