Buddhist Catholic Contemplative Evangelical General Christian Hindu Jewish Latter-day Saint Muslim New Visions Progressive Christian

Beliefs

Topics

Columnists

Resource Library

Research Tools

Video

Podcasts

Thought Readers

Faith In Media Tracker

Newsletters

Ad-Free & Subscriber Log-In Subscription Support

Follow Patheos

GetReligion

Home
Religion News

Catholicism

Select a Category 5Q+1 Academia Anglicanism Announcements Atheists & Agnostics Baptists Books Business & Economy Catholicism Creeping Fundamentalism Education Ethics Evangelicals Film First Person gays Godbeat Got news? Humor Interviews Islam Journalism Judaism Lutherans Mainline Marriage & family Middle East Mormons Music Nones Orthodoxy Pagans Pentecostalism People Podcasts Politics Pop Culture Race Radio & TV Religion religious liberty Same-sex marriage Science Sex Social Issues Sports Uncategorized Vatican Web/Tech What is this? World World Religions Worship

Select a Month August 2014 July 2014 June 2014 May 2014 April 2014 March 2014 February 2014 January 2014 December 2013 November 2013 October 2013 September 2013 August 2013 July 2013 June 2013 May 2013 April 2013 March 2013 February 2013 January 2013 December 2012 November 2012 October 2012 September 2012 August 2012 May 2010 July 2009 February 2009 October 2008 July 2008 January 2007 August 2006 July 2006 October 2005

October 2012

October 19, 2012

Capital punishment, abortion and a Catholic politician

The Washington Post's front page today featured a long profile focused on the faith and...

October 19, 2012

Imagine that: ‘Pew gap’ among Latinos on gay rights?

I am sure that this will come as a major shock to many occupants of...

October 15, 2012

God-shaped hole in story on Hong Kong protests

Every now and then, when I a traveling, I discover another layer of torn-out articles...

October 15, 2012

Why didn’t Catholic bishops call Biden out by name?

I'm on the road right now, in Montana, and haven't had a chance to catch...

October 12, 2012

Yes, you can ask tough questions of pro-choice candidates

Last night was the only Vice Presidential debate we'll get in this cycle. Almost all...

October 10, 2012

WPost further expands borders of postmodern Catholicism

For several decades now, people linked to Jewish institutions have debated whether it is possible...

October 09, 2012

About that Archbishop Nienstedt conversion quote (updated)

It's time for another update from the "framing religion as politics" beat, care of The...

October 09, 2012

Some religious denigration is better than others

Back when the Obama administration was still claiming that they believed the assassination of the...

October 08, 2012

Guardian ends the debate on abortion

There are no valid pro-life arguments. All right thinking people have seen the light, the...

October 07, 2012

Got news? ‘Pro-choice terrorist’ pleads guilty

Among the many tragedies of the polarization over abortion is the fringe figures on both...

October 05, 2012

Boundaries on reporting on religion and politics

Yesterday I told you about the pre-conference to the Religion Newswriters Association annual conference being...

October 04, 2012

Warning! Mixing theology, canon law and ink is difficult

When it comes to the nuts and bolts of journalism, the task that terrifies my...

September 2012

September 28, 2012

Meanwhile, back at AP’s sausage factory

On Thursday, I highlighted a fine piece of journalism produced by The Associated Press' filet...

September 28, 2012

Vatican either affirms or reverses priest’s suspension

In July, we looked at some of the media coverage of a priest who was...

September 26, 2012

God forbid, an 8 percent increase in dubious claims

During the political conventions a few weeks ago, we commented on some disparate coverage of...

September 24, 2012

Editing the soul out of Steubenville, Ohio

When a feature story dominates the Sunday front page of The Washington Post, you know...

September 19, 2012

Oh, for a follow-up question to Justice Thomas

Anyone who has ever tried to do media criticism knows that it is so, so...

September 18, 2012

Exorcism for fun and profit

The title of this story from the Agence France Presse (AFP), "Exorcism boom in Poland...

September 17, 2012

Archbishop Chaput ‘thunders’ away, on doctrine

Well, there goes that Archbishop Charles Chaput guy again, "thundering" away at his flock on...

September 12, 2012

NPR ‘smear job’ on Catholic university?

A regular GetReligion reader alerted us to an NPR "smear job" — as he described...

September 11, 2012

Sad closing of a Washington Post-friendly parish

One of the hardest concepts to explain to people who have never worked in a...

September 08, 2012

Key ‘moderate’ Catholic, hailed by choir on left

So The Washington Post ran a story the other day that made me feel very...

September 07, 2012

Cardinal Dolan’s benediction makes news

I could not have had more fun watching the conventions. Before they began, if someone...

September 05, 2012

Is God absent from the Democrats’ platform?

So I watched all of the Democratic National Convention's first night last night and it...

September 04, 2012

Shocking words from an elderly Catholic priest

Anyone who follows the Catholic blogosphere knows that there was a major explosion last week...

September 01, 2012

Bishops are Republicans, Nuns are Catholic

Archbishop Timothy Dolan has been invited to give the closing prayer at this week's Democratic...

August 2012

August 30, 2012

Define ‘Mormon prayer;’ give three examples

I realize that this is strange, but I continue to read press reports (wink, wink)...

August 23, 2012

Akin deluge highlights media struggles with abortion coverage

A few days ago a religion reporter tweeted at us: Will @getreligion cover Todd Akin's...

August 21, 2012

Catholic priest was ‘assisting’ in a gay wedding?

What we have here, in this short New York Times wedding announcement, is a dangerously...

August 21, 2012

The Economist chides Catholic Church on its finances

When a story uses extra adjectives or adverbs to pretty up a story, you know...