The following summarizes recent opinion pieces examining how Catholic leaders are reacting to Catholic support for President-elect Barack Obama. Exit polls showed that 54% of Catholics voted for Obama.
~ Patrick Whelan and Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Baltimore Sun: The recent election demonstrated that "American Catholics want leaders who are serious, deliberative and have a sense of gravitas about the questions confronting" the country, Whelan -- president of Catholic Democrats -- and Kennedy Townsend -- a board member of the group -- write in an opinion piece. At the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops General Assembly last week, the "putative argument" among bishops "was that only Republicans are sufficiently pure on the abortion question," but the "facts show otherwise," Whelan and Kennedy Townsend write.
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