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A purpose driven inaugural — UPDATED
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deacon greg kandra
Several weeks ago, I received a couple of e-mails from concerned voters, who were convinced that the men offering invocations at Barack Obama’s inaugural would be Louis Farrakhan and Rev. Jeremiah Wright. So this news might surprise them: Aretha Franklin and Dr. Rick Warren, an evangelical minister of the Saddleback Church, are among the select…
From the priesthood to politics: Mr. Cao goes to Washington
By
deacon greg kandra
Washington will soon be welcoming a former Jesuit seminarian to Congress — and CNS has a first look at his remarkable story: The first Vietnamese-American member of Congress is a former Jesuit seminarian who served for four years on the National Advisory Council to the U.S. bishops. Anh “Joseph” Quang Cao, a 41-year-old Republican, defeated…
Another priest urges confession for Obama voters
By
deacon greg kandra
It’s deja vu all over again. Yet another priest is telling his flock to make a trip to the confessional if they voted for Obama. From the Modesto (Calif.) Bee: Parishioners of St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Modesto have been told they should consider going to confession if they voted for Barack Obama, because of…
The threat of FOCA
By
deacon greg kandra
It’s more than just a threat to the unborn, as Melinda Henneberger suggests in this piece from Slate: Though it’s often referred to as a mere codification of Roe, FOCA, as currently drafted, actually goes well beyond that: According to the Senate sponsor of the bill, Barbara Boxer, in a statement on her Web site,…
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