Reply #6: Well, officially you need to 100% accept doctrine and the Vatican to get ordained now

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Free thinkers get filtered out.

I have listened to (ir)Relevant Radio at times and it is a disgusting presentation on the airwaves. The DJ, Dr. Drew Mariani, is one of many pieces of work. I am not surprised at his rant about what is happening in California. (ir)RR is based in Green Bay, and while they have toned down a bit are still pretty bad.

This outfit has been on since before the 2004 election and it was all pro-Bush all the time. They have cut back a bit on that for tax reasons but what you mention is one of their many ways of going under the radar.

I have heard from many people who grew up in the pre-Vatican II days and they say, while different, it was a much more compassionate outfit than what we have today. The generation in power wanted just that, power and are making sure everyone knows it in some weird Utopian view of the past which never existed.

If you want to see some really out there Catholics that put (ir)RR to shame, check out Catholic Answers, they have a online board that is well over the top. Also anything related to Ave Maria Radio is another piece of work (I forgot EWTN which follows the same model). What you hear is Protestant Fundie radio just slightly tweaked to a ultra-Conservative Catholic bent, but most of the topics/talking points overlap word for word.

If anything I see the Church becoming more and more like (ir)Relevant Radio, just look at what the Archbishop did when he was called in to "clean up" the New Ulm Diocese, that is now a shadow of its former self.