Election 2012 -- Presidential preferences reflect Catholic divide [1]

Iran's policies roasted by UN head, Egyptian leader [2]

Election 2012 -- Jesuit Fr. James Martin volunteers to pray at political conventions [3]

Minnesota -- Catholics Divided on Marriage Amendment Vote [4]

Anti-Catholicism on the Left [5], Maureen Dowd disapproves of Paul Ryan’s Catholicism.

Latino Catholic leaders exhorted to 'lead society to conversion' [6]

From First Things: A Liberal’s Letter to Republican Catholics [7]

Romeny-Ryan: 2 CHURCHES, 1 CREED [8]

Catholic parish in Detroit set to host police-sponsored gun buyback event [9]

Queensland, Australia -- Thousands of Catholic teachers set to strike [10]

Note to Fr. Groeschel: It wasn't the kids' fault [11]

NCR's sister publication, Celebration, posts reflections on each day's Scripture reading. Here's a link: celebrationpublications.org/dailybread [12]. You may want to bookmark it. It's a great way to begin the day.