UNITED STATES
TheMediaReport
David Pierre
It was only a couple years ago that CBS’ 60 Minutes fêted Ireland’s Archbishop Diarmuid Martin as he took the Church to task over decades-old abuse claims in Ireland. Indeed, 60 Minutes has a long and storied record of outright hostility against the Catholic Church.
So we were surprised that Archbishop of Boston’s Cardinal Seán O’Malley agreed to appear on 60 Minutes and assist them in once again rehashing the sex abuse story and hammer the Church.
And it was a further surprise to see Cardinal O’Malley agree with host Norah O’Donnell that Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph Bishop Robert W. Finn should be expelled over his alleged mishandling of a priest later convicted of child pornography. In two previous posts (1, 2), we noted that the Finn case might be among the most misreported stories of the entire Church abuse narrative, and we highly suspect that O’Malley himself is not very much aware of the particulars of this distorted tragedy.
We now wonder how O’Malley’s appearance could have possibly fulfilled his role of spreading the Gospel.
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