Alerted by the San Diego diocese
Police say tip from diocesan officials led to arrest of alleged child molester
Catholic Church shamed by Irish abuse report
2,600-page report paints detailed and damning portrait
Priest abuse victims release new allegations
Weakland protected priest to save 'his good name'
Wis. court upholds abuse conviction of ex-priest
Donald McGuire once spiritual adviser to Mother Teresa
Spanish PM defends teen abortion on demand
'Let's not deny them the right to freely decide'
Poll shows Americans give Pope high marks
Sixty percent have favorable impression of Benedict
Plaintiff in Seattle priest abuse trial settles
'I thought I was the only one that was being abused'
New leader of Catholic Britain provokes outrage
Says abusive clergy are 'courageous' for fessing up
NJ diocese investigates possible miracle
Nun being considered for sainthood could be cause
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Other Issues
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More Change: Chairman MaObama Is Said to Consider Preventive Detention (AKA "Imprisonment without Trial")
Baraq Hussein Obama told human rights advocates at the White House on Wednesday that he was mulling the need for a “preventive detention” system that would establish a legal basis for the United States to incarcerate terrorism suspects who are deemed a threat to national security but cannot be tried, two participants in the private session said....
[And WHO might these clowns determine are "terrorism suspects?" Those on the Homeland Security "list"?]
Chairman MaObama's Mileage Standards Will Kill More Americans than Iraq War
The Obama administration’s proposed mileage standards that will be announced today may kill more Americans at a faster rate than the Iraq War — his signature issue in the 2008 presidential campaign. Obama’s standards will require automakers to meet a 35 miles-per-gallon standard by 2016.
Treasury set to "lend" GMAC more money
The Wall Street Journal said the Treasury Department will lend GMAC more than $7 billion, a step towards making the company a quasi-federal entity with the power to offer low-interest loans to would-be buyers of GM and Chrysler cars. The Detroit News put the amount at $7.5 billion.
631K new jobless claims, total benefit rolls 6.7M
The total number of people collecting benefits rose to 6.66 million, a record reading for a 16th straight week, and a sign companies are still not hiring...
Fed's economic forecast worsens
The Federal Reserve's latest forecasts for the U.S. economy are gloomier than the ones released three months earlier, with an expectation for higher unemployment and a steeper drop in economic activity.
China warns EU not to interfere
China has warned the EU not to interfere in its affairs, at a summit previously delayed by a row over Tibet.
Mexican Economy Shrinks 8.2 Percent in First Quarter
Mexico’s economy shrank the most since the 1995 Tequila Crisis in the first quarter and the government lowered its forecast for the whole year as the global financial crisis and the outbreak of swine flu cut demand. Gross domestic product, the broadest measure of a country’s output of goods and services, fell 8.2 percent in the first three months of 2009 from a year earlier...
Korean corporate earnings plunge 81% in Q1 2009
The combined earnings of all companies listed on the main Seoul stock market nose-dived more than 80 percent on-year in the first quarter despite increased sales, as local financial companies continued to suffer from the lingering effects of the global meltdown...
More UK banks may have to be nationalised, says IMF
The Fund believes that although the drastic measures to prop up Royal Bank of Scotland, Lloyds Banking Group and other major lenders had prevented them from collapse, more public money needs to be poured in if the economy is to get back to full strength. The alternative is a "zombie" recovery as banks continue to withhold lending for years, the IMF has told the Treasury.
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