{"id":612,"date":"2011-04-20T14:26:47","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T18:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/?p=612"},"modified":"2011-04-20T14:26:47","modified_gmt":"2011-04-20T18:26:47","slug":"holy-wednesday-news-cycle-oil-spill-anniversary-lady-gaga-judas-reefer-madness-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2011\/04\/holy-wednesday-news-cycle-oil-spill-anniversary-lady-gaga-judas-reefer-madness-more.html","title":{"rendered":"Holy Wednesday News Cycle: Oil Spill Anniversary, Lady Gaga + Judas, Reefer Madness &amp; More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Holy Wednesday, indeed: there&#8217;s so much random faith-related news on this hump day, the only way I can do it justice it to give you a top 5 list:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20110420\/ap_on_re_us\/us_gulf_oil_spill_anniversary\">Day of remembrance: 1 year after Gulf oil disaster <\/a>(AP)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicnews.com\/data\/stories\/cns\/1101554.htm\">Charter review will look at Philadelphia abuse situation, bishop says <\/a>(Catholic News Service)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.getreligion.org\/2011\/04\/obamas-confession-of-faith\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+getreligion%2FDmXm+%28GetReligion%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">Obama&#8217;s confession of faith <\/a>(GetReligion)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/newsblogs.chicagotribune.com\/religion_theseeker\/2011\/04\/lady-gaga-commemorates-judas-days-before-easter.html\">Lady Gaga commemorates Judas a few days before Easter <\/a>(Chicago Tribune&#8217;s Seeker blog)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.chron.com\/believeitornot\/2010\/04\/in_honor_of_420_christian_pers_1.html\">In honor of 4\/20, Christian perspectives on smoking pot <\/a>(Houston Chronicle&#8217;s Belief blog)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See what I mean? Plus, of course Holy Week is a busy time for religion reporters professionally &#8212; stay tuned for a couple of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\">Religion News Service <\/a>pieces from me &#8212; but also personally (especially for those of us attempting to pack up a kid and dog for some cross-country\u00a0holiday traveling).<\/p>\n<p>What do you think? Share your thoughts in the Comments section below.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>*<a href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=beliefnet\/beliefbeat\">Click here to\u00a0<strong>subscribe to Belief Beat\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/beliefbeat\">click here to\u00a0<strong>follow Belief Beat on Twitter.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holy Wednesday, indeed: there&#8217;s so much random faith-related news on this hump day, the only way I can do it justice it to give you a top 5 list: Day of remembrance: 1 year after Gulf oil disaster (AP) Charter review will look at Philadelphia abuse situation, bishop says (Catholic News Service) Obama&#8217;s confession of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[100,20,14,103,109,79,110,107,108,106,105,111],"class_list":["post-612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-news","tag-catholicism","tag-catholics","tag-christianity","tag-clergy-abuse","tag-deepwater-horizon","tag-easter-2011","tag-gulf-of-mexico-oil-spill","tag-holy-wednesday-2011","tag-holy-week-2011","tag-judas","tag-lady-gaga","tag-marijuana"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Holy Wednesday News Cycle: Oil Spill Anniversary, Lady Gaga + Judas, Reefer Madness &amp; More - Belief Beat<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2011\/04\/holy-wednesday-news-cycle-oil-spill-anniversary-lady-gaga-judas-reefer-madness-more.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Holy Wednesday News Cycle: Oil Spill Anniversary, Lady Gaga + Judas, Reefer Madness &amp; More - Belief Beat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Holy Wednesday, indeed: there&#8217;s so much random faith-related news on this hump day, the only way I can do it justice it to give you a top 5 list: Day of remembrance: 1 year after Gulf oil disaster (AP) Charter review will look at Philadelphia abuse situation, bishop says (Catholic News Service) Obama&#8217;s confession of&hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2011\/04\/holy-wednesday-news-cycle-oil-spill-anniversary-lady-gaga-judas-reefer-madness-more.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Belief Beat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2011-04-20T18:26:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Nicole Neroulias\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Holy Wednesday News Cycle: Oil Spill Anniversary, Lady Gaga + Judas, Reefer Madness &amp; More - Belief Beat","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2011\/04\/holy-wednesday-news-cycle-oil-spill-anniversary-lady-gaga-judas-reefer-madness-more.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Holy Wednesday News Cycle: Oil Spill Anniversary, Lady Gaga + Judas, Reefer Madness &amp; More - Belief Beat","og_description":"Holy Wednesday, indeed: there&#8217;s so much random faith-related news on this hump day, the only way I can do it justice it to give you a top 5 list: Day of remembrance: 1 year after Gulf oil disaster (AP) Charter review will look at Philadelphia abuse situation, bishop says (Catholic News Service) Obama&#8217;s confession of&hellip;","og_url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2011\/04\/holy-wednesday-news-cycle-oil-spill-anniversary-lady-gaga-judas-reefer-madness-more.html","og_site_name":"Belief Beat","article_published_time":"2011-04-20T18:26:47+00:00","author":"Nicole Neroulias","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2011\/04\/holy-wednesday-news-cycle-oil-spill-anniversary-lady-gaga-judas-reefer-madness-more.html","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2011\/04\/holy-wednesday-news-cycle-oil-spill-anniversary-lady-gaga-judas-reefer-madness-more.html","name":"Holy Wednesday News Cycle: Oil Spill Anniversary, Lady Gaga + Judas, Reefer Madness &amp; More - Belief Beat","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/#website"},"datePublished":"2011-04-20T18:26:47+00:00","dateModified":"2011-04-20T18:26:47+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/#\/schema\/person\/42dac2ebd149a02dfe91f0f93e36761b"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2011\/04\/holy-wednesday-news-cycle-oil-spill-anniversary-lady-gaga-judas-reefer-madness-more.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2011\/04\/holy-wednesday-news-cycle-oil-spill-anniversary-lady-gaga-judas-reefer-madness-more.html"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2011\/04\/holy-wednesday-news-cycle-oil-spill-anniversary-lady-gaga-judas-reefer-madness-more.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Holy Wednesday News Cycle: Oil Spill Anniversary, Lady Gaga + Judas, Reefer Madness &amp; More"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/","name":"Belief Beat","description":"BeliefBeat - Nicole Neroulias","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/#\/schema\/person\/42dac2ebd149a02dfe91f0f93e36761b","name":"Nicole Neroulias","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/caf\/caf1ad99f5fc2a063b8e935cf82f65fdx96.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/caf\/caf1ad99f5fc2a063b8e935cf82f65fdx96.jpg","caption":"Nicole Neroulias"},"description":"Nicole Neroulias is a correspondent for Religion News Service, a secular news and photo service devoted to unbiased coverage of religion and ethics. A graduate of Cornell University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, she has previously written for The New York Times and other media outlets. She and her family live in Seattle.","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/author\/nneroulias"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":614,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions\/614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}