What do you think about lifesitenews?

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An Evangelical relative, none too pleased with my conversion to Catholicism or with Pope Francis, has used LifeSiteNews and like sources to call my attention to Pope Francis stories. Make of that what you will.

Nobody is criticizing the Pope respectfully or quietly online; the whole world hears it immediately.
Nobody is quietly wondering whether a shocking Pope story is true, the whole world hears it immediately.

I feel like this might be part of the reason Francis is so silent about many of these things; unlike under other Popes, social media has grown during his Pontificate and if he answers one crackpot, he’ll have to answer many more, and give a lot of stories way more attention than they should get.

This has really bothered me lately, I wish it would bother more people.
 
My brief read of that: He condemned an article by LifeSite calling out a supposedly pro life woman for supporting the women’s march, a decidedly obvious pro choice event. Life site in the right on that.
 
LifeSite is frequently critical of Pope Francis. I initially thought it was an evangelical Christian organization because of the regularity of the articles. But it has a number of Catholics on staff, and they appear to be the ones writing these articles on Francis.

Here is an article from 2017 listing all the bad press they’ve given Francis.

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/2016-the-year-pope-francis-finally-showed-his-hand

I know Francis has had his detractors, but frankly I had never seen this much open disagreement with a Pope from Catholic sources. That’s a shocking thing to see for this non-Catholic, as I had always assumed that love him or hate him, Catholics always defend the Pope.
 
I would be comfortable defending the office of the pope and the infallible teachings. But no one should think they have to always defend a bad pope. I am NOT saying that Pope Francis is, but there certainly have been bad popes in the past and I do not support their extracurricular activities or crummy decisions.
 
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If Lifesite gets its bad rap on this forum merely because of its opposition to Pope Francis, we have a problem. Being critical of someone doesn’t make their news not credible. However, if they stretch the truth and lie then we can have that discussion of whether Lifesite News is a credible source.

Opposition to a person and their perchance for reporting bad (meaning sad) news does not disqualify them as a news source.
 
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You heard it here first, folks. Well, ok, not first, but it sounded good.

I need a good night’s sleep, so I’m not going to touch that one for now. But there’s a 100 more where that one came from.
 
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Regardless of what Pope Francis said on that, even some of the oldest saints had some pretty flexible views of hell. It’s funny that I just quoted St. Gregory of Nyssa’s sister St. Macrina in another thread, but Gregory was actually a “universalist” (he believed everyone would eventually be saved). Pretty remarkable, for a saint writing in the 300s.
 
I go to click on the article and before I can, I just start laughing. Oh well.
 
I think they do more damage than good. Click bait and disingenuous headlines to propagate a specific view. I prefer my orthodoxy with a lot more professionalism and charity.
 
They say “allegedly” and “purportedly” and note the Vatican’s response to an athiest misquoting him. I don’t see statements that are misleading.
 
Is that public knowledge or are you speaking from personal experience? How can I verify your claim of banning commenters for supporting Roy Moore?
 
Tend to agree. Not sure if I would use the word undermine, but something along those lines. Embarrass, maybe? Sets himself up for bad press? Hard to know what his intentions are.
 
I don’t know if LifeSite gets a bad rap at CA for its criticism of Pope Francis.

I can tell you that the polemical nature of their pieces on Francis and who they deem as liberals in the Catholic Church leaves a very bad taste in my mouth. I’ve seen more and more of such blantant politicization of the Catholic Church to a point that LifeSite and other such organizations seem more a mouthpiece of the Republican Party.

This independent has been…scandalized…
to the point I would never consider joining the CC now.

As an Episcopalian, I have witnessed more than enough division and strife. The current rifts in the CC are painfully familiar, like 1976 all over again.

I’ve read that book, know the plot, seen the ending.
 
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I don’t want to criticize, but I do wish the Pope said more profound things. Sometimes it just seems like he says things I could hear from Elizabeth Warren. And for some of a certain political persuasion, I can see why that gets their goat (I’m not one of them myself).
 
Hmm yes from the surface that does look incriminating. Would be easier to pass a judgment if we knew the other side of the story. Then again, this is just the comments section so I don’t know that that is grounds to discount the reporters and all of their intentions collectively.
 
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