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January 2013

January 22, 2013

So what did Cardinal Mahony believe, really?

The news out of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles is painful and stunning, especially for...

January 19, 2013

India and rape: Spotting some tricky ghosts

In about 99 percent of the mainstream news reports you will ever read about India...

January 16, 2013

A sexual abuse story, complete with a rare glimpse of faith

As strange as it sounds, the goal of this post is to praise The Los...

January 11, 2013

Affirm homosexuality now … or else

Washington Post Book World fiction editor Ron Charles tweeted out this morning: Changing times: Gay...

January 10, 2013

Is a blasphemous drag show really ‘anti-Catholic’?

Just yesterday Bobby pointed out a practice of double attribution, asking whether it goes beyond...

January 09, 2013

NYT publishes ‘news story’ on pregnancy centers

The New York Times, a daily publication that claims to "Publish All the News That's...

January 07, 2013

More about Ray Lewis and his Psalms 91 t-shirt

So, GetReligion readers, I am happy to report that the Baltimore Sun team noticed the...

January 03, 2013

The Magic Circle and the Soho masses

The line between criticism and carping is not always clear. A story may appear to...

December 2012

December 24, 2012

Shocker! Liberal clergy back gay rites! (updated)

What we have here is a totally predictable story, to an almost stunning degree. It's...

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 11, 2012

Celibacy and the clergy abuse scandal

Last Friday the Deutsche Bischofskonferenz, the German Episcopal Conference of the Roman Catholic Church, released...

December 10, 2012

The Southern Baptists’ scarlet ‘A’

Let's say your church's pastor is accused of molesting at least four teenage girls. Let's...

December 04, 2012

And now, ironic Episcopal PR from South Florida

I wish there was some way, legally and technically, that I could have GetReligion readers...

December 03, 2012

Whistling in the dark about Islam and reform

Has anyone seen a story in the U.S. press about the opening of...

December 01, 2012

Covering Catholics who are more like ‘Catholics’

GetReligion readers may recall the case of young Lennon Cihak, who -- at the very...

December 01, 2012

Pod people: Manhattan media melancholia

The oh-so familiar provincialism of The New York Times was the principal object of my...

November 2012

November 28, 2012

One tragic, haunted, story about a dead streetwalker

Every now and then, The Washington Post focuses quite a bit of talent and effort...

November 28, 2012

Sandra Fluke, Time’s ‘Person of the Year’ and tender stories

Time magazine is doing its annual PR blitz for its "Person of the Year." After...

November 27, 2012

Defining depravity downwards in Deutschland

Der Spiegel's English-language bulletin reports that conservative deputies on the Agricultural Affairs committee of the...

November 27, 2012

Times tries to pin a label on Dorothy Day (updated)

Back in the early 1990s, I had a chance to interview the late Father Ellwood...

November 14, 2012

New York Times on gay Pakistan

Altogether now, let's chant: World Ends Tomorrow: Women and Minorities Hit Hardest! Mort Sahl is...

November 11, 2012

The decline and fall of King David Petraeus

Even by Friday night news dumps, this one was a doozie. David Petraeus resigned on...

November 08, 2012

What is this “American Catholic Church,” anyway?

What we have here is kind of a Son of the WomenPriests story -- with...

November 07, 2012

The day after: The prophet John Green, revisited

It should be a quiet day on the religion-beat front, in the wake of yesterday's...

November 05, 2012

Another visit with the usual “ex-gay” suspects

It's a question that I always know I will hear after a lecture on the...

November 03, 2012

About GetReligion: In a few words or less

For years, journalists took one of two different approaches when labeling the two sides in...

October 2012

October 27, 2012

Boooo! One-side story praising Halloween evangelism?

It would be hard to imagine anything more controversial, in the American of 2012, than...

October 20, 2012

Pod people: Digging for old news on ‘Nones’

Friends and neighbors, the whole media world continues to buzz with news (me too, of...

October 17, 2012

On sex: Smart black Christians vs. you know who

Brace yourselves, GetReligion readers. I am about to do something shocking. I would like to...

October 12, 2012

Agnostic scout ousted because he’s gay?

Anyone who has followed the tensions between gay-rights activists and the Boy Scouts knows that...