Posted on 05/09/2002 5:43:23 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Catholic journalist launches blog site to respond to media distortions of Catholicism
OKLAHOMA CITY, May 9, 2002 (ACI).- John Mallon, contributing editor to Inside the Vatican magazine and former communications director and editor of the Sooner Catholic for the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City, has launched a web log site (Blog) called Mallon's Media Watch to comment on distortions in the Media on the Catholic Church.
"Various pundits and commentators in the secular press have been weighing in on the Church especially since the sex scandals broke in January," Mallon said. "The idea is to address the myriad misunderstandings, misconceptions of these commentators but also address the dubious presuppositions held by dissenters who receive no small amount of coverage that goes out over the air and in print, causing much confusion among uninformed Catholics."
Mallon has published articles in OpinionJournal.com (The Wall Street Journal online opinion website) The Washington Times, Inside the Vatican, Catholic World Report, Crisis, This Rock, Catholic Dossier, The National Catholic Register, Hearth (now Canticle), The New Oxford Review, and Catholic News Service.
Mallon holds a bachelor's degree in theology from Boston College and a master's degree in theology from Franciscan University of Steubenville.
"I hope people will have fun with the site, and that it will equip them in discussing the issues involved with their family, friends and around the water cooler. It will contain a fair amount of casual apologetics." Mallon said. "Obviously it won't be comprehensive, one guy can only do so much and I do have to make a living, but it will give me an outlet to address some of the wild misconceptions out there."
You can enter on Mallon's blog by visiting http://mallonsmedia.blogspot.com
A growing archive of Mallon's articles may be found at: http://www.petersvoice.com/mallon/index.html
I grew up in the Archdiocese of Boston, where John Geoghan was my parish priest when I was a child. Mercifully, he never got his clutches on me, but some of my friends weren't so lucky. I've seen their names in the newspapers as victims.
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