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Clearly, there is ugly anti-Catholic prejudice left in American life, especially in terms of bias against the most devout and traditional forms of the faith. So what would happen if public educators floated a plan to have all students learn more about this important world religion by practicing this faith during their school days?
Religion reporter Ruth Gledhill of The Times (U.K.) has a notable wit and attitude that she brings to her job and her blog. That snappy style didn’t serve her so well in a story about the Roman Catholic concept of limbo.Amy Welborn wants to nominate the headline alone as the worst ever:
Jeff Weiss of The Dallas Morning News, who is one of the nation’s best-known religion-beat specialists, sent me an email this weekend with a subject line that was impossible to ignore. It read: “this one was partly inspired by some of the chat on getreligion.”
While the differences between movements may be fascinating, the tie that binds, violence, sort of supersedes that. That’s why I don’t think reporters should go out of their way to report any discrepancies in ideologies just out of opposition to Bush, he’s a politician and he knows exactly what he’s doing.
Here is your first assignment as we start a new week. It has to do with the most amazing quotation from last week.
We need some kind of honor to give here, something that goes beyond a mere hat tip when another blog actually produces an item that we could run as a GetReligion post with little or no extra work.
There are poignant online reports about another religious and legal angle of the story of the executions in Indonesia.
When it comes to The New York Times, I can be as hypercritical as the next member of a traditional religious flock.
