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When Catholic League for Civil and Religious Life President Bill Donohue attacked John Kerry’s faith outreach director as insufficiently godly–“her resume is that of a person looking for a job working for Fidel Castro”–the Kerry campaign silenced her, forbidding her to talk to the press. When Donohue attacked the Democratic National Committee’s faith outreach director…

Or maybe religious conservative awareness week. On Tuesday, Senator McCain gave a speech promising to appoint conservative jurists to the courts. Some in the Christian Right applauded. On Wednesday, he gave a speech that opened with a celebration of evangelical hero William Wilberforce and that included McCain’s strongest calls to date for the U.S. to…

Beliefnet has posted God-o-Meter’s interview this week with Rev. Kirbyjon Caldwell, spiritual advisor to George W. Bush–Caldwell delivered the benediction at both his inaugurals and introduced him at the 2000 Republican National Convention–and endorser of Barack Obama. What stood out to God-o-Meter, besides Caldwell’s defense of Rev. Wright and the list of similarities he’s noticed…

Does Catholic outreach matter? Even after Hillary Clinton’s impressive wins among Catholics in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Indiana (though Obama did make modest gains among Catholics in that state and North Carolina yesterday) the conventional wisdom was that economic issues–not religion–were driving Catholics to support her over Obama. These Catholics, the thinking goes, overlap with the…
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