Michael Voris Quits CMTV, Going to Work for Mark Shea
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Wednesday, October 22, 2014 BREAKING: Michael Voris Quits CMTV, Going to Work for Mark Shea Written by Chris Jackson | Remnant Columnist Editor's Note: Allium-Cepa is Latin for onion. The Remnant's sister "news" organization is A-CNN-- Allium-Cepa News Network. Attention humor-challenged Neo-Catholic friends: You might want to Google ‘The Onion’ if you still don’t get it. MJM)
As many of you know, Michael Voris recently apologized for reporting Cardinal Raymond Burke’s statement that Pope Francis was doing harm to the Church (See Video HERE). Hours later, however, Voris came to the conclusion that his own logic additionally forbade him from continuing on at CMTV. In a statement released minutes ago, Voris says the following:
“Clarification (Part Deux)
Hello everyone. Michael Voris coming to you from Rome with a second clarification.
Today I aired a breaking news report apologizing for my egregious and sinful behavior in reporting the words of Cardinal Burke that Pope Francis is harming the Church.
However , after further reflection, I have realized that I can no longer continue saying on air how cardinals, bishops and priests are harming the Church either. Yes, it is true that for a long time I have disliked the bishops and have openly mocked them. I have practically created a cottage industry out of combing though every syllable they utter and producing reams of criticisms over them. I have introduced to the Catholic world things that most Catholics would never hear of if it weren’t for my ongoing discussions of them. I have been sewing massive and countless doubts in the minds of many Catholics about the bishops ’legitimacy and authority and driving them to consider leaving the Church and entering the SSPX….I’m sorry, not the SSPX….I simply meant “independent Catholic enclaves that exercise no legitimate authority in the Church.”
I wish to make abundantly clear that in no way shape or form do I condone anything of the sort.The bishops are legitimate bishops and any kind of pretended communion with the Church while rejecting the bishops is not possible.You are either in full communion or you are not.
In short, my mistakes over the years are now being used to make hay and I decry that. For example Cardinal Dolan is a bishop. He is a Prince of the Church. We are called to love the successors of the Apostles, to pray for them. His is the first name I mention in offering up my daily flagellations, recitation of the Divine Office, diet of bread and water, wearing of a hair shirt, and caring for stray puppies at my local humane society.
I have dedicated the remainder of my life to serving the Church and to have to consider that I did something that brought some harm to Her makes me heart sick. On a personal note, to show you how bothered in spirit I am by my actions, I have made a general confession and will forgo receiving Holy Communion one day for every time I have criticized a cardinal bishop or priest. Thus, according to my calculations I will begin to receive Holy Communion again sometime in the next Presidential administration.
Indeed, the bishops should not be publicly criticized by a lay Catholic, much less mocked and called insulting names and made the butt of jokes. If I continue to do that, then I will have to give an account to Our Lord for mocking His princes when I die.
I want no part of that. Again, I was mistaken, and that mistake should not be being multiplied by those who see it as an opportunity.
As a consequence, I can no longer make videos or work at CMTV.
