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Hello everyone,

Just in the event that it might be helpful, I thought I would register here, make myself available to answer any of your questions and, hopefully, dispel the need to speculate unproductively.

Thank you.  

Why does Michael Voris (or, CMTV) not criticize any of the public and scandalous sins against the faith committed by the post-conciliar pontiffs?  

I'll try to give you a reasonably short but still truthful answer: Because there is no authority over the Pope to whom we can complain or appeal, so all that would be accomplished by criticizing the Pope is to facilitate a loss of Faith in the Church by already troubled Catholics.  And then, Quo Vadis?  If any other religious person or office abuses their office in some way, there is an appeal process that at least allows the hope for correction.  So we choose to emphasize whatever is good in the life and actions and teachings of the Holy Father, and pretty much ignore everything else, at least in public.

The reality is that we who frequent settings like this are all more aware of things going on in the Church than most of the world around us.  The typical Catholic in the pews is not a "Catholic news junkie" and they don't need to know what they don't need to know, by which I mean "news" that would make them feel hopeless and possibly cause a crisis of faith.

We are absolutely aware of things that we choose not to report.  We (CMTV) were attacked during "The Assisi Events" for not criticizing them.  We know as well as anyone that those "Assisi Events" were capable of causing (and did cause) great scandal because, even if not intended, those events looked like "religious indifferentism on display."  The participants, of course, would all reject this interpretation, so reporting on this "awkward" moment would merely stir up trouble among people who most likely didn't even know the event was happening and then they would hear (maybe) that what looked like "religious indifferentism" really wasn't.  We would be causing confusion, not providing helpful clarity.

We deliberately ignore "Uncle Billy"moments out of a desire to maintain as much unity as possible within the rather fractured Catholic family.  The crisis in the Church today is beyond description.  It's important that people know this.  It's not important to know what they can do nothing about.  We maintain union with the Holy Father and encourage others to do the same.  We don't see any other alternative as either workable or consistent with Our Lord's promises to His Church. We seek to fraternally correct our brothers and sisters, which includes elder brothers and sisters in authority, but we are not leaving the family or attacking the head.

Does this help?

I would like to add that I think you are obligated to report the truth. Even if it offends the typically uninformed Catholic. It is our obligation to seek out the truth, but once we find it we need to share it. Michael Voris is in an excellent position to do this.