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January 22, 2013

The Pope Wants Your Guns

Nicholas Hahn, Crisis Magazine

If for nothing else, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel will always be remembered at a tragedy. ”You never want a serious crisis to go to waste,” Emanuel told the Wall Street Journal in 2008, “what I mean by that is: an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.”

Who better to follow the Godfather’s urging than our holy men and women?

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TAGGED: USCCB, Federico Lombardi, catholic social teaching, Vatican, gun control, guns

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