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Morning Briefing

Dennis Coday  |  Oct. 8, 2012 NCR Today

Election 2012 -- Republicans, Romney ride debate wave into 'Super Saturday' voter-contact effort [1]

Election 2012 -- The Biden-Ryan vice presidential debate expectations and more [2]

Pope launches drive to reclaim lapsed Western Catholics [3]

Pope opens bishop synod, names 2 church doctors [4]

John L. Allen Jr.: Reflections on the ‘butler did it’ verdict [5]

Venezuela's Chavez revels in re-election victory [6]

An estimated 23 percent of Dutch children removed from troubled homes became victims of sexual abuse once they were put in state-funded institutions, more than three times the national average [7]

, according to a commission's findings published Monday.

Philippine Rebel Group Agrees to Peace Accord To End Violence in South [8]

NCR's sister publication, Celebration, posts reflections on each day's Scripture reading. Here's a link: celebrationpublications.org/dailybread [9]. You may want to bookmark it. It's a great way to begin the day.


Source URL (retrieved on 05/24/2013 - 11:48): http://ncronline.org/blogs/ncr-today/morning-briefing-826

Links:
[1] http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/10/06/republicans-romney-ride-debate-wave-into-uper-saturday-voter-contact-effort/
[2] http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/thinktanked/wp/2012/10/08/biden-ryan-vice-presidential-debate-mitt-romney-foreign-policy/
[3] http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/07/us-vatican-synod-idUSBRE89609S20121007
[4] http://www.ajc.com/ap/ap/religion/pope-names-2-doctors-of-church-churchs-top-honor/nSW26/
[5] http://ncronline.org/node/36351
[6] http://news.yahoo.com/venezuela-presidential-vote-looks-set-close-finish-002711524.html
[7] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20121008/eu-netherlands-sexual-abuse/
[8] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/08/world/asia/manila-and-rebel-group-take-step-toward-peace-plan.html?_r=0
[9] http://celebrationpublications.org/dailybread