New Philly Trial BOMBSHELL: Historic Conviction of Msgr. Lynn May Have Been Based Upon False Confession

Edward V. Avery and Msgr. William J. Lynn

Was the historic conviction in June of Philadelphia's Msgr. William J. Lynn based on a crime that never even happened?! Ralph Cipriano at the Philadelphia Priest Abuse Trial Blog has exclusively reported that a motion filed on Monday … [Read more...]

Height of Hypocrisy: Philly D.A.’s Office Fights Open Records Request By TheMediaReport.com

Philadelphia D.A. Seth Williams

The Philadelphia clergy abuse trial this past year was historic, but not just for the conviction of Msgr. William Lynn for the mistakes he made back in the 1990s. After ten years of investigations and three grand juries, the only jury … [Read more...]

NY Times Loses It: Two Front-Page Stories and an Editorial For a Suspended Misdemeanor Sentence

NYT: Laurie Goodstein, Andrew Rosenthal, John Eligon

If anyone needed another example of the New York Times' obsession with blasting the Catholic Church, one does not need to look further than the paper's coverage following the guilty verdict of Kansas City–St. Joseph Bishop … [Read more...]

SNAP Now Makes It Perfectly Clear: Publicity Comes First, Victims Second

David Clohessy SNAP

If there is one "bright spot" in the outcome of the Bishop Finn trial, it is that innocent victims and their families were spared the excruciating ordeal of having to appear in public court and having to identify how they were … [Read more...]

Editorial Notices That Planned Parenthood ‘Probably Covers Up More Sexual Abuse of Children Than Any Other Institution in the United States’

Wayne Laugesen

Colorado Springs Gazette editor Wayne Laugesen has penned a must-read editorial in which he takes aim at the nation's selective outrage over child sex abuse. While the public and law enforcement have rightfully expressed outrage at sex … [Read more...]

‘The Darkest Two Years of My Life’: Popular Priest Describes Long Torment of False Abuse Accusation

Fr. Eugene Boland Ireland

Very few priests speak publicly about their horrifying ordeals of being falsely accused of child sex abuse, but Rev. Eugene Boland is doing so after a jury in Derry, Ireland, unanimously found him not guilty in June of the flimsy claim that … [Read more...]

** SNAP CONFERENCE 2012 EXCLUSIVE ** Not Really About Sex Abuse: Radical Rev. Barry Lynn Unleashes Political Tirade Against Catholic Bishops

Barry Lynn

If there were still any doubt about the anti-Catholic agenda of the advocacy group SNAP, an angry tirade by Rev. Barry Lynn at the group's annual conference in Chicago last month should erase any such doubt. Lynn built upon a similar … [Read more...]

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...]