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If you are one of the scores of people who still get the tiny, dead-tree-pulp edition of The Baltimore Sun on Saturdays — the cartoons are now in the SPORTS section, because there’s no logical place to put them — then you may have seen a sad little page of religion content this morning in the all-purpose news section. If you hit the auto ads, you went too far.
Mary Jordan of the Washington Post Foreign Service reports in today’s Post that Pope Benedict XVI wrote an “unusual letter” to “quiet” protests after his “embrace” of excommunicated bishop and conspiracy theorist Richard Williamson.
It’s would be very hard to write a feature-length obituary for an internationally known Roman Catholic priest while avoiding religious images and content.
You see, The Dallas Morning News has just finished taking a giant leap back into journalism history in a hellish three-part series built on the kind of serial, storytelling journalism that used to be common in American journalism. I think this is a good thing, when the material fits.
The reaction continues to roll in as the mainstream press surfs through the results of the new American Religious Identification Survey (ARIS), the one that points to the rising wave of the post-denominational age in American religion.
I don’t know about you, but when I read about the collapse of a pyramid scheme that takes down wealthy, well-educated investors and nonprofits, I shake my head and wonder how such smart people made such (in hindsight) dumb choices.
It’s early but this Washington Post headline about President Barack Obama’s changes to federal funding of embryonic stem cell research would have to be up for one of the worst of the year:
Earlier this week, the California Supreme Court heard arguments for and against Californians’ right to define marriage as a union of one man and one woman. There are many reports about those oral arguments and almost every account says that the justices seemed inclined to uphold the voters’ decision in passing Proposition 8.
Here is an old, old story that has been bugging me for some time now, which is why it ended up in tmatt’s GetReligion Folder of Guilt.
