The New York Times has recently published dozens of articles, many front pages, on scandals of Catholic Church while many groups with a much worse record have gone unreported. Why does the Times hate the Church?
As reported by David Rosen (Counterpunch) the New York Times has devoted extensive investigative resources and page space to exposing the sins of the Catholic Church and its sclerotic leadership to cover-up the long-endemic pedophilia scandal. This reporting has been valuable and one can hope for more of it. But one must ask why such extensive selective journalism has been devoted to this one sinful subject? Why has not similar attention been paid to the other equally troubling examples of sexual abuse of the young, of women and other powerless people, many living in the Times’ very backyard?
Conservative Catholic bishops go further, saying that the sexual abuse committed by their priests is a general social problem, traceable not to the church but to the sexualization of society, to the sins of the 1968 generation… The truth, they suggest, was that the evil had struck in all sectors of society. Percentage wise the Church is very high on the list of “safe” institutions, and today the safest place for children is the Catholic Church.
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You asked, "Why has not similar attention been paid to the other equally troubling examples of sexual abuse...?" Many people say your question is like asking why the pharisees get so much attention in the Bible. Imagine the pharisees whining about that.
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