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...personal discussion of his faith than a chance to prove that he wasn't afraid to show up in the lions' den. In a speech that went after critics in the Religious Right, Kennedy quoted Pope John XXIII's words at the start of the Second Vatican Council: "We must beware of those who burn with zeal but are not endowed with much sense...
Indeed, abortion was the main topic for which Kennedy received criticism from church leaders. He had begun his political career opposed to abortion - in a 1971 letter, Kennedy wrote, "Wanted or unwanted, I believe that human life, even at its earliest stages, has certain rights which must be recognized." But like many other Democratic politicians, he became a supporter of abortion rights by the 1980s. By the end of his career he was regularly awarded a 100% positive rating from NARAL Pro-Choice America for his abortion-related votes, a record that put him at odds with Church leadership...
Experience has shown it's foolish to ever consider a terrorist group definitively beaten. Still, it must be getting hard for officials in Spain and France not to strut a tiny bit following the recent blows they've dealt the separatist Basque organization Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA). In the past week alone, authorities have unearthed 13 ETA weapons caches in France, and arrested three alleged members suspected of staging two recent bombings in Spain. Nevertheless, officials describe the group as just as dangerous as ever...
...These discoveries deprive ETA of an arsenal [but show that] attacks were being prepared," French Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux said during a Wednesday press conference in Paris after meeting with his Spanish counterpart Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba. "It means the threat is very real, and that we must not underestimate ETA's capacity to cause trouble and its willingness to kill." (See pictures of terrorism...
...last half decade has been hard on ETA, but the timing of these busts must be particularly agonizing," says a French anti-terrorism official of the recent police operations. "Compared to what it used to be, ETA is scarcely a fragment of its former self...