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Blogs.com asked me to compile a list of the Top Ten blogs on religion on the web–no easy task, and I’m David Gibson, not David Letterman. Nonetheless, check out my take–and feel free to leave suggestions or criticisms. (Need I add the latter?) Top Ten Religion Blogs at Blogs.com: Dallas Morning News dotCommonweal Spiritual Politics…

Want to be converted? Want to convert your opponents? Or just want to hear some sensible and profound discussion on faith and reason and whether belief–or unbelief–is right? Then check out this Beliefnet “blogalogue” between the distinguished Catholic theologian Michael Novak and the equally distinguished journalist (and skeptic) Heather MacDonald. (Novak has journalistic cred, too,…

Maryknoll priest Fr. Roy Bourgeois faces excommunication, according to the CDF. NCR has the story, based on a letter Bourgeois sent to the Vatican. According to Bourgeois’ letter, which is dated Nov. 7, the congregation has given the priest 30 days to recant his “belief and public statements that support the ordination of women in…

Atlanta Archbishop Wilton Gregory suggests that Obama’s victory is a foretaste of what will happen in the Catholic Church–once we get around to electing an African as pope. As Richard Owens reports from Rome… Archbishop Gregory, who in 2001 became the first African American to head the US Bishops Conference, serving for three years, said…

It looks like it could be a social justice Catholic like Tom Perriello, who has scored a narrow and remarkable upset victory over Virgil Goode in Virginia’s 5th Congressional District…Read more here.

Debate in Baltimore is off. Via RNS. Check it out here…

That’s the big question, and here are some answers–and more questions–in my analysis at Progressive Revival.

In New Jersey, where I grew up, the pols used to say they wanted to be buried in Hudson County so they could continue to stay active in politics… Not quite the same, but we at Beliefnet have our own second-stage vote, an exit poll (click here) to show folks–anonymously, natch–how our readers voted and…

Denver Archbishop Chaput not only criticizes Obama’s positions, but also the bishops’ conference for not speaking out forcefully–as the Archbishop does in this interview with young Thomas Peters, a.k.a. the “American Papist” and one of the more popular bloggers among the conservative Catholic set. The Papist’s excerpts from the video indicate that Archbishop Chaput will…

When the 2005 Vatican document on homosexuals and the priesthood came out, there was some debate over what Rome meant by its terms–such as “deep-seated” homosexuality, and whether the church wanted to bar even homosexuals capable of living a chaste life. When the follow-up document on psychological testing of seminarians came out this week, as…
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