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The man elected yesterday to be the leader of the free world received a congratulatory message today from someone who’s above his pay grade: Pope Benedict XVI sent a personal message to President-elect Barack Obama Nov. 5, congratulating him and offering his prayers for Obama and for all the people of the United States. Jesuit…

Rocco called it, aptly, a “repudiation,” and now others are weighing in with their thoughts about how Catholics voted yesterday. Here’s Thomas Reese, SJ, from the Washington Post: Catholic voters ignored the instructions of a group of vocal bishops and delivered 54% of their vote for Barack Obama as president of the United States. These…

On CBS News tonight, Bob Schieffer spoke of how he attended segregated schools when he was growing up in Texas. “A black person had never attended any of my schools,” he said. Correspondent Byron Pitts told Katie Couric about how his mother grew up in a world where a black woman could not look a…

Hours before we cast our votes, here’s a sobering reminder of what is at stake, from Florida Catholic: More than two years after her ignominious death at an abortion clinic, baby Shanice Denise Osbourne was laid to rest at Our Lady Queen of Heaven Cemetery in North Lauderdale. Her small white casket was escorted by…
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