From the BBC comes this sad report on the decline of the Catholic Church in France:
We'll always have Paris?
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Time to play "spot the code" in Bush text
It’s time to play “spot the evangelical code words,” the game in which the Washington press tries to figure out when President George W. Bush is sending mysterious secret messages to those religious “values voters” who want to turn American into a theocracy.
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Gerson's remarks posted
The Ethics & Public Policy Center has posted its transcript of “Religion, Rhetoric, and the Presidency,” the speech White House speechwriter gave to two dozen U.S. and international journalists on Dec. 6. The text covers his remarks and then the response by National Journal White House correspondent Carl Cannon.
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South Florida Sun-Sentinel profiles a gay saint
In the mid-1990s, I had a chance to speak to some editors gathered in a Bible Belt city — let’s leave it at that — about how to improve religion coverage at their newspapers.
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Rowan Williams, grim reaper?
“Church ends taboo on mercy killings,” crowed the headline on Sunday’s Observer, and the story that followed, by social affairs editor Jamie Doward, carried on in the same excited manner:
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Noted: It's the "international evangelical sex cult"
Three major dailies — the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times and the San Francisco Chronicle — have published lengthy follow-up stories on the Children of God (now The Family International) since last week’s murder-suicide by Richard P. Rodriguez (known as “Davidito” in his boyhood).
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Copt Out II
Very well written story in Newsday about the funeral for the slain family of Coptic Christians in New Jersey. Writers Daryl Khan and Solana Pyne do a good job of making the readers feel the grief and the rage of the mourners.
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Poynter debate: Veteran help wanted on religion beat?
A long, long time ago — a quarter century, to be precise — I was a copy editor and rock columnist at a daily newspaper in Central Illinois. Careerwise, what I wanted to do was write about religion, which was one reason I had studied the history of religion in America as well as journalism at Baylor University and then did a master’s degree in church-state studies, which combined theology, political science, history and some law.
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Copt out?
Kathy Shaidle yesterday passed along a deeply disturbing story from the New York Post. Four Coptic Christians were slashed to death in their New Jersey home. One initial motive, fingered by the Post, was Islamic rage.
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