Earlier this afternoon, our senior editor R. R. Reno examined, with the analytical skill of a biblical scholar (a good biblical scholar), the bias of the New York Times‘ latest coverage of Benedict and his role in the sex abuse scandal. The title How Do You Spell Tendentious? gives you the idea.
He is not the only one to find the Times unfair to point of obvious bigotry. The National Catholic Reporter, a weekly not known as an ardent defender of Benedict or the Vatican, has done so as well. In Contra the Times, Michael Sean Winters begins:
This morning’s New York Times “expose” regarding then-Cardinal Ratzinger’s role in the Vatican’s response to the clergy sex abuse crisis exposes more than it intended. It exposes the fact that the authors, Laurie Goodstein and David Halbfinger, and their editors, do not understand what they are talking about and, at times, put forward such an unrelentingly tendentious report, it is difficult to attribute it to anything less than animus.
July 2nd, 2010 | 7:36 pm
Of course there is animus. In this time of culture war would we expect anything less? But the writers of the piece, and their editors, think they are being purely objective.
Remember that Fr. Oakes commented on a review in The New Criterion of a new book my Martha Nussbaum. She thinks the viewpoint of the academic left is so obviously superior and conclusive that it need not submit to the scrutiny she recommends for everyone else. The Times is playing out that script.
The “bottom line,” though is that Church shot herself in the foot and gave the opposition all the ammo it needs. We (the Church) did this to ourselves, and at the most inopportune time. It seems that the Church wasn’t much different from those it criticized. Forget about the media. What can and must WE do to make the real life of the Church shine out? The answers won’t be easy.
July 3rd, 2010 | 11:43 am
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The Vatican is being set up for a much bigger fall than most are expecting. Here’s an early peak. Some amazingly damaging information about pivotal religious assertions is about to become widely available and understood. This child abuse scandal is merely proof of their absolute lack of veracity, before the real controversy is unsealed.
Following is a link to a draft-preview of my upcoming new book for parties like yourself, who are more likely to make good use of the information.
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July 4th, 2010 | 6:41 am
Whether the Times is absolutely objective or not, still, isn’t there a problem in the Church that needs to be addressed? Can you face that?
Or are Catholics biased in favor of their church? As one might suspect, of people who took loyalty oaths to it?
If you want to follow the Church, then consider beginning to “confess the sins of the Church,” even though John Paul II and Benedict XVI called for that?
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