David Gibson

David Gibson

David Gibson is director of Fordham University’s Center on Religion and Culture. He is a career journalist who began covering the Vatican while living in Rome in the 1980s. He has written several books about the Catholic Church and has written and produced numerous documentaries. He is a frequent media commentator and op-ed writer on topics related to Catholicism and religion in America.

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