UNITED STATES
TheMediaReport
Dave Pierre
The media are falling over themselves to relay a salacious report that the Catholic Church in the Netherlands may have surgically castrated “as many as 10 young men” over a half a century ago, in the 1950’s.
Perpetual Catholic bashers such as the New York Times, NPR, and the Boston Globe are having a field day trumpeting the tale.
The message from these outlets is clear: “The Catholic Church is bad, bad, bad. The news gets worse every day!”
A closer examination of the facts, however, reveals that there is a lot more to this story than meets the eye.
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