Catholic News Headlines / Links [7-15-09]

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U.S. bishops support national "call-in day" to encourage licensing of additional low power FM stations [7/15]

Former seminarian who was arrested for impersonating a priest previously impersonated a firefighter, deputy chief of staff, and student body president [7/15]

White House confirms that 'Catholic' nominee for surgeon general - a CHA board member - supports Obama's position on abortion [7/15]

Catholic Supreme Court nominees may face double standard if they are faithful to Church teachings; Democrats' "soft reaction" to Sotomayor's Catholicism may be because they feel "she doesn't really believe what her Church teaches" [7/15]

'Catholic' Supreme Court nominee Sotomayor says Roe v. Wade ruling is "settled law" but does not see ruling against partial-birth abortion as being unequivocally settled [7/15]

Spokesman for Obama’s "science czar" claims he "disavowed" coercive population control measures at his confirmation hearing; Spokesman says czar doesn't advocate the measures he expressed in his book [7/15]

"Leading pro-life congressman" claims Obama's health care plan "is the greatest threat ever to the lives and wellness of unborn children and their mothers since Roe v. Wade was rendered in 1973"; Congressman questions the rush to push the complex bill through without a "thorough vetting" of the text of the bill [7/15]

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