A closer look at what happened to Michael Voris at the St. Patrick's Day parade when Voris asked scandal loving Cardinal Dolan a simple question (which he dodged).
Now a close up photo image of the unknown man who hustled Voris away from the Cardinal.
And a closer look at what it says on his coat...
Looks to me like it says "POLICE".
My guess... Voris is right that scandalous Cardinal Dolan whined to Joseph Zwilling (green cap) who in turned whined to the police officer probably saying something like "These press people are harassing the Cardinal" or some such nonsense.
What does this prove? Nothing we didn't already know.
Cardinal Dolan is an IMMENSE failure as a Cardinal and a scandalous whining spineless one at that.
Pray for him, he needs all the prayers he can get.
Last summer Michael Voris shared his father Russ Voris' story with The Vortex followers, today we learned more about his mother, Anne Josephine Voris. Thank you Michael, your mother's story is an inspiration to Catholic mothers everywhere who daily worry and fear for their own wayward Catholic children. May parents take heart that there is always hope of bringing a child back to the Faith. God bless.
It is seldom that I disagree withMichael Voris from Church Militant TV, but today I do. It seems
some of the more traditional leaning Catholic crowd (of which I consider
myself) have taken issue with the new “Son of God” movie because it appears to
be “too protestant”.
According to Voris, the main reason it is “too protestant”
is because the film fails to point out the real meaning of the Last Supper –
the institution of the Eucharist. Voris
admits to not yet seeing the film, but he’s come to his conclusion from
watching the movie trailers.
Voris states: "This
movie appears to have been shot alongside The Bible series with an eye to a
larger release. Smart business move – economies of scale, following up on one
success immediately with another, etc.But
here’s the issue – again. America is a protestant nation.So
practically any large scale effort is gonna be tailored to a protestant
audience and when you get something as important as the Second Person of the
Blessed Trinity as a topic up on a movie screen – there’s gonna be issues;
spiritual issues.We’ve
attached a link to the movie’s promotional page. On that page you will find various
video commentaries by mostly protestant religious leaders talking about various
scenes in the movie.The
Last Supper is one such scene. It is a hyper-dramatized scene with emphasis on Jesus
saying goodbye to His Apostles, Him washing their feet, the betrayal of Judas, Peter’s
pledge to die with him if needs be.Nowhere,
beyond the absolute basic mention is there any real suggestion of what the Last
Supper was actually about – which was the institutionalizing of the Holy
Eucharist.That
aspect (The Most Important One) of the Last Supper is so drastically downplayed and
given short shrift, that if someone who watched the movie and knew little or
nothing of
Our Lord beforehand, they would leave still knowing little of Him.The movie (at least the clips they have made
available for viewing so far) is all about emotion – evoking an emotional
response in the viewer – appealing to the emotions directly – to the near
exclusion or bypassing of the intellect.But,
that’s what should be expected in a presentation essentially produced with a Protestant
approach for Protestants.We
haven’t seen the whole movie – but it would be surprising if the scene in John Chapter is treated
with any seriousness – if at all."
Voris goes on to say
that Catholics should not support the movie or any “biblical” movie if it isn’t
done properly from a Catholic point of view.
“Any
movie that tries to present to us the Son of God, and yet skips over one of His
most essential teachings, is definitely not worth support from Catholics.”
Voris is not alone– or he has inspired some of his fans to
poo-poo the movie too after a recent episode of his “The Vortex” show…
Last week EWTN’s Director of Communications Michelle Johnson sent me TWO EWTN
Press Releases promoting the movie, HERE and HERE.
Lucia Bartoli comments: In the name of
orthodoxy please re-review the film. I tend to agree with those whose doctrine
is intact insofar as emotion is not synonymous with salvation. This film,
although "pretty," panders to mainstream (Protestant) Christianity.
Where do Burnett and Downey insist on the emphasis of the "body and
blood?" I was disappointed enough when I learned that Bishops Wuerl and
Gomez found a lot of inspiration in this drek. If I want emotion and drama to
feel all warm 'n fuzzy, then I choose Downton Abbey. Burnett and Downey earned
their Malibu digs on the coattails of Gibson's Passion of the Christ. Hmmm,
they even live in Malibu, as well. Ah, EWTN where hast thou gone? Now you
insist on feeling us this pablum of unCatholic "stuff." God help us
all! Now I understand precisely why our Church is like a vacillating grand dame
who will not dig in her heels and call it like it is.
I am guessing from that comment that Bartoli just watched Voris' "The Vortex" before coming to my blog to read the EWTN press releases. About my own view...I am VERY biased when it comes to actress Roma Downey. I don’t watch ANYTHING that
has the fake "devout Catholic" *yeah right*Roma Downey in it or works on(Downey is divorced twice and remarried to Mark Burnett who is also divorced and remarried at least twice - their 'wedding' was performed by actress DELLA REESE at their Malibu home- hardly "Catholic" but rather ADULTEROUS). Downey may wish to fool her fans with her "I'm a devout Catholic" bit but this Catholic hasn't fallen for it. And to be honest, I have NO IDEA WHY EWTN WOULD PROMOTE THIS WOMAN AS A DEVOUT CATHOLIC. My personal opinion is, you would NEVER see Downey or Burnett being interviewed by Mother Angelica if she were still doing her show. Mother might comment on the movie, but then she would shake her finger at Downey through the camera and give it to her straight between the eyes, as is Mother's style. :) I flat out refused to watch “The Bible” because Downey played Mary -
which in my movie viewing opinion was unforgivable and laughable. Personally, I clearly have NO liking for this false "Catholic" actress and avoid her work, so I will not be watching “Son of God”.
That said, I have to disagree with both Michael Voris and the
comment left on my blog. While I agree
it would be WONDERFUL if EVERY Bible movie/television show ever made was from
an official Catholic view point there can be some good found in any decently
depicted Bible story shown. For example,
it gets people TALKING about Jesus! That’s
a good thing! It takes the place on the
movie screen or television screen of something secular and replaces it with a
Bible story! That’s a good thing! It can
show a real THIRST for God – look at how many people tuned in to watch “The
Bible” last year- people THIRST for God and are eager to hear about Jesus
Christ and His life. That is a good
thing.
This controversy over watching and supporting the “Son of
God” movie because it’s not strongly Catholic reminds me of the complaining
disciples and Jesus’ words to them…
Mark 938 “John said to him, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out
demons in your name, and we tried to stop him, because he was not following
us.”39 But Jesus said, “Do not stop him; for no one who does a
deed of power in my name will be able soon afterward to speak evil of me. 40 Whoever
is not against us is for us. 41 For truly I tell you, whoever
gives you a cup of water to drink because you bear the name of Christ will by
no means lose the reward.”New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
(NRSVCE)
Footnotes:
Mark 9:38
Other ancient authorities add who does not follow us
So while the presumed Protestant leaning view of the Bible
in the “Son of God” movie may not be perfect because it doesn’t strongly enough
show the institution of the Eucharist at the Last Supper, it’s not all bad.
“Whoever is not against us is for us.”
While I don’t particularly like Downey or the fact that this
movie isn’t done in a perfect Catholic view point, I can see that it may have
merit in other areas. The Word of God
NEVER goes out without producing fruits. Michael Voris is a “cradle Catholic” and I am a convert. I know NOW that my old Protestant Bibles were
lacking and did not contain the FULLNESS of the Catholic faith because books,
chapters and verses were missing from those Protestant Bibles, yet I still
found God among those pages and those Bibles –missing parts as they were- they still
helped lead me to the Catholic Faith.
If assorted Protestant Bibles missing entire books, chapters
and verses can feed people and lead them to the Truth found in His Holy
Catholic and Apostolic Church, then a mere movie depicting a few moments in our
Lord’s life can too.
I had no idea I was in for a breathtaking love story.
Russ Voris was a protestant who fell in love with a lovely
Catholic English woman during the war.
They fell in love, got married, returned to the United States and
started their family.
Russ weaves the wonderful story of his life through the eyes
of a convert falling in love with his soul mate and the only Church Jesus Christ created
on earth. Listening to him talk about
the beauty of the Church that he could see- if not understand- as a protestant.
My heart leapt! I
understood that! I was a convert
too! He speaks of the DRAW… the PULL of
God’s Holy Catholic Church to deep within us even when we don’t understand it,
and when we fight against it because of misunderstanding.
But the Truth can’t be denied to a person who TRULY seeks
God.
Mr. Voris speaks from his deep love of the Church and about how attending Church was decades ago…the reverence, the awe people had in truly WORSHIPING God-
not attending a social gathering of Catholics.
But rather Catholics gathering to WORSHIP God regardless of whom else
was there.
When he comments on some of the things he’s seen in the
Church after Vatican II… you can hear the heartbreak in his voice. The nostalgia for what was lost, not only for
himself, but for people today who don’t know what they are missing out on! People who just show up to Mass as a “duty”
or obligation, rather than an awe filled time to truly WORSHIP God.
I get that.
While I love the people in my parish, there is a terrible
lack of reverence all too often during Mass.
Every week- and I mean EVERY WEEK- the ushers have conversations at the
back of the parish DURING Mass. I hear
about sports, the weather, the change in their pockets that they constantly
jiggle and discussions on other people in the parish. This is weekly.
Last week I could hardly hear the homily because the
conversation was so lively at the back of the Church between the ushers. Kneeling after Communion while TRYING to pray
and thank God for the Eucharist I am bombarded with sports scores! This is wrong. Where is the reverence? Where is the RESPECT for God AND for the
people TRYING to worship?
Russ Voris has experienced the same frustrations as I. Frustration or not, the love for his faith didn't falter.
You can hear that love in his wonderfully aged
voice. I was sitting literally on the edge of my seat eagerly listening to this delightful man take me on a journey through his life. A life with two great loves (of course his children too). He speaks mostly of the love of the Church, but from listening to him, I don't know if he would have found that love, if not for his first great love. The other great love in his life
was his wife Anne, whom he lost to cancer some years ago after September 11th, 2001.
He tells the story of meeting her, falling in love and her
being a Catholic while he was a protestant.
He concludes with the … beautiful story of her painful death.
Yes, I know that sounds weird… even wrong, but you have to
listen to him!
He gets it!
He gets the beauty in LIVING a Catholic life AND in dying a
Catholic. It’s a blessing. We all have to die some day, but far too many do not die Catholic. That is a tragedy. But for a practicing Catholic, dying a Catholic is a BLESSING. A blessing his dear wife had at the end of
her time on earth. I went through half a box of tissues listening to this man
speak of the tremendous love he holds for his Faith and his departed wife. You really have to listen to Mr. Voris explain it. Even in this family's sadness and heartbreak at losing this beloved woman, they saw and understood the blessing it is to die a Catholic. His testimony of his life, from single to married, from protestant to Catholic is wonderfully touching.
What a tribute of love.
His story would make for a wonderful Catholic movie.
I HIGHLY recommend taking the time to hear Russ Voris tell
the story of his life and the great loves in it.
Here is Russ Voris...
Thank you Mr. Russ Voris for sharing your love story with me and
thank you so much Michael Voris for sharing your wonderful father with all of
us. What a blessing you have in him. God bless you both.
"Some kind of institutional schizophrenia has apparently seized hold at the American Bishops headquarters in Washington DC – and its being recognized over here in Rome. It was recently reported by the wonderful folks at Life Site News that the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops “official overseas relief and development agency” .. Catholic Relief Services recently doled out over 5 million dollars to CARE .. “an international “relief and development organization” which actively promotes contraception around the world. Let’s boil it down .. The US bishops are suing over the Obamacare mandate in the United States because it forces health insurance payments for contraception. YET .. OUTSIDE the United States they are handing money to international organizations that promote and advance contraception .. the very thing they are fighting AGAINST on the other side of the Atlantic. What in the heck is going on at USCCB headquarters. When Our Blessed Lord said .. do not let you right hand know what your left hand is doing .. it’s pretty certain THIS is not what He was talking about."
