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    Among those who share that suspicion is John Zuhlsdorf, a Catholic priest from Minneapolis who moderates a popular conservative Internet blog. Diaz's "appointment could be part of a larger campaign to suborn Catholics in the United States ... Obama doesn't care what the Catholic Church teaches. This is an aggressively pro-abortion politician. And everyone knows Catholics are a huge voting demographic." Still, Diaz's appointment presents a dilemma for Obama's culturally conservative critics. Full Article at Minneapolis Star Tribune
    appointment could be part of a larger campaign to suborn Catholics in the United States ... Obama doesn't care what the Catholic Church teaches. This is an aggressively pro-abortion politician. And everyone knows Catholics are a huge voting demographic.
    SOURCE: Minneapolis Star Tribune 3 weeks ago
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Abortion debate dogs envoy to Vatican
  1. I'm not here to be a theologian or a spokesperson for the Catholic Church or any other religious entity
    SOURCE: Minneapolis Star Tribune 3 weeks ago
  2. I would rather spend my energy focusing on the multiple things we agree on
    – Miguel Diaz SOURCE: Minneapolis Star Tribune 3 weeks ago
  3. So I resist categories of either/or, in terms of arguing this or that. Unfortunately, it does not allow me the time to be able to explain in a thorough and satisfactory way what I mean by whatever I would say I am
    SOURCE: Minneapolis Star Tribune 3 weeks ago
  4. What would really be a dumb idea ... is if [the White House] imagined this to be another surrogate in an attempt to split the Catholic community in the United States. It's not a suspicion without ground.
    SOURCE: Minneapolis Star Tribune 3 weeks ago
  5. We relate to the Holy See as a sovereign entity, as a global humanitarian actor, and as a moral voice in the world
    – Miguel Diaz SOURCE: Minneapolis Star Tribune 3 weeks ago
  6. They've awakened something they might not want to awake
    SOURCE: Minneapolis Star Tribune 3 weeks ago
  7. It leads to the thought that this administration is prepared to play serious political hardball and get its way with a significant chunk of the Catholic vote
    SOURCE: Minneapolis Star Tribune 3 weeks ago
  8. need for a clear discernment with regard to issues touching the protection of human dignity and respect for the inalienable right to life from the moment of conception to natural death ... The Church insists on the unbreakable link between an ethics of life and every other aspect of social ethics.
    SOURCE: Minneapolis Star Tribune 3 weeks ago
  9. In that sense, Obama short-circuited the potential for this nomination to be inflammatory
    SOURCE: Minneapolis Star Tribune 3 weeks ago

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