PEORIA, Ill. • It was under the imposing twin spires of St. Mary's Cathedral in Peoria that Peoria's Roman Catholic Bishop Daniel Jenky sparked a political firestorm a week ago, with a sermon that appeared to equate President Barack Obama's policies on contraception coverage with the brutal attacks on religion imposed by Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin.

At least, that's how Jewish leaders, cable news talkers and others saw the comments. The parishioners there see it differently.

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