The harm wrecked upon victims of sexual abuse is real and damaging. That is not an excuse, however, for reckless, false, and misleading reporting about Catholic Church officials. Take the egregiously wobbly op-ed from Monday's Los … [Read more...]
LA Times Admits To False Reporting On Cardinal Mahony
June 13, 2007 By
Check out the very first line from this June 7, 2007, article in the Los Angeles Times (emphasis mine): A judge Wednesday ordered Cardinal Roger M. Mahony to testify in a lawsuit alleging that he failed to protect parishioners from a … [Read more...]
Retaliation? After Diocese Criticizes Its Coverage, LA Times Slams Cardinal Mahony
April 16, 2007 By
Two weeks ago, we reported (in this NB post) that the Archdiocese of Los Angeles publicly objected to coverage of the priest abuse scandal by the Los Angeles Times. Two articles by the Times in the second half of March contained false … [Read more...]
After Bogus Attack, Catholic Charities Debunks LA Times Columnist
February 25, 2007 By
Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez has never been shy in taking slaps at the Catholic Church, especially the archdiocese of Los Angeles. And then there was his February 18, 2007, column, in which facts and truth went by the wayside. … [Read more...]
In This Case, Headline In LA Times Unfair To Cardinal Mahony
December 2, 2006 By
Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony certainly deserves his rightful share of criticism and rebuke for his handling of the church abuse scandal. However, a front-page headline in today's Los Angeles Times (Saturday, December 2, 2006) … [Read more...]
KABC’s Doug McIntyre: L.A.’s Cardinal Mahony a ‘Scumbag’, ‘Molester’
March 1, 2006 By
Add me to the list of Los Angeles-area Catholics who are not pleased about the decision of Cardinal Roger M. Mahony to instruct priests to defy a proposed federal law designed to target illegal immigration. (The law needs to be passed by … [Read more...]
