There will be 11 Pennsylvania Cathoic Democrats in the 111th Congress, Bob Casey in the Senate, and the following in the House of Representatives: Jason Altmire, Robert A. Brady, Christopher Carney, Kathy Dahlkemper, Mike Doyle, Tim Holden, Paul E. Kanjorski,...
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PITTSBURGH (CNS) -- Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Pittsburgh is reporting a 40 percent increase in the number of calls from people seeking help as the country continues to struggle with the economy. Not only is the increase a...
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We have now learned that the Ashley Todd's accusation that she was assaulted by a black man was a hoax. The circumstances as reported suggest that this young woman suffers from a disorder. We should all pray that she receives...
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Pennsylvania Catholics for Obama has a helpful website with information on upcoming events, resources and a sign-up forum to join Pennsylvania Catholics for Obama. After you sign up for Catholic Democrats, go to their site and sign up....
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Excerpt from the Harrisburg Patriot News by BILL FENSTERMAKER We should vote based on Christ Sunday, September 28, 2008 ... I put a political bumper sticker on my car, primarily to stimulate discussion, especially among my Christian friends. In all...
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Catholic vote key; both sides want it Democratic effort may be better set up Sunday, September 14, 2008 By James O'Toole, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Said Senator Bob Casey, "I do think nationally, our party has made a lot of progress, certainly...
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Kari Lundgren, a PhD student in Pittsburgh and graduate of conservative Franciscan University in Steubenville, Ohio, argues that Catholics should look past the years of empty Republican rhetoric about abortion and consider voting for Barack Obama. She writes, "Why, in...
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Since John McCain wants to suspend the gasoline tax to reduce the price of a gallon of gas, why doesn't he ask his running mate to cut the exorbitant oil and gas severance tax that Alaska charges the rest of...
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Written by correspondent Niall O'Dowd, and first published in Irish America magazine, and republished in The Irish Voice, we share the following account of Senator Joseph Biden's roots in Scranton. Many thanks to Sarah McAuliffe Bellin, President of the Irish...
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DENVER -- A generation after his father was barred from the podium of the Democratic National Convention, Sen. Bob Casey Jr. invoked his name as he depicted Sen. Barack Obama as a force for tolerance on an issue that continues...
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"It is necessary to recover some basic aspects of finances, such as the primacy of labor over capital, of human relationships over purely financial transactions, and of ethics over the sole criterion of efficiency," Archbishop Celestino Migliore, the Vatican's apostolic nuncio to the United Nations.
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