Newt Gingrich’s “medieval” Catholicism

Just can't pass this up. Newt Gingrich explains his recent conversion to Catholicism by saying that part of him is "inherently medieval." (Read more here.)

The Catholic church is medieval? I think not. Heck, I'm a Catholic (since birth) because Catholicism is so thoroughly post-modern. Newt Gingrich and Nancy Pelosi in the same church? Going to Communion together even (though one or both may object to the other doing so)? And receiving from a priest wearing late-Roman imperial street clothes no less, and in an early-twentieth century "Gothic" (revival) building, after having listend to 1st c. Christian scriptures and even older Jewish texts–translated, of course–into contemporary English. So 21st century. Derrida would be in heaven with a "text" like that–more like a collage beginning in ancient Israel and continuing constantly up to and through today.

Here comes everybody, as we like to say. Medieval it is not.

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Bryan Cones

Bryan Cones is a writer living in Chicago.