PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Big Trial
MONDAY, MAY 20, 2013
[TWIN PHILLY SCANDALS – Catholic League]
[The ad: FOUR CATHOLIC MEN FRAMED – Catholic League]
By Ralph Cipriano
for Bigtrial.net
Bill Donhoue, president of the Catholic League, ripped The Philadelphia Inquirer today for not printing a $58,000 ad that would have called attention to the local district attorney’s prosecution of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.
Donohue also ripped the Inky’s news coverage.
“There are two scandals going on in Philadelphia, and both involve injustices done to the Catholic Church,” Donohue said. “One is legal, and the other is journalistic.”
“The legal scandal involves the prosecution of three Catholic priests, and one Catholic layman, in a case so incredible that it would be turned down as too fictional a script for a TV crime show,” Donohue wrote. “The other involves the Philadelphia Inquirer’s decision to keep the public in the dark about this case.”
In a press release posted on the league’s site, Donohue said the Inky refused to tell him why they decided not to run the ad.
“The statement that I wrote was submitted to the Philadelphia Inquirer on May 14, 2013; it was to run as a two-page ad on May 20,” Donohue wrote. “On May 15, were were told that a decision was made by those ‘at the top’ not to run it; when we asked for an explanation, were told there would be none.”
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