Yesterday, reader Ivan (aka @SlavicPolymath) tweeted:
NPR 'looks' at role for Catholic women
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Self-described way-devoted super-Catholics and the press
I already used this YouTube as art in a post last week but it really fits for this story. Really fits. In the clip above, Lutheran Satire makes fun of the type of “Catholic” used by the media in stories about the Roman Catholic Church.
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Way to go, Joe! Colorado civil-unions story hits the mark
In the interest of full disclosure, I should point out that Joe Hight, the relatively new editor of the Colorado Springs Gazette, is a longtime friend and mentor of mine.
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Bishop enforces Catholic doctrine; press goes, 'Wha ...?'
A regular reader who is an active Catholic recently sent us a URL to an interesting mainstream news report about religion and, this is the unusual part, even suggested a headline that ALMOST nailed the GetReligion angle in the piece.
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Is Politico as partisan as The Weekly Standard?
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Playing the same-sex marriage card
Over the weekend, the better half stirred up quite a hornet’s nest for a post noting that some in the media aren’t the slightest bit interested in covering the same-sex marriage debate with any degree of impartiality or nuance. The verdict she reached is damning, and that conclusion can be reached simply by accurately quoting journalists about why they don’t bother quoting gay marriage opponents.
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What do you mean 'we' Kemosabe?
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What do conservatives really think about Cardinal Mahony?
Yes, Cardinal Roger M. Mahony of Los Angeles will be in Rome and will vote in the process to select the next pope. In fact, as part of his social-media campaign against his critics, he plans to tweet whenever and wherever Vatican officials will let him get his hands on a keyboard.
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In a twist, vague evangelicals all oppose immigration reform
Once or twice or maybe even three times, I’ve complained about major media reporting that the nation’s evangelicals â all acting in lockstep â have jumped on an immigration reform bandwagon.
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