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LIFE ISSUES
Attacks on conscientious objection are part of an international campaign to make abortion a basic human right.
https://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/doctors_orders/
UK – Human tissue could be taken from the infirm without their consent and used for research
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/health/3224172/Human-tissue-could-be-taken-from-the-infirm-without-their-consent-and-used-for-research.html
Abortion ban returns to ballot in South Dakota
https://apnews.myway.com/article/20081018/D93T2PBG1.html
Pope: doctors must always defend patient’s dignity, even if he is incurable
https://new.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=13532
Crisis pregnancy centers under attack
https://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=290564
US bishops to ponder excommunication of pro-abortion legislators
https://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=753
Cardinal Rigali Not Giving Award to Sen. Bob Casey, Jr.
https://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Cardinal-Rigali-Not-Giving-Award-to-Sen.-Bob-Casey-Jr..html&Itemid=99999999
Woman Says No to Aborting Down Syndrome Baby: ‘He’s a Human Being’
https://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=37509
Mexican cardinal says abortion promoters outside the Church, should not receive Holy Communion
https://www.calcatholic.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?id=f76a5a01-b439-4589-b0f9-019d29543a32
Texas Bishops Face Protests from Pro-Abortion Catholics by Deal W. Hudson
https://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4713&Itemid=48
FINANCIAL CRISIS
Congress has promised over $1 trillion from our hands to “rescue” gargantuan businesses. As G. K. Chesterton wrote, “the cure for centralization is decentralization.
https://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4734&Itemid=48
Time to ring alarm as governments move to nationalize and unite banking system. Socialism, if socialism we face, leads to control. Globalized banking can lead to globalized currency—swiftly. It consolidates control—dangerously – Spirit Daily
https://www.spiritdaily.com/oneworldbank.htm
Spreading the Virus – How ACORN and its Dem allies built the mortgage disaster – By Stanley Kurtz
https://www.eppc.org/publications/pubID.3575/pub_detail.asp
The finance ministers of the big economies have decided to make the pig fly. But there remains the small matter of how to build a flying pig.
https://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/states_economies_and_markets_redefining_the_rules/
How Paulson nationalized biggest banks in the U.S. ‘It was a take it or take it offer’
https://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=78089
TIME TO RING ALARM AS GOVERNMENTS MOVE TO NATIONALIZE AND UNITE BANKING SYSTEM
https://www.spiritdaily.com/oneworldbank.htm
Financial Architecture – The EU wants to construct a new world order for the global economy by Irwin M. Stelzer
https://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/705imijb.asp
Economic Terrorism – Is The Stock Market Being Manipulated?
https://www.nationalterroralert.com/updates/2008/10/16/economic-terrorism-is-the-stock-market-being-manipulated/
ENVIRONMENTALISM
Lorne Gunter: Thirty years of warmer temperatures go poof
https://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2008/10/20/lorne-gunter-thirty-years-of-warmer-temperatures-go-poof.aspx
Sunspots an omen of weather woes? The lack of sunspots this year has some scientists wondering if this could be an indicator that much colder weather is on the way.
https://timestranscript.canadaeast.com/news/article/447273
EU leaders will maintain their targets and timetable for tackling climate change,
https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7673684.stm
A government report that found old-fashioned reusable nappies damage the environment more than disposables has been hushed up because ministers are embarrassed by its findings.
https://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article4969413.ece
RELIGION
The Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) has suspended funding of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) following reports of embezzlement,
https://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0805268.h
The online editions of 42 student newspapers from Catholic colleges in the U.S. ran an ad for Trojan brand condoms earlier this month
https://www.calcatholic.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?id=184fa074-00b2-408c-8760-f3e03c80d317
Alumnus: University of Notre Dame Still Deeply Conflicted
https://www.catholic.org/prwire/headline.php?ID=5200&wf=rsscol
Peter Kreeft on the role of religion on campus
https://insightscoop.typepad.com/2004/2008/10/peter-kreeft-on.html
With Christmas rapidly approaching, it is almost certain American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and other anti-Christian groups will ratchet up campaigns to attack all forms of Christian expression in America.
https://www.cwalac.org/article_775.shtml
Americans United Threatens the Tax Exemption of the Catholic Church
https://www.catholic.org/politics/story.php?id=30090
Catholic says Wal-Mart fired him for wanting Sundays off
https://www.dailygazette.com/news/2008/oct/16/1016_wal-mart/
BBC boss says Islam should be treated more sensitively than Christianity
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/3198804/BBC-boss-says-Islam-should-be-treated-more-sensitively-than-Christianity.html
Saudi minister: imams unable to keep young people from extremism
https://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=13512&size=A
Last Safe Haven for Iraqi Christians Taken by Al-Qaeda by Deal W. Hudson
https://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4682&Itemid=48
Sangh Parivar wants to remove every Christian trace in Orissa
https://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=13497&size=A
HOMOSEXUALITY
Gay-friendly’ San Francisco parish up in arms over archbishop’s support for traditional marriage
https://www.calcatholic.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?id=651ca187-aeaf-4faa-aa20-c680f4da9052
Man assaulted outside Modesto parish by Prop 8 opponent – “He received 16 stitches”
https://calcatholic.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?id=5477a37a-561a-488a-875b-35a385186839
“Suspended as a priest and removed as pastor” – Fresno bishop takes action against defiant priest
https://calcatholic.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?id=29f77a5f-27b0-4278-b94f-cdad7703dba5
Another priest has broken ranks with California’s bishops on the Protect Marriage initiative
https://calcatholic.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?id=5ef97b78-09a4-4714-9ee8-5281624843dc
Attack outside of Catholic church part of ´wave of intimidation,´ says Yes on 8
https://catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=14069
Bishops and Knights of Columbus launch project to prevent redefinition of marriage
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=14076
California polls shock gay marriage supporters
https://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c8da527e-9a17-11dd-960e-000077b07658.html?nclick_check=1
On October 27, the Vermont court is set to rule that custody must be transferred from Lisa, little Isabella’s biological mother and Christian convert, to Janet, a virtual stranger to Isabella and Lisa’s former lesbian lover.
https://www.cwfa.org/articles/15894/FIELD/family/index.htm
MISCELLANEOUS
Generation Hex: Teen Witches
https://www.cbn.com/family/parenting/Elliott_GenHex.aspx?option=print
‘We need slaves to build monuments’ – It is already home to the world’s glitziest buildings – now Dubai plans to build the tallest tower. But behind the dizzying construction boom is an army of migrant labourers lured into a life of squalor and exploitation.
https://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/oct/08/middleeast.construction/print
China press freedoms due to end
https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7675306.stm
Uh, oh! – Canadian government media control agency is reviewing its policy of allowing unregulated distribution of broadcast media content over the Internet and cellphones.
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/517925
Feds bust alleged spam network behind billions of Viagra e-mails
https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-biz-fcc-spam-bust-oct14,0,3147108.story