The Times Lumps the Catholic Church with the Mafia and the Muslim Brotherhood

admin — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 19:11:00 +0000

"By some lights, Italian women have come far in a country whose most entrenched power structures - the Roman Catholic Church and organized crime - remain male and secretive." That's a little like saying the NAACP and the Ku Klux Klan are both fraternal organizations based on race.

Tim Graham

The Times is not known for delicate restraint in its treatment of the Catholic Church. Executive editor Bill Keller (despite somehow marrying his second wife in the Church) trashed Pope John Paul in 2002: "One paradox of the Polish pope is that while he is rightly revered for helping bring down the godless Communists, he has replicated something very like the old Communist Party in his church."