Tag Archives: Pope Benedict XVI

Big Branding Opportunity For Pope Francis

Posted on September 21, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

Lots of shoutouts for the interview Pope Francis gave to Italian Jesuit journal Civiltà Cattolica this week, including this piece from Friday’s Wall Street Journal front page. Pope Warns Church Focusing Too Much on Gays, Abortion Francis Sets Out Vision … Continue reading →

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Boston Herald Is the Papal of Record

Posted on February 20, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

The Boston Globe has a nice Page One piece about the Great Mentioner throwing Sean O’Malley’s hood into the bakeoff for a new Pontiff, but our feisty local tabloid goes all Poparazzi over the prospect. Page One: Inside spreads . . . … Continue reading →

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Newseum’s Top Ten Pope-a-Lope Front Pages Skips the Best One

Posted on February 13, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

Every day The Newseum posts its Today’s Top Ten Front Pages, which featured this on Tuesday: Caught Off Guard Monday’s shocking news of Pope Benedict XVI’s impending resignation caught the world, and the media, off guard. Today, newspapers around the globe caught up, with front-page … Continue reading →

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Boston Dailies Are Papal Tigers

Posted on February 12, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

In this most Cathaholic of towns, the Boston Globe and the Boston Herald are on Pope Benedict XVI’s resignation like Brown on Williamson. For starters, the old Pontifox owns both front pages. From there he gets Vatican-size chunks of the newshole – … Continue reading →

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Boston Globe’s Papal Cut

Posted on December 13, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

That old Pontifox, Benedict XVI, was all tweetness and light yesterday as he took to Twitter to bless the faithful (over one million served so far). Of course everybody’s reporting on the gala debut – except the Boston Globe. … Continue reading →

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We’re Number 410,102!!

Posted on December 5, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

The mainstream media are all a-Twitter over the decision by Pope Benedict XVI to Vati-tweet the faithful. From Tuesday’s New York Times: Twitter Has a New User: The Pope VATICAN CITY — Now trending on Twitter: Pope Benedict XVI. On Monday, the Vatican announced … Continue reading →

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One For The Old Man

Posted on September 21, 2010 by Campaign Outsider

Whenever we talked about religion (which was far too often), my father, Jack Carroll – a.k.a. Black Bart (don’t ask), a.k.a The Silver Fox (he turned gray at age 26 . . . because of me, he always said) – … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged beatification, Cardinal John Henry Newman, Jack Carroll, New York Times, Pope Benedict XVI, Silver Fox | Leave a comment

Is The New York Times A Papal Tiger?

Posted on April 28, 2010 by Campaign Outsider

Okay, so this past Sunday the New York Times Public Editor, Clark Hoyt, penned this lede under the headline, “Questioning the Pope:” A TOP Vatican official said The Times “lacks fairness in its coverage of Pope Benedict.” The archbishop of … Continue reading →

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