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October 2013

October 04, 2013

Pod people: Deja vu on global persecution of Christians

As a rule, I don't discuss the contents of one of my new Scripps Howard...

October 04, 2013

Sarajevo census blues

"Context is king" is a catch phrase that summarizes the critique offered in many of...

October 04, 2013

Economist, New York Times tailor pope to their notions

One of the fascinating things about Pope Francis is the apparent mad rush among mainstream...

October 03, 2013

Tom Clancy: That Baltimore Catholic and his generic beliefs

As I have mentioned many times, Baltimore culture is both historically Catholic and very liberal...

September 2013

September 30, 2013

Cheesiest Godbeat write-up of the year?

Via the Deacon's Bench comes this example of how not to write a story about...

September 28, 2013

Der Spiegel: Never let a good @Pontifex go to waste

The clear differences in the style of Pope Francis as opposed to his predecessors, both...

September 26, 2013

Got news? Pope Francis speaks — this time the media blink

It's safe to assume that, at this moment in time, Pope Francis is a rock...

September 22, 2013

Terrorists shred faithful at generic Pakistani church

Yesterday was Kenya and, of course, the killing there isn't over yet. Today, there is...

September 21, 2013

The ‘exceptional importance’ of the Hobby Lobby case

It's no surprise that the "Hobby Lobby" case is in the news. The valid headlines...

September 20, 2013

Pope Francis on sin, confession and several other things

It was a story that received very little attention in the United States, other than...

September 17, 2013

Holy scandal! Is sipping holy water really dangerous?

OK! OK! I yield to all of you who sent me the link to that...

September 17, 2013

Seeing through a famous glass cathedral, rather dimly

The 2010 bankruptcy of Crystal Cathedral Ministries, founded in 1955 by the Rev. Robert H....

September 17, 2013

Pope not Catholic reports The Independent

The Independent is reporting that Pope Francis is a heretic. More precisely The Independent has...

September 13, 2013

Fresh take on Yom Kippur

I wish we saw more coverage of liturgical holidays but I get why we don't....

September 13, 2013

Does The New York Times still hate Cardinal Dolan?

Inspector Gregory: Is there any point to which you wish to draw my attention? Holmes: ...

September 11, 2013

AFP gives Maalula its due

It was my intention today to look at religion news coverage of the anniversary of...

September 11, 2013

Ghost in that NYTimes Justice Kennedy hagiography

It's time for a quick dip into my unusually thick GetReligion folder of guilt, that...

September 09, 2013

Is a global fast for Syria a local news story?

According to Catholic News Agency: Pope Francis made a global petition on Sept. 1 asking...

September 07, 2013

Pod people: ‘Conservative’ Baptists spark a conversation

In three and a half years, I've written 439 posts for GetReligion (this makes 440,...

September 06, 2013

Imagine Pope Francis; help artists win prizes

So, unless you have spent quite a bit of time on another planet in recent...

September 06, 2013

Gay rights in San Antonio: simple quote, complex subject

In San Antonio, a battle over a proposed ordinance to add "gender identity” and “sexual...

September 05, 2013

So this renegade Polish priest and an Episcopal bishop walk into a bar …

OK, not really. But you know how we're always going on about stories that make...

September 04, 2013

Hey AP: Where is religious left on religious liberty issues?

A long, long time ago, 1998 to be precise, I wrote a column marking the...

September 03, 2013

PBS: Understanding Syria (minus any nasty religion stuff)

So here we go again. This weekend I mentioned an online explainer piece served up...

September 01, 2013

Was Seamus Heaney a Catholic poet?

Religion’s never mentioned here,’ of course. ‘You know them by their eyes,’ and hold your...

August 2013

August 31, 2013

Noooooooooooo!!! Godbeat losing a superstar

It's official: I'm leaving Post-Gazette 9/5 to be communications director for #Catholic @diopitt Thanks for...

August 29, 2013

Does The New York Times hate Timothy Dolan?

''The question is, should this indictment have ever been brought? Which office do I go...

August 28, 2013

What NOT to teach a metro reporting intern

Need a new role model after #MileyCyrus? Try Sister Vivian, a rockin' 100yo nun who's...

August 22, 2013

So, is Benedict XVI lying about motives for his retirement?

So let's say that The Telegraph prints a story from its Rome bureau about the...

August 21, 2013

God works through means: a story

I'm not sure if we looked at the media coverage of the "miracle priest" in...