We’ve taken issue with some of the coverage of serious issues related to the Vatican recently. That’s a bit of an understatement.
Vatican and Beatles 'Come Together'
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Double standard? What double standard?
Your GetReligionistas, as you know, rarely comment on editorials, especially those of the op-ed variety that offer the point of view of one scribe with an attitude. However, official editorials that express the beliefs of the newspaper’s editorial board often, in my humble opinion, offer insights into the thinking of newsroom professionals when it comes to complex and controversial topics in the news.
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That's what you call 'snark infested'
GetReligion doesn’t usually deal with columns, but sometimes a columnist will cover (or attempt to cover) something newsworthy.
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A father's war against Westboro
If I never had to read another story about the Westboro Baptist Church and its “staged-for-media hatefests” — as Tmatt so aptly described the congregation’s protests last month — I just might make my own sign. “Thank God for small blessings,” it would read. Or something like that.
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God in the gaps
I was reading this CBS/Associated Press story about a missing 11-year-old girl from central Florida being found alive, four days after she disappeared in swamplands near her home. And there was religion all over the place. People were talking about miracles. The guy who found her went to the same church as her parents. But we never learn what church it is. It’s just weird.
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LA: A 'political' archbishop arrives
As you would expect, the editors and reporters at the Los Angeles Times have been trying to do some heavy lifting following the announcement that Archbishop Jose Gomez of San Antonio would soon be arriving in the City of Angels.
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Anecdotes, data and definitions
Were you thinking that the Vatican Media Frenzy had gotten a bit stale? Well, you’re in luck. Roughly eleventy billion media outlets are running a story about something Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone said at a Chilean press conference yesterday:
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I understand the urge, but ...
Trust me, I understand that for many religious leaders — some on the left, but armies on the doctrinal right — it feels good to unleash a holy flood of anger at the mainstream press from time to time. Frankly, I am amazed that newsrooms don’t get picketed every now and then by people with incense and holy water.
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Too much barbecue, too little soul
The big headline on the front page of Sunday’s Charlotte Observer made me want to bite into the story immediately. “Food for the Soul,” it declared in 72-point letters (I’m guessing on the type size). The deck head confirmed the apparently strong religion angle:
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