“They” being the very public preachers (one, a Catholic priest) who became suddenly very private after Barack Obama clinched the Democratic nomination. Have no fear. They’re still around — and speaking up. An Illinois paper has a roundup of the usual suspects, including Rev. Wright and Fr. Pfleger. (Rocco even has Pfleger’s Sunday sermon, which…

Over at the National Catholic Reporter, John Allen has penned an open letter to President-elect Obama, offering some unsolicited advice about how to deal with the Vatican, and he concludes with this telling anecdote about the last Democratic president: In his memoirs, former Vatican Ambassador Raymond Flynn tells a depressing story from 1994 illustrating what…

A bishop from Florida, John Riccard, has drawn a line in the sand — or maybe, at the altar rail — and has sent a letter to the vice president-elect regarding communion and conscience: I learned recently of your visit to the diocese during the political campaign and that you attended the celebration of Sunday…

Amy Welborn is thinking it may be a Kennedy. Or maybe Doug Kmiec? I’m thinking Obama may have bigger plans for Caroline Kennedy, who broke with Democratic orthodoxy when it was unfashionable, and who spearheaded Obama’s veep search. Seems to me, she could be more useful to him in a high profile spot in this…

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