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RealCatholicTV is a website that ostensibly promotes the more extreme right wing views of the Roman Catholic faith. The main goal of the site is to wipe out heterodoxy and to solidify the power of their version of orthodox Catholicism. However, it should be noted that the Archdiocese of Detroit, which has oversight of Michael Voris (RCTV main spokesperson, and owner along with Marc Brammer) has denied since 2008 that any Real Catholic TV entity has ecclesiastical consent required under Canon 216 to use the word "Catholic" in any endeavors. (Code of Canon Law 216)

The site is the brainchild of "Emmy-Award winning journalist"[1] Michael Voris S.T.B.[2] who has claimed he was incensed by what he considered the lies told about Catholicism in the book and movie, The Da Vinci Code.[3]

HOWEVER, it has been uncovered by bloggers like Mark Shea and "the Curious Catholic" that Voris is more puppet than entrepreneur and Opus Dei member Marc Brammer is the money and driving force. Together, Voris and Brammer created a web of for-profit and non-profit entities under which RCTV operates. (see: What is Real Catholic TV?) Shea's Patheos blog" Catholic and Enjoying It!" exposed Brammer as also being the money behind E. Michael Jones' "Culture Wars," as well. Religion, Politics and Culture carried this interview with Brammer presenting his is version of ties to Voris.

The website also has its own YouTube channel. Considering the amount of effort put into the production of their videos, the site seems to be legitimate, and not a satire or a parody. (Their YouTube videos -- 274 of them as of 16 August 2010 -- usually fit within the ten minute time limit. However, the videos on their website run well over an hour.) This episode of "The Vortex," in which Voris advocates the overthrow of democracy and the institution of Catholic Dictatorship (not by the Pope, but by some unnamed "benevolent Catholic Monarch" was removed from RCTV's Youtube channel. You can view it here (Catholic Government) and find these ideas more subtly suggested by Brammer near the end of the above-referenced interview with Brammer at "Religion, Politics and the Culture."

One of their programs is the Catholic Investigative Agency (CIA), which "devoted to in-depth examination of scandals, betrayals and evil in the Church." Are they referring to priests molesting children? The Magdalene laundry scandal? The Spanish Inquisition? No! Instead, the CIA's purpose is to "bring to light the dark deeds of evil Catholics-in-name-only, who are hijacking the Church for their own ends, not the ends of Christ!"

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[edit] Footnotes

  1. Where, when, why or for what he won an Emmy is not so easy to find.
  2. Smug Toupee-Wearing Bonehead. Oh, sorry. Sacrae Theologiae Baccalaureus, or Bachelor of Sacred Theology. (Why not journalism?)
  3. "Emmy Award-Winning Broadcaster Leads Catholic Media Company", media advisory from Catholic PRWire website, posted 31 March 2008, accessed 16 August 2010.
  4. I.e., the decline of the human race due in part to the effects of overpopulation.
  5. According to him.
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