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Notre Dame “reparation” Mass: Bishop Wenski explains
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David Gibson
The Mass of Reparation for sins against the culture of life, and specifically for the Notre Dame invite to Barack Obama, took place Sunday evening at the Cathedral of St. James in Orlando. [NB: I had the date wrong in earlier version here–thanks to CWNews for reminder, and commenter Jerry below.] When the news broke, the theology…
Scottish Cardinal on the uses of controversy
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David Gibson
Cardinal Keith O’Brien has always had a knack for making headlines, and he recently explained why he likes to use “colourful imagery” in pronouncements on issues such as abortion and stem-cell research, as he has done lately: “Churchmen have been speaking out against things which they feel are immoral for years but nobody pays a blind bit of…
If no FOCA, what now for the anti-abortion movement?
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David Gibson
The relevant text of Obama’s 100-day newser (excerpt below, from HuffPo) indicates that the dreaded FOCA (Freedom of Choice Act) is not in the offing, at all. When many of of suggested that was the case (as I did here) we were cast into outer darkness. FOCA was too good a wedge for the anti-abortion,…
“America” on Notre Dame: Beware neo-Donatists!
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David Gibson
In a powerful editorial just up on their website, the editors at America magazine decry the “sectarian Catholicism” that seems to be emerging, with the Notre Dame furor epitomizing the drift toward the insular self-righteousness of the Donatists of Saint Augustine’s day: “The clouds roll with thunder, the House of the Lord shall be built…
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