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		<title>Let All Custom Plates on the Road</title>
		<link>http://www.nyscatholic.org/2012/02/let-all-custom-plates-on-the-road/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:31:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kgallagher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Kathleen M. Gallagher Less than 24 hours after the New York Giants won the Super Bowl, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that our state was offering a new custom license plate in their honor. For an initial cost of $60, and an annual renewal fee of $31.25, you too can have the NFL Giants with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A.6401, Morelle / S.3380-A, Klein: In relation to the sale of monuments</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:04:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dpoust</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MEMORANDUM OF STRONG OPPOSITION The above-referenced bill applies to cemeteries organized and operated under the Religious Corporations Law and attempts to prohibit those cemeteries from selling monuments and memorials. The Catholic Conference continues to object to governmental encroachment on the operation of church-affiliated cemeteries.  These cemeteries perform burial services according to the rites and rituals [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A.2716, Calhoun: In relation to restrictions placed on tax exempt real property</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:58:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dpoust</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MEMORANDUM OF OPPOSITION The above-referenced bill would place certain restrictions on non-profit organizations and their ability to operate effectively. The New York State Catholic Conference opposes this legislation. The bill requires that land currently tax exempt be used “exclusively and actively for the exempt purpose” for which tax exempt status was originally granted.  Such language [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A.2237, Rabbitt: In relation to amending the real property tax law to restrict the tax exempt status of non-profit organizations</title>
		<link>http://www.nyscatholic.org/2012/02/a-2237-rabbitt-in-relation-to-amending-the-real-property-tax-law-to-restrict-the-tax-exempt-status-of-non-profit-organizations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:57:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dpoust</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nyscatholic.org/?p=1543</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[MEMORANDUM OF OPPOSITION The above-referenced bill attempts to define terms in the Real Property Tax law relating to the tax exempt status of non-profit organizations, a task heretofore left to the courts. The New York State Catholic Conference opposes this legislation. This bill attempts to define terms such as “religious purpose” narrowly and intrusively by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>S.1707-A Griffo / A.4146-A Englebright: Authorizing mixed martial arts contests in New York State</title>
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		<comments>http://www.nyscatholic.org/2012/02/s-1707-a-griffo-a-4146-a-englebright-authorizing-mixed-martial-arts-contests-in-new-york-state/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:54:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dpoust</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nyscatholic.org/?p=1541</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[MEMORANDUM OF OPPOSITION The above-referenced bill would authorize and regulate the combative sport of Mixed Martial Arts, which is currently prohibited from New York by law. Mixed martial arts, otherwise known as “ultimate fighting,” purports to combine karate, judo, jujitsu, boxing, wrestling and tae kwon do, however in an extremely dangerous and seriously debilitating way.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A.3218 Sweeney / S.388 Krueger: In relation to advanced directives for disposal of gametes and embryos</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:52:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dpoust</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nyscatholic.org/?p=1538</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[MEMORANDUM OF OPPOSITION The above-referenced bill would amend the Domestic Relations Law to require advanced directives for the transfer, use and disposition of gametes or embryos used in assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs). In attempting to regulate the practice of ARTs, this legislation would indicate a societal acceptance of the artificial creation, manipulation and destruction of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Catholics at the Capitol set for March 13; state’s bishops to meet with governor March 12</title>
		<link>http://www.nyscatholic.org/2012/02/catholics-at-the-capitol-set-for-march-13-states-bishops-to-meet-with-governor-march-12/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nyscatholic.org/2012/02/catholics-at-the-capitol-set-for-march-13-states-bishops-to-meet-with-governor-march-12/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:40:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dpoust</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News Releases]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Bishops of New York State will join hundreds of fellow Catholic New Yorkers at the annual Catholics at the Capitol public policy advocacy day Tuesday, March 13, at the Empire State Plaza Convention Center in Albany. Due to a critical meeting of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Administrative Committee that he is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A.2186, Rosenthal: In relation to requiring only one witness to execute a valid health care proxy</title>
		<link>http://www.nyscatholic.org/2012/02/a-2186-rosenthal-in-relation-to-requiring-only-one-witness-to-execute-a-valid-health-care-proxy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nyscatholic.org/2012/02/a-2186-rosenthal-in-relation-to-requiring-only-one-witness-to-execute-a-valid-health-care-proxy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:45:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dpoust</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nyscatholic.org/?p=1509</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[MEMORANDUM OF OPPOSITION The above-referenced bill amends the Public Health Law to require only one witness to execute a valid health care proxy in New York State.  The current law requires that two witnesses be present. The New York State Catholic Conference opposes this legislation. Similar legislation has already been considered and was vetoed in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Special education needs a shakeup!</title>
		<link>http://www.nyscatholic.org/2012/02/special-education-needs-a-shakeup/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nyscatholic.org/2012/02/special-education-needs-a-shakeup/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jcultrara</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[On Education]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nyscatholic.org/?p=1440</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Jim Cultrara Michael Benjamin&#8217;s OpEd in the NY Post this week, Stop burning NY&#8217;s special-ed dollars, calls for a &#8221;shake up of New York’s shameful special-education system&#8230; with a school-choice program for students with special needs and disabilities. &#8221;  Shameful is right.  Not only because far too many children with special needs are not getting the services they need, but because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Refreshing candor on abortion</title>
		<link>http://www.nyscatholic.org/2012/02/refreshing-candor-on-abortion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nyscatholic.org/2012/02/refreshing-candor-on-abortion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:11:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kgallagher</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Respect Life]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nyscatholic.org/?p=1505</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Kathleen M. Gallagher Yesterday’s headlines were filled with the news that Pfizer was recalling a million packets of birth control pills because of a defect that could lead to unintended pregnancies. In case you missed it, Ann Curry of NBC’s Today Show interviewed a physician about the situation, one Dr. Keri Peterson, described as [...]]]></description>
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