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Today, the Sunday before the election, we celebrated All Saints’ Day at church. Because my tradition considers the “saints” to include all of God’s holy people in every time and place, we honor not just the orthodox and canonical saints, but all the faithful who went before us…stumbling, falling, and rising. We praise God for…

Over 750 emails now have been sent to Focus on the Family, rejecting the 2012 fear mongering letter!  Please help us keep them coming! Here are some of the highlights from the emails we’ve received of letters that have been sent to James Dobson and Focus on the Family Action.  You can view many more…

Elizabeth Dole’s accusation that her opponant Kay Hagen is ineligible for the senate because she met with a group of non-Christians should be chilling to Christians and non-Christians alike who support religious freedom and the idea that all Americans deserve representation. She should be ashamed of herself. Apparrently most voters in North Carolina are ashamed on…

Check out the “Mayberry Mounties” if you want to see “Happy Days” after Nov. 4…

Douglas Kmiec has become perhaps the most prominent of the pro-life Catholic “Obamacons.” Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver has become perhaps the most prominent (and civil, given recent statements from some of his confreres) advocate of the view that a Catholic cannot “in good cosncience” vote for Obama. Chaput recently took a hard shot to all progressive…

The Legacy of Justice Louis D. Brandeis and the Jewish Vote: 

Chris Korzen is executive director of Catholics United and co-author of A Nation for All:  How the Catholic Vision of the Common Good Can Save America from the Politics of Division. Earlier this month, Bishop Joseph Martino of Scranton ordered his priests to read a letter at Mass warning Catholics of the spiritual consequences of…

Or, pro-choice voters as Muslim invaders? I don’t know if Bishop Robert Finn of the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph wanted to go there, but he did, in his latest column in the diocesan newspaper: “Our Catholic moral principles teach that a candidate’s promise of economic prosperity is insufficient to justify their constant support of…

The so called “letter from 2012” released by James Dobson is one of the most disingenuous pieces of political rhetoric I have ever encountered. The letter, portrayed as his worst fears, actually reveals the details of his agenda over the next four years. The Religious Right has a proven track record of ripping apart administrations…
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