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And the Catholic Bishops Endorse! A Special Thank-You To Planned Parenthood and NARAL

Firedoglake (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago

There's a shit storm going down on TV right now on CSPAN as the health care bill hits the floor of the House.

The Catholic Hierarchy Backs Health Insurance Reform

The Daily Dish (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago

This is a welcome development, both substantively on the merits (I oppose federal funding for abortion) and politically for the president: "Passing this amendment allows the House to meet our criteria of preserving the existing protections against abortion funding in...

Even as Dioceses file bankruptcy over sex abuse cases, Catholic Bishops threaten to undermine health insurance reform

AMERICAblog (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago

Not happy with just ruining the lives of same-sex couples in Maine this week, the Catholic Bishops are trying to bring down health insurance reform in the House over the abortion issue. What really sucks is that members of the House are willing to let the Catholic Bishops, who enabled rampant sex abuse of children, to impose their theocratic view on this issue : Under the agreement, anti-abortion Democrats...

Evangelicals and Catholics

Standing on My Head (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago

Steve Wood points out this Christianity Today article on the increasing convergence between Evangelicals and Catholics on the subject of justification. My friend and fellow blogger Taylor Marshall is quoted.

Catholic Bishops on board with health care reform bill.

INSTAPUTZ (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

And it came at a price . K-Lo, spitting as she types, is incoherent as ever . There are bishops in the Catholic Church who knows [sic] better than to stand for the liberal Democratic bureaucrats in the bishops' conference running the show at such a crucial moment as right now, when the majority party in Washington is looking to ram through a revolutionary government-run health-care scheme, short on...

Catholics for Choice Statement on Antiabortion Amendment to Healthcare Reform Bill

Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago

WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- With the final House vote on healthcare reform nearing, antichoice extremists are holding the entire bill hostage to further their antiabortion agenda.

• Catholics for Choice Statement on Antiabortion Amendment to Healthcare Reform Bill - The Earth Times Online Newspaper

For Secular and Catholic France, a Shock to the System: The Rise of the Evangelicals

Pedestrian Infidel (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago

THE GUARDIAN: Church insists it is not like the US right, but many fear growth of a political force As the piano strikes up, the congregation sways, palms to the ceiling, fists in the air, murmurs of hallelujah punctuating the music. Pastor Franck Lefillatre, besuited and bathed in the spotlight on his podium, intones into a microphone. "Let out the words that are in your heart," he urges....

• For secular and Catholic France, a shock to the system: the rise of the evangelicals - The Guardian

Weakling Hollywood Director Blows Up Catholic Landmarks, Spares Muslim Holy Sites in “2012″

Gateway Pundit (Free subscription) | yesterday

Of course, this surprises no one. Weakling Hollywood Director Roland Emmerich of the disaster movie “2012″ will show Catholic landmarks destroyed but will spare Muslim holy sites. Emmerich says he doesn’t want a fatwa placed on his head. Catholic Exchange reported, via Free Republic: Catholic League president Bill Donohue speaks to the way Catholics and Muslims are treated in [...]...

Establishment Clause Violation in San Francisco’s Condemning the Catholic Church’s Refusal To Help With Adoptions by Same-Sex Couple?

The Volokh Conspiracy (Free subscription) | yesterday

A Ninth Circuit panel said no in June, and I thought its ruling was correct, though I disapproved of San Francisco’s resolution on nonconstitutional grounds. But yesterday, the Ninth Circuit agreed to rehear the case en banc, so it might be that the panel decision will be reversed (though I still think that it’s [...]

Blog Fight: Roman Catholic Church vs. New York Times

U.S. News (Free subscription) | yesterday

A Times reporter rebuts charges from New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan that her paper is anti-Catholic.

Why is the Catholic Church Supporting Abortion?

Sierra Faith (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago

Politico: House leaders have won the backing of the nation’s Catholic bishops for a last-minute abortion compromise, a critical boost that could give the health reform bill enough momentum – and enough votes – for passage as early as Saturday. Deeply troubling if true: There are bishops in the Catholic Church who knows better than to stand for [...]

Trials postponed in U.S. Catholic diocese sex cases

Reuters (Free subscription) | yesterday

WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) - A bankrupt U.S. Roman Catholic diocese has agreed to provide long-sought documents to alleged sex abuse victims in exchange for a postponement in the start of trials, an attorney for the plaintiffs said on Friday.

1550: Jon Arason, the last Catholic bishop of Iceland

Executed Today (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago

At dawn this date in 1550, two sons* of Jon Arason were beheaded at Skalholt, followed by the energetic sextegenerian prelate himself — cementing Lutheranism in Iceland. As bishop of the northern diocese of Holar and one of the most powerful pols in Iceland, Arason did what he could to maintain papal authority when the Danish [...]

United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Bulletin

Angry White Boy (Free subscription) | yesterday

Tell Congress: Remove Abortion Funding & Mandates from Needed Health Care Reform Congress is preparing to debate health care reform legislation on the House and Senate floors. Genuine health care reform should protect the life and dignity of all people from the moment of conception until natural death. The U.S. bishops’ conference has concluded that all committee- approved bills [...] Related...

• Bishops Call on Catholics to Oppose Health Care Reform Bills - All Hands On Deck!

More from Catholic Italy: Santuario di N.S. Dell'Assunta, San Remo, on All Saints

The New Liturgical Movement (Free subscription) | yesterday

The Italian blog Messa in Latino have up some more beautiful photographs of an All Saints Day Mass in San Remo, Italy, from Maranatha.it . The Mass was celebrated by Monsignor Vittorio Marteletti, rector of the Santuario di N.S. Dell'Assunta , San Remo. The art and architecture of this church is quite stunning to say the least. Here are a selection of their photographs.

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