LifeSiteNews.com  reported on November 3, 2010:

The internet has provided a means for orthodox Catholics to skirt or otherwise defeat the blockading of an orthodox voice in the media, said Michael Voris, creator and public face of RealCatholicTV, an internet-based apologetics organization, in an interview with the Associated Press this week.

AP’s Rachel Zoll quoted John Allen, the Vatican correspondent for the liberal National Catholic Reporter, who has coined the term “Taliban Catholic” to describe orthodox Catholics who insist that the Catholic Church’s hierarchy and administration toe the line of authentic Catholic teaching, especially on life and family issues. Liberal critics such as Allen suggest that these lay pioneers of internet-based alternative media are stepping out of line, attempting to “purge dissenters” from the Church.

But Michael Voris told LifeSiteNews.com today that he and his colleagues, as well as a handful of other groups like Austria’s Gloria TV, are only doing what they are called to do by virtue of their baptism.

He told Rachel Zoll, “We’re no more engaged in a witch hunt than a doctor excising a cancer is engaged in a witch hunt. We’re just shining a spotlight on people who are Catholics who do not live the faith.”

Michael Voris started his career in mainstream television, and after a conversion, started St. Michael’s Media, and then RealCatholicTV as a means of spreading Catholic teaching in a Church that he says has given up doing so at the official level.

He told LSN, “We move on the assumption that the vast majority of adult Catholics simply don’t know their faith because it never been presented to them. They might have got a piece of it here or there, but for the most part they don’t understand 90 per cent. They haven’t been taught.

Voris spoke about the growth of his work, from its start just two years ago. “We have a circulation that would make any diocesan newspaper envious. When a video has finished its run on Youtube, it’s been seen maybe 15,000 times.

“My hope is that this large group is able to tune in and say ‘I never heard that before’.”

The project is starting to bear fruit in conversions and reversions to the faith. Voris says that his office constantly receives emails, phone calls and letters from viewers who say they have learned more about the Catholic faith from his work than they ever did from the official Church.

“One fellow on Youtube said, ‘I’m a Protestant but I keep watching the Vortex and I keep becoming a weaker and weaker Protestant.”

But his intention has never been to exclude or “purge” anyone. “A bunch of people who want to be dissenters aren’t going to like it,” he said. “But it’s not our goal to squeeze anyone out.”

Voris was not so gentle about the Catholic hierarchy, however: “Bishops are a different story from the laity who aren’t catechized.”

“The current disaster in the Church is the fault of the bishops and the priests who have failed to teach the faith. Lay Catholics must realize that in many cases they’re not hearing the fullness of the truth. And that’s the bishops’ fault. They need to be called out.”

Bishops around the world, he said, have “refused” to say “uncomfortable” things about birth control or homosexuality. He pointed to the current move in several parts of the Catholic world to reduce the number of days outside of Sundays that Catholics are under a serious obligation to attend Mass.

“The constant stream, the constant message, is that being Catholic is fourth or fifth on the list of importance in life.”

The work of groups like RealCatholicTV garnered criticism from Terrence C. Donilon, the spokesman for the archdiocese of Boston, who told AP, “The lack of civility is very disturbing.”

This accusation of a “lack of civility” or “a lack of charity” is becoming a common one for Catholic officialdom to level at Catholic internet activists. It was reiterated in 2009 by a member of the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Social Communications. During a Vatican-sponsored conference in Rome last year, Fr. Thomas Rosica, the head of Canada’s Salt and Light Television, suggested the creation of “some sort of framework or guidelines” for bloggers and other internet sites that are pressing for a greater emphasis on doctrinal orthodoxy from the Church. There has to be “some form of oversight provided by the Church,” Rosica said.

A similar suggestion of top-down control was also made in the UK by the Catholic bishops where a small group of bloggers, made up mainly of ordinary diocesan priests, lay students and housewives, has been a thorn in the side of a hierarchy heavily dominated by the left.

Last June Bishop Gabino Zavala, the head of the U.S. bishops’ conference communications committee, said that there is “consistent agreement” between bishops that the orthodox Catholic blogs and websites are “most alarming.”

“We are particularly concerned about blogs that engage in attacks and hurtful, judgmental language. We are very troubled by blogs and other elements of media that assume the role of Magisterium and judge others in the Church. Such actions shatter the communion of the Church that we hold so precious.”

Those involved in the alternative Catholic media projects say they expect opposition to grow the more they increase their influence in the Church and secular politics through savvy use of the internet.

The “Taliban Catholic” term was leveled recently by the UK’s Austen Ivereigh against the head of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, John Smeaton, who is considered one of the most effective pro-life leaders in the world. Ivereigh, in the lead-up to the visit of Benedict XVI to Britain, launched a media liaison project that he said would present a more reasoned, measured Catholic voice to media commentators. In an interview, Ivereigh said he had received applications from “Taliban Catholics” but had weeded them out.

Voris, however, noted the irony of the liberals accusing orthodox Catholics of a lack of charity by calling them members of the murderous Islamic Taliban.

“When we say that a person, a public figure, is not living the faith, we’re saying something accurate about what he is doing. But calling faithful Catholics the ‘Taliban’ because they want the bishops to be more faithful is a straightforward slur.

“We’re not blowing up buildings, we’re not murdering women or cutting people’s heads off. It’s just an insult,” said Voris.

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Fr. Alonso, official archivist of Fatima: The real Third Secret warned of apostasy in the Church

"My child, they converse of the secret that I gave at Fatima. It is a simple explanation. It could not be fully revealed because of the drastic nature of My message. How I warned and warned that satan would enter into the highest realms of the hierarchy in Rome. The Third Secret, My child, is that satan would enter into My Son's Church." - Our Lady of the Roses, May 13, 1978

When Father Alonso died at the end of 1981, most of his monumental work on Fatima remained suppressed. However, in one short book approved for publication shortly before his death, Fr. Alonso maintained that the Third Secret refers to a "crisis in the Faith of the Church and to the negligence of the pastors themselves." He based this conclusion on the fact that, as Sr. Lucy indicated in her memoirs, the words spoken by the Blessed Virgin begin: "In Portugal, the dogma of the faith will always be preserved etc."

Fr. Joaquin Alonso writes:

«“In Portugal, the dogma of the Faith will always be preserved”: The phrase most clearly implies a critical state of Faith, which other nations will suffer, that is to say, a crisis of Faith; whereas Portugal will preserve its Faith.¹

     «In the period preceding the great triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, terrible things are to happen. These form the content of the third part of the Secret. What are they?
     «If “in Portugal the dogma of the Faith will always be preserved,” . . . it can be clearly deduced from this that in other parts of the Church these dogmas are going to become obscure or even lost altogether.»²
     «Thus it is quite possible that in this intermediate period which is in question (after 1960 and before the triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary), the text makes concrete references to the crisis of the Faith of the Church and to the negligence of the pastors themselves.»³
     «One conclusion does indeed seem to be beyond question: the content of the unpublished part of the Secret does not refer to new wars or political upheavals, but to happenings of a religious and intra-Church character, which of their nature are still more grave.»⁴

 - (1) La Verdad sobre el Secreto de Fatima, p. 70. (2) Ibid., p. 80. (3) Ibid., p. 80. (4) Ibid., p. 81.

«Can this intermediate period (which corresponds to the spiritual chastisements announced by the third Secret) be determined, chronologically, as being the one we have been living through, since the immediate pre-conciliar period and the post-conciliar period? We may affirm in general that this is so, for it is certain that the consecration of Russia has still not been made.
     «On the other hand, the internal troubles in the post-conciliar Church bear witness to a lamentable state of affairs, clearly pointed out by Pope Paul. This has been characterized not only by conflicts and antagonisms within the Church, but also by a tremendous weakening of the seriousness of theology; this was followed by a hypercriticism which is in the process of undermining Catholic exegesis; and later on, an anything-goes theology, which makes a game out of proposing new interpretations and new dogmas every day; finally a terrible crisis of the Faith in which the Church is without joy, without firmness, without support and without inner strength to work, faced with a hostile world which pretends to reduce it to a secular establishment.»

     «No one can doubt that this is what happened. But is it precisely to this condition that the words of the text allude, “In Portugal, the dogma of the faith will always be preserved”? There are assuredly good grounds for believing that they do. It is not, however, easy to say if the third part of the Secret refers to the era we are living in today or to another epoch yet to come. To limit the “intermediate” period to the present time is extremely probable, but not certain.»⁵

- (5) La Verdad sobre el Secreto de Fatima, p. 74; cf. Engl. Ed. p. 81.

"My children, long ago I warned you from Fatima, I warned you through many voice-boxes throughout your world that the time will come when you will embark upon a stormy sea, and it shall be bishop against bishop and cardinal against cardinal, and satan shall set himself in your midst." - Our Lady of the Roses, November 20, 1976

"I gave Lucy the Revelation as a temporary secret—as I revealed [the Third Secret] to you on two occasions. Make a concerted effort to bring its entirety to Our children on earth. The hierarchy have not listened to My counsel—thirty-two years lost in indecision and fear of exposure. The Faith is shattered for many." - Our Lady of the Roses, April 29, 1992

SCORNED,  DISCARDED,  HIDDEN
"Many years have gone by, My children, since I tried to warn you at Fatima. My message was scorned then by many, discarded and hidden from the world, but My message now cannot be discarded or kept hidden, for you have reached now a point in your life, My children, your lifetime upon your earth, when your days are now being counted." - Our Lady, February 10, 1977

FATIMA  
"My child, how many warnings have I sent upon the world, and yet they go unheeded.
   "I wish that you make known, or refresh the memory of My children with My visit to the land of Fatima." - Our Lady, April 13, 1974

THIRD  SECRET
"My child, they converse of the secret that I gave at Fatima. It is a simple explanation. It could not be fully revealed because of the drastic nature of My message. How I warned and warned that satan would enter into the highest realms of the hierarchy in Rome. The Third Secret, My child, is that satan would enter into My Son's Church." - Our Lady, May 13, 1978

"YOU  DID  NOT  LISTEN"
"My Mother came to you at Fatima warning that unless man stopped his path to perdition, Russia would spread her errors throughout your world causing misery, sufferings, and death and enslavement. My children, you did not listen and act upon Her counsel then, just as many now do not listen and act upon Her counsel. It is a part of human nature to exercise too free a will to reject. And this, I say, falls also onto My pastors who are scattering My sheep in My House." - Our Lady, May 27, 1978

CAST  ASIDE
"My warnings at Fatima were cast aside as they are being cast aside now, My children. It is a failing of human nature, My child, that that which does not give pleasure to the carnal nature of man is not accepted. Man shall blind himself to the truth, as he does not wish to face the truth. And those who seek to bring him the truth are cast aside and do much penance, My child." - Our Lady, September 13, 1975

THE FIGHT FOR POWER HAS BEGUN
"The forces of evil are gathering.  666 now controls all the world, and sad to say, My children, 666 has entered upon Rome, and the fight for power has begun.  Pray for your Vicar.  Pray for all men of sin, and above all, My children, pray for your children, for many parents shall shed tears of great remorse—too late!" - Jesus, September 28, 1976  

IN THE YEAR 1972
"Satan, Lucifer in human form, entered into Rome in the year 1972. He cut off the rule, the role of the Holy Father, Pope Paul VI. Lucifer has controlled Rome and continues this control now.
    "And I tell you now, My children, unless you pray and make My counsel known to all of the ruling fathers of the Eternal City of Rome, My Son's Church, His House, will be forced into the catacombs. A great struggle lies ahead for mankind. The eventual outcome is for good of all, for this trial in My Son's Church will be a true proving ground for all the faithful. Many latter-day saints shall rise out of the tribulation." - Our Lady, September 7, 1978

HIGHEST REALMS OF THE HIERARCHY
"My child, they converse of the secret that I gave at Fatima. It is a simple explanation. It could not be fully revealed because of the drastic nature of My message. How I warned and warned that satan would enter into the highest realms of the hierarchy in Rome. The Third Secret, My child, is that satan would enter into My Son's Church." - Our Lady, May 13, 1978

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