I started to wonder what sort of coverage the trip had received. After I hung up the phone, I searched through several newspaper websites. I clicked on the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe. Nothing, nothing, nothing. None of them mentioned on their home page the pope's just-completed trip.

When I got to work on Monday, I searched CNN Newsource, which provides newsfeeds to my show, "Currents," as well as to countless other news programs around the country. I found a grand total of one item, running about a minute long, slugged "Anti-Pope Demonstrations."

That was it.

 

Deacon Greg resists the temptation to accuse the media of anti-Catholic bias, instead seeing the "under-reporting, or un-reporting, or mis-reporting" of religion stories as a result of newsroom budget cuts. That beat is one of the first to go.