Posted as an affirmation of what we know to expect .. AND .. of the mistakes even the purportedly less biased reporters can make. While John Allen occasionally sticks to orthodox catholic reporting, The National Catholic Reporter is the LAST place for factual information.
The viciousness and the hate will soon come out. These people hate the Pope because the Church opposes gay “marriage”, abortion, sex “change” operations, and all the other aberrations of the left.
Isn’t it ridiculous that in the media homosexuals are treated as a noble protected group, and Catholics are the deviant whipping boards? They recycle cases of abuse years later as front page news. Even the Pope’e humble retirement decision, was excuse to add needless adjectives such as “scandal” and “pedophile”. Can’t say I hear those terms associated with homosexuals. It is so distorted that you would never know that sexual abuse is statistically no more common in Catholic institutions than in any other, actually less so. They don’t scandalize other churches, mosques, temples, schools, etc, not because human sin is less prevalent, it is because they are less relevant in this battle for truth.
If he's dead, he has no control over it.
Indeed, the usual proces is for the media to lecture the Cardinals about exactly what type of Pope the Church.
Then when the new Pope is announced, they are flipped out shocked that the Cardinals picked a Catholic instead.
“The group of homosexual and transgender Catholics stated the next pope should step away from an emphasis on “purity.””
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2987836/posts
Keep in mind what Jesus said:
“Not every one who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven." Matthew 7:21
Along those lines, we can certainly also truthfully say, "Not every one who says they are Catholic are real, genuine Catholics, who are trying their very best to faithfully follow ALL the teachings of the Catholic Church."
(Think of all the pro-abortion, pro-so-called-homosexual-marriage, pro-euthanasia, pro-assisted-suicide, anti-religious-freedom, anti-Catholic "CINO's", such as Biden, Sebelius, Pelosi, etc.)
Lutheran Satire provides a pretty accurate depiction of how the liberal press reports on the Roman Catholic Church-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87vo2jkmJUg
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