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1st January 2013, 07:50 PM
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“Our problem isn’t in Washington; it’s in our parishes. Only if we first build the Church can we, will we, bless the nation.”
–Al Kresta
Al Kresta, host of the popular “Kresta in the Afternoon” broadcast on Catholic radio and President and CEO of Ave Maria Communications, is talking about the Catholic vote in the 2012 election. In November, according to the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, forty percent of Mass-attending Catholics voted for President Obama, a self-identified champion of two intrinsic evils: (1) abortion, including partial-birth abortion; and (2) the redefinition of marriage.
Most elections don’t permit such black and white assessments. In this case, however, Bishop Thomas Paprocki, bishop of Springfield in Illinois, concluded in a column in the Catholic Times on September 23, 2012:
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1st January 2013, 08:18 PM
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Reps: 169,541,243,037,104,576 (power: 169,541,243,037,111) | | “Al Kresta, host of the popular “Kresta in the Afternoon” broadcast on Catholic radio and President and CEO of Ave Maria Communications, is talking about the Catholic vote in the 2012 election. In November, according to the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, forty percent of Mass-attending Catholics voted for President
CATHOLICS FOR OBAMA!!!!! Yes!!   |
1st January 2013, 10:46 PM
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2nd January 2013, 12:03 PM
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Reps: 169,541,243,037,104,576 (power: 169,541,243,037,111) | | Originally Posted by Fantine  It's hard to believe that this article stooped to quoting Bishop Thomas Paprocki, whose fire and brimstone electioneering were almost universally condemned by Catholics and non-Catholics alike.
Well, the laity have spoken and helped re-elected Obama!!   | |
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