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“Battle of the Bishops,” UPDATE
By
David Gibson
Earlier today at Progressive Revival, I wrote about the latest round in “The Battle of the Bishops.” Now it looks like things are getting really raucous…A remarkable story, via Whispers, about Scranton Bishop Joseph F. Martino, who has become one of the most vocal proponents of the “single-issue” theory of voting and a fierce opponent…
“Religion of the Word” vs. “Religion of the Book”?
By
David Gibson
Or, “Catholics aren’t like Jews or Muslims…” That is one of the divides emerging during the current Synod on the Bible being held at the Vatican. (The formal title of the meeting of some 250 bishops and sundry experts is the Synod on the Word, and it ends this Sunday after three weeks.) The issue…
Saintly Sex: Thank God!
By
David Gibson
When Louis Martin and Zélie Guérin, devout Catholics both, got married in 1858, they didn’t have sex. Nope. Not for 10 long months, until Zélie (God bless her) dragged her new husband to an old priest who straightened him out on the church’s view on holy sex and the sanctity of procreation. Good thing. Zélie…
Saint Sean’s first miracle?
By
David Gibson
The Red Sox stunned the Rays with an amazing 8-7 comeback win last night! Joy in Beantown! Faith at Fenway! Read the Globe coverage here. But was it perhaps something else that forestalled a renascent Curse? Such as this man, the Cardinal-Archbishop of Boston, Sean O’Malley? Yes, there has been a sighting, as The Globe’s…
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