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As Bishops meet, consideration given abuse of Communion for political purposes

Baltimore Sun, 9 Jun 08--What do a former legal counsel for Ronald Reagan and a Democratic governor have in common? As you might expect, it's not the same politics. Douglas W. Kmiec, an esteemed constitutional law professor at Pepperdine University, is a pro-life Republican. Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius is a moderate known for consensus-building. But these prominent Catholics are both the most recent targets of clergy who use Communion as a political weapon and effectively blacklist respected Catholic leaders. It's time for Catholics and all Americans to speak out against this spiritual McCarthyism.

For full essay:
Don't play politics with Communion
By David O'Brien and Lisa Sowle Cahill
June 9, 2008

Posted by Catholic Democrats Staff on June 12, 2008 9:33 AM |

Saturday, February 4, 2012
"It is necessary to recover some basic aspects of finances, such as the primacy of labor over capital, of human relationships over purely financial transactions, and of ethics over the sole criterion of efficiency," Archbishop Celestino Migliore, the Vatican's apostolic nuncio to the United Nations.

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Anne Martien, Director, Catholic Democrats of Maryland
martien@catholicdemocrats.org

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