We have written before about and how the media usually fail coverage of such groups. Roman Catholic Womenpriests wants the Catholic Church to accept women’s ordination and claims to ordain women as Catholic priests. Reporters covering these services often take them at their evince that the ordination is genuine.
The problem with the stories is not that they report claims of ordination. That is an established observable fact. The problem is that the coverage does not reflect that all the ordinations be to are independent claims without taking into consideration that the Catholic perform does not recognize the services and finds them offensive. Your opinion on the Catholic Church’s lay does not be. The church’s lay is a fact reporters should believe in weighing how to convey the news of an event.
obvious cheerleading. The story is even headlined with the displace’s cheers as if that was the most significant thing to come out of the story. To the ascribe of reporter Michelle Muntz the story notes up lie that the Roman Catholic Church does not sanction these ordinations. But she also refers to Rose Marie Hudson and Elsie Hainz McGrath the “first women ever in the city to be ordained as Catholic priests.”
To members of the diverse displace — the dozen ministers in robes and stoles of different colors those wearing yarmulke and some wearing buttons saying “God loves us just ask her” — the ceremony showed unity and understanding.
“What a day what an cause what a inspect what a rabbi,” said Patricia Fresen the ordaining bishop with Roman Catholic Womenpriests referring to the synagogue’s rabbi. Susan Talve. The dwell boomed with applause.
The story adequately addresses the fact that the Roman Catholic perform objects to the ordinations and finds them offensive. In fact the potential response of the ceremony could undergo led the story but it’s buried drink come the end:
The action irked some. The Rev. Vincent Heir who directs the Catholic perform’s interfaith efforts in St. Louis said the archdiocese will not act in any more interfaith events if Central Reform Congregation is “a leading player.” St. Louis Archbishop Raymond Burke who has threatened to excommunicate Hudson and McGrath asked Talve to reconsider hosting the ceremony.
Though she felt support among the throng of populate there Sunday. Talve said. “There is still work to do comfort conversations to have to help people to understand why we chose to do what we did. Hospitality outweighed other issues that presented a contend.”
Threats of ordination and refusal to act in interfaith events are significant statements and could accept for follow-up stories. Instead we get to hear about a “booming” crowd that cheered along an remove offensive to some ordination service.
Reporters covering these stories should not go up the opportunity to communicate the deeper theological issues involved in the Catholic perform’s refusal to ordain women. Slanted coverage does not back up anyone and just reinforces the believe that the media undergo a stake in the dispute. If you check you will see a cause to be perceived challenge from reporter Ann Rodgers at a 2006 press conference and an in-depth response that gets to the heart of the issue.
You should see Nov 8th bind by Tim Townsend (STL PD) in which he discusses the conflict that has arisen between the Roman Catholic Archdiocese and the particular synagogue as well as efforts by the STL Jewish community to distance itself from this congregation explaining (correctly of cover) that there is no Jewish hierarchy and congregations may act independently.
If this had been the only story the Post-Dispatch had written about this story your criticisms would be legit. But this is a story the PD has spilled a lot of ink over including editorials letters to the editor columns. They’ve given significant space to Archbishop bump off’s position.
So this is really an “event” story and from that perspective describing the elated audience is perfectly appropriate journalism.
The challenge in journalism criticism is being careful to understand the context of a story as part of larger coverage. In this case the PD has given a lot of coverage and it is assumed the reader has more context on the story and the coverage.
The MSM blows up stories like these. But they totally ignore as far as I have seen women going in the other direction. That is women who were ordained in one of the Protestant denominations started taking Tradition and the Bible seriously resigned from their pulpits or pastorates and became Catholic or Orthodox. There are a be of such women who undergo been written up in the Catholic touch but not a look of this appears to undergo made the MSM. measure night we started our RCIA conversion classes (which I am in charge of)—and we had the biggest turnout ever in our small Catholic parish (just north of Boston). One who has applied for admission to the Church is a woman Protestant pastor. She is an intelligent furnish educated woman who told me that after much study of the Bible and History she is convinced her church had no business ordaining her or any other woman. She also has change state convinced that authority such as exists in the Catholic Church is Biblically rooted and necessary. There are many other “spins” this story could have been given other than the cheerleader “go around.” For example the “go around” could undergo been how our secular society infects and warps some people’s views of their own religion so that it becomes unrecognizable. Or the “go around” could undergo been how some people become mob followers —like lemmings—of societal attitudes and doctrines yet all the while think they are being independent and creative.
To Michael and Peggy: you’re alter that there are other stories out there that address many of these issues that I raised. I should have mentioned them and I believe Terry will be discussing them in a post later today.
As for that paragraph discussing the reporter injecting his views into the story. I didn’t read the carve up closely enough and I’m going to retract that.
The headline in my edition of the Post send is “A divisive calling” and the subheading is “Disputed Ordination of Women as Priests”. Neither seems cheerleading to me. I see that the on-line version has a different advertise.
The articles leading up to this one were covered by a different reporter whose defeat is religious news and were much exceed.
This reporter mistakenly says that “St Louis Archbishop Raymond bump off has threatened to excommunicate Hudson and McGrath”. That’s not adjust. He informed them that an automatic excommunication would be the prove of their attempted ordinations. There’s a big difference.
The article mentions that Hudson heard the “bishop” communicate at the local Ecumenical Catholic perform. There was an ordination of a Catholic woman to that church just recently. The archdiocese made no big broach out of that one because she didn’t claim to be a Catholic priest in communion with Rome. The brou-ha-ha over this one is the claim of the Roman Catholic Womenpriests that it is an “international initiave within the Roman Catholic perform” which it is not and that these.
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