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Mondaya TMs NBC Nightly News took up the story of liberal Congressman Patrick Kennedya TMs public feud with the Catholic Church, and NBCa TMs Ron Allen implied something improper in how "the Catholic Church is flexing its religious and political muscle." When Catholic officials endorse liberal initiatives like immigration reform or oppose an ...

Matthews asked the bishop what kind of laws he would write if he were a member of Congress.

Clergy sex abuse victims and their supporters said Tuesday that Rhode Island's Roman Catholic bishop is not doing enough to protect children from pedophile priests even as he's taken on Democratic Rep.

When Martin Luther King Jr. Day arrives in January, I doubt you will hear commentators at MSNBC denigrating that heroic leader of the Civil Rights movement by claiming he improperly crossed the boundary line between church and state when he demanded that the laws of this country protect the God-given rights of African Americans.

Nov. 23: As the nation grapples with emotional issues like health care reform, abortion and same-sex marriage, the Catholic church is flexing its religious and political muscle by asking U.S. Rep.

Anyone who has one knows that pets have personalities and quirks; they're members of the family rather than property.

Two of the leading candidates for the US Senate from Massachusetts vehemently defended Representative Patrick J. Kennedy of Rhode Island yesterday in his uncommonly public dispute with the Providence bishop, saying the Catholic Church is acting exclusionary.

Dudley District Court Judge Neil Snider agreed with both defense and prosecution requests, defining Hiram Burgos Ortiz a danger to others and sending him to Bridgewater State for 30 days of psychiatric evaluation.

Holder's terror trial response 'breathtaking' That is how one legal expert is describing a recent exchange between a Republican senator and the U.S. attorney general regarding the prosecution of suspected terrorists.

The five men facing trial in the Sept. 11 attacks will plead not guilty so that they can air their criticisms of U.S. foreign policy, the lawyer for one of the defendants said Sunday.

Former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo says church leaders should be cautious about pressuring Catholic politicians over issues such as abortion because people might not vote for someone they think is guided by religion.

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy will be a tough act to follow, even for the Kennedys. His death, coupled with the decision by family members not to seek the seat he held for nearly five decades, has prompted predictions that the family's long-running political dynasty is over.There's talk the Kennedy political bloodlines are running thin.

Representative Louise Slaughter has a consistent record advocating abortion rights.

The wife of U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., has been charged with drunken driving and hit-and-run after police said she hit a parked car in northern Virginia.

Can Patrick Kennedy be one, even though he supports abortion rights and provisions for public funding for some? The Roman Catholic bishop of Providence in Rhode Island, where Kennedy is a U.S. representative, says a categorical "no". Bishop Thomas J. Full Article at Baxter Bulletin Twitter There are no results for this module.

U.S. Rep. David R. Obey, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, toured four major research institutions in the city's Jewelry District on Friday along with Rep.

Edward M. Kennedy warned the state's U.S. Senate candidates yesterday not to apply an abortion "litmus test" that might stall the universal health care his father devoted much of his career to passing.

If the opponents of health reform had all got together as a shadowy Dan Brownish cabal in the men's room at Union Station six months ago and come up with a ghoulish plot to derail the effort without leaving any fingerprints, they couldn't have done a better job.

WHEN IT comes to America's most famous Catholic family, no true compass guides the Roman Catholic Church.

An eagle feather warbonnet made by a Fort Berthold Reservation resident was presented last week to Rep.