Thanks to people like Carol McKinley and Julie Brown for holding his feet to the fire. McKinley complains that O'Malley was "outsourcing his conscience" by referring the matter to the National Catholic Bioethics Center. But I think it more likely that he knew the correct decision already, and was simply using the NCBC as political cover for what will surely be a firestorm from the Left within his ranks.
Holy Announcement
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Today is the Solemnity of the Annunciation. From the Protevangelium of
James (10-12):
And there was a council of the priests, saying: Let us make a veil...
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