More about Ray Lewis and his Psalms 91 t-shirt
So, GetReligion readers, I am happy to report that the Baltimore Sun team noticed the scripture reference at the heart of one of the biggest moments in the recent history of sports here in Charm City....
View ArticleSuper Bowl week: Sun misses the Spirit in AP Stylebook
News flash: This may be a shock to GetReligion readers, who are quite cool as a rule when it comes to caring about sports, but America is currently moving into the secular holy season known as Super...
View ArticleWhy can’t press get religion, when covering black churches?
Let’s face it. The mainstream press really struggles when trying to cover life in African-American churches. On one level, black churches are treated like giant political institutions that — in a city...
View ArticleThe Sun talks (just talk, no facts) about an Episcopal hero
I didn’t know much about the Rt. Rev. David Leighton — the 11th diocese of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland — before reading the recent Baltimore Sun news article about the funeral rites held in his...
View ArticleTom Clancy: That Baltimore Catholic and his generic beliefs
As I have mentioned many times, Baltimore culture is both historically Catholic and very liberal and the state of Maryland is used to having political leaders who are openly Catholic, yet clash...
View ArticlePraise be to Soros for investing millions in Baltimore
So, does the cultural left have a leader who might play the role that the Rev. Pat Robertson plays for the mainstream press when it is covering life on the religious right? I mean, is there a person on...
View ArticleAll together now: Archbishop Lori leads WHAT committee?
It’s that time, again. The U.S. Catholic bishops are back in Baltimore and the agenda includes the election of a new president to replace the remarkably charismatic (especially in his crucial...
View ArticleAfter more bullets in Baltimore: ‘Why couldn’t God stop this?’
Long ago, I was talking to an inner-city pastor (a priest, actually) in Denver who made a very interesting, insightful and depressing observation about his work. One thing that African-American clergy...
View ArticleShock: Bishops decide to defend Catholic tradition!
OK, let’s deal with some basic questions about Catholic bishops and politics. In terms of basic journalism language, when the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops released pastoral documents about, oh,...
View ArticleYes, before Baltimore, Lori was bishop of Newtown
If the mainstream press has a creed, one of its central tenets is certainly this old truth: All news is local. Somehow, some way, the job of the local editor is to find a way to connect major news...
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