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Cross Wires: Tuesday headlines

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“Priority is to ensure safety, I think the will to make peace is prevailing,” according to Mgr Giovanni Innocenzo Martinelli (above), Apostolic Vicar of Tripoli, Libya.

Indian bishops apprise Holy Father of concerns, challenges facing Church.

Disabled people are being set up to fail says Catholic Social Services in Australia and three other charities.

Cardinal Andrzej Maria Deskur, confidant to Pope John Paul II, died on Sunday aged 87.

New leaders for Vatican city-state administration.

The Vatican has not changed its position on recognising Kosovo, according to Fr Federico Lombardi, the director of the Vatican press service.

The Catholic Church has denounced acts of abuse by pro-government crowds against a prominent Cuban opposition group.

OPINION

Caroline Farrow: A Catholic view: is Mensch’s abortion amendment a muddle or master stroke?

REVIEW

Marginalising marriage: Why this trend threatens society.

-Cross Wires is the Scottish Catholic Observer blog

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  • Health care professionals back Catholic midwives’ case against NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde over supervision of staff taking part in abortion.
  • Outcry as for-profit abortion clinics are allowed to advertise on television.
  • Cardinal O’Brien, Archbishop Conti of Glasgow, Bishop Emeritus Moran or Aberdeen and Bishop Joseph Toal of Argyll and the Isles join celebrations at St Bridget’s Church, Baillieston, for the golden jubilee of Mgr John McIntyre.
  • Bishop Philip Tartaglia of Paisley led a solemn evening prayer at St Mary’s Church alongside Mgr Denis Carlin, parish priest at the Greenock church, and clergy from other churches to mark the beginning of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.
  • The International Youth Pro-Life Conference, which has thrived in Scotland, is being held in England for the first time this March

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