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...assault on Ferraro seemed almost gratuitous. Before addressing a pro-life convention in Altoona, Pa., New York Archbishop John J. O'Connor told reporters that Ferraro had "said some things about abortion relative to Catholic teaching which are not true." He did not immediately explain just what Ferraro had said or when she had said it. Puzzled and privately seething, the candidate tried to reach O'Connor between campaign appearances. She finally did so from Indianapolis. In what she described as a "cordial, direct and helpful" 35-minute telephone conversation, she politely asked the Archbishop what "mischaracterization...
...political responses to the issue." Barely suppressing her anger, she questioned the timing of O'Connor's announcement. "Why is this letter coming out now of all times?" she asked. Unsatisfied by a vague answer from O'Connor, Ferraro pleaded, "I think that if you make reference to it again, you ought to make it clear you're referring to a 1982 document...
Within an hour after her speech, Scranton Bishop James Timlin, who had taken over O'Connor's former diocese after O'Connor was installed as Archbishop of New York, held a press conference. He sharply attacked Ferraro's attempt to separate her public duties from her religious views as "absolutely ridiculous." He likened her abortion position to the slavery issue. "You can't say," Timlin argued, " 'I'm personally opposed to slavery, but I don't care if others down the street have them.' " The bishop insisted that...
...linebacker with Bradley are Denton Walker, a starter last year before being hurt, returning starter Peter Gallagher and Gavin O'Connor...
...Ferraro and Cuomo, among others) that officeholders should not impose on others their personal opposition to abortion. Said the statement: "To evade this issue of abortion under the pretext that it is a matter pertaining exclusively to private morality is obviously illogical." New York Archbishop John J. O'Connor had voiced similar views last month, but softened them somewhat after being challenged by Governor Cuomo. This week Cuomo is scheduled to give a long-planned address on abortion and other church-state issues at Notre Dame...