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April 2013

April 29, 2013

Revelations, Books of Psalms and other scriptures

Last week we noticed some embarrassing corrections related to how newspapers described the Epistle to...

April 26, 2013

Today’s Epistle reading is from the New York Times

Last week, tmatt reflected on how the above reading at Margaret Thatcher's funeral was being...

April 23, 2013

Concerning the sweet, formerly Christian, wife of the talented artist bomber

Here's an interesting and timely religion news story at the Huffington Post: "Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Suspected...

April 23, 2013

Behold: A pretty fair tribute to George Beverly Shea

Longtime GetReligion readers may recall that I grew up in Texas in the 1960s and...

April 22, 2013

Womenpriests again: The people vs. paper scenario

Anyone who has ever worked on the religion beat knows the drill. You are writing...

April 22, 2013

Untangling the Tsarnaevs’ Muslim ties, carefully

On Friday we asked readers to send in thoughts on good and bad coverage of...

April 19, 2013

In tsunami of Boston info, there are basic faith questions

As the drama keeps unfolding in and around Boston, it's safe to say that journalists...

April 16, 2013

Let us attend: Waiting for a religion shoe to drop in Boston

As you would expect, people were a bit tense last night on my commuter train...

April 14, 2013

Jewish Identity and the Western Wall

You couldn't, he thought, find three Jews in the world who would agree on what...

April 08, 2013

Any reporters out there still studying Pope Francis?

This whole GetReligion operation, as regular readers know, exists to look at the good and...

April 05, 2013

Indiana Jones and the reporter from hell

Unfortunately your browser does not support IFrames. Did you catch any of the stories about...

April 04, 2013

Flash! Cardinal says all people created in God’s image

In a way, the existence of the short New York Times story that ran with...

April 02, 2013

God and Allah at an Easter service shooting

A church in Ashtabula, Ohio, was the scene of a shooting on Easter Sunday. Just...

April 01, 2013

Christians wary on Easter (sort of) in Syria

Every religion writer has experienced those awkward moments each year when an editor walks over...

April 01, 2013

This NY Times Easter correction is a doozie

The reporter who passed this one along to us wrote, simply: they just make it...

March 2013

March 30, 2013

So what was Pope Francis up to on Holy Thursday?

So, this pope vs. pope theme has been building, in mainstream coverage, during the amazing...

March 29, 2013

The 10 people Chávez meets in heaven

A story I have yet to see in the Anglo-American press is the apotheosis of...

March 29, 2013

Shroud of Turin: Let’s include the basic facts, please

Readers who have been following GetReligion for some time, or even reading my Scripps...

March 28, 2013

Got news? Egyptian Copts tortured for some strange reason

Yes, I know that we're talking about a report on Fox News. That fact alone,...

March 26, 2013

Winners and losers in our do-it-yourself religion era

No one on the national religion-news scenes writes with more vigor and enthusiasm about America's...

March 24, 2013

On the media’s habit of showing habited nuns

Quick follow-up to a recent post highlighting some problems with 60 Minutes' coverage of Roman...

March 22, 2013

Ghosts in news about those monks and their simple caskets

So, in one level, my primary task in this post is to point GetReligion readers...

March 21, 2013

Hey CNN: Ghosts in the ties that bind Cyprus and Russia

So I'm sitting in a restaurant eating my lunch and, up on the wall, the...

March 20, 2013

Did ‘the’ leader of the Orthodox attend the Rome rites?

So, let's assume that you are a Catholic leader and you pick up your morning...

March 19, 2013

Was Pope Francis ‘anointed’ today? (UPDATED)

The New York Times has run, at last count, 10 pieces in the past six...

March 18, 2013

Ssssshhh! Conservative Catholics may exist at Georgetown

When the news broke about the election of the first Jesuit pope, several on-air commentators...

March 17, 2013

Pod people: Did you hear? There is a new pope!

You will be shocked, shocked, need I say SHOCKED to know that this week's "Crossroads"...

March 16, 2013

Inside the conclave: Personal news vs. political news

Let's flash back, for a moment, to the early stages of the tsunami of papal...

March 15, 2013

Pope Francis and the ‘Hand of God’

Europe's tabloid press has added its bit to the wall-to-wall press coverage of Pope Francis. Crowding...

March 14, 2013

A press litany: Will Pope Francis just hold that Vatican line?

As always, the gospel according to The New York Times -- in an early version...