Kudos to Boston Globe columnist Brian McGrory for composing a truly moving and remarkable tribute to a falsely accused priest, Fr. Charles Murphy, who served several years at St. Francis Xavier Parish in South Weymouth (MA). A wonderful … [Read more...]
Boston Globe Shocker: In Moving Tribute to Falsely Accused Priest, Columnist Slams Church-Suing Lawyer
June 16, 2011 By
Philadelphia Catholic Clergy Abuse Trial Update
June 8, 2011 By
There have been a few notable developments in recent weeks in the Philadelphia clergy abuse cases. 1. The two current priests (Fr. Charles Engelhardt and Fr. James Brennan), former priest (Edward Avery), and former Catholic school teacher … [Read more...]
SNAP Smears Innocent Woman’s Day Care Business; Will SNAP Apologize?
May 25, 2011 By
The facts on this one are pretty simple. In its crusade to attack the Catholic Church, the controversial advocacy group SNAP (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests) made the startling claim that a "credibly accused child … [Read more...]
Philly Abuse Panel Chair: Media Has Misrepresented My Article
May 16, 2011 By
Late last week, media outlets seized on a Commonweal magazine article (5/12/11) written by Ana Maria Catanzaro, the chair of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia Review Board. The media characterized Catanzaro's article as a direct rebuke of … [Read more...]
Unfair in Philadelphia? A Closer Look at the 2011 Philadelphia Grand Jury Report
March 2, 2011 By
While we must never cease demanding compassion and justice for all victims of clergy abuse, there is strong evidence to believe that the recent high-profile Philadelphia grand jury report has unfairly maligned the Catholic Church. No media … [Read more...]
SNAP Misleads Public Regarding False Accusations, Refuses to Acknowledge Massive Fraud
February 11, 2011 By
SNAP (Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests) has again promoted a misleading, nine-year-old citation from the New York Times to assert that false accusations against Catholic priests are rare. In truth, SNAP's stale reference, … [Read more...]
Harvard Prof. to Calif. Supreme Court: ‘Repressed Memory’ is ‘The Most Pernicious Bit of Folklore Ever To Infect Psychology and Psychiatry’
September 10, 2010 By
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...]
