Thursday, March 18, 2010
News Morning Newsdome: The Vatican: Don't worry, heterosexual sexual misconduct reports still outnumber pedophilia
Posted by Bobby Feingold @senorbobby on Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 4:31 PM
>> Following allegations of sexual abuse by Catholic priests in the Pope's home country of Germany, the Vatican is finally breaking its silence on pedophilia. Details emerged of 3,000 Catholic priests reported for sexual misconduct in the last decade, but they said it's not as "widespread" as they thought with only 10 percent cases of pedophilia and 30 percent heterosexual. Phew! Well that was a close one. (BBC)
>> The health care bill will cut the deficit by more than $100 billion in the first ten years, the House Majority leader said today. The reform, he said, will be "the largest deficit reduction of any bill adopted by Congress since 1993." Both our bodies and our economy will be more healthy. (Reuters)
>> The Philadelphia-area woman, whose online name is "Jihad Jane," pleaded not guilty today in relation to an overseas terrorist plot. Screenname "Suicide-bomber Sam" will speak in her defense. (AP)
>> A man got on the PA system in a South New Jersey Wal-Mart and calmly announced, "Attention Wal-Mart customers: All black people leave the store now." Wal-Mart: Always low ethics. (NBC)
>> And finally: Archaeologist have unearthed what they say are the earliest southernmost artifacts of human life at a site for a proposed highway in Tasmania. The stone tools may date back 40,000 years, twice as old as expected. Perhaps they were working on constructing an overpass too. (AOL News)
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