Election 2012 -- Pew poll: Obama opens up lead over Romney among Catholics [1]

Election 2012 -- Phoenix, Ariz. Roman Catholic Priest Says Catholics Should Not Be Single-Issue Voters, Cites Church Teachings, Memos [2]

Catholic Bishops Ramp Up Same-Sex Marriage Fight [3]. Archbishop of Newark, N.J., says people who support same-sex marriage should refrain from communion

Mumbai, India -- Catholics protest their portrayal in Bollywood films [4]

Opinion from Deutsche Welle: Klaus Kr‰mer agrees with a German court ruling that those who don't pay church taxes can no longer be Catholics. [5] If you want to be a member of a community, he argues, you don't just have rights, but obligations.

Opinion: The folly of German bishops making Catholics pay [6] A decision to make outcasts of German Catholics who do not pay church tax has drawn outrage from members

Canada: Bishops block foreign aid campaign for being too partisan [7]. Education campaign had targeted the Harper government's controversial changes to Canadian international assistance

U.S. Is Tightening Web Privacy Rule to Shield Young [8]

They slink through the woods in camouflage and face paint, armed with tire irons, screwdrivers and hoes: Ginseng poachers take to the woods as prices soar [9]. This story is from Wisconsin.

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.