Google Tags Popular Priest as ‘Pedophile’

Despite the fact that accusations against popular Catholic preacher Father John Corapi have nothing to do with children, Google has tagged news about the cleric into its "Pedophile" category. Searching for the latest news about … [Read more...]

Boston Globe Singles Out Catholic Church – Again

In the past three weeks, the Boston Globe has published not one, but two, articles about the release from prison of a soon-to-be-laicized Jesuit priest, Fr. James F. Talbot. (One article was by the frenetic Joan Vennochi.) The bottom line: … [Read more...]

SNAP Endangered Children: Rather Than Acting to Remove a Molester That Was Still in Ministry, It Went to the New York Times

In a clear violation of its own stated beliefs, the advocacy group SNAP (Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests) did not immediately notify law or church authorities when it received information that an admitted molester was still … [Read more...]

Media Quiet to Case of Non-Citizen Convicted Child Molester Who Was High School Principal

On Saturday (2/19/11), the Los Angeles Times published an article, "Ex-high school principal gets 8 years for molesting four girls." The case involved Jonas Vital Silverio, who had pleaded no contest to 10 counts of lewd acts on a … [Read more...]

You Say, ‘Child Abuse’; Boston Globe Says, ‘Catholic Church’

This week United States Senator Scott Brown (R-MA) delivered the very sad claim that he was sexually abused by a camp counselor when he was 10 years old. How did the Boston Globe cover this news? As part of its reporting of the story, the … [Read more...]

Hit-and-Run: Media Slams Vatican With Bogus ‘Smoking Gun’ Story

Media outlets have uncritically trumpeted a story that claims a 1997 letter is a "smoking gun" that proves that Vatican officials warned Irish bishops not to report child abuse to civil authorities. In fact, as a cursory look at … [Read more...]

Andrew Sullivan Tagged for Rampant Falsehoods About Catholic Church, Pope

[HT: Thomas Peters, American Papist at CatholicVote.org] Following a debate the other night with Maggie Gallagher on the topic of gay "marriage," pundit Andrew Sullivan has been cited for airing a number of falsehoods and lies … [Read more...]

Media’s Double Standard Continues When Reporting Child Sex Abuse

Here are two stories from this past week: 1. "A [newly released] General Accountability Office (GAO) investigation has found that people with histories of sexual misconduct are still getting hired by school systems across the [United … [Read more...]

With Pope in Spain, AP’s Winfield Trumpets Gay ‘Kiss-in,’ Misrepresents Catholic Church

The Associated Press' Nicole Winfield is at it again with erroneous and slanted reporting of the Catholic Church. In an article about Pope Benedict XVI's dedication of a basilica in Spain this weekend (Sun. 11/7/10), Winfield … [Read more...]

UK Writer Slams Media For Gross Misreporting of Catholic Abuse Scandals

"Did Catholic priests really rape 10,000 children [in the United States] over the past 50 years, as respectable media outlets claim? No, they didn't," writes Brendan O'Neill of England's spiked online magazine. … [Read more...]