Scottish Catholic Observer

SCOTLAND

30,000 people have signed Scotland for Marriage’s online petition opposing the Scottish Government’s plan’s to legalise same-sex ‘marriage’.

Margo MacDonald has embarked on a fresh attempt to legalise assisted suicide in Scotland after receiving the backing of 18 other MSPs.

Scottish bishops back plan to ban abortions on the grounds of disability in the wake of the Paralympics.

VATICAN

New head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith hopes to reduce tensions between traditionalist and progressive Catholics.

Pope names synod fathers for next month’s Synod of Bishops on the New Evangelisation.

New Caritas Internationalis communications system will help the world’s poorest people.

INTERNATIONAL

Polls find American Catholics evenly split between presidential candidates.

Catholic Church in China burned down by arsonists say parishioners.

Euthanasia begins in Belgium.

-Cross Wires is The Scottish Catholic Observer blog.

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