staying 'on message'

By ( articles ) | Nov 06, 2008

Father Larry Snyder, the head of Catholic Charities USA, has sent his "sincere congratulations!" to Barack Obama on his electoral success, thereby reminding the president-elect that Catholic Charities, which receives most of its support from Uncle Sam, could always use a few more federal dollars. Sure.

"I know that you share our commitment to these 'least among us,'" Father Larry assures Obama. 

So I guess the unborn are not the "least among us."

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Thursday of the Fifth Week of Easter; Opt. Mem. of St. Rita of Cascia, Religious

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Today is the Optional Memorial of St. Rita Cascia (1386-1457). After eighteen years of married life, St. Rita lost, by death, her husband and her two sons. Called afterwards to the religious state, she professed the Rule of St. Augustine at Cascia her native town, in central Italy. In a life-long and…

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