Posted on 06/17/2016 7:29:07 AM PDT by mainestategop
Michael Voris, the ceo of St Michael's Media and Church Militant TV and host of the popular internet show the Vortex (where lies and falsehoods are sucked up trapped and exposed) has recently come out about his past before he returned to the Catholic faith after leading what he claimed was a sinful and bad life.
Michael Voris revealed recently the full blown truth about it. Michael it turns out was gay. According to Voris, he despised his past so much that he did not ever mention what happened. That was until the Archdiocese of New York which had allowed openly gay priests and which was a big target of attack by Voris and CCMTV began to collect information about Voris, attacking him for his views against gays, birth control, so called social justice movements and other things.
After taking a weeklong hiatus, Voris came back and opened up about his former lifestyle before repenting and coming back to the Catholic faith.
Voris is a consecrated celebate who in the past has claimed that his refusal to marry and start a family is related to his work and did not have the time. This it turns out is half the truth. Voris' consecration was rooted in his gay past and his desire to abandon and leave it.
According to Michael, he's not born that way, but says it is a learned behavior and that freedom is possible to conform to God's way which is true love and to family and marriage as well as being conformed to laws of nature and natures God. Michael Voris reveals he was freed from homosexual lifestyle by Jesus Christ.
The internet sensation who has been zealous in exposing error and falsehood even where bishops are concerned, has long admitted he was a revert from a sinful sexual lifestyle, but never before revealed its specific nature.
“I have said many times in public that I was in a state of mortal sin, and had I died, I would have been damned,” said Voris in a Vortex episode released Thursday. “I will now reveal that for most of my years in my thirties, confused about my own sexuality, I lived a life of live-in relationships with homosexual men,” he said. Voris stressed that those grave sins took place before his “reversion to the Faith.”
“Since my reversion, I abhor all these sins, especially in the world of the many, many other sins I have committed having nothing to do with sexuality,” added Voris.
Voris said he decided to reveal the details of his past on the basis of his receipt of information suggesting that “the New York archdiocese is collecting and preparing to quietly filter out details of my past life with the aim of publicly discrediting me, this apostolate and the work here.” But beyond that impetus, Voris says he regrets not revealing the nature of his sins before because it was “limiting God” and perhaps not letting his example inspire others in homosexual lifestyles to turn to God for help.
“From the time of my return to the Faith, I have wanted nothing than for others to experience the joy and life-giving truth of the Catholic Church,” said Voris, “to know that the dead can be raised, to deeply consider what is truly meant by ‘With God all things are possible.’"
“He can even restore your formerly shattered, confused sexuality,” added Voris. “It does not matter whatever the issue, whatever the sin, whatever the depth of the deepest darkness, there is nowhere God can not come to you and rescue you.”
During the Vortex special, Voris said that he "apologizes to anyone who is wounded” by the revelations, noting that he “did not intend to deceive” but only “didn't see the need to provide up-close detail of past sins.”
The revelation of Voris' past by Voris has been met with a mainly positive view. Catholics and Protestants including your's truly who have viewed Voris' programs for some time now are ecstatic about it and find it a blessing. Meanwhile gays particularly so called gay catholics especially those in New York who have borne the brunt of Voris' criticism have revamped their attacks on Voris. All of which thankfully have been in vain.
In the author's opinion, the timing of this revelation is best. Waiting to reveal this truth has given Church militant and St Michael's media the time and the fan base to counter any attacks by the gay community against him. The Archdiocese of NY is already reeling and rumor has it that Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Arch bishop may be closer to resigning.
Congratulations and best of luck to Michael Voris from all of us here at New England Alliance for Liberty and Free Markets, best of luck and hope for future broadcasts that will deal a telling blow to the gates of hell.
Sad to say but the Catholic religion has gone gay all the way.
No it has NOT!!
If you say so. I am not talking about the parishioners, but rather the hierarchy. I still stand by my observations though.
I was and still am both a fan and a subscriber of Church Militant TV. I have great respect for Michael Voris, especially with the way he handled this.
That being said, we have to be careful against rushing to judgment against Dolan and the Archdiocese of New York in this specific matter. Voris did not offer any evidence that they were planning to reveal his past. They have denied it.
While I may be more inclined to believe Voris—and I am—I’m not ready to just assume that the information he received was accurate.
Voris’s attacks on Catholic Answers Radio tells me many things that I need to know about his character and judgement (not good).
I have always appreciated Voris’ work, and now understand the reason for his tenacity. Keep up the good work.
Mary, Mother of God, pray for us.
Sadly some clergy can be the problem. They either are gay or fail to see the problem with it.
Add to this you have leftists in the seminary. Case in point: Fr Mike Pfleger of St Sabian in Chicago. To give you an idea of what he's like he helped write the movie Chi-raq and the priest is based on him. The eulogy for the girl's funeral was also written by him.
Instead of blaming hip hop culture, instead of blaming bad parenting and illegitimacy in the black community, instead of blaming organized crime, he blames not only guns and the NRA but banks and people not willing to take a high risk to give businesses a loan.
According to Pfleger, the reason there is crime in South side Chicago is because black people can't get a loan to start a business "no! no! no! no! Were sorry but no!"
As I mentioned in my review of Chi-raq, the reason no one wants to loan to anyone in South Chicago is because the risk is too high. Any business set up there would not be profitable due to high crime rates. Taxes and regulations are also too high Add to this many of them lack the proper education to start a small business. Take it from someone who knows like me.
Blacks who want to start a business and better themselves need to stop pandering to liberals like Spike Lee, to bad shepherds like Jeremiah Wright and Fr. Mike and uproot to another community that is safer and prosperous not to mention godly.
The church itself isn't the problem. Its the flock and the shepherds who are reflected by the flock.
Let’s be clear about what the NY archdiocese has done, according to the ChurchMilitant, which is far from going gay all the way:
A vicar general, Monsignor Mustaciuolo, is accused of turning somewhat of a blind eye to a priest who has a relationship — professed to be a friendship, but supposedly a sexual one — with a gay-for-pay prostitute Keith Crist.
It’s not a total blind eye: the ChurchMilitant claims that Kieth has been banned from church property, so at least there is some concern about the appearance of impropriety. And believe it or not, a priest, having given up a secular profession for one which has no secular counterpart he can just switch to, does have some rights. It would actually be unjust to fire someone in his position without proof. The scandal is that the archdiocese doesn’t seem to be interested in establishing the truth of the rumors.
This is a far cry from ordaining openly fornicating homosexual priests, blessing gay marriages, etc.,
What do Catholic FReepers say to this? I ask because it would seem that doing what Voris is doing now would be reparation. We all have sins in our past that we abhor. Is not campaigning against them an appropriate way to make up for them?
This is not my usual snark; I actually want to know. Yes, maybe Voris should spend the rest of his life praying on his knees. But then who would do what he is currently doing?
There are so many aspects of this “gay” problem. Our food
supply is contaminated & manipulated FOR PROFIT to the
point where it is the source of simple dietary causes of
Low-T among men & High-T among women which aggravates the
problem.
God Bless Michael Voris!
Seems to me I remember him saying, in an earlier post, that Monsignor Mustaciuolo, was a bit more involved than just turning a blind eye.
>> One Catholic web site carried an opinion piece that because of his past, Voris should not be engaging in apologetics or activism in the church at all, but should spend the rest of his life in a monastery atoning and making reparation for his sins. <<
It’s absolutely absurd, designed to just shut him up. Sounds like a Mark Shea tactic.
I love it when people volunteer OTHERS to go off to a monastery and live fifty years on bread and water “making reparation.”
Sodomy is a grave sin, but the reason most people think it’s the GRAVEST of all sins, and rant and rave at enormous length against it, is that they find it disgusting. Archb. Sheen was asked the secret of being a popular preacher: “Preach about the sins they don’t commit.”
Christ’s most ardent followers were the least “pure.”
AMEN, brother!
I seem to remember a young murderer named Saul ...
Indeed. To him much was given.
Sad to say but the Catholic religion has gone gay all the way.
yes, quite unlike the UCC and the Episcopalians...
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