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June 2013

June 22, 2013

Media MIA: Mother Dolores Hart’s love for Jesus

It's the question that echoes between the lines of mainstream news features about the life...

June 21, 2013

Round two: How not to report on a miracle

Being recognized as a saint in the Catholic Church is a difficult process -- almost...

June 21, 2013

Miracle caused by mere memory of John Paul II?

There has been another development in the canonization case of the Blessed John Paul II,...

June 19, 2013

Daily Beast: Bridezillas vs. old-fashioned ties that bind

And now for something completely different. Yes, I am about to praise an article published...

June 19, 2013

The New York Times hides abortion editorial on front page

Yesterday after the House of Representatives voted 228 to 196 to limit abortions after 20...

June 18, 2013

BBC attacks major same-sex marriage stereotype (updated)

Here inside the Beltway, a kind of nervous hush has settled over the church-state battlefield...

June 17, 2013

Chicago photographer waits for new assignment from God

So, who has been following the drama that unfolded early this month up in Chicago,...

June 17, 2013

Crush Davis wrestles with anger issues, with God’s help

I realize that GetReligion readers have repeatedly demonstrated their lack of interest in the world...

June 16, 2013

Pod people: media struggles mightily with abortion coverage

On this week's Crossroads, host Todd Wilken and I discussed that embarrassing BuzzFeed confusion --...

June 15, 2013

Hurrah: CNN names some of the ghosts in Gezi Park

The coverage of events in Turkey roll on and on and the mainstream press continues...

June 14, 2013

It’s summertime, and GetReligionista life is complicated

Yes, it's summertime (sing along with the voice of my teen years in Port Arthur,...

June 14, 2013

Hey! It’s journalists mangling scripture day! (UPDATED)

David Brooks wrote a very Brooksian column for today's New York Times about how our...

June 14, 2013

Got news? Is a global ‘war on Christianity’ newsworthy?

Would it be newsworthy if a U.S. Senator claimed in a public address that American...

June 13, 2013

On Tim Tebow, ‘spirituality’ and stating the obvious

Here we go again, sort of. Now, I live in the land of purple and...

June 13, 2013

Child euthanasia in the European press

A front page story in the Monday edition of the Brussels's daily De Morgen on a...

June 12, 2013

Fundamental misunderstandings of ‘fundamentalism’

When it comes to religious terms, you would be hard pressed to find a word...

June 12, 2013

Religion journalists save the day for young scribes

Last night I had the privilege of moderating a panel discussion for The Fund for...

June 12, 2013

Secular and religious symbols lost in many Turkey reports

I have been reading the mainstream coverage of the events unfolding in Turkey from the...

June 11, 2013

Bali, bikinis, Miss World and fear of Islam’s ‘extremist fringe’

I would like to ask a journalistic question and I want to stress that this...

June 11, 2013

Should the press blame Catholic teachers for its ignorance?

One common complaint we hear from readers is that reporters, when caught messing up some...

June 11, 2013

Calvinism debate shakes up Southern Baptist Convention

Just how much do you know about Calvinism? Former GetReligionista and current Religion News Service...

June 10, 2013

Is the ‘New Evangelization’ a laughing matter?

In America there are two career fields that have a disproportionate number of agnostics and...

June 10, 2013

Southern Baptists on the downhill slide?

This just in from The Associated Press: Southern Baptists are having a tough time. But...

June 10, 2013

Spotting the sacred ghost in the era of iWeddings

Let me begin with a few confessions. First of all, let me stress that I...

June 08, 2013

Pod people: ‘Mass exodus’ from the Boy Scouts?

One of the wonderful things about writing is the ability to type something, decide it's...

June 07, 2013

Ghosts in interview with Navy SEAL sniper’s widow

This past weekend, The Dallas Morning News ran an in-depth story on Taya Kyle, widow of slain...

June 07, 2013

At WPost, even local abortion crime isn’t newsworthy

On May 25, I tweeted out the image at the top of this post with...

June 07, 2013

Why did a Catholic Raven skip White House visit? (updated)

Let's create a journalism parable. Let's say that there is a Republican president in office...

June 06, 2013

Boomers are killing themselves. Why?

Tuesday's front page of the Washington Post had a collection of interesting stories above the...

June 06, 2013

When a pastor has an affair and nobody’s talking

A megachurch pastor resigns after admitting an affair. That sounds like a news story, right?...