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HuffPost Hails National 'Catholic' Paper Naming Gay-Left SCOTUS Plaintiffs 'Persons of the Year'

By Tim Graham | December 31, 2015, 12:51 PM EST

Amanda Terkel at The Huffington Post was stirred to write a story headlined “Catholic Newspaper Names Same-Sex Marriage Plaintiffs 'Persons Of The Year’.” If this seems like a prank headline, it sort of is: the “Catholic” newspaper is the Kansas City ...

Carson Daly: Important for Him to Get Married ‘to Have the Sacrament of Marriage’ in Catholic Church

By Curtis Houck | December 30, 2015, 7:40 PM EST

Discussing his marriage to longtime girlfriend Siri Pinter while guest-hosting Wednesday’s Today, Carson Daly offered a rather surprising reason for finally getting married to Pinter after having been together for the past decade. Speaking of how tying th ...

CBS Celebrates 'Very Powerful,' 'Fantastic' Liberal Reporter Movie

By Matthew Balan | December 2, 2015, 6:07 PM EST

Wednesday's CBS This Morning raved over the new movie Spotlight, which touts the work of the investigative reporters at the liberal Boston Globe who chronicled the Catholic priest sex abuse scandal in the Archdiocese of Boston. Gayle King gushed, &qu ...

Shock: NPR Airs Positive Story About Catholic Saint, Forgiveness

By Matthew Balan | November 26, 2015, 10:20 AM EST

John Burnett's report on NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday about a nationwide tour centered around a Catholic saint certainly stands out, as the liberal radio network has a long record of hostility to Christianity in general and, specifically, Cathol ...

The Boston Globe's 'Spotlight' on Sex Abuse Shows Hypocrisy

By Dave Pierre | November 22, 2015, 4:03 PM EST

While Hollywood and The Boston Globe would want you to believe that the new movie Spotlight is an impartial dramatization of the paper's 2002 reporting on sex abuse in the Catholic Church in Boston, the truth is something else entirely. As Spotlight ...

The Media's Uneven Treatment of Sexual Abuse

By Bill Donohue | November 6, 2015, 9:27 PM EST

[The following is taken from a Wednesday press release of the Catholic League. MRC president Brent Bozell is a member of the board of advisors for the Catholic League.] The media are pushing Spotlight, the movie that opens on Friday about the Boston Globe ...

NBC, CBS Hype Catholic Church's 'Alleged Corruption and Infighting'

By Matthew Balan | November 3, 2015, 6:34 PM EST

NBC's Today on Monday aired a sensationalistic report on the upcoming release of two books that are " exposing alleged corruption and infighting within the Catholic Church." Keir Simmons boosted a statement from one of the publishers involv ...

Liberal Professors Target Conservative NYT Writer Over Catholic Column

By Matthew Balan | October 30, 2015, 5:42 PM EDT

A group of purported Catholic professors wrote an open letter on October 26, 2015 to "the editor of the New York Times" decrying a October 18 op-ed item about the Catholic Church by a conservative writer Ross Douthat. The letter, which was initi ...

WashPost Hypes 'Tea Party-Like Faction' of Faithful Catholic Bishops

By Matthew Balan | October 22, 2015, 5:50 PM EDT

On Thursday, the Washington Post's Anthony Faiola spun the latest synod of Catholic bishops at the Vatican as a " theological slugfest " between two main factions of the Catholic hierarchy: the "liberal"/"progressive" ba ...

Observers Shocked by Press Distortion of Catholic Synod on Family

By Tim Graham | October 18, 2015, 8:15 AM EDT

Several couples attending the Roman Catholic Church’s synod on family issues were most surprised at how distorted the press coverage has been of the closed-door discussions. They must be new to the press to discover that reporters are constantly insisting ...

The Media's Pope-pourri of Distortion

By Tony Perkins | October 11, 2015, 6:49 AM EDT

[The following is taken from Family Research Council's Tony Perkins' Washington Update feature from October 5, 2015.] In the largest security detail in American history, there's no such thing as a "chance" meeting. But that's ...

NY Times's Smear of New Catholic Saint Stands

By Bill Donohue | October 9, 2015, 2:43 PM EDT

[The following is taken from a Wednesday press release of the Catholic League. MRC president Brent Bozell is a member of the board of advisors for the Catholic League.] On September 30, the New York Times ran a front-page story that smeared St. Junipero S ...

Bozell & Graham Column: Pelosi vs. Pro-Life Press

By Brent Bozell and Tim Graham | October 6, 2015, 10:53 PM EDT

In January, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi was asked by a reporter if an unborn baby at 20 weeks is a human being. She shot back that when she was a new member of Congress, someone quipped, “Nancy Pelosi thinks she knows more about having babies than ...

Lefty Blogger Plans to Pray For Pope, Whose Meeting With Kim Davis Was a ‘Hamhanded Blunder…A Sin Against Charity’

By Tom Johnson | September 30, 2015, 10:07 PM EDT

Esquire ’s Charles Pierce is a graduate of a Jesuit university (Marquette). It’s among the many reasons he’s been a big fan of Pope Francis, the first-ever Jesuit pontiff, and it’s probably one factor in his vehement disappointment that Francis met with, ...

Tactless Williams, Matthews Knock Catholic Dogma During Papal Mass

By Matthew Balan | September 28, 2015, 5:11 PM EDT

Brian Williams and Chris Matthews couldn't resist the opportunity to harp on the lack of married and women priests in the Catholic Church, as MSNBC provided live coverage of Pope Francis's open-air Mass in Philadelphia on Sunday. Williams pointe ...