Today, I came across Michael Goodwin’s column in the New York Post on the recent media coverage of the health care mandate. I would like to share it with you. Here is an excerpt:

Do the New York Times’ attacks on the Catholic Church have any limits? Do the paper’s editorial writers have any sense of decency?

To judge by the latest screed, the answers are no and no.

Under the Monday headline “The Politics of Religion,” the paper’s editorial page called lawsuits by 43 Catholic groups, including 13 dioceses, “bogus” and “a dramatic stunt, full of indignation but built on air.”

The…

Because of all the inaccuracies in the recent coverage of the Catholic Church in the New York Times and other publications, appearing in news articles, editorials, and op-eds, I was tempted to try my best to offer corrections to the multitude of errors. However, I soon realized that this would probably be a full time job.

It is a source of consternation as to why, instead of complimenting the Vatican and a reformer like Pope Benedict XVI, for codifying procedures long advocated by critics, such outfits would instead choose to intrude on a matter of internal doctrine, namely the ordination…

For more than a week, many of my friends have been encouraging me to read an article by Ken Woodward that appeared in the most recent Commonweal magazine.  I didn’t get to read it until today, but I must admit that what I had heard is true:  the article is excellent.

As you may know, Mr. Woodward was the religion editor at Newsweek magazine for many years.  His piece, entitled Church of the ‘Times’ examines not only how the paper has covered the sexual abuse crisis confronting the Catholic Church, but also what Mr. Woodward calls…

In some ways, Holy Week is hardly the time I would choose to make the following comments.  Still, the matter is so pressing that I feel compelled to address it.

Last week I asked for some fairness in the seemingly unappeasable criticism of the Church over the catastrophe of clergy sexual abuse.

Not to my surprise, if anything, it has only gotten worse, especially in the interminable headlines about the Pope himself.

Last fall I wrote in this blog about anti-Catholicism in the New York Times and other media, providing a list of contemporary examples. A few tried…

Many of you have undoubtedly seen or heard about the story that appears on the front page of today’s New York Times concerning a priest from Wisconsin who sexually abused hearing impaired children in the 1970’s, and the response of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, then headed by Cardinal Ratzinger, when this matter was brought to their attention in the late 1990’s.  You may not have seen the entire statement released by Father Federico Lombardi, S.J., the Vatican spokesman, regarding this matter.  Here it is.

DECLARATION ON “MURPHY…