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March 2013

March 14, 2013

A press litany: Will Pope Francis just hold that Vatican line?

As always, the gospel according to The New York Times -- in an early version...

March 13, 2013

Dudes with red hats deadlocked on pope winner

The religion news world remains on pope watch, awaiting the selection of Benedict XVI's successor....

March 13, 2013

Benedict XVI yearned for return to the old Catholic Europe?

Does anyone remember why the powerful Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger selected the name Benedict XVI when...

March 12, 2013

Hypocrisy, grace and a fallen cardinal

The downfall of Cardinal Keith O’Brien, Britain's senior Roman Catholic cleric, has not shown the...

March 12, 2013

Good Catholic info, sort of, but lousy ‘Catholic’ headline

Right now, editors in major newsrooms are doing everything they can to cover the papal...

March 12, 2013

Interviewing ‘everyone’ about the conclave

I love that biting Leonard Cohen song "Everybody Knows." It begins: Everybody knows that the...

March 11, 2013

Womenpriests: Press coverage in a familiar, strange mold

To be honest with you, I feel like taking a short break from the Vatican...

March 11, 2013

Remember to substantiate charges

The International Business Times sure has a scoop. Headline: Conclave 2013: Pope Benedict XVI 'Did...

March 08, 2013

All the anonymous Vatican voices in the Gray Lady

At this point in the conclave process, I'm sure that millions of liberal Catholics are...

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 07, 2013

Fake bishop or episcopi vagantes?

Media outlets had a lot of fun with a recent story about a Vatican gatecrasher....

March 05, 2013

Free the cardinals!

Yesterday tmatt asked readers to submit links to papal coverage that was particularly good or...

March 04, 2013

Inside the History Channel’s epic TV miniseries ‘The Bible’

This is one of those GetReligion follow-up posts where we basically say, "See, was that...

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 04, 2013

NPR ‘looks’ at role for Catholic women

Yesterday, reader Ivan (aka @SlavicPolymath) tweeted: NPR Weekend Edition interviewing LCWR sister. Hoping beyond hope...

March 02, 2013

Self-described way-devoted super-Catholics and the press

I already used this YouTube as art in a post last week but it really...

March 01, 2013

Way to go, Joe! Colorado civil-unions story hits the mark

In the interest of full disclosure, I should point out that Joe Hight, the relatively...

March 01, 2013

Bishop enforces Catholic doctrine; press goes, ‘Wha …?’

A regular reader who is an active Catholic recently sent us a URL to an...

February 2013

February 28, 2013

Why is the pope so old? (And other media questions)

A few days ago, the Washington Post tweeted out a link to a piece on...

February 27, 2013

What do conservatives really think about Cardinal Mahony?

Yes, Cardinal Roger M. Mahony of Los Angeles will be in Rome and will vote...

February 26, 2013

Catholic or catholic? Or, so that’s what catholic means!

A religion writer passed along this piece from the Wall Street Journal with the instruction...

February 25, 2013

Podcast: English Anti-Catholicism & Ethiopian Lutheranism

Anti-Catholic bias is alive and well in Britain -- however the animus to the "Italian...

February 24, 2013

Where’s the faith content in these sex scandals?

On one level, that New York Times feature story on the fall of Msgr. Kevn...

February 23, 2013

WPost: Yes, we fear and loathe religious traditionalists

On Feb. 15, Washington Post ombudsman Patrick Pexton made a startling statement: It is possible...

February 22, 2013

Unnecessary words and the Vatican’s ‘gay lobby’

Yesterday a reader tweeted that The Guardian was clearly trying to insinuate that Pope Benedict...

February 22, 2013

Got news? A fishy hole in all those Lent stories

So it's a Friday in Lent (only in Western churches, at this point), so what...

February 21, 2013

Mainstream media defense of abortion never rests

I once served on a jury that convicted a man of conspiracy to commit mail...

February 21, 2013

Catholic yes to yoga?

I have been waiting for the American press to pick up an article found in...

February 19, 2013

Media fallibility on papal infallibility

Last week in my post "Turkson wouldn’t be first African pope," I quoted from an...

February 19, 2013

Guardian wins week one of 2013 All-England pope-bashing contest

The year’s at the spring, And day’s at the morn; Morning’s at seven; The hill-side’s...