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Two major wire services- AP and Reuters- cherry picked excerpts from Pope Benedict XVI’s latest encyclical (a teaching document of the Catholic Church) on Tuesday to support left-wing economic and political positions, and all but ignored the pontiff’s traditional stances on the family, bioethics, and the environment. The AP also went so far to bring up “the state of the Vatican’s own [financial] books.” Both Philip Pullella, who regularly writes about the Pope and the Vatican for Reuters, and the AP’s Nicole Winfield zeroed in on paragraph 67 of the encyclical, which is titled “Caritas in Veritate,” or “Charity in...

NEW YORK (AP) — The incoming archbishop of New York says he will challenge any suggestion that Roman Catholics are unenlightened because they oppose gay marriage and abortion. Archbishop Timothy Dolan also tells The Associated Press that he wants to restore pride in being a Catholic. Dolan made the comments in an interview Monday in Manhattan. He is scheduled to be installed as the leader of the Archdiocese of New York in ceremonies on Tuesday and Wednesday at St. Patrick's Cathedral. He succeeds Cardinal Edward Egan, who is retiring. The 59-year-old Dolan was most recently the archbishop of Milwaukee. In...

Front Royal, Va, Jan. 06, 2006 (CNA) - Catholic Priest and president of Human Life International,Rev. Thomas J. Euteneuer, advised Democrats to refrain from “Catholic bashing” of Supreme Court nominee Judge Samuel Alito.“The unrelenting campaign waged by many Senate Democrats, some who claim to be Catholics themselves, against Catholic judicial nominees who embrace and practice their Catholic faith is disgraceful at best and at worst is a blatant form of religious bigotry reminiscent of a less civil period of history,” said Fr. Euteneuer. “If these senators continue to Catholic bash in the upcoming nomination hearing for Supreme Court nominee Judge...

Did anyone catch the "ER" episode tonight? It was a direct affront to pro-lifers and Catholics. Luka pushed the whole "personally opposed" agenda. Parental notification was also attacked as the young, pregnant girl was, with Luka's help, able to lie and circumvent the authority of her parents. NBC will here from this Pro Life Catholic.

Washington, Jan. 04 (CWNews.com) - An American pro-life leader has charged that liberal politicians are engaging in "Catholic-bashing" in their opposition to Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito. Father Thomas Euteneuer, the president of Human Life International, denounced "the unrelenting campaign waged by many Senate Democrats, some of whom claim to be Catholics themselves, against Catholic judicial nominees." Father Euteneuer charged that groups such as People for the American Way, Moveon.org, and the Alliance for Justice have adopted a strategy of attacking the Catholic faith as a means of rousing opposition to the Supreme Court appointment. This strategy, he said, "is...

I knew when Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger was elevated to the supreme leadership of Christianity's largest church that there would be many unkind things said about the new pope. I didn't think the problem would be rooted in his past connection as a juvenile with a wing of the Nazi Party, which was as all encompassing as Communist affiliations were in Russia and are in China. Only the immature London press, a freakish industry that is part New York Times and mostly National Enquirer, would attempt to frame this less than admirable shred as being representative of Ratzinger's 78 years. Maybe...

As the church's period of mourning for Pope John Paul II comes to a close and the election of a successor is complete, media analysts can begin to get a full picture of how this historic and influential papacy was covered. The late Pope John Paul II received positive, praise-filled media coverage after his death, according to the Media Research Center. While he led the church, however, the slant of news coverage varied depending on the issue in question. While one of the most widely reported of Pope John Paul II's accomplishments for the past three weeks has been his...

Buenos Aires, Jan. 27, 2005 (CNA) - Bishop Jorge Lona of San Luis, Argentina, said last week the “anti-catholic” press twisted the statements of the Secretary of the Bishops Conference of Spain regarding condoms and later portrayed the clarification by the Conference as a “reversal.”“There is a large sector of the international media that is against the Church and is trying to confuse people about our position,” Bishop Lona told the Argentinean daily “Diario de la Republica.” He said the entire incident was due to an intentionally “poor journalistic interpretation” and that it was not a coincidence that the “supposed news”...

WASHINGTON - The poor and the powerful came together Saturday for the funeral of Cardinal James A. Hickey, a champion of the poor who served 20 years as the archbishop of Washington. Latin hymns echoed through the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception as religious and political leaders joined with ordinary people in observing the funeral Mass for Hickey. He died last Sunday at age 84. A procession of priests, bishops and cardinals passed through a cordon of the Knights of Columbus in ceremonial capes and plumed hats. More than a dozen pews were filled with nuns,...

When I read that Rocco Buttiglione has been nominated by the Italian government to serve as the European Union’s Justice and Human Affairs commissioner, I had a hard time believing that he would ever be seated. This is because Buttiglione has actually said things that offend against political correctness — for example, that he believes homosexual conduct is a sin. Now Buttiglione, like any good post-conciliar pluralist Catholic, assured EU officials during his confirmation hearing that he would never — no, never — allow his beliefs to influence his official judgments: "I may think that homosexuality is a sin, and...

Roman Catholic bishops are exposing British Broadcasting Corp.'s anti-Catholic bias. In a statement distributed today in the Vatican's daily bulletin, the bishops' conference of England and Wales decried the offensiveness of two BBC programs aired right before the pope's silver jubilee. A "documentary" that aired Monday, "Panorama: Sex and the Holy City," claimed "while the pope preaches peace and life, his teachings and the actions of the Catholic Church (in opposing abortion and contraception) bring about widespread poverty and death," the bishops noted. "Kenyon Confronts," which aired Wednesday and was about cases of clergy abuse more than 20 years...

BBC accused of 'hostile' attitude to Catholics Claire Cozens Monday September 29, 2003 A Catholic archbishop has delivered an excoriating attack on the BBC, accusing it of a "hostile" attitude to the Catholic church and claiming its reporters had harassed a sick and elderly priest. The Archbishop of Birmingham, Vincent Nichols, described the BBC's coverage of the church as "totally unacceptable", and said a series of planned programmes were "biased and hostile". "The Catholic community is fed up seeing a public service broadcaster using the licence fee to pay unscrupulous reporters trying to recirculate old news and to broadcast programmes...

A famous American once dreamed all men might someday be judged by their character, not by the color of their skin. In the case of federal appeals court nominee Miguel Estrada, it seems that Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream happened. But some Senate Republicans don't want to believe it. The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia often decides cases dealing with the federal government's powers. So its decrees can ripple out, casting broad ramifications for all of America. Also, the court is often a steppingstone to the Supreme Court. Estrada, President Bush's appointee to this court,...

There was no reason to believe, when President Bush nominated William Pryor to a seat on the federal appellate bench last April, that the debate over the conservative Alabama attorney general would result in Methodist and Mormon senators lecturing their Catholic colleagues on the finer points of Catholic doctrine. It certainly didn’t begin that way. Initially, participants followed the all-too-familiar script. Bush promised that Pryor would be a judge who “followed the law” and wouldn’t legislate from the bench. Conservative interest groups ginned up their direct mail machines and urged the faithful to contact their senators on Pryor’s behalf. Liberal...

<p>Ralph Neas of the People for the American Way made it official. He said it. I bet he didn't even know he said it. Debating C. Boyden Gray of the Committee for Justice on the Fox News Channel's Hannityand Colmes July 29, he was decrying the implication in a Committee for Justice ad that certain senators on the Judiciary Committee were anti-Catholic. The now famous ad defending federal court nominee Bill Pryor depicted a court house door bearing the sign, "Catholics need not apply."</p>

CBS News Distorts Catholic Outrage at its Dishonest Reportingby Tom Allen, Editor & President of Catholic Exchange 8/9/03 Jeff Cavins' Position Twisted Inside-Out on Friday's CBS Evening News In response to Wednesday's dishonest report on the CBS Evening News (see the Catholic World News report below), Catholic Exchange co-founder and Relevant Radio talk show host Jeff Cavins dedicated a portion of his Friday "Morning Air" broadcast to pointing out CBS correspondent Vince Gonzales' specious reporting on the issue. Cavins called for Mr. Gonzales' dismissal from CBS for violating journalistic ethics and offending millions of faithful Catholics throughout the country...

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-ny--schumer-conservat0811aug11,0,5163776.story?coll=ny-ap-regional-wire Conservative leader: Schumer has anti-Catholic bias By MARC HUMBERT AP Political Writer August 11, 2003, 3:07 PM EDT ALBANY, N.Y. -- New York's Conservative Party chairman, who has strong ties to Gov. George Pataki, charged Monday that Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer has an "anti-Catholic bias" when it comes to federal judicial nominees. Schumer spokesman Phil Singer said Michael Long's charge was "a lie" and a former Republican congressional colleague of Schumer, Guy Molinari of Staten Island, said that "to suggest directly or indirectly that Chuck Schumer has a bias against anybody Catholic is on its face outrageous and wrong."...

U.N. gay rights group in 'showdown with religion'Gathered homosexual leaders to sharpen 'rights' strategy worldwide Buoyed by growing political acceptance of homosexuals worldwide, a United Nations group promoting "gay" and lesbian rights met in New York to sharpen a multi-pronged strategy that includes a "showdown with religion." The meeting was sponsored by the U.N. Gay, Lesbian or Bisexual Employees, known as UNGLOBE, a group officially recognized by the worldwide body in 1996. At a forum Monday, attended briefly by U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, panel members singled out Roman Catholics and evangelical Protestants as opponents, according to the New York-based...