There is a story about an abusive Jesuit priest in today’s New York Times. The headline reads, “Suit Says Jesuits Ignored Decades of Warnings About Priest.” There is a large picture of Father Donald McGuire with his hand on the back of a young boy on the day of his First Communion. The caption below says that the priest “was later convicted of sexual abuse.”

The inference is that McGuire was a pedophile. But as the reader quickly learns, all of McGuire’s victims were teenage boys. Thus did the Times play politics with this picture—they made it look like he abused prepubescent boys. No, like most molesting priests, McGuire did not want the kids—he wanted adolescent young men. He was a homosexual.

*We received a phone call from someone claiming to be the boy in the picture and he alleges that the abuse started at the age of six.

Rep. Peter King is being condemned by many for holding hearings on Muslim terrorist activities. Some have said that Catholics would not put up with congressional hearings on the Catholic Church that address the sexual abuse scandal, so what’s the difference? Catholic writer David Gibson is the latest to entertain such nonsense.

King is concerned only about Muslim terrorists because they are the only demographic group that routinely murders innocent people all around the world, including the United States, in the name of their religion. That’s why. They are not analogous to predator members of the clergy, or to molesting school teachers and celebrities, or to Irish or Basque men who take up arms, or to abortionists, or to city gangs. They are in a class all by themselves. That’s why they are the only ones to cause Eric Holder, the U.S. Attorney General, to lose sleep. Get it?

Dr. Bernard Nathanson died February 21 at the age of 84. In 1969, he co-founded the National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws, NARAL (now NARAL Pro-Choice America). In time it became the most radical pro-abortion organization in the nation. A practicing abortionist, Nathanson soon had a change of heart, and by the mid-1970s made public his epiphany. In 1985, he released “The Silent Scream,” a powerful film on the development of babies in the womb.

After much deliberation, Nathanson, an atheist Jew, decided to make a religious conversion as well. He was baptized by New York Archbishop John Cardinal O’Connor in 1996. When asked why he chose Roman Catholicism, he said that no religion matches the special role for forgiveness that is afforded by the Catholic Church; given his early career, he felt it only right to set anchor there.

One of Dr. Nathanson’s greatest contributions was his courage in telling all the lies that the pro-abortion community has told over the years. May he rest in peace.

On the Feb. 16 episode of the Fox Network show “House,” negative stereotypes of Catholic priests were promoted: the featured priest is a big drinker; he is hospitalized for hallucinating about Jesus; he is accused of being a pedophile; he hates his “job”; he loses his faith; the Church refuses to believe his claims of innocence; he gets bounced from parish to parish; he is believed to have AIDS, etc.

Eventually, the doctors realize that the priest doesn’t have AIDS and doesn’t have a disease that causes hallucinations. Also, the priest is found innocent and his faith is restored.

But it is a little too little and a little too late: all along the stereotype of priests as child molesters was milked to the hilt. And that’s exactly the kind of impression that the writers and producers desired.

Metro News is reporting that today the Bloomberg administration is launching an iPhone app that allows users to find the nearest place to receive free condoms. The following is Bill Donohue’s quote to Metro News:

“Condomania has reached new heights of delirium with this latest iPhone app gimmick. Every year the Bloomberg administration gives away more free condoms, and every year the rates of STD’s climb. They are impervious to reason–they never get it.”

Click here to read today’s blog entry by Archbishop Timothy Dolan defending the Catholic League.

Click here to read the article by Philip Kennicott in today’s Washington Post about the forum held last night at the New York Public Library discussing the Smithsonian exhibit.