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7 pages in length. News coverage of how the Roman Catholic Church is addressing its association with pedophilia is both informational and diverse; while some publications strive to provide point-by-point coverage through personal interviews, others enlighten readers with scathing personal editorials that focus upon raw emotion. Examining articles from The New York Times, The Washington Post, Commonweal, The Nation and Time, the student will find an array of journalistic approaches used as a means by which to address the story’s ever changing details. No additional sources cited.
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enlighten readers with scathing personal editorials that focus upon raw emotion. Examining articles from The New York Times, The Washington Post, Commonweal and Time, the student will find an
array of journalistic approaches used as a means by which to address the storys ever changing details. According to Mark D. Jordan, a
professor of religion at Emory University and author of The Silence of Sodom: Homosexuality in Modern Catholicism, the Roman Catholic Church was forced to change its tact from denial to
acknowledgement that homosexuality was present throughout priesthood. Laurie Goodstein conducts the article for her article entitled "Gay Priests and Sex Abuses: How the Past Shaped the Present" that appeared
in the May, 2002 issue of The New York Time, a newspaper noted for its journalistic excellence and accurate fact finding. Goodsteins interview gets right to the heart of
the matter with the very first question, noting that the switch from denial to acknowledgement has cast an even greater sense of failure upon the Vatican than if the truth
had been divulged from the start. Jordan affirms this position by stating: "Early on, the story was about the coverup of pedophile activity by priests, about keeping secrets
in the hierarchy. Then the hierarchy made a mistake by trying to spin the pedophile story toward homosexuality and saying: "If you want to know the cause of these troubles,
either its that we let in too many gay men or that the gay liberation movement is corrupting priests." But that was a catastrophic mistake for them because then the
question became, what about homosexuals in the priesthood and in the hierarchy?" (Goodstein PG). This one-on-one approach Goodstein takes allows readers to gain a significantly better understanding of just
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