Charge: CNS behaves more like "LPNS" when choosing interview subjects

In other words, not "Catholic News Service", but "Liberal Protestant News Service" says Carl Olson over at the Ignatius Press blog.

Christopher Blosser at the Benedict in America Blog explains the cause for Carl Olson's charge - it's the inexplicable fact that CNS writer Chris Herlinger chose to interview students at a "nondenominational graduate school of theology with Protestant roots and a home for Catholic academics who have run afoul of the Vatican" to get a reaction to the pope's visit.

It shouldn't surprising the resulting article came up with quotes like this:

"For her part, [Union doctoral student Kim] Harris -- a Catholic who used to be Presbyterian -- said her concern about church reform, specifically the need to expand the eligibility for clergy to include noncelibate men and women, is coming out of real and "lived experience.""

Christopher Blosser asks in response:

Does this subjective feeling of resentment invalidate the argued position of the Church?

Catholic News Service identifies itself as "the primary source of national and world news that appears in the U.S. Catholic press," however with the disclaimer that "while created in 1920 by the bishops of the United States, is editorially independent and a financially self-sustaining division of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops."

I wonder if "editorially and financially independent" is to the USCCB what "plausible deniability" is for the President, when the CIA does a black operation? Honestly, I would have normally expected this backstabbing tripe from the likes of the National Catholic Reporter.

Diogenes at Catholic World News' Off the Record blog doesn't have much patience for this sort of thing either.