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Media
Confusion in Vienna
Michael Cook | 14 May 2010
Like any major international news story which develops in languages which are not English, information about developments in the sex abuse scandal tend to be partial, fragmentary and confusing. This is what happened to Vienna's Cardinal Christoph Schönborn when he spoke to the press recently.
Layers of meaning
Michael Cook | 12 May 2010
I have a suggestion. Send the Vaticanistas on a crash course in literary criticism. It seems to me that they need to tease apart the different layers of what the subtle mind of Benedict XVI is trying to communicate.
Weigel: “faithful and holy priests don’t abuse young people”
Michael Cook | 12 May 2010
Catholic historian George Weigel makes some interesting points in an interview with Canada’s National Post (May 10). First, on how to fix the mess. The answer is not dropping celibacy or updating the Church’s views on sexuality:
Three cheers for the internet, says Pope
Michael Cook | 27 April 2010
After all the criticism, much of it quite intemperate, which has been heaped upon him, you would expect that Benedict XVI would be quite negative about the media. On the contrary, he went on a good ideas offensive this week, declaring that the internet was a great force for good.
Times of crisis
Bryan Bradley | 18 April 2010
American culture and media critic David Rosen, writing in Counterpunch magazine, undertakes a detailed comparison of the New York Times coverage of Catholic sex abuse and its reporting practices for other sex scandals. His conclusion:
Lull in the storm
Michael Cook | 05 April 2010
Is the tide of opinion turning? An editorial in Monday’s London Telegraph points out that although Pope Benedict did not directly mention the sex abuse scandal in his Easter Sunday sermon, “we know what he thinks of the scandal from his pastoral letter to Irish Catholics a fortnight ago”.
Whom do you side with: Sinead O’Connor or Catholic bishops worldwide?
Bryan Bradley | 02 April 2010
Should Pope Benedict XVI resign or is he the key to resolving the problems of clerical sex offenders? The editors of the National Catholic Register have scoured the international media.
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