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CACG Must Reads - November 30, 2011

E.J. Dionne, at Commonweal, on the need for moderate, centrists to take on the ideological extremists who have taken over the contemporary Republican Party:
http://www.commonwealmagazine.org/push

 

And, at the Washington Post, E.J. also weighs in on the issue of conscience exemptions to the HHS mandates:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/obamas-challenge-with-catholics-and-health-care/2011/11/23/gIQAHLqCqN_story.html


The poet Linda Nemec Foster shares a poem about the Immaculate Conception, the patroness of the United States, at America magazine:
http://www.americamagazine.org/content/article.cfm?article_id=13157

 

Alice Popovici, at National Catholic Reporter, one the economic challenges facing Catholic health care:
http://ncronline.org/news/people/economics-challenge-catholic-health

 

Ed Kilgore at the New Republic, on the role of immigration policy in the GOP presidential primaries:
http://www.tnr.com/article/the-permanent-campaign/97850/immigration-gop-2012-gingrich-economy

 

Rick Garnett, at USAToday, on the need to expand the conscience exemptions:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/story/2011-11-27/hhs-contraception-mandate/51424562/1

 

And former Ambassador Doug Kmiec takes a different view on the religious liberty issue at NCR:
http://ncronline.org/news/politics/obama-cannot-be-war-catholics-if-he-peace-religious-freedom