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Obama Picks Xavier University for Katrina Speech; Catholic Critics Are Mum

President Obama will make his centerpiece address on Sunday's fifth anniversary of the Hurricane Katrina disaster at Xavier University, a Catholic school in New Orleans. But unlike his highly controversial appearance at Notre Dame last year, this event appears to be generating far less outrage from bishops and the Catholic right. All the elements for a dust-up are certainly there: The Catholic hierarchy strongly opposes Obama's positions on abortion rights and stem cell research, for example, issues they say override the many agreements they have with him on domestic and foreign policy. ...

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