Here We Go Again: Trailer For Upcoming Film Rehashes 2010 Smear by NY Times Against Pope Benedict

Mea Maxima Culpa Silence in the House of God anti-Catholic HBO film

[Click here for the complete index of our criticism of Mea Maxima Culpa.] The trailer for an upcoming film about an abusive Catholic priest in the 1970s appears to rehash the bogus attack on Pope Benedict XVI in March 2010 by the New … [Read more...]

Vatican Scores HUGE Court Victory, Media Sees No Big Deal

Thomas Doyle, Jeff Anderson, Patrick Wall, Marci Hamilton

On Monday, The Holy See won an important court victory when a federal judge in Oregon decided that priests are not employees of the Vatican, as plaintiff attorneys suing the Catholic Church had long argued in an important case that was … [Read more...]

** SNAP CONFERENCE 2012 EXCLUSIVE ** Dissident Priest Doyle Trashes Bishops and Admits He Has ‘Nothing To Do With the Catholic Church’

Fr. Tom Doyle O.P. canon lawyer

In a blustery, half-hour talk that opened this year's SNAP conference in Chicago, Dominican priest and celebrity expert witness for contingency lawyers Fr. Thomas Doyle reiterated his contempt for the Catholic Church, according to … [Read more...]

Groundbreaking Lawsuit Proceeds Against Public School District, But Media Snoozes

Jon White Urbana teacher

In 2008, a judge sentenced former Illinois public school teacher Jon White to 60 years in prison after the educator pleaded guilty to sexually abusing 10 young students. Shockingly, it appears much of the sickening abuse could have been … [Read more...]

** SNAP CONFERENCE 2012 EXCLUSIVE ** SNAP Hate: Conference Speaker Claims Catholics and Jews Agree That Child Abuse Is Permitted

Judy Brown :: Judy Braun

On the opening night of SNAP's recent annual conference, National Director David Clohessy attempted to convince his audience that SNAP "does not hate churches," suggesting that the group does not have any particular animus … [Read more...]

** SNAP CONFERENCE 2012 EXCLUSIVE ** One Hand Washes the Other: Jeff Anderson, Other Contingency Lawyers Bankroll Church-Bashing Group

Attorney Jeff Anderson Catholic abuse

The high-profile, Church-suing attorney Jeff Anderson offered up a whopping check for $43,950 to SNAP (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests) as he orchestrated this year's fundraising session at the group's annual … [Read more...]

Compassion for Victims? SNAP Boots Alleged Clergy Abuse Victim From Its Annual Conference

Exit

Tom McGregor at the Dallas Blog has exclusively reported that SNAP (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests) expelled an alleged abuse victim of Catholic sex abuse from its annual conference last weekend in Chicago. McGregor … [Read more...]

Minn. Supreme Court Rejects ‘Repressed Memory’ Junk Science Against Priest, Media Yawns

Jeff Anderson attorney abuse

Last Wednesday, the Minnesota Supreme Court flatly rejected the psychological theory of "repressed memory" as bogus. The Court declared that scientific studies that have tried to prove the bogus theory have "lacked … [Read more...]

Kudos: In WSJ, Campbell Brown Says Teacher Unions ‘Go to Bat for Child Predators,’ Cites Lack of Media Coverage

Campbell Brown Wall Street Journal

Public school teacher unions are "being weak on sexual predators," and the effect of this policy is having a monstrous impact on victims, their families, and the well-being of the teaching profession. So says Campbell Brown in an … [Read more...]

Philly Inquirer Rebroadcasts Wholly Discredited Claim of Abuse Against Bishop

John P. Martin Philadelphia Inquirer

Witnesses have now come forward to thoroughly discredit a specious claim that Wheeling, West Virginia, Bishop Michael J. Bransfield committed abuse decades ago, yet one would hardly know this from reading the Philadelphia Inquirer, which … [Read more...]