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FIRST the archbishop said that Catholic officeholders who support abortion rights are "objectively dishonest." The most prominent New Jersey Catholic who holds that view is the governor, Jim McGreevey. He took the archbishop's comments as a personal attack, as indeed it seemed to be.
Now the archbishop, John Myers, says that was a misunderstanding. Pshaw, he says, he is working with the governor on a number of issues, like helping the poor and those afflicted with HIV. The two have an understanding that he, the archbishop, won't criticize him personally. That is what he told The New York Times in an interview last week.See the full content of this document
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Soothing Words From the Archbishop
It is puzzling.
Three weeks ago the archbishop issued a long, closely reasoned pastoral statement in The Catholic Advocate, the biweekly publication of the archdiocese of Newark, which takes in Essex, Bergen, Hudson, and Union counties. In it Myer...See the full content of this document
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