Special Interest Glance
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops – which today called for contraception coverage to be removed from the Affordable Care Act – is comprised of 271 active and 185 retired bishops. Among them are the following:
Bishop John McCormack: the former head of the Conference’s abuse committee, McCormack stepped down as bishop in 2011 after the Boston Globe revealed that he was shielding priests that left their own parishes after allegations of child abuse.
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Anti-gay Westboro church to protest at Powell boys' funeral
The anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church intends to picket the funeral of the two Powell boys murdered Sunday by their father, blaming their deaths on Washington state's legalizing of same-sex marriages, The News Tribune in Tacoma reports. Occupy Seattle plans to counterdemonstrate.
Gov. Chris Gregoire is likely next week to sign the measure, which finished clearing the Legislature on Wednesday.
Hasidic Jewish teenager admits setting neighbour on fire after disobeying a prayer order
A Hasidic Jewish teenager pleaded guilty to assault, for setting a neighbour on fire because he wasn't praying with the rest of the community.
Shaul Spitzer, 18, of New Square, New York, had been accused of severely burning Aron Rottenberg, 43, with a firebomb outside Mr Rottenberg's home in New Square, an insular Hasidic village of 7,000.
It happened after Mr Rottenberg confronted Spitzer when he thew a bag of burning shirts soaked in petrol on the porch of his home.
Archbishop Recants Apology for Sex Abuse, Says "I don't Think We Did Anything Wrong"
In 2002, at the height of the outcry over the sexual abuse of minors by Roman Catholic priests, the Archbishop of New York, Edward M. Egan, issued a letter to be read at Mass. In it, he offered an apology about the church's handling of sex-abuse cases in New York and in Bridgeport, Conn., where he was previously posted....
Now, 10 years later and in retirement, Cardinal Egan has taken back his apology.
Roger Boisjoly dies at 73; engineer tried to halt Challenger launch
The 1986 explosion that destroyed the space shuttle Challenger and killed seven astronauts shocked the nation, but for one rocket engineer the tragedy became a personal burden and created a lifelong quest to challenge the bureaucratic ethics that had caused the tragedy.
Pope Benedict performed exorcism in St. Peter’s Square in 2009, new book claims
The church's self-proclaimed expert on exorcisms says Pope Benedict performed one in Rome's St. Peter's Square in 2009.
In "The Last Exorcist — My Fight against Satan," Father Gabriele Amorth claims that Benedict cured two men of their afflictions, according to London’s Telegraph.
U.S. Constitution Loses Appeal With People Around the World
Little is known in an empirical and systematic way, however, about the extent to which the U.S. Constitution influences the revision and adoption of formal constitutions in other countries.
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