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Prefect of Congregation for Divine Worship affirms that pro-abort 'Catholic' politicians should be refused Holy Communion; Says it is an act of charity and prevents them from "blasphemous reception of the Eucharist" [7/24]
Scranton priest defrocked by Vatican [7/24]
Vacationing Pope receives gifts, notes from area residents [7/24]
Cardinal says Pope's guidelines to Chinese Catholics were misunderstood; Says Chinese government has a policy that aims at "enslaving" the Church; Says it's "almost always" impossible for Chinese Catholics to operate freely & openly due to conditions "imposed on us which are not compatible with our Catholic conscience" [7/24]
Another study shows temperature changes a result of nature not human activity; Findings of peer-reviewed study "[call] into question the politically-correct, politically-motivated assumptions driving the climate change debate"; Experienced scientist questions whether rise of atmospheric CO2 concentration is dangerous [7/24]
They don't want mothers to see their babies before having them killed: ND abortion clinic files suit to bar women from seeing ultrasound of unborn child before an abortion [7/24]
Journalist looks into claims regarding Obama's Science Czar who co-authored book discussing radical 'population-control' measures including forced abortions and the insertion of sterilizing agents into the water supply; Although Czar purportedly 'disavowed' the measures he wrote about decades ago, his recent works refer to his "preoccupation" with matters such as "the rates at which people breed"; Czar also recently praised the work of a radical 'population control' promoter who compared the world's population to a "pulsating mass of maggots" [7/24]
Vietnamese government delegation to visit the Vatican in November; Announcement brings hope of resuming formal diplomatic relations with Vietnam [7/24]
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