Catholic News Headlines / Links [7-8-10]

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Pope Benedict appoints successor to Bishop Mixa [7/8]

ACLU presents "inaccurate image of Catholic hospitals on abortion"; Their letter "both attacks and misrepresents Catholic teaching by depicting it as though it forbids any attempt to save the life of pregnant mothers" [7/8]

Belgian Bishops respond regarding discovery of files relating to Dutroux case; Bishops note that what was found "was a small information file which was given a few years ago to the many journalists, also politicians and also Msgr. Leonard, who was in those days the bishop of Namur... [I]t surely wasn’t a big dramatic information which reached the newspapers" [7/8]

Anticipated new procedures for handling abuse cases are expected to include provisions related to abuse of mentally impaired persons [7/8]

Cuba to release 52 political prisoners after meeting with Cardinal Jaime Ortega Alamino [7/8]

Priest & nun belonging to 'underground' Church in China murdered [7/8]

'Increasingly hostile war-of-words' by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez against Cardinal Jorge Urosa Savino [7/8]

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