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Cross Wires: Thursday latest news
Headlines from home and abroad for Catholics
Cardinal Seán Brady (above), has apologised for the Church failings outlined in the Cloyne Report and described yesterday as a ‘very bad day’ for the Catholic Church in Ireland.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2011/0714/1224300714082.html
Tanaiste Eamon Gilmore is to seek a meeting with the Pope’s ambassador to Ireland over Rome’s role in the Cloyne scandal.
Abortion in Britain discriminates against disabled, new numbers say.
Archbishop Rino Fisichella, the president of Pontifical Council for New Evangelisation says the ‘Metropolis Mission’ pastoral initiative will begin next Lent.
http://visnews-en.blogspot.com/2011/07/initiative-to-promote-new.html
Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi, a Catholic, voted no when Malta’s Parliament yesterday overwhelmingly approved a bill for the introduction of divorce in line with the ‘yes’ vote expressed in a recent referendum.
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, current Secretary of the Governorate of Vatican City, has agreed to become apostolic nuncio in the United States, according to the veteran Vatican journalist Andrea Tornielli of the Italian daily La Stampa,
US bishops praise injunction continuing Catholic foster care in Illinois.
http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/1102787.htm
Education and professional training: the Jesuits’ commitment to give a future to Afghanistan.
http://www.fides.org/aree/news/newsdet.php?idnews=29464&lan=eng
AND FINALLY
Otto Herschan, born in Vienna, former managing director of the Scottish Catholic Observer, died on Tuesday in Dublin (link in German).
http://www.kathweb.at/site/nachrichten/database/40484.html
– Cross Wires is the Scottish Catholic Observer’s blog.