After Bogus Attack, Catholic Charities Debunks LA Times Columnist

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...]

LA Times Promotes Film On Church Abuse On Its Front Page

How can a movie studio get its film promoted on the front page of the Los Angeles Times for free? Easy. Make a film about an abuse scandal in the Catholic Church. Yesterday (Saturday, February 17, 2007), starting on the front page, the … [Read more...]

In This Case, Headline In LA Times Unfair To Cardinal Mahony

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...]

Why Is the MSM Ignoring This Priest Scandal? Could It Be …?

The story: A priest works at a Miami high school as a history teacher and assistant chaplain. Nude photographs of him interacting physically with other men are discovered on the Internet. The priest resigns from his job. Graphic Internet … [Read more...]

LA Times Goes To Texas And Alaska For Church Abuse Scandals

Is the Los Angeles Times "piling on" when it comes to covering sex abuse by Christians? Have they misled their readers again? In the front section of today's Los Angeles Times (Tuesday, September 5, 2006) is an article, … [Read more...]

Reader Nails LA Times Columnist for ‘Ignorance,’ ‘Naiveté,’ and ‘Anti-Catholicism’

Last week, in this NewsBusters post, we took issue with the anti-Catholicism in an August 5, 2006, column from Los Angeles Times media critic Tim Rutten. In an especially ugly and vitriolic piece, Rutten capitalized on the arrest of Mel … [Read more...]

Los Angeles Times Gives Forum to Anti-Catholic Zealot

Today's Los Angeles Times (Wed. May 31, 2006) features a nasty anti-Catholic op-ed by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen. Goldhagen is an author of several works that have brutally attacked the Catholic Church, including a 2002 New Republic piece … [Read more...]

LA Times’ Rutten: ‘Da Vinci Code’ Is ‘Only a Movie,’ But Gibson’s ‘Passion’ Was ‘Combustible’

The headline to today's Los Angeles Times' "Regarding Media" column (Sat. May 20, 2006), penned by the perpetually clueless Tim Rutten, is "Media should stop and say, 'It's only a movie'." The movie … [Read more...]

KABC’s Doug McIntyre: L.A.’s Cardinal Mahony a ‘Scumbag’, ‘Molester’

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...]

ABC’s Bogus ‘Pope Joan’ Story Also Hocked Feminist ‘Rule of Thumb’ Myth

The bogus story of "Pope Joan" was not the only fiction that ABC and Diane Sawyer tried to hustle on the American public in last night's Primetime (Thursday December 29, 2005). In trying to convey the environment of … [Read more...]