tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post3634051291910429186..comments2023-08-21T03:51:17.425-06:00Comments on Enlightened Catholicism: Some EWTN Chickens Come Home To Roostcolkochhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03432916690101599393noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-22137956495137856132011-10-06T20:39:38.950-06:002011-10-06T20:39:38.950-06:00Ewtn does serve a purpose. It provides clear Cath...Ewtn does serve a purpose. It provides clear Catholic teaching for those who are first learning the faith. Should one probably move on after a few years and only watch the network once in a blue moon, if at all? Well, each person has to make their decision. I intensely dislike the Catholic "celebrity" feel of Ewtn. All because someone has a gift for speaking doesn't make that person a saint, and it seems like, in our desire to uphold others as examples of holiness, we can set ourselves up for disappointment.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-39070475731017699722011-04-16T06:46:53.087-06:002011-04-16T06:46:53.087-06:00Sounds like you are all a bunch of haters. Get ov...Sounds like you are all a bunch of haters. Get over yourselves.clarenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-68020210064617904432011-04-07T17:57:34.116-06:002011-04-07T17:57:34.116-06:00"Definitive answers to questions people have&..."Definitive answers to questions people have"? I'd rather listen to a priest who's in the midst of existential struggle but is engaging that world with faith. Having someone spout pat answers to complex and, at times, overwhelming problems insults people's intelligence.kevin57https://www.blogger.com/profile/01681985465980196347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-49355430021343955202011-04-07T15:15:23.834-06:002011-04-07T15:15:23.834-06:00It's not just the strange priests on that netw...It's not just the strange priests on that network, it's that closet case Raymond Arroyo. I would guess the RNCC is paying him under the table to promote it's causes among tradcath voters. Maybe they've paid Sorrico to service Ray sur la table.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-87988907605995257332011-04-07T04:08:48.793-06:002011-04-07T04:08:48.793-06:00Nobody desires priests who "claim not to have...Nobody desires priests who "claim not to have the truth." Priests who are half as interested in living the gospel as they are in living off the gospel, is what people want.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-64431213291118319722011-04-06T20:03:20.991-06:002011-04-06T20:03:20.991-06:00There's nothing wrong with teaching orthodoxy ...There's nothing wrong with teaching orthodoxy and fundamental beliefs. The Church provides definitive answers to questions people have, and many people elaborate on those. I think it's a little strange to desire priests who claim not to really have the truth on matters.Phil Lynchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10722284149163749749noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-46544223269559267122011-04-06T19:17:25.676-06:002011-04-06T19:17:25.676-06:00Felapton, you may be right about how EWTN normally...Felapton, you may be right about how EWTN normally uses the term enemy, but having read too many comments supporting Corapi that resort to using the word enemy as a reference to Satan, I happen to think EWTN was in fact referencing 'the big guy downstairs".<br /><br />Tim, I don't see why they couldn't do a weekly series featuring a number of different priests. It might go along way to mediating their 'one size fits all Catholicism".<br /><br />Karen, that's an interesting point about a conscious effort by some people to turn EWTN into the Catholic version of CBN, at least in terms of politics. After all, Mother Angelica did her get her start on Pat Robertson's CBN.colkochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03432916690101599393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-78091328435202270802011-04-06T15:50:56.865-06:002011-04-06T15:50:56.865-06:00It also appears to me when EWTN promotes these pri...It also appears to me when EWTN promotes these priests as superstars, and when Corapi, Euteneuer and company start developing their respective groupies and the groupies start buying into the images they see on TV, said groupies are bound to be disappointed. EWTN's financial backers are trying to do with Catholicism what evangelical Protestants did with televangelism, and they are going to encounter the same human problems we saw with Jimmy Swaggart, Ted Haggard, Jim Bakker, Robert Crouch, and Benny Hinn, to name a few.khughes1963https://www.blogger.com/profile/16118365554189078448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-20348678866211181652011-04-06T13:25:51.783-06:002011-04-06T13:25:51.783-06:00In the words of Gladys Knight: "He got dreami...In the words of Gladys Knight: "He got dreamin', that some day he'd be a star."<br />Superstar, but he didn't get far.Translynxnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-77541014787737927322011-04-06T10:52:10.303-06:002011-04-06T10:52:10.303-06:00It also reminds me of Fr. Frank Pavone and his zea...It also reminds me of Fr. Frank Pavone and his zeal for protesting abortion, and his relative inactivity at ordinary parish priest tasks.khughes1963https://www.blogger.com/profile/16118365554189078448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-80717419656228876772011-04-06T08:29:55.439-06:002011-04-06T08:29:55.439-06:00Now if only EWTN would learn it's lesson and s...<i>Now if only EWTN would learn it's lesson and start featuring a few priests who actually have real parishes and do real parish things and don't pretend to have all the answers to all things Catholic.</i><br /><br />That's a tall order, Colleen. Those folks are already far too busy to be able to stop for media events.Timhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04200045196217644013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-77362611318827348532011-04-06T05:52:17.101-06:002011-04-06T05:52:17.101-06:00"... suddenly and immediately take league wit..."... suddenly and immediately take league with the enemy and turn against him."<br /><br />You know, when EWTN talks about "the Enemy," they mean the big guy downstairs. When they talk about "the enemy," I think they mean people like us.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com