US President - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Sun, 24 Nov 2024 22:10:27 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg US President - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Trump picks several Catholics for Cabinet https://cathnews.co.nz/2024/11/25/trump-picks-several-catholics-for-cabinet/ Mon, 25 Nov 2024 04:51:39 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=178342 President-elect Donald Trump has chosen several Catholics to serve in his Cabinet and other parts of his administration, including environmental lawyer Robert F Kennedy Jr, three-term Sen Marco Rubio, Rep Elise Stefanik, and, in an announcement Monday evening, former Rep Sean Duffy. The 45th and soon-to-be 47th president made over a dozen announcements within 10 Read more

Trump picks several Catholics for Cabinet... Read more]]> President-elect Donald Trump has chosen several Catholics to serve in his Cabinet and other parts of his administration, including environmental lawyer Robert F Kennedy Jr, three-term Sen Marco Rubio, Rep Elise Stefanik, and, in an announcement Monday evening, former Rep Sean Duffy.

The 45th and soon-to-be 47th president made over a dozen announcements within 10 days of his electoral victory over Vice President Kamala Harris. Many of his Cabinet nominees and other administration official picks have yet to be announced.

Among the Catholics Trump has chosen for his Cabinet are Kennedy, who was nominated to be the secretary of Health and Human Services; Rubio as secretary of state; Stefanik as ambassador to the United Nations; John Ratcliffe, nominated as director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA); and Duffy for secretary of transportation.

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Trump picks several Catholics for Cabinet]]> 178342 This Mormon emphatically not a Christian https://cathnews.co.nz/2012/06/22/this-mormon-says-emphatically-christian/ Thu, 21 Jun 2012 19:30:09 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=27707

The imminent selection of Mormon Mitt Romney as the Republican Candidate in the next presidential election in the USA has given rise to the so called "Mormon Moment". Suddenly Mormons and Mormonism is in the news. This is "a strange convergence of developments offering Mormons hope that the Christian nation that persecuted, banished or killed Read more

This Mormon emphatically not a Christian... Read more]]> The imminent selection of Mormon Mitt Romney as the Republican Candidate in the next presidential election in the USA has given rise to the so called "Mormon Moment". Suddenly Mormons and Mormonism is in the news.

This is "a strange convergence of developments offering Mormons hope that the Christian nation that persecuted, banished or killed them in the 19th century will finally love them as fellow Christians, " says David V Mason.

"I want to be on record about this. I'm about as genuine a Mormon as you'll find," he says, "a templegoer with a Utah pedigree and an administrative position in a congregation of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I am also emphatically not a Christian."

Mason says believing in the divinity of Jesus does not make Mormons Christian by default.

While Mormons and Christians do share this belief in the divinity of Jesus, there is not much in common in what they believe about the nature of that Divinity.

Read David L Mason's op-ed in the New York Times

Dr. David V. Mason is an associate professor of theater at Rhodes College, Memphis.

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This Mormon emphatically not a Christian]]> 27707 Religion may tip election between Obama and Romney https://cathnews.co.nz/2012/06/04/religion-may-tip-election-between-obama-and-romney/ Mon, 04 Jun 2012 04:49:06 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=26863 In a neck-and-neck race for the presidency, unique and unpredictable religious issues may produce subtle but significant shifts that could play a role in deciding the election between President Obama and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. Most important are evangelical Christians, one of the most powerful and reliable voting blocs in the Republican party. Many Read more

Religion may tip election between Obama and Romney... Read more]]> In a neck-and-neck race for the presidency, unique and unpredictable religious issues may produce subtle but significant shifts that could play a role in deciding the election between President Obama and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.

Most important are evangelical Christians, one of the most powerful and reliable voting blocs in the Republican party. Many of them are unsettled by Romney's Mormon faith.

Obama has turned many evangelicals off with his support for abortion rights and his new backing of same-sex marriage, which are anathema to Christian conservatives. Many fundamentalist Christians consider Romney's religion a sect and not Christian.

Furthermore, Romney's positions on certain social issues like abortion have shifted over the years, fueling doubts among some Republicans about his conservative convictions. He now says he opposes abortion. Continue reading

 

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