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December 2012

December 30, 2012

ESPN gets Irvin and his ‘threshing floor’ sermon

Hey! Time for another GetReligion post about religious issues in sports coverage! Can you hear...

December 29, 2012

Yes, before Baltimore, Lori was bishop of Newtown

If the mainstream press has a creed, one of its central tenets is certainly this...

December 28, 2012

Everything you know about Christmas is wrong

George just posted about an old story being rehashed for Christmas, which reminded me that...

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 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 22, 2012

WWROD: Which denominations do what well?

So, GetReligion readers, have you submitted a religion-rooted question yet to veteran scribe Richard Ostling,...

December 21, 2012

Fox forces the Mass into Christmas

A friend put this picture up on Google+ (so I guess that answers the question...

December 20, 2012

Christmas carol wars on the DC Metro — not

Anyone who spends much time on subways and other forms of mass transit knows that...

December 18, 2012

Dancing alone in that D.C. Franciscan hermitage?

Back in my Rocky Mountain News days, I covered an ecumenical gathering in Boulder, Colo.,...

December 17, 2012

So a rabbi and a priest and 20 parents walk into hell

So, how many GetReligion readers will be able to forget watching the Robbie Parker press...

December 17, 2012

Telling Newtown’s story sensitively

I hope you can see the picture here. If you can't, please click here for...

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 13, 2012

Tiny little news stories about booming Diocese of Orange

The Diocese of Orange -- as in Orange County -- has a new leader, Bishop...

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 10, 2012

Yahoo! asks Robert Griffin III a rather obvious question

The big news here in Washington, D.C., (other than the mysteries of the U.S. Supreme...

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 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 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 26, 2012

Jesus wept? One-sided debate from Mumbai

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

November 23, 2012

Puritans lacked an Object for their Thanksgivings?

As of the moment I started writing this post, the following headlines graced -- if...

November 21, 2012

On women bishops: Who voted ‘no’ and why?

To the shock of legions of mainstream reporters, the Church of England fell just short...

November 20, 2012

Accurate Holiday wars update from Santa Monica!

Oh my! We may have a Nativity Lent miracle on our hands! Trust me that...

November 19, 2012

CNN on the superstar Stanleys: The ties that blind

Suffice it to say that I started working my way onto the religion-news beat in...

November 18, 2012

Honest teen meets an orthodox Catholic priest

Two decades ago, while I was serving as the religion writer for The Charlotte News...

November 16, 2012

Preachers and politics: Be careful out there folks …

Today's digest from the Religion News Service (sign up for this very helpful service, if...

November 09, 2012

Man prays in airplane aisle, for no particular reason

Sometimes you have to laugh to keep from crying. That was my first reaction when...

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 06, 2012

And for the Copts, the winner is … the winner is?

First things first: I would like to stress that, while I am a member of...

October 2012

October 31, 2012

An NBA rookie’s favorite (missing) Bible verse

It's time for another season in the National Basketball Association, which is another one of...