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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 ...

NY Times Uses Pope Francis Visit To Rehash Stale, Decades-Old Abuse Story

By Dave Pierre | September 23, 2015, 9:42 AM EDT

This month's historic trip of Pope Francis to the United States cannot halt The New York Times from its relentless obsession with decades-old cases of sex abuse committed by Catholic priests. Despite the Church's unprecedented corrective measure ...

Before the Rolling Stone Rape Debacle, Reporter Was Blasted for Erroneous Philly Catholic Abuse Story

By Dave Pierre | December 8, 2014, 8:45 AM EST

"[F]or sheer maliciousness, it is hard to top the piece in Rolling Stone. The factual errors, the stereotypes, the grand omissions, and the melodramatic language make for an incredible read. Make no mistake about it, the author, Sabrina Rubin Erdely, ...

CBS Celebrates Boston Cardinal's Openness on Sex Abuse, Ignores His Financial Management

By Dave Pierre | November 27, 2014, 7:11 AM EST

It was only a couple years ago that CBS's 60 Minutes fêted Ireland's Archbishop Diarmuid Martin as he took the Church to task over decades-old abuse claims in Ireland. Indeed, 60 Minutes has a long and storied record of outright hostility agains ...

Media Predictably Go Silent As Catholic Abuse Allegations Fall To Lowest Levels

By Dave Pierre | April 2, 2014, 3:56 PM EDT

In a newly released annual audit of abuse by independent experts, it was reported that there were only ten contemporaneous abuse allegations made against priests even deemed "credible" in all of 2013 (out of some 40,000 active priests) and that ...

Privacy Breach? ABC Broadcasts Names, Birth Dates, and Personal Email Addresses of Aspiring Underage Models

By Dave Pierre | March 30, 2014, 4:18 PM EDT

While young and aspiring fashion models are rarely known to shy away from publicity and recognition, last night's episode of ABC's new Nightline Prime (Sat., 3/29/14) may have revealed personal information that most young girls do not want to di ...

'90 Minutes of Organized Hate': NY Post Blasts Anti-Catholic Film; No Surprise, NYT Loves It

By Dave Pierre | November 24, 2013, 5:49 PM EST

Kudos to New York Post film critic Kyle Smith for knowing a bigoted attack when he sees one. Philomena is a dreary new movie starring Judi Dench as an elderly Irish woman who as an unwed teen gave birth to a son in 1950s Ireland. Under the care of Catholi ...

Billy Graham's Grandson Says Evangelicals 'Worse' Than Catholics On Sex Abuse, MSM Ignores

By Dave Pierre | October 7, 2013, 8:37 AM EDT

Just last week, Boz Tchividjian, a prominent Liberty University law professor and the grandson of Billy Graham, stood before a roomful of journalists and declared that Evangelical missions are a "magnet" for sexual abusers and that Evangelicals ...

Federal Judge Vindicates Cardinal Dolan, Hysterical New York Times Goes Silent

By Dave Pierre | August 12, 2013, 6:51 AM EDT

A federal judge has ruled that the creation of a cemetery trust fund in 2007 by then-Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan for the Archdiocese of Milwaukee – the subject of a lot of hysterical coverage a month ago in the New York Times – was a completely legitimate ...

Why Is Radical Feminist Eleanor Smeal the Star of a Priest-Abuse Victims' Confab?

By Dave Pierre | July 27, 2013, 11:12 AM EDT

Lest there be any remaining doubt that the advocacy group SNAP (Survivors’ Network of those Abused by Priests) is more about advancing a radical left-wing social agenda than providing actual helpful support for clergy abuse victims, this weekend's an ...

Federal Judge Smacks Down Anti-Catholic Harassers

By Dave Pierre | May 2, 2013, 4:22 PM EDT

For the past several years, a regular tactic of the anti-Catholic group Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) has been to angrily accost and hassle prayerful Catholics as they attend Mass on Sunday. While protesting various aspects of the Ch ...

HBO Serves Up Another Anti-Catholic Screed

By Dave Pierre | February 2, 2013, 8:57 PM EST

Tossing aside honesty, fairness, and perspective in its desire to browbeat the Catholic Church, HBO serves up healthy doses of factual distortion, misleading claims, and bigoted sources in a new documentary scheduled to begin airing on the network on Mond ...

Where's the Media Outrage? L.A. School Sex Abuse Shocker: 189 Abuse Claims at Just ONE School!

By Dave Pierre | December 13, 2012, 5:08 PM EST

Reports of rampant child sex abuse committed at an elementary school in Los Angeles continue to explode, but the national media does not seem too interested- at all. On the heels of other local reports involving child sex abuse in L.A. schools, NBC4 in Lo ...

No Good Deed: NY Times Slaps Cardinal Dolan For Actually Getting Rid of Abusive Priests

By Dave Pierre | June 3, 2012, 11:20 PM EDT

One frequent demand from Catholic Church abuse victims is that abusive clerics be laicized or removed from the priesthood as expeditiously and quickly as possible. So if the Archdiocese of Milwaukee discovered a fast and economical way to make that happen ...

Headline of the Year? 'Maureen Dowd Is an Idiot'

By Dave Pierre | May 2, 2012, 8:04 AM EDT

More than a few writers have chimed in on the New York Times' recent obsession with the Vatican's efforts to align the dissident leadership of an organization of nuns with Catholic doctrine. Real Clear Religion's Rod Dreher, however, should ...