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David Gibson @gibsonwrites.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

"We’re in a different era. And Leo is the common denominator. Not the lowest common denominator — the highest, who speaks about our humanity and dignity and creativity."

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David Gibson @gibsonwrites.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

On this first anniversary of the election of Robert Prevost as Pope Leo XIV, the outro of my essay for the Journal of American Catholic Studies last Fall: "The question that Leo's election ought to prompt is not how American he is, but how American we are."

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David Gibson @gibsonwrites.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

"The Annunciation" by Antonello da Messina, 1476. A stunning thing to see in person, so modern, so ancient.

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David Gibson @gibsonwrites.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

That Erickson still thinks Trump is great is on him but the real nightmare he points to is the one no one is talking about: "This summer, when Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas retire from the U.S. Supreme Court, I’ll be very happy Donald Trump is picking their replacements, not Kamala Harris..."

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David Gibson @gibsonwrites.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Check out the exclusive conversation with Gregory Maguire here, and follow us wherever you find your favorite podcasts -- more episodes coming soon:

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David Gibson @gibsonwrites.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Seven Fishes on Christmas Eve, and homemade biscotti, and “Die Hard,” of course.

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David Gibson @gibsonwrites.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

One Kennedy, a narcissistic moral disaster by any reckoning, posing with a rosary, and another Kennedy praying the rosary in the face of unimaginable suffering, perfectly and sadly encapsulates the trajectory of American Catholicism(s):

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David Gibson @gibsonwrites.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Excellent Fintan O'Toole review of the Kamala Harris auto-autopsy in @nybooks.com

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David Gibson @gibsonwrites.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Ignoring Spock's fear that "universe-ending paradoxes would ensue," this morning at the Vatican Young Pope meets Old Pope:

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David Gibson @gibsonwrites.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

My question: Was Cardinal Prevost elected despite his American identity--or because of it? My closing argument:

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David Gibson @gibsonwrites.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

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...

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David Gibson @gibsonwrites.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

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.

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David Gibson @gibsonwrites.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Need more parish feast day content on this site

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David Gibson @gibsonwrites.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

“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

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David Gibson @gibsonwrites.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

I hope you will join me and all Catholics in celebrating this important feast day...

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David Gibson @gibsonwrites.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Great lede to a fine review of a flawed book: www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

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David Gibson @gibsonwrites.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

“As the world’s highest IQ record holder, I recognize that Donald Trump is the only President chosen by God in American history.”

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David Gibson @gibsonwrites.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

"How long, O LORD? How long must I keep these paper papal files?"

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David Gibson @gibsonwrites.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

"James David" Vance, and in French. Vatican's protocol office will not bend the knee.

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David Gibson @gibsonwrites.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Everything associated with the conclave is so bizarrely pre-modern. Like, newspapers

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David Gibson @gibsonwrites.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

"If you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you." -- Nietzsche

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David Gibson @gibsonwrites.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Scaffolding going up in the Sistine Chapel for the chimney that will emit black smoke -- or white. As a New Yorker they're making me feel at home. Only this scaffolding won't stay up through years of endless lawsuits. So there's that. Copyright: Vatican media

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David Gibson @gibsonwrites.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

If you are in NYC join us for a film series on the work of the acclaimed French filmmaker Nurith Aviv. Ms. Aviv will be here for audience talkbacks at each screening in the retrospective, titled “Filming Words,” which runs from April 22-25. More info: jewishstudies.ace.fordham.edu/2025/03/14/f...

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David Gibson @gibsonwrites.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

“When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put away childish things.” Yeah, but tossing the Flexible Flyer, ouch…

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David Gibson @gibsonwrites.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Will the next conclave elect another Pope Francis? First you have to understand who Pope Francis is and what his papacy meant. Great timing for this panel tonight, at Sacred Heart U in Fairfield CT at 7pET, or online--me and some really smart colleagues: www.youtube.com/live/TV4oWNF...

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David Gibson @gibsonwrites.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

The Recusants are enjoying this:

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