On Friday, the Vatican announced that Oakland Bishop Salvatore Cordileone would become the archbishop of San Francisco, succeeding Archbishop George Niederauer who hit retirement age last year.
Haunted demographics: Cells and church towers
London 2012 fetes British ink, film and (gasp!) hymnody
Folks, I have committed a serious sin that I hate to spot among other reporters. When searching for obvious religion, I overlooked the subtle spots.
And now, equal time for Muslim chickens ...
Here’s the gist of a recent Los Angeles Times story: An Islamic butcher shop finds surprising success in a predominantly Latino neighborhood of east L.A.
Pod people: Treat religion news like crime news?
Did anyone else have a good time watching the Olympic’s opening ceremonies tonight? I learned a lot about how the British, or at least how the ones running the Olympics, see their own history.
Catholics, Commies, and Gays -- Oh my!
The story of Archbishop Róbert Bezák is ready made for the Da Vinci Code treatment. Yet the press has bungled a Catholic story — the Associated Press piece that ran in most U.S. newspapers devoted more space to a rehash of the clergy pedophile scandal than the church conflict in the Slovak Republic.
Shocking! AP quotes Chick-fil-A leader accurately!
OK, I know that this will be hard. But, take a deep cleansing breath and try, try, try to think back to the journalism issues that were at the heart of my first GetReligion post on this whole Chick-fil-A media hurricane.
With canonization near, where is media focus?
A few days ago, a thoughtful and committed reader sent in a link to this story with a note that said:
'Deeply religious' victim forgives attacker
The Denver Post has a compelling interview with a wounded victim of the Aurora, Colo., theater massacre.
