Here is the Official Statement from Church Militant. The Statement says in part:

Michael Voris has been asked to resign for breaching the Church Militant morality clause. The board has accepted his resignation.

We understand this is a shock to you all, but our founder and former CEO is stepping aside and focusing on his personal health.

Here is a story from the Detroit Free Press on the situation with Michael Voris. It goes into some detail about his past and gives many quotes from the resignation video (linked below).

On Twitter, Michael Voris made a personal statement, by video, on his resignation. I’ve watched the video, and Michael seems sincere and repentant. Please pray for him.

Also on Twitter, Christine Niles, longtime lead contributor at Church Militant, made a video statement of her own. She stated that she herself resigned, of her own volition, on November 9th of this year. She resigned due to her concerns about “the environment at Church Militant” and that she “had been concerned for quite some time about the direction in which the apostolate was heading, that it was far afield from the original mission of Church Militant.”

Niles also stated she had concerns for the past two years or so about Michael Voris. He was no longer leading the Church Militant community in prayer. He came in to work only a few hours, and then would be gone for the rest of the day. Two years.

She also stated that she would not be disclosing the details of Voris’ breech of the morality clause, since she is “not in the business of detraction.” She did state, in a tweet replying to a criticism from Simcha Fischer: “My work, as you well know, Simcha, has been to expose sexual predation, of which Voris is not being accused.”

Updated to add this tweet and Letter to the CM Board by Christine Niles, saying in part: \
Tweet: “I can no longer in good conscience encourage Catholics to give to Church Militant, until the board of directors launches an independent investigation to find out how donor money was used during the time that Michael Voris was leading a double life.”
Letter to Board: “The depth of Michael’s betrayal is breathtaking…. He ramped up fundraising over the past year, using pious, spiritual language to convince Catholics to donate, which they did in good faith believing he was faithful. And he used their money to lead a double life. Utterly wicked. There’s an argument to be made that he raised money under false pretenses and defrauded donors, which would be criminal.”

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I noticed that Michael Voris stated in his video he will be getting professional help. This seems to be help regarding some type of mental health issue, and may be what the official statement from Church Militant refers to in saying: “focusing on his personal health”. He also states that he is dealing with an issue that has long plagued him in his life. He will be away from “the camera” for a while, and may return, sometime in the future, to the public view.

UPDATE: New information about Michael Voris and the board at Church Militant

Now, a few words about the work at Church Militant.

They have fallen into an all-too-common error of conservative Catholic publications, that of assuming that their understanding of the Faith cannot err. They often speak as if they had the role to judge, correct, and condemn alleged errors by Popes, Councils, and the body of Bishops. They set themselves up as judges over the Magisterium and the Church.

Church Militant has been very critical of the SSPX. And so some traditionalist Catholics view them with contempt. CM has vehemently opposed any clergy or ideas in the Catholic Church on the liberal side of theology. Their online articles and videos are hateful towards gay and trans persons and ideology. Here’s a couple of clips of hate toward trans persons by Voris and Niles: in this video clip and another clip. I tried to get these YouTube videos taken down, to no avail. And here’s the first of a two-part article comparing Nazism to gay rights, which Church Militant calls “homofascism.” There is a great deal of hatred at Church Militant, essentially toward anyone unlike themselves.

Then, too, theological errors abound at Church Militant. Voris and others there take the view that the Jewish faith became a false religion in the first century A.D. and remains so today. They also have promoted the heretical view of Bishop Athanasius Schneider that only those who worship the Trinity can have supernatural faith. Since the state of grace and the three infused virtues of supernatural love, faith, and hope are absolutely necessary for salvation, this view excludes from salvation all non-Christians. That is not the teaching of the Church. See Redemptoris Missio, the Catechism of the Catholic Church, and Vatican II.

As for the Church’s sexual abuse crisis, Voris and others have been vocal advocates for victims and against abusers, and this is certainly good work in the eyes of God. However, when the accused abuser is conservative, they defend him and refuse to believe the victims. This is the same mistake made by other conservative outlets.

When conservative clergy have a conflict with the Roman Pontiff, the Apostolic See, or with Bishops, Church Militant, like other conservative publications, assumes the conservative is right, and their critics or philosophical opponents are wrong. This behavior shows a fundamental error at CM, which is the adherence to conservatism, more than to Catholicism. The liberal Roman Pontiff, Pope Francis, is opposed, and the liberal Council Vatican II is denigrated. They follow a conservative version of Catholicism, largely of their own making. And that is not the fullness of faith and truth.

Here’s a Michael Voris video which shows a rejection of Catholic teaching on Jews and Muslims (cf. Vatican II; Catechism of the Catholic Church). Voris asserts the grave error (also asserted by Bishop Schneider) that only those who worship the Trinity have supernatural faith, which implies that non-Christians cannot be saved — contrary to the teaching of Pope Saint John Paul II in Redemptoris Missio 10, that non-Christians can be saved, and therefore can be in the state of grace. Everyone in the state of grace has supernatural love, supernatural faith, and supernatural hope. But Voris and CM do not accept the teaching of Popes and Councils, unless it agrees with their own understanding.

Voris: “This is the Muslims. They have no supernatural faith, and therefore they have no supernatural act of worship. And even the Jews, who rejected Jesus as God, as Trinity; they rejected God as Trinity. They have no faith. And therefore their worship also is natural, not supernatural.”

This view expressed by Michael Voris and also by Bishop Athanasius Schneider is heresy. The Catholic Church does not teach, and the Church’s teaching is absolutely incompatible with the idea, that only those who worship the Trinity, Christians, can have supernatural faith and can be saved. This narrowing of salvation to only Christians, or only Catholics, is essentially the heresy of Feeneyism.

So I would strongly dissuade faithful Catholics from listening to anyone from Church Militant on the subject of Catholicism.

Ronald L Conte Jr

Update, More Information: Dave Armstrong quoting David Robert Gordon on the problems with Michael Voris and the board and some employees of Church Militants. Gordon’s YouTube video announcing more revelations on this topic.

See my later post: Sources speaking about Michael Voris and the Church Militant board