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Cross Wires: Thursday headlines

The latest Catholic news from Scotland and around the world

Eucharist gives strength to those who are weak, weary, lost, Pope Benedict XVI says at general audience yesterday, where he was entertained by circus performers (video) and saw an endangered Cuban crocodile, above (video).

A lunchtime gun attack on the Chaldean archbishop’s residence in Kirkuk, Northern Iraq, yesterday has left two people dead and five wounded.

Brazil’s Apostolic Nuncio Baldisseri has been appointed secretary of the Congregation for Bishops.

Bishop Gerhard Müller of Regensburg, Germany, a likely choice to head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF)?

The Irish national seminary at Maynooth is to separate the seminary environment from the wider university community.

No safe way to allow assisted suicide, admits Lord Falconer of Thoroton.

The government has insisted it will continue with welfare changes despite defeats in the Lords and concerns from Archbishop Peter Smith of Southwark.

Leading education consultant David Dawson has claimed that most Catholic schools in England will become academies to guarantee their survival in the state system.

The ashes of the late Bishop Michael Evans of East Anglia are to be buried in Norwich cathedral.

Influential Scottish architect Isi Metzstein, best known for St Peter’s Seminary at Cardross in Argyll, has died, at the age of 83.

Mgr Dominique Francois Joseph Mamberti yesterday discussed with Syria‘s ambassador to the Vatican Hussam Eddin Alla regional developments and the situation in Syria.

Chief Palestinian negotiator Dr Saeb Erakat on making Israel a ‘promising land.’

AND FINALLY

Fury as ex English premiership referee Jeff Winter‘s personal website attributes vile rant at Catholic Church to him

– Cross Wires is the Scottish Catholic Observer blog

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