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A shout-out for “Shouts in the Piazza”
By
David Gibson
Many of you know Rocco Palmo’s “Whispers in the Loggia.” Well now you can visit Fr. Guy Selvester’s “Shouts in the Piazza,” which he has resucitated by popular demand. Father Guy in a parish priest in my native New Jersey (eat your hearts out) and an expert in heraldry. He’ll still be doing that, and…
Phoenix Bishop says Notre Dame prez “disobedient”
By
David Gibson
A remarkable development in the Obama-to-Notre Dame saga, via Thomas Peters, the “American Papist”: Bishop Thomas Olmsted of Phoenix has sent Fr. John Jenkins, president of Notre Dame, an email saying his invitation to Obama to speak at the May 17 commencement and receive an honorary degree was “a public act of disobedience to US Bishops.”…
Notre Dame’s exit strategy: Invite Gingrich instead
By
David Gibson
Hey, the former House Speaker, pro-death-penalty, thrice-married, GOP comeback kid is making it official and becoming a Catholic this Saturday at St. Joseph’s Church, the venerable Capitol Hill parish. The WaPo’s Chris Cillizza has The Fix. Media Matters details Gingrich’s deep disappointment that Notre Dame would invite Obama, whose policies are “so anti-Catholic.” Okay. So…
Obama’s stem cell qualifiers…clarifying?
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David Gibson
In his press conference last night President Obama took a question from The Washington Times’ John Ward about his controversial stem cell decision last month–an announcement that left me, and many others, rather cold. Obama’s response was intriguing in that he grappled more humanly with the ethics of the issue, and seemed to speak in terms of…
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