la nouvelle théologie: SPECIAL COMMENTARY: How the Religious Right lost its ‘Religion’, lost its way and went wrong

Thursday, February 14, 2008

SPECIAL COMMENTARY: How the Religious Right lost its ‘Religion’, lost its way and went wrong

By Deacon Keith Fournier
2/14/2008
Catholic Online

The “Religious Right” lost its religion when it began to identify with first being a “conservative” movement within one Political Party...

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