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Pope Benedict to Beatify a Gay Saint? A Conservative Icon? Maybe Both
By David Gibson - Politics DailyIn the fall of 2008, with Pope Benedict XVI expected to visit Great Britain in a year or two to beatify John Henry Newman, the great nineteenth century Catholic convert from Anglicanism, church authorities did what Catholics always do to their prospective saints -- they dug him up. For five hours on a raw October day, in a rural graveyard outside Birmingham and under the watchful eyes of priests and archeologists, workmen dug through the earth on the spot where Newman was buried in August 1890. At any moment they expected to hit upon the casket that would hold relics of the future saint -- ...
Frank Schaeffer: Purge The Heretics
By Caleb Howe - Politics DailyOriginally written for Redstate.comMuch was made, during storied campaign 2008, of the notion that we are all one people, needlessly divided. That from the many would come the one. There is not a liberal America, and a conservative America, there is the United States of America, after all. Heal this nation, we heard. Make us one, they pleaded. A lovely sentimentality, that. And an utterly false affectation, of course, as we've come to see over the last few weeks. Despite left-wing bloggers' Ministry of Truth efforts at rewriting history, to even the most casual observer it should be clear that ...
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