November 10, 2009
By a mutual decision, Bishop Thomas Tobin of Providence and Representative Patrick Kennedy-- the son of the late Senator Edward Kennedy-- have postponed their meeting to discuss the Catholic congressman's support of abortion. Over the weekend, the Rhode Island congressman sided with abortion advocates in voting against the Stupak amendment, which barred the use of federal funds from paying for most abortions in the House's health care reform legislation.
Following the vote, Bishop Tobin issued a public letter to Representative Kennedy in which he ripped the congressman's statement that "the fact that I disagre
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"That sentence certainly caught my attention and deserves a public response, lest it go unchallenged and lead others to believe it's true," wrote Bishop Tobin in the letter, which will appear in the November 12 edition of his diocesan newspaper. "And it raises an important question: What does it mean to be a Catholic?"
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