Wednesday, February 11, 2009

News Updates, 2,11

Legion priests makes apology to Maciel victims
Following the recognition of Mexican founder's misdeeds

Italian PM accuses president of murder complicity
Berlusconi spearheaded effort to save Eluana Englaro

Archaeologists search for unbaptized babies' grave
Did Irish act on 'mistaken theology' 100 years ago?

Pro-abort Catholic gov possible pick for HHS
Kathleen Sebelius has faced significant criticism

Pope to visit Holocaust site in Mideast trip
Attempt to calm recent tensions between Jews, Catholics

Thousands flock to 'Lourdes of the East'
Praying for life, against euthanasia, in Tamil Nadu

Italian pols vow to clarify right-to-die law
...after feeding tube is removed from Eluana Englaro

Orissa Christians denied voting rights
Political discrimination in the wake of pogroms
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Other News

Guest warns against Big Brother, Real ID (also HCR 13 reclaims Missouri sovereignty}
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The leader of a movement against national driver’s licenses promoted legislation Tuesday that would prompt a showdown between the states and the federal government....“We do not need Big Brother watching us and knowing where we are,” Mr. Guest said...Also Tuesday, Mr. Guest proposed a resolution (HCR 13) that reclaims Missouri’s sovereignty under the U.S. Constitution’s Tenth Amendment, arguing that the national government issues too many federal mandates....

Obama Administration Deliberately Sabotages U.S. Economy
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar’s Statement on Offshore Energy Strategy

Passing FOCA by Stealth
As you may have heard, Congress has not yet introduced the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA). That's because the pro-abortion forces have heard your voice. Planned Parenhood President Cecile Richards told the Wall Street Journal:...

Why Chairman Obama’s Tarp2 will fail to rescue the banks
Has Barack Obama’s presidency already failed? In normal times, this would be a ludicrous question. But these are not normal times. They are times of great danger. Today, the new US administration can disown responsibility for its inheritance; tomorrow, it will own it. Today, it can offer solutions; tomorrow it will have become the problem. Today, it is in control of events; tomorrow, events will take control of it....

U.S. Constitution to Feds: "Hands Off Religion" - Alan Keyes
In writing about Obama's pietism I pointed out that "The self-worshiping American power elite that Obama represents has promoted a false understanding of the proper relationship between piety and politics based on the shibboleth of separation." Why do I call the assertion that the U.S. Constitution requires separation of Church and state false? The phrase "separation of church and state" occurs nowhere in the Constitution of the United States....

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