Michael Voris covers both both these issues in a recent video response available here. He does it well. I believe RealCatholicTV is being targeted because they have guts and don't mind taking the heat. I wouldn't be a bit surprise if many of the bushwhackers wear roman collars or work in the Church bureaucracy at either the national or diocesan level. The fact that they are engaging in a smear campaign just proves how effective Mike Voris and his little band of soldiers are.
Let's face it, the real war is in the Church as it has always been. Jesus' worst enemies were the scribes and pharisees of His own faith. The same is true today. Some of the worst enemies of the Church participate in papal conclaves and lead dioceses. It is actually a proof that the Holy Spirit leads the Church that it has survived evil clerics for over 2000 years including wicked popes.
As for Mike Voris -- a big thanks for his clear and no-nonsense response. And I'll be sure to renew my priority membership to RealCatholicTV when it's due.
If they ban him his voice will grow louder. God Bless him.
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He just needs to stand firm. He is doing amazing work! The Church is under attack even from within and like you said if he is being attacked it's because what he is doing is right.
ReplyDeleteThe whole thing looks like nonsense to me, both sides of it. Just another bunch who take off after anyone defending the faith. I feel sorry for Simon frankly. I don't know if his Dracula genre game was over the top or not ... never saw it. But the idea that you can't depict evil in literature or gaming is plain stupid.
ReplyDeleteMmm...I read a description of the game, Castle Dracula or something like that, and I'd say it was over the top and could be an occasion of sin. Rafe has apologized and acknowledged that. If nothing else it was a real lapse in prudence. It's hard to be too hard on young people these days because they've been raised in such a cultural cesspool, but in view of where he was working and his apologetics speeches it was more than a little hypocritical.
ReplyDeleteI read the same piece you did Mary ... it's almost the only account out there and is repeated at a number of sites. The account is non-graphic and leaves you to draw conclusions by innuendo, so I don't know whether it led to the occasion of sin or not.
ReplyDeleteI think it is impossible to depict evil without someone managing to make it into an occasion of sin. But I don't think that is necessarily the fault of the depiction so long as it is not an enticement. It is hard to discover a villain in art that isn't evil and in describing his evil you have to motivate him and someone tempted by that motivation may be drawn to it. My point is that that kind of an attack is universal and hence on that argument only vapid literature with no evil characters could be written.