Scottish Catholic Observer

Religious leaders to give evidence today against assisted suicide bill in Scotland before Scottish Parliament (above) Health Committee.

Mourners gathered at St Aloysius Catholic Church in Glasgow to pay their respects to Lanark Primary teacher Maryam Najafian who died in a sledging crash.

Inverness Church of Scotland minister quits.

The head of the Catholic Church in Ireland has issued a passionate plea to its own schools to stop using academic selection.

A Catholic priest in San Francisco in the US has banned girls from acting as altar servers at Mass.

Fr Richard McBrien, a Notre Dame theology professor who came to prominence in the US for opposing Catholic teaching on several issues, died on Sunday.

AND FINALLY

Pope Francis holds private meeting with transgender man and fiancée.

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