Category Archives: Biased Media Coverage

The Tablet is staging a nutty over the UK’s Confraternity of Catholic Clergy.

Posted on 8 September 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

My friend the mighty p.p. of Blacken and Dean of Bexley, His Hermeueticalness, Fr. Finigan, whom I look forward to seeing soon, has a great post at his blog, The Hermeneutic of Continuity, about the upcoming meeting of the British … Read More →

Posted in Biased Media Coverage, Just Too Cool, Liberals, Mail from priests, New Evangelization, Priests and Priesthood, The Campus Telephone Pole, Throwing a Nutty | Tagged British Confraternity of Catholic Clergy, Fr. Finigan, The Bitter Pill, The Tablet
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Catholic League: Assessing Bp. Finn’s guilt

Posted on 7 September 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From The Catholic League: ASSESSING BISHOP FINN’S GUILT SEPTEMBER 7, 2012 Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on a judge’s decision yesterday finding Kansas City-St. Joseph Bishop Robert Finn guilty in a case involving Father Shawn Ratigan: Let’s get rid of … Read More →

Posted in Biased Media Coverage, Clerical Sexual Abuse, The Drill | Tagged Bp. Finn, Catholic League, clerical sexual abuse, D. Kansas City-St. Joseph, Wm. Donohue
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NCFishwrap, out to get Bp. Finn (D. Kansas City – St. Joseph)

Posted on 31 August 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

The National catholic Reporter (aka Fishwrap) is out to get Bishop Finn. Fishwrap has been carrying on a jihad against Bishop Robert Finn of the Diocese of Kansas City – St. Joseph ever since he arrived. Fishwrap’s offices are within that … Read More →

Posted in Biased Media Coverage, Clerical Sexual Abuse, Liberals, Pò sì jiù, The Drill | Tagged Bp. Finn, D. Kansas City-St. Joseph, Fishwrap, Kansas City Star, National catholic Fishwrap, NCR
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The Catholic League on efforts to silence Archbishop Cordileone

Posted on 29 August 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

I bring to your attention something from The Catholic League about the recent DUI incurred by Archbishop Cordilone, newly appointed to San Francisco. Liberals are dancing around their bonfires as if Cordilone’s head is already on a stick. I’ve been watching … Read More →

Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Biased Media Coverage, Liberals, The Drill, The future and our choices, Wherein Fr. Z Rants | Tagged Archbp. Cordileone, Archd. San Francisco, Catholic League, drivers
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Fishwrap attacks Rep. Ryan. Double-standard ensues.

Posted on 21 August 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Over at the National catholic Fishwrap, one of the principal mongers, Tom Gallagher, launched an ad hominem attack on Rep. Paul Ryan, asking the question (and thereby suggesting the answer) that Ryan is a “fraud”. This is the usual green ink … Read More →

Posted in Biased Media Coverage, Green Inkers, Liberals | Tagged double standard, Fishwrap, National catholic Fishwrap, Rep. Ryan. Bp. Morlino, Tom Gallagher
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How liberal Chicago Politicians (chuckle) reacted to Card. George and Chick-fil-A. Fr. Z rants.

Posted on 3 August 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From the Washington Times (the sane paper of the Capitol city): Chick-fil-A still ruffling [Chicago alderman] Proco Joe Moreno’s feathers By Peter V. Bella [retired Chicago Police Officer, freelance journalist and photojournalist, cook, and raconteur. WDTPRS likes retired cops… a … Read More →

Posted in "But Father! But Father!", Biased Media Coverage, Blatteroons, Fr. Z KUDOS, Liberals, One Man & One Woman, Our Catholic Identity, Religious Liberty, The future and our choices, The Last Acceptable Prejudice, Throwing a Nutty | Tagged Card. George, Chicago, Chick-fil-A, Proco Joe Moreno, Rhetoric
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Hugh Hewitt at the Napa Institute: Of Catholics and Chick-fil-A

Posted on 29 July 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Talk radio guy and “friend and ally of Rome” Hugh Hewitt has a piece in The Examiner. Here in the heart of America’s wine industry, the Napa Institute brings together a few hundred Catholics in the company of many of … Read More →

Posted in Biased Media Coverage, Fr. Z KUDOS, Just Too Cool, New Evangelization, One Man & One Woman, Our Catholic Identity, Religious Liberty, The future and our choices, The Last Acceptable Prejudice | Tagged Bp. Morlino, Chick-fil-A, homosexuality, Hugh Hewitt, mainstream media, Napa Institute, Pres. Obama, Rahm Emanuel, same-sex marriage
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Sr Patricia Miller in op-ed canonizes St. Obama for his respect for religious liberty. No, really.

Posted on 22 July 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Joseph Goebbels advised that when telling lies, tell a big one and tell it often. Another approach is to jam so many distortions into so brief a space that they are too hard to refute in as short a period … Read More →

Posted in Biased Media Coverage, Blatteroons, Dogs and Fleas, Emanations from Penumbras, Magisterium of Nuns, Our Catholic Identity, Religious Liberty, SESSIUNCULA, The Drill, Women Religious | Tagged HHS mandate, Pres. Obama, religious liberty, Sr. Patricia Miller
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Analysis of NPR’s interview of LCWR Pres. Sr. Pat Farrell: like a 7-year old’s manipulative obfuscation

Posted on 18 July 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Sr. Pat Farrell of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (a subsidiary of the Magisterium of Nuns) did an interview with the liberal-leaning National Public Radio. Carl Olson of Catholic World Report deftly dissected Sister’s interview. Let’s see the first … Read More →

Posted in Biased Media Coverage, Magisterium of Nuns, The Drill, Throwing a Nutty, Women Religious | Tagged abortion, Carl Olson, LCWR, Magistierum of Nuns, NPR, Sr. Pat Farrell
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Will entrenched Curia mandarins allow Greg Burke to do his job?

Posted on 13 July 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

At CWR there is an article about the appointment of my friend Greg Burke as the Holy See’s new “director of communications”. My emphases and comments. The Vatican’s real communication problem Greg Burke is an excellent choice for a tough assignment. But … Read More →