Monday, April 20, 2009

News Updates, 4/21

New Archbishop for St Louis - Robert J Carlson
NOMINA DELL’ARCIVESCOVO METROPOLITA DI ST. LOUIS (U.S.A.)
Il Santo Padre ha nominato Arcivescovo Metropolita di St. Louis (U.S.A.) S.E. Mons. Robert James Carlson, finora Vescovo di Saginaw.
S.E. Mons. Robert James Carlson
S.E. Mons. Robert James Carlson è nato a Minneapolis (Minnesota) il 30 giugno 1944. Ha frequentato la scuola elementare "Saint Raymond" a Mount Prospect (Illinois); la scuola "Annunciation" a Minneapolis; e la scuola media "Cretin" a Saint Paul. E’ entrato prima nel Seminario minore "Nazareth Hall" e poi nel Seminario arcidiocesano "Saint Paul" a Saint Paul....
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"Fr. Jenkins Will Probably Lose His Job"
Nine more bishops have publicly acknowledged their disapproval of the University of Notre Dame's invitation to President Obama to speak and receive an honorary law degree at the school's commencement exercises May 17...

Editorial: the Catholic identity crisis
What Georgetown and Notre Dame controversies reveal

Call to Catholics to trust what cannot be seen
Archbishop takes charge as spiritual leader of New York

Paraguay president hit with 2nd paternity claim
Woman claims former bishop fathered her child too

Ireland's Cardinal Brady to meet with loyalists
Will urge them to 'reject violence once and for all'

Vatican picks Toledo bishop to direct inquiry
U.S. nuns review slated over Catholic doctrine

Mexico stirred by Durango bishop's remarks
Says everyone knows where drug-lord fugitive lives

Australia's renegade parish leaves Church
1000 parishioners follow rogue priest to new premises

Iraqi bishop rejects plan for Christian ghetto
Says it accentuate ongoing religious confrontation

Palin considered aborting Down's syndrome son
'There, just for a fleeting moment, I thought...'

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Fatties cause global warming
Scientists warned that the increase in big-eaters means more food production — a major cause of CO2 gas emissions warming the planet...
[Fat Tax on the horizon from Fed thieves?]

Bank bailout may hurt taxpayers, be open to fraud
Inspector general cites potential flaws in bank bailout, urges Treasury to adopt safeguards

Turbo Tax Timmy the Lying Weasel
on Troubled Assets Relief Program

This is what he deserves!

Ron Paul Talks About Sovereignty/Secession


Bailouts distort economy, prolong crisis, Fed's Hoenig says
The current federal bailouts of big financial firms is distorting the economy and prolonging the crisis [and]...The Troubled Asset Relief Program has not restored confidence in the banking system

The Fed's Hoenig: Liar
So where have you been during the last 18 months you jackass?

Sen. Feinstein's Husband Cashes In on Crisis
[Washingon DC Thievery in action - Thank you, Taxpayers!!!!]

Leading Economist Decries Power of Wall Street "Oligarchs"

Minuteman Civil Defense Corps Founder to Challenge McCain
Chris Simcox, the founder of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps and a prominent figure in the anti-immigration movement, is announcing today he's resigned from the group to run in the 2010 Senate primary.

Stanford Points Fingers in Fraud Case
As R. Allen Stanford, the Texas billionaire accused of masterminding an $8 billion Ponzi scheme, tells his side of the story, regulators are lying when they say he defrauded tens of thousands of investors. And if any of it is true, his chief financial officer is to blame, Mr. Stanford says.

Student Loans: Default Rates Are Soaring
According to new numbers from the U.S. Department of Education, default rates for federally guaranteed student loans are expected to reach 6.9% for fiscal year 2007. That's up from 4.6% two years earlier and would be the highest rate since 1998.

Men bear the brunt of US jobs lost
The US recession has opened up the biggest gap between male and female unemployment rates since records began in 1948, as men bear the brunt of the economy’s contraction.

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