The Catholic Church has been assailed and slandered by the America press since the first printing press hit the U.S. Being Catholic in the colonies was illegal. Catholic villages were burned down, as well as Churches. Catholic priests were rounded up by the Protestants and sent back to England to be tried as 'heretics'. Sometimes they were just hanged on the spot.
When the Irish came to America during the potato famine some American newspapers depicted them as alligators washing up on shore, wearing bishops mitres. Harper's Weekly, the equivalent of today's "U.S.A. Today" regularly attacked the Catholic Church in a vicious fashion, even going so far as to rip Catholic doctrine to shreds and illustrating Catholic priests as buffoons forgiving sins with long rods in their caricature cartoons.
There is no doubt whatsoever that the news media overplayed the homosexual priest scandal in the Catholic Church. They did this in at least three different ways.
(1). They wrongly reported the incidents as 'pedohpilia', when in fact it was a homosexual problem. Nearly all the victims were sexually mature males over the age of puberty. This was done because the media had to protect their darling "diversity" while not overlooking the scandal. (I do not claim that this lessens the ugliness of the problem, but it sure as hell twisted the nature of it). Truth means nothing to the media.
(2). They converged on this scandal like famished vultures, seeking to pick the bones of what they hoped was the dying Catholic Church. They didn't care a whit about the general problem of pederasty and homosexual rape of children in this country, but only the priests in the Catholic Church. To illustrate this I will point you to the Boston Herald and the Boston Globe, who set up a "hotline" asking the people at large to report any incidences of priestly abuse to them. If they were truly interested in protecting children they would, of course, have asked the general public to tell them of ANY instance of child sexual abuse, regardless of who did it. Their focus was limited, obvious, and malicious.
To further illustrate how the media themselves covered up the general problem of child sexual abuse to make it appear as largely a "Catholic Church" problem, I will tell you that during a mere six year period, (from 1996 to 2002), there were over 600 teachers and principles convicted or punished for sexually abusing minors in the state of Texas alone. This compares to the 400 or so Catholic priests who were charged during a 30 year period. Figure out for yourself why the media didn't report on the much larger national problem and chose to focus only on the Catholic Church's problems.
(3). They constantly mis-reported the number and percentage of priests involved in the scandal. They never told you about the priests who were acquitted. And they constantly reported that about 2% - 5% of all priests may have been involved; and they arrived at this bogus number by claiming there were 40,000 priests in America. The truth is, of course, that there were over 95,000 priests on active duty during the period of the scandal, (roughly from 1970 to present). How convenient a way for these liberal scum to double the real number.
Of course the examples of media hype and feasting are vast, and not limited to what I wrote above. I just don't have the time to waste telling people what they already know but blind themselves to due to their own hatred for the Catholic Church.
I'm still waiting for that expose on sex abuse in public schools and universities.
The media's anti-Christian agenda is evident, as always. But the Catholic Church sure made this one easy for them.
Can you source that for me? Every time I've seen a mention of a teacher getting caught, it's been written up in the back of the Metro section, in one or two paragraphs, and never mentioned again. I have no idea where to find a total count on them.
While I agree that the problem is homosexual in nature, many, many of the victims were young boys ... 10,11,12 and up. The problem has not been exaggerated. Instead, the Catholic Church has stalled and diminished the scope of the problem.