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November 2012

November 30, 2012

Quote of the year on Catholics and American politics

I don't know how you feel about anonymous quotes, but, as a rule, I am...

November 30, 2012

No Catholics in the new Europe

This is a great country. I've been privileged to live and work abroad, but there...

November 28, 2012

Too little news, too much analysis?

A flurry of e-mailed links to religion news stories flies back and forth each day...

November 27, 2012

Times tries to pin a label on Dorothy Day (updated)

Back in the early 1990s, I had a chance to interview the late Father Ellwood...

November 26, 2012

Jesus wept? One-sided debate from Mumbai

Where to begin? So we have this very dedicated GetReligion reader who has been sending...

November 22, 2012

The Pope hates Christmas

Breaking news from the Telegraph ... the newspaper's Rome reporter reports that one Joseph Ratzinger,...

November 20, 2012

Polish anti-Semitism and the press

A new film that premiered last week has resurrected moral questions that some Poles hoped...

November 20, 2012

Marco Rubio and the media’s curiously inconsistent approach to science

I wonder if any of our readers have read Thomas Nagel's new book Mind and...

November 18, 2012

Honest teen meets an orthodox Catholic priest

Two decades ago, while I was serving as the religion writer for The Charlotte News...

November 16, 2012

Preachers and politics: Be careful out there folks …

Today's digest from the Religion News Service (sign up for this very helpful service, if...

November 16, 2012

On media malpractice and Savita Halappanavar’s tragic death

Back in March I wrote in "How To Cover A Hate Crime" about my obsession...

November 15, 2012

Bishops view Catholic teaching with suspicion? Oh really?

A journalism fellowship program I'm involved with recently heard from one Sam Feist, CNN's Washington,...

November 14, 2012

Shock: Bishops decide to defend Catholic tradition!

OK, let's deal with some basic questions about Catholic bishops and politics. In terms of...

November 12, 2012

What should be tweeted via @ThroneOfPeter?

Let's drop the media criticism for a moment and have a bit of fun (about...

November 09, 2012

Reporting on gay marriage in Spain

Laying out the front page of the November 7 issue presented a few problems for...

November 08, 2012

What is this “American Catholic Church,” anyway?

What we have here is kind of a Son of the WomenPriests story -- with...

November 08, 2012

Which religious group should be blamed for the election results?

Well, everyone, we made it through another presidential campaign year! Congratulations to the winners and...

November 07, 2012

The day after: The prophet John Green, revisited

It should be a quiet day on the religion-beat front, in the wake of yesterday's...

November 02, 2012

Polish heavy metal clashes with mysterious blasphemy law

On some levels, the legal drama unfolding in Poland these days could be called the...

November 02, 2012

Catholic bishops’ not-so-partisan partisan crusade

The Washington Post ran a piece from Religion News Service with the headline: Catholic bishops...

November 01, 2012

News Corp. discovers the atonement is child abuse

Did you know the atonement was a form of divine child abuse? Spend some time...

November 01, 2012

Calm down about the Vatican and James Bond Skyfall

It was three years ago that I read a really interesting story in the...

October 2012

October 31, 2012

Here I stand: Martin Luther on film

So while the rest of you are focused on Halloween, we Lutherans are busy celebrating...

October 28, 2012

Pod people: Theodicy, pinnochios and the war on women

Last week was not one of the best for the mainstream media. I just wrote...

October 25, 2012

Media embarrassingly ill-equipped to cover rape, theodicy

The whole point of this website, since day one, has been to help mainstream journalists...

October 24, 2012

The Sun mourns death of a liberal priest

It's a question that journalists debate from time to time in major newsrooms: To what...

October 24, 2012

Galling MSM abortion extremism double standards

There are so many stories related to the media's poor coverage of abortion that I...

October 23, 2012

AP knows what the Pope really thinks

I was at a meeting of a journalism fellowship program I'm part of this weekend....

October 22, 2012

Is Sandra Fluke a ‘social justice’ advocate?

Conservatives had quite a bit of fun with a Reno Gazette-Journal article that was originally...

October 20, 2012

Pod people: Digging for old news on ‘Nones’

Friends and neighbors, the whole media world continues to buzz with news (me too, of...