Test Show 1 12.3.23

The speaker discusses the recent news about Michael Voris and Church Militant. They mention a YouTube video by Dave Gordon that exposed Voris and his double life. The speaker believes that Voris should not be trusted again and expresses sympathy for him while also criticizing his behavior. They also criticize Church Militant for manipulating donors and accuse them of being the "anti-church within the church." The speaker concludes by expressing their disappointment and apologizing to Voris' fans. All right. Welcome to the new Sienna podcast. Today I'd like to discuss the very disturbing news about Michael Voris and Church Militant. I'm not sure where to begin with this, but if you haven't seen Dave Gordon's YouTube video about exposing Michael Voris and Church Militant, this is what I'm referencing to. Obviously the lay Catholic faithful, who I think is the audience of Church Militant, should have prayed for wisdom and graces for prudence from the moment Michael Voris let the world know of his homosexual tendency and lifestyle. As I recall several years ago, he let people know, he made it public, and he apparently reformed his lifestyle. That sounds great, but in my humble opinion, people who struggle with this heavy cross of, well, any kind of lust or sexually perverted behavior, addictive behavior for long periods of time, they just don't wake up one day and it's all gone. When people have these tendencies, I think that they have to make a bit of reparation usually, and penance, and probably usually live a life of humility and prayer. So we live and we learn. In any case, Dave Gordon revealed what many of us suspected, that Michael Voris has been living a double life, and apparently it's all our worst fears that most of us who work very hard to maintain chaste minds, chaste hearts, and chaste bodies don't even want to think about the abhorrent things he was engaging in. But it is your worst nightmare, apparently. I feel sorry for him. I'm glad that people are praying for him, but that doesn't mean you should ever, ever trust him ever again. I don't even think you should trust church militants ever again. Dave Gordon even admitted that they manipulate the sweet old ladies into donating to them, and what has it done? It's basically been funding the gay lifestyle, and I also think that with this mental disorder comes with, I dare to say, sociopath tendencies where they can't really feel empathy for anybody else, for anybody but themselves, if that makes sense. So we're all supposed to give Michael Voris and church militants the benefit of the doubt, but not the bishops and the priests who have to deal with this, these accusations, constant slander, the whole USCCB at large. I mean, a couple years ago, Michael Voris and Milo, God bless them, were doing prayer rallies in front of the USCCB. Why? And here they're the ones who have been taking advantage of people's generosity, goodwill, and just their desire to seek the truth and have a Catholic life, and they exploited them. They exploited the conservative-minded, pro-life-minded, lay-faithful, and turned them into enemies of the church. In my humble opinion, church militant and Michael Voris, they are the anti-church within the church. I grew up with musings of Malachi Martin, and that was his thing, the anti-church within the church. And, you know, a lot of these priests and some bishops, but especially some of the quote-unquote canceled priests, they blame the bishops. And then we find out, over and over again, that they're liars, and they're the ones who are living these lives of horrible debauchery, something that some of us have really made a lot of sacrifice to protect ourselves and our families from. So, I just wanted to share my thoughts today, and I'm sorry for everybody who was a fan of Michael Voris. It's shocking and disappointing. Anyway, that's my two cents. Thank you for listening to my test show.