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CNN: 'Climate Change Deniers Aren't Listening to Scientists...Not Reading the Bible'

By Matthew Balan | May 21, 2014, 6:31 PM EDT

Carol Costello and her two clerical guests slammed " climate change deniers " on Wednesday's CNN Newsroom. Costello pointed out a recent sarcastic Tweet by Wheel of Fortune host Pat Sajak on the climate change issue that " sparked a fi ...

Yahoo! News Promotes PBS Hit Piece on Catholic Church, Benedict XVI

By Matthew Balan | February 27, 2014, 10:28 AM EST

An unsigned Tuesday article on Yahoo! News could have been mistaken as a press release for PBS's latest TV production attacking the Catholic Church. The unknown author hyped the Church's " horrible year " in 2012 "on many fronts, ...

Chicago Tribune: Pope Benedict XVI ‘Said Homosexuality Was an Intrinsic Disorder’

By Mike Bates | September 21, 2013, 12:26 PM EDT

The September 19, 2013 article “Pope Francis: Church cannot be 'obsessed' with gays, other bans” on The Chicago Tribune’s Web site notes: In a remarkable change from his predecessor Benedict, who said homosexuality was an intrinsic disorder, Fra ...

AP Spins Pope's Slam of Abortion as 'Olive Branch' to Church's 'Conservative Wing'

By Matthew Balan | September 22, 2013, 12:06 AM EDT

On Friday, Nicole Winfield of the Associated Press shamelessly construed Pope Francis' denunciation of abortion and euthanasia as an " olive branch of sorts to the doctrine-minded, conservative wing of the Catholic Church ". Winfield ballyh ...

CBS Hypes Francis As 'One of the Most Progressive Popes in Modern Times'

By Matthew Balan | September 13, 2013, 5:08 PM EDT

Friday's CBS This Morning heralded how supposedly, " Pope Francis is already being described as one of the most progressive popes in modern times " after six months as Bishop of Rome. Charlie D'Agata asserted that the pontiff is " ...

Editorials on Popes Dominated by Focus on Gays, Women

By Bill Donohue | September 12, 2013, 12:11 PM EDT

Let’s look at the way the print media reacted to Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis after their first six months as pontiff.   We looked at the editorials in 15 of the nation’s largest newspapers to see what they said about the current pope, and his prede ...

CBS Laments Pope's 'Religious Street Protest' is Anti-Obama, Pro-Putin

By Matthew Balan | September 6, 2013, 3:32 PM EDT

On Friday's CBS This Morning, Mark Phillips all but hinted that Pope Francis had " taken sides " with Russia's Vladimir Putin and against President Obama in the international debate over military strikes in Syria. Phillips proposed tha ...

Pope Francis Canonizes Victims of Medieval Islamist Violence; NBCNews Worries It Offends Muslims

By Ken Shepherd | May 14, 2013, 3:43 PM EDT

In their ongoing effort to attack the Catholic Church, it seems not even something as uncontroversial and routine as the pope canonizing new saints can happen without the liberal media find some way to work in an attack. Witness Claudio Lavanga's May ...

WashPost's 'On Faith' Continues Attack on Catholics: Papacy Should 'Fade Into Symbolic Irrelevence'

By Ken Shepherd | March 21, 2013, 4:03 PM EDT

As I noted on Monday, the "On Faith" section at the Washington Post is hard at work attacking faithful Catholics by publishing, bit by bit, excerpts of a Sally Quinn interview with Garry Wills, a critic of the church. Well, on Tuesday-- the day ...

HuffPo Hypes Condom Art Portrait of Benedict XVI

By Matthew Philbin | March 21, 2013, 11:25 AM EDT

Disgusting. An artist has made a portrait of Ted Kennedy using liquor bottle caps, rusted Oldsmobile Delmont 88 ignition keys and those plugs that protect you from swimmer’s ear – and the Huffington Post is celebrating it. Well, no. That would be newswort ...

NBC's Russert Lectures New Pope In Blog Post Just Minutes After Advising People to Leave Politics Aside for a While

By Ken Shepherd | March 13, 2013, 5:39 PM EDT

"Before we slice and dice every political statement this Pope has ever made during his entire life....breathe, take it in." That was NBC News's Luke Russert at 3:36 p.m. Eastern on Twitter. But a mere 14 minutes later, on an MSNBC blog page ...

Fox News's Shep Smith Grouses Catholic Church 'Exclude[s] Half the Population'; 'Why Can't a Woman Be Cardinal?' He Asks Priest

By Ken Shepherd | April 29, 2015, 3:01 PM EDT

With thick, black smoke pouring out of the chimney of the Sistine Chapel indicating that the College of Cardinals had not elected a new pope on their first ballot, Fox News Channel's Shep Smith took to the air at 3:15 p.m. EDT to grill Catholic pries ...

Magazine Depicts Pope as Half-Naked Woman

By Katie Yoder | March 11, 2013, 5:56 AM EDT

Talk about edgy comedy. A daring magazine has depicted Mohammed as a sexy, topless woman wearing a turban and holding Muslim prayer beads while staring inquisitively into the clouds. On the front cover. Just kidding. It’s actually another boring attack on ...

NBC Touts 'Controversial Theories' About Pope's Resignation That Claim Scandal 'As Big As Watergate'

By Kyle Drennen | March 8, 2013, 1:01 PM EST

On Friday's NBC Today, fill-in co-host Lester Holt hyped unfounded speculation surrounding the abdication of Pope Benedict XVI: "More than a week after his resignation became official, there are still a lot of controversial theories about why Po ...

Reuters Boosts Exhibition Slamming Pope Emeritus, Catholic Church

By Matthew Balan | March 6, 2013, 7:14 PM EST

Naomi O'Leary's Tuesday article for Reuters about a piece of "artwork" blasting Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI could have been mistaken for a press release, as the journalist merely gave a platform for the same-sex couple behind the displa ...