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Lipinski mentioned as next Vatican envoy
(Chicago Tribune) As President Barack Obama tries to avoid fallout from his Cabinet and national security nominations, one...
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2012′s person of the year shaped politics, nation
(NCR Online) From federal budget debates echoing with catch phrases like “subsidiarity” and “common good,”...
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Obama to cut short Christmas holiday to deal with ‘fiscal cliff’
(Reuters) US President Barack Obama is cutting short his Hawaiian holiday to leave for Washington on Wednesday to address...
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Church urges ‘circle of protection’ for poor in US budget debate
(CNS) Catholic social teaching’s concern for human life and dignity stood front and center as the role of the federal...
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Secession theology runs deep in American religious, political history
(RNS) Corruption has gone too far. The righteous must break away. Hope now rests with a holy remnant that will honor foundational...
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Romney’s religious coalition should spook the GOP even more than I thought
(RNS) A couple of weeks ago I called attention to a striking graphic from the Public Religion Research Institute that compared...
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A Catholic agenda for the next four years
The 2012 U.S. presidential election surprised many Catholics, but it should not have. The result wasn’t exactly predetermined,...
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Post election reflection: The task before us. Our hope is in Jesus Christ
With a few days’ perspective since the election, we can see things a bit more clearly. We should be honest about the...
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Four years later, Vatican takes a different approach toward Obama
The day after Barack Obama won the presidency in 2008, the Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, hailed his election...
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Intruding upon the Constitution by the religious right
Roman Catholic Bishop Daniel Jenky, of Peoria, Ill., ordered all parish priests in his diocese to read a letter to their...



