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March/April 2010
Defending Pope Benedict from the campaign of smear in the world's media
The New York Times' article aimed at implicating the Pope in the cover-up and protection of priests in child abuse cases has been taken up with the usual uncritical gusto in the Western world's media - to understate the case dramatically. The world's media frequently degenerates into a frenzy of reporting on itself, but the continual regurgitation of the deploringly bad journalism of the NYT piece has reached depths previously not thought possible. The cogent and detailed replies by Church officials and other commentators do not, as expected, get coverage. When it comes to reporting on the Catholic Church the first rule of media editors is clearly never to indulge in balanced reporting. That obviously would be politically counter-productive. The articles and commentaries below are some that are readily accessible to any hack reporter who still has a vestige of self-respect.
25 March 2010
The Pope and the Murphy case: what the New York Times story
didn't tell you
26 March 2010
Cardinal Levada responds to the New York Times
27 March 2020
A response to the New York Times
30 March 2010
Archbishop Dolan
responds to the New York Times
31 March 2010
Mistakes in
Murphy case made in Milwaukee not in Rome, says Archbishop
2 April 2010
Cardinal George again defends Pope Benedict
29
March 2010
Milwaukee church judge
clarifies case of abusive priest Father Murphy
29 March 2010
George Weigel's article on the New York Times
attack is one of the best summaries of the clerical sexual abuse
scandal and the way the world's media has and is handling it.
Scoundrel Times
30 March 2010
Judge of abusive priest corrects 'sloppy and inaccurate New
York Times Smears against the Pope
30 March 2010
News Flash: The
Pope and the New York Times are fallible
6 April 2010
Anti-Catholicism and the Times
7 April 2010
Abuse docs provided to New York lawyer trying to sue the Vatican
7 April 2010
Scandal time once more
8 April 2010
Ed Koch in the Jerusalem Post
He
that is without sin, let him cast the first stone, Enough already!
9 April 2010
Tom Piatak reveals the naked political objectives of Hitchens and friends.
This comment is as powerful and convincing as George Weigel's above
Christopher Hitchens and the days of rage
14 April 2010
Atheists line up to nail Catholics to the wall
Rampant anti-Catholic bigotry in the media
Anti-Catholicism
Forgotten study: abuse in school 100 times worse than by priests
Comment: gerard@gerardcharleswilson.com