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December 2013

December 10, 2013

AP reports he did have sexual relations with that woman

"Can a bad person be a good theologian," asked Mark Oppenheimer in the lede...

December 04, 2013

NYTimes: Catholics acting Catholic, equals ACLU suit

In a startling development, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (headquarters in photo) is...

November 2013

November 27, 2013

Reuters skips a key detail in Israel’s wedding wars — divorce

Everybody loves a wedding, or so culture would have us believe. However, according to a...

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 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

Why did Time fabricate a quote? Correct

"Jerry, just remember. It's not a lie if you believe it." George Costanza, "The Beard",...

September 2013

September 29, 2013

Got news? Looking at key facts in the Chris Davis timeline

It's the last day of the regular baseball season and for fans of the Baltimore...

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 06, 2013

Bloomberg’s totally unbiased abortion story

The best construction I can put on the article we're about to look at is...

August 2013

August 29, 2013

Off to war again. But a just one?

Everyone ready for another war? Ready or not, it appears that we are about to...

August 26, 2013

Cutting ‘the Rev.’ out of a key Ravens executive’s work

If you number yourself among the millions and millions of Americans who follow the National...

August 16, 2013

Hey, you put your opinion in my news!

One of the many products offered by Religion News Service is its daily round-up of...

August 08, 2013

To protest abortion coverage, a #MarchOnMedia

Yesterday I found out about protest against the media's coverage of abortion. It's called March...

August 06, 2013

Do we cover hypocrisy consistently?

It is my fallen nature that causes me to delight in stories about hypocrisy. We...

August 01, 2013

When Planned Parenthood isn’t news (fraud edition)

Is fraud a religion story? Not necessarily. Are the actions of Planned Parenthood religion stories?...

July 2013

July 31, 2013

Time out for all California sexual-abuse cases?

It's time for a quick dip into tmatt's massive file of GetReligion guilt, the cyber-place...

July 15, 2013

About those steroid whispers and slugger Chris Davis

If you have been following major-league baseball this year, then you probably know a little...

July 02, 2013

Zeleny’s questions: 3 on shoes, 3 on catheters, 0 on abortion

Earlier this week, we discussed the six questions that ABC News' reporter Jeff Zeleny asked...

July 01, 2013

Tough questions: ‘You gonna put those shoes on again?’

Embedded above is a clip from CNN where media critic Howard Kurtz says what is...

June 2013

June 28, 2013

Media: Remember your filibuster? That was awesome.

The media gushing over Texas filibusterer Sen. Wendy Davis continues in such a way as...

June 26, 2013

Clear eyes, full heart, can’t stop advocating for abortion

Last night, reporters were very excited to tweet extensively about an abortion filibuster going on...

June 03, 2013

Normalizing nihilism: Euthanasia and the Daily Mirror

A story in Thursday's Daily Mirror about the first English patient suffering from dementia to...

May 2013

May 24, 2013

Mormonism is a religion, not just a culture

For people serious about their faith, religious beliefs tend not only to influence other types...

May 17, 2013

A nun, some nukes and a haunted holy ghost story

So a nun and two peace activists walk into a nuclear facility ... It’s not...

May 16, 2013

Victoria’s Secret is way sexier than faith details

At first glance, the current mini-wave of news coverage of former underwear model Kylie Bisutti...

May 16, 2013

Paedophilia and the left redux

Absent a priestly predator is paedophilia a religion news story? In comments posted in response...

April 2013

April 23, 2013

Master of my domain

... (T)he best persuaded of himself, so cramm'd, as he thinks, with excellencies that it...

April 08, 2013

Should media cover — or cover up — abortion trial?

I would love to critique the coverage of the trial of Kermit Gosnell, the abortion...

April 03, 2013

Australian Anglican Indulgences

An Australian bishop’s veto of a gaming industry proposal to donate funds to a church...