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March 2013

March 07, 2013

The high cost of waiting for the action in Rome

Friends, Romans and other anxious news consumers, some of you may not have seen the...

March 07, 2013

Fake bishop or episcopi vagantes?

Media outlets had a lot of fun with a recent story about a Vatican gatecrasher....

March 04, 2013

That minister of humor unloads on the pope coverage

The thought for the day and, perhaps, for the next week or two, care of...

February 2013

February 24, 2013

Where’s the faith content in these sex scandals?

On one level, that New York Times feature story on the fall of Msgr. Kevn...

February 22, 2013

Unnecessary words and the Vatican’s ‘gay lobby’

Yesterday a reader tweeted that The Guardian was clearly trying to insinuate that Pope Benedict...

February 14, 2013

Turkson wouldn’t be first African pope

Yesterday morning a Lutheran friend sent me an email joking that he was "off Team...

February 13, 2013

WWROD: No, Pope Benedict XVI did not ‘resign’

To my shock, no one out in cyberspace filed a pope-retirement question over at veteran...

February 12, 2013

Godbeat 101: Localizing the pope resignation story

For a newspaper junkie, one of the joys of the digital age is being able...

February 12, 2013

Alas, next pope will probably defend same old doctrines

So here is an interesting journalism question for this digital age: What do we do...

February 11, 2013

Early media failures in B16 resignation story

Well that's not the news I expected to wake up to! Pope Benedict has announced...

December 2012

December 23, 2012

Galileo meets the Mayan apocalypse

Far and away my favorite headline of Friday was the one that ran in the...

November 2012

November 01, 2012

Calm down about the Vatican and James Bond Skyfall

It was three years ago that I read a really interesting story in the...

October 2012

October 23, 2012

AP knows what the Pope really thinks

I was at a meeting of a journalism fellowship program I'm part of this weekend....