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To: Alex Murphy

Good find.

“Archbishop Naumann is one of a number of conservative prelates who have decided to use the communion rail as a bludgeon in the culture war. (The most famous example came in 2004, when Archbishop Raymond Burke of St. Louis forbade John Kerry from receiving communion within his jurisdiction; another was when Douglas Kmiec, a former Department of Justice official in the Reagan administration, was denied communion for his support of Obama this year.) Naumann has been published in the conservative Catholic journal First Things, a magazine that often mimics White House talking points more faithfully than it follows the teachings of the Catholic Church. And he has participated in the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast, an annual event that’s meant to bring Catholics together with (mostly Republican) political leaders. In the event that Obama selects Sebelius, we can expect Naumann to take to the airwaves, and Obama’s campaign could be forced into a high-profile and unwelcome skirmish with a religious figure.”


12 posted on 07/31/2008 2:57:53 PM PDT by rbmillerjr ("bigger government means constricting freedom"....................RWR)
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To: All

No bias from the writer here. /sarcasm off

“Naumann has been published in the conservative Catholic journal First Things, a magazine that often mimics White House talking points more faithfully than it follows the teachings of the Catholic Church.

The writer likely writes this either a cafeteria Catholic or a non-Catholic, out of ignorance. The issue of Life takes prominence over other common social or political issues.


13 posted on 07/31/2008 3:07:17 PM PDT by rbmillerjr ("bigger government means constricting freedom"....................RWR)
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