None whatsoever?

Need dead babies only be placed in holes in the ground by evil witch nuns? ... cannot regular, average, pious, UN-witch-y nuns also deposit corpses into holes in the ground?

It seems like the same dynamic. In other ways it seems like the anti Catholic hysteria and claims of Catholic conspiracy way back in the 1840s.

There were no doubt many children's deaths in many orphanages. But because of anti Catholic bias this got much more attention.

The problem with these hatefests is that they rapidly obscure the facts and nothing gets corrected.

it doesn't seem a necessary component either these days for people to jump off the deep end willy nilly. If those 'news' organizations had bothered to check FIRST, even a little bit, I don't believe they would've printed in the first place. Where are they ripping their headlines from these days, Alex Jones?

Even allowing for the occasional bad apple in the best barrel, never in my own life have I met a nun who wasn't good as gold to me. Not once. As an army brat, I always preferred parochial schools not only for the superior education but because they were strict and yet fair. Everyone should be so lucky as to be educated by those wonderful women. And why should I expect them to be any different in the land of my forefathers?

Even today many of them are heroic figures to me, especially Sister Simone Campbell and Sister Christina!

PS: BTW, I don't mind telling everyone what I'm composing this reply on either: a newly refurbished business class laptop with Windows 7 Professional OS, given to me by a gentleman living a few towns away; he volunteers for Catholic Social Services and learned of my pressing need when I mentioned to someone else that my old computer had one foot in the grave and another on a banana peel. W/o the generosity of Mother Church, I'd have had no chance to replace my main connection to the world at large.

I like how he ended this:

perhaps. The NY charity for which I wrote reams of copy eventually proved fraudulent; then I concentrated on trying to get at least some of the compensation promised when the job went far beyond volunteer status; and when I came up short there too, I had to decide to content myself with (yet another) life lesson learned and to turn over certain files to the IRS etc. investigation when I found out about it. The lawyers are trying to claim outside counsel status, but the original alleged director, Marc, had another bad habit of cc'ing me on internal memos particularly regarding everyone's stockholder and board status. While that's not necessarily binding proof, it is indeed damning evidence. Every little bit helps.

So that's what I've been up to. But now that I'm not spending every spare moment writing copy for what proved to be a bunch of thieves and charlatans, I can return to worthier pastimes. It was rather traumatic for me, but I'm well on the road to recovery.

It's one thing to be ripped off by capitalists but being ripped off by a charity generates anger of an entirely different kind.

major network shows, etc. Had the confidence of several extremely prominent outsiders who had nothing to gain by their association with him - I doubt Noam Chomsky was taking a kickback! So he fooled a lot of people for quite awhile until all his excuses for not actually delivering wore thin. As the whole operation started to implode, the board - including those lawyers now trying to claim outside legal status - kicked him out and made him post a notice to that effect on each of the involved websites.

This could've and almost certainly would've turned out quite well if those people had just been honest; because it was an impressive business plan set up supposedly to benefit the main charity, Pet Food Stamps. The beauty of the apparent setup and noble goal was one major thing that kept me and numerous others dedicated for so long. I have to admit I enjoyed my work tremendously as well, because I can write first drawer copy in my sleep - at top speed, too. The only positive thing that came of the whole disaster for me was getting to strut my stuff. The fact that it was for nothing is a different matter. People love to do what they're good at, especially for a beloved cause. Finding out I was in bed with crooks doesn't 100% wipe that out - fortunately, because that's all I'll ever get for it.

And of course the final, worst effect would be if I let the experience embitter me against all humanity or force me to adopt their world view. That's one thing they're not going to get away with!

My town has a pet food bank. They're easily overlooked.

that while the actual story was bad enough, people were using the false story to jump all over the Catholic Church. I was castigated for that, as well as for pointing out that is was a societal problem. That did not match with the narrative that the Catholic Church is the root of all evil.

does it not?

Whenever the Church steps in it there will always be people to trot out the talking points regardless of the facts at hand. It almost doesn't matter what the particular scandal is.

The net result is that the facts don't get out but the bias is strengthened.