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Why Catholic vote is likely to decide presidential election this year (IrishCentral)

Thu, 01 Nov 2012 04:02:52 PDT

By: JAMES O'SHEA

At least 47million Catholics will vote Tuesday and how they do so will decide this election.

Today's Irish news roundup (IrishCentral)

Thu, 30 Aug 2012 10:40:19 PDT

By: JANE WALSH

Here's our top read stories in Irish news today

Cardinal Dolan right to see the light and agree to speak at Democratic convention -- Huge error appearing at Republican convention only with closing prayer (IrishCentral)

Wed, 29 Aug 2012 04:46:51 PDT

New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan (Photo: AP)Cardinal Timothy Dolan is doing the right thing speaking at both the Democratic National Convention and the Republican oneHis decision came after a storm of criticism about him appearing only at the Republican National Convention in Tampa and not at the Democratic one in Charlotte, North CarolinaThere was also news of a secret meeting between Mitt Romney and Dolan at Dolan’s office in New York which took many observers by surpriseWhy a secret meeting? Why not acknowledge out front that the Cardinal Archbishop of New York was meeting one of the two men who will be president come January next year?Clearly Dolan, by far the most powerful figure in the American Catholic Church, was displaying a partisan approach that went down badly with many American Catholics READ MORE

Catholic bishops should have declared victory on contraception -- now look like tools of the GOP (IrishCentral)

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 05:15:22 PST

The refusal of the Catholic Bishop's Conference to accept the Obama compromise on birth control and contraception is a grave mistakeIt once again pitches the Catholic Church as right wing supporters, following a Republican agenda, a fact made clear by the move by 36 Republican senators to side with the church position and force a bill through CongressThere is a time to declare victory before the hypocrisy emerges The bishops know darn well that 98 per cent of Catholics use birth control and they turn a blind eye to it READ MORE

Madness for Church and GOP to oppose contraceptive use for women or men (IrishCentral)

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:45:35 PST

Rick Santorum The Catholic Church and the Republican Party are utterly wrong in opposing contraception in health care plansSurveys show that Catholics by a wide margin of 16 per cent believe that contraception should be offered in every health care plan as a matter of factWhether a person wants it as part of their plan is their own business and no one elses, no matter where they workFighting the contraception issue makes the church look once more like it is targeting women READ MORE

Could Catholic GOP Newt Gingrich be the next President of the United States? (IrishCentral)

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:01:32 PST

By: Irish Voice Editorial

As a practicing Catholic, Newt Gingrich would be only the second non-Protestant male to occupy the White House since 1789, should he win the Republican nomination and go on to defeat President Obama in November.

Cardinal Francis George: gays are the new KKK (IrishCentral)

Mon, 02 Jan 2012 07:54:31 PST

Chicago's Cardinal Francis George has made the headlines for some unconscionable comments he made on television last weekHours after he learned the organizers of Chicago's annual gay pride parade would delay the start of 2012's citywide pride march to avoid disrupting morning Mass at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, the Cardinal still found the opportunity to take (and give) further offense'You don't want the gay liberation movement to morph into something like the Ku Klux Klan, demonstrating in the streets against Catholicism,' he told visibly startled Fox News host Dane PlackoLet's just reflect on the Cardinal's total inversion of reality for a moment READ MORE