Election 2012 -- In Honor of 9/11, Presidential Campaigns Step Away from Politics [1]

Catholics react to Bishop Finn's conviction [2]

NCR Editorial: Kansas City's Bishop Finn must resign or be removed [3]

Kansas City, Mo. -- More area Catholic ordinations challenge a national trend [4] In Missouri and Kansas, more men are being ordained or studying to become priests.

Op-Ed Columnist: Suffer the Children [5] by Frank Bruni

Catholic church sued by gay couple over Massachusetts real estate deal [6]. Diocese allegedly backs out of selling mansion to couple because of the 'potentiality of gay marriages' in the house

Nigerian bishops meet: Catholic Bishops Worried, About Corruption In Government. [7]

Opinion from the National Review Online: The Decline and Fall of Catholic Democrats? [8]

Another view from the Buffal News: Powerful wedge issues could save president [9]

Remembering Martini: Cardinal one of few to query Roman consensus [10]

NCR's Heidi Schlumpf: Why I stand with Chicago's teachers [11]

NCR's John Allen is in Rome all this week: Is Ravasi 'the most interesting man in the church'? [12]

NCR's sister publication, Celebration, posts reflections on each day's Scripture reading. Here's a link: celebrationpublications.org/dailybread [13]. You may want to bookmark it. It's a great way to begin the day.