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RI Catholic quick to absolve anti-Catholic Hagee

An editorial in the Rhode Island Catholic accepts the apologies offered by Rev John Hagee for his past anti-Catholic remarks. The author cites forgiveness as a Christian value, and applauds a letter Hagee wrote to Catholic League President Bill Donohue as sufficient evidence of remorse.

Uncommented upon is the obviously self-serving nature of this alliance, meant primarily to sooth the waters for the critical conservative Catholic vote on which Senator McCain is relying for a Republican victory in the fall. It's also unclear why Rev Hagee should apologize to a bully like Donohue, rather than to all Catholics. This would seem to suggest that his contrition is more about avoiding future criticism from Donohue than it is about any real remorse regarding the kind of bigotry that still separates all the branches of American Christianity.

Saturday, July 4, 2009
"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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