As reported by Dave Pierre, a Catholic World Report contributor:
According to Al Jazeera opinion writer Rose Aguilar, United States Catholic bishops have been “given a pass on pedophilia” and “widespread child abuse scandals continue to this day.”
What has prompted Aguilar to unleash her venom against the Church? Does it really have anything to do with the awful abuse of children? Not really.
Aguilar does not like the fact that Catholic bishops have forcefully spoken out against the government’s recent attack on religious freedom that attempts to force them to provide contraceptives in health insurance. (Her article is entitled, “The birth control bishops,” if you can stomach it.)
Aguilar realized, however, that she could not attack the Church on her own. So she did what most slippery journalists do when an attack on the Church is in order, and facts and honesty are not all that important.
She went to the angry folks at SNAP (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests) and BishopAccountability.org for support.
Read Pierre’s entire post on his site, www.TheMediaReport.com.
As Pierre indicates, the essay by Agulliar is a wildly skewed and even clueless bit of writing; for example: “The media have a responsibility to explore these issues. Stop giving the USCCB a wide open platform. Why, in a country that prides itself on the separation of church and state, does the USCCB have so much influence in Washington DC, regardless of the party in power?” Ah, yes: the USCCB has a “wide open platform” in the mainstream media (Really? That is news!) and, worse, actually believes that Catholics are citizens of the United States. The horror!
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