Catholics Resist Wooing by Kerry and Bush
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Sen. John Kerry is having trouble wooing fellow Roman Catholics in Iowa and Wisconsin. President Bush is short of his expected Catholic count in Michigan and Minnesota. Once reliably Democratic, Catholics have become one of the most complicated and coveted swing voting blocs.
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By ELIZABETH A. KENNEDY  DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania - Seven conservative Anglican leaders refused Friday to take Holy Communion with the head of the U.S. branch of the church, who supports ordaining gays and blessing same-sex unions, as the fellowship struggles to avert a split.
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In the teeming markets and cafes of Little Saigon, generational changes and misgivings over his policies have weakened President Bush's support among Vietnamese-Americans. Still, few are embracing his Democratic challenger, Sen. John Kerry.
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Neither President Bush nor Democrat John Kerry has been invited to this year's Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner, a traditionally lighthearted affair held just before the elections, because issues in the presidential campaign could detract from the spirit of the event, its sponsor, the Archdiocese of New York said Thursday.
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Cardinal Martini continues to embody the Catholic Church's more liberal spirit -- and he doesn't mind voicing his differences with Pope Benedict
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Religion is taking a back seat to the  Iraq war and domestic issues in the 2008 White House race, but  most Americans still feel faith is an important attribute in  their president, according to a survey released on Thursday.
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US President George W. Bush and Democratic rival John Kerry are battling for support among Roman Catholics voters, an electorate divided between a Bible-reading Protestant president and a Catholic senator who supports abortion rights.
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Senator John Kerry faces substantial obstacles in his bid to unseat President Bush, with voters saying he has not laid out a case for why he wants to be president.
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The Bush administration has broken new ground in its &quot;faith-based&quot; initiative, this time by offering federal employees a Catholic health plan that specifically excludes payment for contraceptives
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Kristen Foht calls herself an "extremely pro-life" Democrat. Yet the St. Louis Catholic will vote for Sen. John Kerry on Tuesday, risking a rebuke from her archbishop and her friends in the anti-abortion movement.
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Democrats trying to portray President Bush as too headstrong when he decided to invade Iraq got help this week from an unlikely source: evangelist and Bush supporter Pat Robertson.
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Christian conservatives, whose lack of enthusiasm for George W. Bush in 2000 worried Republicans, could be the president's ace in the hole in his race for re-election this time around.
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The Christian Science Monitor - After two days of wooing by all the Republican presidential candidates, religious conservatives appear no more in agreement on whom to support than they did going in.
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Some Catholic organizations are upset with Catholic University for inviting 1988 law school graduate Bob Casey to speak but not his rival, Republican Sen. Rick Santorum.
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President Bush blistered Sen. John Kerry on Wednesday as an apostle of "retreat in Iraq" and tax-and-spend liberalism at home. The administration is "out of touch with reality" Democratic running mate John Edwards countered in a campaign growing more caustic by the day.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.  - Democratic challenger  John Kerry mixed the political and the spiritual on Sunday by  accusing President Bush of trying to scare America and offering  voters a glimpse into his own faith.
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Republicans have one message for followers of many faiths: Sen. John Kerry is wrong.