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October 2013

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

Detroit paper ducks Bible when female Baptist bishop quits

I haven't been around that many Baptists of late, but one of the first things...

October 25, 2013

Could Prince George’s baptism rekindle rite among British?

It would be impossible to compare coverage among major news outlets, so plentiful have been...

October 12, 2013

An ultra-Orthodox case that is anything but

It's not about religion. So said Assistant U.S. Attorney R. Joseph Gribko in a story...

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 05, 2013

When religious liberty clashes with gay rights

This was the headline on a Wall Street Journal story this week: Some Businesses Balk...

October 02, 2013

Kleenex alert: Tale of tragedy, irony and Christianity

It's not every day that an obituary of a non-celebrity appears above the fold on...

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 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 05, 2013

Sun does it again: Ghost in the Ngata and Suggs friendship

Are you ready for some football! GetReligion readers: What?!? So, the National Football League season...

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...

August 2013

August 30, 2013

Should some marriages be scare-quoted?

Many moons ago, when I was asking questions about why Religion News Service put "religious...

August 29, 2013

On poverty, race, families and Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Other than arguments about the United States becoming entangled in Syria, and Miley Cyrus coming...

August 27, 2013

A murdered child, a guilty teen, ‘Dexter’ and a very real hell

One of the big ideas of this website, oft repeated in a variety of wordings,...

August 12, 2013

The Sun talks (just talk, no facts) about an Episcopal hero

I didn't know much about the Rt. Rev. David Leighton -- the 11th diocese of...

August 10, 2013

Tim Tebow meets the fans in liberal New England

Man, that Tim Tebow is way more popular than he should be, in light of...

August 03, 2013

Round II: The LATimes ignores Supremes, covenant too

There were quite a few logical journalistic questions to ask after my post about the...

August 02, 2013

Yes or no: This school has a Catholic doctrinal covenant?

Let's start with an informal quiz. Raise your hand if you think it would be...

July 2013

July 22, 2013

Can’t headline writers and reporters get on the same page?

We live in an age of unprecedented communications technology. With access to cell phones, Skype,...

July 20, 2013

Some RNS cheerleading for gay marriage

A poor outing from Religion News Service this week in its article about the passage...

July 20, 2013

About God and that best/frequent/satisfying sex report …

Every now and then, reseachers/activists in a think tank somewhere pull out a major study...

July 17, 2013

Boy Scouts: Hollywood vs. some vague army of Americans

On one level, the recent Reuters "special report" on the financial issues haunting the 10,600-acre...

July 13, 2013

Pay wall blues: This inspirational SI cover gets religion

Are there any working journalists in this day and age who do not have a...

July 11, 2013

Strangely faith-free story about ministry to feed the poor

For the past two decades, I have spent quite a bit of time driving the...

July 03, 2013

Painful silences in CBS chat on same-sex marriage rulings

OK, follow me carefully here, because it is especially interesting who passed the following item...

June 2013

June 28, 2013

Pod people: Have many Americans tuned out the press?

In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court decisions on same-sex marriage, I wrote two...

June 28, 2013

Want balanced coverage? USA Today shows how it’s done

A few weeks ago a study on news media coverage by the Pew Research Center...

June 27, 2013

Wait, Baltimore’s archbishop is a national voice on WHAT?

As one would imagine, the editorial team that produces the newspaper that lands in my...

June 26, 2013

That stark divide in Catholics in America and on high court

Shortly before Barack Obama reached the White House, pollster John C. Green of the University...

June 24, 2013

The Age gives ex-gay ministries a fair hearing

There was a man bites dog story in the Australian press that caught my eye...