It's just that this is the same audience that calls in to talk to mediums and ET contactees and all sorts of nonsense.
Sensible choices of categories of show-topics not to bother with. Be sure to add crop-circles, numerology, NDE, and OBE
I just don't want the Truth comingled amongst the drivel for entertainment/ratings purposes[.]
Altho' host George Noory and his fellow hosts are in the entertainment business, and choose guests accordingly, he handles his guests respectfully. In interviews (of himself), he's insisted that it's his duty as host to let his guests speak, rather than cross-examine or argue with aspects of their presentations that he might consider literally incredible (a word he
does use way too loosely) or even ridiculous.
Noory is also a
cradle Catholic, albeit of the Maronite Church: an Eastern rite (which they claim to be) in communion with the Pope. He's plainly become a New-Ager, but I've never heard him disparage the Catholic Church as an institution, except perhaps as warranted by the on-going sex & financial scandals. Alas, I missed the October 9, 2008 "Fatima Secrets" show, but that having been in the final month before the presidential election, staying awake past 5 a.m. ET before a work-day wouldn't've been an option.
Fr. Malachi Martin would be an outstanding choice, had it not been for his suspicious death (July 27,
1999). But even if he were still alive, he'd be 91 now.
So whom would you have Noory invite in his place? I'd be happy to hear
Bp. Williamson, but perhaps a radio broadcast to C-to-C's huge audience would seem to be a wee bit too brazen a provocation to Menzingen at this time? Maybe
Bp. Pivarunas of CMRI? Would the
TRADITIO Fathers be willing to abandon their anonymity? U.S. Papal
Nuncio Abp. Carlo Vigano, formerly, in effect,
Novus Ordo mayor of Vatican City, exiled to the U.S.A. by Pope Benedict, could make for a very newsworthy show.
From the
dark side, guests might've included
Bp. Fellay, or
Novus Ordo stars like
Card. "Twee"
Mahony, or the expatriate Overseer of the See of Baghdad-by-the-Bay:
Card. Levada, or his fellow expatriate
Abp. Raymond Burke, formerly of St. Louis. Now that Timothy "
What a card!"
Dolan of N.Y. has been deposed (i.e.: given out-of-court testimony under oath to lawyers) 2 weeks ago, about his tenure as Abp. Weakland's successor in Milwaukee, I suspect he's been directed by his
own lawyers to stifle himself.
We may never know who declined C-to-C. invitations. But being a frequent listener, my experience suggests that the greater risk to Catholics is enduring Protestants getting on the air for a chance to do breathless run-on readings of Bible quotations
at the captive audience, trying to advance antiCatholic arguments like those the evangelical-Baptist theologian Cris Putnam did in the
antiCatholic book Petrus Romanus: The FINAL Pope is Here (coäuthored with Thomas Horn, 2012).
It worries me.
I disagree that it ought to. Perhaps as passive listeners to a radio broadcast, instead of as active adversaries of traditional Catholics, some
Novus Ordo "Catholics" will relax enough to actually
listen, and be able to consider setting out on the
path to Catholic tradition.
Note #: Which does
not stand for the
Order of the
British
Empire, any more than NDE stands for something like
Normalized
Differential
Equations.