The high-profile web site BishopAccountability.org has long extolled a policy that it will not publicly post the names and cases of priests in which the accusers have recanted their claims. However, the organization continues to do this … [Read more...]
Celeb’s Hollywood Pedophilia Stunner Met With Media Whimper
Appearing in an interview on ABC's "Primetime Nightline" last week (Thu., 8/10/11), Hollywood actor Corey Feldman aired a truly brave and shocking claim: "I can tell you that the No. 1 problem in Hollywood was and is … [Read more...]
Shame on SNAP: Even After Priest Is Exonerated, Group Attacks Falsely Accused Cleric
Earlier this month (8/8/11), a Hawaii jury deliberated just minutes to declare that Fr. Bohdan Borowec, a Ukrainian Catholic priest visiting on vacation from Canada, was entirely innocent on charges of kidnapping and sexual … [Read more...]
SPECIAL REPORT: Evidence of Collaboration Between the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office and SNAP (Part I)
This is Part I of a TheMediaReport.com Special Report. For Part II, go here. Are the current criminal charges against Catholic clergy in Philadelphia the fruits of an active collaboration between the city's District Attorney's … [Read more...]
SPECIAL REPORT Philadelphia: Who Is Mariana Sorensen?
Mariana Coleman Sorensen has been an Assistant District Attorney in Philadelphia for several years. She is the current prosecutor in the high-profile 2011 Philadelphia clergy abuse cases. Ms. Sorensen's alliances and actions suggest … [Read more...]
SNAP Issues Another Dishonest Press Release
[HT: Catholic League] The advocacy group SNAP (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests) has issued yet another dishonest press release (8/4/11) containing a number of falsehoods and misleading claims. The entire episode involves the … [Read more...]
NYT Trumpets Female Catholic ‘Priests’ For Second Week In a Row; HuffPo Fumbles
For the second week in a row, the New York Times has embraced the mission of trumpeting the fruitless cause of female "priests" in the Catholic Church. What gives? As faulty as Laurie Goodstein's article was last week, the … [Read more...]
While Trumpeting ‘Female Priests,’ NYT’s Goodstein Commits More Faulty Reporting on Catholic Church
When reporting stories concerning the Catholic Church, the New York Times' Laurie Goodstein has had a very troublesome track record with the facts. (For starters: 1, 2.) Unfortunately, Goodstein's record only gets worse after … [Read more...]