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by Michael Sean Winters on Sep. 28, 2010
As always, Mark Silk has some highly intelligent remarks about Archbishop Chaput's recent comments about the coverage of religion in the media. He is spot-on about how the media, appropriately, considers hypocrisy an aggravating factor as opposed to a mitigating one, in its coverage of religion. The only other thing about Chaput's address that jumped out at me was the sheer defensiveness of his speech. Coming on the heels of the media's coverage of Pope Benedict's successful trip to the UK, almost all of it favorable, that defensiveness seemed more than a little odd.
Chaput has been used to being
Chaput has been used to being attacked - and seeing his positions attacked. There are good reasons for this, they are quite attackable. I know, I have been one of the attackers. If he would take criticism and learn from it, he might take better political positions, ones that take into account the concerns that I and others raise and then he could be less defensive.
...and on the heels of a
...and on the heels of a highly promoted, very cynical "expose" of the pope's involvement in the sexual abuse scandal...and Time magazine's shoddy piece on woman's ordination...and coverage of the vatican bank "scandal".... It is difficult NOT to be defensive in the journalistic (or lack there of) world in which we live.
I am afraid the journalists needed to hear what Chaput had to say.
If we did not have the New
If we did not have the New York Times and the other newspapers who exposed the sexual scandal which was growing in the Catholic church we might have never know what was happening. This coverup by most official Catholic media sites were not talking about it until the major media sites began to write aboutit. The National Catholic Reporter was one of several independent Catholic sites that did write about what was happening throughout the country regarding the sexual scandal. The Church even today continues to cover up the full scope of the terrible situation not only in the USA but now all over the world. Archbishop Chaput should be thankful the the press did report what was happening, but instead he attacks the major news media, especially the New York Times.
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