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February 28th, 2013 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Sadly for the gang at ABC, the church is nothing like a Dan Brown novel. On the bright side, they’ve been able to console themselves with the institution’s real problems – an opportunity the networks rarely failed to grasp.
In the three broadcast networks’ 112 reports since Benedict resigned, there have been 122 mentions of a church in trouble. Reports have referred to “scandal” 87 times. By network accounts, nothing happened in the church during Benedict’s eight-year papacy except scandal, dysfunction and failure.
CBS correspondent Allen Pizzey stressed on the “Evening News” that, “[Pope Benedict XVI] leaves behind a Vatican beset by troubles…” Anchor Scott Pelley endorsed Pizzey’s comments, saying, “Whoever that successor is, Allen Pizzey tells us he will be inheriting a church in turmoil.
Despite the Pope’s clear explanation that his health is the reason for his resignation, the networks couldn’t help speculating on whether the sex abuse scandals, the Vatileaks or other unseemly situations had brought it on.
CBS’s Norah O’Donnell and Georgetown College Dean Chester Gillis also provided insight on February 11’s “This Morning.” When O’Donnell asked if the Pope’s resignation linked to the sexual abuse scandals, Gillis responded, “Oh, I think everything has something to do with it.” Author John Thavis agreed on CBS’s “Evening News” on February 25, saying “It all forms a burden, I think that was placed on Pope Benedict XVI, and so I think it all went into his decision to resign.”
When asked about the kind of man likely to succeed Benedict, Thavis said, “I think the cardinals are going to want someone who is strong enough, so that he won’t be victimized by all of the malfeasance going on around him inside the Vatican walls.”
On Feb. 19, Pizzey seemed to suggest that Benedict is going on the lam to avoid court. “Because the Vatican is a sovereign territory it will also make it impossible for lawyers to try to sue or prosecute him for the sex abuse scandals …” A couple days later, on Feb. 22, Pizzey said on the same show, “By the time his successor has to confront it (inquiry of Vatileaks), Benedict will be here – the papal summer residence of Castle Gandolfo.”
Pizzey was at it again on the Feb. 22 “This Morning,” saying “Speculation and evidence as to why Benedict decided enough was enough continues to swirl here with reporting focusing on an inquiry by three cardinals into the so-called Vatileaks scandal.” Yes, “evidence” from an alleged claim by an Italian tabloid.
CBS’s Gayle King continued to connect the dots, asking, “We are hearing a lot about the Pope’s health in the wake of his retirement, but what about the health of the church?” on February 19’s “This Morning.
Pollster and political analyst Frank Luntz convened a CBS Catholic discussion group on “This Morning,” Feb. 19. Luntz asked questions like, “Who in this room would be uncomfortable leaving their children with a priest?”
During a Feb. 24 segment, Pizzey reminded viewers, “The ex-Pope has to disappear during the conclave even if the scandals that plagued his reign will be in plain sight.”
On the Feb. 12 “This Morning,” speaking with the Archdiocese of Washington’s Cardinal Donald Wuerl, CBS anchor Charlie Rose made the conclave of cardinals who will elect the next Pope sound more like the selection of a Democratic Chicago alderman. “I mean, everything we’ve ever read about the selection of a Pope suggests that that there are people who look at this election and the kind of person who may be Pope having to do with their own agenda for the church and that there is in-fighting, there is lobbying, there is ambition, there is a sense of destiny for the church.”
Will the Next Pope be Catholic?
Part of the Church’s problem, apart from the scandals the networks never tire of remind viewers of, is that its losing practitioners in Europe and the United Sates. And the reason, according to liberal journalists, is the church under Benedict’s guidance has been, well, too Catholic.
So the networks weaved their liberal agenda into the threads of coverage, calling for the modernization of the church (32 times) and pressing for change in issues regarding women (7 times) and gays (13 times). Always there was the assumption that the orthodox Benedict had been the stumbling block to the kind of liberal change anchors and correspondents deem necessary.
On the Feb. 12 CBS “The Morning,” Pizzey stressed this theme. “He cannot take part in a conclave to choose his successor but his influence will be felt in what is being seen as a battle between liberals and conservatives to chart the future of the church …”
During a Feb. 11 segment of ABC’s “World News,” anchor Diane Sawyer, lectured New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan on the need for change. “What would you like to see this next Pope be and do in order to be as inclusive as possible of the American church and the American views on these social issues?” she asked before adding, “There has to be fundamental change.” Shockingly, the Cardinal disagreed.
That day ABC correspondent Jeffrey Kofman explained during told Sawyer that Benedict “may have been the first Pope to tweet, but as the leader, he tried to hold back the forces of modernity, refusing to expand the role of women.” ABC’s Cecilia Vega expressed the same concern during the same segment: “Pope Benedict may have taken a hard line against everything from gay marriage to abortion.”
Also on Feb. 11, NBC anchor Brian Williams said on “Nightly News” that Benedict’s resignation could bring on “possibly a huge period of change.” Correspondent Ann Thompson underlined that point: “Some express the hope a new leader might mean a new attitude about women and married priests or human sexuality.”
That day, ABC’s Cecilia Vega “spent the day gathering American reaction from all over,” according to Sawyer. That reaction was fairly predictable. “For many American Catholics a world away from the Vatican, there is devotion to a centuries-old institution,” she said. “But for many others, today meant hope for a modern beginning.” She then took viewers on a tour of the country where – surprise! – she found people who said “society is leaving the Church way behind,” who wanted the Church to “allow women the opportunity to become a priest,” and a wanted a Pope “more accepting of gay people.”
Editor’s Note: Matt Philbin also contributed to this report.
Source Article from http://newsbusters.org/blogs/katie-yoder/2013/02/28/bashing-benedict-networks-make-pope-butt-jokes-center-scandal
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