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Cross Wires: Tuesday headlines
The latest Catholic news.
Pope Benedict XVI marked his 85th birthday on Monday saying he is now in the ‘last stretch’ of his life and reflected on two saints. Children in traditional Bavarian costume presented him with flowers (above).
Archbishop Patrick Kelly of Liverpool on the writings of the Holy Father.
A sixth Anglican bishop was ordained as a Catholic priest at a ceremony in Portsmouth yesterday.
Fr Donald Minchew: why I took my flock to a Catholic church.
Support for Fr Seán Fagan, Irish priest on Vatican censure.
Experts: IRA dissidents could disrupt Olympics torch relay and competition itself.
Vatican official Mgr Giampetro dal Toso says Pope, local Church helping sustain Syrians.
The annual plenary session of the Pontifical Biblical Commission began yesterday.
FINANCE
First Communion costs how much?
OPINION
James Martin SJ asks: why are Catholics so easily offended?
AND FINALLY
St Richard Gwyn Catholic High School pupil Callum Osborne of Barry has starring dance role in Olympic-inspired film.
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Actually, some Roman rite priests in the USA are so enthused by the ordinariate and its beautiful liturgical rites,that they are getting bi-ritual faculties to celebrate the Anglican Usage Liturgy. (For Scottish Catholics who are not familiar with the Byzantine Liturgy,there will be a live-stream of the installation of new Byzantine Archbishop of Pittsburgh at 2:00 p.m. (East Coast American time) Google>Archeparchy of Pittsburgh>St.John’s Cathedral> Cathedral website. Most of the ceremony will be in English.
Sorry, forgot the date–April 18th, 2012 for the installation of Archbishop William Skurla by Archbishop Vigano,the Apostolic Nuncio to the USA. The liturgy is exactly the same as the Orthodox Liturgy.