News Updates, 4/12

Hillary Clinton a candidate for Supreme Court?
Orin Hatch says her name among possible contenders

Vatican attorney refutes anti-Benedict claims
Says Cardinal Ratzinger did not delay abuse cases

Italian bishop blames Jews for attacks on Pope?
Provoked fury by reportedly suggesting 'Zionists' plan

Did newspaper misquote Italian bishop on Jews?
Denies saying recent Church criticism is a 'Zionist attack'

Connecticut bishops fight sex abuse bill
Say proposed law would put Church institutions at risk

Boston priest calls on Pope to step down
Says only truth can heal church in abuse scandal

Anti-papal media frenzy getting tiresome
Journalists abandon standards to attack Pope

Vatican forgives Beatles for 'Satanic' messages
L'Osservatore Romano focuses on praise for Fab Four

Austrian priest accused of child porn possession
Investigators secured more than 400 files on computer

Latino immigrants hail LA archbishop appointment
Proud that Jose Gomes is 'one of us'

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'Russia engineered air crash that killed President Kaczynski,' claims Polish MP
The Russian government prevented the Polish president's plane from landing four times to divert him from a ceremony to mark the 70th anniversary of the Katyn massacre, according to an MP. Artur Gorski said the Russians 'came up with some dubious reasons' that the aircraft couldn't land because they feared President Leck Kaczynski's presence would overshadow a similar event hosted by the Russian prime minister a few days before...

Miranda Rights read to Lt. Colonel Terry Lakin
Obama Continues to Refuse to Release Birth Certificate;
Army Doctor’s Pentagon Access Pass Revoked; Computer Seized

Testimony In Kenyan Parliament: Obama Is Kenyan Citizen [PDF]
"If America was living in a situation where they feared ethnicity and did not see itself as a multiparty state or nation, how could a young man born here in Kenya, who is not even a native American, become the President of America? It is because they did away with exclusion."