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It’s safe to say that several major themes continue to manifest themselves in most — but not all — of the mainstream news reports about the religious liberty cases linked to those Health and Human Services mandates on religious organizations.
Here’s an interesting story from Reuters. Written by Philip Pullella, it’s headlined “After stinging report, Pope softens tone for U.S. nuns.” And the lede reinforces that claim:
It’s one thing to try to drag political labels over into religion coverage. That’s inevitable, I guess, in this highly politicized world in which we live today.
Since I’m always complaining at all of those awful stories with headlines such as “Catholics To Ordain First Female Priest,” I knew I had to highlight a story that does a good job of explaining how a group can have the word “Catholic” in its name but not be under the Bishop of Rome.
Anyone who has read GetReligion for a month or two knows that, from time to time, journalists get a bit confused about some of the language that is used in ancient, liturgical churches and other religious bodies.
Back in my college days, a missionary kid-journalist friend of mine (who later spent some time as a presidential speechwriter) turned me on to that fabulous “Sittin’ In” album by Kenny Loggins and Jim Messina. The songs were OK, he said, but his advice was to check out the horn charts and keyboards. We both said: Who in the world is Michael Omartian?
