In today's Wall Street Journal I have a column on a thread that is increasingly emerging from the pope's talks during this visit--namely, the need to recreate a new kind of Catholic culture, while at the same time not creating merely "cultural Catholics." Not an easy one. Read more...
Christ and Culture--and the Pope
Friday April 18, 2008
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David Gibson is an award-winning religion writer who specializes in writing about the Catholic Church, which he joined as a convert at the age of 30. He is the author The Rule of Benedict: Pope Benedict XVI and His Battle with the Modern World. He also wrote The Coming Catholic Church: How the Faithful are Shaping a New American Catholicism. He has written about Catholicism for leading newspapers and magazines, including the New York Times, Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, New York magazine, Boston magazine, Fortune, Commonweal, and America. Gibson worked in Rome for Vatican Radio for several years and traveled frequently with Pope John Paul II. He later covered religion for The Star-Ledger of New Jersey. He has co-written several recent documentaries on Christianity for CNN. For further information check out his website at dgibson.com.
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I'm not catholic,some of the pope's outlooks. He is not a successor of the Apostle Peter. He is just a man, like any other leader of a Church. I mean he is a leader of religion, he was put in place by people, not by Christ!!! Do we know the one Christ Wants to lead His people???