Factual distortion ... Misleading claims ... Bigoted sources ... Here is the definitive review of Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God, a new film by Alex Gibney, scheduled to begin airing on HBO on February 4. Gibney's … [Read more...]
** Hollywood vs. The Truth ** HBO’s New Anti-Catholic Documentary ‘Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God’ EXPOSED
January 5, 2013 By
** MEA MAXIMA CULPA: Exposing The Falsehoods of HBO’s New Anti-Catholic Documentary ** Richard Sipe vs. Catholic Teaching: An Angry Ex-Priest Traffics In Bad Theology
January 5, 2013 By
[Click here for the complete index of our review of Mea Maxima Culpa.] One interview subject that plays a prominent role in HBO's Mea Maxima Culpa is Richard Sipe, a longtime Catholic Church basher. After being a Benedictine monk for … [Read more...]
** MEA MAXIMA CULPA: Exposing The Falsehoods of HBO’s New Anti-Catholic Documentary ** Film Trumpets Debunked 1997 Ireland ‘Smoking Gun’ Letter, Blames Vatican for Rape by Irish Priest Walsh
January 5, 2013 By
[Click here for the complete index of our review of Mea Maxima Culpa.] A letter that is not 'smoking' In seeking to portray the Catholic Church as callous to the issue of clergy sex abuse, Alex Gibney's Mea Maxima Culpa airs … [Read more...]
** MEA MAXIMA CULPA: Exposing The Falsehoods of HBO’s New Anti-Catholic Documentary ** NYT’s Laurie Goodstein vs. The Facts; More Blunders From the Bigoted Film
January 5, 2013 By
[Click here for the complete index of our review of Mea Maxima Culpa.] Mischaracterizing facts – again One interview subject that plays a prominent role in Mea Maxima Culpa is New York Times National Religion Correspondent Laurie … [Read more...]
** MEA MAXIMA CULPA: Exposing The Falsehoods of HBO’s New Anti-Catholic Documentary ** Fourth Century Clergy Abuse? More Loopy Claims From Gibney’s Calamity
January 5, 2013 By
[Click here for the complete index of our review of Mea Maxima Culpa.] Staggered by its own ambition to browbeat the Catholic Church, HBO's Mea Maxima Culpa whips up a number of wild claims. Clergy abuse in the fourth century? In … [Read more...]
TheMediaReport.com’s Top 10 Posts of 2012 [Part II: The Top 5!]
December 30, 2012 By
We close out our great year at TheMediaReport.com with our Top Five posts of 2012! Again, thank you so much to everyone! #5 Minn. Supreme Court Rejects 'Repressed Memory' Junk Science Against Priest, Media Yawns For years now, … [Read more...]
TheMediaReport.com’s Top 10 Posts of 2012 [Part I]
December 19, 2012 By
Thank you to everyone for making 2012 the best year ever for TheMediaReport.com – now in its ninth year! Our readership continues to grow dramatically, thanks to you. We are very grateful! We figured we would close out the year with … [Read more...]
Where’s the Outrage? Another L.A. School Sex Abuse Shocker: 189 Abuse Claims at Just ONE School!
December 13, 2012 By
Reports of rampant child sex abuse committed at an elementary school in Los Angeles continue to explode. On the heels of other recent shocking reports involving child sex abuse in L.A. schools, NBC4 in Los Angeles has reported: "On … [Read more...]
Kudos to L.A. Journalists: Their Investigations Uncover Widespread Cover-Ups of Abuse in Public Schools; But Rest of Media Snores
December 6, 2012 By
Reporters in Los Angeles are highlighting the fact that the criminal abuse of children is not really very bothersome to a lot of people, unless Catholic clergymen are involved. This past year has been a banner one for journalists in Los … [Read more...]
Rich Irony: Child Sex Abuse Issue Reaches the Top Echelon of the New York Times
November 21, 2012 By
As we have noted many times before, the media's obsession with decades-old sex abuse in the Catholic Church is more about its hatred for the Church than it is about sex abuse itself. Not surprisingly, the New York Times has obsessed … [Read more...]
