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Cross Wires: Monday headlines

The latest Catholic news from Scotland and around the world

Religious groups in Scotland overwhelmingly disapprove of  same-sex ‘marriage’.

Pope Benedict XVI: Christmas will be tough this year but preparing for it means more than gift-buying.

Cardinal John Foley, who provided commentary for the Vatican’s midnight Mass, dies at 76.

Italian Church under pressure to start paying property tax.

Pope invited to visit CERN’s biggest Nuclear Research Facility in Switzerland. (video)

The bishops of Canada to Haiti in solidarity two years after the earthquake.

Climate talks end with late deal.

Religious from different congregations and nationalities have created the Talitha Kum network to fight against human trafficking.

AND FINALLY

Virtual pilgrimage to Bethlehem.

-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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