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NRB head: Sex abuse scandal? It’s history. Really.
By
David Gibson
In an Op-Ed in today’s Boston Globe, the current head of the National Review Board, the blue-ribbon, lay-led group that is supposed to keep the bishops following their own policies on child protection, says Catholics have nothing to worry about–all is fine, and the scandal is history. The hook for Michael Merz’s piece, “No Doubt…
Apologies for the Lacuna
By
David Gibson
I haven’t posted for much of the past week, thanks to various plagues running through the house (Toddler=Petri Dish) and a family visit to New Orleans. I was hoping to post from there, but family visits being what they are… It was encouraging to see the French Quarter and the trendy neighborhoods doing weel–apparently. Lots…
Cringe alert! Mike Huckabee in stilettos
By
David Gibson
Yes…that could be Huck’s next campaign poster. Since election day, failed GOP contender and true-blue (or is that red?) evangelical, Mike Huckabee, has been settling some scores, as this TIME magazine piece on his new book shows. Now it has gotten ugly. In the latest New Yorker, Huckabee tells Lauren Collins he was a bit…
The FOCA Phantom: What will pro-lifers do without it?
By
David Gibson
The focus of much of the Catholic right’s doomsday prophesying about Barack Obama, a.k.a. the anti-Christ (see Stafford, Cardinal Francis, et al) has been about the inevitability of Obama signing the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA), which would enshrine Roe into federal law and make abortion-on-demand part of a mandated kindergarten curriculum and push the…
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