Dishonest or Clueless?: Time Claims ‘Ordained’ Women ‘Priests’ in Catholic Church

It's not that hard to understand. The ordination of women in the Catholic Church is not going to happen. It. Will. Not. Happen. Yet according to a truly warped article by Dawn Reiss in Time magazine (9/25/10), it's already … [Read more...]

Clueless on Catholicism: NBC’s Today Says Pope ‘Inflexible’ About Women Ordination

It can't be any clearer: The ordination of women in the Catholic Church is not going to happen. Ever. It. Will. Not. Happen. This is not a case of Pope Benedict XVI being "inflexible," as NBC's Today show erroneously … [Read more...]

Coverage of Pope UK Trip by AP’s Winfield May Be Sinful

Mainstream media outlets continue to frustrate serious Catholics with reporting that is far too often erroneous, misleading, and agenda-driven. Such is the case with an article published by Nicole Winfield of the Associated Press, who is … [Read more...]

UK Writer Slams Media For Gross Misreporting of Catholic Abuse Scandals

"Did Catholic priests really rape 10,000 children [in the United States] over the past 50 years, as respectable media outlets claim? No, they didn't," writes Brendan O'Neill of England's spiked online magazine. … [Read more...]

Boston Globe Throws Fairness, Perspective Out the Window

For my book, Double Standard: Abuse Scandals and the Attack on the Catholic Church, I interviewed Joe Maher, co-founder and president of Opus Bono Sacerdotii ("Work for the Good of the Priesthood"). Mr. Maher passed on a quote to … [Read more...]

Harvard Prof. to Calif. Supreme Court: ‘Repressed Memory’ is ‘The Most Pernicious Bit of Folklore Ever To Infect Psychology and Psychiatry’

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...]

LA Times Issues Correction After One-Sided Slam on L.A. Archdiocese

On Monday, August 24, 2009, the Los Angeles Times printed the following slam in its "California Briefing" section (bold in body of article mine): Parish targeted by victims' group Members of a support group for victims … [Read more...]

Boston Globe, Elie Wiesel Revive Pope Pius XII Holocaust Smear

In a dreadful August 16, 2010, article in the perpetually anti-Catholic Boston Globe, the paper failed to correct high-profile Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel when he falsely claimed that Pope Pius XII "did nothing to protest" the … [Read more...]

Part III: ‘Deliver Us From Evil’ (2006): Even More Factual Errors

Even the simplest facts presented in the film are problematic. Director Amy Berg published several falsehoods on the screen that appear as captions: “Over 100,000 victims of clergy sexual abuse have come forward in the United … [Read more...]

Part II: ‘Deliver Us From Evil’ (2006): A Fallacious Attack on Cardinal Roger Mahony

In the film director Amy Berg often interviews serial abuser Oliver O’Grady inside a church about his disgraceful crimes. Berg overlays graphic descriptions of stomach-turning abuse with images of the Mass and other Catholic imagery. … [Read more...]