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January 2013

January 10, 2013

Missing voices in coverage of the National Cathedral rites

For some reason or another, quite a few folks who read this here weblog want...

January 10, 2013

Is a blasphemous drag show really ‘anti-Catholic’?

Just yesterday Bobby pointed out a practice of double attribution, asking whether it goes beyond...

January 10, 2013

Der Spiegel really doesn’t like Catholic Bishops

Stop me if you've heard this one before. A European magazine has written a hit...

January 08, 2013

Can forgiveness play a role in criminal justice?

That's the provocative headline that accompanies a story I've been pondering ever since Amy Welborn...

January 03, 2013

Excellent video journalism, or, seeing crucifixes on walls

A journalist I greatly admire shared this video, mentioning it was from the New York...

January 03, 2013

The Magic Circle and the Soho masses

The line between criticism and carping is not always clear. A story may appear to...

January 01, 2013

Do Nativity scenes owe more to artists than historians?

I am blessed to be a member of an absolutely wonderful congregation. It's a healthy...

December 2012

December 29, 2012

Yes, before Baltimore, Lori was bishop of Newtown

If the mainstream press has a creed, one of its central tenets is certainly this...

December 23, 2012

Galileo meets the Mayan apocalypse

Far and away my favorite headline of Friday was the one that ran in the...

December 22, 2012

WWROD: Which denominations do what well?

So, GetReligion readers, have you submitted a religion-rooted question yet to veteran scribe Richard Ostling,...

December 22, 2012

Ghost of Notre Dame’s modern-day ‘Rudy’

Is the pope Catholic? Wait. That's not what I wanted to know. Here's my real...

December 21, 2012

Got news? White House vs. Little Sisters of the Poor

From coast to coast, the lawyers of religious groups and charities can almost quote the...

December 21, 2012

Fox forces the Mass into Christmas

A friend put this picture up on Google+ (so I guess that answers the question...

December 19, 2012

Christians are numerous. What’s their problem?

Yesterday, Pew came out with a new "Global Religious Landscape" report. Much of the media...

December 18, 2012

Dancing alone in that D.C. Franciscan hermitage?

Back in my Rocky Mountain News days, I covered an ecumenical gathering in Boulder, Colo.,...

December 17, 2012

So a rabbi and a priest and 20 parents walk into hell

So, how many GetReligion readers will be able to forget watching the Robbie Parker press...

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...

December 14, 2012

How to bury a link to the Catholic scandal of this age

Anyone who has followed the mainstream media's coverage of the Catholic Church over the past...

December 14, 2012

Got news? Judge ‘mocks’ Obama’s religious-liberty move

The most control the media have in the news process is determining what stories get...

December 13, 2012

Tiny little news stories about booming Diocese of Orange

The Diocese of Orange -- as in Orange County -- has a new leader, Bishop...

December 13, 2012

The Pope joins Twitter #HabemusPapam

Even though the Pope joining Twitter has been news for weeks, I was still surprised...

December 11, 2012

Celibacy and the clergy abuse scandal

Last Friday the Deutsche Bischofskonferenz, the German Episcopal Conference of the Roman Catholic Church, released...

December 11, 2012

Savita’s tragic death and media ethics

The tragic death of Savita Halappananvar continues to produce headlines, particularly in Europe and India....

December 11, 2012

A young, dying heart and the prayers of JPII

News reports that involve claims of the miraculous can get a bit messy (as we...

December 08, 2012

On same-sex marriage: What is the chief justice thinking?

People who study the dynamics of this U.S. Supreme Court have, from the get-go, assumed...

December 07, 2012

Missing the grasshopper in the stem-cell debate

Master Po: Ha, ha, never assume because a man has no eyes he cannot see....

December 07, 2012

Should churches, left or right, serve as polling places?

Anyone who knows anything about the at times dangerous dance between politics and religion in...

December 06, 2012

The soul in Dave Brubeck’s jazz

Jazz great Dave Brubeck died yesterday, a day before his 92nd birthday. Along with much...

December 03, 2012

Pod people: Can the MSM find centrists in gay-rights wars?

As a journalist, there are few things that I find more interesting than listening to...

December 01, 2012

Covering Catholics who are more like ‘Catholics’

GetReligion readers may recall the case of young Lennon Cihak, who -- at the very...