On the front page of Amnesty International's website it says, "We campaign for a world where human rights are enjoyed by all." It is a lie: Human beings not yet born, it argues, have no human rights. When the organization was founded in 1961, it took no position on abortion. That changed in 2007. Citing issues [...]
A recent article posted on the Medscape website, "ACLU Says Catholic Hospitals Can Not Refuse to Perform Life-Saving Abortions," repeats ACLU myths on this subject. It is written by Arthur L. Caplan, a professor who works in the Division of Medical Ethics at NYU's Langone Medical Center. Caplan agrees with an ACLU lawsuit that seeks to [...]
Katie Couric, the Yahoo Global News anchor, recently interviewed an official from a Queens, New York Planned Parenthood facility. The video, "What an Abortion Treatment Room Really Looks Like," was posted online and it was quite interesting. But it did not deserve a letter grade of A, B, C, D, or F; rather, it merited an [...]
We know that people of every religion are being targeted for murder and plunder in many parts of the world, and that the Communist regimes in China and North Korea are hotbeds of Christian persecution. But nothing compares to what is happening in the Middle East and Northern Africa. Quite simply, we are witnessing the annihilation [...]
The movie "Spotlight" opened in November and quickly became fodder for more disinformation about the scandal in the Boston Archdiocese and beyond. Pages 6-7 address this issue. For a more complete analysis see pages 10-12. The media have pushed "Spotlight," the movie that recently opened about the Boston Globe team that exposed priestly sexual abuse in [...]
Margery Eagan has a long history of ripping the Catholic Church, but her latest salvo shows how utterly unhinged she has become. Her article, "The Church's Sexual Abuse Crisis is Not Over," was posted on Crux, a website that reports on Catholic news. Eagan was delighted that the movie "Spotlight," keeps the scandal in the news. [...]
Stanley Tucci plays church-suing attorney Mitchell Garabedian in "Spotlight," the film about the sexual abuse scandal in the Boston Archdiocese. Tucci, who has never met Garabedian, calls him "the unsung hero" of this story. He also says the lawyer "cares about these victims." It is too bad Garabedian cares not a whit about priests who have [...]
"Spotlight," which recently opened, has been heralded as an example of solid journalism, the kind of movie that should be shown in college journalism classes. Ironically, many journalists who have touted the movie have proved just how lousy they are at their craft. Journalists for the following media outlets got their facts wrong: New York Post; [...]
On the front page of the Metro Section in a recent edition of the Boston Globe, there was a story about the movie "Spotlight" that smacks of bias and gullibility; the former is driving the latter. Lisa Wangsness relied on Terence McKiernan of Bishop Accountability for her data. She wrote that he told her that "the [...]
Ronald J. Rychlak Pope Pius XII and the Nazis: far too many writers have wandered into this fascinating subject without bringing anything new to the table. Many of the late pope's critics have simply repeated information that appeared in already discredited books and articles, but even some supporters have done little more than parrot earlier accounts. [...]
