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More on Dolan
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jmcgee
John Allen offers his two cents: In Dolan, the bishops have turned to their most gifted natural communicator, a leader with a demonstrated capacity to project a positive image for Catholicism in the public square. Rather than electing a behind-the-scenes broker of compromise, in other words, the bishops tapped their best front man. That choice…
“What if I told you Jesus was a black man?”
By
jmcgee
That’s the provocative opener to a terrific essay by my Assistant News Director, Shu-Fy Pongnon, who riffs on the subject at Patheos: “What if I told you Jesus was a Black man?” How I came to ask Marie this entirely provocative question five minutes before the start of 7:45 a.m. Mass is a mystery to…
Giving Anglicans a Wuerl
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jmcgee
This news caused a stir last week, and I’m pleased to report that my show “Currents” (on Brooklyn’s Catholic cable channel NET) got the first broadcast interview with Archbishop Donald Wuerl, discussing his appointment to the committee helping to bring U.S. Anglicans into the Catholic Church. Take a look, below. (And a grateful diaconal bow…
St. Clare, TV’s patron
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jmcgee
August 11 is the feast of a familiar saint, Clare of Assisi. I know her well. We have a beautiful engraving of St. Clare hanging in the small chapel of the NET, where I work, and visitors are often surprised when I explain that she’s the patron saint of television. They stare at me blankly…
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