{"id":2931,"date":"2011-04-08T06:46:43","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T10:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/deaconsbench\/?p=2931"},"modified":"2016-09-30T17:47:12","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T21:47:12","slug":"diocese-cancels-appearance-by-michael-voris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/2011\/04\/diocese-cancels-appearance-by-michael-voris\/","title":{"rendered":"Diocese cancels appearance by Michael Voris — UPDATED"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

The well-known Catholic media personality and speaker won\u2019t be giving a talk in Pennsylvania this weekend.<\/p>\n

Details:<\/strong> <\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a>\"\"<\/a>The Diocese of Scranton and Marywood University refused to host a conservative Catholic speaker this weekend after the organizations determined that he had expressed views at odds with the school\u2019s and church\u2019s values, they said on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Michael Voris, who produces television and radio shows about Catholic issues, was scheduled to speak at two events Saturday arranged by a Harveys Lake couple at Marywood and Our Lady of Victory Catholic church in Harveys Lake.<\/p>\n

After Marywood canceled the event, titled \u201cLiving Catholicism Radically,\u201d it was to be relocated to the diocese\u2019s St. Clare\/St. Paul Elementary School before the diocese also refused to host Voris.<\/p>\n

In a two-sentence statement, the Catholic university said Voris \u201cwas initially invited to speak at Marywood University as a conservative Catholic commentator\u201d and the school \u201clater became aware of views expressed by Mr. Voris that are inconsistent with our mission and core values.\u201d<\/p>\n

A school spokeswoman would not elaborate on what views were at issue, but the diocese described its objections to comments made by Voris in Internet videos that \u201ccertainly can be interpreted as being insensitive to people of other faiths.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Catholic church teaches us to respect all people, regardless of their faith tradition,\u201d the diocese said in a statement. \u201cAlthough the diocese shares Mr. Voris\u2019 support of efforts to protect human life, his extreme positions on other faiths are not appropriate and therefore the diocese cannot host him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Voris cultivated controversy last year when he said that democracies should \u201climit the vote to faithful Catholics,\u201d that \u201cthe body politic continues to be ravaged by the cancer of ignorant, self-centered voters\u201d and that the \u201conly way to run a country is by benevolent dictatorship\u201d by a \u201cCatholic monarch\u201d during one of his daily \u201cThe Vortex\u201d video segments at RealCatholicTV.com.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read more. <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/strong> Those who are curious can see some of what Michael Voris has to say about other religions on his YouTube page \u2014 here<\/a><\/strong> are his thoughts on Jews, and here<\/a><\/strong> is what he says about who will be in heaven.<\/p>\n

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