How does it happen, that just at a time when prejudice is finally being rooted out with respect to every other identifiable group, mocking comments about the Catholic Church and her representatives are still seen as perfectly acceptable, even de rigueur in modern day Canada.
Anti-Catholicism is not a relic of a distant past, it is as alive as it ever was, only now it is less recognizable.
It often appears as if the news media is interested in religion only when they have an opportunity to attack religious institutions.
Anti-Catholic bigotry was described by Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr. as The deepest bias in the history of the American people.
The Church has not been conspicuously successful in its relations with the press.
When the media underwent their moral revolution during the 1970s, many professedly Christian people made no protest.
Journalists are the eyes and ears of society.
The line between news and entertainment has been obliterated in our television-obsessed culture.
On Jan. 29, an exclusive Kansas City Star story carried nationwide through the Knight-Ridder News Service proclaimed a scandal of silence in the Catholic Church involving priests and their sexuality.
This Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics draws upon her personal and professional experience as well as brain and child development research to answer the question What are we doing to our childrens growth and learning potential by allowing them to watch television and videos as well as spend endless hours playing computer games?