The Great War had a tincture of tragic elegy…. World War II, by contrast, was thoroughly modern, disengaged from any romantic past.
Journalism
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis speaks candidly to the church in a new book of interviews
Pope Francis confessed that while he has “chutzpah,” “I am also timid.”
Posted inPolitics & Society, Video
John Dickerson of CBS News talks Trump, journalism and his Catholic faith
John Dickerson, host of Face the Nation, sits down with America’s editor in chief Matt Malone, S.J.
Posted inFaith, News
Pope Francis launches campaign to fight ‘fake news’
“‘The truth will set you free’: Fake news and journalism for peace” will be the theme of the church’s celebration of World Communications Day 2018.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
A trip to the country’s oldest Catholic radio station. Location: Nome, Alaska
KNOM has been broadcasting news, weather and the Mass to Alaskans since 1971.
Posted inArts & Culture, Of Many Things
The virtue of a Catholic journalist: Raymond Schroth, R.I.P.
Raymond A. Schroth, S.J. contributed more than 60 features to these pages, chronicling the most important events in the life of this country and the church throughout the world.
Posted inFaith, News
Cardinal Gerhard Müller denies false account of meeting with Pope Francis
The former head of the Vatican’s doctrine office denied reports claiming he was dismissed by Pope Francis due to differences in doctrinal matters.
Posted inArts & Culture, Last Take
The pope and the press: a surprisingly friendly relationship
How Pope Francis has changed the Catholic Church’s relationship with the media
Posted inFaith, Jesuitical
Making it in the (secular) (white) media as a Catholic Latina
This week, we talk Latina identity, journalism and more with Juleyka Lantigua-Williams. She is the former senior supervising producer and editor of NPR’s Code Switch and a former staff writer at The Atlantic. She has covered issues ranging from women’s rights at home and abroad, environmental justice, U.S. immigration policy, poverty, maternal health, early childhood development […]
Posted inJesuitical, Politics & Society
News cycle survival tips from an NPR reporter
If (like me) you wake up to Morning Edition, ride home to “All Things Considered” and sip your Sunday coffee over “The Puzzle,” this episode’s for you. We are talking with NPR congressional correspondent, host of the “NPR Politics Podcast” and Fordham alum Scott Detrow about how he keeps his sanity while covering the news in the […]