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In response to a WP chatter who claims the New York Times and other media “revel in using Catholicism as a pinata,” Howard Kurtz says Times reporter Laurie Goodstein‘s “stories about the correspondence with the office of then-Cardinal Ratzinger have been carefully written, based on documents and interviews.” || Wall Street Journal: The pope and the New York Times.
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Kurtz defends NYT reporter’s clergy abuse coverage
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