UNITED STATES
TheMediaReport
David Pierre
SEPTEMBER 21, 2015
This month’s historic trip of Pope Francis to the United States cannot halt the New York Times’ relentless obsession with decades-old cases of sex abuse committed by Catholic priests.
Despite the Church’s unprecedented corrective measures just in the past dozen years, not to mention nearly $3 billion in settlements and over $85 million in therapy to accusers, one would think it was 1992 all over again in reading the article from Vivian Yee at the New York Times.
Trotting out the tired parade
Yee’s article brandishes a weary parade of well-known Church critics who have a long history of bashing the Catholic Church to rehash the story of abusive priests from many decades ago. Included in Yee’s article are:
* a 72-year-old man who claims that a priest “groped” him 66 years ago at age 6;
another man who claims who was abused in the “early 1970s”;
* Barbara Blaine, president of the lawyer-funded attack group SNAP (Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests), who once wrote a letter of support on behalf of a child pornographer;
* Joelle Casteix, SNAP’s Southwest Regional director; and
* Terence McKiernan, the cranky president of BishopAccountability.org.
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