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David Gibson
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Director of Fordham University's Center on Religion & Culture. "Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto." Recovering Vaticanista. Occasionally commit journalism. https://linktr.ee/gibsonwrites
Excellent Fintan O'Toole review of the Kamala Harris auto-autopsy in @nybooks.com
October 28, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Ignoring Spock's fear that "universe-ending paradoxes would ensue," this morning at the Vatican Young Pope meets Old Pope:
October 8, 2025 at 1:20 PM
My question: Was Cardinal Prevost elected despite his American identity--or because of it?

My closing argument:
September 29, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Grateful to be part of a forum in the Fall issue of the Journal of American Catholic Studies on Pope Leo XIV, "An American Pope."
www1.villanova.edu/university/l...
September 29, 2025 at 4:32 PM
September 29, 2025 at 12:03 PM
FAFO Sunday at Mass:
September 28, 2025 at 3:36 PM
September 26, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Are these our only choices?
September 23, 2025 at 6:51 PM
This morning, 9/11.
September 11, 2025 at 11:22 AM
I think I have followed @dieworkwear.bsky.social enough to feel confident in suggesting this tailoring is unbecoming and what on earth were they thinking.
September 3, 2025 at 1:25 PM
August 27, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Need more parish feast day content on this site
August 24, 2025 at 1:55 PM
I know the feeling
August 15, 2025 at 7:30 PM
“That’s because during the difficult parts of your life you started reading Jonathan Livingston Seagull so what did you expect?”

Footprints in the Sand, 2025 edition
August 5, 2025 at 12:25 PM
I hope you will join me and all Catholics in celebrating this important feast day...
July 31, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Great chaser, too:
July 8, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Great lede to a fine review of a flawed book:

www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
July 8, 2025 at 8:11 PM
“As the world’s highest IQ record holder, I recognize that Donald Trump is the only President chosen by God in American history.”
June 24, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Rubik’s Christianity
May 30, 2025 at 6:50 PM
"How long, O LORD? How long must I keep these paper papal files?"
May 24, 2025 at 1:58 PM
"James David" Vance, and in French. Vatican's protocol office will not bend the knee.
May 17, 2025 at 7:12 PM
iykyk
May 11, 2025 at 6:48 PM
May 11, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Everything associated with the conclave is so bizarrely pre-modern. Like, newspapers
May 9, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Habemus breakfast
May 9, 2025 at 6:25 AM