It’s time to take a quick jump deep, deep into my ever-growing file of GetReligion guilt before, quite literally, hell freezes over.
Good angels or bad angels? Should a reporter ask?
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Westernized Zen and the art of hiding sexual abuse
So many details will sound terribly familiar. At the heart of the news story is a powerful religious patriarch, surrounded by disciples who view him with a reverence that helps support an iron-clad climate of silence and secrecy.
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Pod people: Pope steps down; many journalists fall down
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Little Valentine's Day sex for those (old) mainliners?
On one level, I cannot believe that the folks at Religion News Service thought to get involved in doing a serious survey about the religious ghosts in Valentine’s Day sex.
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WWROD: No, Pope Benedict XVI did not 'resign'
To my shock, no one out in cyberspace filed a pope-retirement question over at veteran religion-reporter Richard Ostling’s handy new website, “Religion Q&A: The Ridgewood Religion Guy Answers your Questions.”
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Alas, next pope will probably defend same old doctrines
So here is an interesting journalism question for this digital age: What do we do with the earlier versions of stories by major news organizations if the editors later take them down and replace them with cleaned-up, expanded versions?
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AP frames Benedict XVI in some warped timeframes
On one level, I am rather disappointed to note that the editors at the Associated Press have already fixed an awesome typo that a Beltway journalist sent to me early today, the one that said the Pope Benedict XVI has, as is common among elderly men, experienced “some prostrate problems” in recent years.
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Early media failures in B16 resignation story
Well that’s not the news I expected to wake up to! Pope Benedict has announced he’ll retire at the end of the month. And as Michael Brendan Dougherty writes:
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Cardinal Dolan dares to tweak the New York Times
If you’ve paid attention to religion news at all in recent days, you probably know that the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has responded to the latest attempt by the White House (.pdf here) to draw a legal line between religious liberty in church pews and freedom of religious expression in the marketplace and the rest of American life.
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