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The 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...
If that didn't seem like such a big deal then, it does now. A handful of other church leaders have since echoed Archbishop Raymond Burke's declaration that Catholic politicians who vote against church teachings are unfit for the sacrament that more than any other symbolizes a Catholic's...
Catholics were once one of the most reliable blocs for Democrats, but their voting patterns have become less predictable and more complex. Other denominations have taken clear sides in this election: Protestants favored President Bush by a 19-point margin in the TIME poll (55%-36%), and those who are...
Of course, what matters more than anything else is which of these groups actually shows up at the polls on Election Day. "Orthodox Catholics are really motivated," says Deal Hudson, a conservative Catholic activist who publishes the magazine Crisis and who is close to the White House. "There's huge...
Since the Catholic church also opposes the death penalty, will the bishops deny Communion to politicians and voters who support capital punishment? HECTOR TIMOURIAN Livermore, Calif.