{"id":382838,"date":"2021-04-03T10:11:43","date_gmt":"2021-04-03T14:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=382838"},"modified":"2021-04-03T10:11:47","modified_gmt":"2021-04-03T14:11:47","slug":"graham-the-wild-cbs-sunday-morning-gossip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/graham-the-wild-cbs-sunday-morning-gossip\/","title":{"rendered":"GRAHAM: The Wild CBS \u2018Sunday Morning\u2019 Gossip"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgraham-the-wild-cbs-sunday-morning-gossip%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=382838&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-434.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>On Palm Sunday, Christians celebrate the arrival of Jesus in Jerusalem to great fanfare and celebration. But for CBS News, Palm Sunday is an occasion to throw wild, tabloidish allegations at the Catholic Church.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSunday Morning\u201d host Jane Pauley began the program saying: \u201cToday is Palm Sunday, the start of Christianity\u2019s Holy Week. Catholic priests take the leading role in their parishes, of course, even as a long-hidden issue within their ranks is coming out of the shadows.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gay reporter Seth Doane explained: \u201cEarlier this month, the Vatican confirmed priests cannot bless same-sex partnerships. But within this closed-off institution, there is an open secret.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow many gay priests do you think there are?\u201d he asked James Martin, a Jesuit priest and LGBT activist within the church. Martin said: \u201cIf it was 40%, I wouldn\u2019t be surprised. If it was 80%, I wouldn\u2019t be surprised.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is not a poll or a study. This is a guess \u2014 from someone who clearly wants to make the Catholic Church abandon all those antiquated scriptural passages and traditions. As a \u201cnews\u201d network, this is just as responsible as asking someone to guess how many Muslim imams are secretly gay. But American news networks never say, \u201cHey, it\u2019s Ramadan. This is the best time to run a blistering advocacy piece against the backward people leading Islam!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>From there, Doane turned to Frederic Martel, \u201ca French author who spent four years researching his book \u2018In the Closet of the Vatican,\u2019 about the gay underworld there.\u201d Doane added, \u201cHe says he interviewed hundreds of priests, even cardinals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Martel claimed: \u201cIt is a large silent community, a vast silent majority. \u2026 It is 50 shades of gay, I mean, a lot of different kinds of gay.\u201d Doane added, \u201cHe suggests the largest group of men in the Vatican may be gay but do not practice and can actually be the most homophobic.\u201d CBS never mentioned Martel is apparently a gay atheist.<\/p>\n<p>Doane\u2019s next expert was a real beaut. \u201cFrancesco Mangiacapra is a sex worker with a law degree, who found one priest client led to another and another,\u201d he narrated. He asked Mangiacapra, \u201cHow many priests do you think you have slept with?\u201d The male prostitute said, \u201cI think about 100. \u2026 We have, in Italy, many, many thousands of priests, so 100 is not so much.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Doane displayed a thick sheaf of paper and narrated: \u201cOver roughly five years, Mangiacapra compiled this 1,200-page dossier of personal profiles, graphic photos and text message exchanges with roughly 50 of the priests who were his clients. He submitted it to his local archdiocese of Naples, he says, as a political act.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Every word of this CBS story is a political act.<\/p>\n<p>Two gay priests were featured, Father Greg Greiten of Milwaukee and \u201cFather Frederick,\u201d who spoke anonymously in the shadows. Greitens ended the piece by proclaiming: \u201cThis is my home. And I don\u2019t believe that the home should be throwing out its children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Doane does not interview a Catholic defender of the traditional faith, neither clergy nor laity. No challenge of CBS\u2019 experts and wild numerical claims is allowed. There\u2019s no opposing side to the \u201ctruth,\u201d as in the liberal belief that progress against repressive Bible thumpers is inevitable. They don\u2019t deserve time to respond.<\/p>\n<p>No liberal reporter seems to ask why \u201cgay Catholics\u201d wouldn\u2019t just find a more \u201cwelcoming\u201d church, like the Episcopalians. Because the Left wants the \u201cbackward\u201d churches to be subverted to its ideology. This is just the latest crusading CBS \u201cnews\u201d story of many that seek to shame the Vatican into abandoning thousands of years of tradition.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Easter, indeed.<\/p>\n<p><i>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org. To find out more about Brent Bozell III and Tim Graham, and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate webpage at www.creators.com.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Palm Sunday, Christians celebrate the arrival of Jesus in Jerusalem to great fanfare and celebration. 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