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Companion blog to The Catholic Sun, newspaper of the Diocese of Phoenix.
November 18, 2008

Diocese of Charleston, Communion and Obama

Posted by : andrew

It went like this: Fr. Jay Scott Newman, pastor of St. Mary Parish in Greenville, South Carolina, wrote in his bulletin that those who voted for Barack Obama should go to confession before receiving Communion.
Voting for a pro-abortion politician when a plausible pro-life alternative exists constitutes material cooperation with intrinsic evil, and those Catholics who [...]


October 21, 2008

More faith and politics

Posted by : andrew

Via Whispers in the Loggia, a very informative Catholic blog with a focus on the episcopacy, comes a story about faith and politics in Scranton, PA, Democratic Vice-Presidential nominee and Catholic Joe Biden’s hometown.
The story was written in the Wayne Independent newspaper, and is fascinating to read in full. Basically, a local parish hosted a [...]


August 25, 2008

Catholics in the news: Sen. Joe Biden

Posted by : jd
Filed under : From the Staff

This weekend presidential hopeful Barack Obama announced that Delaware Sen. Joe Biden will be his running mate. 
The fact that Biden is a Catholic makes this even bigger news for the Church. That he supports keeping abortion legal will have people once again discussing the responsibility of a Catholic politician.
Catholic News Service published a story Saturday describing [...]