Scottish Catholic Observer

Caritas aids one million people in East Africa as Pope Benedict XVI makes food crisis appeal.

The Scottish Parliament’s cross-party justice committee has narrowly supported government plans to tackle football-related sectarian violence but Labour, Tory and Lib Dem members refused to support the legislation as it stood.

MSPs have clashed with Scotland’s football authorities after a Holyrood report claimed offensive behaviour at matches might have been stamped out if they had been quicker to act.

Archbishop Vincent Nichols of Westminster is asking Catholic schools to plan for ’100 Days of Peace’ during the forthcoming London Olympic Games.

Why US Catholic Bishops are targeting President Obama on religious freedom.

The head of the Archdiocese for Military Services US says that a new set of rules allowing chaplains to perform same-sex ‘marriages’ on military property seems to disregard federal law.

Burial for former US archbishop who gave JFK‘s eulogy, with pics.

AND FINALLY

Vatican newspaper sees Steve Jobs as key cultural figure.

-Cross Wires is the Scottish Catholic Observer blog