Job Title: Bishop of Rome (also Pope, Pontifex Maximus, Vicar of Christ, Servus Servorum Dei, etc.)

Over at RealClearReligion, Jeffrey Weiss thinks the fuss over Tim Tebow’s broken engagement at First Baptist Dallas doesn’t “make a lick of sense.” I beg to differ.

Let the record show that Terry Mattingly has admitted making a mistake. A couple of weeks ago he took the press to task for using the word “resign” to report Pope Benedict’s decision to step down. “Abdicate” was, he claimed, le mot juste. But late last week he allowed as how his shot had been wide [...]

Among the things I do is serve as academic adviser to the Trinity College men’s squash team, which yesterday in New Haven won the national men’s collegiate squash championship for the 14th time in the last 15 years.

Bill Donohue is up in arms against the New York Times for giving the business to bad Catholic priests while shielding bad rabbis. I fear Bill has overlooked some important coverage.

Chill, Christians. In their “DJesus UnCrossed” skit, the folks at Saturday Night Live were merely acting out the New Testament’s own version of a Tarentino revenge fantasy.

So if Purim is not, as Lauren Markoe reports, the Jewish Halloween, what is it? The Jewish Mardi Gras.

Since we started walking down the contraception mandate road a year ago, clerical opponents of the mandate have embraced the meme that the First Amendment protects not only religious beliefs but also religious practices.

“Can the Republicans Be Saved From Obsolescence?,” Robert Draper’s cover story in yesterday’s New York Times Magazine, focuses on the GOP’s digital backwardness, but the point of the piece is not technological but demographic.

The other day, Terry Mattingly, the bespoke scold of religion newswriting, took the press to task for claiming that Pope Benedict had “resigned.” No way, quoth tmatt.