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Lace-Curtain Irish…Shanty Cardinal?
By
David Gibson
Sean O’Malley, the archbishop of Boston and now a cardinal five years into his difficult tenure there, cracked wise in his installation homily about his “lace-curtain” pretensions given that he’d moved to Florida (Palm Beach, no less) from his posting in Fall River, before being called back to Boston. It was one of the many…
“Humanae Vitae”–The Pill, pedophile priests, and the real story
By
David Gibson
An earlier post on the 40th anniversay of Pope Paul VI’s encyclical on contraception and procreation, “Humanae Vitae,” referred to various doom-and-gloom scenarios that champions of the teaching attributed to our wayward rejection of the encyclical’s reasoning and conclusions. Among those I did not see until later were claims that the widespread rejection of the…
The “papstbruden” on holiday
By
David Gibson
Write your own caption below. (CNS/L’Osservatore Romano photo via Reuters from the USCCB home page.)
The Feast of St. Ignatius
By
David Gibson
The Society of Jesus, popularly known as the Jesuits, today mark the feast of their founder, Ignatius Loyola, a saint (and order) for whom I have especial affection. Besides, my daughter was kind enough to be born on this date! There are lots of links and places to reference, but here are just two. First,…
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