NY Times Hails Pope's 'Inclusion' vs. 'Doctrinaire' Conservatism

Clay Waters
April 21st, 2025 9:31 PM

After Pope Francis died Monday morning, the New York Times started rolling out tributes to the pontiff at nytimes.com, plus a standard 7,000-word obituary by Jason Horowitz and Jim Yardley, current and former Rome bureau chiefs for the Times. Horowitz adored Francis as pontiff, and predictably hailed the left’s favorite pope as a force for “inclusion” against “doctrinaire”…

 

NYT Avoids Islamic Terror, Hits Intolerant Trump, 'Aberrant' Gun Laws

Clay Waters
June 14th, 2016 2:20 PM
The New York Times continued to evade the issue of Islamic terror in its reporting on the Orlando nightclub massacre. Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns targeted Donald Trump for his intolerance on the front-page under a lecturing headline “Branding Muslims as Threats, Trump Tosses Pluralism Aside.” Also, reporter Jim Yardley fretted about the bizarre aberration" of America's gun laws while…
 

NYT Accuses Pope of Reigniting 'Culture Wars' by Meeting Kim Davis

Clay Waters
October 1st, 2015 11:44 PM
Religious double standards on the front of Thursday's New York Times: "The Pope, the Clerk and Culture Wars Revisited." During his U.S. tour, the Times celebrated Pope Francis's liberal tone on economic, environmental, and immigration issues. But when he reaffirmed his belief in religious freedom (and the Church's opposition to gay marriage) by secretly meeting with Kim Davis, the Kentucky county…
 

NYT Sudden Respect for Lefty Religion: Pope Object of Right-Wing Fears

Clay Waters
September 19th, 2015 9:48 PM
More strange new respect for religion on the front page of the New York Times – at least when it comes to the economically liberal Pope Francis. Jim Yardley is the latest: "A Humble Pope, Challenging the World – First Latin American Pontiff Attracts Fans and Stirs Anxiety in Push for Change." Yardley tried to mainstream the left-wing Pope: "But he is hardly a left-winger, either -- at least in…
 

NYT Compares Obama to the Pope: Each 'Burst' Forth 'as a History-Makin

Scott Whitlock
March 27th, 2014 4:22 PM
New York Times journalists Jim Yardley and Michael Shear on Thursday compared Barack Obama to Pope Francis. According to the writers, the pro-abortion, pro-gay marriage Barack Obama and the pro-life, anti-gay marriage religious leader have a lot in common.  Yardley and Shear connected "an Argentine pope and an American president who each burst onto the global scene as a history-making change…