“Congratulations to Governor Sebelius on being nominated to be the Secretary of Health and Human Services. It’s an honor for the State of Kansas to have an elected official appointed to the president’s cabinet.” — Sen. Sam Brownback, on the nomination of pro-choice Catholic Kathleen Sebelius.  “For Obama to choose somebody who sews such division…

You may remember the fiery letter that reportedly was sent by Sen. Sam Brownback, questioning the authentic Catholicity of some members of Congress. Now there are doubts being raised about how authentic the letter itself was. From Politico: A mystery is brewing over the appearance of Sen. Sam Brownback’s John Hancock on an inflammatory letter…

After a long period of relative silence, following his departure from the presidential race, Sen. Sam Brownback is back, and he has some of his fellow Catholic politicians in his sights: Kansas Republican Senator Sam Brownback, in a fundraising letter for a new Washington-based antiabortion group distributed under his signature, questioned whether six of his…

… the more they stay the same. Why does this feel like Groundhog Day? (Which remains, to my way of thinking, one of the smartest and subtlest and sweetest conversion stories ever captured on film.)

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