ZENIT's objectivity about the Maciel decision doubteful?

Okay, *deep breath*.

Zenit today released in its daily news coverage a statement issued by the Mexican episcopal conference about the recent Maciel decision.

But note their introduction:

The Holy See's statement, released Friday, said it would stop the canonical investigation into allegations against the 86-year-old, Mexican-born founder.

Sorry, I don't think that's a complete or accurate one-sentence summary of the situation.

Zenit is owned and run by the Legionaries, and I think they just aren't being objective about this one (perhaps understandably, but that's a different question).

Gregory Borse makes the same point:

"In this author's opinion, Zenit's characterization is tantamount to a lie: Father Maciel has been removed by the Vatican from public ministry because the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith found the charges against him to be credible. The CDF declined to go through a trial (the "canonical process" referred to) because of Maciel's "advanced age, frail health," not because there was no basis in fact for the accusations."

Zenit should realize that everyone is going to be closely watching how they treat this story - so why not just relate the facts according to their due?

Their coverage of the initial story isn't much better, either:

VATICAN CITY, MAY 19, 2006 (Zenit.org).- The Holy See won't continue with a canonical investigation into accusations against Father Marcial Maciel, founder of the Legionaries of Christ, and has invited him to renounce all public ministry.

For all the talk about receiving the Vatican's decision in "complete obedience," shouldn't part of that obedience be admitting and accepting the full decision? The Vatican communique did not compare Maciel with Christ, nor was its primary decision that the investigation be ceased so much as that Fr. Maciel has been "positively" instructed to renounce all public ministry. Maybe this is a case in point of what Diogenes has been talking about.