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  What we received from JP II and Benedict was an American hierarchy/clergy who "championed a select moral agenda and consensus of Catholicism that was evident in the practices of withholding communion to Catholic politicians deemed insufficiently "pro-life" over three presidential election seasons; we had reaction to Notre Dame's decision to confer an honorary degree on President Obama; and the 2010 actions of the bishop of Phoenix who declared that St. Joseph's Hospital was no longer Catholic after doctors terminated a pregnancy to save a young woman's life."
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  Richard Gaillardetz, "Every Day the Church Should Give Birth to the Church," NATIONAL CATHOLIC REPORTER [March 1, 2011], at http://ncronline.org/news/fatih-parish/every-day-church-should -give-birth-Church.