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Bishop slams newspaper for ‘know-nothing’ anti-Catholicism
April 14, 2009
Auxiliary Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Chicago has strongly criticized the nation’s 8th-largest newspaper for biased coverage against the Church.
“The Chicago Tribune became known for its anti-Catholic bias when it frequently ran xenophobic editorials that criticized foreigners and Roman Catholics as long ago as 1853,” Bishop Paprocki writes. “Apparently not much has changed, as the Chicago Tribune published an editorial on April 3 attacking Cardinal Francis George as being ‘deeply out of line’ for upholding church teaching … The twist in the Tribune's 21st Century approach seems to be to enlist dissenting Catholics to be the mouthpiece of the newspaper's attacks against the church's teaching authority, such as William Daley's column on April 3 asserting that Cardinal George's position on the Notre Dame commencement ‘continues a worrisome pattern in which the Catholic hierarchy in America is mixing religion with politics.’”
The bishop adds, “I don't recall the Chicago Tribune ever running such stories and editorials against any other church or religion, let alone with such frequency or invective, so I can only conclude that the know-nothing views of the Chicago Tribune have not changed.”
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