Voris was the president of St. Michael's Media, a Christian right-wing outlet he founded to produce catechetical and news videos and articles on the website Church Militant.
This company was registered by co-owners Gary Michael Voris and John Fitzpatrick Mola with the State of Michigan on July 8, 1997.
[6] Voris has confessed that "for most of my years in my thirties, confused about my own sexuality, I lived a life of live-in relationships with homosexual men.
[7] Voris cites the death of his brother from a heart attack in 2003, followed by his mother dying from stomach cancer in 2004, as the events that moved him from being "a lukewarm Catholic, someone who usually just went through the motions at church" to an "aggressive global advocate for conservative Catholics… on a burning mission to save Catholicism and America by trying to warn the public about what is a decline of morality in society.
[8] In 2009, Voris received an STB degree from the Angelicum in Rome via Sacred Heart Major Seminary, graduating magna cum laude.
[4] Two months later, The Washington Post reported that his violations consisted of sending unsolicited shirtless selfies, taken while he was working out, to male staffers.
[3] Voris has questioned the validity of Rabbinical Judaism, and such comments were later cited when he attempted to give a presentation in the Diocese of Scranton, Pennsylvania.
[17] In April 2011, Voris, who had intended to give a talk entitled "Living Catholicism Radically",[17] was banned from speaking at Marywood University or any facilities owned by the diocese.
"[8] The speech was moved to the Best Western Genetti Hotel and Conference Center in Wilkes-Barre, and the talk's organizers invited local bishop Joseph Bambera to attend "to evaluate Mr. Voris' knowledge of the faith, free from opinions formed by others.