Catholicism

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'Expert Witness' or Fluke?

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I was seriously sick this week — bed rest and the whole nine yards — and am catching up on some news. I’ve sent out an APB on Twitter (from both my personal account and the GetReligion account) asking for any good stories at all — anywhere — by the mainstream media about religious liberty this week. Would you send along any links you have to stories that did a good job covering the major religious liberty issues in play right now in America regarding this HHS mandate from the Obama administration?


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The masterpiece of Satan

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Ad fontes — to the sources — is a helpful phrase to keep in mind when reading press reports about church leaders. It is always useful to set what is reported to have been said by the pope, the Archbishop of Canterbury and other leading clerics against the text of their address. Sometimes the two do not agree.


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Spoon-feeding partisan talking points

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At the beginning of last month, tmatt highlighted the main framing device in the news and commentary in the battle over the Obama Administration’s mandate requiring employers to provide coverage for abortifacients, sterilization and contraception even if they have religious objections:


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Catholic Communion in the news, again

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One of the terms that journalists hear during many continuing education sessions at the Poynter Institute down in Florida is “stakeholder.” Basically, a stakeholder is someone whose life will be directly affected by the accuracy and fairness of a story.


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Zombie Muhammad and the First Amendment

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We’ve had a few readers send in links to coverage of a First Amendment-related case out of Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. It’s a sad story that goes back to a 2011 Halloween parade. A small group of atheists marched in the parade, dressed as a Zombie Pope and a Zombie Muhammad. This outraged one Muslim father who attended the parade with his wife and son.


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AP discovers a new faith -- "Southern Baptism"

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On one level, the error that I am about to spotlight is so silly that it could just be a typo or a stupid (click here for classics) error — like someone calling Sen. Rick Santorum an evangelicalist or reporting that some liturgical committee has decided to modernize the Episcopalian prayerbook, again.


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Someone's confused about Santorum

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An editor, whose religion I don’t know, sent this Associated Press story along with the note, “Maybe I’m too sensitive to these things, but this strikes me as kind of a vile headline if you think about it–not that some people mistake him for a Protestant, but the implication is that they wouldn’t support him if they knew he was Catholic.”


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