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March 2014

March 05, 2014

Pope Francis grants interview to Italian newspaper, discusses role of women in Church

From Vatican Radio: Less than two weeks shy of one year on from his election...

February 2014

February 24, 2014

Stunning image: priest hearing confession on the front lines in Kiev

Check this out: And read the analysis from Terry Mattingly. This is courage. This is...

January 2014

January 29, 2014

Lombardi slams Rolling Stone cover story for treating Benedict with “surprising crudeness”

Details from The National Catholic Register: Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi has strongly criticised an...

January 25, 2014

Great moments in journalism: MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell interrupts congresswoman to report on Justin Bieber

You can't make this stuff up.

January 24, 2014

NY Times editor wonders why there was so little coverage of the March for Life

Readers noticed the lack of coverage and alerted the Public Editor—what we used to call...

January 11, 2014

U.S. News: Hating Catholics is “fair commentary”—UPDATED

Elizabeth Scalia has just posted the response from U.S. News & World Report to mounting...

January 10, 2014

John Allen writes about his move to The Boston Globe

From NCR today: Primarily, I'll be doing the same reporting and analysis I've always done,...

January 07, 2014

John Allen leaves NCR, joins the Boston Globe

The press release: John Allen, a senior correspondent for the highly respected National Catholic Reporter,...

January 06, 2014

NCR suspends comments: “Comments that have appeared in recent days have been vile and demeaning…”

The announcement: National Catholic Reporter suspended the commenting feature of its website, NCRonline.org, effective Monday 10...

December 2013

December 16, 2013

Must-see video: “60 Minutes” profiles the Copts

It begins with the election of a pope and ends with an exorcism. Fascinating and...

December 16, 2013

Cover boy: Pope Francis on the cover of The New Yorker

First TIME, now this. I can't help but smile. From James Carroll's profile of the...

December 12, 2013

Despite what most people think, “Person of the Year” isn’t an honor

My blog neighbor Rebecca Hamilton has a good piece up today on the attention swirling...

November 2013

November 16, 2013

Controversial interview with pope removed from Vatican website

Details from National Catholic Register: Pope Francis’ interview with Eugenio Scalfari, the atheist founder of La Repubblica,...

October 2013

October 05, 2013

Scalfari interview with Francis: he didn’t tape it or take notes. So how accurate is it?—UPDATED

From John Allen in NCR: While stressing the basic “trustworthiness” of a recent blockbuster interview...

October 04, 2013

Papal interviews are “a genre to which we are not accustomed”

From Catholic News Service: When Pope Benedict XVI answered a journalist's 2010 question about condom...

September 2013

September 30, 2013

Great moments in journalism: how the political elite shut down a documentary on Hillary

Acclaimed film maker Charles Ferguson unloads over at Huffington Post, and explains what derailed his...

September 24, 2013

Fr. James Martin on The Big Interview: “We both had the same thought: ‘You know, this could be kind of a dud.’

Hours after that interview with the pope was published, the grumbling began—and from some unexpected...

September 22, 2013

“A man can wear the loftiest of miters without having his head swell to fit it…”

Another voice added to the "Amen" chorus singing the praises of Pope Francis, New York...

September 21, 2013

NY Times: “A surprise pope keeps on surprising”

The paper sniffs around for some analysis of the pope's interview: Francis is challenging the...

September 20, 2013

How America got the biggest interview of the year

Editor Matt Malone, S.J., explains: As with a lot of things, it began with an...

September 14, 2013

“There is a growing tendency to ‘tabloidism’ in the Catholic press…and the worrying phenomenon of blogs”

Some of the remarks from Most Rev. Diarmuid Martin, Archbishop of Dublin, on the New Evangelization: We...

September 03, 2013

My review of “EWTN News Nightly”

Tonight, EWTN unveiled one of its most ambitious undertakings ever: a nightly Catholic news program,...

August 2013

August 30, 2013

Great moments in journalism: Does the NY Times hate Cardinal Dolan?

My blog neighbors over at Get Religion get the scoop on an important story that...

August 29, 2013

Ann Rodgers, star religion reporter, becomes Communications Director for Diocese of Pittsburgh

She made the announcement on her Facebook page: I will be leaving the Post-Gazette on...

August 23, 2013

Great moments in journalism: is Bradley Manning a “he” or a “she”?

Yes, editors are seriously wrestling with this question. Evidently, some contend that a person's desire...

August 06, 2013

Nevermind: the transgender journalist who discovered “he’s just another boring straight guy”

This is, in every sense of the word, incredible. From the New York Post: He...

August 06, 2013

Nevermind: the transgender journalist who discovered “he’s just another boring straight guy”

This is, in every sense of the word, incredible. From the New York Post: He...

August 05, 2013

Wow. In the world of journalism, this is huge.

Talk about the end of an era: The Washington Post is being sold: The Washington Post...

August 05, 2013

Wow. In the world of journalism, this is huge.

Talk about the end of an era: The Washington Post is being sold: The Washington Post...

July 2013

July 31, 2013

“Like it or not, religion is not going away…”

A compelling take on the world today—and tomorrow—from Michael Coren in the Toronto Sun: Chattering...