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September 2011

September 05, 2011

Jesus gets a Facebook page — and more than 8 million fans

The New York Times looks at the web's newest sensation, the Son of God: A...

August 2011

August 31, 2011

Santorum slams CNN over "bigotry"

It revolves around an interview with Piers Morgan that was broadcast Wednesday night: Presidential candidate...

August 30, 2011

Now hear this: National Catholic Register to debut radio news show

The newspaper's media empire -- growing in collaboration with its new owner EWTN -- continues...

August 27, 2011

Will it play in Peoria? Parish begins webcasts of its Masses

This is something altogether different and, I think, rare: a parish (not a cathedral or...

August 20, 2011

"Let's get out there and scratch that surface!"

When I first joined CBS News in 1982, typing and answering phones in the Washington...

August 20, 2011

"These news media don't provide trustworthy information about religious faith…"

“In the United States, our battles over abortion, family life, same-sex ‘marriage,’ and other sensitive...

August 12, 2011

The Dominican and the deacon

I survived my hour on the Catholic Channel this afternoon, and here's the photographic evidence:...

August 09, 2011

Looky here: new design for USCCB website

My friends at the USCCB have just unveiled a new design for the website, which...

August 06, 2011

A Catholic sitcom? Seriously?

Seriously. Those wily folks at Catholic TV in Boston have just taped one. The Georgia...

August 03, 2011

New German website lets parishioners rate their priests

If this catches on here in the States, it could make life very interesting ......

August 02, 2011

Time capsule from 1981: imagine reading your newspaper on your computer!

Could you imagine such a thing? Check out this report from KRON 30 years ago.

July 2011

July 21, 2011

Happy Birthday, Marshall McLuhan

Today would have been the trailblazing media analyst's 100th birthday. Fr. Raymond de Souza takes...

July 08, 2011

The reality TV that wasn't: how CBS faked the Fourth

What you see below never happened. Read all about it: Those who watched Boston’s revered...

July 01, 2011

How to make TV a source of happiness

For some unapologetic couch potatoes, that's a little like saying "How to make beer a...

June 2011

June 28, 2011

"Papa's got an iPad and Twitter account — he's not gonna get any work done now!"

That's how Elizabeth Scalia celebrated the historic moment, captured in the photograph below. The pope...

June 27, 2011

The John Jay Report: what critics and the press got wrong

And there was evidently a lot they got wrong, according to the lead researcher of...

June 25, 2011

Kudos! — UPDATED

"These are untold stories, rich with the sort of confluence of religion, history, culture and...

June 22, 2011

The new Vatican website, explained

H/T to web wizard Deacon Eric Stoltz. Click to enlarge.

June 07, 2011

Quote of the day

"There exists a Christian way of being present in the digital world: this takes the...

June 06, 2011

The book of tomorrow?

A priest bounded into my cubicle this morning with his iPad. "You have to see...

May 2011

May 29, 2011

Meet the priest who's "one of the most dangerous people in town"

And he's been called that because of ardently pro-Catholic letters he writes for the hometown...

May 26, 2011

RIP, Joe Feuerherd

Sad news from the world of Catholic media: Joseph A. Feuerherd, whose journalism career began...

May 25, 2011

Pope receives papers for cause of Fulton Sheen — and reveals that he worked with him

A small but significant step forward for the cause of the man who (I hope)...

May 12, 2011

Live on stage: "The Exorcist"?

Watch out for the pea soup: the blockbuster novel and movie (based on the true...

April 2011

April 13, 2011

It's written all over her face

Here's one stunning entry in the iConfess video contest -- it says it all, brilliantly....

April 08, 2011

I'm so there

The Vatican has issued an invitation to bloggers. All I need now is an airline...

April 06, 2011

How not to run a newsroom

This comes from the legendary (some might say, infamous) Larry McCoy, my old boss at...

April 05, 2011

How would the Exodus be handled today?

Hot on the heels of last Christmas's internet sensation comes this inspired sequel (prequel?) about...

February 2011

February 04, 2011

Worth a thousand words: the press under attack in Egypt

An image from Cairo this week, below... SIPA Press agency photojournalist Alfred Yaghobzadeh is...