Scottish Catholic Observer

Support Marriage Sunday in parishes next month aims to raise funds to oppose Scottish Government’s bid to legalise same-sex ‘marriage,’ prompts headlines that Cardinal O’Brien (above) has declared ‘war’ over issue.

Archbishop Longley encourages discerners at opening of Invocation 2012.

Ireland: young Catholics walk from Lough Derg to Knock Summer Youth Festival.

Holy Father will today make a visit to the House of the Verbites in Nemi where he lived during Second Vatican Council.

Philadelphia Archdiocese in US resolves six more priest abuse accusations.

Chinese government ignores Vatican warning on bishop ordination.

OPINION

The Catholic Church could have avoided much of the scandal that currently surrounds it if women had been in positions of power, says Lucetta Scaraffia, the founder of a new women’s supplement for the Vatican’s official newspaper.

-Cross Wires is The Scottish Catholic Observer blog.

Pic: Paul McSherry