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Cross Wires: Friday Headlines

The latest Catholic news from Scotland and around the world

TOP STORIES

Pope Benedict (above) to visit Cuba and Mexico in 2012.

Aid to the Church in Need support Vatican calls for international day for persecuted Christians.

Former Labour First Minister Henry McLeish backs SNP’s anti-sectarianism legislation.

INTERNATIONAL

Pope marks feast of the Immaculate Conception in Rome.

French Catholics protest against blasphemous play.

Christian owned shops attacked in Iraq.

Vatican conference on the history of the tattoo.

Medical journal calls for nuns to given the contraceptive pill for health reasons.

OPINION

SCIAF activist says hopes for a climate change deal in Durbin are fading.

Leading Anglican cleric says he would accept a Catholic monarch.

-Cross Wires is the Scottish Catholic Observer blog.

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