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...last Sunday before two hotly contested primary elections in Massachusetts. At Roman Catholic Masses in the Boston area, priests pulled out a letter written by the local archbishop, Humberto Cardinal Medeiros, warning worshipers that anyone voting for a politician favoring abortion would incur some of the guilt for "this horrendous crime and deadly sin." The unnamed targets: pro-choice Congressional Candidates Barney Frank and James Shannon. The letter caused bitter debate about whether the church had improperly taken a hand in partisan politics, a frequent question throughout the U.S. during this election year. In April, for instance, a South Dakota...
...American archbishop tells the Pope his policy is not working...
...district is also heavily Catholic. On the Sunday before last week's primary, priests in the Boston-area Catholic churches read a pastoral letter from Humberto Cardinal Medeiros. Proclaimed the archbishop: "Those who make abortion possible by law cannot separate themselves from the guilt which accompanies this horrendous crime and deadly sin." His targets were two front runners who had been outspokenly liberal on abortion: first-term incumbent Congressman James Shannon, a Catholic, in the Fifth District, northwest of Boston,* and Frank, a Jew, in the Fourth District, who is a strong supporter of the ERA and equal rights...
...both races, there is a third name at least as prominent--Humberto Cardinal Medeiros, archbishop of Boston. Although Medeiros has been silent on most social issues, he said in a letter read in many area parishes Sunday supporters of Shannon or Frank--who favor Medicaid funding for abortions--"cannot separate themselves totally from that guilt which accompanies this horrendous crime and deadly...
...that places like Libya, Syria and Iran may get away with murder in other countries is that those other countries have decided that they prefer oil to order. The absence of sanctuaries in the modern world must be of general help as well. He who would mow down an archbishop saying Mass in a chapel in San Salvador (or storm a mosque, or sack an embassy) would hardly hesitate to invade Bethesda. The public heart recoils at such goings-on, but briefly. Before Mr. Tabatabai's murder, someone suggested to his neighbors, the Milks, that they paint a purple...