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May 2013

May 26, 2013

Why was Vatican mentioned in Womenpriest story?

The editor will be announced in an LA Daily News board meeting. The printing press,...

May 24, 2013

After the Boy Scouts? For a few, camping with doctrine

When considering the forces pulling at the Boy Scouts of America, one thing journalists really...

May 23, 2013

Yes, Pope Francis said: All are ‘redeemed!’ Is that news?

Let's start with the actual words spoken by Pope Francis, in his much quoted, and...

May 23, 2013

Pope Francis’ ‘obsession’ with the devil

It's kind of charming that all popes have to deal with bad media coverage and...

May 21, 2013

Catho-style

Let me draw your attention to this fascinating article in the Parisian weekly news magazine...

May 21, 2013

That’s one very, very poor headline about the pope

As I have stressed many times here at GetReligion, it's important for readers to understand...

May 21, 2013

How To Be A Lousy Journalist

Over at Intercollegiate Review, I have a piece with some helpful journalism tips. Here's how...

May 20, 2013

Protip: Immaculate Conception is not the Virgin Birth

Did you hear about the anteater that conceived a baby even though she had no...

May 19, 2013

Downplaying the canonization of Christians martyred by Muslim invaders?

In a recent post about an error in a story about a new saint, readers...

May 17, 2013

A nun, some nukes and a haunted holy ghost story

So a nun and two peace activists walk into a nuclear facility ... It’s not...

May 16, 2013

Paedophilia and the left redux

Absent a priestly predator is paedophilia a religion news story? In comments posted in response...

May 15, 2013

Well here’s a new spin on female ordination

Let's begin this post with this link to the Vatican's Code of Canon Law: Can. ...

May 14, 2013

Who’s worthy of more coverage: Akin or Gosnell?

When Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin made a comment about women being raped last year,...

May 09, 2013

Surprised by sin – African clerical celibacy

Bishop: "I'm afraid you've got a bad egg, Mr Jones" Curate: "Oh, no, my Lord,...

May 08, 2013

Hey! So who is calling the new pope ‘unorthodox’?

So, a faithful GetReligion reader was working his way through a story printed by The...

April 2013

April 30, 2013

From Reuters: Another by-the-book Womenpriests story

At this point, it seems that mainstream journalists have decided that the Womenpriests movement deserves...

April 29, 2013

Secular-sacred union between Washington state hospitals

Suffice it to say that your GetReligionistas frequently receive emails that sound something like this:...

April 26, 2013

Upwardly mobile Hispanic evangelical converts?

Darn you, paywall. Earlier this month, Time magazine published a 3,500-word cover story on what...

April 26, 2013

That all-but-missing detail about Jeb Bush’s life

Catholics here in America have a very intense and interesting relationship with the mainstream press....

April 24, 2013

Paedophilia and the radical left of ’68

Please excuse this brief reference to scripture: "Therefore I say to you, every sin and...

April 23, 2013

Master of my domain

... (T)he best persuaded of himself, so cramm'd, as he thinks, with excellencies that it...

April 22, 2013

Womenpriests again: The people vs. paper scenario

Anyone who has ever worked on the religion beat knows the drill. You are writing...

April 17, 2013

Mysterious deluge of unreported Catholics

I'm on a few of those neighborhood list-servs. One of them is for area parents....

April 15, 2013

M-O-D-E-S-T: A key word for Annette the Catholic

As you would expect in a world that remains obsessed with all things Baby Boomer,...

April 13, 2013

Abortion blindness in the New York Times

Three cheers for my Get Religion colleague Mollie Hemingway! She has done a fantastic job...

April 11, 2013

We need answers on Gosnell coverage

We've had a couple posts on the curious downplaying by the national media of the...

April 08, 2013

Any reporters out there still studying Pope Francis?

This whole GetReligion operation, as regular readers know, exists to look at the good and...

April 08, 2013

Should media cover — or cover up — abortion trial?

I would love to critique the coverage of the trial of Kermit Gosnell, the abortion...

April 07, 2013

Another Catholic school shocks press with ‘morality clause’

A reader sent in a story from Louisiana focusing on a Catholic-education topic that will...

April 05, 2013

Washington Post tries to define ‘liberal’ in Maryland

There is much to applaud in today's Washington Post story that ran under the headline,...