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Faithful Catholics are also paying a price when they hear some of the sarcastic and negative editorializing that's done on Mother Angelica's network regarding this pope. Like the in-flight papal press conferences and Vatican interviews, I wish it would stop. I don't follow EWTN but sporadically. I can better appreciate your point with a worse case example. I'm not one to frequent the network either, but I heard enough of Richard Arroyo just once to send me reeling. I've no EWTN archival links to send you, but that once was enough, believe me. I found his style smug and arrogant.
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I hadn't realized Raymond Arroyo and EWTN so provoked the Pope's ire: Asked by another Jesuit at the same gathering how he felt by those who view him with suspicion, Francis replied, “There is, for example, a large Catholic television channel that has no hesitation in continually speaking ill of the pope.
“I personally deserve attacks and insults because I am a sinner, but the church does not deserve them. They are the work of the devil. I have also said this to some of them.”
The TV channel he referred is EWTN, according to the National Catholic Reporter.
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“Raymond Arroyo, the host of EWTN’s ‘The World Over,’ has interviewed many of Pope Francis’ most fervent critics, including Archbishop Viganò, Trump adviser Steve Bannon and Cardinal Raymond Burke.” [ religionunplugged.com] During a visit with Jesuits in Slovakia, Pope Francis complained about “a large Catholic television channel that has no hesitation in continually speaking ill of the pope.” Vatican Journalists immediately identified the American media company as EWTN, founded in Alabama in 1981 by the late Mother Angelica.
One of the most vocal critics of the pope is EWTN’s news director and lead anchor, Raymond Arroyo, who sponsors a “papal posse” of critics of Francis. He frequently appears on “The Ingraham Angle” on the Fox News channel.
“I personally deserve attacks and insults because I am a sinner,” said the pope, “but the church does not deserve them. They are the work of the devil.”
He also complained of “clerics who make nasty comments about me.” He acknowledged, “I sometimes lose patience, especially when they make judgments without entering into a real dialogue.” [ sltrib.com]
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