BOSTON — A handful of mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses would be repealed and the state's approach to juvenile offenders overhauled in a sweeping criminal justice bill released Friday by Massachusetts House and Senate lawmakers.
The Democratic Party has abandoned Roman Catholics in America by demanding its candidates support abortion and by opposing tax credits for religious schools, the archbishop of New York said.
Cardinal Timothy Dolan, one of the most prominent clerics in America, castigated the party that once counted Catholics as a reliable constituency.
