Mother Teresa Stamp To Go Ahead

Thanks to the over 138,000 of you that signed the recent CatholicVote.org petition to defend the Mother Teresa stamp,

the U.S. Postal service has decided to go ahead with its release, despite anti-religion group objections.

Roy Betts, a spokesman for the Postal Service, told CatholicVote.org yesterday:

“The stamp will be dedicated September 5 [at] the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC.

Feel free to post information about the stamp, the image and the dedication ceremony on your website. Thanks!”

As you may recall from a previous news reports, the Freedom from Religion Foundation protested the release,

calling Mother Teresa a "dark and polarizing Catholic figure", characterizing her Nobel Prize pro-life acceptance speech

as “disturbing, befrogged religious rant.”

CatholicVote.org reported that "a separate spokesperson for USPS even told a reporter that our efforts were appreciated."

Thanks to other Catholic efforts, anti-religious groups were dealt another blow this past week.

A federal court had ordered the removal of the cross at the Mojave War Memorial in California

(which has been covered up by a plywood box since 2002)in response to a brief

filed by CatholicVote.org, the Supreme Court reversed the decision.

CatholicVote.org is expecting protests for its proposal for a statue of Moses at the Supreme Court.

Catholics should be happy to know that the National Statuary Hall at the U.S. Capital

currently holds statues of three Catholic priests, one now a saint.

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