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February 2013

February 14, 2013

Little Valentine’s Day sex for those (old) mainliners?

On one level, I cannot believe that the folks at Religion News Service thought to...

February 13, 2013

WWROD: No, Pope Benedict XVI did not ‘resign’

To my shock, no one out in cyberspace filed a pope-retirement question over at veteran...

February 12, 2013

Godbeat 101: Localizing the pope resignation story

For a newspaper junkie, one of the joys of the digital age is being able...

February 10, 2013

Cardinal Dolan dares to tweak the NYTimes

If you've paid attention to religion news at all in recent days, you probably know...

February 09, 2013

Lo! A better-than-average Womenpriests story

Your GetReligionistas, as the divine Mrs. MZ once stressed, are way, way, way past the...

February 08, 2013

Escape from Westboro Baptist, for some reason or another

Let's face it, the edgy folks at the Westboro Baptist Church are not easy to...

February 05, 2013

Nah-nah-nah-nah: Navel-gazing at ninth anniversary

So tmatt kicked off the GetReligion ninth anniversary celebration over the weekend. As we contemplate...

February 02, 2013

GetReligion turns nine; Newsweek sort of vanishes

So once again, with feeling. Nine years ago today, the Rt. Rev. Douglas LeBlanc clicked...

January 2013

January 31, 2013

Megan Fox, glossolalia and AP Style (you read that right)

The Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law is a lot of things and...

January 30, 2013

WWROD: Why do Episcopalians get so much ink?

That "religion guy" -- Richard Ostling, formerly of Time and AP -- has a post...

January 27, 2013

How to write a bland story about the March For Life

As expected, the journalists at The Washington Post were pretty careful with their coverage of...

January 25, 2013

Time for the “March for Life” media debate (updated)

It's that time again -- time for the annual debate about media bias in mainstream...

January 18, 2013

Scared ‘journalist’ hides in a church, lives to write about it

A few weeks ago, a Twitter post from Tim Townsend, the award-winning religion writer for...

January 17, 2013

WWROD: Faith and those news stories about civil rights

It's been a few weeks -- with Christmas season travel and all -- since your...

January 15, 2013

Hey Telegraph editors: Where’s the Catholic left?

One thing is certain, the facts boldly stated in the headline at The Telegraph are...

January 10, 2013

Missing voices in coverage of the National Cathedral rites

For some reason or another, quite a few folks who read this here weblog want...

January 07, 2013

Got news? The hidden mystery of 60K Christians

Of all the interesting things to consider as a media critic, the most important is...

January 05, 2013

Pod people: Looking back at 2012, one more time

I don't know about you folks, but to me is seems like the 2012 news...

January 05, 2013

Dan Gilgoff departs CNN, with a message

It's always hard to see people leave the Godbeat, even while you wish them well....

January 03, 2013

Excellent video journalism, or, seeing crucifixes on walls

A journalist I greatly admire shared this video, mentioning it was from the New York...

January 02, 2013

Got news? That other 2012 Supreme Court case

Does anyone out there in GetReligion reader land remember that narrow U.S. Supreme Court decision...

December 2012

December 31, 2012

WWROD: When reporters fail to get religion ….

A quick online confession: Yes, I am "Terry in D.C." You see, while I am...

December 23, 2012

Galileo meets the Mayan apocalypse

Far and away my favorite headline of Friday was the one that ran in the...

December 20, 2012

Christmas carol wars on the DC Metro — not

Anyone who spends much time on subways and other forms of mass transit knows that...

December 19, 2012

Bring your swords, and guns, to church

Back in my high school days, my family attended a Church of Christ in Fort...

December 19, 2012

The late Rev. Fred Rogers fills his pastoral role, once again

During the past few days, how many of you have either (a) seen this picture...

December 14, 2012

WWROD: What the heck is a ‘denomination’ anyway?

As I mentioned the other day, one of the best religion-beat professionals ever -- that...

December 14, 2012

How to bury a link to the Catholic scandal of this age

Anyone who has followed the mainstream media's coverage of the Catholic Church over the past...

December 13, 2012

The Pope joins Twitter #HabemusPapam

Even though the Pope joining Twitter has been news for weeks, I was still surprised...

December 11, 2012

A young, dying heart and the prayers of JPII

News reports that involve claims of the miraculous can get a bit messy (as we...