I Am Christian (roman Catholic) Forum & Chat Board | Is it wrong to criticise EWTN ?

I am a man who has had experience of the Traditionalist Church and Novus Ordo Mass, but I find it increasingly difficult to sympathise or agree with much of the output on the Eternal Word Network . I do not like the attitude of both presenters on the youth programme and am often deeply disturbed by the excesses, politicisations and superstitions (about guardian angels) involved in the call in show Women of Grace. I have expressed my problems many times to the station and they never once acknowledge replies or change things that are doctrinally out of line. I know maybe I should not pester, but I have found a few people who page other parts of the internet who express great reservations about the station foundress who calls herself Mother Angelica (she has had other religious names) Sometimes she seems lost in a dream world about what she thinks the Church should be, she is obsessive about sending people to confession(as she still calls it) and she trades in relics over the phone. Her anecdotal approaches are utterly bizarre and she definitely believes that her own suffering in this life is part of the Passion of Jesus! How can this be? There was a programme the other day that insisted that we are now in the Millennial reign of the Lord...this cannot be right. Does anyone
share my deep distress at these programmes ?

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Sorry to sound a snob, but this reply writer cannot even spell the things he or she is referring to-to simply insist that Mother Angelica does not deal in relics when she does is wrong and to let the station off the hook by referring to Saint Paul is also bad. Mother Angelica is not saint Paul although she might in her madness think she is. I did not ask for people who like EWTN to send their blandishments, I need to find people who agree with me that the station is  superstitious mess.I am not at all interested in religious illiterates who find it worthy of such praise and attention. Sorry again, but I lose patience with these people.

 

It is also becoming very clear to me that Mother Angelica has fabricated a miraculous history involving herself (!) and her hideously tasteless shrine in Hanceville Alabama. She has copied with very little astuteness the cult of the Infant Christ from people she met in Latin America and what is even more disgusting is that she publishes pictures of herself miraculously crowned with thorns like a tortured mystic in the hope that she can delude thousands of Americans into thinking she is a saint. The amount of money that she has spent on this monument is obscene. You  would think she would have more to say about starvation and helping the poor, but she does not. In my opinion, this woman shows signs of being dangerously ill with delusions of grandeur and her constant anecdotes and horrible laughter are not worth the bandwidth they are broadcast on. I have reached these conclusions through research and find the whole order that she runs a deep embarrassment to my faith and morals. It is a hoax and she has no right whatever to deceive people in such a bare faced way. Now do you see where I am coming from on this?

 

I could be wrong, but, to me, that does not sound like something that Mother Angelica (she does not seem like the scheming or self-deluded type, and sure that not everyone finds the Hanceville shrine gaudy). Anyway, if you do not like shows like "Mother Angelica Live," "Women of Grace," or any of the kids' shows, there are plenty of others on the channel, many of which are intellectually stimulating. "The Journey Home," "The World Over," "EWTN Live," "G.K. Chesterton," and Fr. Groeschel's show (even if he seems to get a little too ecumenical at times), not to mention re-runs of "Live is Worth Living" are among the programs that I really like.

 

so you don't agree with EWTN, who says you have to? Go listen to something that speaks to YOUR faith then.

 

I contacted EWTN about a woman who was affiliated with a pseudo-Catholic cult condemned in it's founding country of Brazil, "Tradition, Family & Property"/TFP aka "America Needs Fatima"/ANF and its splinter group, "Tradition In Action"/TIA. Those shows were pulled and not repeated. My only EWTN beef was cleared up. It's hard belching out content without a Bishop Sheen in your back pocket.  While the quality can be irregular on EWTN, it's more than a little appreciated by this talk radio junkie. It's cheap to get studio-quality recording equipment, and if you think you've got the right stuff, I'd urge investing in it and canning some home-made SOUL FOOD for consumption on EWTN. They may pick you up.

 

ewtn is by far the most out of touch bunch of bull ever. the pope was a member of hilters youth movement. 
how can you develop a personal relationship with god, when a priest tells you the same thing every week

 

You sure do not know the Catholic Church. The Priests speaks about the daily readings. (called a Homily) The Daily readings are different every day. It is not likely that say the same thing every time. 
We are Eucharistic centered. We come to worship our Lord. We believe that Jesus is physically present in the the Bread and Wine. We are not the only ones to believe this, in fact , all Christians believed this for nearly 1600 years until Luther decided he did not agree.

Food for thought, if it was merrily a wording issue that lead all Christians to believe this for the first 15 centuries. Wouldn't Jesus (being God) just have worded it differently?