Cross Wires: Friday headlines
Breaking Catholic news from home and abroad
SCOTLAND
SNP Government is to consult on ‘gay marriage’ ’later this year’ but a spokesman for the Catholic Church in Scotland has criticised calls for marriage to be fundamentally redefined.
http://www.christian.org.uk/news/snp-govt-to-consult-on-gay-marriage-later-this-year/
Vandals target St Mary’s Church Stirling for second time.
A tribute to Polish Catholic poet Czesław Miłosz, takes place at the Edinburgh Bookfest on Thursday August 18, as part of the Legends of Modern Literature series.
http://www.indcatholicnews.com/news.php?viewStory=18724
INTERNATIONAL
Elementary school children from Japan have promised Pope Benedict XVI they ‘would never give up’ in the face of adversity after the Fukushima nuclear tragedy.
A priceless portrait of Jesus said to have been blessed by Pope Leo XIII stolen 150 years ago has been found after a petty thief tried to sell it to a church in the US.
Sixty artists for 60 years of Pope Benedict’s priesthood. http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Sixty-artists-for-60-years-of-Pope-Benedict’s-priesthood/24401
Christians yet to see benefits of Egypt’s revolution.
http://www.radiovaticana.org/en1/Articolo.asp?c=510103
OPINION
Guilt shortage dooms reform of the reform, says Eugene Cullen Kennedy.
http://ncronline.org/blogs/bulletins-human-side/guilt-shortage-dooms-reform-reform
AND FINALLY
Former Popemobile goes on sale for $350,000 in California.
http://www.businessinsider.com/popemobile-for-sale-2011-8
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Wherever the issue of same-sex marriage has been subject to a referendum in the USA, it has been roundly defeated. It is amazing that the “common” people seem to have more common sense the legislative bodies and judiciaries, which are so easly maniplated by “public opinion”.