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Liberal Catholics Can't Handle the Truth

Alice115 Wrote: Jul 19, 2009 11:56 AM
at typical Kennedy Catholic who likes to sit in the front pew, swank around with the priest and then support abortion on demand - all the while claiming that she is a "good Catholic". I would call her and her ilk Catholics in Name Only. BTW: Bob Erhlich defeated her in the governor's race and then later lost to another phony Catholic, Martin O'Malley, who supports abortion on demand. When will Maryland wake up? I am not Catholic but Kennedy Townsend offends me.

ROME -- Some things are beyond parody. In announcing that Barack Obama is more Catholic than the pope, Newsweek takes the cake.

The piece, written by Kathleen Kennedy Townsend for the magazine's Web site, in anticipation of last week's presidential-papal meeting, asserts: "(The pope and the president) politely disagree about reproductive freedoms and homosexuality, but Catholics back home won't care, because they know Obama's on their side. In fact, Obama's agenda is closer to their views than even the pope's."

Townsend, like many a commentator, misses something essential: There is a truth to which the...

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