I’m just flabbergasted how people will defend any and all actions by their religion no matter how awful.
If you’ve spent any time on these forums, you know they will do the same for their political side, too.
That being said,
I do think that many articles like this come from an anti-Catholic premise, however. People have noticed the prevalence of this bias and gotten hypersensitive about it. I’m a Protestant, myself, but there’s plenty of general anti-Christian bias in the culture, too, especially depending where you live.
Evidently knowing exactly who and where and what time period old bones are from is difficult. Look at all the drama in my state(WA) over Kennewick man.