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March 2013

March 18, 2013
When the news broke about the election of the first Jesuit pope, several on-air commentators...
March 18, 2013
Here's another story that I wanted to cover last week before I got injured and...
March 18, 2013
Suggestions that Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio was morally complicit in the crimes of the Argentine junta...
March 17, 2013
Various media reported that new CIA chief John O. Brennan swore his oath of office...
March 17, 2013
You will be shocked, shocked, need I say SHOCKED to know that this week's "Crossroads"...
March 16, 2013
Let's flash back, for a moment, to the early stages of the tsunami of papal...
March 15, 2013
Warning to readers: The following post is blatantly self-serving and includes flattering remarks about the...
March 15, 2013
We've certainly seen some abysmally bad religion news coverage ever since Pope Benedict XVI announced...
March 15, 2013
Europe's tabloid press has added its bit to the wall-to-wall press coverage of Pope Francis. Crowding...
March 14, 2013
Friends, I took a nasty fall a couple of days ago and have seriously injured...
March 14, 2013
It's another great day to be a newspaper junkie who enjoys checking out front pages...
March 14, 2013
As always, the gospel according to The New York Times -- in an early version...
March 13, 2013
All together now: Raise your hands if you wanted to throw something at the television...
March 13, 2013
The religion news world remains on pope watch, awaiting the selection of Benedict XVI's successor....
March 13, 2013
Does anyone remember why the powerful Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger selected the name Benedict XVI when...
March 12, 2013
The downfall of Cardinal Keith O’Brien, Britain's senior Roman Catholic cleric, has not shown the...
March 12, 2013
Right now, editors in major newsrooms are doing everything they can to cover the papal...
March 12, 2013
I love that biting Leonard Cohen song "Everybody Knows." It begins: Everybody knows that the...
March 11, 2013
To be honest with you, I feel like taking a short break from the Vatican...
March 11, 2013
The International Business Times sure has a scoop. Headline: Conclave 2013: Pope Benedict XVI 'Did...
March 11, 2013
A note of condolence written by Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, upon the death of Venezuelan strongman...
March 10, 2013
I have always been fascinated, both as a pastor's kid and as a journalist, by...
March 09, 2013
On this week's Crossroads podcast, host Todd Wilken and I talked about recent admissions from...
March 08, 2013
At this point in the conclave process, I'm sure that millions of liberal Catholics are...
March 08, 2013
This week, the conservative Weekly Standard broke a story that was headlined: Michelle Obama and...
March 07, 2013
Back in November, The New York Times produced a downright nauseating account of Liberty University's...
March 07, 2013
Friends, Romans and other anxious news consumers, some of you may not have seen the...
March 07, 2013
Media outlets had a lot of fun with a recent story about a Vatican gatecrasher....
March 06, 2013
Do you speak duck? Last Wednesday night, the Season 3 premiere of A&E's "Duck Dynasty" delivered...
March 06, 2013
Yesterday we looked at some of this week's worst examples of some major media's trouble...
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