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As young master Brad A. Greenberg noted the other day, Archbishop Jose Gomez has arrived on the West Coast where he will soon become the shepherd of the giant and influential Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles. This means he will almost certainly be given a brand new red hat, sooner rather than later, making this very traditional Catholic one of America’s most prominent Latino leaders — period.
During the past few days, your GetReligionistas have received at least two dozen notes asking if we had heard the news about Julia Duin losing her job at the Washington Times. Yes, I’ve been in contact with Julia a number of times during the past several weeks, but I will keep those private communications to myself.
That sound you heard yesterday from here in Beltwayland was a giant, collective sigh. Here’s the top of the obligatory Washington Post piece, which ran on A1 instead of in the Style pages:
The way I see it, Rupert Murdoch is, all by himself, one of the most interesting puzzles in all of journalism.
Anyone who has spent more than a few hours in Arlington National Cemetery has probably seen, from a distance, a military funeral of some kind. For me, it’s impossible not to get caught up in the specifics of these rites, the symbolic details that offer details of the life, rank and service of the deceased. If Arlington is a cathedral in American civil religion, then these details are part of its high-church liturgical rites.
The other day we had a lively comments-page discussion of whether it is acceptable for Catholic schools to ask the parents of students to either affirm or, harder yet, live by the central teachings of the Catholic faith.
Every now and then I get email from regular GetReligion readers protesting the fact that we — well, me in particular — keep writing about the same subjects too much. In other words, we complain about some of the same errors in the mainstream press over and over and over (think Anglican Timeline Disease).
About a year ago, during a book tour to promote “Blind Spot: When Journalists Don’t Get Religion,” I had a chance to take part in a forum for young journalists at a media institute in Bangalore, India. As you would expect, the topic for the day was improving mainstream media coverage of religion.
