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Religious Liberty Once Again Under Attack by the Cultural Elites

Religious Liberty Once Again Under Attack by the Cultural Elites
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Salena Zito
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PITTSBURGH—L. Hafer of the Pittsburgh Daily Post paid a visit way back on June 9, 1847, to Mercy Hospital, the Catholic hospital begun by the Sisters of Mercy, a religious order founded in Ireland. The hospital had just opened its doors four months earlier in a former concert hall smack in the middle of a city on the cusp of transitioning from a frontier outpost to a major industrial hub.

Salena Zito
Salena Zito
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Salena Zito has held a long, successful career as a national political reporter. Since 1992, she has interviewed every U.S. president and vice president, as well as top leaders in Washington, including secretaries of state, speakers of the House and U.S. Central Command generals. Her passion, though, is interviewing thousands of people across the country. She reaches the Everyman and Everywoman through the lost art of shoe-leather journalism, having traveled along the back roads of 49 states.
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