Umm... excuse me, but what makes anyone think that their beliefs are immune from examination?
It's not the examination that's at issue in my book...it's that only Christianity is critically reviewed in the "mainstream" (sic) media. I don't recall Time ever going after Islam or Secular Humanism.
Numbers.
Examination, yes. Yearly, ritual bashing, no. Time magazine isn't investingating anything, or reporting news. They are using the occasion of Catholicism's holy days to attack Catholicism's dogmas.
Take, for instance, the whole Panthera part: What historical basis is there for that? Enemies of Christianity making their own assertions, centuries after the fact?
But it's the same old, tired thing replayed over and over again: MSM attacks Christianity; RC Church most directly assaulted; Protestants sit on the sidelines too gleeful and stupid to realize that the assault on the RC Church is an assault on Christianity.
Hello! We're not talking an assertion that Mary had normal conjugal relations with her husband; TIME is asserting that the Blessed Mother of God was a fornicator! That should outrage Protestants as much as Catholics. But where's the outrage? No, leave the Catholics alone to defend Christianity, just like at the time of the Battle of Lepante.
But because some agnostic researchers don't share the Catholic faith, it's all fine and well to see Christianity laid waste, is that it?
Arrogance.