... Nicholas DiMarzio chaired the US Bishops committee which drafted the Catholic voting guide "Forming Consciences for ... important point here is Bishop DiMarzio should know a great deal about Catholic involvement in US politics. He's done many things right. Earlier this ... jacket. It says: “MIKE BLOOMBERG: PROTECTING NYC’S CATHOLIC SCHOOLS. FIGHTING FOR US.”Yikes, that's just not cool ...

... "holy communion" is, but it sounds like a big deal.  If so, finding that a Catholic Bishop has instructed his diocesan priests not to administer holy communion to Representative ... And this is the church that knew priests were abusing children and did nothing about it! All I know is that if the Catholic Church is going to pressure our elected representatives to ignore the people and vote ...

... National Director of Priests for Life, stated this morning that the voting records of members of Congress on the Stupak-Pitts ... HR 3962 (and other abortion-related votes) will be distributed to every Catholic parish in America, with instructions to each pastor on how to make clear ... year's midterm elections. Publishing voting records in a non-partisan fashion is certainly one of those activities.& ...

... 39;t really say that last part, but the D.C. Archdiocese may be confused on the point. The Catholic Archdiocese of Washington said Wednesday that it will be unable to continue ... Post reported that from 2006 through 2008, Catholic Charities received about $8.2 million in city ... approved by a majority of bishops present and voting at the November meeting. Catholic hospitals, by the way, rake in millions ...

... from frustration that lay Catholics did not seem to heed their warnings about voting for Barack Obama, (53 percent of Catholic voters went for the Democrat) and anger at ... sense, the political divisions that have marked American society have been mirrored in the Catholic Church, and they are likely to be no less stubborn. Indeed, they even overlap. The furor that erupted last summer over misdeeds ...

... of Michigan, the Democratic sponsor of the abortion amendment and himself a Catholic. The church also had amassed goodwill during years of working with ... and refuse to compromise," Rubiner said. More liberal Catholic organizations say the bishops don't speak for the mainstream. In ... ., blasted Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy (D-R.I.) for voting against the Stupak amendment. Bishop Thomas J. Tobin ...