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Columbus, Ohio, Jul 13, 2009 / 10:47 pm (CNA).- R. Eric McFadden, a former leader of several Democrat-leaning Catholic groups, has pled guilty to two counts of compelling prostitution for prostituting a 17-year-old girl on the internet. Five other counts of pandering obscenity and promoting prostitution were dismissed. McFadden, 46, was former director of Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland’s Office of Faith-Based Initiatives. He worked for Catholics for Kerry in 2004 and served as the president of Catholics for Faithful Citizenship in 2005. In 2006 he served as a spokesman for Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good and was an...

The presidential race is full of religious ironies, pitting a Protestant who quotes the Pope against a Catholic who rejects the Pope. The Protestant -- campaigning on opposition to abortion and homosexual marriage -- will likely get the Catholic vote. The Catholic -- campaigning on embryo-destruction, partial-birth abortion, and the alternative lifestyles of pagan antiquity -- will get the mainline Protestant vote. In one more irony and historical marker of clerical decadence, the Catholic candidate will receive a higher percentage of support from the Catholic episcopate than the Catholic laity -- the very episcopate Kerry has made a point of...

Recently I have noticed a disturbing trend in my Archdiocese newspaper The Witness regarding the amount of thinly veiled pro-Kerry editorial, "news" and letters to the editors published in the last few issues. Some of the most troubling pieces were written as letters to the editors form "priests". Most of the material begins with the recognition that the Church is pro-life (duh) but then what typically follows is a lengthy rationalization for weighing other social justice issues like: the war, death penalty, living wage, etc. on an equal or, by preponderance of sheer volume, superior weight in deterring one’s vote....

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Catholic League president William Donohue commented today on the remarks made about President George W. Bush that are featured on the website of Catholics for Kerry 04: “The home page of Catholics for Kerry 04 prominently lists comments by Wayne Madsden, who says, ‘George W. Bush’s blood lust, his repeated commitment to Christian beliefs and his constant references to ‘evil doers,’ in the eyes of many devout Catholic leaders, bear all the hallmarks of the one warned about in the Book of Revelations—the anti-Christ.’ He also charges that Bush ‘couples his political fanaticism with a neo-Christian blood cult.’ “This is...

WASHINGTON - An alternate delegate to the Democratic National Convention says he's been forced out of his job at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops for his support of presidential candidate John F. Kerry. Ono Ekeh, 33, of Waldorf, Md., said his employers at the Washington-based conference accused him of using the organization's computers to moderate a "Catholics for Kerry" electronic message board. Ekeh had been program coordinator for the Secretariat for African American Catholics, an arm of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, for three years when he was asked to resign from the $54,000-a-year post on March 9....

Message to church employees who support John Kerry's presidential bid: public endorsement of the pro-choice Catholic senator could cost you your job. Just ask Ono Ekeh, founder and moderator of the Catholics for Kerry e-mail discussion list and, until March 9, program coordinator at the U.S. bishops' Secretariat for African-American Catholics. The 33-year-old father of two is now looking for work. It all started in late February when Deal Hudson, publisher of Crisis magazine and a key player in the Bush campaign outreach to Catholic voters, revealed in his widely distributed weekly "e-letter" that Ekeh hosted the pro-Kerry site. Hudson...