Monthly Archives: December 2011

BISHOP FINN DESERVES BETTER

By |2012-12-21T20:24:05-05:00December 5th, 2011|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

We will have a lot to say about Bishop Finn and his accusers, but for now, we want to make it clear that we stand by him without reservation. Why? Not because he is a bishop, but because nothing he did deserves the kind of reaction against him that is emanating from many quarters. Shortly, we [...]

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KANSAS CITY STAR vs. CATHOLIC CHURCH

By |2012-12-21T20:25:53-05:00December 5th, 2011|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

We recently contacted the Kansas City Star about running a full-page ad on October 30. The ad is a critical statement about the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP), and their attorney friend, Rebecca Randles. The ad was written because we strongly defend Bishop Finn against the politically motivated attacks on him. Everything looked good to [...]

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SUICIDE OF THE KANSAS CITY STAR

By |2012-12-21T20:26:54-05:00December 5th, 2011|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

Our news release on the decision by the Kansas City Star to reject the ad exposing the phony victims’ group, SNAP, and its attack on Bishop Finn, reached approximately 200 employees of the Star and about 300 media outlets in the Kansas City, Missouri area; another 1500 media outlets around the nation received it. All will [...]

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KANSAS CITY STAR AND ANTI-CATHOLICISM

By |2012-12-21T20:28:07-05:00December 5th, 2011|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

The SNAP-Star alliance against Kansas City-St. Joseph Bishop Robert Finn is a natural: both are anti-Catholic. As evidence of SNAP’s bigotry, see our report on its July conference. As for the Star, consider its infamous 1999 “survey” of priests. Twelve years ago, the Star did a survey of priests across the nation. They were asked such [...]

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KANSAS CITY STAR-SNAP ALLIANCE

By |2017-03-20T17:52:35-04:00December 5th, 2011|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

 Respectable newspapers are expected to be objective, and not become the voice box of activist organizations. This is not true of the Kansas City Star; its relationship with SNAP is incestuous. To take the latest example, on November 1, Judge James Dale Youngs of the Circuit Court of Jackson County, Missouri, dismissed a case brought by [...]

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KANSAS CITY STAR IS IMPLODING

By |2017-03-20T17:52:36-04:00December 5th, 2011|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

The Star is in free fall: for the first time since before World War II, its daily circulation has fallen below 200,000 (the Sunday circulation is only about 300,000). Circulation numbers are of particular concern to newspaper advertisers—it determines the rates they are charged. Because we believe in transparency, and because the Star purports to believe [...]

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MEET THE CHURCH-SUING LAWYERS

By |2017-03-20T17:52:36-04:00December 5th, 2011|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

SNAP announces a lawsuit against the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph. The diocese, headed by Bishop Finn, knows nothing about it. But attorney Rebecca Randles does: she coordinated the attack with SNAP. Virtually all the cases date back decades, and no one from the Kansas City Star questions any of it. This isn’t an anomaly—it’s the [...]

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KANSAS CITY STAR COVERS FOR SNAP

By |2017-03-20T17:52:36-04:00December 5th, 2011|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

Recently, news broke that a former Penn State football coach, serving under head coach Joe Paterno, was allegedly sexually abusing young boys. Although Paterno immediately notified the Athletic Director, he did not call the cops. David Clohessy, SNAP’s director, is now calling for Paterno to be investigated. Yet when Clohessy learned in the 1990s that his [...]

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KC STAR OMITS STORY ON TOP EPISCOPAL BISHOP

By |2017-03-20T17:52:36-04:00December 5th, 2011|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

On November 7, SNAP held a press conference in front of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph to bring attention to a case involving an Episcopal priest, Bede Parry, who is being charged with molesting young boys while he was studying to be a Catholic priest. Parry was thrown [...]

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KANSAS CITY PRESS CONFERENCE

By |2012-12-21T20:47:58-05:00December 5th, 2011|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

The Catholic League press conference was held outside the Kansas City Star on November 10. Without solicitation—simply by word of mouth—a sizable crowd of local Catholics joined Bill Donohue, Vice President Bernadette Brady and staff members Alex Mejia and Don Lauer. All were there in support of Bishop Robert Finn and against the Star-SNAP alliance. Link [...]

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