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September 2013

September 30, 2013

To use or not to use: Journalists and the word ‘Islam’

Do you ever get the impression, when reading mainstream news stories, that some editors have...

September 27, 2013

The warning in the atheist pastor story

The New York Times today has a piece headlined "Minister Admits Overstating Her Credentials," an...

September 26, 2013

Praying Jews flock to the Temple Mount; world notices

If there is a "Ground Zero" for the world's three Abrahamic religions -- Judaism, Christianity...

September 22, 2013

Pod people: Religion and mass shootings

The Crossroads podcast this week was devoted to discussion of covering shootings. And in the...

September 15, 2013

Closer to God than all the diagrams in the world

An obituary of Father Robert F. Capon in the New York Times? Sounds great. It...

September 13, 2013

Does The New York Times still hate Cardinal Dolan?

Inspector Gregory: Is there any point to which you wish to draw my attention? Holmes: ...

September 11, 2013

Ghost in that NYTimes Justice Kennedy hagiography

It's time for a quick dip into my unusually thick GetReligion folder of guilt, that...

September 09, 2013

Is a global fast for Syria a local news story?

According to Catholic News Agency: Pope Francis made a global petition on Sept. 1 asking...

September 05, 2013

Spot the ghost in China’s material girls

Some boys kiss me, some boys hug me I think they're O.K. If they don't...

September 01, 2013

Was Seamus Heaney a Catholic poet?

Religion’s never mentioned here,’ of course. ‘You know them by their eyes,’ and hold your...

August 2013

August 29, 2013

Does The New York Times hate Timothy Dolan?

''The question is, should this indictment have ever been brought? Which office do I go...

August 26, 2013

Hurrah: Learning more about Antoinette Tuff’s religion

The other day I was reading an obituary of Tom Christian, descendent of the Bounty...

August 09, 2013

The New York Times misses battle for Belarus

I would like to draw your attention to a 28 July 2013 piece in the...

August 07, 2013

New York Times on the death of an unborn child

You might recall that the New York Times told readers Kermit Gosnell was on trial...

July 2013

July 30, 2013

Pope Francis’ 1st miracle: media coverage of mercy

A day after Popocalypse 2013 happened, we have the actual transcript of the remarks that...

July 27, 2013

NYT front page discovers the most popular Bible app

Hey, guess what? If you want to read the Bible online, there's an app for...

July 24, 2013

Did mainline churches lead or follow the culture?

I love it when a good religion story gets people chatting. The New York Times...

July 22, 2013

NYT struggles to distinguish Voltaire, Spider-Man and Jesus

In the Gospel of Luke, Jesus says: But he who did not know, yet committed...

July 14, 2013

NY Times gets religion … in Rome!

The New York Times published a lengthy travel piece with tons of religion in it....

July 12, 2013

Big tests for media’s abortion message machine

Someone on Twitter noticed something illuminating about mainstream media coverage of social issues that's worth...

July 01, 2013

Tough questions: ‘You gonna put those shoes on again?’

Embedded above is a clip from CNN where media critic Howard Kurtz says what is...

June 2013

June 25, 2013

Godless congregations copying Christian churches

Every year, approximately 4,000 new churches are started in the U.S. Out of that number,...

June 24, 2013

Attention liberals: Blasphemy cases on the rise in Egypt

As I have said numerous times, I cannot imagine how hard it must be to...

June 20, 2013

Pod people: Vatican gay lobby or a gay Lobby?

Where should the stress be placed in Pope Francis' phrase the "gay lobby"? Upon the...

June 19, 2013

The New York Times hides abortion editorial on front page

Yesterday after the House of Representatives voted 228 to 196 to limit abortions after 20...

June 16, 2013

Are gay blinkers distorting the New York Times on Vatican?

The New York Times is shocked, shocked to hear Pope Francis say there is a...

June 14, 2013

Hey! It’s journalists mangling scripture day! (UPDATED)

David Brooks wrote a very Brooksian column for today's New York Times about how our...

June 13, 2013

Holy Scouts! Southern Baptists didn’t do what we expected!

So, when push came to shove, what did the Southern Baptist Convention decide to do...

June 04, 2013

We’ve found the next enemy: adoptive families

When my husband and I began the adoption process, we had no idea how controversial...

May 2013

May 28, 2013

Pope Francis’ affinity for liberation theology — wait, what?

For this post, we're not going to critique past the first sentence of this New...