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It seems that the mission of bludgeoning the Catholic Church for abuse episodes from a half century ago is not as thriving as it used to be.
Few major media outlets have overplayed and exaggerated the abuse narrative more than the Washington Post. So it was big news when even the Post was recently forced to take notice that the abuse story is now so old that professional Church-bashing groups such as SNAP and Voice of the Faithful (VOTF) are dying and fading away, as they are comprised of an ever dwindling number of cranky codgers.
According to the recent Post article:
■Attendance at recent VOTF events has “plummeted, as have donations”;
■Bill Casey, a VOTF board member, admits, “The average age is gray-haired folks. And they’re 10 years grayer”*;
■Terry McKiernan, the crotchety but frequently quoted “head” of BishopAccountability.org, admits that the abuse story has now become so long in the tooth that his people have “run of out steam”; and
■”Many of the groups that appeared during the early and mid-2000s have shrunk or disappeared.”
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