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Terrible beauty
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David Gibson
I saw this photo while flipping through The Times this morning, and at first I thought it might be a new installation by the artist Richard Serra. Instead, it is an image, beautiful yet terrible, of a recently completed section of the fence the United States is building across dunes along the border with Mexican…
Obama’s stem cell qualifiers…clarifying?
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David Gibson
In his press conference last night President Obama took a question from The Washington Times’ John Ward about his controversial stem cell decision last month–an announcement that left me, and many others, rather cold. Obama’s response was intriguing in that he grappled more humanly with the ethics of the issue, and seemed to speak in terms of…
Bishop D’Arcy to boycott Obama at Notre Dame
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David Gibson
Bishop John M. D’Arcy of the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend, which includes Notre Dame, has released a statement on the university’s invitation to President Obama to deliver the main commencement address and receieve an honorary degree on May 17. (Full text is in the post below.) Bishop D’Arcy says ND president Father John Jenkins, CSC…
Text of Bishop D’Arcy’s statement on Obama at Notre Dame
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David Gibson
Here is the text of Bishop John M. D’Arcy’s has released a statement on Notre Dame’s invitation to President Obama to deliver the main commencement address and receive an honorary degree on May 17: Concerning President Barack Obama speaking at Notre Dame graduation, receiving honorary law degree March 24, 2009 On Friday, March 21, Father John Jenkins, CSC,…
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