Catholic News Headlines / Links [9-5-09]

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ND pro-life protestors may face $5,000 fine plus sentence of one year in jail for defense of life on Catholic campus; Catholic university president has refused to drop charges or seek leniency [9/5]

Thanks to work of association founded by an Italian priest, "a hundred online pedophile communities will be disconnected and prosecuted by U.S. and Italian authorities"; Materials uncovered show abuse of newborns and children; Priest says "It is impossible to describe the horrors we have seen, uncovered and denounced in six months" [9/5]

HLI president on Scranton bishop controversy: "The battle for orthodoxy is literally ferocious in today's Church, and it will be the dividing point between the sheep and the goats" [9/5]

If only our bishops would follow suit: Polish bishops warn Catholic politicians that they face excommunication for taking a public stand against the Church's moral teachings [9/5]

Department of Education's controversial "help the President" classroom materials might be illegal; Group says federal law prohibits DOE from exercising "any direction, supervision, or control over the curriculum, program of instruction, administration, or personnel of any educational institution, school, or school system" [9/5]

No joke: Wisconsin bishop thinks Kennedy funeral was celebrated "in a subdued fashion" [9/5]

Priest president of Canadian TV network blasts critics of Kennedy's public funeral: "Leading up to the Kennedy funeral last weekend, and in its aftermath, many so-called lovers of life and activists in the pro-life movement, as well as well-known colleagues in Catholic television broadcasting and media in North America, have revealed themselves to be not agents of life, but of division, destruction, hatred, vitriol, judgment and violence" [9/5]

Phoenix parish sues for right to ring church bells; Bishop previously sentenced to jail, probation for violating noise ordinance by ringing church bells [9/5]

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