As most of you have already heard by now, Australia's Cardinal George Pell has finally been freed from prison and exonerated by Australia's Supreme Court. However, as a site that has been long following the issue of falsely accused … [Read more...]
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: ProPublica Attacks Church For Being Transparent
February 20, 2020 By
Fact: The Catholic Church is the only institution on the planet where if you are an employee merely accused of wrongdoing from decades ago, your name may end up on a diocesan web site somewhere for the entire world to see as if you were a … [Read more...]
Comin’ Clean: Buffalo Reporter Admits to Errors In His Reporting
January 13, 2020 By
Last month, acting on a tip from a loyal reader of this site, David F. Pierre, Jr. of TheMediaReport.com called into Buffalo radio station WBEN when told that Buffalo television reporter … [Read more...]
Happy Holidays: AP on Journalistic Jihad in December Doing Dumb Storyline Retreads Against Evil Catholic Church
January 2, 2020 By
In the month of December, the Associated Press published no less than five biased articles attacking the Catholic Church over abuse accusations against priests decades ago. Yet if one actually takes the time to labor through the articles, … [Read more...]
Shameful: Church Militant Continues To Falsely Defame Buffalo Priest
December 9, 2019 By
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
December 2, 2019 By
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
November 25, 2019 By
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
November 18, 2019 By
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
November 16, 2019 By
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
November 4, 2019 By
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...]
