Catholics take on single-issue bishops.Catholic reform movement Call To Action--a national 25,000-member group of laity, religious, and clergy-is challenging U.S. Catholic bishops who promoted "single-issue voting" in the November 2004 elections. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Call To Action organizers, the views of these bishops are not in the tradition of the bishops' Faithful Citizenship statement, which promoted a multi-issue approach to forming one's conscience on electoral decisions. "We cannot let the bishops get so single-minded about one particular moral evil that they ignore others. It denigrates the other moral evils of our time-for example, pre-emptive pre·emp·tive or pre-emp·tive adj. 1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of preemption. 2. Having or granted by the right of preemption. 3. a. war," Linda Pieczynski, CTA's national spokesperson, told Sojourners. "It's morally reprehensible rep·re·hen·si·ble adj. Deserving rebuke or censure; blameworthy. See Synonyms at blameworthy. [Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin repreh to me that the bishops spent half a million dollars hoping to pass the 'protection of marriage' amendment in Michigan at the same time they are closing churches and schools." The Catholic bishops themselves decided that they could hold a variety of views. "Bishops can come to different prudential and pastoral judgments on how to apply our teaching to public policy," said Cardinal Theodore McCarrick in a November report from the task force on Catholic bishops and Catholic politicians. Catholics Take On Single-Issue Bishops. Compiled by Rose Marie This article is about the actress. For other persons of the same name, see Rose Marie (disambiguation). Rose Marie (born August 15, 1923) is an actress who had a career as a child star under the name Baby Rose Marie Berger and Mark Betz. Sojourners Magazine Sojourners Magazine, a monthly publication of Sojourners/Call to Renewal, was first published in 1971 under the original title of The Post-American. The offices of the magazine are in Washington D.C. and the ISSN of the publication is 0364-2097. , February 2005 (Vol. 34, No. 2, pp. 12). Between the Lines Between the lines can refer to:
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