Shameful: Church Militant Continues To Falsely Defame Buffalo Priest

Michael Voris : Church Militant : Simon Rafe

Despite overwhelming evidence that a decades-old abuse claim against Fr. Dennis Riter of the Diocese of Buffalo is an outright fraud, the right-wing Church Militant web site continues to claim that Riter is an abuser. Church Militant … [Read more...]

Bravo! Archdiocese of Cincinnati Obliterates TV Station After Bogus Reporting on Abuse Cases

Jennifer Schack : Archdiocese of Cincinnati : Mike Schafer

Attention, all diocesan spokespeople! This is a model for how to deal with the media! Local television station WCPO in Cincinnati thought it could make a big splash for itself during Sweeps Week with a multi-part hit piece against the … [Read more...]

Phoning It In: Lazy AP Trio Discovers That Church Review Panels Actually Have Critics

Reese Dunklin : Mitch Weiss : Matt Sedensky : Associated Press

Imagine a large private organization – with a membership of some 70 million people – sought to tackle the issue of sex abuse within its ranks by devoting the resources to voluntarily set up review panels throughout the country … [Read more...]

A New Low: Sleazy Buffalo Reporter Charlie Specht Secretly Records Bishop Malone Phone Call

Charlie Specht : Buffalo reporter WKBW

In what may be a new low in the reporting by Buffalo TV reporter Charlie Specht, on Friday Specht videoed a phone call he made to Bishop Richard Malone without telling Malone at the start of the call that he would be recording him. How … [Read more...]

USA Today’s Insipid Article Claims Church Should Now Stalk Its Ex-Employees

Lindsay Schnell : USA Today : Sam Ruland

Where does one even begin to criticize a meandering, 6100-word article whose entire premise is so dumb and tiresome? If one were to believe Lindsay Schnell and Sam Ruland from USA Today, they spent a mindnumbing nine months only to learn … [Read more...]

**Double Standard Alert** Southern California Schools Paid $313 Million In Abuse Settlements In Past Seven Years, National Media Mum

school sex abuse

Just imagine: A pair of Catholic dioceses announce that they have paid out nearly one third of a billion – with a "b" – dollars for abuse claims not for allegations going back decades, but for incidents just in the … [Read more...]

Stunner: New Hampshire Judge Says 2003 Diocese of Manchester Grand Jury Report Never Should Have Been Released

Judge Richard McNamara : New Hampshire

For over a dozen years now, publicity-seeking district attorneys across the country have been bombarding the public with phony "grand jury reports" about alleged misdeeds committed by the Catholic Church many decades ago. Indeed, … [Read more...]

Stalking Ex-Employees? AP Advances Dumb Premise In Search of a Storyline

Claudia Lauer : Associated Press : Meghan Hoyer

Imagine you work for an organization and that organization has a non-legal, ad hoc process whereby it decided whether you "could have" committed misconduct in your past. And if you were found "credibly accused" – … [Read more...]

*QUICK HITS* Two Falsely Accused Priests Fight Back and Win!

Rev. William Nolan : Rev. William Graham

We are happy to report two new developments in cases of falsely accused priests: 1. A jury in Wisconsin swiftly acquitted Rev. William Nolan after a 26-year-old accuser made the astonishing claim that Nolan had abused him well over a 100 … [Read more...]

**SPECIAL INVESTIGATION** Church Militant and Buffalo Reporter Charlie Specht Target an Innocent Priest to Boost Their Audience

Charlie Specht WKBW : bad reporting : Michael Voris Church Militant

We've already busted Buffalo TV reporter Charlie Specht for flat-out lying about an abuse accusation at a non-existent Walmart in the 1980s, and there is still plenty more to tell about the crooked Specht. But for now let's look at … [Read more...]