Bullies in the pulpit: will a political Catholic Church help or hinder the GOP?(Dispatches)
American Prospect, The, October, 2003 by Wildman, Sarah
IN LATE JANUARY 2001, THE NEW ADMINISTRATION had barely unpacked when George W. and Laura Bush paid a friendly visit to Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, the recently inaugurated leader of the Washington Archdiocese. On the heels of that supper, Karl Rove, together with Deal Hudson, editor of the Catholic magazine Crisis, organized a White House meeting with some 30 Catholic leaders.
Soon after, the White House established a weekly Thursday morning conference call with a national panel of Catholic leaders, who have since used it to help secure (and squelch) ambassadorial and judicial ...
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