Jon Bon Jovi’s charity restaurant opens in NJ

In three decades as one of the world’s biggest rock stars, Jon Bon Jovi has eaten in some of the world’s best restaurants, savoring the best food the planet has to offer.

Yet there’s no place he’d rather have dinner than The Soul Kitchen, a “pay-what-you-can” restaurant he and his wife Dorothea established in a former auto body shop near the Red Bank train station in central New Jersey.
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United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Influential in Passage of Let Women Die Act 2011

. . . [T]he so-called “Protect Life Act” (HR 358), a bill that will endanger women’s lives across the US with an extreme ban on abortion coverage while expanding permission for health professionals to refuse to provide reproductive healthcare services, even in life-threatening situations. . . The Catholic bishops’ actions show an unhealthy obsession with sexual issues. They appear to be hell-bent on wasting real and political capital on dictating to all Americans what their sexual choices should be.
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Catholic Church in fresh scandal involving money-spinning baby-trafficking in Spain

The latest scandal centres on baby-trafficking by Church, government officials and clinics over several decades. As many as 300,000 babies may have been the victims of a practise that saw infants taken from “morally or economically deficit” parents and sold to couples deemed more acceptable . . . [A] right-wing Catholic doctor, Eduardo Vella, said to have been complicit in the money-spinning business. Dr Vella stands accused of telling women that their babies had died when they hadn’t, and handing over the infants to other couples for cash . . . Typically, doctors and nuns would tell mothers their babies had been born dead, or that they had died shortly after birth. Then they would sell the newborns to adoptive parents and forge all official documents.
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Too bad there really isn’t a hell, few are more deserving of its residency than this charlatan. Pat Robertson tells a woman who can’t pay her mortgage or bills that she’s just not managing her money properly and must keep tithing if she wants God’s blessing.
This purveyor of bigotry is an idiot!

Catholic Voter Guide 2012: Bishops Release Election Advice

The document was released days after the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops announced they had created a new watchdog committee to challenge what they considered an “assault” on religious liberty from Obama administration policies . . . [T]he document does emphasize statements by Pope Benedict XVI on the duty of lawmakers to serve as a “public witness to our faith.”
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