NEW YORK TIMES FINDS MORE GAY ABUSERS
The New York Times loves to dig up old stories to make the Catholic Church look bad, but sometimes it unwittingly provides useful information. Consider the Austrian case it recently detailed. In 1995,...
View ArticleNEW YORK TIMES PRINTS BOGUS OP-ED
In a recent op-ed article in the New York Times, Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig said the Catholic Church failed to protect children “for hundreds of years,” yet offered no evidence to support...
View ArticleNEW YORK TIMES PROTECTS WEAKLAND
Clark Hoyt, the public editor of the New York Times, recently ran a piece that sought to defend the paper against Catholics unhappy with recent coverage of the pope. In particular, he defended Laurie...
View ArticleNOT ALL GAY SEX IS ABUSIVE
Recently Bill Donohue commented on a story in the April 23 New York Times about a case of alleged sexual abuse committed by a Chilean priest: “If a 17-year old guy has sex with an older guy for twenty...
View ArticleEUGENE ROBINSON HAS HIS FACTS WRONG
Eugene Robinson, an editorial page writer for the Washington Post, recently wrote that “practically every day, there are new revelations of pedophile priests having been transferred to other parishes...
View ArticleNEW YORK TIMES MARKS POPE’S ANNIVERSARY
On the 5th anniversary of Pope Benedict XVI’s election, the New York Times ran an article, which was remarkable even by the Times’ standards. Readers of the article learned that the sexual abuse...
View ArticleMEDIA FEED BIGOTRY
Bill Donohue Young people get bits of information from the Internet; urbanites pick up free newspapers stuffed with short stories; others rely on snippets of news from radio or TV; millions depend on...
View ArticleCULTURAL TOXINS
There are times when it would be great to be a fly on the wall, listening to how an unseemly discussion unfolds. I felt this way recently when I learned that Mother Teresa was being denied the...
View ArticleMOCK JESUS SHOW?
Comedy Central is weighing the possibility of offering a new animated show, “JC.” All we know about “JC” is that it will be a half-hour show about Christ seeking to live a normal life in New York...
View ArticleMOTHER TERESA HONOR DENIED; PETITION DRIVE BEGINS
The Catholic League has begun a worldwide campaign protesting a decision by officials from the Empire State Building to deny Mother Teresa the same honor it has extended to virtually every world...
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