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March 2013

March 14, 2013

Vatican secret ballots aren’t democratic?

Friends, I took a nasty fall a couple of days ago and have seriously injured...

March 07, 2013

The high cost of waiting for the action in Rome

Friends, Romans and other anxious news consumers, some of you may not have seen the...

March 04, 2013

That minister of humor unloads on the pope coverage

The thought for the day and, perhaps, for the next week or two, care of...

March 03, 2013

Two items of GetReligion biz (prayers for George, please)

Let me share two items with readers this weekend, both of a personal nature. The...

February 2013

February 07, 2013

GetReligion turns nine: Thoughts on comments and trolls

So, friends and neighbors, if we are going to do some intense navel-gazing here at...

February 05, 2013

Nah-nah-nah-nah: Navel-gazing at ninth anniversary

So tmatt kicked off the GetReligion ninth anniversary celebration over the weekend. As we contemplate...

February 02, 2013

GetReligion turns nine; Newsweek sort of vanishes

So once again, with feeling. Nine years ago today, the Rt. Rev. Douglas LeBlanc clicked...

January 2013

January 05, 2013

Pod people: Looking back at 2012, one more time

I don't know about you folks, but to me is seems like the 2012 news...

January 02, 2013

Got news? That other 2012 Supreme Court case

Does anyone out there in GetReligion reader land remember that narrow U.S. Supreme Court decision...

December 2012

December 31, 2012

WWROD: When reporters fail to get religion ….

A quick online confession: Yes, I am "Terry in D.C." You see, while I am...

December 14, 2012

WWROD: What the heck is a ‘denomination’ anyway?

As I mentioned the other day, one of the best religion-beat professionals ever -- that...

November 2012

November 29, 2012

Richard Ostling — finally! — sets up an online camp

Anyone who has followed GetReligion for very long knows what the letters WWROD stand for....

November 03, 2012

About GetReligion: In a few words or less

For years, journalists took one of two different approaches when labeling the two sides in...

October 2012

October 29, 2012

Hurricanes and political storms, near my desk in D.C.

A long time ago (in digital terms), back at the beginning of this here weblog,...

August 2012

August 29, 2012

Helen Parmley, the Dallas diva of the divine

Anyone who knows anything about the history of religion-news coverage in the journalism marketplace knows...

August 15, 2012

GetReligion has moved to the Patheos universe

It didn't take long, after the Rt. Rev. Douglas Leblanc and I started GetReligion.org back...