Scottish Catholic Observer

Cardinal Keith O’Brien: Haiti situation ‘frightening’
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/cardinal-haiti-situation-frightening-1.1078756?localLinksEnabled=false

Pope Benedict XVI baptises newborns and prays for Haiti http://www.oecumene.radiovaticana.org/en1/Articolo.asp?c=452793

Damning dossier helped SFA trio win their jobs back after Papal e-mail row

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/2011/01/09/damning-dossier-helped-sfa-trio-win-their-jobs-back-after-pope-email-row-86908-22836956/

Bullet death threats mailed to Celtic

http://www.u.tv/News/Bullet-death-threats-mailed-to-Celtic/deda36b7-32a8-48d5-a57c-6970d66d0dbc

Education Secretary Mike Russell’s local work comes under fire

http://news.scotsman.com/news/Mike-Russell39s-local-work-comes.6684353.jp

Anglicans heading to Rome told they can’t stay in their churches

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/8247915/Anglicans-heading-to-Rome-told-they-cant-stay-in-their-churches.html

Four youths on trial for murder of Jesuit school student Godwin Lawrence

http://www.indcatholicnews.com/news.php?viewStory=17419

Nuncio to Egypt on path to peace

http://www.oecumene.radiovaticana.org/en1/Articolo.asp?c=452377

Some Copts and Muslims come together in Egypt during Orthodox Christmas but security remains tight and tensions high.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2011/01/egypt-copts-and-muslims-come-together-for-once-during-orthodox-christmas.html

Maltese Catholic church to set up tribunal into child sex abuse after victims write to Vatican

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/world/breakingnews/

—Cross Wires is the Scottish Catholic Observer newspaper’s blog