Despite thinly-veiled opposition from bishops, Obama holds big lead among Catholic voters - Dansville, NY - Dansville - Genesee Country Express

Despite thinly-veiled opposition from bishops, Obama holds big lead among Catholic voters

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By Pat Cunningham

The American Catholic hierarchy doesn’t come right out and urge its flock to vote for Mitt Romney, but its antipathy for President Obama is no big secret.

It brings to mind what Thomas Doran, who was then the bishop of the Rockford Diocese, once said of the Democratic Party without actually naming it. In a column in  the Aug. 11, 2006, issue of The Observer, the diocesan newspaper, Doran warned that “adherents of one political party would place us squarely on the road to suicide as a people.”

“The seven ‘sacraments’ of their secular culture,” Doran continued, “are abortion, buggery, contraception, divorce, euthanasia, ...

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