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Cross Wires: Tuesday headlines

The latest Catholic news and views

Vatican denies reports about three Vatileaks suspects.

Bishops of England, Wales and Ireland urge Catholics to use bodies for ‘glory of God’ in Olympic inspired Day for Life message.

Pope names new Vatican vice-chamberlain.

Papal nuncio to Ireland ordains priest in Co Cork village of Ballyvourney.

The Chaldean bishop of Aleppo says Christians of the region are terrified that the situation of anarchy in Damascus, Syria, could result in calamity for their minority population.

Bishop Jose Luis Azuaje of El Vigia-San Carlos in Venezuela has been elected the new president of Caritas Latin America and the Caribbean.

OPINION

The Vatican Curia getting less Italian.

AND FINALLY

Refugee athlete from predominantly Christian South Sudan to run marathon in Olympics, but as stateless competitor under Olympic flag.

-Cross Wires is The Scottish Catholic Observer blog.

 

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  • All the colour from the World Youth Day 2013—Scotland’s Rio launch at St Mirin’s Cathedral in paisley with Cardianl keith Patrick O’Brien, Archbishop-elect Philip Tartaglia and CYSS.
  • Dedication of the Altar and Blessing of the new chapel of the Dominican Priory and Chaplaincy of Saint Albert the Great in Edinburgh by Cardinal Keith O’Brien.
  • Motherwell pilgrims return for Diocesan pilgrimage to Lourdes.
  • Archbishop-elect Philip Tartaglia of Glasgow pays a farewell visit to the parish of St Cadoc’s, Newton Mearns, in his current diocese of Paisley.
  • John Deighan says the use of the ‘rights’ argument to redefine marriage smacks of perverse dictatorship.

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