Pentagon to send missiles, 400 troops to Turkey [1]

Russia backtracks on statement about Assad's fall [2]

Boehner, Obama Hold ‘Frank’ Meeting [3]

INDIANAPOLIS -— A lawyer for a man who won a $150,000 jury award against a Roman Catholic priest who he claimed sexually abused him when he was 17 says Indiana’s punitive damages limit renders jury decisions meaningless. [4]

Ireland -- Opinion: Irish bishops need to challenge gov't on abortion law [5]

NCR's sister publication, Celebration, posts reflections on each day's Scripture reading. Here's a link: celebrationpublications.org/dailybread. [6]You may want to bookmark it. It's a great way to begin the day.

Illinois newspaper's cartoon about pope tweeting draws response: Bishop Paprocki is offended [7]; Hugh Garvey says it "cartoon was spot on" [8]

Worcester, Mass. -- Bishop McManus spoke about nativity characters and children shared Jesse tree symbols during a parish family retreat in English and Spanish [9]at St. Paul Cathedral Sunday.

Canada -- Calgary Catholics warned away from new church wrongly identifying itself as Catholic. [10] The St. Pius X Society has purchased a Catholic church in the city’s Southwest.