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We were deluged with nasty phone calls and e-mails after we called attention to Paul Z. Myers’ pledge to desecrate the Holy Eucharist. The following is just a small sample of the hate-filled messages we received. All comments appear as we received them: · “You bunch of death worshipping, closed minded, gay hating, poverty causing, child [...]
On the October 19 episode of Fox Broadcasting’s “Family Guy,” characters Brian (a dog) and Stewie (a baby) traveled back in time to rescue Mort Goldman (a Jewish friend) from the Nazi invasion of Poland. After Brian and Stewie disguise Mort as a priest to sneak him out of the country, a Nazi officer asks Mort, [...]
On last night’s episode of the FX network program, “The Shield,” a Catholic priest was portrayed as someone who allowed a gang to deal drugs under his watch, clipping off a share of the profits for himself. In another scene, an undercover police officer enters the confessional to confront the priest about the drug dealers, saying [...]
On June 29, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch ran an editorial on the papal appointment of St. Louis Archbishop Raymond Burke to head the Vatican’s highest court, the Apostolic Signatura. The mostly favorable editorial ended with a startling paragraph that cited accusations made by Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP). The group charged that “dozens of proven, [...]
On April 11 the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) released the 2006 report on clergy sex abuse. Rachel Zoll of Associated Press did her usual fine work in her coverage of the story, but because most of the news was good, her piece was either ignored or drastically reduced by most newspapers. Here are [...]
When the Vatican's Renato Cardinal Martino released "Guide-lines for Pastoral Care of the Road," now commonly known as the "Ten Commandments of Driving," many news media outlets took a light-hearted look at the cardinal's words. While playful, most stories managed to be respectful at the same time. Not everyone was so well behaved, however. On NBC's [...]
In the past five weeks, the “Tonight Show with Jay Leno” has ridiculed priests six times and the pope once; all of the priest jokes were sexual in nature and painted priests as molesters. · June 18: Robin Williams gets into an extended diatribe about priests as pedophiles · June 20: Leno cracks a joke about [...]
The Vatican has released documents showing that the Holy See never had any knowledge that a priest allegedly molested a young man in Oregon in 1965. The case, Doe v. Holy See, involves the late Rev. Andrew Ronan, a Servite priest, who was moved from Ireland to Chicago to Portland, Oregon; the specific lawsuit relates to [...]
