The Non-Conspiracy: Media Provides Fig Leaf for Philly D.A. Who Goes One for Seven in High-Profile Trial, Trumpets Single Conviction

Msgr William Lynn family - June 22, 2012

Ten years ... Three grand jury reports ... One trial ... 11 weeks of testimony ... More than 60 witnesses ... A trial judge who gave so much favoritism to one side that she was actually described as "often mistaken for a member of the … [Read more...]

Kudos: Media Finally Reports That Catholic Church Has a PR Problem With Sex Abuse

Mitchell Landsberg Los Angeles Times

While covering the recent bishops' spring conference in Atlanta, a lot of reporters simply saw an opportunity to phone it in and rehash the sex abuse scandals in the Catholic Church to advance a political agenda. The Los Angeles … [Read more...]

Twisted Logic at Minneapolis Star Tribune: Old Abuse Claims Hinder Bishops’ Religious Liberty

Susan Hogan Minneapolis Star Tribune

If any more proof were really needed that the abuse scandals from years ago are only used as a red herring by agenda-driven journalists to attack the Church with respect to other issues, a bleary-eyed piece from Susan Hogan at the … [Read more...]

The Catholic Sex Abuse Crisis in Ireland That Isn’t

Ireland

If one were to believe the mainstream media, the Catholic Church in Ireland is reeling from a burgeoning and active network of pedophile priests relentlessly preying on innocent children. However, the recent release of the annual report … [Read more...]

Down the Rabbit Hole: NY Times Now Blasts Cardinal Dolan and Church for Actually Getting Rid of Abusive Priests

Laurie Goodstein

One frequent demand from Catholic Church abuse victims is that abusive clerics be laicized or removed from the priesthood as expeditiously and quickly as possible. So if the Archdiocese of Milwaukee discovered a fast and economical way to … [Read more...]

Bravo: NY Times Finally Moves Beyond Catholic Church, Explores Abuse and Cover-Ups Elsewhere

Sharon Otterman New York Times

In the last week, the New York Times has published no less than three items (1, 2, 3) related to large-scale child abuse and cover-ups in New York City's Ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities. Is the Times finally moving beyond its … [Read more...]

Meet the ‘Experts’: Rev. Thomas P. Doyle

Rev. Thomas P. Doyle, O.P.

[This is first in a continuing series of profiles of individuals whom the media often cites in its coverage of the Catholic Church abuse narrative.] When the media is seeking a voice to blast away at the Catholic Church over the sex abuse … [Read more...]

National Catholic Reporter Smears Arch. of Los Angeles in Bogus Abuse Story

Josh McElwee

The left-wing National Catholic Reporter newspaper is suggesting that a newly discovered 27-year-old letter somehow may be evidence that the Archdiocese of Los Angeles knew that a priest it had welcomed from England had been accused of … [Read more...]

Unfair in Philly? Kudos to Journalist Who Exposes Trial Judge’s Bias

Ralph Cipriano

Kudos to veteran journalist Ralph Cipriano, who is raising questions about the impartiality of the judge presiding over the high-profile Catholic clergy criminal abuse trial in Philadelphia. Covering the trial for the Philadelphia Priest … [Read more...]

Running on Empty: NY Times Editorial Now Calls for the Catholic Church to be Bankrupted

Andrew Rosenthal

They are at it again. The Grey Lady just published another editorial on Sunday on its favorite topic: sex abuse in the Catholic Church from decades ago. This time the Times praises the state of Hawaii for passing a law to lift the statute … [Read more...]