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TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - Gov. James E. McGreevey, at odds with the Roman Catholic Church over his support for abortion rights, said Wednesday he will honor the wishes of the Newark archbishop and not receive communion. Archbishop John J. Myers said in a statement that abortion rights supporters should not seek communion when they attend Mass. Myers stopped short of saying that priests would refuse to serve it to Catholics who disagree with the church's position. "With abortion, there can be no legitimate diversity of opinion," Myers wrote in Wednesday's Catholic Advocate newspaper. "The direct killing of the innocent is...

<p>Hoboken, September 5 - Senator Bob Torricelli said last week that he considered his re-election campaign "even" and that keeping his seat would be "a fight."  But in the eyes of national political pundits who analyze U.S. Senate races for independent, non-partisan newsletters, Torricelli's race may be even tougher.</p>

NEW YORK -- A Virginia couple accused of having sex inside St. Patrick's Cathedral to earn prizes from a pair of radio shock jocks was heckled Wednesday as they left a Manhattan courthouse. "God is mad at you!" shouted one angry man as the pair walked silently past. "You should be ashamed of yourselves!" Brian Florence, 37, of Quantico, Va., and Loretta Lynn Harper, 35, of Alexandria, Va., were due back in court Oct. 2 to face charges of public lewdness.

The Society Of St Pius X - Further Negotiations with Rome - A Summary of a Conference given by Bishop Fellay on 6 May 2002 at St Michael's School His Lordship began by expressing his initial surprise at the change of attitude towards the Society on the part of the Vatican. Until a year and a half ago, the SSPX was stigmatised as "schismatic" and "excommunicated" (a view still held by many), but now it is being encouraged to enter into dialogue with Rome. The Bishop explained why he was cautious about this sudden "volte face". Firstly, there was Rome's...

Libertarian Thought at the Dawn of the Third Millennium: A Reply to Fukuyama by David DietemanOn May 2, 2002, "libertarianism" mistakenly appeared in a rather official-sounding obituary.Francis Fukuyama, who has previously written of "the end of history" (it was quite some time ago), now claims that: the liberal revolution of the 1980s and ‘90s, having morphed from classical liberalism to libertarianism, [has] crested and now [is] on the defensive. Today, the 103rd anniversary of the birth of Nobel prize-winning Austrian economist F.A. Hayek, it must be observed that Professor Fukuyama is completely wrong.Like the silver-tongued Saruman in Tolkien’s Lord of...