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Cross Wires – Thursday headlines

The latest Catholic news from around the world

Preview of Pope Benedict’s forthcoming visit to Germany

http://www.news.va/en/news/popes-visit-to-germany-in-september-promises-surpr

Nadine Dorries abortion proposal heavily defeated in the Commons

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/07/nadine-dorries-abortion-amendment-defeated

Crying out to God sign of faith, says Pope

http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/1103544.htm

Irish Government to discuss Vatican response to Cloyne report

http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/1103533.htm

Pope recalls service of Cardinal Deskur

http://www.zenit.org/article-33375?l=english

Preist and nun beaten up in China

http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=11668

AND FINALLY

Scottish Catholic Observer editor shares her memories of 9/11

http://www.rutherglenreformer.co.uk/rutherglen-news/rutherglen-local-news/2011/09/07/cambuslang-women-living-in-new-york-on-9-11-look-back-63227-29373718/

-Cross Wires is the Scottish Catholic Observer blog

Comments - 2 Responses

  1. Philip M. McGhee says:

    As a New Yorker, it is still traumatic for me to visit or even go anywhere near the World Trade Center site. I am sure most Scots feel that way about Lockerbie. On the day of Sept 11(co-incdentally the anniversary of my parents’ marriage0, I was sitting at my desk,were I was supervisor for a social welfare agancy. About 8:45a.am. the vice-president of the agency, an Epsicoapl priest,also of Scots ancestry, called me and told me that a plane had crashed into the WTC and that no one was to go downtown below 14th street.

  2. Philip M. McGhee says:

    To continue, I had to notify all the other employees of what had had happened and tell them to put on their radios. Then, the 2nd plane hit and there were the incidents in Pennsylvania and the Pentagon. I started calling friends,who were closer to the site. Fortunately, I lost no to whom I was really close. Some of my friends did. The wife of a journalist acquaitance of mine later died of lung complicationss from the attack. The subway was shur down and I had to do a double shift. Our few Muslim emplyees became strangely silent.

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