For my book, Double Standard: Abuse Scandals and the Attack on the Catholic Church, I interviewed Joe Maher, co-founder and president of Opus Bono Sacerdotii ("Work for the Good of the Priesthood"). Mr. Maher passed on a quote to … [Read more...]
LA Times Issues Correction After One-Sided Slam on L.A. Archdiocese
August 28, 2010 By
On Monday, August 24, 2009, the Los Angeles Times printed the following slam in its "California Briefing" section (bold in body of article mine): Parish targeted by victims' group Members of a support group for victims … [Read more...]
Boston Globe, Elie Wiesel Revive Pope Pius XII Holocaust Smear
August 17, 2010 By
In a dreadful August 16, 2010, article in the perpetually anti-Catholic Boston Globe, the paper failed to correct high-profile Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel when he falsely claimed that Pope Pius XII "did nothing to protest" the … [Read more...]
Part III: ‘Deliver Us From Evil’ (2006): Even More Factual Errors
August 3, 2010 By
Even the simplest facts presented in the film are problematic. Director Amy Berg published several falsehoods on the screen that appear as captions: “Over 100,000 victims of clergy sexual abuse have come forward in the United … [Read more...]
Part II: ‘Deliver Us From Evil’ (2006): A Fallacious Attack on Cardinal Roger Mahony
August 2, 2010 By
In the film director Amy Berg often interviews serial abuser Oliver O’Grady inside a church about his disgraceful crimes. Berg overlays graphic descriptions of stomach-turning abuse with images of the Mass and other Catholic imagery. … [Read more...]
Part I: ‘Deliver Us From Evil’ (2006): Serious Problems With Facts
August 1, 2010 By
Even before the first frame of film was exposed, director/writer Amy Berg took a dishonest approach to her project. Berg and her staff approached an elementary school in Ireland under the false pretense that they were filming a documentary … [Read more...]
Catholic League Nabs NY Times, Boston Globe Over Lack of ‘Zero Tolerance’ Policy
July 31, 2010 By
(Via The Catholic League.) For years, the bowties at the New York Times and the Boston Globe have been harpooning the Catholic Church over a supposed lack of a "zero tolerance" policy towards abusive priests. (The truthfulness of … [Read more...]
James Carroll Exploits Holocaust, Lies Again About Catholic Church
December 26, 2009 By
Leave it to the web site The Daily Beast to publish a lie-filled attack on the Catholic Church the day before Christmas. The author of the hate-filled piece is James Carroll, one of the country's foremost haters of the Catholic Church. … [Read more...]
National Catholic Reporter’s Tom Roberts Opposes Bible, Jesus, and Church
November 10, 2009 By
Good ... grief. Shouldn't a writer for a self-professed Catholic newspaper actually know a few things about Catholicism? Tom Roberts' November 9 post for the liberal National Catholic Reporter is so rife with errors, falsehoods, … [Read more...]
In Boston Globe, Harvard Prof. Equates Conservative Christians and Murderous Muslims
November 8, 2009 By
In a bleary-eyed opinion article in the Sunday Boston Globe (11/8/09), Harvard divinity professor Harvey Cox denounces religious "fundamentalism." In doing so, he places mass-murdering Muslims from the Middle East on the same … [Read more...]
