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The source of one's information is only marginally related to the veracity of any fact.

Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas.

Are you telling me that sources which claim as God's truth that Pope Pius XII and MANY OTHER POPES carried on affairs with their Nun housekeepers are "trustworthy" on other points?

Are you telling me that sources which claim as God's truth that Pope Pius XII and MANY OTHER POPES carried on affairs with their Nun housekeepers are "trustworthy" on other points?

I don't see how Pius XII would have time for that, what with his busy Jew-killing schedule. ;-)

I'm saying that any item stated as objective reality must stand on its own merit.

A lie is not a fact; an error is not a fact; a misrepresentation is not a fact.

A statement of objective reality is the only thing that is a fact.

I will agree that one might find more lies in some sources than in others, and that such would make it hard to use those sources without intentionally checking every item.

Nonetheless, if one checks something and finds it accurate, it stands on its own merit. Like someone said to me yesterday, "even a broken clock is right twice a day."

Although, I must say that your concern is valid. I, for example, will not send many of my parishoners to cult meetings hoping they're discerning enough to pick out the few facts from the mass of misrepresentation.