The New York Times is shocked, shocked to hear Pope Francis say there is a gay lobby at the Vatican.
Are gay blinkers distorting the New York Times on Vatican?
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Hurrah: CNN names some of the ghosts in Gezi Park
The coverage of events in Turkey roll on and on and the mainstream press continues to treat this as a simple clash between the moderate Islamic stance (whatever that means) of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and a hip, young, urban secular vision of at Turkey looking toward Europe and the future.
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It's summertime, and GetReligionista life is complicated
Yes, it’s summertime (sing along with the voice of my teen years in Port Arthur, Texas) and, to cut to the chase, the living ain’t easy right now for your GetReligionistas.
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Hey! It's journalists mangling scripture day! (UPDATED)
David Brooks wrote a very Brooksian column for today’s New York Times about how our culture was more dynamic when there were competing status hierarchies and how our current situation of one hierarchy means that the successful are less haunted by their own status and the less successful have nowhere to hide.
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Got news? Is a global 'war on Christianity' newsworthy?
Would it be newsworthy if a U.S. Senator claimed in a public address that American taxpayer dollars are being used in a war against Christian believers in — to pick one key region — the Holy Land?
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Religion News Service blames Catholics for Anglican ecumenical ills
Opinion presented as fact dominates several stories in the run up to today’s meeting of Pope Francis and the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby.
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On Tim Tebow, 'spirituality' and stating the obvious
Now, I live in the land of purple and black here in Maryland, home of the World Champion Baltimore Ravens (it’s still fun to say that), where if anyone asked the local faithful to nominate a few candidates for the role of Antichrist, New England coach Bill Belichick would be right near the top of the list. Thus, the announcement that You Know Who had signed with the Patriots (Tim Tebow plus Patriots; get ready for an IRS audit) created quite a bit of amazement.
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Child euthanasia in the European press
A front page story in the Monday edition of the Brussels’s daily De Morgen on a Belgian Senate committee’s deliberations on whether the country’s laws should be extended to permit the euthanasia of children and dementia patients has created a buzz on pro-life and political websites.
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Holy Scouts! Southern Baptists didn't do what we expected!
So, when push came to shove, what did the Southern Baptist Convention decide to do about the Boy Scouts of America?
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