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As first reported in the Dubuque Tribune Herald and given greater exposure by The Washington Post, John Kerry has elaborated on his long-stated personal opposition to abortion in contrast with his perfectly prochoice voting record.
Here’s an example of a critical story finding its way from the blogosphere into print: In March the Rev. Sun Myung Moon managed to get himself and his wife crowned — in a ceremony inside the Dirksen Senate Office Building — as Ambassadors for Peace.
As a Southern Baptist preacher’s kid who grew up in Texas in the 1970s, I had lots of reasons to reject Ronald Reagan. That may seem strange to some of you, since it is now assumed that Southern Baptists and the Republican Party that Reagan built are wedded at the hip.
The following is a letter to the GetReligion.org editor from one of our readers, an old-fashioned Catholic peace activist named Juli Loesch Wiley.
It’s safe to say that most American newspaper readers will have a chance to read the following quotation today.
The story of Sen. John “Call me JFK” Kerry and the Catholic bishops is going to roll on for awhile. There all kinds of hooks that journalists have not really explored yet, such as the nature of the divisions among the U.S. Catholic bishops and how these fractures are linked to other issues within Catholicism. For example: Do Catholics still need to go to confession? How often?
There was a sobering angle on the Iraq-prison abuse story today, hidden down in the body of the latest Howard Kurtz media column in the Washington Post. Find that headline, “A Kerry-Worrying Trend” and then dig down past the layers of inside-the-Beltway paranoia and score keeping.
The New York Times has a report today on the announcement that Peter H. Coors will seek the Republican nomination the U.S. Senate seat of Ben Nighthorse Campbell.
There’s a tangible quality of gloating in Michael Powell’s Washington Post story about the public dispute between Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry and his 24-year-old son, Jamiel, who has outed himself in Out magazine.
