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Chief Justice Hecht calls on attorneys to volunteer for unaccompanied minors.

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Harriet Miers was not raised as a Catholic. Catholic Church records and the White House both refute what has become a boilerplate part of discussions about Miers, the White House general counsel and nominee for the Supreme Court. News stories, commentaries and editorials nationwide have repeated the description that Miers was brought up Catholic but now attends an evangelical Protestant church. However, according to White House spokeswoman Maria Tamburri, "Harriet Miers did not grow up Catholic." When news reports first quoted the nominee's acquaintances as saying she had been raised a Catholic before joining an evangelical Protestant...

The Talk Shows Sunday, October 9th, 2005 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.; former House Speaker Newt Gingrich; Texas Supreme Court Judge Nathan Hecht; Gary Bauer, president of the American Values Coalition; Dr. Steven Rosenberg, chief surgeon with the National Institutes of Health.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Pat Buchanan, former presidential candidate; Richard Land, president, Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention. FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sens. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., and Charles Schumer, D-N.Y. THIS WEEK (ABC): Sens. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., chairman of the Judiciary...