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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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
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President Bush's campaign criticized a new Democratic effort to get out the religious vote for John Kerry on Friday, saying it could endanger churches' tax-exempt status by involving them in partisan political activity.
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Pope Benedict XVI rebuffed calls to let divorced Catholics who remarry receive Communion in a new document Tuesday and told Catholic politicians they are expected to wage the church's fight against abortion and gay marriage.
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On the same day that US President George W. Bush made perhaps his strongest defense of French foreign policy, a top backer derided Democratic White House hopeful John Kerry for wanting the United States to "act like the French."
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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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John Kerry faces 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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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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Why the Bush and Kerry campaigns fight tooth and nail for the endorsement of the Columbus Dispatch
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Senator John Kerry goes toward the election with a base that is built more on opposition to George W. Bush than loyalty to his own candidacy.
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Democratic challenger John Kerry turned the Bible against born-again Methodist President George W. Bush, arguing that his policies ran counter to America's moral foundation.
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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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Some are Catholics who see their church as stuck in the past. Others are believers who happen to be divorced, pregnant before marriage or gay. A few just can't find a priest when they need one.
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US bishops likely to rebuff calls to row back on support for gay and lesbian members.
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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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Pope Benedict said on Friday   Catholic politicians could not be swayed by opinion polls and   social trends into supporting practices such as abortion and   the "folly" of gay marriage.
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President Bush has taken a lead over Democrat John Kerry among key groups such as Catholics and those with a high school education &#151; largely because of voter doubts about Kerry, a poll suggests.