Speaking in Tongues Catholics & The Steubenville Rape ( Experts Weigh In )

I and a few other folks in the Catholic ghetto of blogs have commented on this face palm of journalistic piece the last week that was in Sal...

Pope Francis Already On Front Cover of Next Time Magazine ( PIC )

That was pretty quick. Good timing I guess .

An Increasing Frustration On How Murder of Gay Mississippi Politico Is Being Covered

Rod Dreher lends voice to that today at WaPo: Mississippi Is Always Burning . Related is this Get Religion piece Can the press cover traditi...

Does the Washington Post Cover People of Faith Fairly - A Week of Controversy

Quite a big controversy over at the Washington Post where a unnamed reporter involved in an exchange with a reader was quite blunt with wha...

Doing the Right Thing - Harvard Crimson Columnist Admits Was Wrong On Conservative Jewish Religious Practice

Rod Dreher righlty note it is good to see when someone in the media admits they were  wrong and trys to correct the mistake. See A Praisewo...

Missouri Synod Lutherans Unfeeling ? LCMS Journalist On Media Coverage of Sandy Hook Worship Service

The Lutheran Church Missouri Synod has been in the news this week as to a controversy over a interfaith Church service that happened after t...

Sometimes A Rebel Flag Is Just A Battle Flag - South Carolina Episcopal Church & Newspaper Cartoons

I do a lot of how media handles the religion beat on this blog and not just as to Catholics. I for some reason rarely hit the topic Editoria...

Huge Development in Catholic Social Media - Aleteia and Google “holy Web alliance”

Vatican Insider  from Italy has an article here Aleteia and Google forge “holy Web alliance” I have to admit I just discovered them as they ...

Got News Secular Media - Leader of Episcopal Church Links Bishop To School Shooters

To say the dispute with the departed Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina and the National  Episcopal Church USA is tense is an understatemen...

Downton Abbey and Being A Catholic Or A Liturgical / Hierarchical Christian

Roma locuta est has a nice piece up on this at  On Downton Abbey and Being Catholic

Piers Morgan Wants To Drastically Expand Gun Ownership RIGHTS - Says Let It Be Like Cars

Piers tweeted : If Americans are happy to accept all the laws/insurance/regulations to own a car, why not a gun? I am not sure this was Pier...

Various Lists of Top Religion Stories of 2012

Get Religion has a number of top religion stories of 2012 lists linked at the bottom of this post 2012 in review: Contraception vs. religiou...

CBS Sports Writer Dayn Perry Unleashs the Shellfish Argument on Angels Baseball Player

Baseball sports writer Dayn Perry over at a CBS sports blog commented on an article that dealt with the state of gay athletes in pro sports ...

Syrian Catholics and Orthodox That Don't Believe in the Real Presence ? BBC Syria Christmas Story

While there are no doubt some low Church Protestants and Evangelicals in Syria most of the population is Orthodox or Catholic. This Get Reli...

Is Former Time and Fox Journalist Greg Burke Next Vatican Spokesman ? The Papal Twitter Roll Out Subplot

It is Friday which means the always informative column by John Allen has come out. See Mixed bag of Catholic life, Twitter, Denmark, and Oba...

Why Is Marriage Equality Not In Scare Quotes But Religious Liberty Is ? - Media

One of the religious media watchdogs over at Get Religion looks at perhaps the inconsistent use of scare quotes again by journalist. In thi...

One Of Nation's Best Religion Reporters Says Farewell - Bruce Nolan of the New Orleans Picayune

I am hoping somehow that void in Louisiana religion reporting is going to be filled somehow. See A Times-Picayune veteran’s farewell

The New York Times Using Term Illegal Immigrants Is Correct

The York Times Public Editor had a interesting blog post defending their use of illegal alien and illegal immigrant. She says in part : ......

Historic Day- First Printed Baton Rouge Advocate ( New Orleans Edition ) Newspaper Is Out

Historic day. The first edition of the Baton Rouge Advocate Daily New Orleans print edition is out today. Suspect the now 3 day a week Picay...

Firing of Writer / Editor at EWTN Owned National Catholic Register Sets Off Controversy

I am have been thinking of saying a few words on the . Benedict Groeschel controversy but as of yet never got around too it. I wanted to lin...