Catholic News Headlines / Links [5-27-10]

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2009 saw largest number of killings of church workers in past 10 years [5/27]

Holy Father tells Italian bishops that abuse scandals must "translate for us into a reminder of the profound need to relearn penance, to accept purification, to learn on the one hand forgiveness but also the necessity of justice" [5/27]

U.S. bishops have "serious concerns" about proceed ENDA law which may "threaten religious freedom and punish Catholic teachings as discriminatory"; Bishops warn that law could lead to a "legal and moral disaster comparable in many ways to Roe v. Wade" [5/27]

Thousands welcome new coadjutor archbishop of Los Angeles [5/27]

Catholic Health Association meets with Vatican officials; Vatican officials "clearly spelled out their views" to CHA in wake of the organization's public dissent against the U.S. bishops over abortion-expanding healthcare legislation [5/27]

Research director of 'ecumenical think-tank' charges that "the USCCB’s professional social justice bureaucrats have a long history of playing down or even ignoring the implications of the principle of subsidiarity" [5/27]

"Prominent Catholic leaders from around the globe" voicing support for Bishop Olmsted in wake of media criticism over his condemnation of an abortion at a 'Catholic' hospital [5/27]

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