{"id":7941,"date":"2004-02-14T08:10:10","date_gmt":"2004-02-14T08:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2004\/02\/go_irish.html"},"modified":"2004-02-14T08:10:10","modified_gmt":"2004-02-14T08:10:10","slug":"go_irish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2004\/02\/go_irish.html","title":{"rendered":"Go Irish"},"content":{"rendered":"

Interesting times at Notre Dame these days, what with their Queer Film Festival and performance of the V-Monologues. There are a couple of ND students who blog, and one of them has some thoughts at The Shrine of the Holy Whapping<\/a>, which will, we hope, be followed up by more as this unfolds.<\/p>\n

There is, of course, a bishop in this diocese. Who issued a letter regarding the V-Monologues last week, saying that he’d had correspondence with Fr. Molloy on the issue. Good. My husband just walked in here and asked where the latest issue of the diocesan paper was before he goes upstairs for his turn to be online, so I’m sure he’ll have more to say in a few minutes.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Interesting times at Notre Dame these days, what with their Queer Film Festival and performance of the V-Monologues. There are a couple of ND students who blog, and one of them has some thoughts at The Shrine of the Holy Whapping, which will, we hope, be followed up by more as this unfolds. 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