Reflections on life, meaning and purpose

Fiducia Supplicans was followed closely by the photo ops — it’s a 5-star case of the medium being the message…

Here is a fact from life on the religion beat. Several times a year, a religion-beat reporter is going to be approached by an editor who wants him or her to make a photo-assignment for a religious holiday or a story with some kind of religion hook. They don’t want Southern Baptists in gray suits (or even megachurch tropical shirts). They don’t want Pentecostal believers in church clothes with their hands in the air.