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Notice about John Allen's Friday column
Posted on Apr 18, 2008 08:32am CST.John Allen's coverage of Pope Benedict's trip to the U.S. has kept him from writing a column today, but Allen is filing audio reports on the pope's trip twice daily at NCRonline.org.
You can see some of his daily writing here: johnallen.ncrcafe.org.
Check NCRonline.org and read National Catholic Reporter for Allen's extensive analysis of the trip all next week.
The Pope and the Polygamists
Posted on Apr 18, 2008 22:27pm CST.By JOHN L. ALLEN JR.
New York
There’s a peculiar bit of subtext to media coverage of Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to the United States, one to which I may be particularly sensitive, given that I have spent a considerable portion of the last four days sitting on a television set somewhere listening to the segments that either precede or follow reports about the pope.
Simply put, the subtext is this: At least as a TV story, the pope is barely holding his own against the polygamists.
