Yesterday, reader Ivan (aka @SlavicPolymath) tweeted:
NPR 'looks' at role for Catholic women
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Two items of GetReligion biz (prayers for George, please)
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Self-described way-devoted super-Catholics and the press
I already used this YouTube as art in a post last week but it really fits for this story. Really fits. In the clip above, Lutheran Satire makes fun of the type of “Catholic” used by the media in stories about the Roman Catholic Church.
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Way to go, Joe! Colorado civil-unions story hits the mark
In the interest of full disclosure, I should point out that Joe Hight, the relatively new editor of the Colorado Springs Gazette, is a longtime friend and mentor of mine.
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Bishop enforces Catholic doctrine; press goes, 'Wha ...?'
A regular reader who is an active Catholic recently sent us a URL to an interesting mainstream news report about religion and, this is the unusual part, even suggested a headline that ALMOST nailed the GetReligion angle in the piece.
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Is Politico as partisan as The Weekly Standard?
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Football, family and ... faith? That's a definite maybe
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Van Cliburn on stage, at church and in private life
You know how, when you are growing up, that there is always some kind of music that you want to play late at night and it drives (Will you PLEASE turn that down?!) your parents kind of crazy? Well, for my parents, the music they had to endure for most of my teen years was Artur Rubinstein playing Rachmaninoff (piano concerto No. 2, of course) and Van Cliburn’s epic performance of the Tchaikovsky Concerto No. 1.
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Why is the pope so old? (And other media questions)
A few days ago, the Washington Post tweeted out a link to a piece on its web site with the tease “Why is the pope always so old?” and a link to an article. Within moments, a bunch of people responded negatively to the tweet. I attached a screen shot here, but the comments included:
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