SAN ANTONIO — Archbishop Jose Gomez complained Wednesday about plans for a rally by Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton at a Catholic university. The archbishop released a statement noting that Clinton and some other presidential candidates’ support for abortion rights and embryonic stem-cell research was not in line with Catholic values.
Clinton’s rally went on as scheduled Wednesday evening at St. Mary’s University, a liberal-arts college that is run independently of the archdiocese but is under its spiritual leadership.
Gomez, who was Denver auxiliary bishop before he was elevated to archbishop in 2005, said he was not trying to tell people how to vote, but he noted that U.S. Catholic bishops have affirmed a statement calling on Catholics not to honor or give platforms to political candidates and officeholders “who act in defiance of our fundamental moral principles.”
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