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December 2016

December 16, 2016

Bill Doino, Jr. on the Beeb’s Apology for Sliming Pius XII

He writes: Please note link below-- progress on the Pius XII front—the BBC has, to...

May 2016

May 19, 2016

All of Media History Re: the Church since 2005

With Benedict, the Right believed fantasies about him as the Great Rottweiler and the Left...

September 2015

September 17, 2015

Thanks for the Mormmaries

TIME continues its tradition of hard-hitting journalism about the religious issues that matter to Americans...

April 2015

April 10, 2015

Salon’s Shattering Exposé on Suppressed Christian History

"Jesus went to hell: The Christian history churches would rather not acknowledge" reads the headline....

December 2014

December 17, 2014

Stephen Hawking and the Media Rolodex

Every few months, Stephen Hawking will emit some comment that, on the lips of any...

December 10, 2014

Pope Discusses New Heaven and New Earth for Very First Time in Catholic History

I remember when Benedict gave a homily on our responsibility for creation a few years...

October 2014

October 07, 2014

The invaluable Amy Welborn…

...on, among other things, the daft Church/State financial arrangments in Germany and how that provides vital...

October 04, 2014

NY Times writer indulges in some major projection

He is ever so worried about "the Church's gay obsession". No. Really. Here's a little...

September 2014

September 15, 2014

Not-at-All-Cliched Reporting from TIME

...on the alleged Great Nunquisition, in which the Vatican is supposedly "cracking down" on the...

August 2014

August 26, 2014

Make Some Noise About Iraqi Christians

A reader writes: Hi! I hope that you are well and that you had a...

June 2014

June 09, 2014

Note to Self: Never Again Accept Uncritically News…

...about the preconciliar Irish Church. Atheist Brendan O'Neill on the Incredible Shrinking Moral Panic ginned...

June 06, 2014

Terry Mattingly Neatly Exposes the Attempt…

by the MSM to blame Tuam on "Catholic teachings". The bigger this story gets, the...

March 2014

March 12, 2014

Devout Catholics[TM] in the News!

Get Religion has fun with the media meme of Devout Catholics[TM] like, you know, Nancy...

January 2014

January 13, 2014

Stupid Papal Headline Contender for 2014

Pope, in nod to conservatives, calls abortion 'horrific' I hear he affirmed the existence of...

November 2013

November 12, 2013

CNN Struggles to Figure out How the Pope…

...can still possibly be Catholic. Turns out he still teaches all that weird old stuff...

November 08, 2013

Get Religion on the Use of the Word “Devout”

They, like me, thinks it's a word the press beats to death on the flimsiest...

September 2013

September 23, 2013

Absolutely Clueless Media…

My two fave moments so far. An AP headline that reads "Pope Comes Out Against...

September 12, 2013

Just Did an Interview with NBC

...over the phone. We'll see how it comes out. Tracy Connor from NBC wanted to...

August 2013

August 02, 2013

Zombie Boswell Stalks the Earth Once More

Old lies tend to recycle. Whether it's The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion,...

July 2013

July 31, 2013

Pope Francis Makes Homosexuality Obligatory for All Catholics, NY Times Reports

Eye of the Tiber kills me.

July 01, 2013

Some guy with a vendetta says there’s a gay pedophile ring of Satanists in the Vatican

...so, of course, the more tabloidesque press runs with it and a number of Catholics...

May 2013

May 03, 2013

Always Take Off 50 IQ Points When the MSM Reports on the Church

CBS tries to divine the sinister curtain-gliding nefarious purposes as Benedict moves back to the...

April 2013

April 10, 2013

My dear good bishop…

...Abp. Peter Sartain has had the thankless task of investigating the New Age kooks who...

March 2013

March 27, 2013

It’s like there’s a macro for these pieces on MSM computers

Just hit the button and all the usual tropes spill out without a movement of...

March 25, 2013

Somebody Named Richard French Stoops Down to Instruct the Church

Richard French, the host of Richard French Live, penned an open letter to Pope Francis....

March 14, 2013

John Zmirak Kills Me Sometimes (Warning: Contains Naughty Word)

Sez he on his Facebook page: NY Times: "Despite Calls for Change, Bears Continue to...

March 13, 2013

More Francis Love

This will cause the normal exploding heads at the Reporter and MSNBC. No "Progress" for...

March 13, 2013

Here’s what to expect from the MSM

When they run across this quote from Pope Francis: "Not only are they violated (human...

March 01, 2013

Hans Kung Seems to Be Under the Impression That Jesus, Not Benedict, Resigned

Here's the thing: it is Jesus, not Benedict, and not even the toweringly humble Hans...

February 2013

February 28, 2013

It Turns Out Andrew Sullivan is a “leading Catholic blogger”

...and it turns out this Leading Catholic Blogger thinks, on the basis of his own...

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