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Palin and the Ex-Catholic Factor
By
Paul Raushenbush
Steve Waldman just posted some new news – at least for me. That Governer Palin was a Roman Catholic before she was an Evangelical. He writes: Have we ever had an ex-Catholic on a major presidential ticket? I can’t think of any. Palin was Baptised as a Cahtolic and later became an evangelical Protestant. This will…
Beyond Roe? New study shows abortion rates lowered by public policy
By
David Gibson
In a new study that could recast the seemingly endless debates over abortion and Roe v. Wade, Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good yesterday released a new study that, according to the news release, is the first study of its kind to look at the “long- and short-term effects of public policy on the abortion rate over a twenty-year period.…
The Struggle for Common Ideals
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Sister Joan Chittister
THE STRUGGLE FOR COMMON IDEALS As many of the present blogs indicate, religious leaders from every tradition, both Christian and not, are beginning to gather together–as distinct from the usual denominational gatherings of religious leaders common to most election seasons before this one-to articulate a common spiritual ideal for a nation in crisis at home…
Abortion, Augustine and…Nancy Pelosi?
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David Gibson
And Aristotle, Aquinas, Archbishop Chaput and various Bishops, and Brokaw…All weigh in on the House Speaker’s response to Brokaw on Sunday morning’s “Meet the Press” (scroll to the end) in which he raised–yet again–the age-old question, “When does life begin?” Pelosi’s response did not, to say the least, do justice to the Catholic tradition: MR. BROKAW: …
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