Please follow these instructions. Sit down. Click here. Read the story. Then click here just to confirm that this is not, in fact, a story from The Onion. This is, in fact, a report from the Los Angeles Times. Now read the story again and note that this is the rare opportunity to do what […]
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The London Sunday Telegraph carried a couple of interesting pieces on the growth of Christianity in China, though the author missed a few issues in my humble opinion. The first article looks at the growth of Christianity as the country’s “new social revolution” and the other looks at the reason Christianity is growing (hint: […]
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Every now and then, a story comes out in a niche magazine or alternative form of media that stops me dead in my tracks and makes me say, “Wow! What a scoop! What will the MSM do with that?” Since this is a blog about the major media and religion news, I tend to wait until […]
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Just a quick update on an ongoing topic. There is an interesting essay in the Wall Street Journal about Catholicism, John Roberts, Sen. Richard Durbin and St. Thomas More — sort of in that order. Clearly this topic is going to keep coming up, as demonstrated by Jeremy with this post yesterday and Doug with […]
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Anthony Grafton, a professor of history at Princeton University, has written a thoughtful summary of Pope Benedict XVI’s writings (The New Yorker, July 25). I apologize for my delay in mentioning this essay — it never appeared on The New Yorker’s website, and the paper edition often reaches my home rather late in the publication […]
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You had to know that this was coming. During the days before the conclave in which Pope Benedict XVI was elected, many commentators predicted that this would be the papacy that furthered the transition to the “global Christianity” reflected by many of the appointments made by Pope John Paul II. Well, that’s true. But there are […]
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