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July 2014

July 22, 2014

The Mosul purge: How good is the media coverage?

The purge of Christians from Mosul in northern Iraq -- home to thriving Christian communities...

July 16, 2014

Concerning the latest (alleged) interview with Pope Francis

So how would you like to be a press officer for the Vatican these days?...

July 15, 2014

For Cologne archbishop, Reuters emits a scent of bias

The new archbishop of Cologne, Germany, is all about gays. At least it is, according...

June 2014

June 23, 2014

Headline writers duck and cover when Francis improvises

It must be very hard to be a headline writer in the age of Pope...

June 10, 2014

What? You thought Francis, Peres and Abbas really prayed?

Let's state this in journalistic terms. What? You thought that the mainstream journalists covering the...

June 06, 2014

As usual, good Francis and bad Benedict at the BBC

The honeymoon continues for Pope Francis and the press. Coverage of the pope's trip to...

May 2014

May 31, 2014

Pod people: Vatican III? Nicea III? Press blind spot 666?

The questions jumped into Twitter in a flash, which is what one would assume would...

May 26, 2014

What was the ‘real’ reason Francis made this pilgrimage?

It's time, once again, to face the obvious. There is no subject in the world...

May 26, 2014

Is Cardinal Dolan’s star fading? NYTimes ‘somes’ it up

I’ve just made up a rule for reading news: The confidence a writer places in...

May 23, 2014

The pope and the Palestinians: AP tries balanced reporting

As Pope Francis prepares to visit the Holy Land this weekend, the Associated Press takes...

May 22, 2014

NPR asks Vatican experts to discuss hopes of the Orthodox

Try to imagine a story about crucial, tense talks between Democrats and Republicans that only...

May 21, 2014

WPost probes hot debate on the banks of River Jordan

I have crossed the Jordan River twice in my life and both times the experience...

May 14, 2014

Nuanced portrait of a rising Catholic star: Cardinal Wuerl

Well, darn. Someone in the media remembers that there are other Catholic leaders besides Pope...

May 12, 2014

Devil in the details: WPost on Francis teaching about Satan

The current head of the Catholic Church has often shocked liberals by showing he actually...

May 05, 2014

Pope Francis on economics: How innovative? How savvy?

JIM ASKS: Conservative commentators ridiculed [Pope Francis's decree Evangelii Gaudium] for its criticism of the...

April 2014

April 30, 2014

LATimes offers readers a simple, one-sided take on Vatican

Every niche website has a few "big ideas" that drive its work day after day....

April 28, 2014

Only one vision of the complex lives of two Vatican II saints

So, what was that remarkable "day of the four popes" all about anyway? Prepare to...

April 24, 2014

So divorced man says his new wife says the pope said ….

Well, there is no question that the buzz-worthy story of the day is the further...

April 22, 2014

The Atlantic slips — somehow — inside mind of Benedict XVI

During the annual pre-Easter season of snarky or mildly negative religion stories, I think that...

April 07, 2014

Did Pope Francis have to go to confession?

RACHAEL ASKS: Who does the pope go to if he has to go to confession...

April 02, 2014

Archbishop sells his fancy digs; NYTimes digs a bit deeper

What we have here is a very solid New York Times story about a somewhat...

March 2014

March 31, 2014

When you wish upon a trend … it’s no longer news

Sometimes, anecdotes are a wellspring for indepth reporting. Other times, it just leads to wishful...

March 28, 2014

They didn’t even agree on what they disagreed on

Can you have a meeting of minds when you don’t agree on what you discussed...

March 16, 2014

Dominican posts handy guide to Pope Francis press myths

Every now and then a scribe at some other weblog (and we're not just talking...

February 2014

February 20, 2014

Pope Francis doesn’t always sound like Mr. Nice Guy

Dear reporters: You're full of you-know-what. Sincerely, Pope Francis Not quite the missal you'd expect...

February 13, 2014

Doing right by the pope — and by the readers

What a pleasure it is to see a writer do it right. So it's a...

February 12, 2014

Newsflash! Not all Catholics think alike!

Hey! Did you know that a lot of Catholics actually disagree with church teachings? To...

February 09, 2014

Francis is the right kind of pope, at least for Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone has done gaudy before. Its writers have weathered Lady Gaga's meat gown, Madonna's...

February 01, 2014

Concerning AP and the Vatican’s ‘glass ceiling’ for women

Your GetReligionistas received several angry emails this past week about the following Associated Press story,...

January 2014

January 31, 2014

Rolling Stone thinks it <3's this pope (plus, Mark signs out)

For reasons probably more associated with my age than anything else, the old Dr. Hook...