Six months after disgraced Catholic apologist Alex Jurado was caught in a scandal involving sending sexually explicit material to multiple women, and one month after he pledged that all his content would be held behind a paywall, it looks like he has found a loophole to regain his visibility.
Following his fall, after a few months of counseling and therapy, Jurado explained that, at the order and counsel of his bishop and spiritual advisors, as a consequence of his actions, he was shuttering his public YouTube channel, Voice of Reason, and putting it behind a paywall. He was to have no public ministry, just Patreon for those who wanted to support him.
“Only Patreon. Nowhere else. Nothing on YouTube, nothing on Instagram, nothing on Tik Tok, nowhere. Only Patreon. So, the only place on the internet, the only place in the world where my content, all of my new content can be accessed is going to be on Patreon.”
“For the foreseeable future, and maybe even permanently, I don’t know, but maybe even permanently, Voice of Reason content will be exclusively on Patreon.”
Even though his Bishop said he couldn’t be on his own public channel, technically, he was never forbidden from going on his friends’ YouTube channels. As a result, in a mood to play accountability games, he joined the channel, Roots of Faith, in order to publicly chat and teach theology.
This earned the ire of other Catholic content creators.
On the same video, hearkening back to his own public exposure, Jurado gets defensive and teaches:
As Christians, we don’t do cancel culture. We do cover culture. He says, never forget that it is a sin for you to uncover the nakedness of your brother.
You are expected to cover your brother’s nakedness and to not put him to shame publicly when you could cover his nakedness. You could deal with with the situation privately and you you respect the honor and the dignity and the good name of your because we’re all entitled to our good name.
Given his trajectory, we expect his channel to be back on Youtube by the end of the year.
