Oh hey, the algorithm did something useful again. This is a really cool perspective to hear. Midnight Mass was a hell of a trip for me, and definitely what solidified me as a Mike Flanagan fan. I was raised catholic but had the fortune(?) of finding myself in a primarily moderate parish so I didn't have to deal directly with these kind of people frequently but I certainly KNEW all these people. My kind and understanding mother has consistently had at least one Bev as a close friend, so her cruelty and ego were viscerally familiar to me.

It was easy for me to understand how Monsignor Pruitt understood the events as miraculous and of god. He must have felt amazing at the cave being rejuvenated and his sences amplified. Everything he knew and felt made it all make sense to him. It's heartbreaking when he realizes what he has done.

Recently I went to a funeral to say goodbye to my friend. His service quickly became a recruitment drive for his family's church. He wasn't very active, but he was big on making them happy. At one point the preacher delivering the eulogy(that started out "I never met brother <redacted>"), said "Stand up if you stand up for Jesus!".... As an Athiest, I stayed seated. People started giving me prayer books and cards, and after I was witnessed. I know they meant well and I was polite, but I just wanted to say goodbye to my friend.

Well, Church Militant is no more.

Never heard of ex Orthodox priest lol , weird,catholics are strange people

In that scene Jim Jones moment. Crazy

Didn't you grow out of this madness? I was raised in a catholic family too, church on sunday, baptism, communion, catholic schools, all the 9 yards, but then I stopped believing all that BS once I reached the age of reason. Religion destroys your mental health. I bet your impure sins were masturbation and sex 🤣 they are so good at making you feel guilty aren't they?

I can see why this guy was a preacher.... geez

Gorgeous hair. Michael voris needs to accept himself.❤

Woody Allen: “What’s wrong with masturbation? It’s sex with the person I love most.”

Judas is necessary for everyone’s salvation: without him, Jesus would not have died.

Why should anyone be surprised that young gay Catholic men would decide to become priests? I've known many straight Catholics who felt s vocation, but couldn't bear the prospect of life without sex, marriage or children. Well their choice is perfectly acceptable within the church: marriage to a women and having children is also an acceptable vocation. Now consider the perspective of a young gay Catholic, even or maybe especially those who don't yet recognize or accept their same sex attractions. When weighing priesthood or marriage, they may erroneously feel a calling precisely because they don't feel the overwhelming urge towards sex with a woman that a straight Catholic feels. What they may not realize is that the unwelcome sexual urge they feel towards and which they are praying will go away, will NOT go away and repressed sexual urges tend to just become stronger. Or consider a young gay Catholic who who fully recognizes and accepts his same sex urges. If he is a serious Catholic who wants to respect the faith and the doctrine, same sex marriage and any form of sexual "congress" with another man is forbidden, not only does joining the priesthood seem like one of his few legitimate options but he may harbor hope that God will reward him by taking away his same sex attraction.

Why is that so surprising. Lots of Catholic priests become gay men. A classmate of mine joined the Jesuit order and entered the novitiate. Lucky thing for him because that's where he met the man he fell in love with, left the novitiate with and later married!

I am late to the party but one interesting I heard a Muslim say which is the drunk kept calling the Sheriff, Sharif. You would see it spelled that way in the subtitles. And Sharif means “Noble” in Arabic.

Why doesn't the interviewer let the interviewee talk more? Why does he keep taking over the interview and make it about himself? Why invite a guest when you're just going to keep making the interview about yourself?

Thank you for validating my experience. No wonder I never felt heard.

Friend, why don't you come out of apostasy and start fighting like a man against the antichrist reigning in this society? Win, ask Our Mother for help, fight like a man and cry out to the Almighty.

This is so horrible and sad. Just awful. Praying for your reversion. The Sspx is practically all that’s left, currently, of True Christendom. You were blessed to be a part of it, to know it. And you walked away? The devil is in this.

I watch your vids bc I didn’t grow up Sspx and I want to see what it would’ve been like as a young person who is Sspx, since I missed that. I do find the Sspx to be cultish and insular and intimidating and unfriendly, in general. Which is hard. But I also truly believe that their line is the only undoubtful line left, the only undoubtful sacraments left. So I go to the Sspx. Bc there’s really no other place to go.🤷‍♀️

I like your Honesty. In this world.......human nature doesnt care about honest people.

One mans cult is another mans one true faith 🙏

As a convert to Catholicism (and now a “Trad” Catholic) I found MM to be almost fanatically hyperbolic (it’s horror I know) and completely confused about what type of Catholicism it’s trying to critique. The majority of the time it feels like we’re watching Catholic characters written by charismatics. Since I came from Mormonism the portrayal of the type of social contagion that “can” spread in isolated communities was very familiar to my former experience; yet completely alien to my “trad” Catholic experience. Example; nobody at my traditional Parish has ever asked why I didn’t receive communion. However if I attend a Novus Ordo liturgy and don’t receive, and don’t participate in the “sign of peace” people absolutely approach me afterwards, so to me the critique falls flat (unless it’s critiquing post V2 liturgy & culture and isn’t self aware enough to realize it). Ultimately whether or not you believe in “the fall”, or God; man as a social creature is vulnerable to social and biological contagion. To borrow the Gnostic worldview, there’s no escaping this “prison of the flesh” except in death (if you’re Gnostic) or in Christ, if Catholic. I pray the Truth & Life finds you again father. God Bless 🙏🏻

Converted into the SSPX fifteen years ago. Left to a diocese mass last year. SSPX is toxic!

Love you bro, thanks for your testimony and this channel.

The answer to that initial question of yours is: Why do you want to destroy the Church of Christ?

Yes, caring more about authority than expressing LOVE to those who you should love, really hurts.

It is over control that causes this feeling. I experienced that too. It hurts.

I completely understand this.

I've been fascinated by this for a while. Do you think possession events are completed fake? As in, it's a combination between mental illness and religious conditioning, perhaps religion INDUCED mental illness above and beyond normal medical criteria? Or is there any possibility in your mind that there may be some other "real" entity involved in this? What do you think?

The fact you actually told anyone I think is way too honest. I would never have told anyone.

I'm not homosexual......but I really genuinely feel much of your pain coming from similar Roman Catholic circumstances. I understand your feelings completely.

Hello Francis. I've been considering my comment for a while, but I find that I just can't plan it out. So I'm going to wing it. Like you, I'm a a Catholic survivor. And you covered so much of that so well. It took me a long time to watch Midnight Mass simply because it's so good. Too good, in a lot of ways - of course, that's why it's horror. The only part of the show I'll point out here is the Neil Diamond song. One of the few pieces of music that wasn't a Catholic hymn. I've watched that scene so many times. Then I went to listen to the song - I'm of an age where I remember when it was on the radio, but it took Midnight Mass to make me remember how much I loved Holly Holy. I bring this up because of the nostalgia factor. How happy they were when it played. The look of beatific joy, the inclusion, the love. There's a lot of powerful moments in Midnight Mass, but this is the one that lingers longest for me. I haven't been to church, with the exception of my father-in-law's funeral, for decades. It's the right choice and I stand by it. But before that, I wanted to be a nun. I already had the order picked out, my path was clear, the sisters knew - I was there. Then I saw something that changed my life. I walked away. But there are times when I miss it on nearly an instinctive level, and that came roaring back when I saw the Holly Holy scene. It reminded me how insidious it all is, how much I truly want to believe. I want to go home. I want to, but I can't. Anyway, I thought you'd understand this little ramble. I'm glad you popped up on my feed even if it seems like you're not posting anymore. I really enjoyed your thoughts on this - thank you for sharing them with us.

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I've noticed this too. There is a lack of appreciation for women who are already quite modest and instead of just APPRECIATING them.....they purity spiral and humiliate her for just wearing a pretty dress.....which is already VERY MODEST compared to most women elsewhere. People in certain quarters lack perspective and personal self-reflection.

I was SHAMED for coming from a large family. So the opposite of this. I think 3 or 4 is reasonable. If I came from a nice small 3 or 4 child family my life would have been VERY HAPPY. Instead my life has been HELL ON EARTH.

That's the way every religion works.

Ok this was very funny!!!! Hahaha.

It's much harder to be a Straight man in secular society. But no one cares about us.

I agree it is very nasty and unfair to constantly be digging for dirt on people. Then again, I think you are all the same.

I don't trust any of you. Not them. Not you. Not Catholics. Not SSPX. Not Orthodox. Not Protestants. Not humanists. You are snakes one and all. Hail Mithra.

There are many abusers in the ranks of the priests. Because priesthood is a job where you get much privilege with very little work.

I always thought Voris was very Ken Doll in this appearance. I thought he was Gay before he said so.

I'm not going to knock you for being homosexual, though I do have my personal opinion on that. I just want to point out, that the whole catty back and forth between one Christian group and another and the mutual snake like Christian on Christian power plays, basically makes me feel like you are ALL THE SAME. All liars. All manipulative. And I don't trust any of you.

21:36 Well hold on, the bible itself is full of phrases that basically boil down to 'follow our rules to the letter or you'll go to hell for eternity.' It's not about whether your actions are morally right or wrong, it's about avoiding the punishment of eternal damnation. And who decides what's morally correct? Your moral compass isn't the same as mine, so why do your rules and laws get to decide what i'm allowed and not allowed to do? Why was it ok for christians to murder millions of people for refusing to accept their religion, but it's wrong for me to kill somebody if they did something i disapproved of? And yes, I do only refrain from murdering certain people because i'd go to jail for it. Just like you only follow the religious rules because you were taught about hell as a child.

Thank you for that whole project. Thank you for the truth. It's very helpful to hear your story. You are so creative and I am happy that you are finding your voice. Your art is great. I hope that you're doing well I live in still quite conservative and catholic Poland. It's weird here. Society is changing, younger generations are becoming more secular. We have a culture war as well. And we have a whole genre of memes with yellow face of John Paul II and funny number 2137. I was raised catholic and I believed . Probably I didn't have as close relationship to God as you described, but I also thought that I will always believe and never leave . I was scared even of the thought of leaving. As a child I wanted to become a nun. I was fascinated by the catholic art, cathedrals, choral music, mystics, saints. But now I simply don't know anymore. I don't understand the core beliefs of catholicism. I tried but it doesn't make sense anymore. Maybe I learned too much? Maybe it is my fault. I am just a young woman who don't understand teology. Maybe. I looked from different angles and it maked sense for a while and then I looked at the huge crucifix at my church and still wondered what does it mean. Why it had to be that way? There is also aspect of hipocrisy. Reading history and some biology opened my eyes. Even in our times there are scandals, mixing politics with religion, all this culture war stuff where the priests say ultra conservative things. And there was also this dealing with guilt. That I am not good enough. Overthinking. Fear of intimacy and overwhelming guilt that maybe I went too far with my boyfriend. Questioning my own conscience because maybe it is disordered. Wondering if I had go to communion with sin in heart. I am naturally shy and anxious so I guess religious scrupulosity just flourished. I am still deconstructing. I need to believe that I can make my own decisions, that my feelings are valid, that this life is worth living, unnecessary suffering is pointless etc. So simply thank you. It's tough. I cry a lot. Thank you for your honesty. And kindness.

To me the thing i took away from it is you have to choose your own path. You will fail. You will sin. Ultimately its the desire to be near God even through turmoil that keeps you afloat. You could also say its a commentary on how evil comes in many forms and no single person is above the other.

I loved the series! I binged it in one night! I am a Catholic in the more Jesuit/Catholic Worker spirit. I noticed the wrong color chasuble and thought it was funny when Bev made a stink about it, and then it turned out to be intentional. I was surprised to see intinction during the Eucharist because I’ve never seen that done in a Catholic parish. But a potluck on Ash Wednesday? And with meat? Yeah, no. Flanagan got so many of the details right, but the potluck was wayyyy off.

I don't know yet how it is for me. This Easter was hard. I still go to church because I am afraid to say my doubts to my family. I don't know. It's weird. I was hoping that somehow my faith would come back if I receive sacraments as always. I don't know. My last cofession was weird. I cried. I couldn't even tell what was really wrong. I didn't have the proper words. I am kinda sorry for that priest who didn't know what to say. And later I tried to hide my tears. Because I didn't want to worry my mother. I feel like an impostor. I am thankful that I can at least talk about this with my boyfriend. I am lost. I don't know. And it's tempting to deconstruct all of this and see only the bad things. But I guess it's like that because previously I didn't let any thoughts of criticisms of the church seriously.

Thank you for this video. I am now facing this religious crisis. But I don't want to hurt my family. I think I will remain a silent listener and keep these thoughts for myself. I simply don't know anymore. And Catholic Church seems to be pretty sure about all things. The idea that society can kill God is still powerful to me. That the scapegout is in fact a king. My thinking is influenced by Rene Girard. The thing is that the church don't protect the victims. It doesn't make sense. I don't know

I think regardless of what religion you were raised in, if you were raised within one at all, this show will resonate.