It Ends With a Whimper: A Decade After a ‘Historic’ Trial, the Case of Wrongfully Convicted Msgr. Lynn Is Officially Over

Msgr William J. Lynn : Msgr. William Lynn : Philadelphia

What may be the greatest courtroom fraud ever perpetrated against the Catholic Church has finally come to an end. But unlike a decade ago when the media fell over themselves inside a packed courtroom to report the single guilty conviction … [Read more...]

Common Sense Alert: New Study Shows That Vast Majority of Priests Fear False Abuse Accusation

priest study : stress accusations abuse

As we have repeatedly reported, false accusations against priests nowadays are rampant, and now we know that this fact may be having a monumental effect on the overall emotional well-being of today's priests. According to a new … [Read more...]

Twice Is a Charm? Wall St. Journal Again Profiles Stunning Case of Wrongfully Convicted Priest Fr. Gordon MacRae

Harvey Silverglate : WSJ : Rev. Gordon MacRae

For the second time this past decade – and at least the fourth time since 2005 – the Wall Street Journal has taken up the case of Fr. Gordon J. MacRae, who has, quite unbelievably, been serving a 33½-to-67 year sentence in a … [Read more...]

Ultra Woke: Phony Catholic College Forum Now Promoting Diversity In Abuse Scandal

Kim Daniels : Georgetown University

Just when you thought every single possible imaginable angle of the Church abuse story had been ground to a fine powder over and over again, along comes an online forum last Wednesday called "Neglected Voices in the Clergy Sexual Abuse … [Read more...]

David Versus Goliath! The Boston Globe Tried to Intimidate and Silence TheMediaReport.com – And Lost.

Linda Pizzuti Henry : Jeremy Blackowicz

I guess we struck a nerve. Shortly after publishing our post last week critical of The Boston Globe for unfairly targeting the Church yet again, a legal representative of the Globe contacted our web hosting company demanding that it remove … [Read more...]

Boston Globe Promotes Drag Queen Story Hours for Children While Going Wild Over Any Mention of Sex During Confession

Drag-queen-vs-priest

Of course for The Boston Globe, it's never really been about the actual abuse of children but about using the issue of sex abuse to attack the Church for opposing its left-wing views on sexuality. Witness yet again: In recent years, … [Read more...]

Another Wave of Falsely Accused Priests Returned to Ministry

Rev. Thomas J. Wopperer : Rev. Martin H. Demek : Rev. Michael Scully : Rev. Robert G. Beiter

As we have written many times, the diocesan review boards formed by the Dallas Charter 20 years ago, while originally well intentioned, have become a virtual dragnet for specious, unfounded claims from decades prior in which the due process … [Read more...]

Another Anti-Catholic Media Hoax Exposed: News of ‘Unmarked Graves’ In Canada Revealed As a Fraud

60 Minutes : Anti-Catholic unmarked graves hoax : Anderson Cooper

It is yet another case of media hysteria getting ahead of the facts. In May of 2021, media outlets around the world broadcast shocking news: Catholic-operated schools for indigenous children in Canada had years ago dumped hundreds of dead … [Read more...]

On 20th Anniversary of ‘The Dallas Charter’, Newark Msgr. Begs Bishops For Justice for Accused Priests

Msgr. Paul Bochicchio

In a recent impassioned letter in the Homiletic & Pastoral Review, Msgr. Paul L. Bochicchio of the Archdiocese of Newark implored the leadership of the Church in the United States to address the grave injustices being committed against … [Read more...]

Facts Don’t Matter: Authors of Sloppy French Abuse ‘Report’ Stand by Its Figure of 300,000 Alleged Victims Despite Admitting ‘Weaknesses’

French Catholic abuse report

After the release of a shoddy report from France last October claiming that some "300,000" people were sexually abused by Catholic priests and lay workers in past decades, we thought we might have been the only ones to speak out … [Read more...]