Prediction: (in McLaughlin Group fashion)



The Media is About to Launch a Renewed Attack on the Catholic Church



The recent Episcopalian decision to openly consecrate an openly homosexual bishop will unleash a renewed attack on the Roman Catholic Church.



Why?



Because it will afford many newspapers an opportunity to "out" certian high ranking Catholic bishops who have long been rumoured to be active homosexuals. Several papers were close to doing this last year but didn't want to appear to be anti-homosexual by exposing these prelates at the same time as the sexual abuse of the minors was the main issue. It would have made the papers seem to be unsympathetic to homsexuality linking it with the deviant behavior of pedophilia.



Now they have their opportunity and I fully expect them to act on it.



This (if in fact it happens and I fully expect that it will), lends great credibility to the critiques of Father Benedict Groeschel's claim that the media circus that surrounded the sad revelations of clergy abuse last year were more idealogically driven and not as they were portrayed at the time a true search for the truth. Father Groeschel's critique can be read in his bestselling book From Scandal to Hope that I have linked to at the end of this post.



When these stories hit, make no mistake, they are being released with an agenda that is essentially anti-Catholic.



Of course it goes without saying that if the Church did a better job of policing itself there would be little to for the media to report. That is another issue and one that we should pray that the Holy Spirit will use whatever crisis arises to remedy and rectify.



But the truth is not the issue where the media is concerned, especially in this case for if it were these stories would have been released some time ago and not as I predict in the next few weeks.