Catholic News Headlines / Links [11-16-10]

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USCCB announcement: Archbishop Dolan elected president, Archbishop Kurtz elected vice president [11/16]

Archbishop Dolan on unexpected election: "I'm surprised, I'm honored, I'm flattered and a tad intimidated" [11/16]

Great news: In surprising upset, Archbishop Dolan defeats "leading liberal hope" to become new USCCB president [11/16]

Vatican Television to broadcast in HD; New broadcasting equipment "represents the biggest investment made by the CTV in recent years, and perhaps in its entire history" [11/16]

U.S. Catholics praised for "remarkable generosity" in assisting Haiti after devastating earthquake; CRS 'fed nearly 900,000 people in the early months of the response' [11/16]

Pope Benedict reminds that a bishops' conference must "avoid placing itself as a parallel or substitute of the ministry of each of the bishops" and must not "constitute itself as an intermediary between the bishop and the See of Peter"; Holy Father also reminds that bishops' "primary concern must be the salvation of souls" [11/16]

Military archbishop appeals to fellow bishops to release more priests to serve as military chaplains; Prelate claims some Catholics in the military convert to Protestantism 'because no Catholic chaplains were available to them early in their enlistments' [Refresher: Necessity of being Catholic for salvation] [11/16]

Bishop Ronald Herzog urges Church to embrace social media [11/16]

Cardinal O’Malley begins apostolic visitation to Archdiocese of Dublin [11/16]

Quote on Vatican II from soon-to-be released second edition of Cardinal Giacomo Biffi's memoirs: "[W]hat is adopted and exalted in an almost obsessive manner is not the Council that in fact was celebrated, but (so to speak) a 'virtual Council'; a Council that has a place not in the history of the Church, but in the history of ecclesiastical imagination" [11/16]

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