There is certainly a lot of attention on the Catholic Church and the Priesthood during this Holy Week in the Year for Priests, but maybe not in the way we would like.  I have to admit that I'm not real bothered by the frenzied dishonesty of the mainstream media.  This is what we expect and hope for as followers of Christ.  The purpose of this is very clear - to undermine the moral authority of the Holy Father.  In case you are interested in the truth I wanted to post a few articles.

Scoundrel Time(s) by George Weigel

In a pattern exemplifying the dog's behavior in Proverbs 26:11, the sexual abuse story in the global media is almost entirely a Catholic story, in which the Catholic Church is portrayed as the epicenter of the sexual abuse of the young, with hints of an ecclesiastical criminal conspiracy involving sexual predators whose predations continue today.

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Spreading the Big Lie by 
George Weigel and Fr. Jay Scott Newman

Why did the Washington Post choose Palm Sunday to publish an ignorant and malicious piece by Sinead O’Connor on abuse in the Catholic Church?

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