It’s been a while since the Catholic League For Civil and Religious Rights last attacked the Obama campaign, but today it’s claiming victory in a battle that began more than a month ago, when the Catholic League’s Bill Donohue (pictured) blasted Obama’s new Catholic advisory board as insufficiently Catholic. The Catholic League now says it…

Newsweek’s got the scoop on the Obama campaign’s many prayer-based conference calls, with separate calls for evangelicals, Roman Catholics, Jews, and African Americans happening each week. The calls have included Rev. Kirbyjon Caldwell, a spiritual advisor to President George W. Bush (read God-o-Meter’s recent Caldwell interview for a window into how strongly the Obama camp…

Barack Obama may have gotten a cooler reception yesterday at AIPAC than John McCain did a couple days earlier, but Obama did manage to outdo the Bush administration in seeing things the Israeli way (no small task) in one crucial matter: insisting that Jerusalem remain the Jewish state’s undivided capital. From Haaretz: “Let me be…

Another day, another conservative attack against Barack Obama over his religious influences, specifically Rev. Michael Pfleger, whose sermon a week and a half ago seemed to catalyze Obama’s resignation from his church. This time it’s The Wall Street Journal. Notice how the new Pfleger-based line of attack has migrated from right-wing talk show land (Michael…

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