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...]

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 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...]

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...]

Monkey See, Monkey Do: Another State AG Releases an ‘Abuse Report,’ and the Media Is Hysterical – Again

Fred Hiatt : Doug Peterson : Will Bauer

Following the international frenzy three years ago surrounding the Pennsylvania grand jury report against the Catholic Church, attorneys general across the country looked on with envy at the glowing media attention that Attorney General … [Read more...]

Stick a Fork In It: Time to Finally End the Annual Copy-and-Paste Church Abuse Reports

2020 USCCB CARA annual abuse report

Once again, this year's newly released annual audit report by United States bishops about abuse in the Catholic Church amplifies the rampancy of false accusations, suspicious and unprovable allegations against dead priests, dubious … [Read more...]

**MEDIA FACT SHEET** What You Didn’t Know About McCarrick’s Kooky Accuser

Mitchell Garabedian : Theodore McCarrick : James Grein

This coming Thursday, October 28, ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, now age 91, is scheduled to appear in Dedham District Court in Massachusetts for the second time on the charge that he sexually abused Virginia resident James Grein, now age … [Read more...]

Sloppy Clergy Abuse Report From France Stirs Up Bigots in Public Radio

Anne Barrett Doyle : PRI The World PRX : Marco Werman

A recently released, poorly sourced report out of France alleging abuse by priests committed many decades ago has predictably created the usual media circus of unhinged accusations and hysterical claims by haters of the Church. And among … [Read more...]

Did Somebody Get to Somebody? New Criminal Charges Against McCarrick to Pump Value of Accuser’s Crazy Civil Suits

James Grein : Mitchell Garabedian

In August 2019, when the state of New York opened a "window" to suspend the statute of limitations and allow anyone to sue others for sexual abuse no matter how long ago, one of the very first to jump on the gravy train was … [Read more...]