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Cross Wires: Wednesday breaking news
Catholic headlines from home and abroad
SCOTLAND AND UK
Bishop Joseph Devine (above), president of the Catholic Education Commission, says the Apostolic See’s approval of the new RE syllabus for Scotland ‘gives us the green light.’
http://www.sces.uk.com/news/2011/08/08/breaking-news-from-rome.html
Archbishop Nichols of Westminster condemns ‘callous disregard’ for common good after riots and looting.
Birmingham riots: ‘May Blessed John Henry Newman intercede for our City.’ http://www.indcatholicnews.com/news.php?viewStory=18750
Government papers from the early years of North Ireland’s Troubles have prompted a court action by former prisoners, held without trial under ‘internment,’ who say this is proof the policy was directed against Catholics.
WORLD YOUTH DAY
Madrid Apsotolic Nunicio Archbishop Renzo Fratini says Spain ‘is waiting for the Holy Father with great desire and hope that he will also encourage a spiritual rebirth of the nation.’
http://www.radiovaticana.org/en1/Articolo.asp?c=511117
Spanish airport, metro workers plan strikes that may affect pilgrims at World Youth Day.
VATICAN
The Lisbon patriarch who recently said there was no fundamental theological obstacle to women’s ordinations was summoned by the Papal Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone said a report in Vatican Insider.
http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=27571
Cardinal Antonio Canizares, the prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments, recently warned of the danger of turning from God.
http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=114752
Vatican Bank president: More government debt not the answer to economic crisis.
AND FINALLY
Recovery from brain haemorrhage of teenage actress from Harry Potter film is linked to Holy Water.
-Cross Wires is the Scottish Catholic Observer blog
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