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WHY WOULD A BISHOP POLITICIZE A HURRICANE?
Mollie Wilson O'Reilly November 11, 2012 - 10:11am
When a natural disaster looms, people look to religion for hope, for relief, for answers to difficult questions about what “acts of God” have to do with God’s will. So it’s hard to imagine what possessed Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Philadelphia to greet Hurricane Sandy with a lesson on the limited role of government.
Chaput’s statement “Regarding...
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