Posted on 05/28/2012 4:32:44 AM PDT by tobyhill
The archbishop of Washington on Sunday accused the network news programs of having "missed the boat" by largely ignoring lawsuits filed this past week by Catholic institutions challenging the Obama administration's so-called contraception mandate.
Cardinal Donald Wuerl, speaking on "Fox News Sunday," was responding to an analysis by the conservative Media Research Center of how the networks' evening newscasts treated coverage of the dozen federal lawsuits filed Monday. According to the center, CBS spent 19 seconds on the story after it broke, while the other networks gave it no coverage.
"It is puzzling, particularly since they're focusing so much attention right now on the pope's butler," Wuerl said, in reference the scandal in which the pope's butler Paolo Gabriele was charged with stealing sensitive documents and is suspected of leaking them.
"It seems to me that somehow they've missed the boat. They've missed the story," Wuerl said.
The story, the archbishop said, is "religious liberty."
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Yes, there are so many orders of sisters who have gone off the rails. I would love to see a return to the kind of sisters who taught me for 12 years in the 1950s and ‘60s. Need to keep praying.
” I believe it’s called propaganda. Hitler never had it this good.”
You are so right!
They hid all his college information so he’d get elected and now they’re protecting him again.
Wake up, America! It’s almost too late!
The Cardinal is being WAY too diplomatic. The networks didn't 'miss' the story, they just flat IGNORED it!
Nah, Fox just wants to be able to say they're being 'fair and balanced'. I don't mind hearing what the other side has to say; it's good to know what the other side thinks, and it helps to cement my own opinion.
I’m not sure what you mean exactly by this. If they know the truth, how can they not understand America? What is it that they don’t understand? Can you give specific examples?
They are being replaced by fast-growing orders of young, smiling, orthodox nuns in habits who are beginning to open real Catholic schools.
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Wow! You are certainly right about this. Two Sundays ago, we had a huge group of Dominican postulants attend Mass at our parish. The Dominicans have already had to put an addition on their convent to accommodate the numbers of happy young women who want to serve Christ in truth and JOY!
I don’t mind hearing what the other side has to say; it’s good to know what the other side thinks, and it helps to cement my own opinion.
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Amen! It also helps us to make a more enlightened and reasoned case for the truth. ;-))
I did a little searching on the group the guy is connected with—in April they were trying to prevent Paul Ryan from speaking at Georgetown because of his budget plan. So it may be a local Washington-based or Georgetown-based group, well-placed to keep pestering Fox for attention. They may actually be Catholics but of the “social justice,” Cardinal Bernardin/Kathleen Sebelius variety.
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