Sadly most Catholic media will not rock the boat. As for the secular media, what's not to like? Any Pope who is visibly gay-friendly and declares that all religions are willed by God is their kind of Pope. They are indifferent to abuse victims. Look at how James Levine in the US and Jimmy Savile in England got away with abuse for decades.
Realistically albeit cynically, I think for a lot of secular media "Vatican covers up/ignores/mothballs abuse allegations against well-connected clerics" is no longer newsworthy, except perhaps very locally. I wish that weren't true - the US churchhas benefited immensely from rigorous journalistic scrutiny in the 2000s but I don't think we can count on it indefinitely going forward. That's why I subscribe to the Pillar!
Realistically albeit cynically, I think the reason behind the rigorous journalistic scrutiny in the past has generally been opposition to the Catholic Church on the part of the journalists. So I expect their scrutiny to continue. And it is helpful, regardless of their motivations. But, if "newsworthiness" was the main criteria, there would have been far more reporting on all the other scandal-worthy sexual abuse allegations in schools, non-Catholic churches, medical facilities, etc. Or at least the high correlation between sex abusers and cohabitating boyfriends. Epstein should have made the news decades earlier. Disney World barely made the news for the high percentage of sex offenders on staff, and I recall that being a very short news cycle.
The US news media has never been much for reporting on what happens in other countries, regardless of their agenda, and I think that's why Cipriani hasn't made it.
It is quite a track record. The silence from other "independent" Catholic news sources and the secular media is deafening.
Sadly most Catholic media will not rock the boat. As for the secular media, what's not to like? Any Pope who is visibly gay-friendly and declares that all religions are willed by God is their kind of Pope. They are indifferent to abuse victims. Look at how James Levine in the US and Jimmy Savile in England got away with abuse for decades.
Realistically albeit cynically, I think for a lot of secular media "Vatican covers up/ignores/mothballs abuse allegations against well-connected clerics" is no longer newsworthy, except perhaps very locally. I wish that weren't true - the US churchhas benefited immensely from rigorous journalistic scrutiny in the 2000s but I don't think we can count on it indefinitely going forward. That's why I subscribe to the Pillar!
Realistically albeit cynically, I think the reason behind the rigorous journalistic scrutiny in the past has generally been opposition to the Catholic Church on the part of the journalists. So I expect their scrutiny to continue. And it is helpful, regardless of their motivations. But, if "newsworthiness" was the main criteria, there would have been far more reporting on all the other scandal-worthy sexual abuse allegations in schools, non-Catholic churches, medical facilities, etc. Or at least the high correlation between sex abusers and cohabitating boyfriends. Epstein should have made the news decades earlier. Disney World barely made the news for the high percentage of sex offenders on staff, and I recall that being a very short news cycle.
The US news media has never been much for reporting on what happens in other countries, regardless of their agenda, and I think that's why Cipriani hasn't made it.