Day 2: Pope still extremely Catholic
I hope everyone is having a blast with Day 2 of Papalpalooza.
I hope everyone is having a blast with Day 2 of Papalpalooza.
We believe we have a free press. But what good is nominal freedom if the writers are liars, or are ill-educated, or feed the populace a lot of claptrap, or ignore important events because they don't like the people involved or the cause?
Many who doubt the plausibility of the Scriptures are gullible about hoaxes.
Pope Benedict XVI was in Lebanon last week where the principal Catholic rite, the Maronite, traces its roots to Saint Maroun, who in the fourth century was a friend of Saint John Chrysostom.
The Vatican hired Greg Burke in June, an experienced journalist at Catholic and secular outlets, as a special consultant to help with press communications.
Ever since Nicholas Carr wrote the celebrated Atlantic Monthly cover story called "Is Google Making us Stupid?" and turned it into his 2011 Pulitzer-finalist book, vigorous debate has not ceased on whether our immersion in the digital world of the Internet and i-gadgetry is having a negative effect on our minds.
I was smitten by an enormous pang of guilt when I read that the Nicholas Hoare bookshop, for 40 years a fixture in my neighbourhood's tiny, semi-tony shopping hub, is closing its doors this July.
This New York Times story fails the test of good journalism. Professionally it is sloppy work. It is also offensive.
When Pope Benedict XVI appointed the archbishop of Denver, Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M.Cap., as the new archbishop of Philadelphia on July 19, the usual suspects were trotted out to say the usual things that the usual suspects say.
When John Paul II was dying, the media loved him; nothing has emerged that much changed the original assessment, though you wouldnt know that from the current news coverage.