Word: catholicism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard Crew, Captain; Undergraduate Council, Secretary; UC Campus Life Comm., Chair; House Superintendent's office job; Catholic Students Association
When the House of Representatives voted last week to overturn President Clinton's veto of the ban on partial-birth abortion, some opponents saw more politics than principle behind the gesture. How better to portray Clinton as an extremist than by reminding voters that he had defended a practice that...
Since then, both sides have spent millions on TV and newspaper ads, mass mailings, brochures and demonstrations. Two weeks ago, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops held a prayer vigil in Washington; the group has sent out 8 million postcards for people to pass on to their Representatives. Meanwhile, the...
Clinton has worked hard to win over Catholic voters, so the re-emergence of the issue complicates his campaign; he may have co-opted crime, welfare and budget balancing, but he can't turn into a Republican on this subject without losing a key constituency--the women who account for...
Religion has played a key role in the genocidal violence racking Burundi and its neighbor Rwanda. But while the Roman Catholic Church in Rwanda has been shamed by incidents of priests and nuns leading massacres, the church in Burundi has spoken out against hatred, extremism and murder. For so doing...