By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
GOP challengers are now saying that the House seat held by Congressman Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) may encounter the same fate as the long-held Senate seat of his father, Senator Edward Kennedy, which was lost last week to a Republican for the first time since 1972.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In response to a statement by Rep. Patrick Kennedy that his support for abortion does not make him “less of a Catholic,” the Bishop of Providence, Rhode Island is using the latest salvo as a teachable moment by pointing out why the dissenting Kennedy is in a “flawed” communion with the Church.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Rev. Thomas J. Tobin, bishop of the diocese of Providence, says Rep. Patrick Kennedy’s remarks about the Church’s opposition to abortion-funded health care reform are “irresponsible and ignorant of the facts.”
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