What teen-agers need today is an “international base system.”
Life after Pentecost: The Catholic Communion story marches on
Sen. John “Call me JFK” Kerry must be so relieved. Then again, maybe not. Another front has opened up in the Catholic Communion war and, once again, the lifestyle left wing of the Democratic Party is likely to be (a) stuck taking a stand that will fire up moral traditionalists or (b) firming up its lock on every voter who has enjoyed the Da Vinci Code.
On cat worship and another hot Catholic political issue
The following is a letter to the GetReligion.org editor from one of our readers, an old-fashioned Catholic peace activist named Juli Loesch Wiley.
Sex & the Ghost: Searching for values in a numbers game
One of the things I love the most about being back in Washington, D.C., once a year is the joy of reading a great newspaper — on dead tree pulp. There is nothing like reading an old-fashioned analog newspaper to help you see the ghosts drifting through the lines of inky type.
Dancing to the gods beat: Madonna poses as mystic
Ohmygod, Madonna is on tour again (Or is it Ohmigod or Ohmagod? Google isn’t sure) and the pop press is treating it like the 12th coming.
Giddy in newsrooms: Is gay-marriage coverage slanted?
Media-beat scribe Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post is getting knocked around a bit these days in the kingdom of Romenesko at Poynter.
Cal Thomas airs out some of his haunted hate mail
A friend of this blog, Rod Dreher of the Dallas Morning News, recently posted a fun shout out on behalf of conservative columnist Cal Thomas.
Red and blue evangelism: Left Behind vs. Will & Grace?
Sorry to be getting to this subject a few days late. I am teaching in Washington, D.C., for the next month or so and it has taken some time (technologically speaking) to get settled in. But I wanted to flash back to Doug’s post about the Newsweek cover story on the “Left Behind” guys (NASCAR team and all).
What would JPII do? Democrats fire up Catholic & Communion debate
It’s safe to say that most American newspaper readers will have a chance to read the following quotation today.
