Scottish Catholic Observer

Archbishop Silvano M Tomasi (above), Vatican official at UN, decries ‘attacks’ on Catholic beliefs on family and marriage.

http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/vatican-official-at-un-decries-attacks-on-catholic-beliefs/

“What do you want to achieve with these bombings?” asks the Apostolic Vicar of Tripoli.

http://www.fides.org/aree/news/newsdet.php?idnews=28622&lan=eng

The Holy See’s L’Osservatore Romano newspaper dedicated its front page Tuesday to the ‘great confusion’ over France’s strategy in launching into a military operation against Libyan leader Moamer Gadhafi’s regime and the diplomatic differences between Italy and its neighbour.

http://tinyurl.com/5vtorg8

Priests attending the 22nd Seminar on Conscience in Rome take in-depth look at Sacrament of Confession. Archbishop Girotti recently told Vatican Radio that the Sacrament of Penance is in crisis.

http://www.ewtnnews.com/catholic-news/Vatican.php?id=2864#ixzz1HND0hSDG

Reform of ecclesiastical studies of philosophy.

http://www.visnews-en.blogspot.com/

Bishop Samuel Aquila, the bishop of Fargo, North Dakota, is urging clergy to imitate Jesus’ exercise of authority and to be unafraid of correcting others in service of the truth.

http://www.zenit.org/article-32090?l=english

Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie has requested to meet with Coptic Pope Shenouda III, a Coptic church source said today.

http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/node/369860

How the King James Bible still influences the way we speak in Scotland 400 years after it was written.

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/editors-choice/2011/03/22/how-the-king-james-bible-still-influences-the-way-we-speak-400-years-after-it-was-written-86908-23007765/

Annual St Mungo Singers Requiem Mass on Friday (March 25) at 7.30 in St Leo’s, Dumbreck. http://stmungomusic.org.uk/annual-st-mungo-singers-requiem/

Half of congregation follow ‘amazed’ Fr Christopher Pearson of St Agnes’s CofE Church in Kennington to convert to Catholicisim under ordinariate.

http://www.southlondon-today.co.uk/News.cfm?id=10584&headline=Church of England flock turns Catholic

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