Showing posts with label Fr. Jay Scott Newman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fr. Jay Scott Newman. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Weeping in Gethsemane: American Catholic Leaders and Obama's Election

Andrea Mantegna, "Agony in the Garden"

Because I’m an historian by training—an historian of Christian theology—I try to imagine some of the reactions of American Catholic pastors to Obama’s election from an historical perspective. How will historians judge the recent outburst of Father Jay Scott Newman in Greenville, South Carolina, I wonder?