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Timeline: Patrick Coffin

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2023

  1. Speakers quit Patrick Coffin's Hope Is Fuel conference over papacy and antisemitism concerns

    OSV News reported that Fr. Robert Spitzer, Jeff Cavins and Jennifer Roback Morse, along with 17 other speakers, had withdrawn from Patrick Coffin's 24 May online Hope Is Fuel conference after Coffin questioned the legitimacy of Pope Francis. Morse said she withdrew on learning it also featured E. Michael Jones, whose writings the ADL describes as antisemitic.

    SourcesConference shunned over views on antisemitism, papacy (UCA News (OSV News))'Hope Is Fuel' conference fans flames of controversy over antisemitic,… (Catholic Review (OSV News))E. Michael Jones (backgrounder) (title reconstructed) (Anti-Defamation League)

  2. Bishop Strickland posts that he rejects what he calls the pope's program of undermining the faith

    Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler posted that he accepted Francis as pope but rejected what he called the pope's program of undermining the Deposit of Faith. OSV News reported that the post followed his endorsement of Fr. Robert Spitzer's decision to cut ties with podcaster Patrick Coffin, who had questioned the authenticity of Francis's papacy.

    SourcesTyler bishop tweets that he 'reject(s)' Pope Francis' 'program of undermining… (OSV News)Bishop Strickland rejects pope's program of undermining the deposit of faith (The Catholic Thing)

2016

  1. Patrick Coffin ends his run as host of Catholic Answers Live

    After about seven and a half years hosting Catholic Answers Live, Patrick Coffin left the programme to start his own media projects. He later used his podcast to argue that Pope Francis was an antipope, a claim Catholic Answers rebutted.

    SourcesWhat's next for Catholic Answers Live host Patrick Coffin? (Catholic World Report)A Response to Patrick Coffin's "Seven Pieces of Evidence That Francis Is an… (Catholic Answers)