This is the cover of the new issue of Time magazine dedicated to “What Really Happened, 2000-2010.”
Is it Time's job to get religion?
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Ghosts in Korean conflict?
Twitter has its faults but it’s an amazing way to follow major world events in real time. Take the situation in the Koreas. North Korea shelled South Korea’s Yeonpyeong Island a few days ago, in a deadly artillery attack. The United States and South Korea took up position in the Yellow Sea today for joint military exercises. Journalists have been told they should leave the island. North Korea has threatened another “merciless” attack.
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Reflections on the Vatican 2010 sex abuse crisis
Here at GetReligion, we respond to the news of the day. Sometimes that means we don’t get a chance to reflect on broader themes. We spent a lot of time discussing how the mainstream media handled the Vatican sex abuse crisis earlier this year. The Ethics and Public Policy Center hosted a gathering of journalists from mainstream secular outlets to reflect on what went right and what went wrong with that coverage.
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'Devout' Catholic thrill alert!
If you live in the Washington, D.C., area and follow things Catholic, you probably know that the shepherd of the nation’s capital — Archbishop Donald W. Wuerl — just became a member of the College of Cardinals, thus becoming one of the “princes” of the church.
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A Vatican condom conversion?
“Well, that went well,” writes Amy Welborn, one of my favorite Catholic bloggers. She’s referring to the media maelstrom over “Light of the World,” Peter Seewald’s book-length interview with Pope Benedict XVI. Did you hear about it yesterday?
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Fetuses hidden in Buddhist temple
As we’ve stated in the past, sometimes an abortion-related story is also a religion story. The tension between the two is fairly evident in this recent New York Times story about how 2,000 fetuses from illegal abortion clinics were found at a Buddhist temple in Thailand.
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The "bull in a china shop" is elevated
It’s been several weeks since Pope Benedict XVI named Washington Archbishop Donald Wuerl, former archbishop of St. Louis Raymond Burke and 22 other Catholic leaders from around the world to join the elite College of Cardinals.
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Postmodern Gray Lady goes post-facts
What we have here is a really interesting New York Times story about a significant development among liberal mainline Protestants in Belgium that could end up spreading to other parts of Europe.
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Muslim extremist armies of one
The other day we looked at the excellent Washington Post profile of Zachary Chesser, the American Muslim who threatened violence against South Park creators for not depicting Muhammad. And now we have another intriguing profile of another American Muslim terrorist. This time the report is in the Memphis Commercial Appeal. The paper received seven handwritten letters from Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, a Memphis native who shot two men outside an Army recruiting office, killing one. That man, Pvt. William A. Long, is pictured here.
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