Scottish Catholic Observer

Synod signals insufficient support for changing rules on divorce and Communion.

Archbishop Eamon Martin hails ‘sense of convergence’ at Synod in Vatican.

Cardinal Marx (above): We will find consensus for the final document, even on controversial issues.

Pope Francis to meet Iran’s President Rouhani next month, reports say.

Kidnapped priest in Syria in 2013 is reported still alive.

Archbishop calls for British military intervention against Islamic State in Syria.

Three years after the disappearance of the three Congolese Assumptionists, no word on their fate.

Interfaith dialogue: Key to resolving conflict in Holy Land.

English parishioners angry as local Catholic church closes then reopens with Indian language Mass but no English.

Oldest working Catholic convent in York opens exhibition centre.

AND FINALLY

There’s an elephant buried underneath the Vatican.
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