MSNBC's Chris Matthews is a devout liberal, including on contentious social issues like abortion and homosexuality. But on the front page of Tuesday's Washington Post, religion reporter Michelle Boorstein began a story on Archbishop Donald Wuerl's elevation to Cardinal at the Vatican like this: The archbishop's two brothers will be there. So will a rabbi he knows from Pittsburgh, the D.C. barber who cuts his hair and the fast-talking (and devoutly Catholic ) television commentator Chris Matthews. Do “devout” Catholics lecture their bishops that they should get their churchy noses out of our legislating? Boorstein apparently missed Matthews lecturing the Bishop of Providence , Thomas Tobin, in defense of Rep. Patrick Kennedy's pro-abortion politics on “Hardball” last November. read more
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WaPo Honors Social Liberal Chris Matthews on Page One as ‘Devoutly Catholic’
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