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Calling all Believers and Non-Believers!
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David Gibson
Want to be converted? Want to convert your opponents? Or just want to hear some sensible and profound discussion on faith and reason and whether belief–or unbelief–is right? Then check out this Beliefnet “blogalogue” between the distinguished Catholic theologian Michael Novak and the equally distinguished journalist (and skeptic) Heather MacDonald. (Novak has journalistic cred, too,…
Priest faces excommunication over women’s ordination stand
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David Gibson
Maryknoll priest Fr. Roy Bourgeois faces excommunication, according to the CDF. NCR has the story, based on a letter Bourgeois sent to the Vatican. According to Bourgeois’ letter, which is dated Nov. 7, the congregation has given the priest 30 days to recant his “belief and public statements that support the ordination of women in…
Pope Obama I? Well, sort of…
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David Gibson
Atlanta Archbishop Wilton Gregory suggests that Obama’s victory is a foretaste of what will happen in the Catholic Church–once we get around to electing an African as pope. As Richard Owens reports from Rome… Archbishop Gregory, who in 2001 became the first African American to head the US Bishops Conference, serving for three years, said…
The future of Catholic politics?
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David Gibson
It looks like it could be a social justice Catholic like Tom Perriello, who has scored a narrow and remarkable upset victory over Virgil Goode in Virginia’s 5th Congressional District…Read more here.
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