Catholics getting only one side of the story

SEVERAL weeks ago, the Irish Catholic newspaper broke a rather disturbing front-page story concerning false claims against members of the Catholic Church.

The claims were based on alarmingly spurious facts such as a swimming pool that hadn’t even been built and ‘abuse’ that took place when the accused was himself a very young child.

Considering the column inches and airtime dedicated to this issue in recent years I was bemused by the deafening silence from other media following this article. This is rather like reporting on a football match and only commenting on the scores of one team.