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I found the cartoon by H.L. Schwadron in (CR, June 12) incongruous. If I understand the cartoon, it mocks a candidate willing to “meet tyrants” “to convince them to choose good over evil” going after the “youthful idealism vote”.

LOS ANGELES – As same-sex couples prepared to marry in California, the seven bishops of the Los Angeles Archdiocese reiterated that they “cannot approve of redefining marriage” as anything but the union of “a man and a woman in a committed relationship.”

WARSAW, Poland – The head of the German Catholic bishops’ conference said the 2005 election of Pope Benedict XVI produced “no miracles” for Christianity in his country and warned that the church still faced “tough challenges.”

Four College of Notre Dame of Maryland graduates have been named “Teacher of the Year” in their respective Maryland counties: Melissa McFayden, a pre-kindergarten teacher at Ridgely Elementary School in Caroline County; John Billingslea, an AP psychology teacher at Franklin High School in Reisterstown; Bonnie Beavan, math teacher at Spring Ridge Middle School in Lexington Park; and Ronald Wooden, a fifth-grade teacher at George D. Lisby Elementary School in Aberdeen. Mr. Wooden participated in this year’s commencement ceremony May 24.

VATICAN CITY – A Vatican official said the recent agreement on a treaty to ban cluster bombs showed solidarity to victims of such weapons and opened an important new chapter in international humanitarian law.