I saw these silly headlines in the last couple of days about the Apostolic Penitentiary such as “Vatican reveals secrets of worst sins”, “Vatican Secret Confession Tribunal Opens up”, and even “Vatican body: Minnesota professor’s sin worse than genocide” in reference to P.Z. Myers. When it come to headlines and articles about the Church it seems that reporters are always in Dan Brown mode.
Fr. Z looks at one of the articles and replies.
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Journalists can be petty and deceitful and insulting to just about anybody and anything; witness the cat fight taking place between the NY Times and the Washington Post.
Here is a rather comic take on what instigated the flap:
http://wonkette.com/405473/ny-times-comically-pissed-that-obama-wont-talk-to-them
Along with some other reports:
http://www.observer.com/2009/politics/pool-report-washington-post
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2009/01/times_vs_washington_post_spat.html