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DETROIT (ChurchMilitant.com) - A Catholic YouTube channel with over 40,000 subscribers has uploaded 2,700 solid homilies since 2012. Steve Cunningham, administrator of Sensus Fidelium, is a revert to the Faith and started recording and posting the homilies on YouTube five years ago.

His brother, Mike, is currently a seminarian with the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter. Sensus Fidelium, which features sermons from priests in full communion with the Catholic Church, is now growing at a rate of 200 subscribers a day. Church Militant spoke to Cunningham about the channel, as well as his recent experience at a local fair, where he was getting the word out about the Faith.

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"The enemy is in the media so we need to be there," he told us, "like Mother Angelica saying we need to go where the people are, and since people are on YouTube, I went there. Plus, St. Maximilian Kolbe said to use the media, and most people do not get to hear good sermons."

Steve Cunningham was inspired to start the YouTube channel after seeing the popularity of an initial upload about the Cristero conflict in Mexico. He told us about going to see the Knights of Columbus funded film For Greater Glory, sitting in a nearly empty theatre and desiring to get the word out.

"My brother and I and a friend of ours went," he said, "including us, there were five people in the movie theatre, and we were the only ones under the age of 90. I knew Father did a sermon on the Cristeros, I thought if I put a video up, maybe that will promote the movie."

Cunningham didn't have very much computer or social media experience, but he was undeterred from his project. "So I had to figure out how to do that," he said.

"It took me an hour or two, but a lot of people looked at it. I did another one the next day. So far, I've been doing one a day for five years now almost. Still learning."

Cunningham told us about his recent experience representing the Faith at a local fair with vendors representing mostly anti-Catholic ideologies and causes. Cunningham had good past experiences going to the public directly with the Faith. "This was our second year doing this fair," he said.

Cunningham continued:

I did this in South Carolina, for a few years. We almost had the entire fair walking around with Rosaries. I'd give them CDs, especially if they were fallen-away Catholics. My brother was with me in his cassock, he's a seminarian and had him lead a procession with the Vatican flag around the area where the fair was ... We had Messianics to the left, next to the freedom-from-religion folks, and ACLU to the right. We put up our "Catholic truth here" sign, I think we gave away about 200 Miraculous medals, St. Benedict medals, a hundred Rosaries maybe. Invited a lot of people to our parish. Then I decided to talk to the Muslims after we got through packing up.

Cunningham has seen the fruit of his efforts among people who respond with interest in the Catholic faith, saying, "We had a guy who came out of prison, he came up and was asking my wife about the Faith, she gave him a Rosary, introduced him to me. I invited him down to the parish."

Sensus Fidelium isn't the only rapidly flourishing channel with traditional Catholic content on YouTube. The channel Callixtus, devoted exclusively to Gregorian chant, with only 111 videos uploaded so far has drawn more than 2,000 subscribers.



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