Regarding: "EWTN, if it wanted to, could do great damage to the bishops and the pope." 
- Sister Angelica, the founder of the carmel and its EWTN ministry was called to task and had to recant her criticism of ArchbRoger of LA in 1997 and the archdiocese. Of course had she not done so her carmel would have been suppressed and EWTN would then be taken off the air.
- It seems that EWTN plays with fire when they forget that the next step after a dubious recant is all Catholics and certainly all bishops informing their comjunities that EWTN does not represent catholic believes.
- Perhaps at first there will be little effect but over time its credibility will be so diminished that the only funding it will find is that of cat food producers.