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The move highlighted the continuing culture wars in the United States, which have increasingly involved the Catholic Church. "There has been a cross-contamination between the political world and the spiritual world," said Claire Giangravè, Vatican reporter for Religion News Service. Much of the Catholic leadership are single-issue voters on abortion and are therefore closely aligned with the Republican Party. "A significant number of them are so committed to the abortion issue that it takes precedent over everything else," said Father Thomas Reese, a Jesuit priest and a senior analyst with Religion News Service. Many key advisers in Trump's inner circle...
