UNITED STATES
National Catholic Register
[Minutes of the Archdiocesan Finance Council]
by Jimmy Akin Thursday, May 31, 2012
Laurie Goodstein of the New York Times has (yet another) deceptively crafted hit piece on the Catholic Church.
Surprise!
The piece is headlined:
In Milwaukee Post, Cardinal Authorized Paying Abusers
Not the best headline I’ve ever read. It left me scratching my head, wondering whether a Cardinal had authorized paying abusers in a newspaper called the Milwaukee Post.
Apparently this isn’t even the only headline the article has had, because at the bottom of the column, in tiny, hard-to-read grey print, it says:
A version of this article appeared in print on May 31, 2012, on page A20 of the New York edition with the headline: Cardinal Authorized Payments To Abusers.
That would have been even more misleading–implying that the Cardinal (who we soon learn is Cardinal Dolan of New York) was authorizing payments to abusers in New York.
But regardless of where the alleged paying of abusers took place, there is still a further misleading aspect to the headline–and to the article itself. It is the word “paying.”
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