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Newt Gingrich speaking at the 7th annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C., April 27, 2011 (photo by The American Independent).

At prayer breakfast, Gingrich says American Catholics are threatened by ‘anti-religious bigotry’

By Sofia Resnick | 04.28.11 | 6:43 am

Catholics and clergy dined over $65 plates of sausage, bacon and scrambled eggs Wednesday morning at the Marriott Wardman Park in Washington, D.C., to celebrate the upcoming beatification of Pope John Paul II, which will take place Sunday in Rome. But the larger theme of this year’s National Catholic Prayer Breakfast appeared to be the Catholic Church’s supposed waning influence on American policy.

Catholic groups have spent millions to fund anti-gay marriage Initiatives nationally

By Jesse Zwick | 09.20.10 | 8:47 am

The Knights of Columbus, a Catholic fraternal society founded in New Haven in 1881, does a lot of good work detailed in a lengthy report on its charitable giving in 2009. Add to that list a donation of a whopping $1.4 million in 2009 to the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), a nonprofit group dedicated to fighting same-sex marriage.

Stupak amendment: A Catholic Church money maker

By John Tomasic | 11.13.09 | 3:40 pm

Pass the kind of national health reform that brings in the vast ranks of the uninsured and you increase the number of consumers in the health care industry. This is partly what the Colorado Independent was writing about last week…