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...Religion Gap presents both Bush and Kerry with special challenges. Kerry not only has to walk a line between his personal faith--that of the 11-year-old altar boy who used to write his sister to remind her to say her prayers--and the more secular leanings of his core voters. He also faces a small squad of conservative Catholic bishops who say they would refuse to serve Communion to politicians who, like Kerry, reject the church's teachings on issues such as abortion. One has gone so far as to suggest that any unrepentant Catholic who even votes...
...bishops will hear from a task force, led by Washington Archbishop Theodore Cardinal McCarrick, that is supposed to give them a set of guidelines on the issue shortly after the election. McCarrick has said he has "not gotten comfortable" with the idea of confronting anyone at the altar, even as he has asserted that Catholics conscious of grave sin should not take Communion. The antiabortion group American Life League responded in early May with full-page newspaper ads in the Washington Times featuring a picture of the crucified Christ and asking, CARDINAL MCCARRICK: ARE YOU COMFORTABLE...
...approach to Catholicism, Kerry says, has shaped both his identity and his values. The former altar boy says he wore a rosary into battle in Vietnam but went through a period of agnosticism and anger upon his return, finding his way back to his faith after "a lot of reading and a lot of thinking." He told TIME in an interview last March, "It's an important part of my getting through tough periods in my life and remains a bedrock of values--of sureness, I guess--about who I am, where we all fit, what our role...
Strict but colorful nuns and life-changing Jesuit priests also populate the former altar boy's fond rendering of the tight-knit Irish Catholic world of his childhood, where John F. Kennedy was king. It was good preparation for an early job working for New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan--Russert's intellectual father--who assured him that having hauled garbage during the summer, Russert would always have the advantage in a roomful of eggheads...
Both Trager and Rochelson settled into their rhythms shortly thereafter, tossing up zeroes on the scoreboard in each of the two successive frames before Rochelson gave way to Michnikov. The hero-in-waiting immediately surrendered three unearned runs, enduring his athloi with grace prior to his ascension to the altar of the demigods...