Cross Wires: Thursday headlines

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Cross Wires: Thursday headlines

The latest news and analysis: Assisted suicide deaths in Scotland predicted at 1000 per annum, evolution talks, Newman feast day, Catholic adoption, Vatican visits to Ireland, banning Santa Claus

SCOTLAND

Margo MacDonald’s assisted suicide bill ‘will cause 1000 deaths’ (pictured above)

http://news.scotsman.com/news/Margo39s-Bill-39will-cause-1000.6567801.jp

Creation, Evolution and the Crisis of Faith-Hugh Owen, director, and Tim Murnane, metallurgical engineer, from the Kolbe Center for the Study of Creation in the US are coming to Scotland for a series of three lectures in Motherwell, Glasgow and Edinburgh this weekend

http://www.kolbecenter.org/special/events.html?task=view_detail&agid=14&year=2010&month=10&day=09

NATIONAL

England prepares to celebrate Blessed John Henry Newman feast day

http://www.indcatholicnews.com/news.php?viewStory=16854

English Catholic adoption agency appeals Charity Commission’s decision

http://www.catholicreview.org/subpages/storyworldnew-new.aspx?action=8858

Archbishop of Westminster Vincent Nichols linked the behaviour of abusive priests with that of the City traders whose unrestrained lending threw the financial world into crisis.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1317925/Archbishop-Vincent-Nichols-Our-paedophile-scandal-like-banking-collapse.html?ITO=1490#ixzz11co5LXb0

INTERNATIONAL

Ireland’s four most senior churchmen have met Vatican officials in Rome to discuss the final preparations for an investigation into the Catholic Church sex abuse scandal in Ireland.

http://www.u.tv/News/Brady-in-Rome-ahead-of-Vatican-inquiry/c2d0eeaa-93fd-4753-b1b8-6412aae19bcc

Cornerstone laid for John Paul II Museum in Polish boyhood home

http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=7834

Priest denies making claims about MacKillop’s excommunication

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/priest-denies-making-claims-about-mackillops-excommunication/story-e6frg6nf-1225935119611

Catholic group in Berlin, Germany, calls for ban of Santa Claus

http://www.shortnews.com/start.cfm?id=85713

VATICAN

True happiness can be found by strengthening one’s friendship with God through a love for sacred Scripture and the sacraments, Pope Benedict XVI said in his general audience this week.

http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/1004084.htm