US Bishops Set Record Straight on Healthcare Bill
Note Way Forward -- Clarify Misconceptions
WASHINGTON, May 25, 2010—The U.S. bishops called for steps to protect the lives of the most vulnerable particularly the unborn, provide fairness for immigrants, and guarantee conscience protections for individual and institutions in a statement on health care reform issued on May 21.

Pope Benedict Stresses Principle of the Common Good
VATICAN CITY, May 24, 2010  -- "The common good is the purpose that gives meaning to the progress and development, which would otherwise be limited solely to the production of material goods; they are necessary, but without an orientation towards the common good, consumerism prevails in the end, along with waste, poverty, and imbalances, negative factors for progress and development," Pope Benedict XVI told participants at the conference sponsored by the Centesimus Annus-Pro Pontifice Foundation on May 22. The conference was on the relationship of "Development, Progress, and the Common Good."

Mystery of California Abortion Funding Revealed
SACRAMENTO, CA, May 21, 2010 -- The California Catholic Conference has untangled the complexities of abortion funding in the California State Budget.

Over 30% of Euthanasia Cases in Belgian Region Did Not Give Consent
Most Hoping for a cure at the Time
ROME, May 19, 2010 -– In one region of Belgium, over 30 percent of reported euthanasia cases were carried out without the consent of the patient, a study has found. At the same time, the overall number of official reported deaths by euthanasia are dramatically increasing in the country since the practice was legalized in 2002, with 40 per cent more cases reported for 2009 than the previous year.

Oral Arguments on DC Marriage Case
DC Citizens Denied Right to Vote on Marriage Definition
"It Would Be Discriminatory to Permit a Vote"
WASHINGTON, DC, May 3, 2010 -- Tomorrow morning, May 4, the highest court in Washington, DC will hear an appeal for the rights of citizens in our nation’s capital to vote on the definition of marriage. When a citizens group, Stand4MarriageDC, led by Bishop Harry Jackson, Jr, submitted a petition to define marriage through the initiative process, the District’s Board of Elections ruled that it was discriminatory under the Human Rights Act to even let people vote on the definition of marriage. In the interim, the City Council redefined marriage clearing the way for same-sex marriages effective March 3, 2010.

Marriage is Focus for 2010 Catechetical Sunday
The US Bishops have announced that the 2010 theme for Catechetical Sunday will be "Matrimony: Sacrament of Enduring Love". Catechetical Sunday will be September 19. Materials for that special Sunday will be posted as they are developed at usccb.org/catecheticalsunday/.

Effects of the New Healthcare Law and EO on Abortion
USCCB Legal Analysis Confirms the Worse
WASHINGTON, D.C., March 25, 2010 -- The USCCB has released a very readible legal memoradum to identify the abortion and conscience protection problems with the recently-passed healthcare bill and the corresponding  Executive Order of March 24, 2010, that was purported to correct those problems. "Althoughwe wish it were otherwise, we must conclude that [new law] poses serious problems in these two areas, and that the Executive Order does not correct those problems."

U.S. Senate Rejects Measure to Force D.C. Initiative on Marriage
Court Battle Continues for Right of D.C. Voters to Define Marriage
WASHINGTON, DC, March 25, 2010 --  At around 1:30am last night, the U.S. Senate voted down an amendment offered by Senator Bennett that would suspend the issuance of marriage licenses to same sex couples in D.C. until a referendum or initiative is held.

Stupak Misled Voters on Commitment to Abortion Protections
Video Reveals He Always Planned to Vote for Healthcare Bill
SAN FRANCISCO, March 24, 2010 --While telling the public of the firm commitment he and twelve other pro-life Democrats had to blocking passage of the healthcare bill if it had language in it that provided for taxpayer financing of abortion, it seems that he intended to vote for the bill all along. Evidence was found in a video posted on YouTube in October 2009.

San Francisco Archdiocesan Official Blasts Catholic Hospitals
Split with Bishops on Healthcare Bill Symptomatic
SAN FRANCISCO, March 23, 2010 --In a very candid letter in the today's Catholic San Francisco,  Public Policy and Social Concerns Director, Goerge Wesolek joined what is starting to be a chorus of Church officials acknowledging the split between Catholic Hospitals and ideologically oriented nuns that own them and the U.S. bishops over the expansion of abortion in the recently passed healthcare reform bill. The sisters actually claimed the bishops were lying about the abortion provisions that reversed longstand U.S. policy and have cleared the way for taxpayer funding of abortion.

White House Ruse Swaying Pro-life Dems
WASHINGTON, DC, March 21, 2010 -- Apparently pro-life Democrats are starting to buckle under pressure. In exchange, the President has committed to issue an executive order barring taxpayer funding of abortion. This is nothing but a public acknowledgment by the President that the flawed Senate-passed bill does indeed clear the way for taxpayer funded abortions. If they were sincere, they would allow the ban on taxpayer funding to be put into the law. The executive order is meaningless as it can be rescinded at any time. Obama has previously rescinded the Mexico City policy executive order that prevented taxpayer money to be spent abortions and coerced sterilizations.

Architect of Betrayal?:
WH Exposes Obama as Provocateur of Catholic Dissention
WASHINGTON, DC, March 18, 2010 -- White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs revealed to reporters today that President Barack Obama actively promoted the Catholic Health Association's public break with the American Catholic bishops to support his health care legislation.

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Healthcare Vote Looms
Strategy to Divide Catholics Raising Concerns
Bishops Outraged at Morally Flawed Statements by Catholic Organizations

Senate-passed bill requires large scale funding of abortions at Community Health Centers

WASHINGTON, DC, March 18, 2010 -- Catholic Health Association President, Sr. Carol Keehan, DC, representing Catholic hospitals, has incited vocal opposition from bishops across the country in response to her letter to Congress requesting passage of the Senate-passed healthcare reform bill that includes taxpayer funding for abortion. The Catholic hospitals' outspoken support for this morally flawed bill is causing confusion among Catholics and may lead some to unwittingly ask their congressman to pass it when they would actually oppose it if they had the facts from the bishops and pro-life organizations. More importantly, the confusion is making it more difficult for pro-life Democrats to resist the pressure they are getting from the President and the Democratic leadership in the House.

Catholic Healthcare Association Breaks with Bishops
Supports Healthcare Bill with Abortion Funding
WASHINGTON, DC, March 16, 2010 -- This Catholic Healthcare Association (CHA) broke ranks with the US Bishops throwing their support behind the Senate-passed health care bill that clears the way for taxpayer funding of abortion. This hurts chances for defeating the bill and could provide cover for congressmen on the fence to give into pressure they are receiving from the President and Democratic leadership in the House.

California Therapist Association Forced to Change Family Views
Buckles Under Presure from Gay 'Marriage' Activists
SAN DIEGO, California, March 15, 2010 – Abandoning its long-held neutrality on the marriage debate, the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT) has slowly come to disavow pro-family views and sexual orientation therapy as "homophobic." Instead it now warmly supports homosexuality as a "normal and positive" variant of sexuality - all thanks to pressure by gay activists who have openly vowed to transform the organization from within.