News Update, 10/16

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Two more St. Louis excommunications
Two new members of the lay board of the former St. Stanislaus parish in St. Louis have incurred automatic excommunications for the sin of schism, archdiocesan administrator Bishop Robert Hermann has announced....

Possible HIV Exposure At Normandy High School
(KTVI - myFOXstl.com) -- Several students at Normandy Senior High School may have been exposed to the potentially deadly HIV virus.

Prudential judgment?
Poll shows Obama leading McCain among Catholics

“Not worthy to receive this sacred mystery”
Mexican cardinal says abortion promoters outside the Church, should not receive Holy Communion

The Art of Reading the Scriptures. A Lesson for Today's Illiterates [Chiesa]
It is the liturgy that must again shape the reading and understanding of the Bible. Just as in medieval monasticism, creator of modern civilization. Timothy Verdon explains why, at a synod that has reached the halfway point

Aide: John Paul was wounded in 1982 stabbing
Cardinal Dziwisz recounts attack by crazed priest

Baltimore archbishop orders seer to halt messages
Says supporting her is 'great disservice to the Church'

Catholic gals march in Rome for female priestette-hood
Group denounced Church's ban as 'sexist and unjust'

Warring monks may destroy Holy Sepulchre
Roof judged to be in 'emergency state' of degeneration

Another Indian church falls victim to arson attack
Campaign of violence launched by Hindus continues

Holy row over India's first woman saint
Mother Teresa supporters getting impatient with wait

Priest: 'Nobody can tell me to shut up'
Protector of migrant families battles the feds

Vatican: 'Oils of gladness' ain't oils
Liturgical watchdogs take South African bishops to task

Church isn't 'human association,' Pope clarifies
Benedict continues catechesis on Saint Paul

Survey: 63% of practicing Catholics support legal recognition of homosexual unions
63% of practicing Catholics and 68% of all Catholics support the legal recognition of homosexual unions, according to a survey published by the Knights of Columbus. 25% of practicing Catholics (and 32% of all Catholics) support same-sex marriage, while an additional 38% of practicing Catholics (and 36% of all Catholics) support same-sex civil unions....

Issues & Politics

After Targeting Joe the Plumber, Obamabots Pledge To Expose Scandals of Guy in Rockwell's 'Four Freedoms' Painting
Thank God we live in a free country, where you can speak your mind on public issues, without fear that those who disagree will respond by exposing anything you've ever done that you regret or that could embarrass your family.

Oh, wait, never mind. We have to know, according to some, about Joe the Plumber's tax lien, and how he doesn't have a license - which, if the smear artists bothered to check the law, he only needs for commercial work, not residential work.

Ohio Files Appeal to Supreme Court on Voter Registration Data
Ohio's Attorney General filed an emergency appeal to the U. S. Supreme Court late Wednesday night seeking to block a lower court decision that could cost many thousands of Ohio voters a chance to cast a regular ballot on Nov. 4.
[SOS Brunner demands that the 200,000 votes be cast, even if the voters cannot prove that they are citizens of Ohio]

Kenyan insiders say Obama was part of takeover strategy!
NEW YORK – Former members of Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement party have told WND when Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama visited Kenya on a "fact-finding" trip in 2006, he was carrying out part of a secret election strategy that also included exploiting divisive tribal tensions and ultimately taking advantage of rioting that left 1,000 dead.

MSM smearing of Joe the Plumber has begun - here and here
Socialists afraid of free speech, smear those who speak out against them

Car Dealers Suggest Obama Didn't Know What He Was Talking About
Spokesman suggests Obama better get his facts straight, car loans are availabl [Fact: Obama is a liar and a fraud]

Secret Service says "Kill him" allegation unfounded
SCRANTON – The agent in charge of the Secret Service field office in Scranton said allegations that someone yelled “kill him” when presidential hopeful Barack Obama’s name was mentioned during Tuesday’s Sarah Palin rally are unfounded....

Obama Contributors Emerged from Staff and Boards of Annenberg Grantees
Since the start of his political career, Obama has received a total of $331,528 in campaign contributions from people who served as staff and board members of non-profit groups that received grants from the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC). {which he chaired]

On Catholics, abortion and Obama
... should an Obama administration reintroduce large-scale federal funding of abortion, the bishops will have to confront a grave moral question they have managed to avoid for decades, thanks to the Hyde amendment: does the payment of federal taxes that go to support abortion constitute a form of moral complicity in an "intrinsic evil"? And if so, what should the conscientious Catholic citizen do?"

On Bill Ayers and small 'c' communists
Bill Ayers said in 1995 that he was just a "small ‘c' communist." He said it with a little laugh. And most of us aren't even shocked. We've heard words like that before. But we should feel shivers running up our spines. I know goofy liberals who moan about all the good intentions demonstrated by Karl Marx, Lenin, and Trotsky. They're all Obama voters, for some reason. They are the same kinds of people who think Jesus was a communist, and that George W. Bush is Hitler....

The Joe The Plumber Debate: McCain Scores and "Senator Government" Stumbles
Thank you, Joe W., America's plumber, wherever you are....McCain scored big with the Joe the plumber exchanges, and with the campaign tactics exchange. Obama looked angry and stumbled repeatedly as he tried to cope with what he really told Joe the plumber...

Television advertisement for the "Our Country Deserves Better" committee. [YouTube]
Senator Barack Obama seems to have different values than most Americans. He has associated himself, and received the support of, individuals and organizations that are decidedly anti-American

House Democrats contemplate abolishing 401(k) tax breaks
They want your money so they can "Spread your Wealth"