So here is our Associated Press Stylebook question of the day: Is it possible to be pro-adoption?
CatholicVote.org vs. MSM -- again
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Ave Maria, minus the snark
For some reason, there’s just something about a billionaire pizza czar trying to build a neo-Frank Lloyd Wright Catholic college and a conservative, faith-friendly town to go with it that makes mainstream journalists get miffed. I mean, check out some of these earlier GetReligion visits to the press coverage of Ave Maria University near Florida’s west coast.
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Life remains hellish for Carlton Pearson
Bishop Carlton Pearson’s preaching against the existence of hell began making news headlines in 2002, and he has enjoyed sporadic media interest ever since. Pearson’s story plays on two themes that make for good copy: theological dissent and, on a more titillating note, the idea of modern heresy.
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He is the sexy priest
Your friends here at GetReligion are not big on reading the tabloids, but we have received a few notes from people asking what we think of the tabloid-esque coverage of Father Alberto Cutie, the famous “Father Oprah” of television and South Beach.
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Holy (modern) Communion
We have so much fun with the British press on GetReligion that it’s wonderful to have the opportunity to flex some other critical muscles on behalf of our colleagues across the pond. Thanks to commenter David, who sent us this Times of London story about a new Catholic order of nuns, for giving me this opportunity. While there are some places where writer Joanna Moorehead doesn’t go deep enough or give enough context, the vivid quotes and uncondescending portrayal of these unusual women compensate for her flaws.
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Storks don't actually bring babies
If you do a Google News search on the phrase “abstinence only,” you get hundreds of results and most of them are for one of two stories. There’s the media coverage of teen mother Bristol Palin and her promotion of abstinence as the only completely effective way to avoid teen pregnancy. And there’s the media coverage of the news that President Obama has removed hundreds of millions of dollars of funding for abstinence-focused programs.
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What would Daniel Pulliam write?
So here is the lede on the Washington Post news feature about undrafted Washington Redskins offensive lineman Edwin Williams of the University of Maryland. He’s a long-shot to make the roster, but, well, he has cleared some big hurdles before. The religion angle is right up top, out there in the open.
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Unnecessary advocacy on the front page
With wonderful medical advances, humans are able to survive cancer and diabetes diagnoses that would have meant certain death not that long ago. And while these same medical advances and general economic prosperity mean there’s never been a better time to grow older, it also means that humans now have prolonged periods of demise that burden surviving family members. The average American lifespan has increased some 30 years since a century ago.
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Ahmadinejad: An interfaith Jew-hater?
Jon Lee Anderson, a staff writer for The New Yorker, has done highly acclaimed reporting from the world’s war zones, including Iraq. Both the video topping this post and this interview with Charlie Rose testify to Anderson’s intelligence and grace under pressure.
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