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Steve Waldman has White House confirmation. But an administration official later elbaorated: “Judge Sotomayor was raised as a Catholic and attends church for family celebrations and other important events.” Sotomayor also served with Jesuit Father Joseph O’Hare, the retired president of Fordham University, on a New York City campaign finance review council, and O’Hare told CNS that…

I was okay with Obama. But now the Fighting Irish are in talks to be the first to play college football in the new Death Star, er, Yankee Stadium: Jack Swarbrick, Notre Dame‘s athletic director, [told the New York Times that] the Yankees were open to having college football at the new Stadium, and he would…

That is the judgment of the editor of L’Osservatore Romano, Gian Maria Vian, whose paper’s rather neutral (neutered, to some) coverage of Obama has been in decided contrast to segments of the American church–and no small cause of consternation to such segments. The Vatican editor’s verdict comes in an interview with an Italian journalist, Paulo…

Many would agree, no doubt. But that line, from Dan Gilgoff’s conversation with Gingrich on his conversion to Catholicism, refers not to his political philosophy (that comes later) but to part of the appeal of the church for the former speaker and GOP presidential aspirant (possibly). So it’s not such a bad thing. (Besides, color…
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