Who's Mailing the Catholic Tribune? It's Not the Church, It's Partisan Media.

[Nevilledog]

https://www.propublica.org/article/church-no-affiliation-catholic-tribune-metric-media

One by one, Catholic dioceses in key presidential swing states are putting out unusual statements: Newspapers whose titles include the word Catholic that are showing up in people’s mailboxes aren’t what they seem and aren’t connected to the church.

With a classic typeface and traditional newspaper design, the mass-mailed Catholic Tribune newspapers carry signposts of legitimacy. But most of the articles in the papers are inflammatory and overtly partisan, focusing on culture-war issues that resonate with conservative voters.

A headline in the Wisconsin Catholic Tribune, and repurposed in other states’ versions, provocatively asks, “How many ‘sex change’ mutilation surgeries occurred on Wisconsin kids?” Another: “Haitian illegal aliens in America: What are Harris supporters saying?”

At the same time, they undermine Vice President Kamala Harris and prop up former President Donald Trump by, for instance, reminding readers on the front page that anti-vaccine activist and conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — whose father and uncle were among the most prominent Catholics in the country — has endorsed Trump.

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[Squaredeal]

1. How many Catholics will protest, or just keep their mouths shut?

…because of their“faith”?

[riversedge]

2. Here is a photo....

well, the headline sure does look legit!!


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Photo illustration by Alex Bandoni/ProPublica. Source images: The Wisconsin Catholic Tribune and Peter Dazeley/Getty Images.

[Beartracks]

3. Perhaps there should be a liberal paper called the Baptist Bugle.