News Updates, 10/21

Missouri Voters Can Sign Petitions to Vote on Abortion, Stem Cell Research in 2010
With approval from the Missouri Secretary of State's office this week, pro-life advocates who are supporting ballot measures on abortion and stem cell research can move ahead to gather signatures. They need signatures from enough state residents to be able to get the amendments on the 2010 ballot. The first initiative, called the Missouri Taxpayer Protection Amendment, is submitted by a pro-life group named Missouri Roundtable For Life. The amendment would stop the state from using taxpayer dollars to finance abortion and human cloning. It "protects Missourian’s hard-earned tax dollars" from being used for abortions not medically necessary to save the life of the mother, abortion services, human cloning and other controversial human research."

Vatican welcomes Anglicans into Catholic Church
'Hundreds more have expressed interest in joining'

Another Dramatic Move (Inside the Vatican)
The Vatican today made a dramatic announcement: Pope Benedict has authorized a bold new plan to bring Anglicans back into full union with Rome. But many questions remain unanswered...

Anglican leader: Declaration won't change dialogue
'Our on-going mutual commitment' will continue

Anglicans Incoming! By Diogenes
The Holy See took the ecumenical imperative out of the hands of ecumenists, with the result that the reunion of Christians -- at least in one limited area of schism -- ensued....in recent years the Catholic Church has lost some members to Anglicanism, she has benefitted overwhelmingly from the inbound traffic. As your Uncle Di has pointed out before: the dissatisfied Anglican leaves because his Church ain't what she used to be. The dissatisfied Catholic leaves his Church because she is...

Another take-Desperate bishops invited Rome to park its tanks on Rowan Williams’ lawn
Rome has parked its tanks on the Archbishop of Canterbury’s lawn after manoeuvres undertaken by up to fifty bishops and begun two years ago by an Australian archbishop, John Hepworth...

Alito troubled by concerns about court's Catholics
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is voicing frustration over what he calls persistent questions about the court's Roman Catholic majority....

Catholics wonder what bankruptcy means for Church
In Delaware: 'I was shocked when I saw the headline'

Portland diocese confirms abuse by Catholic priest
Bishop orders tributes to him at the church be removed

Catholic priest faces child pornography charges
Charged with 17 felony counts of sexual abuse

Editorial: The persecution of Belmont Abbey
Obama's EEOC doesn't believe in religious liberty

Atheist subway ads in NY: 'Good Without God'
Coalition will run monthlong advertising campaign

Islamists publicly flog women in Sharia crackdown
Whipped for wearing a 'deceptive' bra in Somalia

Octomom's doctor expelled from medical society
'We're concerned with providing appropriate due process'

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IG harshly criticizes Treasury's handling of $700B bailout
Steps taken by the Treasury Department to implement the $700 billion financial bailout program have undermined the credibility of the U.S. government, a top government watchdog said in a report released on Wednesday.

Bachmann: Government is Fostering Borderline Extortion by ACORN
Urge a reexamination of Community Reinvestment Act compliance

Democrats lock Republicans out of committee room
Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.) locked Republicans out of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee room to keep them from meeting when Democrats aren’t present. Towns’ action came after repeated public ridicule from the leading Republican on the committee, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), over Towns’s failure to launch an investigation into Countrywide Mortgage’s reported sweetheart deals to VIPs

Majority of Americans Disagree With Nobel Prize for Pro-Abortion Barack Obama
A new CNN poll finds the majority of Americans disagree with giving pro-abortion[R]resident Barack Obama the Nobel Peace Prize. The survey also finds Obama hasn't done anything to merit the prize, for which his name was placed into nomination, at the earliest, just days after he took over the White House...
[He's the Keyna messiah of hope & change - he deserves ALL accolades and praises!]