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Cringe alert! Mike Huckabee in stilettos
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David Gibson
Yes…that could be Huck’s next campaign poster. Since election day, failed GOP contender and true-blue (or is that red?) evangelical, Mike Huckabee, has been settling some scores, as this TIME magazine piece on his new book shows. Now it has gotten ugly. In the latest New Yorker, Huckabee tells Lauren Collins he was a bit…
The FOCA Phantom: What will pro-lifers do without it?
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David Gibson
The focus of much of the Catholic right’s doomsday prophesying about Barack Obama, a.k.a. the anti-Christ (see Stafford, Cardinal Francis, et al) has been about the inevitability of Obama signing the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA), which would enshrine Roe into federal law and make abortion-on-demand part of a mandated kindergarten curriculum and push the…
UPDATE: Lennon needed no “forgiveness”–at least not from the Vatican
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David Gibson
Updating yesterday’s Beatles post…A letter to the editor in today’s NYT, clarifying that while the Osservatore Romano was trying to be generous, they still didn’t quite ” get” what Lennon was saying: November 25, 2008 You Can Make It O.K. To the Editor: “Church Forgives John Lennon ‘Boast’ ” (news article, Nov. 23), on the…
What is the point of interfaith dialogue?
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David Gibson
Pope Benedict XVI gave an insight into his thinking on this topic in a letter to a friend and co-author, Marcello Pera, philosopher and former president of the Italian senate and an agnostic (perhaps even an atheist) who has nonetheless been a great champion of Benedict’s project to protect Europe’s Christian cultural heritage. Pera is…
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