Philly Abuse Trial Eye-Opener: Even Professional Church Critic Admits Things Used To Be Different

Rev. Thomas P. Doyle O.P.

Dissident cleric Rev. Thomas P. Doyle took the stand on Thursday (4/12/12) in the high-profile clergy sex abuse trial in Philadelphia as an "expert witness" on canon law for the prosecution's case against the Catholic Church, … [Read more...]

Catholic Abuse Audit Shows Current Accusations Are Down Again, But Media Highlights Decades-Old Claims

Rachel Zoll

The newly released annual audit of abuse in the Catholic Church reports that only seven credible abuse allegations were made against Catholic priests by current minors in all of 2011. Yet nationally syndicated articles from the Associated … [Read more...]

The Philadelphia Abuse Trial: Media Ignores Key Accuser’s Criminal Past

John P. Martin, Philadelphia Inquirer

Leading journalists are ignoring a critical component of the current high-profile Catholic abuse trial in Philadelphia. Mark Bukowski has accused Rev. James Brennan of raping him as a 14-year-old back in 1996. However, around the very same … [Read more...]

Resignations Filed at Damaged Irish TV Network That Defamed Catholic Priest

Falsely Accused Priest Rev. Kevin Reynolds

Nearly a year after Irish television network RTÉ defamed an innocent Catholic priest, employees connected to the incident have resigned. The resignations are on the heels of a major television scandal that erupted in Ireland last … [Read more...]

Philly Abuse Case Flip-Flop? Serious Doubt Emerges in Charges Against Accused Priests

Monica Yant Kinney

For over a year, the media has whole-heartedly embraced and loudly trumpeted the graphic and shocking details of last year's high-profile Philadelphia grand jury report. The report, which depicted stomach-turning allegations of … [Read more...]

*EXCLUSIVE REPORT* Philadelphia Abuse Accuser Has Extensive Criminal Record of Fraud and Filing False Police Reports

Mark-Bukowski-Fr-Brennan-Accuser

The primary accuser in this week's high-profile criminal abuse trial in Philadelphia has a lengthy criminal record of fraud and deceit, including an alarming episode in which he fabricated an elaborate tale to the police about a violent … [Read more...]

Media Uses Flimsy ‘Dutch Castration’ Story to Smack Catholic Church

The Netherlands

The media are falling over themselves to relay a salacious report that the Catholic Church in the Netherlands may have surgically castrated "as many as 10 young men" over a half a century ago, in the 1950's. Perpetual … [Read more...]

The Usual Suspects: NY Times, Dissident Priest Support Anti-Catholic SNAP With Falsehoods, Attacks on Church

New York Times anti-Catholic bias

The New York Times is again shilling for the Catholic-hating SNAP (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests) with more false attacks against the Catholic Church. Yesterday (Tue., 3/13/12), the Times plastered a sympatheic, … [Read more...]

NY Times Misleads Readers, Carries Water for SNAP

The New York Times' Laurie Goodstein

The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) is slowly being exposed as the dishonest and mean-spirited organization that is it, and this reality appears to be upsetting the New York Times. Today's paper (Tue., 3/13/12) has … [Read more...]

Huge Sex Abuse Scandal in Ireland, Scant Media Coverage

Ireland

How come we get the feeling that this story won't get picked up by the New York Times or 60 Minutes? An advocacy group in Ireland has announced that it conducted a survey in which 18% of respondents claimed that their doctors … [Read more...]