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Separating Fact From Fiction in Catholic Church Sex Abuse
When the media needs a quote to bash the Catholic Church for abuse from a half-century ago, one predictable source it often turns to is BishopAccountability.org. The Massachusetts-based BishopAccountability.org professes to act as a sort … [Read more...]
In yet another shocking development in the Philadelphia clergy abuse trials, journalist Ralph Cipriano is now exclusively reporting that an alternate juror in the recent trial of Fr. Charles Engelhardt and former teacher Bernard Shero … [Read more...]
It should go without saying that the Catholic Church, its teachings, and its many organizations greatly impact the lives of not only its 1.2 billion members but also the world as a whole. Thus the election of Pope Francis – the 266th … [Read more...]
It seems that the mission of bludgeoning the Catholic Church for abuse episodes from a half century ago is not as thriving as it used to be. Few major media outlets have overplayed and exaggerated the abuse narrative more than the … [Read more...]
It may have been a first. In what may have been the first time ever on a major television outlet, two popular TV personalities finally revealed that the media's never-ending obsession with decades-old episodes in the Church actually … [Read more...]
The bizarre and wildly inconsistent claims of sadistic abuse against Philadelphia Catholic priest Fr. Charles Engelhardt and former teacher Bernard Shero were so unbelievable that January's convictions of the two men actually … [Read more...]
Ever since Pope Benedict announced his resignation, the media has given a special voice to the usual cadre of anti-Catholic bigots and malcontents lashing out at the Church over the decades-old abuse issue. However, in what may be the … [Read more...]
For the past several decades, the media has told a story of how the Catholic Church in Ireland operated homes for troubled youth – the Magdalene Laundries – that were rife with unspeakable barbarity and unrivaled cruelty from … [Read more...]
The announcement that Pope Benedict XVI would be resigning his position has apparently provided the New York Times with yet another opportunity to rail against the Catholic Church for not conforming to its politically correct, secularist … [Read more...]
In an episode that recalls something out of the 19th-century, anti-Catholic Know Nothing movement, a political cartoon in the Los Angeles Times by David Horsey portrays a Catholic priest as Satan. Horsey's bigoted work is sure to put … [Read more...]
Double Standard: Abuse Scandals and
the Attack on the Catholic Church
by David F. Pierre, Jr.