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Is the S-CHIP bill pro-life?
By
deacon greg kandra
There’s been a lot of discussion and debate lately about the controversial S-CHIP plan to provide health care for low-income families. Now, a group of Catholics has weighed in on the subject, and Ryan Anderson at the Weekly Standard has this reaction: If you don’t support using federal funds to help middle-class families get health…
Cough it up
By
Deacon Greg Kandra
The latest, from San Diego, via the AP: The Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego is asking parishioners to donate $25 million to help pay for its $198.1 million settlement with childhood sex abuse victims. The diocesan headquarters and a nearby seminary may have to be sold if the campaign is unsuccessful, Bishop Robert H.…
Scalia: “There is no such thing as a ‘Catholic judge'”
By
deacon greg kandra
Recently, Clarence Thomas has been making headlines with his new autobiography. Now, another Supreme Court Justice has stepped into the limelight — and he’s talking about faith: Devout U.S. Catholics like himself may stand apart from much of the nation on abortion, homosexuality, and embryonic stem-cell research, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia told a packed…
Catholics for Hillary?
By
deacon greg kandra
The always thought-provoking Deal Hudson is provoking thought this week on the subject of Hillary Clinton and Catholics. He wonders who is to blame if Hillary collects the Catholic vote next year: “If Giuliani and Clinton are the nominees, then Hillary Clinton will certainly win the Catholic vote in 2008.” This is the opinion of…
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