Boston Globe Double Standard: Paper Yawns As School Removes Teacher and Principal Following Abuse Probe

Boston Globe and Carol Johnson

If the Archdiocese of Boston began proceedings to laicize a Catholic priest accused of "inappropriate contact" with an innocent minor, it hard to imagine the Boston Globe burying the story. It is also hard to imagine the Globe … [Read more...]

Even Summer Vacation Does Not Stop Avalanche of Teacher Abuse Atrocities, But Major Media Continue to Ignore Stories

Teacher sex abuse

One would think that the school summer vacation season would not see many stories of stomach-turning child sex abuse by public school teachers, but this summer has seen an avalanche of shocking cases of teacher sex abuse. Here is a … [Read more...]

Eye-Opening Claim: Child Abuse in Boys Scouts ‘Dwarfs That Which We’ve Seen In the Catholic Church’

Attorney Tim Kosnoff

A televised report from an ABC affiliate in Phoenix has built upon the recent revelation that the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) kept files on thousands of cases of child sex abuse. The voluminous amount of stomach-turning abuse cases … [Read more...]

Network Provides Its Idea of ‘Fresh Allegations of Ignoring Child Abuse’ in Catholic Church

ABC Australia

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) recently posted a story with the alarming headline, "Catholic church faces fresh allegations of ignoring child abuse." Indeed, the idea that the Catholic Church – now in 2012 … [Read more...]

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...]

On Front Page, NY Times Trumpets Efforts to Financially Cripple Catholic Church

Erik Eckholm :: New York Times

Several states are mulling legislative efforts to lift the statutes of limitations in cases of sex abuse for a one or two-year period. These so-called "window statutes," pushed by left-wing legislators and left-wing pundits, would … [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...]