Category: False Report

Steve Skojec says Amoris Laetitia 298 condones adultery. Steve Skojec is wrong.

BY: Henry Matthew Alt • April 11, 2016 • Amoris Laetitia; False Report; Moral Theology

 

Peo­ple send me links (“Did you see this??”); I don’t seek out these things any­more. But Steve Sko­jec at 1 Vad­er 5, who has now resort­ed to post­ing screen­shots from Face­book for the gen­er­al ridicule, makes the claim that Pope Fran­cis con­dones adul­tery in Amor­is Laeti­tia. “He does!” Mr. Sko­jec cries with the incor­rectible con­fi­dence he alone pos­sess­es. “Para­graph 298!” Right. Well, okay, I mean, let’s check. Let’s quote the full text and not leave any­thing out. And what I find is that it does noth­ing more than quote Famil­iaris Con­sor­tio. Imag­ine that.

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Life Site News gets a pope story wrong. Remnant and Rorate repeat.

BY: Henry Matthew Alt • March 5, 2016 • False Report; Pope Francis; Pro-Life Issues

 

At Life Site News, John-Hen­ry West­en was first to pub­lish the claim, on Feb­ru­ary 25. “Pope,” the head­line cries, “calls Italy’s fore­most abor­tion pro­mot­er [Emma Boni­no] one of nation’s ‘for­got­ten greats.’ ” You can find the sto­ry here. This is now the lat­est so-called papal scan­dal; it has been picked up by all the usu­al sus­pect blogs. Even Mike Gen­dron, the anti-Catholic apol­o­gist, wrote an out­raged Face­book post about it, telling Catholics to rise up and cry: Enough is enough! the pope should not be con­tra­dict­ing Church teach­ing that way.

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Before you get outraged and share that post on your social media profile.

BY: Henry Matthew Alt • May 19, 2015 • False Report

 

Only two things mat­ter: the sal­va­tion of the soul, and truth. That is why it is an offense to see so many posts run­ning the rounds of social media that are full of bla­tant untruths that could be dis­cov­ered by a small amount of fact-check­ing. The head­line, or the meme, screams at us. “Pope Fran­cis says yada yada yada!” we are told; when, in fact, the pope has said noth­ing like yada yada yada. “Obama’s out­ra­geous words!” anoth­er post screams; when, in fact, Oba­ma didn’t say it and what he did say was a big yawn­ing bore of a cliché. But you hit share and cry: “Hor­ri­ble! Egre­gious!”

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