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Wed May 17, 2017, 08:39 AM May 2017

Church Militant: A Right-Wing Media Empire in the Making

May 09, 2017
Video by The Atlantic
Author: Daniel Lombroso

Just outside Detroit, a group of radical Catholics run a rapidly growing news organization. Since being established nine years ago, ChurchMilitant.com (then St. Michaels Media) has grown from a tiny media outfit on the fringes of the Catholic world to a 35-person powerhouse reaching an estimated 1.5 million viewers a month. Michael Voris, the founder of Church Militant, is fighting what he sees as the “tyranny” of a liberal America. But, Voris—charismatic, pious, untiring—is grappling with his own complicated past.

https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/525231/church-militant-a-right-wing-media-empire-in-the-making/

10:18 video a link. (Won't embed here.)

If you want to know where the problem is watch this video. Information is superior to broadbrush strokes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Voris

https://www.ncronline.org/blogs/distinctly-catholic/church-militants-nonsense-not-authentically-catholic

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Church Militant: A Right-Wing Media Empire in the Making (Original Post) rug May 2017 OP
These are not religious people. They're just angry. underthematrix May 2017 #1
Sounds like an accurate description of trump's base. rug May 2017 #2
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