Inspiration
Faith & Prayer
Health &
Wellness
Entertainment
Love &
Family
Newsletters
Special Offers
Pontifications
Will Obama resurrect the Catholic left?
By
David Gibson
“Liberal Catholicism is an exhausted project,” Chicago Cardinal Francis George famously said more than a decade ago. As noted earlier, the eminent church historian John O’Malley argues that Barack Obama could be reviving the “spirit of Vatican II” that is associated with a “progressive” Catholicism currently out of favor in Rome. At PoliticsDaily, the much less eminent journalism hack, David…
Obama and the spirit of Vatican II
By
David Gibson
There have been several efforts to tease out connections between Barack Obama and Catholicism–not surprising given many clear affinities, if clearly not a wholesale overlap. Some have been more adept than others. John O’Malley, the Jesuit historian of the church whose writings I like very much, takes a new tack in an essay at America‘s site, titled…
“You cannot prevent killing by killing.”
By
David Gibson
“If anyone has an urge to kill someone at an abortion clinic, they should shoot me. … It’s madness. It discredits the right-to-life movement. Murder is murder. It’s madness. You cannot prevent killing by killing.” – John Cardinal O’Connor. It’s the “Quote for the Day” from the Dish, and it’s an oldie but goodie, from…
Scott Roeder: Portrait of a zealot
By
David Gibson
Anti-abortion and anti-government, Scott Roeder appears to be a bomb with a short fuse. The Wichita Eagle has the best profile up so far: The suspect in custody in connection with the slaying of abortion doctor George Tiller was a member of an anti-government group in the 1990s and a staunch opponent of abortion. Johnson…
10
11
12
13
14
archives
most recent
search
this
blog
More from Beliefnet and our partners
More from Beliefnet and our partners