From the Boston Globe:

Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley, the Roman Catholic archbishop of Boston, praised Sarah Palin’s son Trig at the annual “Respect Life March” on the Boston Commons yesterday as he urged Americans to fight against abortion and what he termed “the culture of death.”

In coverage of the event, Boston Globe religion writer Michael Paulson identified Trig Palin as “the child with Down syndrome whom Governor Sarah Palin chose not to abort.” An excerpt:

“I very seldom get to see any television, but I did watch part of the political conventions, and for me the star of the conventions was Trig Palin, whose mother said that he was ‘beautiful’ and ‘perfect,’ ” O’Malley said. “And when his little sister used that spit to slick his hair down, I mean, I stood up and applauded.”

O’Malley’s reference to the 5-month-old child comes in a political season in which the role of the abortion issue for Catholic voters has become more contested than ever.

With video.

See also Paulson’s “Articles of Faith” blog.

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