We see this headline from the NYT .
Church Office Failed to Act on Abuse Scandal
How does this stuff get past editors?
They say:
"The office led by Cardinal Ratzinger, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, had actually been given authority over sexual abuse cases nearly 80 years earlier, in 1922, documents show and canon lawyers confirm."
Well I must say a lot of Catholics that are well versed in Canon law and were in the forefront of the trying to bring justice here never seem to be aware of this. Why are not just referencing "Canon lawyers" and not exactly naming them and also giving their viewpoint law wise.
Again a bad article and bad journalism. GIVE us facts please not an agenda.
Update!!!
Ouch the progressive/ Liberal Michael Winters goes to town on this.
This morning’s New York Times “expose” regarding then-Cardinal Ratzinger’s role in the Vatican’s response to the clergy sex abuse crisis exposes more than it intended. It exposes the fact that the authors, Laurie Goodstein and David Halbfinger, and their editors, do not understand what they are talking about and, at times, put forward such an unrelentingly tendentious report, it is difficult to attribute it to anything less than animus.
The article put me in mind of Lady Bracknell in Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest. “To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.” One or two mistakes are to be expected. The friend I consult on environmental matters tells me that when she reads the Times on the subject, she assumes they will get it wrong. But a slew of such mistakes raises doubts. Ignorance is a scarcely less heinous crime for a reporter than bias. You be the judge.....
Read it all
Update II- Wow Get Religion that looks at how the secular press reports Religion pans this story too.
Update III- A must read post From Father Z here
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