Posted on 12/07/2013 7:43:01 PM PST by ebb tide
Fox News columnist rips Pope Francis, loses Catholic News Service gig
Adam Shaw, an editor for the Fox News website, has been taking a lot of heat, even from some conservatives, for a rip-roaring assessment of the pope’s recent apostolic exhortation. His column is titled: “Pope Francis is the Catholic Church’s Obama – God help us,” which gives you a sense of where Shaw was coming from.
But if Shaw’s Fox job is safe — hey, when Rush Limbaugh is blasting the pontiff anyone else looks tame — his other gig, as a film and video game reviewer for Catholic News Service, is over as of yesterday.
Tony Spence, editor in chief of the wire service, which operates under the aegis of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said he had been “very pleased” with Shaw’s work, which included an analysis of the comics book industry. Spence said he knew that Shaw worked for Fox but it never caused a conflict — until this week. Spence wrote in an email:
“(W)hen he penned the recent piece on Pope Francis, comparing him to President Obama, and presenting it as an op/ed, he seriously compromised his credibility as an objective Catholic journalist for CNS. Had Adam merely reported on the pope’s apostolic exhortation, even citing unflattering sources, there would have been no problem. However, Adam’s caustic condemnation of the exhortation and of Francis himself, one of the key figures we cover daily with objectivity, fairness and certainly charity, left me little choice but to end his service with us.”
Spence wished Shaw well “at FoxNews.com and in all his future endeavors.”
Do you send money to pro-aborts.
It is the Catholic Church that must police its own, from the top down! We ask this of Odumbo, and any other head of a company, organization, government, etc. The buck stops at the top!
Imagine that, losing your job for being correct, the author was more right in his comparison to Bambi than he thought..........
These incidences plus others loses the flock - I'm included.
From reading quotes from this Pope, it is becoming obvious that the Pope is to the Catholic Church what Obama is to the United States. Looks like they voted in a “political” Anti-Christ just like we did. What a shame. The church was beginning to look like a good refuge for Episcopal refugees...not now. So still seeking safe haven.
Bingo.
But there are too many Catholics who still believe that all that is wrong with the Church has nothing to do with Vatican II. Or better yet, they think nothing is wrong, continue to defend just about anything coming out of Rome, and think Vatican II was the best thing since sliced bread.
Denial isn’t just a river in Egypt.
Does not each pope have a say in who gets to be promoted to bishop during that pope’s time in office? When we look at the bishops, are we not seeing the results of each pope’s selection criteria?
There are many Catholics who agree with you. It’s exasperating and the lack of action only scratches the surface.
"Where the bishop is, there is the church."
A video game reviewer (really some great expertise there), what earth shattering news.
“Well, if there is one strategy I have seen deployed more than any other in my years of experience with anti-Catholic apologists it is this: Whenever it can be done, organizations bent on attacking the Church love to put forward Catholics—preferably cradle Catholics—to say “I was raised Catholic, and I can tell you for a fact that the Church’s teaching on X is garbage and you can safely ignore it”. It is the strategy of everybody from atheists, to Fundamentalists, to the Democratic party whenever they trot out Pelosi and Biden and Sebelius to chatter about the glories of Planned Parenthood. And sure enough, it is the strategy of FOX who—swimming in money and able to pick from a vast pool of real talent ranging from Fr. Robert Sirico on the Right, to Fr. Robert Barron in the center, or John Allen, Jr. on the Left (all of whom have sufficient credentials to offer something like a serious analysis and critique of Francis’ thought)—instead tapped a young video game reviewer named Adam Shaw to pen the hit piece. Why? Because hit pieces need no qualifications beyond “I was raised Catholic and I can tell you...” The unthinking platitudes, shallow analysis and mendacity can flow, unencumbered by the thought process when your sole goal is to poison the well. Then all you need do is make sure Drudge links it (as he dutifully has) and the conservative Catholics FOX seeks to poison against Francis are sent the clear message that this is not some Outsider attacking the Church, this is a True Catholic defending the Church from our dangerous new pope”
If, according, to Mark Shea, Adam Shaw is an anti-Catholic apologist, why was Shaw in the employ of the USCCB? Shea is a very bitter Catholic convert and he often attacks cradle Catholics as beneath him. He has apologized before for his bitter behavior, he should do so again.
And if you have a problem with a video game reviewer, about a blogging priest obsessed with recipes and birdhouses?
You examples are so correct. These things are very, very painful to see, and does great injury to not only devout Catholics, and beyond that it insults all believers whether Catholic or not, making a terrible witness for the Church.
My only consolation is being reminded that Almighty God knows what is going on, even throughout Bible history and has allowed scandal, for a time, or else it would be evaporated and made perfect.
Only the Eucharist keeps Catholics. John 6 is not a suggestion for the Church, but defines her. To receive Jesus while in a sinful state and without repentance is anathema, as to heap hot coals upon our head—so, there is Justice to be served, but it may not be before our very eyes or while in this world.
He’s in trouble because Obama doesn’t like being compared to the Pope and the Pope doesn’t want to be compared to Obama, but they both appear to come from the same cloth.
Here is my contention. If Faux News, the once “conservative” network that openly supports homosexual “marriage” now and the majority of the left-wing garbage that’s supported by the other networks, REALLY wanted a proper appraisal of Pope Francis, why didn’t they choose someone with some expertise in the area. I would suggest Fr. Robert Sirico on the Right, to Fr. Robert Barron in the center, take your pick. Both theologians, with Father Sirico being an economist. The reason Faux News didn’t have someone with real credentials in Catholic teachings is because they figured they would TELL THE TRUTH about what Pope Francis is trying to convey and they (Faux News) wants to blast the Catholic Church, exactly the way the rest of the news media attacks the Catholic Church every time they open their mouths.
So the Pope supports queer “marriage”, and murdering the unborn?
Please re-read Shaw’s article. There’s a lot more opinions in there (with which all them I agree) than Pope Francis’s erroneous views on economics.
Who in the heck knows? The pope’s unofficial motto is, “Who am I to judge”.
If Fox News openly supports homo marriage why did it post Shaw's article? Again, please read Shaw's article.
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