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December 2013

December 20, 2013

Paparazzi snap model in church, model snaps back

Can't a Victoria's Secret angel slip into a pew without being photographed from the altar?...

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 14, 2013

Eye to eye with Mother Teresa (farewell to Scripps)

A couple of weeks ago, I flew the black religion-beat flag here at GetReligion to...

December 13, 2013

Time takes sides in India’s sex wars

Time magazine reports India's Supreme Court has upheld the constitutionality of the nation's colonial era...

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 09, 2013

The second storytelling rule: Get the name of the church

The first storytelling rule: Get the name of the dog. So says Poynter Institute writing...

December 09, 2013

Vote now! Time serves up correction of the year (updated)

It may be the religion-beat question of the year. So all together now: Why is...

December 06, 2013

Mandela the sinner? Mandela the prophet? Yes, cover both

One of the greatest mysteries in life is the moral complexity that is often found...

December 06, 2013

WSJ gets the tone right on Holocaust survivor story

There's so much bad reporting about religion and religion-related stories these days -- the continual...

December 06, 2013

The Methodist roots of Nelson Mandela

Comrade. Leader. Prisoner. Negotiator. Statesman. A giant banner outside the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg —...

December 05, 2013

RNS: It’s no rumor; Turks want Hagia Sophia as a mosque

Talk about a trip into my guilt file. I just did a quick search in...

December 05, 2013

Reporters: beware of Greeks bearing gay gifts

The essence of life, its meanings, symbols and motives, can be found in television; reporting...

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 03, 2013

Viva la Eurorévolution

Religion ghosts haunt the stories out of Kiev this week, but the Western press has...

December 01, 2013

AP’s not-too-religious airport chaplain story

The entire long Thanksgiving weekend, it's widely reported, is the busiest air-travel season in the...

November 2013

November 29, 2013

As on a darkling plain – Prozac and France

The Sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay...

November 27, 2013

Hey WPost: What did Pope Francis say about abortion?

It is a serious understatement to note that Pope Francis has made more than his...

November 26, 2013

CBS discovers the Catholic priest shortage

I am reaching back a bit into my guilt file -- stories I want to...

November 23, 2013

For BBC, Doctor Who faith is real, but never really Christmas

“Go forward in all your beliefs and prove to me that I am not mistaken...

November 21, 2013

Mau-mauing The Times of London

The Archbishop of Canterbury has stated the Church of England was moving away from using...

November 19, 2013

Oh, those pagan Irish Anglicans?

Was it a case of good manners? Did the editors at The Irish Times print...

November 18, 2013

Are all Jews preparing for Thanksgivukkah the same way?

Many years ago, I worked at a newspaper -- let's leave the name out of...

November 18, 2013

Blessed corpses — and holy ghosts — after typhoon

Here's my nominee for "Most Bland Headline of the Weekend." It appeared atop an Associated Press report:...

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

The Boys from Buenos Aires?

What is an ultra-conservative Catholic? A member of the Society of St Pius X? A...

November 08, 2013

General Butt Naked and God in Der Spiegel

Let me commend for your reading a story in last week's Der Spiegel on the...

November 05, 2013

Missing Catholic voices in Belgium’s euthanasia debate

Let me commend to you an excellent article on a horrible subject. The Associated Press...

November 02, 2013

Pod people: Does it matter if celebrities/royals have faith?

As the old saying goes, Americans don't have a royal family. We have celebrities. We...

October 2013

October 31, 2013

WPost examines the demons (and a ghost) in ‘The Exorcist’

It's that time of year again, the time when reporters keep trying to reach author...