[5][6] While Church Militant made use of a paywall and offered premium content to subscribers, the website's main feature was its free segment The Vortex, simulcast on YouTube and hosted by Voris.

Further, Church Militant has repeatedly used the SSPX's name to generate web-clicks and revenue while hoping to stoke the fires of public controversy by baiting it into a war of words.

[21] Samuel G. Freedman of The New York Times says, "To fully grasp what 'church militant' means in this highly politicized atmosphere, it helps to examine the broader movement and the role of a traditionalist Catholic website called — to no surprise — ChurchMilitant.com".

[22] Freedman summarizes Voris's views by saying that "the website's positions were a righteous defense of patriotism and morality on behalf of people who believe those virtues have been attacked by liberals, secularists and global elites".

[22] Freedman says that Voris's online audience was cumulatively "about 1.5 million views a month"[22] and characterized the publication's position as one that dismisses anthropogenic climate change, thinks the Black Lives Matter movement is akin to "the new fascism", and called Hillary Clinton "Killary," who was acting as "Satan's mop for wiping up the last remaining resistance to him in America.

[23] On February 19, 2017, Robert Allen, in a piece for the Detroit Free Press[24] which was republished by USA Today,[25] wrote that Voris's studio in Ferndale was "the nerve center for a growing, religious group hoping the forces that elected President Donald Trump will tear down the wall between church and state".

[27] In May 2022 white nationalist Nick Fuentes' live-streaming service Cozy.tv, was promoted by Church Militant activists in what Salon described as an ongoing collaboration between the Groyper movement and far-right Catholics.

[28] The National Catholic Register in a 2011 article by Mark Shea entitled "In Criticism of Michael Voris"[29] says: As of 2019[update], the Southern Poverty Law Center classifies Church Militant as an anti-LGBT hate group.