Do your own homework.
I read the news reports. So can you.
Unfortunately it appears the only standard you apply is that the story agree with your preconceived notion and prejudice. If the story satisfies this, the source and its reputation for truthfulness is inconsequential. All other sources, including the words of Christ and the Burning Bush are put off as Romanist Propaganda.
“I read the news reports. So can you.”
I learned in the school of hard experience how unreliable news reports can be; it certainly depends on what news source, and whether that source is agenda-driven and/or “owned”.
In his encyclical “Atheistic Communism” by Pope Pius IX, written in the late 1930’s, he warned us about the complicity of the “fourth estate”. (He also warned us, even then, about the feminist movement)
Years of pro-life work and also waging war against terrible sex education in the public schools, and the effort to de-throne some of the miserable school board members was a great teacher for me about the questionable veracity of “news reports”.
I agree with you, wagglebee, that it was the moral issues that brought out the protesters in Great Britain. This is exactly what people like me encountered in our pro-life work, our city council meetings about the huge grants of city funds given to Planned Parenthood, about the damaging programs in the public schools. We knew who our adversaries were—including the local press.
People came to see the Pope. Thank God.
He was shown great courtesy. Thank God
No harm was done to him. Thank God.