Late last week, media outlets seized on a Commonweal magazine article (5/12/11) written by Ana Maria Catanzaro, the chair of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia Review Board. The media characterized Catanzaro's article as a direct rebuke of … [Read more...]
Unfair in Philadelphia? A Closer Look at the 2011 Philadelphia Grand Jury Report
March 2, 2011 By
While we must never cease demanding compassion and justice for all victims of clergy abuse, there is strong evidence to believe that the recent high-profile Philadelphia grand jury report has unfairly maligned the Catholic Church. No media … [Read more...]
SNAP Misleads Public Regarding False Accusations, Refuses to Acknowledge Massive Fraud
February 11, 2011 By
SNAP (Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests) has again promoted a misleading, nine-year-old citation from the New York Times to assert that false accusations against Catholic priests are rare. In truth, SNAP's stale reference, … [Read more...]
Harvard Prof. to Calif. Supreme Court: ‘Repressed Memory’ is ‘The Most Pernicious Bit of Folklore Ever To Infect Psychology and Psychiatry’
September 10, 2010 By
As I assert in my book, Double Standard: Abuse Scandals and the Attack on the Catholic Church, the issue of "repressed memories" is yet another unreported component of the Catholic Church abuse narrative. For my book I culled … [Read more...]
Lie-lapalooza: John Manly Airs Numerous Falsehoods – Again (PART III: KUCI interview, Dec. 5, 2007)
December 10, 2008 By
In a December 5, 2007, interview on KUCI radio in Southern California, attorney John Manly aired a substantial number of falsehoods and outrageous statements. For starters, in claiming that priestly celibacy "does not work," … [Read more...]
John Manly Compares Being a Priest To Being a Train Conductor for Auschwitz (PART II: KUCI interview, Dec. 5, 2007) (w/ AUDIO)
December 9, 2008 By
In a December 5, 2007, interview on KUCI radio in Southern California, John Manly explicitly compared being a priest in the Catholic Church to being a train conductor who "transfer(s) prisoners to Auschwitz." This is outrageous. … [Read more...]
John Manly, Lawyer For Alleged Church Abuse Victims: ‘Just Give Me the Money’
December 2, 2008 By
In a eye-opening comment on a blog, California attorney John Manly appears to let it slip that his work on behalf of clients who claim to have been abused by Catholic priests is really all about the money. Manly and a blogger going by the … [Read more...]
