KANSAS CITY (MO)
TheMediaReport
Dave Pierre
If anyone needed another example of the New York Times’ obsession with blasting the Catholic Church, one does not need to look further than the paper’s coverage following the guilty verdict of Kansas City–St. Joseph Bishop Robert W. Finn.
One cannot help but wonder when a misdemeanor conviction (with a suspended sentence) has ever resulted in two front-page stories (1, 2) and a breathless editorial in the Grey Lady before.
Indeed, the guilty verdict in the Bishop Finn trial was historic, but a sense of perspective is in order. The diocese delayed in reporting that a priest had lewd photographs of children on his computer. But there is plenty of evidence, either ignored or downplayed by the Times, that Finn took the hit for the failures of the people who worked under him.
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