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Why so many pro-life Catholics backed Obama

Posted in November 5th, 2008
by in Conservation, Immigration, Politics, The Church, the Election, The War

It would appear from the pre-election polls that more than half of American Catholics voted for Barack Obama. How could they do that when their bishops ordered them to vote for John McCain? In fact, no such order was issued, though some bishops came pretty close to it. Most bishops were content with a somewhat [...]

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America’s leaders violated one of the Commandments

Posted in July 30th, 2008
by in Books, Politics, Reviews, The Media, The War

T.S. Elliot summarized the issue, “When good does evil in its struggle against evil, it becomes indistinguishable from its enemy.” A current example is the sick morality that sees America’s program of torture during the war that “they” had done it to us and would do so again. Therefore we were not evil. The Sept. [...]

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