Cross Wires: Monday headlines

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Cross Wires: Monday headlines

Scotland prepares for changes in Catholic hierarchy; sectarian crime figures in Glasgow spark plea for resources to counter; Prince Charles visits Catholic church in Belfast, will the Queen follow?; Pope prays for Egypt’s political crisis; Holy father says annulment process should be clearer...

SCOTLAND

Catholic Church will get new leadership in Scotland with coming changes in hierarchy (Scotland’s bishops see above with Holy Father)

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/catholic-faith-will-get-new-look-in-scotland-1.1083651?localLinksEnabled=false

129 sectarian crimes in Glasgow spark plea

http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/129-sectarian-crimes-in-city-spark-plea-1.1083464

Funding crisis hits anti-bigot campaign

http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/scotland/Funding-crisis-hits-antibigot-campaign.6712178.jp

SDLP AND unionist representatives are hopeful that a visit by Prince Charles to a restored Catholic church in Belfast will help set the tone for an expected visit by Queen Elizabeth to Dublin.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2011/0205/1224289076600.html

Bishop Richard Moth, the Mental Health Bishop and Bishop of the Forces, distributes £70,000 in grants to support mental wellbeing

http://www.catholic-ew.org.uk/Catholic-Church-in-England-and-Wales/Media-Centre/press_releases/Press-Releases-2011/Mental-health-bishop-distributes-70-000-in-small-grants

VATICAN

Pope prays for Egypt’s political crisis

http://www.iol.co.za/news/africa/pope-prays-for-egypt-s-political-crisis-1.1022121

People in doubt about the their marriage status have a right to a speedy and simple process to determine nullity, says Pope Benedict XVI.

http://www.zenit.org/article-31669?l=english

Document shows Pope once supported relaxing celibacy rules

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2011/0129/1224288526897.html

INTERNATIONAL

Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir accepts Christian south Sudan’s secession vote

http://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFTRE7161MW20110207

An envoy of Pope Benedict XVI, Cardinal Murphy-O’Connor, visited Mother House, global headquarters of the Missionaries of Charity, here on Sunday, 25 years after the visit of Pope John Paul II.

http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/other-states/article1162782.ece

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