{"id":7535,"date":"2004-04-07T08:07:47","date_gmt":"2004-04-07T08:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2004\/04\/catholic_politico_varia.html"},"modified":"2004-04-07T08:07:47","modified_gmt":"2004-04-07T08:07:47","slug":"catholic_politico_varia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2004\/04\/catholic_politico_varia.html","title":{"rendered":"Catholic Politico Varia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over at The Corner, which I hadn’t read the past couple of days<\/a>, including a statement from the Bishop of Trenton on NJ’s Governor:<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen he refers to himself as a devout Catholic and supports legislation and programs that are contrary to the teaching of the Holy Father and the bishops, he is not a devout Catholic,\u201d said Bishop Smith. \u201cHe cannot compromise what it means to be a Catholic. I speak, as your bishop, for the devout Catholics of the Diocese of Trenton. (Gov.) Jim McGreevey does not.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

See? That’s really not so hard. Someone give the Archbishop O’Malley’s phone number to the Bishop of Trenton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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