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Pro-lifers around the nation were surprised when Mitt Romney refused to sign the pro-life pledge distributed by the Susan B. Anthony List to all the GOP presidential candidates. Romney has been trying to fortify his pro-life credentials since his 2008 nomination defeat to Sen. John McCain.  One reason Romney fell behind McCain during the primary…

At the Faith & Freedom Coalition Conference and Strategy Briefing on June 3-4 in Washington, DC, Catholic Advocate hosted a panel discussion, “Catholic Citizen Action in Defense of Life, Marriage, and Human Dignity.” Matt Smith, Catholic Advocate vice president, hosted the session which included Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List, grassroots activist…

Newt Gingrich’s surprising comments on health care and, particularly, Medicaid are a reminder of how this issue will shape the presidential and congressional campaigns heading  towards the 2012 election. All the former Speaker had to do was express any  sympathy with Obamacare and the GOP leadership got rattled. Rep. Paul Ryan who has taken a…

  The resignation of Ambassador Doug Kmiec from his Malta post is being spun by the Catholic left as a tribute to his Catholic convictions.  In point of fact, Kmiec was simply not doing his job, as documented by the State Department audit of the way he spent his time. It wasn’t the fact that…

The recent story about Ambassador Doug Kmiec raises the inevitable question of the future of Obama’s Catholic supporters.  For example, when Kmiec returns from his post on the island nation of Malta will he retain the “pro-life” label he wore as dean of the Catholic University of America Law School and as a Reagan appointee…

The emotionally-charged disputes over labor negotiations in states like Wisconsin and Ohio have led some Catholics on the political left to claim that the GOP will lose Catholic votes as a result.  It’s true that the history of the labor movement in the United States was closely intertwined with Catholic social teaching beginning with the…
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