News Updates, 4/19, 20

“Moving beyond the Church, even beyond Jesus”
Vatican orders probe of Leadership Conference of Women Religious over “tenor and doctrinal content” of speeches at its annual assemblies

Santo Domingo Cardinal Calls Abortionists "Butchers" and "Merchants" in Easter Homily
Battle Intensifies over new constitutional provision to protect the right to life from fertilization

Adult Stem Cells Used Successfully to Cure Diabetics, Heal Broken Jaw Bone
A study carried out in Brazil and published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, on the use of adult stems cells to treat diabetes, has found that most of the patients in the study group were partially or wholly healed of the disease after receiving injections of stem cells from their own bone marrow

Notre Dame alumni protest with dollars
Groups hope money speaks louder than petitions

Pope speaks to Catholic universities in America
Education is an 'especially powerful instrument of hope'

Dolan won't 'shy away' from gay marriage fight
New York's new archbishop opposes governor's bill

Banished priest now full-time ‘gay rights activist’
Fr. Geoffrey Farrow invited to speak at Dignity USA convention in San Francisco, along with other well-known dissenters from Church teachings

Vatican decries reaction to Pope's condom remarks
Critics trying to intimidate Benedict XVI into silence

Christians killed in southern Egypt vendetta
Muslims attack convicts after serving three-year sentence

Dublin archbishop issues abuse warning
Report will show that thousands were abused by clergy

Hong Kong bishop urges religious freedom in China
'We will spare no effort to promote unity'

Pakistan clears two Christians of blasphemy charges
After being imprisoned for two years for burning Koran

Pope: UN anti-racism conference 'important'
Urges countries to join forces to eliminate intolerance

Worldwide Church of God Announces Name Change Effective April 3, 2009, it changed its denominational name to Grace Communion International. The denomination was founded by Herbert W. Armstrong in 1934...
[It wasn't founded by Christ? - oh, well...]

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Zimbabwe Central Bank Admits to Raiding Accounts Zimbabwe's central bank governor admitted Monday that he took hard currency from the bank accounts of private businesses and foreign-aid groups without permission, saying he was trying to keep his country's cash-strapped ministries running...
[Coming soon to the USA???]

FBI spied on TEA Party Americans
According to this unimpeachable source, a single-page confidential directive issued by the FBI headquarters in Washington, DC (FBIHQ) was sent to each of the 56 field offices...to verify the date, time and location of each TEA Party...[and] to obtain or confirm the identity of the individual(s) involved in the actual planning and coordination of the event in each specific region, and include the local or regional Internet web site address, if any. The information collected by region was then reportedly sent to FBI Headquarters....

LEAKED! Bank Stress Test Results!
The Turner Radio Network has obtained the stress test results. They are very bad. The most salient points from the stress tests appear below.
1) Of the top nineteen (19) banks in the nation, sixteen (16) are already technically insolvent.
2) Of the 16 banks that are already technically insolvent, not even one can withstand any disruption of cash flow at all or any further deterioration in non-paying loans....
[Grain of salt or something else????]

Great Tea Party Sign


Feds to convert Bank Bailout $$$ into common stock???
[Idiots - equity stakes in insolvent banks - and they'll convert when during a bull market when the stocks are up so the taxpayers will lose even more...These thieves need to be in prison!]

Gerald Celente: Violent Revolution will start soon, America moving toward Fascism-YouTube (1 of 2)
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Oath Keepers Muster on the Lexington Green
Affirm "Declaration of Ten Orders We Will Not Obey"