Media Coverage of the Next Pope – Terry Mattingly, 4/23/25 (1131)

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🗓️ 23 April 2025

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Terry Mattingly of Rational Sheep Rational Sheep Pop Goes Religion: Faith in Popular Culture GetReligion.org

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0:24.4	Help us inform other podcast listeners by subscribing to the Issues Et cetera podcast with YouTube, Spotify, and Apple. That is That is Pope Francis speaking in St. Peter's Square on Easter Sunday by Easter Monday, he had passed away.
0:57.4	Not entirely unexpectedly, his health had been failing for some time, but it leaves a big
1:05.2	vacancy. Now, how is that vacancy filled, and how is the media covering not only the death of Pope Francis but also
1:12.6	the prospect of the next pope greetings in welcome to issues etc back live on this
1:19.4	easter wednesday afternoon april the 23rd i'm todd wilkin thanks for tuning us in we'll be talked
1:24.5	with terry madingley author of the national on religion column about media coverage of next pope. We'll spend some time with Tim Gagline to focus on the
1:31.6	family on a new report on the state of America's public education system. Then in our two of
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1:59.6	Terry Mattingly is senior fellow on Communications and Culture at St. Constantine
2:04.3	College in Houston, Texas. He writes Rational Sheep, a substack newsletter on faith family and mass media.
2:10.3	He's author of the National On Religion column for the Andrews McMill Universal Syndicate, and for two
2:15.3	decades, he led the Get the Get Religion.org website.
2:17.7	Terry, welcome back.
2:18.9	Glad to be here.
2:20.2	This Pope election thing, is this a political contest or is that simply how the press will frame
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