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The “anti-Mom” as a new anti-abortion icon
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David Gibson
Ayelet Waldman’s essay in the New York Times’ “Modern Love” column a couple years ago was even more irritating than the usual fare in that space–which of course makes you watch it, the way some people watch Fox News or others listen to NPR. You fume, and wonder how people get away with it. Waldman’s…
Hiking salvation: Lost, but how I’m found
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David Gibson
The tale of three-year-old Johua Childers, who was lost in the deep Missouri woods with wild things and no food or water for more than two days, riveted the public the way such stories do. As the parent of a similarly-aged kid, I was of course imagining myself in the situation of his parents–and not…
FULL TEXT: Archbishop Raymond Burke’s speech at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast
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David Gibson
KEYNOTE ADDRESS OF THE MOST REVEREND RAYMOND LEO BURKE, D.D., J.C.D. ARCHBISHOP-EMERITUS OF SAINT LOUIS PREFECT OF THE SUPREME TRIBUNAL OF THE APOSTOLIC SIGNATURA NATIONAL CATHOLIC PRAYER BREAKFAST “CELEBRATION OF THE TEACHINGS OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH” WASHINGTON, D.C. MAY 8, 2009 Introduction 1. I am deeply honored to give the Keynote Address…
The uses and abuses of Newman
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David Gibson
Cardinal John Henry Newman is, in death, and like Saint Paul in life, all things to all people. I am a great fan. But those who might see themselves as my polar opposite–say, the watchdogs of the Cardinal Newman Society–also embrace him. Do they exploit him? Or do I? In today’s Boston Globe (now apparently spared…
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