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almsgiving VII

By Diogenes (articles ) | July 25, 2004 1:33 PM

Suppose you're a priest ordained in 1967 and administrator of the St. Paul Albanian Catholic Community in Rochester Hills, Michigan. You have $1,300 in your pocket and are inspired to give it away. To whom, or what, do you direct your alms?

(a) to the Church in Albania

(b) to a work of mercy that serves the poor of Michigan

(c) to pro-abortion presidential candidate Wesley Clark and to Eliot Engel, an ardently pro-abortion congressman from New York.

If you're Father Anton Kcira of the Archdiocese of Detroit, your answer is (c).

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