Catholic News Headlines / Links [10-28-10]

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Architect who designed Barcelona's Church of the Holy Family may be beatified in 2016 [10/28]

Pro-life leader faces fines, jail time for billboards which repeat findings of the USCCB concerning federal funding of abortion in healthcare reform legislation [10/28]

Pope Benedict tells Brazilian bishops they must guide faithful to oppose legalization of abortion and euthanasia; Holy Father says that "When political positions openly or covertly include plans to decriminalize abortion and euthanasia, the democratic ideal - which is truly democratic only when it acknowledges and safeguards the dignity of every human person - is betrayed at its foundations" [10/28]

What's wrong with this picture: Priest concerned about future "dangerous militants" as Muslims destroy Protestant (heretical) bible translations given out at a Catholic school in Malawi [10/28]

Italian Catholic Action rally for education expected to draw crowd of 80,000 to St. Peter's [10/28]

2,000 cities to participate in day of prayer for peace in the Holy Land [10/28]

School Sisters of Notre Dame auctioning rare baseball card to support ministries for the poor [10/28]

Bishop Juan Vicente Cordoba reminds of immorality of vasectomies and tubal ligations, "mutilations of the body" [10/28]

Holocaust survivors ask EU authorities to investigate role of Vatican Bank in transfer of assets stolen from concentration camp inmates by Nazis [10/28]

Consecrated members of Regnum Christi - not laity - to be focus of Apostolic Visitation [10/28]

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