CMR friend Matthew Balan watches CNN just so he can uncover these priceless anti-Catholic gems for us.
I love when CNN talks Catholicism and all things Pope because they always embarrass themselves. Here’s Balan’s story:
Predictably, Thursday’s American Morning on CNN marked the Pope Benedict XVI’s first day in the UK with a report on dissenting Catholic women who claimed they are ordained priests, contrary to the teachings of the Church. Correspondent Carol Costello took a misinterpretation of a recent Church document on ordination as fact, and ran only one sound bite from a Vatican official.
Substitute anchor Drew Griffin introduced Costello’s report 24 minutes into the 6 am Eastern hour with the misinterpretation of the Catholic document, forwarded by the mainstream media outlets such as Time magazine, that it condemns the simulated ordination of women as “a crime similar to pedophilia.” However, a July 16 Reuters story quoted Monsignor Charles Scicluna’s clarification: “Scicluna, an official in the Vatican’s doctrinal department, said there was no attempt to make women’s ordination and pedophilia comparable crimes under canon…law….While sexual abuse was a ‘crime against morality,’ the attempt to ordain a woman was a ‘crime against a sacrament.'”
The CNN correspondent began by highlighting the apparent negative response the Pope is receiving in the UK due to his visit: “You heard Kiran mention that Pope Benedict is now in Britain. He’s there to appeal to the millions of Catholics in that country. But his visit is not without controversy. Many tickets remain unsold, which suggest many of Britain’s Catholics are indifferent to his presence.”
September 16, 2010 at 10:27 pm
Evidently they haven't learned the Church doesn't run on popularity. That whole "counter-cultural" thing in practice, it's bound to annoy both liberals AND conservatives when it's done properly.
God's truth is eternal and unchanging, not subject to political whim.
September 17, 2010 at 1:29 am
I've been to more papal audiences and masses than I can count. Not once have I ever paid for/been sold a ticket. You are usually either offered/presented one or you have to request them through a very byzantine process. but sold? Are the Brits that hard up for cash?
September 17, 2010 at 2:05 am
Instead of Edward R. Murrow Douglas Edwards we now suffer Beavis and B*tthead. Sigh.
— Mack
September 17, 2010 at 2:07 am
I was soooooooooo trying to write "Edward R. Murrow and Douglas Edwards." Old age, old age…
— Mack
September 17, 2010 at 2:52 pm
I thought that CNN was now just a ghost of its former self. How many viewers do they have, I mean besides the public places that insist on utilizing their known disinformation, what three or four?
September 17, 2010 at 3:21 pm
In addition, today's piece by Roger Cohen in the NYT has to be up there with the most distorted and anti-Catholic articles written about the pope. It was interesting that the Times did not allow comments on the article.
September 17, 2010 at 11:16 pm
"Edward R. Murrow and Douglas Edwards." I think they were molested by priest that is why they reported like they did. It's not fair journalism. It's biased journalism like that judge who allowed homosexuals to marry in California.