Viewpoint: Strange secret of EWTN donor

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In her blog, The Dawn Patrol, published yesterday, entitled 'Frank J Hanna's Strange Secret' author Dawn Eden Goldstein, SThD, investigates the finances of one of EWTN's major donors.

Goldstein writes: 'EWTN's firing of radio host Gloria Purvis this week further exposed what many observers have already known about the international Catholic media network: partisan politics plays an outsize role in determining which voices are heard there and which ones are silenced. In the words of Christopher Lamb, "it is Fox News under a Catholic cover."

'To better understand what has happened to EWTN and, by extension, to the mainstream of the pro-life Catholic nonprofit world-a world I was part of for many years as an employee of the Cardinal Newman Society and Americans United for Life, and as a frequent EWTN guest-I did a deep-dive into the finances of one of its major donors, Frank J Hanna III. What I discovered should concern every Catholic and particularly those who, like myself, are appalled by how the Catholic pro-life movement-whose goal of ending abortion I fully support-has been hijacked by people who elevate Trump while deriding the Holy Father.

To read on see: http://dawneden.blogspot.com/2020/12/frank-j-hannas-strange-secret.html