Should visitors to GetReligion choose to search our archives for the term “Womenpriests” they will find eight pages of results, most of them dedicated to dissecting alleged news reports about this tiny splinter movement on the left side of the world of American Catholicism. I say “alleged” because most of these stories resemble public relations [Read More…]
About those Nigerian Christian girls, chanting in Arabic
May 16, 2014 by
As I have said many times, I have no idea how foreign correspondents do the work that they do, especially when working in regions that are being torn apart by civil war and complex events linked to terrorism. While readers tend to see events in terms of good guys and terrorists, the reporters on the [Read More…]
Horny dads at a prom: Too juicy to get the whole story
May 16, 2014 by
Let’s talk about Clare, the homeschooled teenager in Richmond, Va., who was thrown out of a prom because of her dress. The facts are … Well, actually, we don’t know many of the facts, whatever you may have read in “news” accounts. Nearly all of them are based purely on her blogging rant about the [Read More…]
There he goes, there (Bill Keller) goes again …
May 15, 2014 by
In light of the latest newsroom drama at The New York Times, let’s pause and reflect once again on why it matters so much who leads America’s most influential news institution. I know that it only seems like yesterday that editor Jill Abramson was the new boss and we were trying to gauge how that [Read More…]
Shock: Russian Orthodoxy gives drag queen thumbs down
May 14, 2014 by
Dear GetReligion readers: Some of you wrote to say that you wanted to know what I thought of the whole Conchita Wurst episode, referring to the drag queen — the term used in mainstream media reports — who won the recent Eurovision Song Contest. In particular, a few of you want to know what I [Read More…]
What rights should parents of gay children have in Maryland?
May 13, 2014 by
Here we go again. The Baltimore Sun — the newspaper that lands in my front yard — recently published a very provocative piece about the next round in our state’s battles between conservative religious believers and gay-rights organizations. In this case, the battle is over the work of the “ex-gay” ministries and, in particular, the [Read More…]
So #bringbackourgirls is finally a news story! Why now?
May 12, 2014 by
At this point, the kidnapped girls in Nigeria are officially “A News Story,” which means that CNN is even breaking into its coverage of missing airliners to get into the big details. Of course, it helps when the details are on video: (CNN) — The girls sit quietly on the ground, dressed in traditional Islamic [Read More…]
God, sex, ‘military values’ and the U.S. Naval Academy
May 9, 2014 by
Most weekday mornings, as I make my short drive to the train station for my ride to Capitol Hill, I hear at least one plug on talk radio for the Navy Federal Credit Union. Part of the liturgy in these advertisements is an appeal to the “military values” that are said to make this financial [Read More…]
