Scottish Catholic Observer

Pope’s World Day of Peace 2012 message to focus on young people. Above, Holy Father with youth in UK last year.

http://www.radiovaticana.org/en1/Articolo.asp?c=488495

Vatican says Pope Benedict XVI’s audio and video hookup tomorrow with the International Space Station will be streamed live on the Internet site of Vatican Radio and CTV, the broadcasting arms of the Holy See.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/popes-1st-chat-with-astronauts-in-space-will-be-streamed-live-by-vatican/2011/05/19/AFRG876G_story.html

Tributes to former Irish prime minister Garret FitzGerald, who has died a quarter of a century after he signed one of the key agreements of the Northern Ireland peace process.

http://www.scotsman.com/news/Man-who-put-Ireland-on.6771265.jp

US President Barack Obama has insisted that the ‘1967 border’ must be the ‘basis for negotiations’ to set up a future Palestinian state.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13464282

US President’s speech in full (video): http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13464019

Cardinal George Pell of Sydney is backing calls to scrap the 310 year-old law banning Catholics from the British throne.

http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/cardinals-join-call-to-scrap-anti-catholic-british-succession-law/

The prayer book which belonged to Mary, Queen of Scots returned to Scotland.

http://tinyurl.com/3jaxsfr

Young Christian beheaded in northern Iraq.

http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2011/05/19/young-christian-beheaded-in-northern-iraq/

Young Christian woman raped and murdered in Orissa, Christians in shock: “The massacre continues.”

http://www.fides.org/aree/news/newsdet.php?idnews=29011&lan=eng

Rome unveils statue of Blessed John Paul II for his 91st birthday (video).

http://www.romereports.com/palio/Rome-unveils-statue-of-John-Paul-II-for-his-91st-birthday-english-4171.html

More than half of the $1.8 million cost for the nearly 150-page report by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice on the ‘causes and context’ of child sex abuse by clergy came from the US Conference of Catholic Bishops.

http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/1101975.htm

Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil el-Arabi was received by Vatican Foreign Minister Dominique Mamberti yesterday.

http://www.sis.gov.eg/En/Story.aspx?sid=55598

Catholic Church in Florida, US, planning to pray for Osama bin Laden

http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/05/19/catholic-church-in-florida-planning-to-pray-for-osama-bin-laden/#ixzz1MqER8BWn

AND FINALLY

Tributes at funeral of Catholic convert boxing legend Sir Henry Cooper.

http://www.bexleytimes.co.uk/news/tributes_at_funeral_of_eltham_trained_boxing_legend_sir_henry_cooper_1_898728

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