Kerry meets privately with Los Angeles Cardinal Mahony

Published: 2004-05-10

LOS ANGELES (CNS) -- During a Cinco de Mayo campaign stop in Los Angeles aimed at wooing Hispanic voters, Sen. John F. Kerry met privately with Los Angeles Cardinal Roger M. Mahony. It was the second time in less than a month that Kerry, the presumptive Democratic nominee in this fall's presidential race, has had a private session with a U.S. cardinal. At a press conference May 5 shortly before the meeting, Kerry declined to say what they would discuss. Neither the Kerry campaign nor the cardinal's office commented on it afterward. Kerry and Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick of Washington had a similar private meeting April 15, with no public comment afterward on the topics discussed.

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