CBS's O'Donnell Wonders If Catholic Church's 'Exclusion of Women' is 'Immoral'

Matthew Balan | November 17, 2014
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[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.]

CBS's Norah O'Donnell, who is on the record of saying "we shouldn't editorialize," did exactly that on the 16 November 2014 edition of 60 Minutes, as she interviewed Cardinal Sean O'Malley of Boston. O'Donnell especially hounded Cardinal O'Malley on the Catholic Church's teaching on priestly ordination, and wondered, "Does the exclusion of women seem at all immoral?" She also hyped that "some women feel like they're second-class Catholics, because they can't do those things that are very important."

The journalist also underlined that the "conservative" Boston archbishop is a "hardliner on Catholic doctrine. Like Pope Francis, he upholds traditional positions on abortion, gay marriage, birth control, and women's ordination."