News Updates, 7/13

The Legionaries' Last Stand. An Exclusive Interview with Fr. Thomas Berg (Chiesa)
The Vatican is investigating the Legionaries of Christ, which is reeling from the transgressions of its founder. And for the first time, one of their authoritative members breaks the silence on the crucial problems that have exploded in the congregation

A New Church? - Dissenter Umbrella Group
A coalition of dissenting organizations and individuals called the American Catholic Council are calling for “discussion at every level of the Catholic Church in the United States to consider the state and future of our Church.” The council plans to hold the council on June 10-11, 2011 (Pentecost), in Detroit...

Pope calls for 'authentic democratic life' in Honduras

PepsiCo sponsors national gay workshop
PepsiCo has given thousands of dollars to become a sponsor of the homosexual "Out & Equal Workplace Summit" scheduled for Oct. 6-9 at Disney's Coronado Springs Resort in Florida...

Mater Si, Magister Si! 'Charity in Truth' Calls for a Truly Human Economic Order
This extraordinary encyclical letter will take years to unpack. It has the potential to do the same as the feeding of the 5000 did for many in our age. Building on previous Social Teaching it brilliantly analyzes the underlying malady behind the symptoms of our economic crisis and offers a way forward, an economy of communion and gratuity...

Obama's Science Czar: Forced abortions and mass sterilization needed to save the planet
John Holdren really did say those things, and this report contains the proof.
[A grotesque evil has taken root in the administration which thinks it "rules" this country! It's poisonous and deadly to the republic and to its citizens]

Obama gives Benedict XVI letter from Ted Kennedy
President asks Pope's prayers for Massachusetts senator
[Kennedy needs our prayers for his conversion and salvation-his time is running out]

Spain liberalizing, but teen abortion hits a nerve
Socialist prime minister irks even his own supporters

Basque Bishops call for Catholic Church apology
For silence over killing of priests in Spanish Civil War

Catholicism as antidote to turbo-capitalism?
Message: global capitalism has raced off moral rails

Romanian Catholics oppose building near cathedral
Bucharest marchers protest high-rise construction

Church promotes alternative to female circumcision
Genital cutting is still rampant in parts of Kenya

Church of England: Homosexual marriage threatens Anglican unity
Writing on behalf of the Church of England, two bishops warned the Church of Sweden that its potential use of gender-neutral marriage ceremonies would “undermine the fragile unity of the Anglican Communion.”...

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Economic crisis far from over, WTO chief says
The global economic downturn is far from over, and few countries have dismantled the dangerous protectionist barriers they imposed in response to it, World Trade Organization Director-General Pascal Lamy said on Monday.

California vendors fight for their cash

CIT Scrambling (WSJ)
CIT Group Inc. officials spent the weekend trying to hash out a plan that would help calm markets and convince customers and investors that it can work its way out of a deepening liquidity crunch...

Attorney General Eric Holder may probe Bush-era torture

Montana gov blasts GM mine contract cancellation (Obama closes US mines in Montana)
Gov. Brian Schweitzer is calling on the Obama administration to force General Motors to honor its contract with a Montana mining company instead of going overseas to buy the precious metals used to control vehicle pollution...

Boxer faces 'challenge of a lifetime' on climate change bill
If the Senate doesn't pass a bill to cut global warming, Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer says, there will be dire results: droughts, floods, fires, loss of species, damage to agriculture, worsening air pollution and more...
[Washington DC is overrun with a majority of criminals, clowns, idiots, and mentally challenged freaks of nature! Where are the tar and feathers? ]

Obama: Recovery Will Take Years Not Months
Obama said in an op-ed posted early Sunday on The Washington Post's Web site that his $787 billion stimulus program was not expected to return the economy to full health, but to provide a boost that would stop the free fall...

Chips in official IDs raise privacy fears