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December 2013

December 03, 2013

Viva la Eurorévolution

Religion ghosts haunt the stories out of Kiev this week, but the Western press has...

November 2013

November 27, 2013

Hey WPost: What did Pope Francis say about abortion?

It is a serious understatement to note that Pope Francis has made more than his...

November 26, 2013

CBS discovers the Catholic priest shortage

I am reaching back a bit into my guilt file -- stories I want to...

November 22, 2013

JFK’s strong Catholic ties and the speech he DIDN’T give

Ten years ago, while working in the Dallas bureau of The Associated Press, I wrote...

November 22, 2013

Pass the popcorn! This movie preview gets faith theme right

Movie junkets, and the stories that result from them, share a certain predictability — and...

November 21, 2013

Deja vu: NYTimes Slams Catholics For Being Catholic

It numbers a recent U.S. Postmaster General (John Potter), and a current associate justice of...

November 20, 2013

Is adjunct academia indeed the devil’s bargain?

All the necessary components were there: 83-year-old woman, beloved and career adjunct professor, cancer patient,...

November 18, 2013

Blessed corpses — and holy ghosts — after typhoon

Here's my nominee for "Most Bland Headline of the Weekend." It appeared atop an Associated Press report:...

November 14, 2013

Got news? Bishops stand on HHS mandate (updated)

What you see at the top of this post is the content of today's Baltimore...

November 14, 2013

The Boys from Buenos Aires?

What is an ultra-conservative Catholic? A member of the Society of St Pius X? A...

November 13, 2013

NYTimes: Just WHO you callin’ a ‘conservative’ Catholic?

Sometimes I wonder if the leaders of The New York Times,among other media titans, take the...

November 11, 2013

All together now: Archbishop Lori leads WHAT committee?

It's that time, again. The U.S. Catholic bishops are back in Baltimore and the agenda...

November 06, 2013

Porn no more: Secular students inviting religious discussion

Gone is the "low-hanging fruit" of years past when the media converged on the University...

November 05, 2013

Yo! NYPost! Did that school have a Catholic covenant?

This story is getting very, very familiar and it's clear that these lawsuits are happening...

November 05, 2013

Missing Catholic voices in Belgium’s euthanasia debate

Let me commend to you an excellent article on a horrible subject. The Associated Press...

November 03, 2013

The Merc is shocked, shocked, by Santa Clara U move

There's nothing the mainstream press likes more than a controversy, even if it has to...

October 2013

October 31, 2013

WPost examines the demons (and a ghost) in ‘The Exorcist’

It's that time of year again, the time when reporters keep trying to reach author...

October 30, 2013

Define ‘practicing Catholic;’ report the Virginia options

Surely it will come as little surprise to faithful readers of this hear blog to...

October 28, 2013

LA Times offers a gentle, shallow Catholic health-care story

I was encouraged, and a bit surprised, that the editorial team at The Los Angeles...

October 27, 2013

Communion cup and infectious disease

How did he do it? How did the Bishop of Fargo infect (possibly) hundreds of...

October 24, 2013

A Pope Francis story, from the other side of the notebook

Like many GetReligion readers, I was somewhat rattled by that recent Washington Post story about...

October 17, 2013

Yes, that Virginia gubernatorial candidate has layers

In one of my favorite scenes in the original “Shrek” movie, the title character explains to...

October 17, 2013

Luke Russert on snark, journalism, faith and easy targets

Let's start the day with a quick thought from Luke Russert of NBC News, who...

October 16, 2013

Logic! What are they teaching at the NYTimes copy desk?

Let's carefully think our way -- one step at a time -- through this rather...

October 14, 2013

Catholic university acts, well, Catholic — media stunned

"Is the pope Catholic?" is an old question, suggesting a rather obvious answer. Of course the...

October 13, 2013

Readers get hot and bothered about ‘Sin Burger’ reports

GetReligion is almost a decade old and, from the very beginning, many readers have struggled...

October 11, 2013

Still falling for ‘The Exorcist,’ 40 years later

Long ago, pre-Internet, some researchers tried to find out which movie had the greatest spiritual...

October 09, 2013

Got news? Concerning Catholic priests, Mass and padlocks

Because of my background in church-state studies, for the past third of a century or...

October 07, 2013

Hey, LA Times, there’s more to HHS fight than Hobby Lobby

First things first: I have to admit that I almost choked on my diet cherry...

October 06, 2013

Another haunted story about Ravens locker room faith

At this point, fans who pay close attention to the Baltimore Ravens are contemplating a...