This Halloween, millions of Americans will dress up in costumes and pretend to be celebrities or other important figures. Most journalists won't take serious note of this. Yet recently a few women have slipped into some vestments and … [Read more...]
Dishonest or Clueless?: Time Claims ‘Ordained’ Women ‘Priests’ in Catholic Church
September 28, 2010 By
It's not that hard to understand. The ordination of women in the Catholic Church is not going to happen. It. Will. Not. Happen. Yet according to a truly warped article by Dawn Reiss in Time magazine (9/25/10), it's already … [Read more...]
Clueless on Catholicism: NBC’s Today Says Pope ‘Inflexible’ About Women Ordination
September 16, 2010 By
It can't be any clearer: The ordination of women in the Catholic Church is not going to happen. Ever. It. Will. Not. Happen. This is not a case of Pope Benedict XVI being "inflexible," as NBC's Today show erroneously … [Read more...]
Coverage of Pope UK Trip by AP’s Winfield May Be Sinful
September 14, 2010 By
Mainstream media outlets continue to frustrate serious Catholics with reporting that is far too often erroneous, misleading, and agenda-driven. Such is the case with an article published by Nicole Winfield of the Associated Press, who is … [Read more...]
UK Writer Slams Media For Gross Misreporting of Catholic Abuse Scandals
September 14, 2010 By
"Did Catholic priests really rape 10,000 children [in the United States] over the past 50 years, as respectable media outlets claim? No, they didn't," writes Brendan O'Neill of England's spiked online magazine. … [Read more...]
Boston Globe Throws Fairness, Perspective Out the Window
September 10, 2010 By
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...]
