Election 2012 -- Romney to declare goal of North American energy independence by 2020 [1]

Election 2012 -- Romney invites NY Catholic Cardinal Dolan to offer benediction after acceptance speech [2] Romney announced Dolan’s appearance in an interview with Raymond Arroyo’s “The World Over Live” on EWTN Catholic network.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- SNAP and the ACLU are trying to block a new state law that prohibits the disruption of worship services. [3]

Philidelphia -- Bishops Cullen and Cistone To Be Named Defendants in Ongoing Civil Case Against Archdiocese of Philadelphia [4]

Milwaukee, Wis. -- Catholic priest faces excommunication after launching new parish [5]

Philippine Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago says that the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines' threat of sanctions against Catholic schools whose faculty members do not follow its stand against the Reproductive Health bill [6]violates academic freedom.

MANILA, Philippines -- Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines President and Cebu Archbishop Jose Palma said they are willing to iron out issues with the faculty supporters of the Reproductive Health Bill [7] at Jesuit-run Ateneo de Manila University.

Ireland's bishops are circulating a "discussion document" reveiwing plans for parishes to hold Sunday services led by laypeople and deacons [8] as more-and-more communities are set to be left without a priest for the first time.

Phoenix, Ariz. -- Catholic medical school affiliates with hospital censured by bishop [9]

NCR's sister publication, Celebration, posts reflections on each day's Scripture reading. Here's a link: celebrationpublications.org/dailybread [10]. You may want to bookmark it. It's a great way to begin the day.