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As the vote on health care reform nears, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend weighs in: The good news is that thoughtful minds have come together in the House of Representatives to craft a reasonable and abortion-neutral proposal in health reform. It is neither pro-choice nor anti-choice. It is simply pro-health care. [snip] Unfortunately, this reasonable approach is…

Tuesday’s election, by at least one tally, appears to continue an interesting  trend: The past 12 months have been noteworthy for the number of Roman Catholics elected or appointed to top political posts, and yesterday’s election results kept the streak going. The winners of the two biggest races, gubernatorial contests in Virginia and New Jersey,…

The AP has this item about Virginia’s new governor-elect — only the second Catholic one in the commonwealth’s history: The new Republican governor-elect of Virginia brings to the office firmly conservative views that took root in the suburban, middle-class Irish Catholic home of his youth. Robert Francis McDonnell, 55, was one of five children of…

It turns out the man taking over Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat is himself part of a Massachusetts Catholic dynasty, according to Michael Paulson of the Boston Globe: A dispatch from the Boston-is-a-really-small-town department: Paul G. Kirk Jr., who was named today as the interim US Senator from Massachusetts, is the grand-nephew of Cardinal William H.…
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