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January 2013

January 10, 2013

Der Spiegel really doesn’t like Catholic Bishops

Stop me if you've heard this one before. A European magazine has written a hit...

January 08, 2013

Religion as code language in the French press

Time for a round of the "name that famous film quote" game. Don't you see...

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...

January 02, 2013

Washington Post finds ghost in Russian adoption ban

Now that my husband and I hope to bring more children into our family through...

December 2012

December 28, 2012

Jesus of Nazareth (maybe)

When does a story grow stale? Does the length of time between first publication of...

December 25, 2012

Xmas quiet in Jerusalem? Check the Julian calendar

Along with millions of other Americans, I am on the road this fine Christmas Day....

December 23, 2012

Galileo meets the Mayan apocalypse

Far and away my favorite headline of Friday was the one that ran in the...

December 20, 2012

Pod people: Don’t mention the war!

"Don’t mention the war!” is the catch phrase from “The Germans” episode of the British...

December 20, 2012

The nones on the bus

This week the Pew folks came out with a large Global Religious Landscape report. It's...

December 19, 2012

Christians are numerous. What’s their problem?

Yesterday, Pew came out with a new "Global Religious Landscape" report. Much of the media...

December 18, 2012

Who? What? When? Where? Hunh?

I am confident I found the weirdest religion news story of the month. The This...

December 16, 2012

Not all ‘nones’ are atheists

In England and Wales, there were 37.3 million Christians in 2001, representing 72 percent of...

December 13, 2012

Scratch a German, find a Nazi, the New York Times reports

The end of term is just round the corner with Christmas less than two weeks...

December 13, 2012

The Pope joins Twitter #HabemusPapam

Even though the Pope joining Twitter has been news for weeks, I was still surprised...

December 12, 2012

Generic Armenians fleeing Syria for no particular reason

For news consumers who are closely following events on the ground in Syria, especially those...

December 12, 2012

Islamist crimes against humanity in Mali

The Washington Post has a tough, but very important, read on the deteriorating situation in...

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 11, 2012

Savita’s tragic death and media ethics

The tragic death of Savita Halappananvar continues to produce headlines, particularly in Europe and India....

December 11, 2012

A young, dying heart and the prayers of JPII

News reports that involve claims of the miraculous can get a bit messy (as we...

December 07, 2012

Missing the grasshopper in the stem-cell debate

Master Po: Ha, ha, never assume because a man has no eyes he cannot see....

December 06, 2012

Some journalists waking up to Egyptian realities?

Day after day the news from Egypt seems to get darker and more confusing. This...

December 05, 2012

Memory eternal: A giant of Orthodoxy has died

Let me state right up front that, as a member of an Antiochian Orthodox parish,...

December 05, 2012

Why is police victim’s religion such a secret?

A friend sent along a story to me about a religious row that ended in...

December 05, 2012

Self censorship at the New York Times

An International Herald Tribune report about Pakistan seems a bit confused as to what constitutes...

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 01, 2012

Covering Catholics who are more like ‘Catholics’

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

November 2012

November 30, 2012

Hard-hitting questions for Egypt’s Morsi

The Associated Press brings us the latest from Cairo: Islamists approved a draft constitution for...

November 30, 2012

No Catholics in the new Europe

This is a great country. I've been privileged to live and work abroad, but there...

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 26, 2012

Jesus wept? One-sided debate from Mumbai

Where to begin? So we have this very dedicated GetReligion reader who has been sending...