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Wednesday, February 20, 2008

GUEST COMMENTARY: Douglas W. Kmiec on 'The Moral Duty to Inquire'

By Douglas W. Kmiec
2/20/2008
Catholic Online

So Can Catholics Even Talk about Supporting Obama? What does it mean not to use faith as a wedge, but instead to illuminate and unify? Professor Doug Kmiec responds...

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