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January 2014

January 10, 2014

Really? Editors who don’t know about the ‘reindeer rules’?

Sorry about this, folks, but we need to take a quick glance back at a...

January 02, 2014

NYT: Nuns, birth control and Obamacare

Believe it or not, I come not to bury the Great Gray Lady but to...

December 2013

December 29, 2013

LATimes: ‘Congregationalist’ Obama quotes Pope Francis

This is what passes for news in Washington these days: an immensely famous politician is...

December 28, 2013

Pod people: What was top 2013 story for Pope Francis?

I am sure that GetReligion readers will be shocked, shocked to know that the Godbeat...

December 27, 2013

Say what?!? Organ music at ‘Duck Dynasty’ church?

The White's Ferry Road Church of Christ in West Monroe, La., is making headlines these...

December 26, 2013

Pope addresses world peace AND persecution (again)

Covering speeches is tricky, I tell the students in my reporting classes. A good public...

December 23, 2013

HHS ‘religious employer’ definition changed? (updated)

It would be hard to find a city in American that contains more historic Catholic...

December 18, 2013

Ghosts in those one-sided reports about victims in Syria

Rare is the day that I do not receive at least one or two emails...

December 18, 2013

Scouts pledge ‘duty to God;’ reporter draws a blank

The highly contentious issue of the Boy Scouts of America and gay scouts became a...

December 17, 2013

Latest coverage from the church of The New York Times

Few news consumers would be surprised that the journalists at Baptist Press frame their coverage...

December 16, 2013

Isn’t that special? Satan pays a visit to the Bible Belt (updated)

When the devil issues a press release, the media pay attention. Satan has stirred a...

December 11, 2013

On Pope Francis: What matters most is, ‘Who am I to judge?’

Pope Francis has been warned. The powers that be at Time magazine have named him...

December 11, 2013

NYTimes on Ukraine ‘ghost’: Great minds like a think?

Cause-and-effect is difficult to prove sometimes, but it is curious how things follow in a...

December 10, 2013

Concerning plastic reindeer and ‘Merry Christmas’ rules

MARY ASKS: What happened to saying “Merry Christmas”? Is the move to saying “Happy Holidays”...

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...

December 03, 2013

Missing nuns, missing details, in Maaloula (updated)

Trust me on this. I know that it must be impossible for journalists to cover...

December 02, 2013

CNN puts religious liberty in scare quotes, but corrects it

It was one of the most famous First Amendment cases in American history. As the...

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 25, 2013

Hobby Lobby, the Little Sisters of the Poor and the NYTimes

As a rule, conflicts between church and state are extremely complex and often produce headaches,...

November 25, 2013

Where’s the other side in atheist lawsuit story?

Religion News Service had an interesting story recently about atheists challenging Uncle Sam over nonprofit...

November 16, 2013

NYTimes frames snake handler issue — correctly!

Even though The New York Times is the newspaper I sometimes "love to hate" for its...

November 15, 2013

People were massacred in North Korea for WHAT?!?

Contrary to popular belief, the mainstream press really isn't very effective when it comes to...

November 14, 2013

Got news? Bishops stand on HHS mandate (updated)

What you see at the top of this post is the content of today's Baltimore...

November 12, 2013

The New York Times shilling for Obamacare, in news copy

Religious liberty claims advanced in opposition to the Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) are a cloak...

November 11, 2013

All together now: Archbishop Lori leads WHAT committee?

It's that time, again. The U.S. Catholic bishops are back in Baltimore and the agenda...

November 10, 2013

CNN goes long to say little about clergy and Obamacare

In Ecclesiastes 12:12b, we read: "Of making many books there is no end, and much...

November 08, 2013

Surprise! A same-sex marriage story that gets religion

For the latest Christian Chronicle, I wrote a news story on judicial authorities in the Pacific...

November 07, 2013

This is praise: USA Today church-state story was confusing

Welcome back to the First Amendment wars, an increasingly active front in our nation's Culture...

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",...