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August 2013

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 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 30, 2013

Pope Francis’ 1st miracle: media coverage of mercy

A day after Popocalypse 2013 happened, we have the actual transcript of the remarks that...

July 29, 2013

Media obsession dangers: Pope and gay priests edition

Ermagerd, everybody! The Pope has renounced all church teaching on everything! Stop the presses! Start...

July 28, 2013

When lawsuits attack, Catholic edition

A few weeks ago, a lawsuit in Nevada made news because it revolved around alleged...

July 24, 2013

Uncovering part of those church modesty debates

As I have mentioned many times here at GetReligion, Deacon Greg Kandra's blog "The Deacon's...

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 12, 2013

Pod people: The thin line between insight and hearsay

Earlier this week, I critiqued an Associated Press story on the hullabaloo caused by a...

July 10, 2013

In Kentucky, ‘Shiite Baptists’ and the crazy old uncle

Thou shalt not write an inflammatory newspaper column. Hell, it seems, hath no fury like...

July 08, 2013

Porn: crack cocaine for Christian men?

No, this post isn't a totally blatant attempt to drive up pageviews by including "porn"...

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 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...

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 16, 2013

Are gay blinkers distorting the New York Times on Vatican?

The New York Times is shocked, shocked to hear Pope Francis say there is a...

June 13, 2013

Holy Scouts! Southern Baptists didn’t do what we expected!

So, when push came to shove, what did the Southern Baptist Convention decide to do...

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 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

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

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?...

June 05, 2013

Seven questions about Boy Scout gay policy coverage

Headlines over the Boy Scouts of America's decision to allow openly gay members are still...

June 04, 2013

Hey Washington Post: There’s only one (gay) Islam? Really?

Anyone who has been paying attention to debates about the future of the Boy Scouts...

June 02, 2013

The theology in all those Father Greeley sex scenes

Much like his friend (historian, not theologian) Martin Marty, the prominent sociologist (not theologian) Father...

June 01, 2013

Churches dumping Boy Scouts over gay policy … or not?

Godbeat pro Bob Smietana wrote a story this week exploring whether churches will keep sponsoring Boy...

May 2013

May 30, 2013

The big questions facing that out gay Catholic priest

It is my experience, through my decades on the religion beat, that liberal Catholics genuinely...

May 24, 2013

After the Boy Scouts? For a few, camping with doctrine

When considering the forces pulling at the Boy Scouts of America, one thing journalists really...

May 20, 2013

Brittany Griner: ESPN gets close to key question

Truth be told, I still think that the question I asked a few weeks ago...