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Fiddling While Christianity Burns

September 16, 2010 By Lisa Miller

Pope Benedict is hitting all the wrong notes in his trip to the United Kingdom. Ireland, where the Roman Catholic Church’s sex-abuse scandal has been the most appalling—hundreds of children molested over decades—is a short plane ride from England. And in Ireland, where since the days of St. Patrick, the Catholic Church has been the […]

Filed Under: Newsweek Tagged With: Christianity, Lisa Miller, Pope Benedict XVI, Roman Catholic Church, United Kindom

Is Pope Benedict XVI a Bad Shepherd?

March 26, 2010 By Lisa Miller

Two years ago Pope Benedict XVI—once known as “God’s Rottweiler”—displayed his gentler side on a pilgrimage to America. Television pundits spoke of his soft white hair, his smile, “his great warmth and his sense of humor,” says Thomas Noble, head of the history department at Notre Dame. On the trip Benedict confronted head-on the American […]

Filed Under: BeliefWatch: Lisa Miller, Newsweek Tagged With: Bernie McDaid, Lisa Miller, Notre Dame, Pope Benedict XVI, Thomas Noble

Public Relations for the Pope

May 14, 2009 By Lisa Miller

I say this with respect: Pope Benedict XVI has a public-relations problem. You need only remember the 2000 visit of John Paul II to Jerusalem—which earned wall-to-wall cable coverage and produced the unforgettable image of the frail pope praying by the Western Wall—to know it’s true. Pope Benedict, by contrast, visited the Yad Vashem Holocaust […]

Filed Under: BeliefWatch: Lisa Miller, Newsweek Tagged With: Lisa Miller, Pope Benedict XVI, theology

About Lisa Miller

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Lisa Miller is a staff writer at New York magazine. She is the former religion columnist for the Washington Post, former senior editor of Newsweek magazine, and author of "Heaven: Our Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife."

In 2014, Lisa Miller was nominated for the National Magazine Award and featured in Best Magazine Writing of 2014.

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