News Update, 7/15

TMLC to Defend Right of Religions to Express Opposition to Homosexual Adoptions;Oral Arguments Tomorrow in Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
Does the San Francisco Board’s resolution virulently condemning the Catholic Church because of its moral teachings on homosexuality violate the Constitution’s prohibition of government hostility toward religion?

Pope relaxing after arrival in Australia
Pope Benedict XVI arrived in Sydney on June 13 to begin his visit to Australia for World Youth Day (WYD). After a brief airport welcoming ceremony on Sunday afternoon, the Holy Father ...

'Sneering secularists' are the new Pope-bashers
Liberal elite regard religious people as aliens from Mars

Young Catholics gather for opening Mass in Sydney
Tens of thousands of Catholic pilgrims awaited a Mass opening the World Youth Day festival

Tony Snow: An Integrated Life
The news that Tony Snow, a Catholic convert and national media figure, had lost his battle with colon cancer in the wee hours of Saturday morning was not a surprise, but it was still a sad disappointment. He is survived by his wife Jill and three children. God comfort them....

Catholic school principal caught in gay orgy
He's been 'a well-regarded educator up until this point'

Wiccans, Druids and Catholics
San Francisco archdiocese and USF offer facilities for meeting of North American Interfaith Network

The Last Word on Cardinal George?
"Who is going to save our Church? Not our bishops, not our priests and religious. It is up to you, the people. You have the minds, the eyes, the ears to save the Church. Your mission is to see that your priests act like priests, your bishops, like bishops and your religious act like religious." (Archbishop Fulton Sheen )

Hazing alleged in Catholic church case
Student says worshippers tried to make him eat Host

Vienna Cardinal awards notorious pro-abortion-politician
On June 25 the archbishop of Vienna, Christoph Cardinal Schönborn, decorated the socialistic deputy mayor of Vienna, Renate Brauner, with the Pontifical Order of St. Gregory the Great.