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Bob Guccione Jr. finds his way back to church
More from Guccione: “Indeed, it is Gooch’s ‘capacity for faith’ that has caused a stir amid the resolutely rationalist precincts of Discover. ‘It shocked the staff, that I’m a believer, that I go to church.’ At one of his first editorial meetings, Gooch recalls ‘an audible gasp in the room’ when he proposed a story on how the Vatican verifies the validity of the claims of stigmatics—those who display the wounds of Christ. ‘What are the criteria of their inquiry, the burden of proof?’ Gooch wanted to know. ‘The idea was to investigate the scientific method of something thought of as totally unscientific. I want the magazine infused with a more philosophical vision of what is and what is not.’”
By AT 02.09.08 07:02AM
It is odd that Bob Guccione Jr is listed as being a practicing _Latin Rite_ Catholic on Wikipedia - i thought it would be obvious from having an Italian name? Then again, one takes one’s mother’s rite.
By salindger AT 02.09.08 06:57AM
The drive to pursue knowledge cannot occur on the basis of empirical science alone - it can only come from the desire of the heart to seek Truth. Faith, whether in the most blessed Trinity or secularism, drives this pursuit.