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Order Dismisses a Priest Trying to Ordain Women NYTimes

As anticipated and reported recently, the Rev Roy Bourgeois, who has refused to renounce his very public campaign to ordain Catholic women as priests, has been notified of his dismissal from the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers. The reason given is his ‘defiant stance’ in opposition to church teaching.

The group Roman Catholic Womenpriests has ordained 120 women as priests and 10 as bishops in the last few years.

“They want two words: I recant,” Father Bourgeois said. “And they can’t get that out of me. For me, the real scandal is the message we are sending to women: you’re not equal, you cannot be priests, you’re not worthy.”

The case now moves to the Vatican for his expected formal removal from the priesthood. See also Bridget Mary’s Blog for frequently updated info about movement for Roman Catholic women priests and also Association of Roman Catholic Women Priests.

Michele Bachmann: Tea Party Queen for America Newsweek via The Daily Beast

Christian evangelist Michele Bachmann is on track to win the Iowa Straw Poll on Aug. 13, giving more momentum to her presidential candidacy.

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Arianna Huffington Media Mogul Heads New Huff Po-AOL Editorial Group

Arianna Huffington is the woman of the media hour today, having sold the Huffington Post to AOL for $315 million over the weekend. The deal was $300 in cash, making investors and Arianna Huffington very happy.

Not a bad return for a $1 million investment in 2005, with additional investments by venture capitalists.

Huffington will take control of all of AOL’s editorial content as president and editor in chief of the newly created Huffington Post Media Group. She will oversee PopEater, TechCrunch, Moviefone and Mapquest. AOL websites like Politics Daily and Daily Finance will close, with the writers moving to Huff Po.

Huffington and AOL CEO Tim Armstrong only met recently, but it was professional love at first sight: They both attended a media conference in November and it was magical. “We were practically finishing each other’s sentences,” Huffington said. “It was really amazing how aligned our visions were.” Armstrong reportedly made the official offer to Huffington over the phone in January, while she was at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland and he was snowed in in New York. via New York Magazine

Huffington Post is expected to generate $60 million dollars in revenue this year, while AOL is losing eyeballs and money. AOL eliminated nearly a third of its staff last year.

In unrelated news, Arianna Huffington announced in late January launching Global Black, to focus on African Americans. BET co-founder Sheila Johnson, already a Huff Po senior vice president will be chief operating officer.  Huffington is also expected to open a Latino-focused website.

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Ashleigh Banfield Joins ABC News

Updated on Sat, December 31, 2011 by Anne

In 2001 and 2002 Ashleigh Banfield was a hot correspondent for MSNBC and its parent, NBC. Banfield’s name was talked up as heir-apparent to Katie Couric and eventually Tom Brokaw.

Banfield was a star reporter from the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, talking to Americans covered with ash and dust, after running away from a crashing North Tower.

A few days later, Ashleigh Banfield was anchoring “A Region in Conflict” from Pakistan and Afghanistan. Ms. Banfield is widely considered within NBC News to be unusually gifted in front of the camera, with the sort of confidence and genuine delivery that is shared by an elite few in television news,” reported the New York Times.

Not everyone liked listening to the brainiac Banfield, a naturalized US citizen born in Canada. Because she talked to Arabs about the war from their perspective, she was considered to be unpatriotic by some, making her the target of other newscasters and pundits.

Her most virulent critic, the conservative talk-radio star Michael Savage, hosted a weekly TV show on Banfield’s own network. Incredibly, on the air, Savage called her “the mind-slut with a big pair of glasses” who “looks like she went from porno into reporting.”

Stunned, Banfield complained but her bosses did nothing.

Increasingly concerned about the highly patriotic coverage of

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