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March 2013

March 07, 2013

The high cost of waiting for the action in Rome

Friends, Romans and other anxious news consumers, some of you may not have seen the...

March 07, 2013

Fake bishop or episcopi vagantes?

Media outlets had a lot of fun with a recent story about a Vatican gatecrasher....

March 05, 2013

Free the cardinals!

Yesterday tmatt asked readers to submit links to papal coverage that was particularly good or...

February 2013

February 28, 2013

Van Cliburn on stage, at church and in private life

You know how, when you are growing up, that there is always some kind of...

February 25, 2013

Podcast: English Anti-Catholicism & Ethiopian Lutheranism

Anti-Catholic bias is alive and well in Britain -- however the animus to the "Italian...

February 22, 2013

Unnecessary words and the Vatican’s ‘gay lobby’

Yesterday a reader tweeted that The Guardian was clearly trying to insinuate that Pope Benedict...

February 20, 2013

Ultra Orthodox or fervently religious Jews?

The Jewish Daily Forward has a fascinating discussion of terms used to describe Haredi. It...

February 18, 2013

Got news? Freeing Saeed Abedini

I'm frequently pondering what makes news and what doesn't. Take a gander at this Google...

February 16, 2013

Westernized Zen and the art of hiding sexual abuse

So many details will sound terribly familiar. At the heart of the news story is...

February 15, 2013

Pod people: Pope steps down; many journalists fall down

Gentle readers, one cannot make some of this stuff up. So, everyone knows that Pope...

February 14, 2013

Turkson wouldn’t be first African pope

Yesterday morning a Lutheran friend sent me an email joking that he was "off Team...

February 13, 2013

WWROD: No, Pope Benedict XVI did not ‘resign’

To my shock, no one out in cyberspace filed a pope-retirement question over at veteran...

February 12, 2013

Day 2: Pope still extremely Catholic

I hope everyone is having a blast with Day 2 of Papalpalooza. I've actually enjoyed...

February 12, 2013

Alas, next pope will probably defend same old doctrines

So here is an interesting journalism question for this digital age: What do we do...

February 11, 2013

AP frames Benedict XVI in some warped timeframes

On one level, I am rather disappointed to note that the editors at the Associated...

February 11, 2013

Early media failures in B16 resignation story

Well that's not the news I expected to wake up to! Pope Benedict has announced...

February 06, 2013

Rape and religion in Israel

Here's a proposition for GetReligion readers: The quality of a news article should be measured...

February 06, 2013

About those Orthodox hermits in the Siberian wild

Every now and then, someone sends your GetReligionistas the URL for a story that is...

February 04, 2013

The New York Times’ Conservative love affair

The New York Times may not love American conservatives, but they are certainly enamored with...

February 01, 2013

New York Times solves the problem of Sharia

This report on Thursday's Cairo conference from the New York Times breaks the streak of...

February 01, 2013

Telling the story of Timbuktu’s terror

The New York Times has done some amazing work this week covering Islamic conflicts in...

January 2013

January 29, 2013

When is it OK to burn Islamic texts?

We've been critiquing the good and bad coverage of what's been happening to Mali in...

January 24, 2013

Is Christian Zionism off the NY Times radar?

Comments given to an American church audience in 2011 by an Israeli rabbi, who stood...

January 22, 2013

Channel 4 keeps it all in the Anglican family

January has been a wonderful month for lovers of Anglican ecclesiastical drama. The resignation of...

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 18, 2013

Tibet is burning

Let me commend for your reading this AP article by reporter Gillian Wong on the...

January 17, 2013

Sydney Morning Herald has a problem with religious freedom

It is only two weeks into the new year, but I believe we may have...

January 14, 2013

Anti-gay marriage protests prompt ire of the BBC

The BBC has an extraordinary report on its website detailing Sunday's march in the French...

January 14, 2013

A one-sided ‘cycle of violence’ in Pakistan

The New York Times has a story headlined "Pakistanis Protest the Killing of 86 Shiites."...

January 11, 2013

Syrian sniper offers thoughts on life, death and faith

Anyone who has been to the Middle East, or who has spent much time talking...