Cutting the Cord
A Jesuit Says Goodbye to the Abortion Party
by Terry Mattingly
It was sometime during the hearings into whether Judge Priscilla Owen was fit to serve on the US Court of Appeals that Father John F. Kavanaugh faced a hard question.
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