Catholic News Headlines / Links [1-13-10]

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Pope Benedict makes appeal for prayers, assistance for victims of devastating earthquake in Haiti [1/13]

Victims of earthquake in Haiti include Archbishop of Port-au-Prince who was found dead; Apostolic nuncio reports that "Port-au-Prince is completely devastated. The cathedral and the archbishop's residence, all the big churches, all the seminaries are reduced to rubble"; Seminarians believed to be trapped under the rubble in Haiti, "the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere" [1/13]

President of Catholic university may have found Rembrandt etching "under a pile of junk" in a bathroom cabinet [1/13]

Pope Benedict met privately with 'Christmas Eve assailant'; Mentally ill woman expressed "regret" for the incident which caused the Holy Father to be knocked to the ground [1/13]

Fatima shrine vandalized, statues painted with Islamic words [1/13]

Here we go again: Rabbi asks Pope to halt beatification of Pope Pius XII; Says beatification would "hurt the feelings" of still-living Jewish holocaust survivors [1/13]

Pro-lifers receive "unexpected gift": Judge married to pro-abort ND professor recuses self from ND88 case after appeal filed [1/13]

Mexican Cardinal Archbishop reminds that Church leaders "cannot be silent in the face of attacks on marriage and the family"; Reminds that at our judgment God "will ask us to account for the times we were too embarrassed to speak of Jesus' name"; Recalls that "We, the shepherds of the People of God, cannot put men and their laws before God, as God’s law is supreme and unending. Every human law that goes against it is immoral and perverse, as going against His will brings society to moral degradation and ruin" [1/13]

Despite dire situation in France, French Catholicism is "flourishing" in small pockets "where traditional liturgical practice, combined with traditional moral doctrine, is encouraged"; TLM has been a "catalyst for growth" in the "few areas" where accepted by the bishops [1/13]

Attempted assassin of Pope John Paul II says he will answer questions about the attack after he is released from prison next week; However, gunman's "contradictory statements, including claims to be a Messiah, have frustrated prosecutors over the decades and raised questions about his mental health" [1/13]

Archbishop Burke celebrates Red Mass in Phoenix; Reminds that "Saint Thomas More understood that there could be no contradiction between his service of his nation and his service of God, and that, in fact, he could only serve his nation truly and faithfully by his true and faithful service of God" and notes that we live in "a society which is abandoning its Judeo-Christian foundations, the fundamental obedience to God’s law which safeguards the common good, and is embracing a totalitarianism which masks itself as the 'hope,' the 'future,' of our nation. Reason and faith teaches us that such a society can only produce violence and death and in the end destroy itself" [1/13]

Catholic Church in Mexico faces "violent reaction" from homosexuals over bishops' defense of Catholic teachings on marriage [1/13]

Milwaukee Archbishop warns Wisconsin legislative panel that extending statue of limitations for abuse lawsuits may endanger Catholic charitable agencies [1/13]

Daughters of St. Paul "unfazed" by legal threats from the 'Church of Scientology' over book written by former member [1/13]

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