Catholic News Headlines / Links [11-13-10]

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Pope Benedict warns that Internet use risks "increasing a sense of solitude and disorientation" among young people; Holy Father says young persons are being "numbed" by the Internet [11/13]

Italian journalist sees papal message stressing importance of reverence at Mass as "a severe rebuke to the Italian Catholic hierarchy" [11/13]

Commentator fears recent "progress in promoting vibrant orthodoxy" within the USCCB will be threatened by election of Bishop Kicanas; Bishop Kicanas' "troubling reputation" includes "his proximity to clergy abuse scandal", his "cozy relationship with pro-abortion politicians", and his "strong reputation for being a 'Bernardin' bishop" - "a bishop in the mold of Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, famous for his close allegiance to progressive and liberal ideologies" [11/13]

Catholic hospital in Rome says wounded from Baghdad church massacre will require 'weeks of care' [11/13]

Sneak preview of new book reveals that Pope Benedict regrets uproar caused by 2006 Regensburg remarks, although the Holy Father 'would not retract' the remarks [11/13]

Profanity on TV has increased almost 70% over the past five years according to new study; Study says statistics demonstrate that "freed of regulation in the wake of the Second Circuit Court's castration of the FCC's powers of enforcement, Hollywood's 'creative' personnel and their TV network distribution outlets have deliberately unleashed literally unparalleled levels of profanity and graphic language upon the public - the most egregious of it in a timeslot in which children are most likely to be in the audience" [11/13]

Recently discovered documentation on 1943 bombing of Vatican - "the only act of violation of the territorial sovereignty of the Vatican state since its creation" - indicates that Italian Fascists planned the attack on the Holy See [11/13]

Spanish bishop surprised over number of organizations "aggressively" against the Catholic Church [11/13]

TIA article reprint concerning Luther’s lack of credibility: 'O Prophet of Wittenberg, where are the credentials for your divine mission?' [11/13]

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