Scottish Catholic Observer

UK

Former Anglicans could share old churches, says head of Ordinariate Fr Keith Newton (above left, at the ordination Mass at Westminster Cathedral. Pic: Mazur/catholicchurch.org.uk)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/8264678/Former-Anglicans-could-share-old-churches-says-head-of-Ordinariate.html

The Christian owners of a guesthouse who restrict double rooms to married couples have been ordered to pay £3600 in damages to a homosexual couple, but leave to appeal has been granted.

http://www.christian.org.uk/news/judge-rules-against-christians-in-bb-case-but-allows-appeal/

INTERNTIONAL

French nun Sr Marie Simon-Pierre says Pope John Paul II gave her a ‘second birth’

http://in.reuters.com/article/idINTRE70H0CD20110118

DR Congo: medical nun killed by rebels

http://www.indcatholicnews.com/news.php?viewStory=17473

VATICAN

Neocatechumenal Way receives Vatican approval for its teachings, instructions from Pope

http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/neocatechumenal-way-receives-vatican-approval-for-its-teachings-instructions-from-pope/

The Messiah was a refugee: Pope Calls for Respect for All Migrants

http://www.catholic.org/international/international_story.php?id=40001

Pope receives members of the Pontifical Polish Ecclesiastical Institute

http://www.oecumene.radiovaticana.org/en1/Articolo.asp?c=454981

Pope Benedict XVI received Irina Bokova, director general of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO)

http://visnews-en.blogspot.com/2011/01/director-general-of-unesco-received-by.html

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