{"id":94,"date":"2010-04-26T14:45:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T14:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2010\/04\/pope-watch.html"},"modified":"2010-04-26T14:45:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T14:45:00","slug":"pope-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2010\/04\/pope-watch.html","title":{"rendered":"Pope Watch: Public Editor Defends NYT Coverage of Abuse Scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"

In his weekly column yesterday, New York Times public editor Clark Hoyt defended the newspaper’s coverage of the Catholic Church’s clergy sex abuse scandal<\/a>. The NYT has received hundreds of letters complaining about its investigation, mainly from lay Catholics who agree with high-ranking church officials that the coverage <\/a>unfairly and erroneously links Pope Benedict’s current and former office (as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger) with the abuse cover-ups in Wisconsin and elsewhere.<\/p>\n

The Wisconsin story — the Rev. Lawrence Murphy allegedly abused several hundred boys at a deaf school there<\/a> between 1950 and 1974– propelled the latest round of reporting on the American scandal last month; one of Murphy’s victims is now suing the Holy See, a move that Vatican attorney Jeffrey Lena said smacks of a publicity stunt<\/a>, given that the Holy See has sovereign immunity and officials there say they did not know about the abuse until decades later, shortly before Murphy’s death.<\/p>\n

Check back for updates — including my interview with Lena — and share your thoughts in the Comments section below.<\/p>\n

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