As you probably know by now, Michael Voris has been ousted by St. Michael's Media/Church Militant for violating a "morality clause." Voris released a video which can be found on his X account as did Christine Niles who apparently left the company a few weeks ago.
I first met Michael in 2012. I was the Cantor at a traditional Latin Mass community where he had heard about the pastor and had him visit Detroit and appear on a video for a chat about the traditional Mass. Michael would visit the parish and there were at least two fundraisers organized by people there for what was then Real Catholic TV, later renamed. I knew him from these visits and fundraisers as well as conferences in Toronto. During that time, I did not suspect anything untoward about him.
For those newer readers, in February 2015, a papal spokesman, head of Salt + Light Television, and Basilian priest Thomas J. Rosica launched a lawsuit against me for alleged defamation.
The Priest vs. The Blogger: A Case in Canadian Conflict – Catholic World Report
Vatican Spokesman Threatens to Sue Catholic Blogger (breitbart.com)
That evening, after hearing it from a mutual friend, Michael Voris contacted me to help. Michael and I, my wife, and that loyal friend collaborated on a plan. He was instrumental in creating pushback from bloggers all around the world in multiple languages. The publicity generated and the legal strategy that followed forced Rosica into a humiliating public retreat. Funny enough, it still appears on his Wikipedia, though not with the bold sub-heading, as previously.
A year later, I defended Voris against the advice of someone dear to me. He had made the decision to "out" himself before an expected public outing regarding his sodomitical past that was about to break. There was an effort then by some associated with St. Michael's Media to have him leave quietly and prevent the scandal. Voris refused. He was media savvy and understood how one had to get out in front of a story. He did and it worked. I owed the man my thanks and I stood by him. I remember the day specifically and the telephone call tipping me off to what was coming. I do not regret standing by him. I have a sense of loyalty. After all, while not suffering from the sins of his past, I have my own, we all do.
But, it was not long after that I saw and became aware of certain other matters. Some were public, such as his irrational and almost pathological attack on the Society of St. Pius X, notwithstanding any failings by specific clerics. In addition to that, there was a falling out of any sense of cooperation and camaraderie with other Catholics in the new media. Nobody seemed good enough for Michael. The laudable goal by Michael Matt to "unite the clans" fell on deaf ears in Detroit. I stopped following Voris, removed links from here to there, and stopped any communication. Simon Rafe and others associated lacked any sense of loyalty to me in communications. It was time to permanently cut my ties.
But there is more that cannot be discussed other than this.
I am keenly aware of something greater here and I see the hand of Almighty God in it. One of God's servants had been terribly persecuted and lied about and in this, Voris had a hand, a very big hand. I am angered by what he did. Niles and Rafe were his minions when I approached them about it and they were cultlike in their defense of him and attacked me for daring to question their motives. There was an attempt to destroy a good man. I am still upset by it all. Yet, this man bore this persecution with faith, love, patience, humility, and personal suffering. throughout. His steadfastness has now been rewarded as he is restored in every way, no; in even better ways. God is good and has reached down and picked up his servant and washed him in the salve of love and mercy and set him on a new road to carry out His work.
At the same time that this restoration was underway, another had begun - the humiliation of Michael Voris is a result of his own hubris, arrogance, ego, and narcissism. It is the same with the aforementioned Thomas Rosica who through his "plagiarism" (this writer was the first to expose it here), was brought down low. Both of these men despised each other as the record shows. Both of these men have had their public reputations degraded by their own actions. Both of them unjustly attacked innocent men. As God was not finished with that good man and restored him, and protected me and my family God is not finished with Thomas Rosica or Michael Voris. May their well-deserved humiliation and degradation work for their salvation.
Pray for all involved.
5 comments:
Vox
Thank you for your thoughts.
Anyone who goes up against the dark forces of this world finds out real quick just how vicious and vile the conditions are... Men found that out about Feminism 20 years ago and Communism before that... Now the battle ground has moved into other areas... The people who are getting hit by it are really angry... The ones who are pushing the demonic agendas are obstinately quadrupling down... Seems like it's all going to lead to scorched earth... Which is exactly what has been predicted to happen before stuff gets any better... I+N+R+I.
When reasonable dialog and the synodal way of accompaniment has broken down on all fronts and has yielded only sour fruit (abortion, gender ideology, vaccine evidence, climate alarmism), it is no wonder how an aggressive Voris voice can rise to some prominence. When the principle of non-contradiction is dismissed as irrelevant and illogical conclusions are forced upon an unwilling people, a Vortex where "lies and falsehoods are trapped and exposed" is a welcomed ally, even if it upsets and insults those who are targeted. While Voris did go after the TLM and the likes of the likable Taylor Marshall, he was equally endorsed by the honorable Terry Barber and Jesse Romero. The dismissal of Michael Voris may very well signify the shift from a Church Militant to a Church suffering and persecuted.
@ Cybro
You said: "Men found that out about Feminism 20 years ago and Communism before that... Now the battle ground has moved into other areas..."
These areas are all connected and... emerging /so called forces of progress in the Church talk about the Church emerging, once they put mechanism in place that cause an avalanche of consequences; they then call the the inevitable crushing power of an avalanche "a god of surprises"/. Even the progression of "studies" in institutions of allegedly higher learning, shows an undeniable logic: Women's studies, Queer Studies, Gender studies and Critical Race Theory.
After women's studies were introduced, gender theory was only a matter of time.
Unfortunately, even on the side of republicans in the USA and so called conservatives in Canada (fiscally conservative, socially progressive - what is that if not the devils' work), the root problem is never addressed. In order to change anything for the better, in order to bring back reason and logic, we must go back to feminism and dismantle the lies piece by piece. Feminism and gender theory are one and the same, one a caterpillar, the other a (multicolour, rainbow so to speak) butterfly.
It is the same thing, the denial of reality and the natural order.
If was inevitable that with this denial biological reality of the human body itself would be deemed oppressive.
Thank you, Vox. May all involved find peace.
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