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boston.com - 11/14/2008
Priest: No Communion for Obama voters
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The pastor of St. Mary Catholic Church in Greenville, SC, is urging parishioners who voted for Barack Obama not to present themselves for Communion unless they go to confession first because they have cooperated with "intrinsic evil'' by voting for a candidate who supports abortion rights ...
news.yahoo.com - 11/13/2008
SC priest: No communion for Obama supporters - Yahoo! News
— news.yahoo.com — COLUMBIA, S.C. A South Carolina Roman Catholic priest has told his parishioners that they should refrain from... receiving Holy Communion if they voted for Barack Obama because the Democratic president-elect supports abortion, and supporting him ... (more) SC priest: No communion for Obama supporters - Yahoo! News

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msnbc.msn.com - 11/14/2008
Priest: No communion for Obama voters
— msnbc.msn.com — A South Carolina Roman Catholic priest has told his parishioners that they should refrain from receiving Holy... Communion if they voted for Barack Obama because the Democratic president-elect supports abortion. (more) Priest: No communion for Obama voters

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thestate.com - 11/16/2008
S.C. priest scolds Obama voters - Local / Metro
— thestate.com — A Greenville priest who told parishioners those who cast ballots for President-elect Barack Obama risk placing themselves... “outside of the full communion of Christ’s church” is simply enunciating church teaching and has the full support of the Diocese ... (more) S.C. priest scolds Obama voters - Local / Metro

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Giving Religion a Bad Name
Hoffmania! — ... The Catholic church really seems to have a behavior problem with its clergy. A religious leader in America labeling another American's vote "intrinsic evil" - and suggesting they stay away from their house of worship? Yeah. That'll send a good message about religion to kids nationwide. ...

Press Coverage of SC Priest's 'Repudiation' Ignores Superior's Earlier Support, Clever Dodges in Official Letter
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... Catholic Church, and one ought to mosey on down the road if they are at all interested in their own salvation and that of their children. Indeed. Catholic Culture asks a question conscientious reporters, if they still exist, would be attempting to answer: Wouldn't you love to see Msgr. Laughlin's phone log for November 12-14? The full text of Father Newman's letter is also at the BizzyBlog link (originally found at the Boston Globe; HT Voting Catholic in 2008). Cross-posted at ...

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