Catholic News Headlines / Links [11-10-09]

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Vatican web site launches virtual tour of Basilica of St. John Lateran; Virtual tours of Sistine Chapel and other areas are being worked on [11/10]

Bishop Tobin asks Patrick Kennedy: "In your letter you say that you 'embrace your faith.' Terrific. But if you don’t fulfill the basic requirements of membership, what is it exactly that makes you a Catholic?"; Says "Your rejection of the Church’s teaching on abortion...[is] a deliberate and obstinate act of the will; a conscious decision that you’ve re-affirmed on many occasions. Sorry, you can’t chalk it up to an 'imperfect humanity.' Your position is unacceptable to the Church and scandalous to many of our members. It absolutely diminishes your communion with the Church"; Bishop calls Kennedy to conversion and repentance and says he would be "honored and happy" to assist him [11/10]

Mexican clergy meeting to discuss strategy for coping with violence; Study says 2 out of 10 priests in Mexico face "serious risks"; Archbishop says "We have become hostages in these violent confrontations between the drug cartels living among us" [11/10]

Former PP director turned pro-lifer describes how she saw baby fight for its life during an abortion; She says that "If clinic workers saw what was happening on that screen, they would be running out of those clinics" [11/10]

U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican avoids direct answer regarding how he reconciles the Church’s teaching against abortion with the Obama administration’s pro-abortion position [11/10]

Alert the tabloids: Pontifical Academy of Science holds 'astrobiology' event to study the question of extra terrestrials [11/10]

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