A lot of Catholic voters are finding themselves torn by the issues involved in this presidential election — abortion being only one of them — and the New York Times offers this snapshot of people in the pews in Joe Biden’s hometown of Scranton: Scranton, a city dominated by the kind of white working-class Catholics…

This week’s Time magazine asks the rhetorical question: Does Joe Biden have a Catholic problem? Take a look: On Wednesday, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops publically called out Biden for comments he made about abortion on NBCs Meet the Press. Even Kerry, whose support for abortion rights is much stronger than Biden’s and who…

The new bishop of Wilmington has just weighed in with his own statement about the Bungling of Biden. He basically points to the USCCB statement on the affair and says, “Yeah, what they said.” And then he appends this little button at the end: It is my intention to build a supportive and trusting friendship…

Late yesterday, the U.S. bishops released their weekly smackdown of a prominent American Catholic pol. And Washington’s Archbishop Wuerl added his own voice, in a letter to his priests: Our Catholic faith proclaims what is already written in our human hearts and recognized in our conscience – to kill innocent human life is wrong. The…

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