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Timeline: From mainstream to the margins: trajectories in Catholic media

Key moments in the traditionalist Catholic world — councils and documents, communities and their founders, media launches and controversies — each with its sources.
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2021

  1. Francis's remarks on a critical 'Catholic television channel' published; widely read as EWTN

    La Civiltà Cattolica published Pope Francis's 12 September conversation with Jesuits in Bratislava. In it he criticised an unnamed large Catholic TV channel that kept speaking ill of the pope, and called attacks on the Church the work of the devil. Observers widely read the remarks as aimed at EWTN, and an NCR editorial urged the U.S. bishops to reconsider their relationship with the network.

    SourcesPope Francis responds to attacks from EWTN, other church critics: 'They are… (America Magazine)Pope Francis to Slovakian Jesuits: 'Some people wanted me to die' amid health… (Catholic World Report)It's time for US bishops to reconsider relationship with EWTN (National Catholic Reporter (editorial))

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)