Well,
The Detroit Free Press and *The Detroit News *would be the worst source for any information about Catholicism in Detroit.
They are, both of them, especially
The Detroit Free Press, but also the
Detroit News, are (both papers’ offices are located in the same building in Detroit), in my opinion, some of the most Anti-Catholic and Anti-Christian newspapers I have ever read.
Both of them have done it all: cruel Anti-Catholic political cartoons, many articles criticizing both Popes JPII and Benedict; photos and stories of priests accused of having sexual relationships with minors always printed on the frontpage.
Whenever they discuss Catholic matters, both papers support Modernism being implemented in the Catholic Church (e.g., female priests; married priests); both papers are pro-abortion, pro-homosexual rights (the *Detroit News *has or had [stopped reading it] an openly lesbian columnist, Deb Price, who wrote opinion columns on public affairs for a long time).
Both papers support wholeheartedly secularist Liberal Philosophical Orthodoxy and Gay Marriage.
I think recently there may have been a little bit of Divine Justice, because both papers have had plummeting readership, laid off staff, and are now no longer delivered seven days a week; I think they deliver about four times a week. I don’t like to see people laid off, but facts are facts.
There is a daily version of both papers, but they doubled the price from .50 to $1.00 for a daily, and it contains a lot less articles and sections than it once had; a lot of the articles are just verbatim, word for word, reprints of the exact same Associated Press wire stories that you can find on any internet news page.
They had some guy with a beard and glasses that was their Religion columnist and he would always do a hatchet job when reporting on matters Catholic. I haven’t seen him around since they laid everyone off.
The one columnist on their paper who openly identifies herself as Catholic, Marney Rich Keenan, always criticizes Catholic Church moral teaching about homosexuality and embryo stem-cell killing.
I’m sure if you searched the internet, you could find a similar study about young Protestant Americana leaving the Mainline Protestant Churches in droves.
I think the only growth area in Christianity are the independent Evangelical Mega Churches.
In my opinion, the *Detroit Free Press
and Detroit News *have both liked to beat up on Catholicism for many a year, so I wouldn’t even bother to listen to what they have to say.
They have published similar articles like this before; they sent a reporter into former Polish neighborhoods in Detroit, which are now mostly Hispanic, in my opinion, to try and stir up ethnic tension between the two groups, and the reporter tried to get the remaining Polish-Americans to make racists or negative remarks about the Mexicans and Mexican-Americans parishioners blah blah blah.
Both papers for the most part never discuss Mainline Protestantism and the problems those churches have. I think they do target the Evangelical Christians a bit, but they both really go after the Catholic Church.
A lot of young people are leaving Detroit because the state of Michigan’s unemployment rate is 15%, about the second highest in the nation; something like 1 out of every 100(0?) homes in Michigan have been foreclosed.
The City of Detroit and Michigan both have been losing some of its population, and young people go to Chicago because there are more jobs there than in Detroit.
freep.com/article/20100711/NEWS05/7110421/As-growing-numbers-leave-the-Archdiocese-of-Detroit-tries-to-keep-young-people-in-the-flock
Yes, the Detroit Free Press and Detroit News are both rotten papers in my opinion; about the only thing they are good for is lining the Guinea Pig’s cage.
