On 17 August 1980 seven week old Azaria Chamberlain disappeared from her family’s campsite near Ayer’s Rock in the Australian desert.
A "fair go" for Lindy Chamberlain
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Hey, George W. Bush still has a footprint?
If you want to make a story go viral, you might have NPR do a dramatic reading of some pop song or discuss more epic autotune potential that could come out of PBS.
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Got news? State Department dropped required religious liberty reports?
A few readers sent along an interesting CNSNews.com report that says the U.S. State Department removed from its country reports on human rights those sections covering religious freedom:
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Russian, Syria and the long lens of history
One of the most interesting facts about the branch of Orthodoxy to which my home parish belongs is that the Church of Antioch is one member of the family of Eastern churches that has rarely controlled its own culture and, thus, its own destiny.
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Gay church marriages in Denmark
The Telegraph reports that the Danish parliament has passed a law requiring all churches in the Nordic country to perform gay marriages. Clergy may opt not to perform the ceremonies, but church authorities must find a substitute minister to solemnize the marriage.
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Ghosts in the "Polish death camps" fracas
The former newspaper copy editor in me has been watching the development of the whole “Polish death camp” debate this week, which led, of course, to a political resolution of this rather small-scale media storm.
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Lady (Gaga) sings the blues
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Gay marriage and the French Catholic vote
In light of the media’s fascination with interplay between sex, the Catholic Church and politics, I am always surprised at its lack of curiosity when these worlds collide overseas.
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Buddhists behaving badly
This is a conclusion I have drawn in my years as a religion reporter. Story proposals on a new doctrinal development or a report on a major church conference seldom excites the interest of an editor. [A story proposal about doctrinal development discussed at a conference in Canada is the kiss of death].
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