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Catholicism

• October 25 -- "Hard-Line," "Strident" Bishops for Bush
Ian Fisher employs some loaded labels to describe the reaction of some Catholic bishops to Kerry's pro-abortion stance.

• May 20 -- The Denial of Communion "Tactic"
Laurie Goodstein's story on the threat by some Catholic bishops to deny communion to pro-abortion politicians reduces the theological issue to the level of cynical politics: "The tactic of denying the sacrament has been urged for years by anti-abortion groups…"

• January 19 -- Pope "Unwittingly Hawks" Mel Gibson Movie?
Editor Frank Rich spins a conspiracy theory about the Pope giving Gibson's movie on Jesus a thumbs-up: "The ailing pontiff has been recruited, however unwittingly, to help hawk 'The Passion of the Christ.'"

• December 12 -- "Conservative Catholic Complicity with Nazism"
A movie review from Stephen Holden includes this bit of anti-Catholicism: "Instead of seriously addressing the issue of the conservative Catholic complicity with Nazism...."

• November 6 -- Reagan, AIDS and Pope Pius XII
TV critic Alessandra Stanley reviews the melodrama over the botched and biased CBS miniseries "The Reagans," counting conservatives as hypocrites and painting Pope Pius XII in an anti-Semitic light.

• October 17 -- Times to the Pope: Happy Anniversary, You Conservative Alienator
Frank Bruni hammers home his theme of the Pope as hidebound alienator: "'This pope has done so much for peace and dialogue, but also for the unity of the church,' said Cardinal Cláudio Hummes, the archbishop of São Paulo, Brazil. On that last point, many Catholics would disagree."

• October 16 -- The "Reviled" Pope
Frank Bruni reports from Vatican City on the 25th anniversary of the reign of Pope John Paul II--but can't let the anniversary pass without taking potshots on how the "alienating" Pope is "reviled by many" for daring to uphold conservative church doctrine on gay marriage and birth control.