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GERALDINE FERRARO...
...feel of the hustings has got to the former vice presidential hopeful. After stumping for candidates in the midterm election, Ferraro is raising money for a poll to measure her strength against New York's Republican Senator Al D'Amato, who is up for re-election...
...unequivocal stance of the Gospel and the Church on social justice perhaps explains why so many prominent Catholic politicians such as N.Y. Gov. Mario Cuomo, Geraldine Ferraro and the Kennedys are so liberal...
...female qualities are slowly becoming a political plus, Geraldine Ferraro may eventually be remembered as the first woman vice-presidential candidate, not as the only one. And the next presidential bid by a woman will not just be remembered for having ended in tears, as Schroeder's did in 1987. Harvard psychologist Carol Gilligan, author of In A Different Voice, a landmark study of gender differences, argues that women have greater moral strength, a stronger ethic of care and overriding concern for making and maintaining relationships -- all qualities of a good politician. She has even said that feelings...
...Connor and Bishop Vaughan had been sounding off when Kennedy was running for President, he would not have been elected. True, but irrelevant. Whatever lingering suspicions exist about supposedly divided loyalties ought to have been dispelled by the number of lay Catholics, including former Democratic vice- presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro, who have taken a pro-choice position on abortion...