Is there some reason EWTN shouldn't have shows for children? I expect the Doughnut Man and the chef's hat wearing puppets were just that.
More seriously, I am not sure what to make of the"healthy secularity" comment. Perhaps His Excellency means that, given the reality that England is an existentially secular state and will remain so, he hopes that it will be healthy enough to respect the rights of religion and basic morality.
The comments about a robust Anglicanism are easier to understand. People are abandoning the C of E in droves, but they are not becoming Catholics. They are becoming just the sort of secularists the bishop (and people here) fear. Committed Anglicans would be our allies on a number of things. Weak, vaguely Anglican liberals will not. I think this is much the same attitude that that the Orthodox Church, as embodied by Metropolitan Hilarion, takes toward us.
Now, does the bishop really think a robust Anglicanism is better that an Anglicanism consigned to the history books because they have all become Catholics? I don't know. He is not much of a Catholic bishop if so.
EWTN just calls them children shows to have an excuse for allowing modernist garbage on there. Mother Angelica never allowed anything like that, if that tells you anything. What it should tell you is that the network went from Traditional to modernist with a few Traditional things thrown in every once and a while. EWTN doesn't need shows like that to appeal to children. Parents should be encouraging their kids to watch Mother Angelica or the Traditional Latin Mass instead of some guy passing out doughnuts.
Topic: EWTN Irony (Read 1501 times)