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January 29, 2008 GORDON B. HINCKLEY
Romney, Remembering Gordon Hinckley
Perry Bacon Jr./washingtonpost.com (01/28/2008)
At a photo-op in front of a Texaco gas station here, scheduled so Romney could
blast rival John McCain's proposal for limiting greenhouse gas emissions, Romney
addressed his relationship with Gordon B. Hinckley, the Mormon church's president
who died yesterday of natural cases at age 97. Romney called Hinckley 'one of the
great leaders in our faith.'
GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS
Latinos courted as wild card among shifting evangelical voters
Margaret Ramirez/Chicago Tribune (01/29/2008)
When Republican presidential candidates John McCain or Mike Huckabee need advice on
the nation's surging Latino evangelical vote, there is one man to call: Rev. Samuel
Rodriguez.
Grants Would Finance Private Schooling
David M. Herszenhorn/New York Times (01/29/2008)
WASHINGTON — President Bush’s call for a $300 million program called Pell Grants
for Kids is the latest effort by his administration to channel tax dollars to low-
income parents to help them send their children to private or religious schools.
IMMIGRATION
Missouri bishops to pols: Curb your anti-immigration talk
Jo Mannies/St. Louis Post-Dispatch (01/29/2008)
Monday evening, Missouri’s Catholic bishops jumped into the state’s ongoing debate
over illegal immigrants by issuing a statement “delivered to Governor Matt Blunt
and state legislators, calling for an end to rhetoric in which political candidates
vie to see who can be tougher on illegal immigrants.
DOCTRINE AND PRACTICE
A breach of faith
Sherri Day/St.Petersburg Times (01/29/2008)
Older generations mourn as young Hispanics turn away from the Catholic Church.
ABUSE CRISIS
Vast archive on abuse aids victims, scholars
Michael Paulson/Boston Globe (01/29/2008)
WALTHAM - In a drab office building on Main Street, Terry McKiernan and Anne
Barrett Doyle are quietly amassing a vast archive of abuse: thousands and thousands
of documents chronicling the sprawling crisis that has confronted the Catholic
Church.
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