• May 12 -- Pro-Abortion, Anti-Gun "Tolerance"
An article Tuesday by New Jersey editor David Kocieniewski, "Newark Archbishop Pressures and Angers Officeholders Over Anti-Abortion Decree," hashes out the controversy over pro-abortion politicians taking communion.
 

• August 19 -- Christianity in a Positive Light? Now That’s Offensive
Bruce Weber reviewed some of the outré offerings at the NYC Fringe Festival, and one show offended his sensibilities so much he walked out. Was it “Daddy Kathryn,” “a comedy about a gay son's wacky relationship with his newly outed transvestite father?” No. It was “Discordant Duets,” the one avowedly pro-Christian work in the festival. (Weber admitted the “born-again crowd” might like the “simple-minded drama.”)

• August 6 -- Frank Rich’s Persecution Complex
Times editor Frank Rich attacks as anti-Semitic Mel Gibson’s upcoming movie on the last hours of the life of Christ, claiming its “real tinder-box effect could be abroad, where anti-Semitism has metastasized since 9/11.” But in the past liberal Rich has ridiculed the idea that movies cause violence. And his criticism is particularly hypocritical considering his discussion of 1995’s pro-gay, anti-Catholic Church movie “Priest.”

• June 25 -- Post-Communist Poland Ends Freedom of Abortion
Reporter Peter Green, who blames poverty in Poland on “the collapse of Communism,” finds another thing to lament about the end of the dictatorship: Fewer abortions.

E-mail TimesWatch Director, Clay Waters, with TimesWatch feedback at cwaters@mediaresearch.org